From Political Vel
Craft
The International Banking Cabal Must Be Disgorged ~ Libor
Scandal
24Jan
The real story surrounding the news that the London Interbank
Offering Rate was manipulated is that the financial system that mechanism is a
part has died, and a return to the Glass-Steagall Act in both London and the United States is the first step to
replacing that system.
Gramm
unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in 1976. He
first won election to the House of Representatives as a Democrat three years
later. Democratic Congressman (1979–1983), a Republican Congressman (1983–1985)
and a Republican Senator (1985–2002) from Texas. He was a senior economic
adviser to John McCain’s presidential campaign from the summer of 2007 until
July 18, 2008.
First a word about
Gramm-Leach-Bliley & The Glass Steagall Act
Bill
Clinton Repeals The Glass Steagall Act in 1999 allowing Banks to invest
depositor’s hard earned cash in high risk bubbles.
[Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act]
repealed the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933,
opening up competition among banks, securities companies and insurance
companies.
The
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) allowed commercial and investment banks to
consolidate. For example, Citibank merged with Travelers
Group, an insurance company, and two years prior to the repeal of The Glass
Steagall Act and in violation thereof, formed the conglomerate Citigroup, a
corporation combining banking and insurance underwriting services under brands
including Smith-Barney, Shearson, Primerica and Travelers Insurance Corporation looting American’s hard
earned savings in high risk investment/bubbles.
Support for Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act
When he was Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers advocated repeal of
the Glass-Steagall Act[6], which was a target of the financial industry. In their
report – “Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America” – Robert
Weissman and Harry Rosenfeld identified the repeal of this legislation as one
of the main causes of the 2008 financial crisis.
According to Weissman and Rosenfeld,
“The Financial Services Modernization
Act of 1999 formally repealed the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 (also known as
the Banking Act of 1933) and related laws, which prohibited commercial banks
from offering investment banking and insurance services…The 1999 repeal of
Glass-Steagall helped create the conditions in which banks invested monies from
checking and savings accounts into creative financial instruments such as
mortgage-backed securities and credit default swaps, investment gambles that
rocked the financial markets in 2008.” [7]
Summers
worked for Congressional approval of the Financial Services Modernization Act,
sponsored by Republicans Phil Gramm, Jim Leach and Thomas Bliley. This Act eliminated provisions
in the Glass-Steagall Act that prohibited banks from affiliating with
securities firms. It also repealed provisions in the Bank Holding Company Act that prevented
banks from underwriting insurance.
Summers
has promoted financial deregulation as a form of modernization, rather than a
return to the lack of government oversight and instability of the pre-Depression era. In 1999, Summers claimed the
Financial Services Modernization Act would create a financial regulatory system
“for the 21st century” and “promote stability in our financial system.” [9] However, Democrat Senator Byron Dorgan warned at the
time “I think we will look back in 10 years’ time and say we should not have
done this, but we did because we forgot the lessons of the past, and that which
is true in the 1930s is true in 2010. We have now decided in the name of
modernization to forget the lessons of the past, of safety and of soundness.” [10]
Summers
argued for elimination of the Glass-Steagall Act by saying it imposed “archaic
financial restrictions.”[11] He said that the US government “must allow competition
to work” and that meant “allowing common ownership of banking, securities and
insurance firms.” Summers
insisted that US financial organizations must have the ability to choose “the
structure that is right for them” and to offer “a full range of products.” In Summers’ view, the
Financial Services Modernization Act that repealed Glass-Steagall struck the
right balance between giving financial institutions more flexibility and
protecting US taxpayers. [12]
Summers
cast the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act as a victory for the international
competitiveness of US financial firms and for US consumers: “If it can be done
without compromising other critical objectives, repeal of the common ownership
restrictions of current law would be an important boost to our financial
system. Our leadership of the world’s financial markets would be enhanced. And
consumers would see the benefits in the form of greater innovation and lower
prices.” [13]
However, the financial innovation that followed the repeal of the
Glass-Steagall Act has been criticized for its damaging effects on the US
economy and US taxpayers. In their report proposing financial regulatory
reform, the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief
Program observed that “Creativity and innovation are too often channeled
into circumventing regulation and exploiting loopholes.” The Panel’s report
notes how after the introduction of key financial regulations during the
Depression – including the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act that Summers helped to
repeal – the US had enjoyed a long period of high economic growth that was also
free of major financial crises. [14]
Source Watch
The Elites
Responsible For Orchestrating The Destruction Of The Glass Steagall Act Of
1933:
- Goldman Sachs:
- Alan Greenspan
- Rothschild Federal Reserve:
- Alan Greenspan
- Larry Summers
- Citibank:
- Sandy Weill
- John Reed
- Robert Rubin
- Traveller’s Insurance:
This sea change in regulation was
orchestrated by Sanford Weill and assisted by Robert Rubin, who became the
second in command at Citibank after his stint at The U.S.Treasury.
