Low acceptance levels are the bane of societal progress

An experience shared by many is that people in general tend to accept only what they already know or have experience of. A complicating factor is that people want a commonality of knowledge or experience, for this commonality makes them feel safe. They do not want to stand out. People who do, tend to be ostracized. Listen to conversations at dinner tables and even speeches in congresses. One would expect people to dare address the new in those places but only minor deviations are deemed acceptable and these are then only addressed in a facetious way or, as in scientific circles, as a posited reason, phenomenon, or explanation, in other words, as a suggestion or proposition, not as a fact. 

The low acceptance level of people stems from

The Law of Multiple Causes. The definite tool for understanding and handling chronic problems

  

A problem is a point where several counteracting forces are acting upon at the same time.

A chronic problem is a situation that will not go away, whatever you do. 

Examples of the latter are easily found in health and politics. But they abound everywhere. I bet you can think of perhaps a hundred of them yourself unassisted. That is how common they are.

How to proceed? There is a natural law, an immutable law, which will help analyse and solve your problems. I found it in 2012 and published it then but was remiss not to communicate it on a broader scale

We are talking about The Law of the Multiple Causes.

Why science, and perhaps everything, is flawed.

Are you aware that mathematicians and physicians and economists and political theorist and countless other scientists say that their science is flawed? It is an amazing observation.

The flaw is that they have taken the human element out of it and then, afterwards, say something is wrong or missing. 

In essence, people invent a statement or rule and although this is actually a premise, they call it 'truth'. The next step is that they develop a whole world of on top of it. 

It happens in religion (theïstic or not), mathematics, statistics, music, politics, in the explanation of societies and economics, physics, investing, the list is long . It cannot be understood without

The lost sensation of pearls

 

Life is about experiencing sensations.

Now, look at these paintings. Do you feel enchanted, stunned, enraged, baffled by them? I bet you don't. But these paintings were absolutely sensational when they were made. 

I estimate the tsarina you see left is wearing about half a billion in today's euro's worth of diamonds and pearls. The girl to the right seems caught in the act when she donned the most prized possession of her mistress, a set of pearl earrings. 

Pearls were handed down in families for centuries until they lost their value with the arrival of cultivated pearls in 1907. Before that, pearls were more expensive than diamonds. 

Tesla, Rothko and the misinterpretation of "Less is More".

My experience has been that people tend to simplify things to a degree that they cannot be understood or solved any more. Contexts and history are left out because they are not visible to the bodily eye.

Especially in politics we see this happen but it happens in many fields.

Mechanisms of obtaining a real and definitive solution are replaced with one-liners and opinions not germane to the problem, without paying much attention to the particulars of the actual problem at hand.

You can make millions with it, even billions, or become president of the USA with it, but it won't solve anything and only complicates matters further because a false solution has been added to the problem which already was full of confusing elements.

On the competition of nations, #02. The basic factor.

The basic factor that determines the power of a nation is the mental condition of its population.

From this we derive the maxim that the mental condition of a population determines its competitive power.

This is a broad, sweeping statement, yet if not heeded, a nation will fail.

The general conception of understanding the world, as offered by news media and many pundits, is

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New book reveals extraterrestrial reality: When an Alien Speaks to You

A popular report on unusual interviews with a being of extraterrestrial origin whose remarkable views and philosophical insights about Earth, other planets, space travel, space warfare, civilisation, and other lives gave insights and new-found laws about life and living. Includes descriptions of two instruments never heard of before.

Is there something new, i.e. not on the web already?

All of it was new stuff. None of his answers and stories can be found on the web except one. After all was said and done, an unexpected metamessage seemed to emerge that would change our lives for the better if taken up and applied. 

How do they solve problems?  See Goodie #1.

Aspects of the elusive concept of greatness

We know greatness when we see it but find it difficult to define for ourselves. Some people are born with a talent for greatness, others manage to develop it. 

Many presidents of nations and large corporations try to establish a legacy that will make them be remembered as "a great leader". Most of them fail miserably in that particular goal because they have not understood what greatness is and if you do not know what it is, you won't know how to attain to it either.

On the competition of nations

On the competition of nations  

When civilian leadership lives high morals, it provides military leadership with paths to victory.

When civilian leadership lacks high morals, it tends to be selfish and tends to interfere with military leadership. This leads to weakness and, ultimately, to self-destruction regardless of its military strength.
Greed is the lowest of motives. Greed degrades leadership.

A society with high morals uses its inner strength to obtain economic and political power.
A society with low morals uses its military strength to obtain economic and political power.

No society can obtain strength on economics alone. Social cohesion must be achieved by non-economic means.

From a presentation by dr Charles van der Hoog, Philosopher of Culture, February 27, 2012.

The Laws of Invention

The Laws of Invention

It is obvious to anyone who has seen the lack of realism in the policies that politicians put out to stimulate invention, that their policies are not based upon a proper understanding of the phenomenon of invention. Perhaps it is a wise move to start and try to formulate such laws.

For investors trying to find moneymaking inventions and for inventors trying to attract investors there are other laws and rules to consider. As soon as money and business is involved, things become mundane, sordid even, and practical, in other words, one has to cater to the current needs of Mankind and gear oneself to the craziness of Man. This may be the subject of a future blog. This issue is for long-term thinkers and politicians.

The law of bombing civilians

The law of bombing civilians

People hate the people who are bombing them, regardless who they are.
Late July 2006 Israel bombed a city in Libanon and it happened to kill a lot of children. There are not many people in Libanon left who do not hate the Israeli.
The Germans started to bomb London in 1940 and the British started to drop their firebombs on Dresden and Hamburg and in the Ruhrgebiet. Deep mutual hatred ensued. The Russians bombed Berlin, just for fun and without any need, actually, for the German army was very weak. The result was that people in Berlin who first were against the Nazi's and Hitler and pro Allies, all of a sudden started to resent and hate the Russians.
The United States bombed North Vietnam almost flat. Yet it lost the war. Every Vietnamese had started to hate the Americans.
Now, 2017, we have an American president who is a great fan of "bombing the shit out of" anybody who opposes him.

All of the governments of the above instances are, apparently, oblivious of a natural law of social psychology. And that law is