naked capitalism

LeonovaBalletRusse says:

Violence is the “knee-jerk” response of primitive minds to THREAT, even challenge, to Phallic Authority. Indeed, this response to “fight or flee” is wired into the human brain regions as a legacy from our pre-human ancestors. Who can tell how violently “Macho Men” must react in the face of “Female Defiance” of their absolute authority to dominate? We know that we are at a very primitive level indeed, when we see the evidence of how much MILITANT police and soldiers HATE women, even as they need them as *Moms*, sex objects and breeders. This is “THE WAR AGAINST WOMEN” in flagrante delicto.

Dr. Gabor Mate is an accomplished expert on the re-activation of such primitive responses to fear, abuse, life-threatening confrontation and neglect, and other TRAUMA (physical, sexual, emotional, psychological) experienced first in infancy/childhood in dysfunctional Authoritarian families or families living under Despotic Regimes: later re-activated through learning terror and impotence or violence, via fear/abuse/genocide campaigns of Agents of the Regimes, using the FORCE of arms, torture, trauma, and fear propaganda against the “nation’s” own citizens (considered War Crimes since Nuremberg).

The NEURONAL CIRCUITRY created in childhood REMAINS forever lurking in our brains/nervous systems, leading many to try to “cure the agony” via the ingestion of mood-altering/mind-altering DRUGS, leading to addiction to: sugar, nicotine, ethyl alcohol, TV/Google/Facebock, marijuana, meth, cocaine, heroin, hashish, pornography, violent games, unto V IOLENT ASSAULT, TORTURE and MURDER, as “Military/Security” Authorities for the *Homeland*.

“My friends, we got trouble, right here in River City.” Our Police, Soldiers, and BlackOPs guys are MADE, if not born to be violent, in USA!USA!

Civilized men and women at NC, unite! We have nothing to lose but our enslavement to the primates running the asylum.

LeonovaBalletRusse says:

Ransome, the Executives of Death today will go the way of the Dodo bird. Below is the the COMPLEX WAY toward “The Human Use of Human Beings”–such as that called for by Weiner, Bateson, and Ilich decades ago:

Today I saw the classified ad in NYT print, recruiting teachers (esp. of math and science), for “Avenues: The World School” in New York City. I can very well imagine that this schools’s graduates will not be today’s “Executives” who are “cookie-cut” to order by the Ivy League dinosaurs:

This is a highly ambitious “International School” in the heart of NYC. I imagine they are placing a number of teachers there who have the right contacts, and who are “up and comers,” but today–especially under the wing of George Soros in economics at INET (Institute for New Economic Thinking), and in political economy at OSF (Open Society Foundations)–the TREND is for RESPONSIBLE ELDERS with sober experience and self-critical disposition to usher in “the next generation” with appropriate CRITICAL SKILLS, exp. SELF-CRITICAL skills. At this our national moment of extreme crisis and radical transition, we are alert to the necessity to reverse the trend of Old Regime Corporate Totalitarian thinking. This is the most important outcome of insuperable frauds and incurable ruin born of the self-reinforcing “crimenogenic environment” (William K. Black) that has built up in business, banking, politics, and academia since the 1970′s (the topic of my intense research for six years). Hence, maybe Avenues is OPEN to older teachers.

Perhaps the greatest influence in George Soros’ life–apart from that of his father (See Tivador Soros: Masquerade” with Forewords by Paul and George Soros [New York, Arcade Publishing, 2000; 1965])–has been KARL POPPER, with whom he studied at the London School of Economics. This influence was most notably revealed to the public in George’s “The Alchemy of Finance.” It is a fact that, over his lifetime since then, George Soros has APPLIED the COMPLEX PHILOSOPHY of Karl Popper, as both a hedge fund manager, and as a philanthropist, virtually transmogrifying Popper’s thought into the PRAXIS of Open Society tenets, via his personal discovery process through “scientific experiments” of his own design, also as a philanthropist funding GRANTS for the performance of grounded PROJECTS (including in New Orleans) at home and abroad (Open Society Institute unto Open Society Foundations – http://www.soros.org – See new Director from HARVARD in 2012: Christopher Stone.

Today, regarding the ruin of the “Real Economy” by a Monopoly Finance System in Late Stage Capitalism, George Soros is leading the way into “New Economic Thinking” via his INET. You may have seen the publicity surrounding the meeting of his sponsored group at the “New Bretton Woods Conference” last year. Quite recently, the need for our radical transition from “Godzilla Banks” to employment from the ground up, funded by other means, has become the hot topic. See PavlinaTcherneva video interview at http://www.ineteconomics.org or at http://www.neweconomicperspectivesblogspot.com, together with blogs and videos by William K. Black and Michael Hudson.

What has come to the FORE is the validity to us today, of Karl Popper’s philosophy anent “The Open Society and Its Enemies” in_conjunction_with_that of the “Logic of Scientific Discovery”. At the London School of Economics, POPPER was “Professor of Logic and Scientific Method”. For a quick overview of Karl Popper’s philosopy of *language*, *learning*, and *self-criticism*, please SEE: http://www.youtube.com — “Karl Popper — Uncertain Truth 1/6″ [through 6/6]- a video recording of the endearingly brilliant Popper speaking with others on these topics, and especially on his “evolutionary theory of knowledge: that we learn by trial and error elimination, we learn by our mistakes.”

Soros has stood on Popper’s shoulders, and according to Popper’s philosophy, he has brought *greater knowledge* into the world through applying his principles. Connected with this is the development of his concept of JUST “AGENCY” and its importance for the creation of a Just Society, based on learning through doing and doing better: our “scientific knowledge* not only in the arts and sciences, but in politics and very life. His latest thoughts on Agency can be found in “THE SOROS LECTURES At the Central European University” (New York, Public Affairs, 2010).

Some of us at NC have mastered, and can demonstrate, the skills so vital to our nation’s correct development as fully *HUMAN beings*. Now we must advance as a civilization with greater knowledge, gained through the “scientific process” of experimenting as we go, LEARNING through “trial and elimination of error, learning from our MISTAKES” (Popper). But NOT as robots and super-quants-on-the-make, and “Executives” on the order of the Plantation Boss, Fuehrer, or Military General, or deadhead CEO. Who among us at NC might find his/her place at Avenues: The World School, or anywhere in the world: working for the good with the help of a Grant from the Open Society Foundations? Can we ourselves not help to realize a *vision of open-hearted democracy*?

I rest my case.

DISCLAIMER: I have never been, am not now, and do not expect to be employed by Avenues: The World School, George Soros, or the Open Society Foundations. I just can’t help promoting what’s good for us all: a Periclean dream of open democracy, risen through us, in deed.

–Nova Bernard Thriffiley, Ph.D.(Indiana University, Bloomington)
former ballerina in The American Youth Ballet of Tatiana Semenova