The scientist who,  first warned Congress about global warming twenty years ago,returned on June 28 to say, not only are his warnings as true now as then, but that we’re approaching a “tipping point,” after which the effects of global warming will be irreversible.

“The difference is that now we have used up all slack in the schedule for actions needed to defuse the global warming time bomb. The next President and Congress must define a course
next year in which the United States exerts leadership commensurate with our responsibility for
the present dangerous situation.”

What a sad state of affairs that we’re faced with two presidents, the Democrat supported by all the industries that are trunking out (corn, and coal if you believe him it still has a way to go) or a Republican candidate who stands for oil, the state of affairs which has brought our state to such a precipitous pass. The New York Times agrees, with articles such as Are Big Oil and Big Coal Climate Criminals?

City-states like New York, where the temperature rises precipitously in August who’s mayor’s have little allegiance to the Republic, may consider greening their roofs, as in this case study in Hong Kong. Since I wrote those words yesterday, record numbers are saying they want to see a local response, meaning their already writing off the rest of the country for survival’s sake.

Washington dares actually posing a threat to national security, according to this article from Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Members of Congress have been briefed on this report. Meanwhile, their continued war to control the world’s energy supplies brooks a threat to our civilization on a global scale.

We need not be reminded it took us countless thousands of years to get here, and here we are, at the singularity, an important projection of our conscious global evolution[picture of pyramid with line coming out of top, subtitled " what is the point of civilization?] , and the United States government seems finds the decimation of our species acceptable.

If oil is our state of affairs, like agrarian law (the reason for the fall of Rome) was for the old Republic, then peak oil is like the fall.

Why is peak oil coming? The responsiblility seems to fall squarely with Washington. Current food shortages seem to be caused both by a decrease in the availaibility of petrolium-based fuels and also by global warming (the product of an over reliance on cars). Therefore, the reason for food loss isn’t overpopulation, but because oil is the state of affairs.

Morover, the current regime in the Republic of the United States has pushed this state of affairs, even starting a war in Iraq over oil, as it has also pushed fuel-based economies, SUV’s and cars in the United States. Is there a petrolium shortage because we’re running out of fuel, or because we wanted to cut out the middle men who supply it, thereby causing a large war?

Therefore, it seems to me that this state of affairs can be avoided, A Columbia professor of mine used to say, “there is no possibility of the fall.” Beginning with a reduction in CO2 emissions in the next 20-40 years, we project a green future. And because we have discovered that the reason, now there is hope for a peaceful one, if we can work out the problem.

Capitalism is so anti-American. Did I say that? It is the antithesis of everything our governmental model should stand for.

According to Cicero, a republic which is not just is not a republic. Ergo, a republic which is not for the people, by the people, is not a republic too. Therefore, a republic which is for money, is not a republic. So, capitalism is unrepublican. Ha! It’s quite true.

INTELLECTUALS AGREE

We have a state of affairs.

The Post, already known for its black SEO, is now redirecting all queries on New York’s new statesman, Govenor Patterson, to the rather banal topic of the article, “Report: New Govenor Admits Affair.”

In another example of the media trying to dictate the news, now the newspaper has gone too far, its blatant corruption a mocking slap in all of our faces. However, the real scores will be ours on election day.v

According to the SEO Scoop, The Washington Post should already have been taken off the net. Their link are in clear violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines, employing cloaking and sneaky redirects.

According to Google at the time of this article, the People are most interested in hearing about Patterson’s policies.

Yup, Spitzer’s fall came right after he ousted the federal government in the Washington Post for interfering in state’s abilities to combat the mortgage crisis.

According to Satcha,  (in a comment since conveniently deleted from The Washington Post, quoting that paper itself the true reason Spitzer was busted for prostitution (and then judged by his hypocrisy), is because he came out with his dirt on the federal government

This is why Patterson is whipping out his dirt before it can be used to blackmail him should he get out of hand. After watching Spitzer’s credibility destroyed, who could blame him? With the perfect aplomb of a statesman, he has levelled the playing field (but he still has the advantage.

When a door closes, a window opens. As a result of Spitzer stepping down, the governor of New York is both a black man, and a blind one as well.

