GENIUS FORUMS

ETHICS General

1. Endeavor to do the least possible or no harm to all persons, property, life, liberty, livelihood, environment, self, others, family, community, Country, World, Economies,
Children, Elders, Workers, Voters, and Ecosystems. (And so forth.)
2. Endeavor to make all of ones labor to meet ones own needs also coincide with the maximum energy potential of benefit to others. Practice the law of charity and reap
the rewards of the law of karma. Give your best to others and go the extra mile, for the
good of all, for the benefit of all of ones relations.
3. Emotions derive from primary instincts. Flight renders fear and fight renders Rage.
4. Emotional Energies are best resolved via right action problem solving process, not
allowing emotion to guide or control ones thinking or process.
5. The 1st and second principle applies as a matrix to the whole Needs Pyramid. That Pyramid consists of Physical needs at the base, social needs, emotional needs, mental
needs and spiritual needs at the top.
6. We only move up through the pyramid of needs one need at a time and in order of
priority for survival. Needs are coded as instincts that drive all of human behavior. All
behavior is tactic to meet ones needs. Behavior which harms others or which fails to benefit the whole of society is unethical behavior, but it must be understood to exist
as a psychology which is an instinct attached to a bad problem solving tactic. People
only act to meet their needs, if they act badly, what they need to act better is a better
tactic.
7. Thus do no harm and work for the good of all as you climb your pyramid of needs
and be cognizant of what your needs are, and lucid in terms of having good tactics that
are socially beneficial for meeting your needs.
8. Most morality can be expressed as iterations of the do no harm rule. Do no harm against ones relationship with spirit, Do no harm which would kill another person, do no
harm by stealing or thieving, do no harm by potentially transmitting STDS i.e., law against
Adultery, the list goes on etc; most of the Ten Commandments can be rewritten as specific details of the do no harm rule.
9. Ethics is the process of reconciling the needs of society with the drives of the Reptilian
and Mammalian Brain and thus Ethics are the laws of nature which allow us to exist in
peace as a culture or society instead of continuing the law of the jungle.
10. We are spirits in animal bodies, and there is a law of the jungle under our skins which must be somehow evolved and cultivated into cooperation (and cooperative
process) rather than violence (and violence as a problem solving process.) The law of the jungle is violence. The law of Angels is Cooperation.
11. Everything is connected to everything else, thus anything you do to another you do
to yourself. This becomes increasingly true as the law of karma carries out its permutation selections of what would otherwise be random chance rendering thus
synchronicities.
12. A person cannot obtain waking altered states of consciousness until they resolve
the assorted shadow issues of the Mammalian and Reptilian Mind.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ET/
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/ethics.htm
http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/de ... thics.html
http://ethics.sandiego.edu/
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/lymedisease/112259
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/228/execution-ethics.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primum_non_nocere
http://www.conbio.org/cip/article74har.cfm
http://www.ascensionhealth.org/ethics/p ... s/good.asp
http://skeptically.org/ethicsutility/id10.html
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt...yfp-t-501&x=wrt
http://www.globaljusticemovement.org/mission_ethics.htm

http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/1Cr/1Cr013.html
http://scriptures.lds.org/1_cor/13
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/1_cor/13/1a?cr=1
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/bd/c/41
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Corinthians_13

http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/karma1.htm
http://world.std.com/~aditya/BB/Law%20of%20KARMA4.htm
http://www.ncf.ca/freenet/rootdir/m...ths/karma2.html
http://www.thebuddhadharma.com/issu...anel_fall02.htm
http://www.purifymind.com/YogaKarma.htm
http://www.purifymind.com/UnderstandKarma.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_a_needle
http://www.eyeoftheneedle.net/Churc...of_a_needle.htm
http://www.debunker.com/texts/needleye.html
http://www.shamar.org/articles/camel-needle.php


http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/instinct
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinct
http://www.actualfreedom.com.au/library ... tincts.htm
http://drbeetle.homestead.com/mindrules.html
http://www.neurosemantics.com/Stutterin ... attern.htm

http://www.barrettdorko.com/articles/supress.htm
http://www.fortunecity.com/milleniu...indinbrain.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_h ... y_of_needs
http://crs.uvm.edu/gopher/nerl/group/b/c/PyN.html
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psycholo ... ramid.html
http://www.businessballs.com/maslow.htm

