The website noted in the title to this blog is complementary to the blog. They are vehicles for communicating a new vision of reality.
The book, Harmonious Universe, still to be published, describes a worldview emanating from discoveries in particle physics, complexity science, and actuarial science which provides a roadmap to unity.
Starting with the fundamental constituents of nature, the waves, fields, particles, and other components of the atom, we build up to society and its institutions with mathematics and metaphor.
This is part of a conversation which began before Plato, and will continue beyond us. It is about the eternal notions of justice, truth, beauty, love, and being.
The website describes the book and some related thoughts. Included are descriptions of analytical stuctures which have been developed to better understand our economy.
We now have 36 blogs discussing various aspects of the new perspective. Some, like Republican Think Tank are satirical. Some, like The Science of Philosophy, are academic.
In all cases, the idea is the same, probe reality to discover truth from which justice and beauty can emerge.
In Abraham, Martin and John, we look at how Martin Luther King and Kahill Gibran probe truth and set the stage for positive aspects of the 1960's.
In The Edge of Chaos, we talk of an Economic Manhattan Project to get the US economy back on track.
In The Math of Reality, we consider how institutions like the New England Complex Systems Institute and the Santa Fe Institute are moving science toward more holistic modeling. By combining the new data mining, data visualizaton and analytical structures with those of actuarial science we see how traditional modeling relative to public policy issues can be enhanced and made more valuable.
The remaining blogs continue to expand the vision . The goal is to have the blog address all issues of Harmonious Universe and put them into a lasting perspective.
Along the way we hope to find some truth of our own.
Lee
Showing posts with label Golden Rule. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Golden Rule. Show all posts
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Friday, December 26, 2008
2008 in the Rear View Mirror
Goodbye to 2008...8 years of W...Iraq...Global Economic Crisis...Madoff...Spitzer...Blago...When will they ever learn?
Starting with Reagan, Republican Administrations have quadrupled the Federal Budget Deficit, even accepting government (versus reasonable) accounting rules. From Washington to Carter, the US government had run up "only" about $900 billion in deficit. (Yes, less than a trillion $)
By 1992 (Can you say Bush Sr?. Where is Hunter Thompson when we need him?) it was $4 trillion. After a break during a Democratic Administration, the deficit began to explode again.
Now it is "officially" about $10 trillion.
People who actually understand economics and accounting are actually putting it in excess of $50 trillion if we count deficits in "entitlements" like Social Security, Medicare and Veterans Benefits.
The reasons for such treasonous Republican management of the American economy are painfully transparent. They never met a war they didn't like, or a tax they did. And they couldn't care less about waste in government spending.
The results are as disgusting as they are real. Our children and their children will be saddled with a financial burden at the same time they are coping with declining resources and increasing human dependency.
They will face a world of danger with military resources drained by senseless wars.
(Does it really matter if we turn Iraq over to Al Sadr, a Shiite, from Hussein, a Sunni?
Of course, Republicans aren't concerned about the future because they are about to float naked up to heaven in the presence of people like Tim LeHaye.
Luckily, there is hope. America has elected a true leader who has a vision and integrity. He can take our country back to the principles of the Founding Fathers.
Yes he can!
See my model at paradigmactuaries.com
Lee
Starting with Reagan, Republican Administrations have quadrupled the Federal Budget Deficit, even accepting government (versus reasonable) accounting rules. From Washington to Carter, the US government had run up "only" about $900 billion in deficit. (Yes, less than a trillion $)
By 1992 (Can you say Bush Sr?. Where is Hunter Thompson when we need him?) it was $4 trillion. After a break during a Democratic Administration, the deficit began to explode again.
Now it is "officially" about $10 trillion.
People who actually understand economics and accounting are actually putting it in excess of $50 trillion if we count deficits in "entitlements" like Social Security, Medicare and Veterans Benefits.
The reasons for such treasonous Republican management of the American economy are painfully transparent. They never met a war they didn't like, or a tax they did. And they couldn't care less about waste in government spending.
The results are as disgusting as they are real. Our children and their children will be saddled with a financial burden at the same time they are coping with declining resources and increasing human dependency.
They will face a world of danger with military resources drained by senseless wars.
(Does it really matter if we turn Iraq over to Al Sadr, a Shiite, from Hussein, a Sunni?
Of course, Republicans aren't concerned about the future because they are about to float naked up to heaven in the presence of people like Tim LeHaye.
Luckily, there is hope. America has elected a true leader who has a vision and integrity. He can take our country back to the principles of the Founding Fathers.
Yes he can!
See my model at paradigmactuaries.com
Lee
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Merry Christmas
A time to celebrate peace, joy, love, forgiveness, compassion.
Love thy neighbor as thyself.
Be a good Samaritan.
Don't be a hypocritical Pharisee.
Cast the first stone...IF you're without sin.
Good words for politicians to live by.
Amazingly, those who profess their faith grandly seem to follow none of the above. They haven't met a war they don't like or a poor person they do.
They reject anyone they perceive as unlike them, and project god in their own image.
They cast stones in every direction while sinning in the dark shadows of their miserable lives.
They love theoretical people, but walk by those suffering in front of them.
But, hey, it's the season of joy, and we have a new President.
Three cheers for the American dream.
Lee
Love thy neighbor as thyself.
Be a good Samaritan.
Don't be a hypocritical Pharisee.
Cast the first stone...IF you're without sin.
Good words for politicians to live by.
Amazingly, those who profess their faith grandly seem to follow none of the above. They haven't met a war they don't like or a poor person they do.
They reject anyone they perceive as unlike them, and project god in their own image.
They cast stones in every direction while sinning in the dark shadows of their miserable lives.
They love theoretical people, but walk by those suffering in front of them.
But, hey, it's the season of joy, and we have a new President.
Three cheers for the American dream.
Lee
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