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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
EU Soveriegn Debt Crisis In Terms Of Fortress DC & Euro!
My response to the news article in the above link follows:
Maybe somewhere in this article is a clue to what happened to the European Union's equivalent to Americas Lehman trauma. Could it be there's some problem at European Central Bank or the Bundesbank, or is it Societe General? Crawling out of Depression 2.0 with some new cold war looming imminently on the horizon, I don't know what to think. What I do know is President Obama has placed the US in such an excellent position, that there's a level playing field for America in the global arena. I'm tired of the old way when Europeans would posture there is no culture in the US, conspiring with an envious group of nations publicly or privately to get what we have. The American Dream is still very real!
Thursday, December 1, 2011
The 99% Inverted!
Most of the Occupy Wall Street protesters are just reactionary, filled with hatred rhetoric about 1 billion in poverty without a real solution on how to change this statistic...in their blind rage at the "1%" they distort their perception of wealth. They don't see that they're selfishly rebelling against an American system that essentially is geared toward a very realistic, enlightened way of dealing with it's people and the world. It's ironic this smartmob doesn't understand that in the US the quality of life and amount of wealth held by the "99%" is so high as to seemingly eclipse the wealth of the rest of the globe. ...Marc Wolsky
<I wrote this piece after reading the article in the below link>
Occupy Protesters Mobilize for Obama's Visit - NYTimes.com
<I wrote this piece after reading the article in the below link>
Occupy Protesters Mobilize for Obama's Visit - NYTimes.com
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
MoMA | The Collection | Barry Le Va. Diagram for Two Separate Installlations Combined into One Installation in 2 Perspectives. 1982
MoMA | The Collection | Barry Le Va. Diagram for Two Separate Installlations Combined into One Installation in 2 Perspectives. 1982
I've been friends with the famous Barry Le Va for many months now and I can tell you he has as dynamic a repertoire of visual art as his personality! He told me he has sold many works of art at the Museum of Modern Art for exorbitant prices, so I told him I'd like to go to MoMA to view his art...he said the museum circulates art too much to see it. So I wikipediaed him and found a link to some of his MoMA art...one of his pieces was a devastatingly expressive masterpiece(the link at the top of this page will take you directly to this piece) , so I decided to feature him here on my site.
That's my ultra state report for now.
Marc
I've been friends with the famous Barry Le Va for many months now and I can tell you he has as dynamic a repertoire of visual art as his personality! He told me he has sold many works of art at the Museum of Modern Art for exorbitant prices, so I told him I'd like to go to MoMA to view his art...he said the museum circulates art too much to see it. So I wikipediaed him and found a link to some of his MoMA art...one of his pieces was a devastatingly expressive masterpiece(the link at the top of this page will take you directly to this piece) , so I decided to feature him here on my site.
That's my ultra state report for now.
Marc
Saturday, October 8, 2011
High-Frequency Trading, The Future & Occupy Wall Street!
High-Frequency Stock Trading Catches Regulators’ Eyes - NYTimes.com
I guess high-frequency trading and the like is exactly what the Occupy Wall Street is protesting. But I think the real issue goes much deeper. I still maintain we need to have a real insight into how humanity is moving into the future. I think the real answer is in technological and epistemological breakthroughs that will leave us on lucid and safer high ground. Somehow the protesters' ambiguous aims show they are just as clueless as most of us. More to the point is my perception that we are at a crossroads where the pressure of eons of our species searching for answers is bearing down on us all. Perhaps the real importance of Orwell's 1984 novel is to give us a sense of the gravity of this futuristic pressure, forcing us to enlist a rational and empirical overview, countering existential fallacies. The problem with existentialism is that it is escapist, and encourages us to relieve our anxieties by compromising our integrity by giving up on trying to find a life of reason meaningful. Reality has a rational cosmic order as it's cornerstone, and if we don't know this we wrongly assess things in psychosis.