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/s.../reptiles14.htm
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0817-13.htm
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/Anthr...nd_practice.htm
http://www.atam.org/SerpentBrain.html
http://www.psycheducation.org/emotion/R%20complex.htm
http://www.geocities.com/somewherereal/YourBrain.html































PSYCHOLOGY General
1.Psychology is the study of the human mind. Most specifically the psyche, most generally All of human behavior.
2. The human Brain is composed of between 40 and 70 different organs, depending upon
how you define differences. These are called brodmanns brain areas. Each brain area
is responsible for specific types of brain processes and mental functions.
3. The human mind has four main operational conditions, they are beta brainwave states, alpha brainwave states, delta brainwave states, and theta brainwave states. Each of these might be further subdivided into waking or sleeping states of consciousness.
4. Beta brainwave states are those in which the dominant area of the brain is the frontal lobes. Alpha brainwave states are those in which the dominant area of the brain is the Mammalian brain or Occipital lobes, and Delta brainwaves states are those where the brain is dominated by the Reptilian Brain or brain stem. Theta brain wave states are
a second waking condition in which the body is healed, or, in which the normal flow of
dominance from top of brain to bottom of brain is reversed, and the bottom of the brain
loads information into the top, which is then experienced as dreams.
5. We have instincts which compel us to seek out gratification of our needs. All behavior is motivated by a conscious or unconscious belief that said behavior will get some need met.
6. Psychology involves first an instinct, which compels a thought process, and then a planning or strategizing session in which the individual uses their maps of reality and belief systems as well as learned knowledge and social conditioning to arrive at an end
product of doing something to get what you want. Schema are maps of reality which we
use as tools to meet our needs .Social Conditioning and personal experience and learning
play vital roles in helping the mind to think up tactics to meet needs.
7. Criminal behavior is behavior which that person believes will get their needs met. Punishment was well demonstrated to have little or no effect on learning curve. What is required for a person to change their behavior is a functional tactic that does work to get their needs met.
8. Groupthink is a social phenomenon of psychology where a group uses false
consensus process to end up behaving stupidly as a group. Groupthink occurs when
people cave into social pressures, where propaganda replaces knowledge or facts, and where group identity is created out of participation in group delusions, lies, codependency, or criminality. Groupthink is how a mob drifts to the lowest common denominator, and why a mob is potentially vicious, evil, and sociopathic. Group
authority ameliorates and dissolves personal conscience, and by having their emotions
manipulated and their social identity threatened, people give up their own better judgment and accept the judgment of the most psychopathic member of the group.
9. Pack Psychology is the psychology exhibited primarily by mammals in small groups
in which 3 primary roles are assumed by social participants. The roles are Alpha- the leader, Beta- the followers, and Delta- the orbiters. In human society that translates in a super-simplified way into bullies, cliques, and nerds.
10. Problem solving psychology must contend against groupthink and pack psychology in the arena of opinion. Problem solving psychology is emotionally neutral and uses the mind and logic to look at all aspects of a problem and try to come up with a viable problem solving process. Problem solving psychology is the worst enemy of both
Rightist and Leftist Dogmatists. True problem solving psychology comes from the place of the radical middle. It takes in all sides and all viewpoints, and it gives each its fair dues
And attention in creating a problem solving process that works from the big picture down through into the nano details.