Rubin, was Clinton’s
Secretary of Treasury and was instrumental in getting The Gramm-Leach-Bliley
Act passed. Larry Summers, was then his current Secretary Of Treasury who is
now one of Obama’s economic “advisors”. What goes around comes around, they are
all culpable.
“Commercial banks are not supposed
to be high-risk ventures; they are supposed to manage other people’s money very
conservatively,” writes Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. “It is
with this understanding that the government agrees to pick up the tab should
they fail. Investment banks, on the other hand, have traditionally managed rich
people’s money — people who can take bigger risks in order to get bigger
returns. When repeal of Glass-Steagall brought investment and commercial banks
together, the investment-bank culture came out on top.
Common Dreams
The
Stooges That Wrote The
Gramm-Leach-Bliley ‘Bill’ aka; Financial Services Modernization Act that is
presently destroying the World.
Wall
Street Bankers & Insurance Companies Got Stooges To Write A Bill To Repeal The Glass
Steagall And Thus Loot The U.S. Citizens Depository Earnings Into Speculative
High Risk Investments Were:
No need to study the Senate Or House
Records to see if it was Democrat Or Republican as Gramm-Leach-Bliley passed
with bi-partisan support. Those who clandestinely supported the bankers, and
knew the *bill* would pass like Charles Schumer, would vote against the *bill*
to maintain a “for the people image” for re-election.
Do not entertain Republican vs
Democrats, as this is just another NWO ploy to break apart America by imposing
unconstitutional heretical polarity. We are as Our Founding Fathers Were
“Libertarians” – “Liberated” from the schemes of Banker’s Britain. There are to
be no parties for this or that, we all are under one Constitution.
“All the serious, sophisticated
people back in the nineties said that Glass-Steagall was an anachronism, that
everything then was completely different from the 1920s, and only the populist
rabble thought we still needed to separate investment and commercial banking.
Score another one for the populist rabble. Repealing Glass-Steagall and the
other financial deregulation votes in the nineties obviously was largely
responsible for the financial crisis and the enormous shift of wealth from
working and middle-class families to the financial sector.”
Congressman – Brad Miller a senior
Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee– and one of Congress’
staunchest supporters of ordinary working families (middle Class) – does pay attention to
history.
A one-time, virtual British puppet,
France’s late President Mitterrand, played a crucial role in destroying the
economy of more than western and central Europe from a certain date, through
to, in effect, the present time. The evidence continues to turn up.
The original decision was
made when Mitterrand, expressing a certain likeness to the intentions of
Napoleon III, implicitly threatened all-out war against Germany, should Germany
not submit to the status of becoming a puppet of what would become known as a
“Euro” system under British supervision.
The change which came to
western and central continental Europe, occurred at a moment when the Soviet
Union had entered a state of its collapse, during which what had been once East
Germany was about to be unified with what was then “West Germany.” France’s
President Mitterrand virtually threatened warfare against Germany, lest a free
Germany be reunited.
The condition for peace set
by a pack composed of Mitterrand, Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, and U.S.
President George H.W. Bush, was the elimination of Germany’s sovereignty under
what was thence to be known as “The Euro System:” the end of the sovereignty of
the respective nations of continental western Europe. The present threat of the
disintegration of Western and Central continental Europe, and, also, the
British Isles, had actually begun in those moments.