If that doesn’t already say superpowers to you, Governor Patterson showed an impressive mastery of politics both ideal and real, in a Washington Post article which is currently (like all their other articles on the governor) being redirected to the rather banal topic “New Governor Admits Affair.” That’s a google no-no by the way, but even that search engine can’t remove the Washington Post from the net for violating webmaster standards.

And in another interesting commentary on the fourth estate, the media is making mogul of the fact that he’s blind, rather than his geniotic statesman abilities.

Not only Plato would applaud Mr. Patterson, Cicero would burst with pride, and I should get Mike Gravel’s commentary on how he feels about the fact that a statesman made it into office, and not by popular election.

Money, in the system of symbols, has no meaning. Gold, on the other hand, does. Gold is eternal. It never tarnishes. But when this symbol gets perverted in to money, when the public gets corrupted, …it leads to a fall. This symbol is on the back of the republic because republics are also eternal; the ship of state is and can be programmed to sail forever.

Likewise, if a republic gets corrupted by money, if it is sold of as money, Cicero warns us in his speech De Lege Agraria, then it warns of an immanent fall.

When gold replaces the people as the base of the Republic (or anything for that matter - slaves, black gold), then the state of affairs poses a threat not only to its very foundation, but its whole purpose can be bent and perverted.

“A republic which is not just is not a republic,” Cicero writes in his book by the same name. Rome had this problem. And we could listen more to the lessons of Cicero.

For it is from Cicero that we learn money corrupts government. If Caesar had not been assasinated to please the great statesman, we would also have learned from him that absolute power does not corrupt absolutely - in the hands of a statesman, both are alchemical.

Empire is a much maligned word, and with good reason - tis power has been much abused in the name of economic conquest. But like many words, it is one with two meanings - an ideal one, and its shadow.

As the shadow of our economic empire has spread accross the globe, the next place it threatens to touch is the Republic of Iran. And yet the very laws of empire say this is illegal. Let’s examine them more closely.

According to Cicero, and the higher laws of all our republics, it is illegal to attack a country unless they have attacked first. And then, it must first be declared on the public forum, and reparations asked for first.

Few of the presidential candidates were even aware of this fact. Remember Mitt Romney? When asked if he knew this, he said he’d have to “Ask his lawyer.”

Likewise, Ron Paul knew he’d have to ask the constitution and consult the senate, but th laws of the Republic are higher than this. Neither one got to the true meaning of the question, which is that it would be illegal to attack Iran since they are not developing nuclear power for military use.

Now all the republics know this, and would be familiar with Cicero’s work (although it was obscured until the 19th century, due to the incident of Augustine having written his City of God over it). Since it it such a good model, we know that any candidate that actually does try to attack Iran on these grounds will be committing war crimes.

On the other hand, Cicero says that Rome got far by going to war for the protection of our allies. And so we come to the true use of empire. First, let me tell you what it’s not: it’s not for financial gain (although it will sustain a temporary economic boom).

According to the following article, written by J. S. Richardson, on the meaning of empire, the word has become twisted over the years.

Originally, the word was the power to use physical force, and it was one of the two powers taken away from the king when the republic was established. Why then were these two powers given to the executive branch in our republic?

The other power, the power of iudicium, or the power of judgment, the executive himself gave to the supreme court at an earlier part in American history. This just goes to show: our consitution is not perfect, and so far doesn’t even really aim at the ideal

Likewise, it is not for the people, nor was it really by the people. By and large, we have a lot of work to do on our consitution. Money, black gold, has replaced the place of the people in the state, and now we have a state of affairs.

Thus we need a statesman to safeguard the executive branch for a politician.

The shadow of empire has spread across the land. We have not conformed to the platonic, or ciceronian in this case, ideal - most people weren’t even aware there was one for empire - and so have found its shadow.

Empire can sustain a temporary economic boost (we saw the in the United States, with World War II), but it is not meant for this: when a country tries to sustain this boost, the metaphor becomes overextended as well.

Going to war to protect our allies seemed to be the first precedent the Bush administration gave for going into the Republic of Iraq , but going in has to be soley for this reason, and never for extending our WEALTH.

According to journalist Joe Lauria, “but to continue the profits of the war industry, to continue that wealth and that power, the phoney power of the Soviet Union was given out through the media basically at that time, and continued throughout the 70’s.”