Psychology;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology
http://psychology.about.com/
http://www.psychology.org/
http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-psychlgy.html
http://www.socialpsychology.org/

Brodmanns brain areas and etc;
http://www.umich.edu/~cogneuro/jpg/Brodmann.html
http://spot.colorado.edu/~dubin/talks/b ... dmann.html
http://www.whale.to/b/brain.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodmann_area
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_re ... uman_brain
http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/capsule ... une05.html
http://www.csuchico.edu/~pmccaff/sy...0/362unit4.html
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/qa2.html

brainwaves;
http://www.brainwaves.com/brain.html
http://pages.prodigy.net/unohu/brainwaves.htm
http://brain.web-us.com/brainwavesfunction.htm
http://www.crossroadsinstitute.org/eeg.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwaves














SOCIOLOGY General
1. Sociology is the study of groups of people, how they interact, how they create and hold group structures and group identities, how they band together, how they deal with conflicts, and everything that whole groups of people do.
2. Sociology studies social units such as families, packs, tribes, villages, cities, hives, herds, and mobs.
3. The precarious balance of true democracy is that society must balance social welfare and social support and services against the counterweight of free enterprise. If the balance falls off towards social welfare, the society falls into entropy as the government destroys
private enterprise to fund social services. The result is socialism, which always decays into its own form of totalitarianism. If the balance falls off the other way, then free enterprise results in a plutocracy and then an oligarchy followed by mild oligarchic mercantilist fascism and then a severe oligarchic fascism. Socialism is not a whole goal
or endpoint we wish to arrive at, but the system "as is" is out of balance resulting in a corporate oligarchy. The only way to fix this is to return the power back to the people and
restore a genuine democracy.
4. Sociology understands that social phenomenon are very complicated, and that social problems have many underlying contributing causes for any given effect. Oversimplification, blaming, black and white thinking, and false dilemmas do not help to solve problems in a real way.
5. People are conditioned to behave by their social environment. Personal responsibility is important, but where statistics show a trend in negative or antisocial behaviors, Society
as a whole must shoulder some part of the blame and work to improve conditions socially
just as it works to rehabilitate the criminal, so should it seek to rehabilitate itself.
6. People have several layers of personal space, a psychological truth which is mostly subliminal, but which nonetheless governs almost all social interactions. People should learn to consciously understand personal space to cut down on miscommunication and stress due to problems handling personal space issues.
7. The best way to run a democratic system is by using consensus process to the point of
a clear and overwhelming (two thirds) majority. Consensus process means talking about and working out issues and differences to arrive at a mutually beneficial compromise much of the time.
8. The best guardian of the balance between socialism and free enterprise is intellectual meritocracy. A functional society should be free of propaganda, should not have anti-intellectualism, and should consider ideas on their rational merit, not according to what
others have to say or social pressures, but by means of a reproducible rational problem
solving application of intelligence and knowledge.


Sociology Introduction;
http://www.thomsonedu.com/thomsoned...iplinenumber=14
http://www.polity.co.uk/sociology/sociology_txtbks.asp
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sit...er_summary.html
http://www.sdsmt.edu/online-courses/is/soc100/Intro.htm
http://www.sdsmt.edu/online-courses/is/ ... ourse.html
http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/soc/giddens5/
http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/~wood/207syl.htm
http://core.ecu.edu/soci/juskaa/SOCI2110/soci1.htm

Types of Government;
http://stutzfamily.com/mrstutz/WorldAff ... fgovt.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/f...000/2151570.stm
http://home.earthlink.net/~kingsidebishop/id2.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_of_government
http://www.twyman-whitney.com/ameri..._government.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fo ... government

Social Conditioning;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_conditioning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...06120833AAzVVlZ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_learning_theory
http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2006/4952.html
http://changingminds.org/techniques...onditioning.htm
http://www.winthrop.edu/english/nosearc ... social.htm

Pavlov;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Pavlov
http://www.psyhist.com/conditioning.html
http://www.sntp.net/behaviorism/pavlov.htm
http://users.cwnet.com/phelps/pavlov.htm
http://forerunner.com/forerunner/X0497_ ... orism.html
http://tip.psychology.org/skinner.html
http://www.brembs.net/operant/
http://psychology.about.com/od/beha...introopcond.htm


















