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Irreni Solutions vs. The United States of America

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Hi! Zappy Friday! Irreni World Scale is about solutions. This is blog post will be no different. Irreni World Scale includes the word "World" and so justly so one might get the wrong impression that Irreni is about a new world order, but it is not. Irreni World Scale vs. The United States of America is a case of mistaken identity. What is the American identity? What does it mean to say one is patriotic in America? Surely that term patriotic must mean something about our collective national identity, does it not? I watched the Republican Presidential debates this week. I learned something. Donald Trump is on the stump stating if elected President then he will not only kill the terrorists, but also their families. What I found shocking is that this barely raised any eyebrow. George Washington never tortured. He was presented with the opportunity to torture many times. He never did. Realize that never was the fate of this nation so insecure, the odds so terribly ag

B.U.I.L.D. A Framework Framework

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Hi! Happy Sunday! This is the third post in a series outlining how to move politics forward in the 21st Century. This is the third post in a series where the obsolete ideologies of democracy, republic, religion, capitalism and federalism to name a few are upended in order to scale to the needs of a planet with seven billion people. Recap B.U.I.L.D. Resetting Your World View : this was the first build-up innovation & love daily post. The Irreni World Scale solution to resetting your world view is eliminate the supernatural from morality and to also embrace relative morality for all the reasons stated above. Everyone is both good and evil, they are not mutually exclusive. The source of our common morality is our collective empathy. We need to find not only common ground but morally superior ground as we have done recently with gay rights and the gay community. We may not be gay, our empathy may be disgusted by the thought of homosexual sex, but we can rise to erect

B.U.I.L.D. 2015 Leadership For Responding to the Paris Attacks.

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Hi! Happy Sunday! If I were the President of the United States this blog post represents the leadership I would give after the Paris Attacks. I begin with a graphic that puts the challenge of today in correct form of technology versus evolution: Some have framed the Paris attacks as a clash of civilizations. I believe that framing is wrong. The correct framing of the Paris attacks is a growing gap between the pace of technological change and the ability of the brain to accommodate that change. It is somewhat understandable from people who should no better to frame this as a clash between western civilization and Islamic civilization. The reason I say somewhat understandable is that Western culture is changing so fast today that during the time it takes to measure and classify Western culture then the Western culture will have changed to make those measurements and classifications meaningless. We have yet to scratch the surface of understanding the ramifications on th

B.U.I.L.D. Resetting Your World View

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Hi! Happy Monday! B.U.I.L.D. stands for "B.U.I.L.D. Up Innovation & Love Daily". B.U.I.L.D. is an infinitely recursive definition in that the definition contains the word itself. This reflects the task at hand: indefinite innovation. Irreni is about solutions and not opinion. Today's solution is entitled, "Resetting Your World View." Supernatural is out for all politics. Moral relativity is in. The Muslims aren't going to kill all the Christians, the Christians aren't going to kill all the Muslims. Therefore, moral relativity is in. So what does this mean for your world view? and resetting it? What it means is we need to set natural limits on morality, natural limits on good and evil. B.U.I.L.D. Resetting Your World View The Irreni World Scale solution to resetting your world view is eliminate the supernatural from morality and to also embrace relative morality for all the reasons stated below. The source of our common

Irreni Solutions vs. Tribalism

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Hi! Happy Sunday! Today I want to address the usage within Irreni of the word "tribe" and juxtapose what's meant by tribe and the devastating violence that results from tribalism. Tribalism is widely recognized by anthropologists and those in cognitive science as a major player in why we commit violence and kill each other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribalism Tribalism is the state of being organized in, or advocating for, a tribe or tribes. In terms of conformity , tribalism may also refer in popular cultural terms to a way of thinking or behaving in which people are more loyal to their tribe than to their friends, their country, or any other social group. [1] The Irreni use of the concept of tribe is in many ways vastly different than the tribe of pre-technology such that one might ask why use the word "tribe" at all? The answer as to why the use of the word tribe has to do with the inherent difference between the pace of technological change

