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Notes on dimensional time [Part 1]
Notes on dimensional time [Part 1]
DRAFT [BETA]
by Paul McLean
02.2010
NOTES: I was away from the computer for over a week to take care of family matters related to my father’s passing a couple of months ago. I traveled to Nashville and West Virginia [Beckley and Huntington] with a few hours of road time in Kentucky. By way of catching up, I should mention that the week before and the one after are atypical. My routines for the past several years have been relatively rigorous. As is normative in my adult life, I work 14-20 hours each day on various aspects of whatever projects or productions are in play at any given moment.
Which brings me to the subject of this brief text: the nature of dimensional time. One of the symbols common in the sign set of 4D painting as I practice it is the sideways 8 or “infinity” symbol. Human time on Earth is shaped like that. I experienced an alternative time setting a few years ago. It’s really screwed some perceptual reflexes up for me.
I can’t extrapolate or comment on time in general, if there is such a thing, or other species of time. I couldn’t tell you with any measure of certainty what time is on or for an asteroid, for instance, hurtling through space. Some indigenous friends suggested that modern man is odd for building spaceships, since he’s already on one. Perhaps sticking with experiential models is best.
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INTRODUCTION: I need to, with minimal affect, notate some points on the dimensional constructs currently animated in the AFH framework. This bare bones list of inputs and cognitions is relevant to ongoing explorations and analysis. I’m not sure, but this may turn out to be a demonstration of dimensional time.
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POINT: George Bush was President of the United States for 8 years. During his Presidency, Bush consistently embarrassed the country with public faux pas, stumbling through escalating sequences of grievous international policy failures, polarizing national strong-arm methods, and ideology-driven blunders. He ultimately presided over one of the most despised and discredited governments in American history. He hubristically managed a team of fanatics whose extremism rent the Constitutional fabric of the United States, pushing nepotism, greed, repression and religion ahead of all America’s business. The results were catastrophic. Bush finished his second term of office in disgrace, leaving this nation in near-total economic collapse, embroiled in two intractable and minor foreign wars of choice. He presided over the greatest redistribution of wealth the world has yet seen, to the benefit primarily of an international Superclass, consisting of many determined enemies of our republic The litany of systemic failures and ethical breaches arising from President Bush’s poor direction is practically interminable, and it appears, take years, if not decades to correct, absent wholesale populist rebellion. The entrenched beneficiaries of Bush’s largesse, many of whom still occupy important positions in public office, fight effective rear guard actions to prevent clawback. Others, predominantly of the Superclass, busy themselves dispersing their ill-gotten gains to effect sweeping cultural change to the detriment of the impoverished American cultural infrastructure and the people it serves. The signs of top-down class warfare are everywhere to see. The United States of America is immediately and thoroughly diminished. The campaign to reduce the nation to a debtor state of inconsequence was conducted successfully by enemies of the nation, functioning within the government, through pressures originating in the business world, and behind the scenes through corruption and subterfuge. The approach was dimensional, and required the tremendous power of corporate media for success. Throughout the power structure of American society, complicity was needed and cultivated, and ultimately acquired. From local agencies in all sectors to the nation’s military, from state governments to foreign agents, a host of individuals and collective forces combined to reduce the US from its brief post-Cold War status as lone Superpower to a surveillance and prison state, broke and battered, unable to solve basic problems such as health care or education funding. To say that the nation’s security is at risk is to understate the obvious. Traditional enemies of the USA - like China and the anti-democratic European aristocracies - have benefited the most from the American downturn. Our provisional alliances of contingency - such as the one with the anti-democratic OPEC rulers - continue to plague this countries efforts across a spectrum of important domains. The most serious problem facing America right now, however, is not national or individual in nature. It is the United States’ imbalanced and devastatingly harmful conjoining with the corporation. With the Supreme Court’s recent ruling, providing corporations the means to control the American democratic election process, the nation has essentially been betrayed from within and surrendered to interests who despise our most basic freedoms, and have actively sought to overturn them. The history of corporate malfeasance in this country is unequivocal. For every positive contribution corporations have enabled, the great majority of Americans have paid for with suffering, deprivation and loss of life quality, if not actual loss of life or liberty or pursuit of happiness. The corporation, as it was formed in 1819 in Dartmouth v. Woodward, has been a burgeoning leech, a filth spreading parasite, on the promise of America.
UP: It is incorrect to charge Bush with the entirety of this crime. He was in some measure a proxy for the artificial persons whose goals he helped enact. Neither should he be in any way absolved of his part, any more than Karl Rove, Paul Wolfowitz, Lloyd Blankfein, Alan Greenspan, Bill Clinton, Milton Freidman, Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh, Peter Drucker, Dick Armey, and the hundreds of significant players whose actions or inactions contributed to the coup. The reality is that the post-War movement to obviate American democratic power is a hydratic one, operating across dimensions and borders. No one person is its totemic head, which is one of the reasons for the campaign’s success over a period of decades.