LIBOR
Now, suddenly, the direction of
events is changing again, at the present moment for the very much worse. An
insightful, important current in the leadership of Britain, has proposed that
Britain join together with the United States in a new, Glass-Steagall orientation
of the trans-Atlantic region—and, clearly, much more besides. It was almost
inevitable that many would react suspiciously to this news, as some of my own
associates had done—temporarily, of course.
Nonetheless, the general
breakdown-crisis, as a spawn of Gramm-Leach-Bliley, the trans-Atlantic fraud
which is termed “The LIBOR rate,” has lately been caught out by circles in both
the United States, and Britain itself, and that by the tail at this moment.
There are many
uncertainties afoot at the moment; but, whatever happens, the present form of
trans-Atlantic financial machinations, is at its present, actually mass
murderous, and utterly very dirty end. All this was set into motion in about
2001: following the decadence introduced as the U.S. Gramm-Leach-Bliley hoax of
November 12, 1999, the swindle which set the great trans-Atlantic LIBOR hoax
into motion for its effort to destroy, among other targets, the United States
of America.
The target-in-fact of
Gramm-Leach-Bliley had already been the destruction of the United States; now,
some leading circles in Britain have recognized that the destruction intended
for the United States, was directed against Britain, too. The rush for remedies
must now proceed accordingly.
I, for one, foresee the
prospect of the turn to a “classical” Franklin Roosevelt remedy, that same
original Glass Steagall law, which the Gramm-Leach-Bliley swindle had been
created to destroy. This alternative is now the only sane alternative to the
virtually utter doom of trans-Atlantic civilization as we have ever known it.
Similarly, some leading circles in Britain now share the concern which I and
others here have expressed.
At the best, or worst of
the matter, the net effect of a successful rescue from the current swindle of
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, President Barack Obama, et al.,
will also be a sudden, and deep shrinkage in the surviving portion of that
which passes for money in circulation. However, in fact, there is no necessity
for increasing the suffering of the population; exactly the contrary. The
needed credit for prosperity will be forthcoming
I explain.
Much too much of what has
come to pass as nominally “money in circulation,” has been turned into worse
than worthless trash at a presently accelerating, hyper-inflationary rate. The
hope of a happy alternative for such a situation, is to be located in what is
to become recognized as a credit-system, rather than the intrinsic
suffering of the many under a present continuation of a monetarist system.
Lest the discussion be
entangled in exchanges of conflicting choices of the monetarist double-talk,
better identified as “usury,” let us examine the actual remedy for the
monetarists’ mess which our immediate opportunity has dumped upon us now.
When you think about all
that, the result may be a fear concerning what we might think, temporarily,
will have become a loss; but, then, look back to the method by means of which
President Franklin D. Roosevelt saved the United States from President Herbert
Hoover’s threat of an even worse depression than Hoover’s victims had already
suffered.
The threat to the U.S. and
Europe now, is far worse than anything which even Hoover’s victims might have
expected.
LOOK HOW MUCH THE
CORRUPT POLITICIANS MADE FROM WALL STREET BANKERS FOR VOTING TO REPEAL THE
GLASS STEAGALL ACT!
With Clinton, who signed the bill,
and Gingrich,
who supported the bill as Speaker– but had been driven from office in a series
of sordid scandals a few months before the vote– now admitting what a mistake
they had made, let’s take a look at some of the key players from 1999 and see
where they are today.
Like Gramm, Harold Ford (D-TN), a big supporter, now works as a bankster
himself and Wall Street tv shill. Rob Blagojevich (D-IL) is now– in prison —
but he voted for the bill, as did Tom DeLay (R-TX), who has also been sentenced
to prison but has managed to avoid serving any time.
Two other big boosters, Duke Cunningham (R-CA), who is in prison, and Bob Ney (R-OH), who served
some time and is out now, are unlikely to ever run for office again. Dick Armey
(R-TX) was a key player in passing the bill and he’s getting a fat paycheck
from the Koch brothers today to run the Tea Party for them.
