MORPHEAL'S COMMENTARY - February 28, 2009 - Economics, Sex, Cuba, Banking, scandals.
Morpheal
Banking, scandals.
WORLD ECONOMY FAILS TO NURTURE BUT CUMS IN SPURTS:
We must keep in mind that a steady, stable, economy, with modest wages
across a significant span of time, tends to take better care of its
workers than an economy that resembles the sudden spurts and
inevitable subsequent precipitous downward tumbles that more closely
resembles sexual acts than it does any form of real and consistent
nurturing. We have an excessively male economy and it needs to take on
more feminine characteristics, becoming more caring and nurturing as
to human needs.
AMERICA BEGINS TO COLONIZE CUBA ?
It is amusing that the USA, under Obama, has decided to destroy Cuba
completely by the Americanization of Cuba. Cuba might do better to ban
Americans and American trade, preserving its difference from the USA,
rather than perishing into a Puerto Rican mode of dependency and
cultural assimilation. Every president since Kennedy has resolutely
sought to preserve Cuban political and economic independence from the
USA. It is interesting that the CIA is willing to let go of Cuba,
under the Obama administration, when in fact they were completely
unwilling to relinquish their Cuban interests in any previous
administration. Obviously the role of Fidel Castro’s Cuba as a
convenient, nearby, opportunity for observing primarily Soviet,
Russian, activity and technology is no longer deemed relevant to the
new political scenario that we now live in. Cuba can now go free.
“PRIVATIZED” CROWN CORPORATIONS CAN BE EFFECTIVE:
Canada has had extremely positive experience turning its Royal Mail
into a crown corporation. In fact it had the wisdom to add a
profitable, extremely reliable, courier service. In recent years the
Canadian postal service has greatly improved reliability, and security
inclusive of traceability. In many regards it should be the courier of
choice in times when business and personal information can be so
severely compromised by uncertain, even corrupt, conveyance. What it
means is that government can and ought to share ownership of
“privatized” corporations, and such government controlled corporations
can be profitable and efficient enough to compete with their industry
counterparts. It pushes aside those persistent arguments that
government cannot effectively run “privatized” corporations. In fact
it can and should do so. It needs to do more of that to gain revenue,
for good works, and to sustain economic activity in areas where the
private sector is reluctant or inadequate, as is true in much of the
infrastructure, conservation, environment, and some major areas of
energy. Not to mention the growing need for more attention to
affordable, decent housing, in terms of urban renewal and
modernization, modernization of hospitals and health care facilities,
and in other community needs.
THE FALLACY OF “SEX EDUCATION”:
Anatomy lessons in high schools, referred to as "sex education", fail
to educate. Even that, with implications, comes laughably too late for
most. The facts of sex should be taught at onset of puberty. The
scientific facts of relationships in society, of appropriate courtship
practices, about achieving compatibility and how to maintain a good
marriage, and importance of family and family values, need to be
taught and are not taught. Learning how fertile genitals go together
is not an education. To believe that society, in its schools, has been
educating persons as to “sex”, which involves gender, relationships,
communication, interaction, relationship formation, as well as sexual
intercourse, is one of the prevalent fallacies of our society. If
young people are only taught anatomy, and how to have sexual
intercourse, even if birth control might sometimes be mentioned, we
cannot expect that those same people will learn how to behave
effectively or appropriately in society. Behavior is learned and
society tends to teach bad lessons more often than good ones, when
formal education fails to assert its leadership due to its continued
Victorian fear of approaching the subject matter and the truth.
1960s NOSTALGIA IN THE FROZEN YEARS:
For those who experienced at least something of the 1960s the music of
that era tends to invoke a stronger than usual feeling of nostalgia
and loss. The intervening years oppressed and thwarted the achievement
of that era of dreams, expressed in its performing arts, as to a
better, kinder, world of greater achievement of human potential. It is
as if the world has remained frozen, cold and dead, since then, war
locked, and aggressively greed driven, helplessly watching the
destruction of promise. Music was found to be “dangerous” and
musicians, similarly to other artists, particularly in the media and
sometimes the literary arts, were given a very tough time of it, with
few able to withstand the pressures and maintain creative expressive
freedom. The 1960s was a time of an upsurge of the spirit of liberty,
which was nearly extinguished subsequently.
US REMAINING IN IRAQ ONLY INCREASES THE DEFICIT:
It would be best if US troops were withdrawn from Iraq in the summer
of 2009, not waiting until 2010. There can be no real gains in Iraq
from continuing that mission other than more casualties. It is the
duty of command to question the Commander in Chief's orders to avoid
meaningless injuries and deaths of troops under their command, and we
can only hope that they will do so. The only remaining purpose for
maintaining the currently proposed levels of troops for another long
year, is to increase the deficit and keep a large number of young
persons off the streets while the Obama administration attempts to
find something to do with them when they go home, if they chance to
avoid coming home in a pine box. We must realize that “insurgency” in
Iraq cannot be permanently and completely overcome by continued United
States military involvement. To the contrary, as troop numbers dwindle
the remaining troops will be placed in increased jeopardy.
FUTURE OF BANKING IN THE WESTERN WORLD ?
It is ironic so very little of real benefit to society and to
betterment of human lives within society, is being accomplished,
despite such vast sums of money being lent out and also lost by banks.
So much that needs to be done, for betterment of human lives, is not
being done and may not be done for generations due to lack of piles of
printed paper which the banks largely control. Surely the economic
system is bankrupt financially, morally and ethically and in dire need
of government takeover, so that the one and only truly scarce
resource, those piles of printed paper that we call “money”, can be
returned to adequate supply and proper use in service of the needs of
the people. Clearly the private enterprise system has not done that
and has remained unwilling to do that. That is when government must
step in to rectify the otherwise hopeless situation.
Robert Morpheal