Blog, Week #3
Concepts Behind Politics
The issues that are central to the nation and to the upcoming presidential election that require the people's and the government's' central attention at this time – like immigration, war and conflict overseas, the supreme court, and details in our economy – they sometimes have a simple fix-it based on a simple opinion or belief. On the other hand, there are more complex issues, some of which could perhaps be said to be less important or secondary. For the purposes of this writing, then, the latter kind of problem will be the focus.
In prior blogs, issues of character, of generalists and specialists, hatred, unity, even underground values, and also identity politics, to name most of them – these were central to discussion, and, together, wholly, they seem to this writer to be as important as the factors comprising a single, but very much related, larger problem. Moving back to the arena of specialists, to identity groups, or “identities,” then, what are the possible solutions to this larger, multi-faceted problem of Disunity that seems to be our country's sickness?
To start, some identity groups, those being groups especially like the minorities of Jewish people and of African-American people, for example, the two groups that perhaps represent the most frequently made as objects of racism – to start, some of their members will and some will not receive the attention of needed resources, like money, personnel, generalists as informers and guides, and other things. It has been expressed in the media that many of these groups “seek but never really find comfort with their unique and chosen identities and agendae.” It has also been expressed that many of these smaller political influences, focused elsewhere, simply lose interest in building a piece, small or larger, of the puzzle of supporting a healthier country; statistics representing the awful frequency of racism under the two major political parties tell us so.
On the other hand from these failed and lost identity groups, it has been claimed in the media that “globalization has sustained America and much of the rest of the world” since the 1990's; this term generally being a reference to an economic type of influence that is based on the effort to create a homogeneity of livelihood, of professional action, of related workings in the field of politics, and of aspects of everyday life – using the diffusion of vital resources and the ideas around them. Assuming that this globalization has provided this sustenance, then – moving onward with that – which identities have been involved in these arenas? How can their involvement be expanded and enhanced? How can we generate more work for other identities?
Onward, then, the real, and the bigger, question is, what are the purposes, uses, strategies, and ethics of globalization as far as American identity groups go?! What are the roles of internationally powerful organizations, entities, and organizing influences like NAFTA, the WTO, the UN, the EU, and the IMF for these Americans that really need help? Shouldn't many of our country's identities have a really good specialist that can delve deep into these big questions and serve as a guide for their peers? Simply speaking – as your writer is not an economist – if this globalizing power of recent years is a better state for our Union, or is better because, while partial, it's a large solution – well, given the failure or lostness of some of our identities – must the optimum sovereignty of the American economy side more with centralized wealth and with the state, internally? Is that the best way to keep the wealth inside our nation? Would other strategies do more damage than good? Should the government and our international economic circles somehow give up on some of our identity groups because there is no fair way to effectively serve their needs? Does that kind of tragedy always represent an inappropriate extreme? Is that side of globalization just a side-effect that must be accepted? Having side-effects or the like, is this globalization really just as-good-as-it-gets?
In translation, then, another big question here is, shouldn't more citizens, for work or hobby, as a good American or in similar spirit, find a way to enhance our shared economy? Should one rule-of-thumb – and very powerful, in fact – solution be to put oneself to work in as simple a way so as to deliberately have a conversation with both friends and neighbors about issues relevant to one's job, one's lifestyle, and related things? Where does the spirit of the Underground fit in to such talks?!
What about internal, mostly or solely American economics? Should members of our identities and other willing or volunteer citizens be educated by third parties or by assigned, specialist economic and government entities – like the above-mentioned specialists – about our economy in the national arena? To provide some specifics, what about areas on the following list: the creation of jobs as an often powerful problem-solver for identity members here and abroad, the solution of knowing the citizens' minds through surveys, of the condition of keeping a subculture of agriculturally procured wealth, of having more effective economic and trade policies – these including copyright law, trade tariff reform, transportation and information infrastructure, even environmental policy – to name just a handful of categories?
Shouldn't each identity group have members that volunteer and choose a circle of influence from this list, or this type of list, to make a project for the rest of their group's members? Should that individual post a multi-paragraph writing about it on an online blog via library computer, or spend an hour each week in a chat room that is devoted to topics of the chooser's economic circle of influence? There must be Multiple easy but valuable ways to employ and adapt this concept – ways that should be conceived of by trained, and assigned or volunteer generalists. Last, then, broadly-speaking, How can we be strategic with regard to the relevant, identity activists' economic works in order to avoid ignoring the more challenging tasks that might cause an entire social group to be ignored?
