Thursday, 28 October 2010

A Millenium Dreamer's Goals

  1. Eradicate mediocrity
  2. Achieve universal higher education
  3. Green the world economy
  4. Eliminate geriatric mortality
  5. Improve wellness
  6. Combat all diseases
  7. Ensure human sustainability in space and other planets
  8. Develop a solar partnership for development
  9. Achieve the hedonistic imperative

Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Law of bifrucation of identity

Any group that holds that its philosophy will bring peace once other forces are extinguished is susceptible to divide or fragment into separate identities that marshal the desires of its group, polarising and marching against that of another.
As an example -the division between Soviet Union and Communist China.

Friday, 1 October 2010

Aspirations of the middle class

What aspirations might they be?
To live inside the middle class? To have a cat, a car and a pool? After all to have aspirations for better cars, beautiful and larger houses and higher salaries is a limited and bounded dream.
Would that not form a shackle on the minds and livelihoods of its members?

To transcend its condition and join the owner's class? Does it have enough resolve and what is more is there a method. Is the middle class sufficiently developed to metacognise methods to path its own transcendence?

I think this class lock is both an enemy of the democracy.

The working class has much broader and wilder aspirations, they transcend the needs of the individual and show that there are also aspirations in groups and classes. Its wrong to say that the working class has no aspirations when they curry for the minimalist utopia.

Middle class under squeeze

it seems a sufficient cause for alarm as to the conjecture that democratic form takes over the world that there is a squeeze on the number of the middle class. And no wonder with cuts in higher education spending and grants and tuition support that have preceded it.
Perhaps if the unis are cornered to financialise and monetise their knowledge formative powers this bottle neck may be overcome.
If the middle class was to continue its expanse its more likely that there is also an expansion in the world democratic states.