Congressmen who voted yes and then found themselves the recipients of huge
amounts of Wall Street money to finance their career jumps to the Senate
include these egregiously corrupt senators:
Roy Blunt (R-MO)- $4,812,944
Richard Burr (R-NC)- $3,874,328
Susan Collins (R-ME)- $2,431,440
Jim DeMint (R-SC)- $2,895,397
Lindsay Graham (R-SC)- $2,235,575
Johnny Isakson (R-GA)- $4,792,431
Robert Menendez (D-NJ)- $5,222,119
Rob Portman (R-OH)- $3,966,426
Jim Talent (R-MO), defeated after one term-
$3,515,804
John Thune (R-SC)- $4,650,253
Pat Toomey (R-PA)- $3,036,265
David Vitter (R-LA)- $2,866,054
Roger Wicker (R-MS)- $1,592,269
Other boosters of killing Glass Steagall who went on to political grandeur
include Spencer Bachus (R-AL), the chairman of the House Financial Services
Committee, John Boehner (R-OH), now Speaker of the House, Nathan Deal (R-GA),
now Governor of Georgia, Denny Hastert (R-IL), former Speaker of the House,
Steny Hoyer (D-MD), the # Democrat in the Democratic House leadership, John
Kasich (R-OH),
Current Governor of Ohio, Buck McKeon (R-CA), Chairman of House Armed Services
Committee, Paul Ryan (R-WI), chairman of the House Budget Committee, Joe
Scarborough (R-FL), current TV right-wing talk show host, Chris Shays (R-CT),
current candidate for the Senate, Fred Upton (R-MI), current Chairman of the
House Energy and Commerce Committee and a Member of the SuperCommittee.
I.
THE NOTION OF ECONOMIC
VALUE
To come directly to the point, the
prevalent, might we say, “traditionally popular” notion of money, is associated
with the widespread, misleading belief that money has an intrinsic value, in
and of itself, as distinct from the value of use-in-process of currency by
society. In reality: the
required value is not that of money, but of its use as credit invested in the
increase of the effectively physical wealth of society.
Since the founding of the
U.S. Federal Constitution, value must be defined, as our first U.S. Treasury
Secretary demonstrated the point, in a productive process of change, change
essentially in the physically-efficient increase of the per-capita, physical
value, of what is produced in net excess of that which had been consumed by
production.
This indicates a necessarily short passage in time, as time is to be expressed
in the process leading from the start of the cycle, towards some subsequent
outcome which might be of usefulness to mankind. That function, expressed as a
process, is the notion of credit.
Granted, the fact is that that principle of credit was violated, as under the
two terms in office of the swindler and U.S. President Andrew Jackson, two
terms which, inevitably, were concluded, necessarily, with a massive U.S.
bankruptcy known as “the Panic of 1837,” a “Panic” which had been organized by
such as the agent and assassin Aaron Burr, and by Martin Van Buren, et al.
Hence, we speak of a credit-system as to be distinguished from a monetarist
system. Essentially, we must recognize the systemic quality of that distinction
of a monetarist system, from a credit system, as this was defined as a
distinction of the American system which is to be recognized in the relatively
successful role of the Pine Tree Shilling in use during the high-point of the
economy of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, for as long it enjoyed sovereignty.
Those citizens of Massachusetts had understood the meaning of their policy
correctly; unfortunately, they lacked the degree of political authority to
defend the truth of their cause, when faced with the ferociously hostile
military force of a New Venetian Party commanded by William of Orange.
However, as true as those categories
of observations would be, as a truthful argument to be made for the
Massachusetts cause, while the argument is describable as “fair” and not
untruthful, it does not go to the depth of simply defining an actually
physically efficient principle. Truthful, is not necessarily “proven.” Relevant
currents of modern science, when properly applied, should do better.