Concepts Behind Politics
The issues that are central to the nation and to the upcoming presidential election that require the people's and the government's' central attention at this time – like immigration, war and conflict overseas, the supreme court, and details in our economy – they sometimes have a simple fix-it based on a simple opinion or belief. On the other hand, there are more complex issues, some of which could perhaps be said to be less important or secondary. For the purposes of this writing, then, the latter kind of problem will be the focus.
In prior blogs, issues of character, of generalists and specialists, hatred, unity, even underground values, and also identity politics, to name most of them – these were central to discussion, and, together, wholly, they seem to this writer to be as important as the factors comprising a single, but very much related, larger problem. Moving back to the arena of specialists, to identity groups, or “identities,” then, what are the possible solutions to this larger, multi-faceted problem of Disunity that seems to be our country's sickness?
To start, some identity groups, those being groups especially like the minorities of Jewish people and of African-American people, for example, the two groups that perhaps represent the most frequently made as objects of racism – to start, some of their members will and some will not receive the attention of needed resources, like money, personnel, generalists as informers and guides, and other things. It has been expressed in the media that many of these groups “seek but never really find comfort with their unique and chosen identities and agendae.” It has also been expressed that many of these smaller political influences, focused elsewhere, simply lose interest in building a piece, small or larger, of the puzzle of supporting a healthier country; statistics representing the awful frequency of racism under the two major political parties tell us so.
On the other hand from these failed and lost identity groups, it has been claimed in the media that “globalization has sustained America and much of the rest of the world” since the 1990's; this term generally being a reference to an economic type of influence that is based on the effort to create a homogeneity of livelihood, of professional action, of related workings in the field of politics, and of aspects of everyday life – using the diffusion of vital resources and the ideas around them. Assuming that this globalization has provided this sustenance, then – moving onward with that – which identities have been involved in these arenas? How can their involvement be expanded and enhanced? How can we generate more work for other identities?
Onward, then, the real, and the bigger, question is, what are the purposes, uses, strategies, and ethics of globalization as far as American identity groups go?! What are the roles of internationally powerful organizations, entities, and organizing influences like NAFTA, the WTO, the UN, the EU, and the IMF for these Americans that really need help? Shouldn't many of our country's identities have a really good specialist that can delve deep into these big questions and serve as a guide for their peers? Simply speaking – as your writer is not an economist – if this globalizing power of recent years is a better state for our Union, or is better because, while partial, it's a large solution – well, given the failure or lostness of some of our identities – must the optimum sovereignty of the American economy side more with centralized wealth and with the state, internally? Is that the best way to keep the wealth inside our nation? Would other strategies do more damage than good? Should the government and our international economic circles somehow give up on some of our identity groups because there is no fair way to effectively serve their needs? Does that kind of tragedy always represent an inappropriate extreme? Is that side of globalization just a side-effect that must be accepted? Having side-effects or the like, is this globalization really just as-good-as-it-gets?
In translation, then, another big question here is, shouldn't more citizens, for work or hobby, as a good American or in similar spirit, find a way to enhance our shared economy? Should one rule-of-thumb – and very powerful, in fact – solution be to put oneself to work in as simple a way so as to deliberately have a conversation with both friends and neighbors about issues relevant to one's job, one's lifestyle, and related things? Where does the spirit of the Underground fit in to such talks?!
What about internal, mostly or solely American economics? Should members of our identities and other willing or volunteer citizens be educated by third parties or by assigned, specialist economic and government entities – like the above-mentioned specialists – about our economy in the national arena? To provide some specifics, what about areas on the following list: the creation of jobs as an often powerful problem-solver for identity members here and abroad, the solution of knowing the citizens' minds through surveys, of the condition of keeping a subculture of agriculturally procured wealth, of having more effective economic and trade policies – these including copyright law, trade tariff reform, transportation and information infrastructure, even environmental policy – to name just a handful of categories?
Shouldn't each identity group have members that volunteer and choose a circle of influence from this list, or this type of list, to make a project for the rest of their group's members? Should that individual post a multi-paragraph writing about it on an online blog via library computer, or spend an hour each week in a chat room that is devoted to topics of the chooser's economic circle of influence? There must be Multiple easy but valuable ways to employ and adapt this concept – ways that should be conceived of by trained, and assigned or volunteer generalists. Last, then, broadly-speaking, How can we be strategic with regard to the relevant, identity activists' economic works in order to avoid ignoring the more challenging tasks that might cause an entire social group to be ignored?
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