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for a moment his mother was caucasian his father was african genetically barack could have come out looking white as wonder bread white as me if barack had been born with white skin americans would have seen him in a very different light because americans are basically stupid most of humanity is basically stupid a white looking barack would be just as negro half negro to be precise as a dark skinned obama but the american public would have had a harder time seeing his election as a first for negroes i only mention this to underscore the low common denominator of mentality which makes this political world of our go round sunday afternoon day 2 of this blog dec 27 2009 i was pleased to find that my new friend giri alam has added me to facebook so now we may get to know one another better and peer through the blog portal into the world of america and the world of indonesia through an old man s eyes and a young man s eyes and thank you so much for contacting me in ubuntu irc and asking me this very interesting question i am just having my sunday late morning coffee and thinking about what i want to add to that post part of my efforts in that post will be to paint a picture of how i imagine europe south america and asia view america and also now america sees itself its self interest and the rest of the world when i first searched on carrot and stick i did not realize how wide spread that phrase is both abroad and at home i think this demonstrates a world wide reluctance to admit that there must be compromise on each side of each issue whether political economic or religious we must not resent the very process itself of peaceful negotiation because none of us can have our cake and eat it too as the old saying goes whenever diplomacy and arbitration fails the next step is violence whether in a formal declared act of war or guerrilla tactics or individual acts of terrorism i shall now paste this very post at the bottom of my blog and try to add thoughts throughout the day marshall mcluhan coined the term global village sometime in the 1960s long before anyone ever dreamed of things like irc the first chat program developed in oulu finland or the internet now we see how easy it is for two people of vastly separated geographically and in age and culture to become friends ok here is the big question is there some way any way for all the opposing sides muslim jew christian hindu buddhist communist capitalist industrialist farmer etc to find compromises which allows us all a measure of freedom to live as we see fit without threatening one another i am going to introduce a term which some of you may have seen and for others it will be a new concept the term is meme not only do we live in an electronic village where people living at opposite sides of the globe may be friends but we share a body of knowledge which we may search and link to at will which some years ago i began to call meta mind when i said internet is metamind all i need to do is throw a handful of links at you like so much pixie dust from tinkerbell in a fairy tale and suddenly your mind has wrapped or grokked around something totally new and different now why should it be necessary for me to throw the pixie dust of all these links at you all of you and hope that you grok them what could any of this possibly have to do with the simpler question of what i as an american think of barack obama s carrot and stick policies well it has something to do with a term called illation which was coined by cardinal newman who left the anglican church of england and became a high ranking bishop in the roman catholic church let us look at a brief excerpt from cardinal newman s writings we are in a world of facts and we use them for there is nothing else to use we do not quarrel with them but we take them as they are and avail ourselves of what they can do for us it would be out of place to demand of fire water earth and air their credentials so to say for acting upon us or ministering to us we call them elements and turn them to account and make the most of them we speculate on them at our leisure but what we are still less able to doubt about or annul at our leisure or not is that which is at once their counterpart and their witness i mean ourselves we are conscious of the objects of external nature and we reflect and act upon them and this consciousness reflection and action we call our rationality and as we use the so called elements without first criticizing what we have no command over so is it much more unmeaning in us to criticize or find fault with our own nature which is nothing else than we ourselves instead of using it according to the use of which it ordinarily admits our being with its faculties mind and body is a fact not admitting of question all things being of necessity referred to it not it to other things as i now write about illation and groking to answer my indonesian friend s question about carrot and stick policy and now quote from newman s grammar of assent with the intention of dragging into all this the jain concept of anekantavada why is it that thoughts of bonhoeffer s cost of discipleship seemingly so unrelated suddenly enter my mind sorry for being away from this complex issue for so long but i had to post many things in a facebook thread discussion on aquinas iranaeus and christianity vs modern humanism with special reference to hans kung s on being christian if you were to ask me the worst thing that america has done to indonesia and the nicest thing they have done for indonesia i would have to say off the top of my head that the worst thing is the philip morris tobacco company using indonesia to promote smoking especially among teenagers and the best thing is that america and the who world health organization realizes what a terrible thing it has done and has tried to get indonesia to sign an agreement that would make life for tobacco companies more difficult if you were to ask me regarding the worst things that america has done in its history i would have to answer the enslavement genocide of native americans the enslavement of africans and colonial aggression against hawaii the philippines and various caribbean central and south american nations under various guises and euphemisms of liberation and economic aid if you were to ask me the best things that america has given to the world i would have to say the notion of a constitution and constitutional law and slowly but surely international law and some genuine concern for human rights even in places that do not contain oil although the mercy and justice of liberation is far swifter in oil bearing nations in order for you to understand my view of things you must in some sense become me and see what i have seen and know what i know after the fashion that i know it this is why i mention cardinal newman s illation in his grammar of conviction which is simply to say that we arrive at our convictions and certainties after years and years of very small experiences and observations which add up to the person that we are if you happen to be say ibn khaldun of 14th century tunisia then that constellation of experiences causes you to see the truth of reality in one way anekantavada is an ancient jain philosophical concept which fits right in with cardinal newman s illation it refers to the principles of pluralism and multiplicity of viewpoints the notion that truth and reality are perceived differently from diverse points of view and that no single