Irreni World Scale

Whataboutism Happy Monday! Hate crimes have doubled in the last two years. Two years ago I wrote a blog post on how to treat Trump that included this image with a sign, "Your Vote Was A Hate Crime." https://irreni.blogspot.com/2016/11/terrorist-how-to-treating-trump.html Just a reminder that this blog is not just about punditry, but real solutions, Irreni solutions. Over the weekend I read, watched and listened to many conservative media outlets and their response to the mail bombing and the Jewish synagogue shootings. The overall response was whataboutism. What about Hillary's comments about civility, what about Nancy Pelosi's use of collateral damage, what about Louis Farrakhan? Are we all on the same page with hate? Is everybody doing it and justifying that hate based on a mutual climate of hate? Can we all just recede to our respective political boxing ring corners and just regroup, ready to come out swinging fresh again? No. One-hundred perce

Civil Impossible Hi! Happy Saturday! YAII! Yet another Irreni Introduction! Current events this week have raised the issue of civil discourse once again. This week bombs where sent by mail to various liberals by a Trump supporter. I watched https://youtu.be/vaLcUxWuzAc?t=82 featuring John Brennan, former CIA director, where he says in the same breathe and same sentence that we should have maximum outrage and yet also calm down:  "This [bomb, mail event] is something that I think all Americans who really cherish our freedoms and our liberties really should be outraged over and try to do everything possible to bring that the level of discourse down so we are able to engage in a very constructive and productive way to make sure that this country is able to realize its full potential." - John Brennan, Former CIA Chief. Which is it? Be outraged or calm down? I think Brennan perfectly encapsulates in this moment what is wrong with our civil discourse, cognitive

Good Choices vs Bad Choices Happy Thursday! This is a short blog post because this blog post is a recommendation to listen to a podcast by Sam Harris. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uecEK6LYycQ&t=650s Sam Harris interviews Matt Taibbi in this podcast about the state of journalism. At the end they also talk briefly about Matt's book regarding the financial collapse of 2007. Matt can be viewed as an Irreni prophet on the following three counts: I don't know as a working answer. Question disagreement due to framing and definition invalidation. No accountability after 2007. I don't know I've often quip that religion is for people who aren't comfortable with "I don't know." In this podcast we get a healthy dose of healthy I don't know. Matt is every interviewers ideal interviewee because he elaborates on his answers. Time and time again in this interview Matt's answer to Sam's question is either "I don'

Nice Things! Happy Saturday! Welcome to YAII! Yet another Irreni introduction! Why we can't have nice things? !!! WARNING !!! This introduction is rated BM, Blasphemous Maximus. If denigrating religion causes you pain then don't read this. Nice things is a recent meme on the Internet, just like the meme, "That's not how it works, that's now how any of this works." This is a long essay. This is a long essay about philosophy and is a twenty-minute read. If philosophy bores you to tears then this most certainly will. I'm in the process of taking all the Irreni introductions over the last couple of months and compiling a book. Looking through them I chose them to be topical so as to be motivating to everyone. Many of them are responses to current events and how Irreni World Scale would solve unsolvable problems of today. Today I thought I would toss in this one more introduction of pure philosophy chapter for just that small minor

U.N. Climate Report: Twelve Years Disaster Hi! Happy Thursday! This essay is about the solution to climate change disaster predictions. The United Nations just released a report stating that scientists have determined we have a twelve-year window to address global warming. If we don't, then billions of lives are risk not to mention property value. Just a reminder that this blog is not about political punditry, but solutions. The Irreni solution to global action is 300 million micro-modular governments as opposed to the handful of governments today that most people live under. Large governments only move slow. Small governments can move fast. When I first mention 300 million governments people pull back in disbelief. We can't have 300 million governments, that's insane. Is it? Google is only 20 years old and yet has billions of users. Why? Because technology goes viral at the smallest level of all, the individual. Literally billions of people within

Blue Wave 2006 Happy Wednesday! This essay is just a nudge in the right direction. What direction is that? The direction away from denial, denial that our government is still salvageable. If you already believe that our government has passed the point of no return then there is nothing new here for you. Just a reminder that this blog is not about punditry,  but solutions. The solution in this case is to realize our government is forever broken and we must start a new one, Irreni World Scale. Fall has arrived in Maine. We are getting one-and-two day cold snaps. With the first cold snap I turned on my space heater in my bedroom to get to sleep. The following morning I got up, went to my car, turned the key and rrrrnt, rrrrnt, rrrrnt. Woooo Hooo!  The starter was turning but engine wouldn't start. Just great. I thought to myself, okay, my battery is probably dead and due to be replaced as the cold weather pushed it over the edge. So I called my car service to get a jump.

Kavanaugh Debrief Hi! Happy Tuesday! Who should you believe: Kavanaugh or Ford?  I don't know. One of my throw-away lines with respect to atheism is that religion is for people who cannot accept "I don't know" as an answer. I could brag that a religious inability to accept "I don't know" is due to a lack of humility. But that's not the case. The reason people cannot accept "I don't know" is that "I don't know" is unsatisfying, it doesn't satisfy to provide ground for traction to move forward in life. But that's not true. I don't know is an actionable and tractable answer, and so I give to you this debrief. For example, in science a hypothesis starts with "I don't know" as the only actionable answer to the initial hypothesis. The answer is only known after an experiment is run and results analyzed. So how is "I don't know" actionable with respect to Kavanaugh vs. Fo