The known history of living
processes on record, since long before the times of human life, demonstrates,
clearly, that the processes of life known to us from evidence gathered within
this Solar system, are governed, in long-term direction, by a requirement that
living processes are governed by a required increase of the relative
energy-flux density given to the selections from among living processes generally,
that done in terms of the leading extant species, such as mankind in man’s
role, a role which is to be defined characteristically in the use of fire as a
standard measurement of the progress of our species’ successful existence.
In other words, the standard for survival
of a particular species from among all considered species, can be based
usefully on a rule-of-thumb standard of increase of the rate of increase of
energy-flux density of the leading species, and of the equivalent of cultures
among species. This coincides exactly with the absolute distinction of the
human species, as being, characteristically, and uniquely, a “fire-bringer.”
This fact would have been readily triumphant in mankind’s opinion-shaping,
except for a factor identifiable as “the oligarchical principle.” It has been
the general rule among well-known levels of development of cultures, that the
usually reigning human power known to us presently, this far, has been the
so-called “oligarchical” stratum among individuals and parties, which has customarily
considered itself to have been the ruling social categories’ existential
interest, a view intended to prevent any continued policy of practice among
so-called “lower classes,” which would promote the equivalent of increase in
relative energy-flux density of a nation, or set of nations among what are
broadly designated as “the lower social classes.” Stupidity among the
relatively poor and poorly educated, as the case of U.S. President Andrew
Jackson’s popularity, illustrates the point, is a standard objective of the
reigning oligarchical classes and their “herders” of the “poorly bred.”
That oligarchical principle, so broadly described, has the perhaps not so
curious consequence, that the success of the reigning oligarchy in “putting
down the poor or simply illiterate,” has the lawful consequence of generating
the recurring general collapses of what had once seemed to be the powerful and
rich, as the case of the Roman Empire and its successors, each, illustrate the
case.
To restate the crucial point to be made and emphasized: In the end of matters
at hand, it is the universal self-interest of the members of the human species,
to base the evolutionary development of society to promote the equivalent of
the highest possible development of the noëtic potential of the virtual
entirety of the human species, a standard which coincides with the relatively
greatest rate of increase of effective energy-flux-density of society’s
direction of changes in practice, accordingly.
To restate the same point for special emphasis: it is not that the creative
powers expressed by some persons in society, may, as in the exemplary case of
Max Planck and Albert Einstein, be far ahead in cultural development with
respect to other members of the same society. The problem associated with
oligarchical rule, is that the practice of oligarchy makes even the entire
society tend to become stupefied, culturally, from the top ranks, on down. It
is relative stupidity, so regarded, which is the essential origin of the
failures of oligarchical forms of social organization, whether the desired
relative stupidity is induced by lack of education, fraudulent “sophisticated”
education, or by relatively brutish or similarly backward forms of popular and
other belief.
Thus, often, even usually, a nominally superior class, is also a version of
some relatively more brutish class of a self-ruined society. In other words: “a
society of the practical,” rather than the thinkers.
Yet, we must not end the argument at this point. We must shift the emphasis of our
attention to a higher level, in not only our Solar system, but within the
domain of our galaxy. The folly to be corrected on this account, is
demonstrated to leading members of modern society by the evidence that
assemblies such as our Solar system, never constituted a fixed system, but,
rather, a reflection of the origins and subsequent evolutionary development of
what we regard as our galaxy and its included Solar system. This must be
considered in not merely a fairly estimated span of a few millions years of
life of mankind’s existence on Earth, but over a term of evolutionary
development in a presently fairly known direction, as if in terms of billions of years.
What this means for mankind, above all else, is that it is worse than merely
childish, to measure the destiny of our human species in the mere terms of a
kind of arithmetic unfolding of a sequence of generations of living individual
personalities. To put the necessary emphasis where this discussion belongs, the
essence of the matter is shown by an ordered sequence in the evolutionary
emergence, development, and termination of entire species. In other words, any
actually scientific regard for our own species’ actual existence, will locate
that existence not within the bounds of any particular individual person, but
what the effect is of the succession of individuals out of which the meaning of
the existence of any mortal individual must absolutely depend. “Practical
people,” who believe and act in their particular fashions, tend to be worse than
merely ignorant people, probably as people of deeply impaired species’
intentions.