Rationalism and empiricism are really important tools to understand things clearly, and are stepping stones to transcend the drudgery of the modern day with a positivist outlook. Sure the people on Wall Street are guilty to some degree of unethical and illegal activities, but in the larger picture they are really more like masters of the universe, moving as a masses/vanguard in a rational mainstream!
I guess high-frequency trading and the like is exactly what the Occupy Wall Street is protesting. But I think the real issue goes much deeper. I still maintain we need to have a real insight into how humanity is moving into the future. I think the real answer is in technological and epistemological breakthroughs that will leave us on lucid and safer high ground. Somehow the protesters' ambiguous aims show they are just as clueless as most of us. More to the point is my perception that we are at a crossroads where the pressure of eons of our species searching for answers is bearing down on us all. Perhaps the real importance of Orwell's 1984 novel is to give us a sense of the gravity of this futuristic pressure, forcing us to enlist a rational and empirical overview, countering existential fallacies. The problem with existentialism is that it is escapist, and encourages us to relieve our anxieties by compromising our integrity by giving up on trying to find a life of reason meaningful. Reality has a rational cosmic order as it's cornerstone, and if we don't know this we wrongly assess things in psychosis. Rationalism and empiricism are really important tools to understand things clearly, and are stepping stones to transcend the drudgery of the modern day with a positivist outlook. Sure the people on Wall Street are guilty to some degree of unethical and illegal activities, but in the larger picture they are really more like masters of the universe, moving as a masses/vanguard in a rational mainstream!
Friday, October 7, 2011
Real Hope For A Tomorrow Today?
Monkey Brain Control: The Future of Robotic Prostheses?
It's always good to hear encouraging words telling us that the future is real. Particularly in concrete, empirical terms. The article in the above Time.com link explains a futuristic breakthrough which implies not only that we may soon be able to develop cyborg capability in humans, but the more important idea that we may soon live in a day and age which is as technologically advanced as cutting edge science fiction.
The world is often adrift with a plague of negativism even by the most careful adherents to doctrinaire ideas. If we capture the spirit of our time and incorporate our yearning for a sci-fi world with our down to earth spiritual side, we may transcend a rough era of man where we are challenged to come up with an infinite world...a world where we would conceptualize and materialize in a dimension so fantastically futuristic, even Jean Paul Sartre would learn to smile.
It's always good to hear encouraging words telling us that the future is real. Particularly in concrete, empirical terms. The article in the above Time.com link explains a futuristic breakthrough which implies not only that we may soon be able to develop cyborg capability in humans, but the more important idea that we may soon live in a day and age which is as technologically advanced as cutting edge science fiction.
The world is often adrift with a plague of negativism even by the most careful adherents to doctrinaire ideas. If we capture the spirit of our time and incorporate our yearning for a sci-fi world with our down to earth spiritual side, we may transcend a rough era of man where we are challenged to come up with an infinite world...a world where we would conceptualize and materialize in a dimension so fantastically futuristic, even Jean Paul Sartre would learn to smile.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wall Street Science Fiction!
A Warning as Wall Street Moves Into Emerging Markets - NYTimes.com
When I first read the title of this article I was thinking I could find evidence the US was going to invest in emerging markets like the Chinese and the US could have the national growth like China's. Also we could utilize present US securities market volatility to our advantage as the Chinese do, offsetting problems in such things as traditional Dow Theory. But of course in our country, the US, perhaps the perception of president Obama as a socialist may factor in well with your discussion of sovereign wealth funds, because our treatment of such things in a more progressive light may allow 'fortress DC' to keep up with the likes of fortress euro's cultural wealth and China's money. If you don't change you'll be begging for change. Unfortunately, only tomorrow will show us a more futuristic overview of life, relieving us of the miasma of fatalistic visions...ie. the times we live in and NYTimes articles in general are very uplifting, but we need to bring perspective on where we as a race are going and who we really are. Otherwise, we are just existentialist escapists without futurist vision. I found this article particularly uplifting because it points toward tangible evidence of futuristic change.
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