Lauria, who authored of Gravel’s A Political Oddessey about his experiences in the Senate, said “The militarists controlled the country, despite the warnings of Eisenhower at that time, which proves that the president is subject to oligarchic interests, and he can only do so much, even though he spoke out early in his administration, Eisenhower, against militarism.”

Eventually, the military takes over the government of the host country. “In 1973, there was a unique event. The United States lost a war. THe militarists were on the defensive. Tehre was a national self examination. There were hosue and senate comitties looking into what hte us had done wit h that power and wealth.

Had it used it for progress at home and abroad? Or to simply mulitiply that power and wealth for its own purpose, simply to become richer and powerful.

…The dommestic problems that this created, by spending too much on war industrioes, both at home and abroad.

Such economic booms are bought with blood money, and those that live by the sword die by it. Absorbing the war industry of the nazi’s also led this country to absorb its darkness, and has left it in the bloody PR tangled of the present day, where people all over the world have recently become disillusioned with the United States, upon seeing a demonstration of how it uses that power to sustain the oil industry.

Therefore,we have found a clear line demarcating the wrong way to use empire - and on the flips side, also the right way

Daniel Pinchbeck doesn’t seem to think so. In the article about him in the August edition of Rolling Stone, Vanessa Grigoriadis reports the author saying the following about 2012:

“But there is no escape,” his eyes burning into mine. “We have to fix this situation right fucking now, or there’s going to be nuclear wars and mass death, and it’s not going to be very interesting. There’s not going to be a United States in five years, OK?”

However, when I spoke to Daniel Pinchbeck, he asked me what came next. As an integral theoriest, speaking to Quetzocoatl, I was able to figure out the answer in about five seconds. In fact, Daniel Pinchbeck just asked me what was next?Was just speaking to Daniel pinchbeck about the new system. His works are on the singularity (of 2012), and as an integral theorist in my own right, I drew on the massive works of Ken Wilbur to offered a synthesis with History (and posterity, based on the works of Ken Wilber). Mr. Pinchbeck is afraid of the point we are at in history because he doesn’t see beyond it. However, it is only useful to associate points with history so we can discuss the greatness of its arcs and sweeps with more precision.

As Gorgias says,

“For if all men on all subjects had both memory of things past and awareness of things present and foreknowledge of the future, speech would not be similarly similar, since as things are now it is not easy for them to recall the past nor to consider the present nor to predict the future. “So that on most subjects most men take opinion as counselor to their soul, but since opinion is slippery and insecure it casts those employing it into slippery and insecure successes.”

Gorgias tells us. To understand the sweep of history, so that we get a better perspective of the singularity and 2012 with it.

According to the following diagram of Wilber’s integral theory of consciousness, evolutionarily we should be progressing from an agrarian, republican state to one on a global, informational level. <strong>Why then is the republic only now becoming possible?</strong>

In part, this could be because of the loss of the Republic until the 19th century, when it was discovered that Augustine had written his City of God over the Cicero’s manuscript of The Republic, pillaging both his framework and the constitution for his own construction. Although the manuscript now is (oh!) much more fragmented because of this, once again thanks go out to the Catholic Church for preserving civilization through the dark ages.

<strong>What should we be planning for after the singularity? Is there a right answer? </strong>As a keeper of the platonic keys, I can tell you there is a correct thing to be planning for after the singularity, and (and not bogus Burner culture in some faux 60’s revolution, because we all saw how far that went. The 60’s, psychedelics, that’s where we get our afterculture, but not our model.

According to Ken Wilber’s diagram, the afterculture should be a global information one :). This actually fits well into the republic, which is necessarily more democratic (by modern standards) than a democracy, and should include (literally) universal suffrage. To a rebirth of knowledge!

For those of us who see clearly, it clear that those who scratched their heads when Hegel said history had ended need to rethink the nature of history. What is history?

For Baudrilliard, who wrote on the simulacrum in 1923, histories’ Baudrillard’s time was perhaps a bit more depressing,

“Politicians on both Left andnd Right are equaly useless. But those onn the Left wear themselves out in finding a moral angle for their depression; they ha not quite the measure of their real corruption. Whereas all out free market liberalism provides those on the Right with an insight that is fully equal to this depressed situation.”

From his standpoint in history, both his views and and his theories on the simulacrum seemed a little more fatalistic. But this is a Renaissance, a time of rebirth and rediscovery of the gods and their works. Whereas from his point of view, it seemed that history was ending, now we see that it is beginning anew.