point of view is the complete truth so you see i am quite un american to the degree that i see mccain s brand of patriotism as monstrous and i am quite socratic to the degree that i see myself as a citizen of the world and how large was the known world when socrates allegedly said that since the total human population in 400 b c e is estimated to be only 6 million and not todays 6 7 billion one young enthusiastic rather ill educated republican boasted to me on facebook that america is the best because canada could not beat up vermont and canada realizes this and vermont realizes this how tragic that one should view the greatness of one s nation and culture in terms of coercive destructive force yet putin of russia glories in the fact that as a former kgb operative he can still beat people up in a martial arts competition i understand that obama s big sports accomplishment is in basketball so he might out dunk you but he would not dream of kerpluking you you see the pen is mightier than the sword and this we all agree but shall the spoken and written word prove mightier than a marving nuclear warhead this remains to be seen tags carrot and stick foreign policy indonesia islam obama posted in blogging dialogue irc politics religion talk ubuntu leave a comment ubuntu blows me away december 21 2009 ubuntu 9 10 simply blows me away with its speed and elegance and so reasonably priced it took me a total of 50 or 60 hours experimenting first with wubi installs on top of windows and then with a pure ubuntu install on a 280 gig gateway i took detailed notes at my wordpress blog anyone with those notes should be able to install it in 5 hours or less firefox is amazing on ubuntu there is a multi platform instant message program yahoo aim icq msn etc an email client an irc client konverse which lands you in a kubuntu channel with dozens of specialty rooms and hundreds of people on line around the world the only think it cant do yet which i like is paltalk ubuntu updates are far smoother more automated less in your face less annoying than windows updates i tried out ubuntu because i finally had a spare machine i could afford to ruin i felt if i did succeed in installing ubuntu that it would be very primitive and user unfriendly it is very user friendly with lots of gui interfaces you do not have to be some c wizard or know shell and bash commands you can do all that if you know how but you don t need to to use it and you get open office for spreadsheet word processor and presentation manager if more apps become cloud based then you will do everything in your browser and all apps and data will be on some remote server tags linux ubuntu posted in irc mysql php programming shell technology ubuntu wubi leave a comment seeking new friends in social networks december 5 2009 i personally feel that the more friends we add the more we have to gain since we are eavesdropping so to speak on the thoughts and opinions of many diverse people around the nation around the world with gifts differing as paul said how dreary to feel xenophobic and think oneself a very private person and limit oneself to family and friends of childhood s acquaintance it seems to me that you know them well enough and you should be interacting with them face to face or via telephone and not in this particular medium of social networking occasionally i meditate upon the several curious times in plato s dialogues where socrates asserts that misanthropy the contempt for our fellow beings is closely connected with misology a contempt for discourse and this makes a great deal of sense since if you detest the bulk of your fellow beings the with whom pray tell will you converse and if you do not regularly engage in the exercise of extemporaneous dialog then however shall you exercise your mental faculties and be stimulated with new and perhaps innovative ideas or at the very least ideas new to thee miranda dear when i was a senior in high school i needed to collect an enormous number of baby food jars for our biology class where we did a lot of dissection and handed in the organs for grading a young mother of three children would generously supply me with the jars twice a week i was very conscious of the fact that she was starved for adult intellectual stimulation she was glad that i stayed with her and chatted for an hour or two about high school topics i was alway a rather unusual child and adolescent i would discourse much in the same manner as you see me post day to day i preferred the company of adults and especially teachers over children my graduating high school class unbeknownst to me decided that i should be class philosopher and informed me that i should come to have my photo taken at the time i thought it was something of a lark on their point only later in life did it dawn upon me that i really was quite different and quite obsessed with philosophy i still occasionally call my biology teacher now long retired and i mentioned this to him and he said oh yes you were the most philosophical of any class and it was that teacher edward karoll who went out of his way to make me aware of sjc without his encouragement i would never have attended we so often hear use it or lose it and though that is not always in reference to the intellect it is certainly true that our minds need exercise i know one fellow in his 80s who retired and made it a point to do crossword puzzles each day in the belief that such exercise wards off cognitive deterioration i have had the internet each day since 1998 as a medium for expression and i dare say my writing style benefited from this constant exercise i keep meaning to track down and read an essay that sartre wrote on why we write tags dialogue discourse imagination misanthropy misology plato socrates posted in dialogue education forums irc life literature paltalk philosophy politics spirituality talk teaching leave a comment 2nd attempt ubuntu multiple local sites apache2 december 2 2009 note my user name is always bryan because he gave me his old machine with a password on it so i just keep everything the same for convenience step 1 terminal sudo chown bryan var www step 2 having given myself rights with that above chown command i should be able to create folders withing var www e g var www proj1 and then invoke the 1st pg of the application by typing into the browser localhost proj1 report html i shall test this and place the exercises from head first php mysql into a folder var www proj1 and see if the exercise works the only question that remains in my mind is whether the exercise pages will work unchanges honoring var www proj1 as the root or whether i need to issue some other command to make proj1 the default directory or whether i have to hard code paths into all the exercise pages which if i do would kind of defeat the purpose of developing a project in a folder and then transparently moving it to some other location what follows is the raw text from the irc channel where i asked my questions i sorted through it to come up with the above step by step procedure to achieve my goals the steps work and here is my email feedback to the person that gave me the valuable guidance you saved me hours of grief and made it possible for me to now make rapid progress with my head first book and yes i want to pay 60 for the paperback because i want to be able to take it in the bathroom or on the subway i want to really let all this php mysql stuff sink in and become second nature 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