EDUCATION REFORM General
1. Curiosity drives learning if it is allowed to do so and not shut down.
2. Curiosity is shut down via the current system, creating the ADD disorder sudden appearance on the charts. One half of ADD is a person who can’t pay attention. The other half is a boring culture, delivery of information modus
operandi.
3. Curiosity driven learning involves more brain area participation. If a person doesn’t really like their experience, the subconscious mind edits it and doesn’t learn from it. Using curiosity driven learning potentially accelerates the learning curve such that it would not be unreasonable for the society of the future to expect the equivalent of a multiple PhD education from High School.
4. The largest obstacle to curiosity driven learning is the current student to teacher ratio. Curiosity driven learning requires a personal curriculum to be developed per child, an enormous labor process for most teachers. The cure is to use peer tutoring, and older child tutoring in conjunction with professional testers. Teachers are being asked do two different jobs, Teaching and Testing. Testing is incredibly underutilized. How can you know what a child is ready to learn if you have not learned from them who they are and what they know already?
5. The second largest obstacle is a lazy educational system which must be corrected
and re-educated itself. The educational paradigm being taught for use is not the one which is being taught in reform education psychology and sociology classes.
6. The first battery of tests should be; IQ tests, aptitude tests, Sanity tests, Type of intelligence per intelligence tests, learning style tests, performance tests, peer skills tests, comprehensive topical subject tests, and in general, any test which can be used to effectively appraise an individual child for the purposes of creating for that child a personalized curriculum.
7. The topics of psychology, sociology, conversational logic, and ethics should be added to the current curriculum for all Middle School (ages 12 to 14 or grades 6 thru and High Schools
8. Personality differences including learning styles and Types of intelligence
Can mean that people learn in very different ways. Groups of students should be organized without regard so much to age as to learning style. A class full of visual
Learners from 3 age groups is better than a class full of kinesthetic learners and visual learners who find each other distracting and each others interactions with the teacher bizarre. Throw in some introverts and some extroverts and a speed-reader or two, and a teachers modus operandi cannot hope to reach well the different types of Students that s/he is teaching.
10. Our society is composed of a population which is by about 50 percent Anti-intellectual. (As part of a deep and long term attempt at denial of science facts)
The sheeple will crucify the nerds, that’s the end result of pack psychology and anti-intellectualist mob events. Both alleged “Sides” in the great orchestrated argument between left and right are delusional dogmatist simple minded over simplified versions of reality, oversimplified problem solving process, and thus oversimplified and therefore
Usually counterproductive pseudo solutions. Polarity does not contain sanity, both sides are polarized via each other, but the line that connects those two dots at no point in time Ever gets around to the big picture or the whole truth. Evolution and mother nature will on the other hand favor the nerds.

Education reform;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_reform
http://www1.worldbank.org/education/glo ... ionreform/
http://www.education-reform.net/
http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Educatio ... on_Reform/

Curiousity driven Learning
http://www.csl.sony.fr/~py/developmentalRobotics.htm
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/interest.html
http://www.childtrauma.org/ctamaterials/Curiosity.asp
http://www.csun.edu/~vcpsy00h/students/explore.htm


Types of Intelligence;
http://www.macalester.edu/psycholog...e05/Mtypes.html
http://www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_intelligences

Learning Styles;
http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Learning_Styles.html
http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/ILSpage.html
http://www.chaminade.org/inspire/learnstl.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles
http://www.funderstanding.com/learning_styles.cfm

Student Teacher Ratio:
http://www.edspresso.com/?OVRAW=edu...&OVMTC=advanced
http://www.edreform.com/index.cfm?f...5&cSectionID=97
http://www.dreamagic.com/jesse/isedurat.html

