Few Understand Reification Quickly

Reification is an important and useful concept which you can begin to understand today. Some may think that there is no such thing. Others may think that there is no thing. You can probably agree that "change'' is a useful concept, and perhaps believe that it exists. Most of this seems to depend on the circumstances and our purpose at the moment.

We/Us

Mago Bill: A kind of contemplation of 'we' and 'us' as a social value.

            We can agree that "we" is a relationship, can't we? When we agree to relate it may be good to speak of the level at which we wish to relate. At what level might it be good for us to relate? We could speak of the reason for our relationship. How might we go about relating ? Might it be important that we show our concern for our "we?"

            What's in it for you? What's your interest? How is a mutual or reciprocal relationship handled?

            A "we" must consist of people, persons, individuals, right? Have you seen
the start of a "we?" Was there a kind of joining? Doesn't a "we" require some kind of maintenance?

            What do you suspect, believe, or know about the "we" in the "We the people..." document?

            That "we" could refer to us. How do we go about keeping track of our common interests? How do we reciprocate? "We the people" are a social relationship, aren't they?

            Let's say that we are the people in the "We the people" we know about.
What is the nature of our relationship? What is reason for our relationship? What's in it for you?

            "We" implies a unity, a union. We can probably agree that better and worse unions can be detected. How might we form a more perfect union?

            You may have some notions of "we" stirring in your mind now.

            Communication is important. Talk, dialogue, discussion are important. Talk of "us" and "we"  may be so important as to be called vitally important.

            I say that communication of persons is vitally important for the initiation and maintenance of a "we".    

            To have a good nation we have to have a good "we". 




Meditation techniques can be improved.


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for Mago Bill

 

A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto

If this is not your responsibility, whose responsibility is it?  Have we decided on suicide?

Who Will "Us" Be? w/ Anand Giridharadas, Eric Liu, Michele Norris, Monic...

What are our protections? How do we keep from being lost in the great world? Family helps. Neighborhood helps. Statehood helps. Our nation helps. But we need a more. Dialogue may help get the needed more.

New: CIA Agent Whistleblower Risks All To Expose The Shadow Government

Wealth. honor, reality, us, governance. Who are we? Who do we want to be? Who can we be? Did we not have a Constitution that was the center of  the United STATES of America.

Nine Nations: 8/1/2017 and 8/21/2017

Some years ago Dennis McGuire gave me a book written by Joel Garreau. In that book Garreau divided much of North America into what he called 
nine nations. As I remember the book was called Nine Nations. He did a good job of describing much of the continent. I believe the could be called a sociological work.

I am going to try to remember enough of my reading of the book those years ago to write a sort of monograph of each of the " nations" he considered much as he considered it.

Below is a list of the "Nations" as Mr. Garreau named them:
~ Quebec
~ New England
~ The foundry
~ Dixie
~ The Islands
~ The Empty Quarter
~ Ecotopia
~ Breadbasket
~ Mexamerica

I lived in "Mexamerica' when I read the book. and failed to take notes on it as I failed with some of the other Nations. I can say the Republic of Mexico is in it. Spanish of the Mexican sort is spoken widely in much of Mexamerica; a good deal of English is spoken there. There is mixing of the two languages especially along the border.
There is plenty of cultural prejudice there. As I remember Joel suggests that "might makes right in this valley of  tears."

I add that this Nation of Mexamerica may less of a Nation than most of the other "Nations."  For example, The state of Oaxaca and DF  seem much less part of the  Nation than does the state of New Mexico.



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The Empty Quarter of the Nine Nations

The Empty Quarter is on of Garreau's Nine Nations. I spent a significant part of my life in the thee. It is big and relatively lightly populated. A large part of it can be called desert.  It extends from the northern deserts of Mexico across the U.S and Canada into the Arctic Circle.

The E.Q. contains gas, oil, cattle, mining, timber, and wheat and the people who work in those industries. Some people are attracted by the quiet and the "elbow room" to be found there.

The Athabascan tar sands of Alberta are in the Empty Quarter. There in Nevada is the Home Farm headquarters of The School of the Natural Order.

North American Indian Peoples live in the Empty Quarter of the Nine Nations. Some of them try to live much as they did long ago. But it is not easy. For example, Acoma, Coleville, Navajo, Ute, Wind River and a fe others have significant control of perhaps 50% of the Uranium found here. Native Americans with oil and gas consult with OPEC. Blackfoot, Sioux, Crow, Spokane, and Northern Cheyenne control a third of the low-sulfur stripable coal here.

The land is beautiful and scars easily. It looks to many of us that much of this beautiful land is being needlessly sacrificed to the need and greed of people we do not know. Fracking and the disposal of water of certain industries seems to be a shameful rape to some here. Water has be scarce here and is now being poisoned. Some have told us to pipe water from the Arctic. Might be a good short term solution.  The fresh water of the Arctic was stored in ice. That ices is rapidly melting and flowing into a rising sea.

Triggers for great bombs are made in the part of this "empty zone" closest to the great city of Denver. Testing of hydrogen bombs here still poisons citizens of Utah and disturbs the genetics of deer of North East California.

The south west portion of the US is found in the Empty Quarter. It is there where many of the Western Cowboy films of Hollywood were made. . 

posted by Richard
for Mago Bill
8/1/2017