Looking Back

The Liberal Uses of Power
Editorial: The American Prospect

I stumbled across the hard copy of The American Prospect magazine above, and decided to look back at my comments around that time.

Moving Forward ?
From the same issue, to be read or reread:
Theocracy Now Juan Cole
Against the Neocons An interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski.
China No. 1Clyde Prestowitz

[ Meanwhile: further back* or forth? ]

[BTW: I contacted a congressional office today (in reference to these matters) and referred to this blog as the liaison between progressive and realism. It is also the liaison between academic and common sense. There is an interesting play on the word "academic"; quantitatively and in what matters.** A statistical relationship also plays with "common sense" and all this gets played out in the progress or reality we are responsible for. (Or the lack thereof and viscious cycle.)]

*the part that the U.S. played in the invasion of South Ossetia by Georgia must be investigated

** "academic" has an interesting flip-flop depending on its use in any field

The Tetrahedron Ramble*

What the heck** is the point? I revisit my Power Broker Mountain Project, or actually move on. What I call the prime disciplines as in fields of study, Physics, Psychology, and Philosophy form the base with Progress or their result as the point of their projection or application forming a reality or culture, as we know it, or think we know it, or feel we apply it, regardless.

The perspective that caused me to reconsider this model, or concept (as it also may be the perspective) is a proposition that Science, Religion, Politics, and Economics,(structures) have at least three things in common: Values, Ideology, and Power.(VIP) Now I don't want to be restricted to the math or geometry or insistence that there is meaning in them for some sake other than they are structures. But conceptually they are at the point of the tetrahedron and not the point of the tetrahedron any more than culture. Now to some this may have gotten nowhere, but we will get somewhere, with or without consideration of VIP and the Very Important Point of who and what we are or will become.

Is it no coincidence that there are three branches of the government, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary based on the constitution and the preamble, or that the first 10 amendments are called the Bill of Rights? Freedom and Justice are not forces to reckon*** with, but create.

*somewhat impromptu
** search fuzzy math and English; not to mention viscious cycle or golden rule
*** "bottom line"

The New Trinity

Contempt of the People, by the people, for the people.

Bottomline?
The Fourth Estate is not a Liberal Media.

The Liberal-Media-Bias is Biased.

Not exactly what trinity means, but then again, it may be why there is such a viscious cycle. There is what it is, there is what you see, and there is what you do. Nothing will change without trust and verifications, at least not for the good.