Those among us, who have absorbed the qualities of “lessons of experience” as I
have indicated immediately above, must think in a direction which is typified
by the work of such exemplary scientists as Max Planck and Albert Einstein
(going into the Twentieth Century)
as before and also beyond, who could not be considered truthfully as scientists
if they had not rejected the notion of pre-determined limits on mankind’s
origins and destinations. If any person lies in the future of mankind beyond
our ken, and if we reject our responsibility for promoting that future prospect
for mankind, we incur tendencies toward a certain criminality of negligence
respecting our duty to that which must come after us. What happens to the
universe as we know its possible future, is our presently implicit
responsibility in the end.
LIBOR, the London Interbank Offered
Rate, is the most active interest rate
market in the world. It is determined by rates that banks participating in the
London money market offer each other for short-term deposits. LIBOR is used in
determining the price of many other financial derivatives, including interest
rate futures, swaps
and Eurodollars.
Due to London’s importance as a global financial center, LIBOR applies not only
to the Pound Sterling, but also to major currencies such as the US Dollar,
Swiss Franc, Japanese Yen and Canadian Dollar.
LIBOR is determined every morning at 11:00am London time. A department of the
British Bankers Association averages the inter-bank interest rates being
offered by its membership.LIBOR is calculated for periods as short as overnight
and as long as one year. While the rates banks offer each other vary
continuously throughout the day, LIBOR is fixed for the 24 hour period.
Generally, the difference between the instantaneous rate and LIBOR is very
small, especially for short durations.
The most important financial derivatives related to LIBOR are Eurodollar
futures. Traded at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), Eurodollars are US
dollars deposited at banks outside the United States, primarily in Europe. By
holding the deposits outside the country, US depositors are not subject to Federal Reserve
margin requirements, allowing higher leverage of the funds. The interest rate
paid on Eurodollars is largely determined by LIBOR, and Eurodollar futures
provide a way of betting on or hedging against future interest
rate changes.
Mankind, for example, has entered a
period within our Solar system (and beyond), which already indicates certain
various nearby, types and degrees of hazard confronting the nearby-future
generations. It is our ability, intellectually, and morally, to orient
ourselves to meeting the challenge of a foreseeable aspect of our species’
future within the cognizable bounds of our Solar system and beyond. Such are
the proper obligations of self-development for those truly qualified to be
trusted with the foreseeable future of mankind. That, precisely that, is the
proper standard for leadership within the nations of our society now.
Admittedly, presently, that standard is barely acknowledged at all; the time is
growing late, when the leading edge of our nations’ culture, can avoid that
span of a practicable sense of mission for the future.
That is, defined top-down, what must be the standard for the education of the
coming, presently younger generations. That is not a matter of privileges; it
is a matter of enjoying a true sense of being efficiently human slightly
beyond, at least, the future ahead of us now.
II.
THE NEW ERA IN PROGRESS
In the course of those decades
during which I had often made reference to the works of such highlighted topics
of my personal special interest as Filippo Brunelleschi, Nicholas of Cusa,
Shakespeare, Johannes Kepler, Gottfried Leibniz, the Ecole Polytechnique,
Lejeune Dirichlet, Bernhard Riemann, Max Planck, and Albert Einstein, the
latter five are of continuing, outstanding modern relevance bearing on
subject-matters which are specific to this presently immediate subject-matter.
There have been many notable scientists, as also personalities in the domain of
Classical artistic composition, such as Wolfgang Köhler, Johann Sebastian Bach,
Arthur Nikisch, and Wilhelm Furtwängler, and the profoundly revolutionary V.I.
Vernadsky, whose work has had distinctive features of extraordinary relevance
for my own in matters reaching beyond the ordinary estimation of so-called
“sense-perception.”