Irreni Solution: Average Intelligence Empoyment

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Hi! Happy Saturday! Yesterday I posted an observation that there are pressures on employment of average intelligence: automation and computer intelligence. Average intelligence is about the capability of the brain, not high school education. To whit, education level will be irrelevant if one has average intelligence because for most average intelligent tasks computers will be able to perform such tasks and much cheaper. Today I'm going to write about the Irreni World Scale solution to the average intelligence employment dilemma. Before we begin let me remind the dear reader that Irreni has at it's core two fundamental principles: Innovation replaces revolution. Irreni advocates continuous improvement by a million upgrades over one-hundred years and not revolution of government overthrow or wholesale disruption.  Experimentation where science is key to innovation. Innovation starts small and only scales to large numbers after scientifically proven success of claims. Re

The average brain is unemployable.

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Hi! Happy Friday! The average brain is unemployable. Yesterday I blogged about a radio podcast where a conservative pundit promoted going back to a nuclear family model of mom, dad, the kids and a high school diplomas. I was beside myself, wearing a red dress :-), that someone could say such things seriously. The average brain is unemployable. That's really all I wanted to say in this blog post. Well, that and we need to face this fact head on. I read an article on the web the other day which asked the question: when will computers be smarter than people? I would rephrase that question to when will computers be effective enough to replace people at almost any task? Prior to 1900 some 90% of Americans were involved in agriculture. Today just 2%.  Why is easy enough to understand: food prior to 1900 had to be grown in your back yard without the technology of the plane, train and automobile. And refrigeration. Think about how many bank tellers have been put out of a job

Deconstructing the Pope

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Hi! Happy Wednesday! The Pope is visiting America this week and much is being made about it in the media. I thought this would make an excellent teaching moment about deconstructing the Pope. Not me. I'm not deconstructing the Pope. I'm deconstructing the people who are deconstructing the Pope. There are two reasons I'm not deconstructing the Pope: Anti-atheist banality. An anti-theist like myself picking on the Pope? Like that hasn't been done a million times.  Solutions. Irreni World Scale is about solutions, not punditry.  What solution? you ask? This is a perfect teaching moment about thinking in world scale. The Pope is discussing global topics such as climate change and capitalism. So let's dig in, shall we? Today I'm deconstructing a WCGO Chicago radio podcast. The program is called "Coffee and Markets" and is a prime-time morning-drive talk show. Further, the hosts and the guests are decidedly conservative. I can't really say

Trump Genesis

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Hi! Happy Friday! The genesis of Trump. It is no surprise that America wants reality T.V. for politics, at least to the panelists for today's blog post. This blog post is simply a video to watch a prescient panel in a 2008 . It is rather chilling to watch,  especially Hitchen's glass-of-cold-water-in-your-face warning about the totalitarian path that a demagogue like Trump will lead us down. The video is quite fun and funny...an educational fun if you have 45 minutes to watch. The setting is 2008 after Obama clinched the Democratic nomination. The panels predication by description of what new media means is spot on in predicting a Trump candidacy. Trump may be a first, but I guarantee you what he represents has a new norm written all over it. Below are some quotes: "Youtube video needs to be shocking to get viewed." - Trump is shocking. "Celebrity status gets you far these days." - Trump is his own celebrity. "Presidential candidates should st

R.I.P. Capitalism

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Hi! Happy Thursday! Capitalism is dead. R.I.P. The proof is one word: zero-percent interest. Ever ask yourself what the Fed will do when the next bubble bursts? They've been printing money, quantitative easing,  and lending at 0% interest going on seven years now. Think about it. A child born in 2008 would be 7 years-old. Imagine you are a parent and are about to explain money to your seven-year-old for the first time. What do you say about savings? A entire new generation is about to be raised where saving money is the wrong thing to do. And yet our entire capitalist banking system was built upon an assumption of a savings economy. That savings economy doesn't exist any more and never will again. So neither does capitalism. R.I.P. The Fed made their scheduled announcement today : no raise to the interest rate: The Federal Reserve announced on Thursday that it is keeping its benchmark interest rate at or near zero, maintaining a policy that is likely to allow t