RIGHT: Even this timeline, from 1945-present, is insufficient for scope. The elites’ war against freedom and equality for all in Western and now world civilization is several thousands of years old. It dates to the emergence of Greek democracy. Perhaps the desire of the few to gain control and command of the many is as old as humanity. Due to mankind’s memory problems, we apparently cannot conjure a conclusive answer to the question, How long have man and woman sought to dominate their brethren? The many mythologies and oral traditions that can be cited as commentary or explication do not evidence a singular answer. The projections of top-down power can be either romanticized, made sacrosanct, demonized or otherwise viewed through a lens of historicity, religious or cultural significance. What is clear, is that rearward visions of top-down power are fungible in the discourse of the present. As for their influence on forward-looking projections of social configuration, the narratives of top-down governance have always proven problematic. The relative power or value of democracy, one might conclude, is in its present tense. To begin an examination of democracy’s needs and merits, this statement can provide us a valuable and worthwhile point of origination. For one thing, it suggests as a point of origination the importance of cultural expression, which is fundamentally a celebration of life in the present tense. Art is the most present of all cultural expressions, with its balance between past, present and future, contained in materiality, as a hinge among the three time spaces. Art as a product of civilization, is by definition a fourth dimension of society. It is a linkage mechanism, unifying the other time fields. At its most effective, art treats past, present and future with equal care and consideration. Artistic integrity is essentially the success of an artist in hinging or linking past, present and future in an object whose primary definition is its ability to express Now-ness, as its first order. When an individual confronts art, he is introducing a fifth dimension, generating the aperture through which dimensional generative action occurs. That space is the collective space, in which the individual is situated. Architecture is necessarily a constituent of that sixth dimension of civil concourse. Without art, architecture is not expressive.
LEFT: Top-down management of society is the issue that America is designed to remedy. For comparison, survey a quick-scan of variations on the US representative democracy, the first major successful agrarian revolution. Communism, fascism and socialism are post-American/French [European] mutations on the theme, meant to redress the ills of top-down economics [power] but maintain the “king” position in the platform in some iteration. The 20th Century hopefully proved definitively that kings and representative governments do not adhere, England/Britain [and some other models] notwithstanding. Vestigial monarchies at first glance seem benevolent, until one considers ancillary data. England, as an example, is the most pervasive/invasive surveillance state at the moment. It should be noted also that many of today’s Superclass boast aristocratic or regal ancestry. George Bush and his family belong to that category of Superclass advocate, activists and operatives. The USA is also designed to remedy theocratic top-down hierarchies. Certainly, in the past 3 or 4 decades, America has been roiled by controversies rooted in attempts by religious figures to reassert dominance over the American people, and equally debilitating reactionary movements. The corporate media has relentlessly capitalized on the ensuing divisions among the US constituency, to the benefit of the Superclass and foreign entities desirous of American power and wealth, or to put it more correctly, desirous of power over American wealth and people. Religion has served the Superclass as an effective wedge to divide and conquer America and its citizenry. The corporation and corruption of government have provided the agency and means by which the anti-democratic forces in the world have catastrophically weakened the United States. Religion and media oiled the process and continue to do so.
DOWN: The modern [post-American] revolutionary movements have a single common thread - they are the means employed by masses to overcome the Superclasses or religions that have since ancient times oppressed populations. In light of the most recent developments in the war on American Democracy, the country must act with speed and boldness to preserve itself. Since the coup has been bloodless and asymmetrical, at least in its use of indirect or third-party engagement, the counterpunch can still be enacted on similar terms. Although the corporate coup was relatively bloodless, in a dimensional war the collateral damage must be assessed. The Iraq War is an attached phenomenon, as is Katrina and a thousand other less dramatic though no less costly destructions of life, home and property. In order to minimize further harm, America must engage its enemies with all due haste and force. How? First, the Supreme Court decision must be obviated. The corporate life span must be reduced from infinity to the equivalent of a human life span. Second, a corporation must never be permitted to own property. Third, the civil rights of a person employed by a corporation must always be equivalent to the American citizen’s. As for economics, the corporation can never be afforded taxation more favorable than a natural person’s. Tariffs on foreign produced goods must be reinstated. American corporations must be granted favored status to any foreign corporation. These measures constitute a good start. The principle is that a corporate business entity can never be assigned status that will allow it to exceed the value of the American representative democracy or the citizens who comprise the nation. Any corporation or beneficiary of the corporation whose behavior is destructive to the democracy and its people must be potently penalized for its transgressions. The proxies of the corporations must accept personal responsibility for their behavior in service of such a corporation. Such penalties must be progressive from bottom to top, with the leadership and finally the owners bearing the full force of liability. Risk aversion cannot be the governing force of the nation’s business.
CIRCLE: The maintenance of the nation and her citizens cannot be secondarily valuable, compared to the welfare of the corporation. The needs of artificial persons are not more important than the needs of natural, real persons. Real persons, those who produce wealth and goods, require healthy food, good medical care, security and privacy in their persons, protection from enemies, education and safe transport. The needs of youth and elderly must be accorded extra consideration and care. The spiritual evolution of individuals must not be intervened in, nor should any religion be assigned special privileges or exemptions. The sustenance of the natural environment must outweigh in valuation the manufacture of any artificial environment. Slower progress is preferable for these reasons, as opposed to fast returns with intentionally unforeseen costs. Since the corporation is a moron, the makers of corporations must be liable for the corporation’s performance in service to these principle considerations. Since the corporation has proved the enemy by proxy of the democracy, transgressions by corporations must be especially harsh and effective. Granting of articles of incorporation must no longer be viewed as a technicality. Corporate control of any device of social exchange must be discontinued temporarily, and if deemed by the citizen government to be a permanent detriment, corporate control must be discontinued permanently. For example, the multinational corporate media monopolies must be divested of their power to operate in America and thereby control the national discourse here for a period of years. They could be asked to propose programming better aligned with democratic American objectives. Failure to comply would entail a permanent ban on the corporation, and a breaking up of its American-based properties. Any renewal of corporate-American contracts would favor the United States and her citizens. Similar arrangements need to be re-instituted for manufacturers, energy producers, defense contractors and so on.
ARROW [360 DEGREE ROTATION]: Taxation of individuals must reward non-corporate success and diminish dependency on top-down corporate value structures. Companies rooted in bottom-up or horizontal [shared leadership] organizational configurations should be granted privileged status. Technical expertise and craft-accomplishment must always be valued more highly than management by abstraction.
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