When one has a linear view of time, it is very difficult to get back to point A from point B. However, if one has a cyclical view of time, they bend all time to their dimension. Geometry and tautology and trigenometry carry us through.

If we have hte key to understanding history, then the mystery of its knowledge will be revealed.

What is the simulacrum? [can hypertext to thesis] When Cicero envisioned the future from the standpoint of a Rome in crisis from agrarian legislation

Integral Theory of Consciousness

For ie have failed to take advantage of the alignment of events heralding the existence of the informational planetary ___, thus plunging consciousness back to the agrarian nation-state status, at seems wt say [poss. in 129], such a time as when Rome faced that first agrarian law that brought the whole republic tumbling down.

Moreover, it seems we have also failed to reach the state of that Republic in its height in 63 BC. If we cannot even achieve the ideal state of governing a nation, how do we propose to organize a (community[much less lead an offense] on the global scale)?

He predicted at that time that agrarian legislation was the state of affairs that threatened both the position of the people in society (most land was owned by the wealthy, who kept a large number of slaves, leaving citizens landless) and to corrupt the republic. If senators could sell of land as gold, if the republic was just gold, then . Likewise, black gold, and corrupt interests of major officials of our government seeking

How come the thing which was possible before is only manifesting now? Was it because the works of Cicero were hidden for so long?

Let’s turn to our most integral thinker to date to report to us thinking since then. Accordingn to the bottom left quadrant of his theory, the evolution of consciousness, society (how does he define this quadrant?) shows that we proceed from ann a

which validates our research.

Now what does this tell us? This tells us that the people are now once again poised to take their place at the base of the republic, sweeping the mat out from under certain officials feet, taking back their rightful place at the basee, thus making an ideal republic, which is a mixed constitutional system. Thus the people are as an important part of a republic as elected officials, as it is their duty to vote upon the laws.

Likewise, if this is now possible, two thousand years after we progressed passed the agrarian state in Wilber’s diagram (thus ascribing points 129 BC and 2012 - simply so that we can have a discussion, and to this point we can ascribe not only the end of the galactic cycle as bespoken by the myans, but the end of a cycle of the simulacrum of history as we move to the next phase of our evolutionary history and it is convenient to begin talking about how to go about the future now that it has arrived. Thus it become now and it is our duty to project the future for the next epoch.

Thus the singularity is a useful denomination for this transition. It refers to the acceleration of communication, thus accelerating the plans of history to their zentith as events and communication begin to happen instantaneously, opening out onto new possibilites. Just as the fall did for Rome can be modeled upon the diagramn for facollapse of the wave theory in quantum physics, the singularity can likewise be a physical and historical phenomenon. As a poinnt in flux, it is a time of possibility.

Lest we fritter it away on Burning Man like the hippies did with the Civil Rights Movement, living in the moment and forgetting the glorious lessons of the past. This is where acquire our afterculture, but should we let that be our model? it is important that we do not go forth blindly but bearing our ideals, carrying the wisdom of ancient philosophers who taught us the meaning of truth and justice with us. Lest we be disillusioned, Plato wrote a Republic, and Cicero wrote a Republic as well, and it is important that we use their words to understand the agrarian state, and our political system, as we move into a global era of information.

Even as with the internnet we sweep the mat out from under the feet of the administration that attempted to usurp our republic, we have access to the knowledge to preventing such a thing from happening again. This is rightly a Renaissance and the launch of a golden age. As we rediscover the beauty of the ancient authors, our new ability to understand them will balance our fall, preserve our state from collapse, saving our civilization, an important stepping stone in our further quest for meaning.

In them is preserved all the ancient knowledge to steer the ship of state in the right direction, and the knowledge to usher in an alchemical age for us. Rather than be disillusioned by the cylcle of decay affecting our history, government, and philosophers, like Baudrillard, let us remember that even by Zarathustra’s “God is dead” didn’t mean that God was truly dead; in a Dionysian spate Nietzsche said we killed him. Nor was he sacrificed with Quizalcoatlean grizzliness. Like history, he is only being reborn!

Nor do we have to manifest the next epoch before its time, but allow it to grow organically. Rather than having a specific plan for this age, let us remember the ideals of our forefathers. This is the plan we have to set in motion to prevent corruption of our government and gaps in our knowledge in the future.