Anti Intellectualism;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism
http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i15/15b00701.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Anti-Intellec...r/dp/0394703170
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0121/p17s02-lehl.html
http://mtprof.msun.edu/Spr1997/TROUT-ST.html
http://www.wayofthemind.org/2006/07/26/ ... ectualism/
https://urresearch.rochester.edu/re...llectualism.pdf
http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...m+--+Maine+news

CIVIL ENGINEERING General
Civil Engineering is about how to build society or civilization from the nuts and bolts pragmatic perspective. A civil engineer is unconcerned with personally understanding
The social impact of their work unless they are specifically asked to think about that.
Rather, what a Civil engineer thinks about is how to build a structure, have it last, have
It mesh with its environment, have water flow around it, have wind not push it over. A Civil Engineer builds what society asks for generally, adding the details that make a description into an operational reality.
Many social and civil problems have civil engineering components. Energy usage
And creation, for instance, has both a social and a civil level as problems to be solved. Zoning laws and other social considerations limit what a civil engineer can do. And, rightly, civil engineering realities create limits for sociologists. Civil engineers are concerned with how efficiently resources are used, how much load a structure can bear, how well a structure accommodates traffic, and other details such as environmental impact.
Civil Engineering has aesthetic components, resource management components, construction components, and other issues which must be juggled for a good overall design and implementation.
Serious solutions for assorted problems are implied by depth understanding of civil engineering issues. Poverty for instance can in theory be out civil engineered by building the structures that are needed to house people, employment, education, and social welfare systems. The solution for instance to the Palestinian problem once diplomacy has finished is civil engineering; building the new State of Palestine and simultaneously building a strong Israel. Eco Villages, Tribal Arcologies, Permaculture,
Cable cars, Solar power, Geothermal power, Wind power, Tidal power, and other such
Civil engineering solutions can solve myriads of problems that would be untenable from the sociologist’s desk alone. Simultaneously, Good civil engineering requires us to be honest about things that don’t work, such as fossil fuels, bio-fuels, nuclear power, hydroelectric power from rivers and dams, and individualized mass transportation.
Ideally, most people should live in communities rather than in nuclear families
Cut off from community support, and communities should maintain community gardens
And local employment to increase the efficiency of civilization as a whole.

Civil Engineering;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_engineering
http://www.icivilengineer.com/
https://engineering.purdue.edu/CE/
http://www.unm.edu/~civil/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Civil_engineering
http://whatiscivilengineering.csce.ca/



Economic Social Justice;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_justice
http://indymedia.us/en/topic/economicju ... hive.shtml
http://www.commondreams.org/community.htm
http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/economicju ... efined.htm
http://www.cesj.org/


Eco-Village;
http://www.gaia.org/gaia/
http://gen.ecovillage.org/
http://www.ecosustainablevillage.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-village

Arcologies;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcologies
http://www.arcosanti.org/theory/arcology/main.html
http://www.arcology.com/
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Self-suf ... Arcologies

Permaculture;
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/perma.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
http://www.permaculture.net/about/definitions.html
http://www.permaculture.net/about/brief ... ction.html
http://www.permaculture.org/nm/index.php/site/index/


Cable Cars;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_car
http://www.rickly.com/sgi/cable_cars.htm
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/html/ccmain.html
http://www.photovault.com/Link/Vehi...RCVolume01.html

Solar Power;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power
http://www.solarelectricpower.org/
http://www.montanagreenpower.com/solar/index.html

Geothermal Power
http://geothermal.marin.org/pwrheat.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/geothermal/powerplants.html
http://geothermal.marin.org/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15749933/

Wind Power;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power
http://www.otherpower.com/otherpower_wind.html

Tidal Power;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_power
http://inventors.about.com/od/tstartinv ... _power.htm
http://waterpower.hypermart.net/tidal.html
http://www.esru.strath.ac.uk/EandE/...dal%20Power.htm