It can be said fairly, that the great impediment to the successful treatment of
so-called “physical-scientific” work, has been excessive emphasis on what may
be fairly condemned as an emphasis on a formal mathematics associated within
the ontological bounds of mathematical physics. For reason of the special
emphasis required in approaching the subject matter specified for this report,
I must emphasize that what is often considered the conventional view of
mathematical physics contains a grave error of universal principle, a view
which is condoned on the basis of a small-minded outlook on the problems of
understanding which are inherent in reliance on sense-perception as treated in
some degree as “self-evident.” The most convenient of the appropriate names for
this commonplace mistake, is indicated by pointing toward the ontological
implications for physical science of the notion of metaphor. The work of Nicholas of Cusa, and,
with some emphasis on Cusa’s follower Johannes Kepler, is notable on this
account.
Stubborn habits of popularly ingrained belief usually block the pathway to
insight into what I had just indicated as this problem. That obstacle is the
literal, reductionist’s belief in that which is customarily classified as
“sense certainty.” This striking, but nonetheless elementary fact, was made
clear to his collaborator, Max Planck, by Wolfgang Köhler, respecting the
ontological principle of the human mind (as distinct from a “brain” per se).
The “fatal flaw” which Köhler pointed out to his collaborator Max Planck, is
the mathematician’s deductive presumption that the universe is built up from
discrete elements, whereas Köhler had discovered and demonstrated the opposite
to be true. The mind is not composed of “words,” but, for the best thinkers,
metaphor, instead of the commonplace attempts to fulfill the more appropriately
intended meaning of what were merely individualized words and phrases. The
function of true metaphor as the essential meaning of thoughts, is crafted by
the wholeness of the development of a particular human mind. It is the
universal which generates what is to be recognized as superseding the
particular. In other words, the principle of metaphor, as the cases of Bach,
Nikisch, and Furtwängler demonstrate the underlying principle which is rooted
in the principle of J.S. Bach’s Preludes
and Fugues.
It is only when scientific method is grounded in the principle of metaphor,
that the member of the human species rises categorically above the beasts, by
building the notion of the future as ruling over the experience of the past and
present, just as that is done in great Classical poetry, such as John Keats’
“Ode on a Grecian Urn,” or the concluding paragraph of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry.
A related case is to be recognized in Johannes Kepler’s crucial employment of
the notion of “vicarious hypothesis.” Reality is not expressed naively in
deduction from the nitty-gritty of so-called “facts,” but as by Nicholas of
Cusa in his De Docta
Ignorantia, on which true modern science was based, and as
Brunelleschi crafted his miraculous chapel. It is only in the unification of Classical
artistic composition’s foresight into the future, as ironically juxtaposed with
notions of sense-certainty, that the work of true genius in science and
Classical artistic composition finds a common resolution in escape from
reductionism.
I should restate here, for the purposes of emphasizing the underlying point
which I have just presented, that there is a monstrous error implicitly
embedded is the reductionist notions of sense-certainty, or its like. The
virtually “measured difference” resides in the notion of the future per se. This fact was
efficiently presented by Albert Einstein, in particular, in the elimination of
the futile sorts of ontological presumptions associated with the virtually
pagan-religious worship of space-in-itself and time-in-itself, as in the
discoveries upon which certain of the most fundamental notions of modern
physical science have depended.
The crucial point situated in those considerations, involves the inclusion of
the conception of life-as-such within the domain of physical space-time. There
are precisely two leading aspects to this subject-matter: the existence of life
as such, for one; and, the existence of an efficient comprehension of the
actual experiencing of a future, as by mankind. The profound, ruinous notion to
be defeated for the sake of a competent approach to the general subject of a
body of physical science, requires destroying dependency on the crutches of
unfounded presumptions inhering in the attempted ontological distinctions of
time and space. The proximate demonstration of travel from Moon to Mars within
the span of approximately a week, by future means of thermonuclear fusion,
points directly toward the folly of popular traditions respecting the relevant
ontological characteristics of physical space-time.
That quality of evidence, once considered, has the promise of the cardinal
effect which impels the human mind to consider physical space and time, and
creativity per se,
as mankind mastering the future as our subject, rather than theirs. That brings
some crucially important facts into play, for the sake of seeing what, why, and
who we are in the unfolding scheme of our creative role in reshaping the
meaning of our existence in our universe.
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