POLITICAL SCIENCE General
What kind of government does the USA have? What kind of government does Santa Barbara have? Because while it is intended to be an approximation of democracy, via
The process of representation, how much representation does the common person have
In a false dilemma war between republican and democrat? How much access do we have
To our representation? How much does our representation really work to represent us? And are they loyal to the people, or, are they loyal to that fraction of the people who can afford to belong to the aristocrat class? In theory, the political process is where and how society codes ethics and social and civil engineering into actual laws and rules and actions of the government. Politics might be defined as that sphere of social reality devoted to government, and in a democracy, Political science becomes the complicated process of getting social participants to fully invest in their own self governance.
Political science is thus about the cycle of communication, ideation, and manifestation of social and civil self administration. In America, this is a dialogue allegedly between any and all, but in reality, it is a monologue with two sock puppets
Taking up all of the air space. What difference is there between the $rich$ leftists and the
$rich$ rightists? Both rule over the under-caste of laborers and Workers, who in truth end up having little or no say in government. The masses are drowned out by two sock puppets screaming at each other.
Political Science combines all other sciences in one way or another. It involves Ethics, Morality, Physics, Architecture, Psychology, Sociology, Law, communications, Logic, and in one way or another every other science or paradigm. The subtopics of Political science are therefore Political Science sub all of the other Sciences and paradigms. But do our representatives have the information they need to juggle so many
Problems and issues? Do we as a society have a problem solving process, and are we solving problems? Or are we mostly making social problems worse by complicating society?
Perhaps more importantly, all of the sciences have bearing on Political Science.
Communications theory gives us solutions to most problems in government which we simply fail to employ. Civil Engineering tells us with mathematical certainty what the
Consequences are of building or failing to build any given thing. Sociology has the answers easily to almost all serious social problems. Hard Science can solve the energy
Crunch. The problem is that people are allowing money to make the decisions, not a lucid
Problem solving process. The problem is that the answers the sciences have to give us are being ignored, so that power hungry fools can continue to stay on top of their power-play games, and stay cozy, unaffected by truth or knowledge or reason.
All opinions were not created equal. The perspective of a sociologist is simply a more well formed perspective than a laypersons is if we are to seriously consider solving social problems. Opinion is based in emotions, in simplifications, and usually, in leftist or rightist sponsored propaganda. But neither left nor right side is interested in solving problems, as much as they are trapped in a net of their own making of lies they told themselves often enough that they believed them. The saddest part of ignorance is that if
People would just slow down, they could take the time to educate themselves.

Political Science;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/index.htm
http://www.apsanet.org/
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-91 ... al-science

Propaganda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
http://www.propagandacritic.com/
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Propaganda
http://www.esrnational.org/whatispropaganda.htm
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9109443/propaganda
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...15153632AAcIoJT
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?ti ... techniques
http://www.serendipity.li/more/propagan.html
http://mason.gmu.edu/~amcdonal/Propagan ... iques.html
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/l ... asp?id=405

Types of government;
http://stutzfamily.com/mrstutz/WorldAff ... fgovt.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/f...000/2151570.stm
http://home.earthlink.net/~kingsidebishop/id2.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_of_government
http://www.twyman-whitney.com/ameri..._government.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fo ... government





Oligarchy;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9057016/oligarchy
http://www.bartleby.com/65/ol/oligarch.html
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/oligarchy
http://www.oligarchyusa.com/
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200 ... 2005-03-30
http://www.democracymatters.org/article ... select=458
http://familyrightsassociation.com/...n_oligarchy.htm
http://www.shoutwire.com/comments/1...ratic_Oligarchy
http://www.irregulartimes.com/oligarchy.html

Class warfare;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_Warfare
http://www.therationalradical.com/outra ... arfare.htm
http://www.disenchanted.com/dis/technol ... rfare.html
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalg ... =3&pid=292
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/b...serland&emc=rss
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...02110547AAc3Bjq





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“The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.”

"Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. "
-Rumi-

“The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.”

Could you phrase this in the form of a question?

What information would be required, minimally, to address with depth and integrity, the 50 highest order problems
facing humanity?

Trevor Salyzyn wrote:Could you phrase this in the form of a question?

ROFL

prometheuspan,

What information would be required, minimally, to address with depth and integrity, the 50 highest order problems
facing humanity?

I think you've summed it up nicely. One basically needs to be a polymath of sorts to be able to understand the complexity of the environment. Considering the same problem through different angles and different filters of knowledge can help give birth to new paradigms.

I think you've summed it up nicely.

Thanks. I do my best.

One basically needs to be a polymath

Yes, which is what this presents; a polymaths worth of relevant info.

of sorts to be able to understand the complexity of the environment.

yes, all problems of high order have ecological, economic, political, social, civil, psychological, educational,
and ethical components, which is why they are so hard to solve in a realistic way, and why we end up with bad non
solutions that make problems worse.

Considering the same problem through different angles and different filters of knowledge can help give birth to new paradigms.

Right. So. Lets get on with birthing this then.

:)

prometheuspan,

yes, all problems of high order have ecological, economic, political, social, civil, psychological, educational,
and ethical components, which is why they are so hard to solve in a realistic way, and why we end up with bad non
solutions that make problems worse.

In my opinion, if humanity can solve the following three problems, then the world will go through a significant transformation -

1. Low cost energy - Solar.
2. Minimal housing that can is made with lower costing materials
3. Small energy efficient vehicles that are high quality like honda, but cheaper to produce.

Discoveries that reduce labor and costs, while increasing efficiency and quality will result in less time dedicated to working these so called "jobs' that most intellectuals would prefer to do less of.

Basically, a minimalistic mindset, and a vision for how to make things easier is what mankind should work towards.

In my opinion, if humanity can solve the following three problems, then the world will go through a significant transformation -

i agree.

1. Low cost energy - Solar.

as stated in my other thread, i think solar is good for about 5 or 10 percent of the energy we need, and that the best
plan is a holistic one incorporating several different methods, all of which have different strengths and weaknesses.
For instance, solar is low yield but has a low start up cost and is highly mobile. Geothermal is very high yield, but utterly immobile and a much higher start up cost.

2. Minimal housing that can is made with lower costing materials

Notice my focus on arcologies.

3. Small energy efficient vehicles that are high quality like honda, but cheaper to produce.

Electric cars with solar power to augment the batteries, preferably.

Discoveries that reduce labor and costs, while increasing efficiency and quality will result in less time dedicated to working these so called "jobs' that most intellectuals would prefer to do less of.

Basically, a minimalistic mindset, and a vision for how to make things easier is what mankind should work towards.

I very much agree.
:)

One of the hobbies I have had since childhood has been designing Arcologies. I did this with legos and in drawings long before I ever knew about Paolo Santeri,
Or had heard the word "Arcology". My first premise was always simply creating a realistic futuristic city as might be seen as a mars colony, or, as might be used
to solve Earth political problems such as the Palestinian Issue. I must thus concede the word which exists in the language and thank others for their contributions,
but my own exploration has been considerably different and in my view, far more pragmatic than others.

Building an Arcology is no small undertaking. New York is filled with badly planned and too densely packed apartment buildings. The World is full of mediocre and bad architecture. Its easy to build an Arcology and much harder to build a good one. Its Easy to build a dystopian Arcology and Much harder to build a Utopian one.

Thus, I think that it is long over due for somebody to speak out about the primary design considerations which should be thought of when building an Arcology.

1. Arcologies should use as much as possible materials which are collected from on site.
2. Arcologies should be built around open pit rock quarry mines, or strip mines.
3. Arcologies should be composed primarily of foam crete, or, concrete with lots of air bubbles blown into it.
4. Arcologies should be composed secondarily of a metal infrastructure.
5. Floors on Arcologies should be constructed using the same techniques as modern suspension bridges, and with the least amount of materials possible.
6. Arcology walls should be two or three meters thick at the base.
7. Arcologies Should be built no less than 100 stories tall and no more than 200 stories tall.
8. Arcologies should, like ice bergs, have considerable volume beneath the surface in the form of mines, basments, and deep foundations.
9. Arcologies Should invariably take advantage of geothermal power.
10. In essence, A good Arcology is firstly a large scale strip mine, secondly a large scale geothermal power plant, thirdly a large scale manufacturing center,
fourthly a large scale permaculture garden, and only lastly a large scale city inside of a single building.
11. Because Circles have more structural strength and durability, Arcologies should be based on circular geometry and radial symetry.
12. Inhabitants of an Arcology should have porch gardens of sufficient size to grow all of the food that they need.
13. Inhabitants of Arcologies should have thus windows to the outside. No arcology should be built where inhabitants do not have access to outdoor sunlight or air, unless that arcology is built on mars, venus, or some other such planet other than earth.
(Unless Earth becomes toxic.)
14. These criteria combined mutually together infer a large central tower with radial habitation wings. Radial symetry and size considerations thus would seem
to combine with space requirements to create a situation where the real size of a real and pragmatic Arcology can be in essence refered to by the number of stories tall that it is, and the number of habitat wings which fit around the central tower.
15. Each of these habitat wings by neccessity should be as thick at least as the current large house. Between 5 and ten meters at minimum.
16. Each wing in most ideal Arcologies will actually have an interior hallway adding 5 more meters to the thickness via the hall and 10 more meters due to doubling the housing. Thus the width of one wing is presumed to be between 25 and 35 Meters. Adding 4 meters on each side for the garden porch renders
a total of 31-41 Meters.
17. The next criteria for size is the length of a habitat wing. While this could be virtually any multiple of the apartment size, smaller numbers will not take advantage of the other design criteria well enough, and larger numbers will sprawl the arcology out too far. Assuming that the whole point is to be able to walk
only as much as a single mile from one end of the arcology to the other, (approximately, and perhaps as much as 2 miles.) The length of a habitat wing can be inferred to be optimal around 300 or 400 meters, depending on the size of the central tower.
18. Elevator arrays should be located next to emergency stairs at both ends of each habitat wing.
19. An arcology should by definition be also a water park, with its own closed circuit water system, with its own sewage treatment, and its own full air and water biocycle. No water should ever leave the arcology via tunnels or tubes for any reason. Sewage should be directly recycled on site and used as fertilizer.
20. A good Arcology as a water theme park should offer many different swimming pools, water slides, hottubs, and other water intensive environments at or below the ground floor. The Ground floor (or, deepest sub basement) of a good Arcology is a geothermally heated water park.
21. The central tower of a good Arcology should house in the basements the geothermal power plant, the water works systems, the sewage treatments systems, and any other major energy equipment.
22. The Central tower should house a large coliseum.
23. The central tower should house above the coliseum several layers of community gardens, of sufficient size and complexity via stacking to support the entire population with food. (Redundant to the porch gardens which are ancillatory to personal apartments. A stable civilization has at least two layers of redundancy for food supply in case there is some sort of problem. The isolation of individual gardens will protect the system from larger scale systemic failures, whereas the community gardens will supply more food at less human labor cost, but be more susceptible to large scale system failures.)
24. Although different applications may differ, it is probably advisable to put towers at the ends of the habitat wings, for the purpose of housing assorted human activities such as schools, offices, industry, manufacturing, smaller scale social gathering spaces, community kitchens (non corporate "Restauraunts.)
Baby sitting centers, activity centers, recreational facilities, and so forth.
25. The outer towers can be infered to be slightly larger than the width of the habitat wings themselves, perhaps 50 or 70 meters in diameter.





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“The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.”

"Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. "
-Rumi-

“The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.”