Question: To please be addressed to the people of China and all her representatives, whom may have an interest in World Peace.

Now that the worlds governments have clearly demonstrated humanities ability and willingness to carry The Art of War through our Heavenly Gate into the peaceful workings of the universe.

Might the People of China and her representatives also be interested in becoming the First Super Power in History to call the global population into action, to literary create the first global step toward Peace on Earth.

If so there is a path and a golden opportunity for China to lead the world as a Dragon of Strength, Unity and Peaceful Change, into an action which could unite all of humanity into:

One Dream for Harmony
The HE(ART) of Peace

http://www.worldpeace-no-compromise.blogspot.com

Most Sincerely, Bruce Larson*Moore

A week ago, I attended the DaVinci Institute’s Night With A Futurist, in Denver. Stephen Keating, business editor of The Denver Post, first showed us a 5-minute movie about the predicted demise of newspapers and the growing need for local news from trusted sources. Then he talked about The Attention Economy. Money, it seems, goes where your attention goes.

For global advertising dollars, the world is going online. While newspapers have lost millions of dollars in revenue from classified advertising to online websites, such as the free-for-all CraigsList.com, it has also lost millions of dollars more to Google, Yahoo and other web-based business.

In 2006, Keating points out, nearly 6% of the $424 billion dollars of global advertising from business was spent on Internet advertising. By 2009, the Internet’s share of global advertising dollars will rise to nine percent - surpassing radio advertising - while newspaper revenue will drop from 38% to 27%. Currently, newspapers are discovering hidden ad dollars from local businesses who are drawn to the newspapers’ online edition by local bloggers. The Internet and newspaper ad revenue numbers are predicted to cross around 2015.

When the Internet overtakes the world of print, will it blur the lines between fact and fiction? Yes. However this is already happening with embedded reporters, corporate sponsored inserts, and ads that read like news. In the end, the only trusted source might simply be yourself. Check in - with yourself - before you decide what to believe.

Christianity adopted rather quickly (300-400 years) to the non-occurrence of the second coming of Christ. It is not a constant focus of those who value all of Creation and the beauty of this world.

It is a constant focus of marxists and leftistists.

If man causes climate change, what ended the last ice age?

I also think the mood of apocalypse in the West is largely a product of projection. The death of absolute religious faith in the West was succeeded by the death of absolute faith in reason, fixed truths and the entire project of Western consciousness: namely to discover universal truths and thereby transcend finitude by means of rational faculties. That faith was the underpinning of all our institutions, our ideals and our view of our nation and ourselves. It is now dead, as our universities, to name just one place, eloquently attest. And although some see in that death the possibility of the birth of a new wave of consciousness (although some of those people are romantic New Agers,) most people see only the emptiness left by the death of the old view, and the postmodern shards of of the so recently shattered belief systems.

I think they project this emptiness of spirit on the physical, economic and political spheres. Those who seek to cynically capitalize on this mood would find little acceptance of their calls to alarm if a mood of doom were not already widespread in the land. So people think we are in economic hard times, for example, while the objective data show unprecedented prosperity. Unseasonable warm spells on the East Coast “prove” global warming, while unseasonable cold in the West is ignored. Melting polar ice caps confirm global warming, while growing Antarctic ice caps are ignored. And so on. I think zeitgeist always proceeds from something fundamental, not accidental, about worldview. And I think the roots of popular apocalyptic fears run deep.

Even the Islamic death cults may reflect the sense of history knocking on mythic religion’s door. As “modernity,” which is nothing more than reason replacing mythic belief, and “post-reason” come calling on the medieval collective mind of the Middle East, that too must seem like the death of the world they know.

No surprise, given the opinions of so many teachers.

“I’ve posited before that our culture’s future-pessimism might explain the decline of the newspaper industry.”

Or maybe we are dissatisfied with inaccurate and dishonest reporting.

Global warming is happening and it may well be caused, in part, by man. I can say with 100% certainty that freak storms and major disasters will occur in the future just as they’ve occurred in the past.

Apocalypse, though?

Come on…you vastly underestimate both man and nature if you believe that. Not to mention that, while scientists sometimes play the apocalypse game to gin up grants, the grim scenarios are mostly propagated by organizations looking to stoke up either contributions or votes.

You should watch a TV show that was on recently, maybe “Nova”, about “rogue waves”. Despite various ship captains reporting rogue waves (a hundred or two hundred feet high) scientists assured them that such was not possible. Or, if they did occur, they were a once in 10,000 years event. But now, with the advent of sophisticated communication, weather sensing, GPS and video capabilities several “once in 10,000 years” rogue waves have been scientifically documented just in the last several decades. It turns out those rogue waves aren’t so roguish after all. In fact, they’ve been part of the ocean environment for all of those 10,000 years, and undersea formations have been identified that actually contribute to the formation of those waves. In truth, it was ignorance (not stupidity, mind you) on the part of science that led educated people to claim that such waves didn’t exist.

Just keep that in mind when some person, even an educated person, makes blanket declarations of “fact” about natural phenomena, global warming, what the world is really like and what’s normal and what’s not. We don’t know as much as we sometimes pretend to know and a “freak” storm doesn’t proven anything whatsoever. Anyone who would base long term policy decisions on such a storm should be removed from any position of influence or control they have over other human beings. They will have proven themselves unworthy of that responsibility.

For me the most interesting thing over the last few years has been the discovery that the opinion leaders are remarkably ignorant if not downright stupid. The quote above is a prime example. I might also point out that many of these folks are motivated by a leftist cult that relies on the myth of the imminent collapse of capitalism. This results in the media spreading stories of future disaster, well summed up as “…floods, storms, desertification—but the possibility of viral pandemic, meteor impact, or some kind of nuclear exchange is not alien to his view of the days to come.” These future disasters are the sole remaining hope of the left to replace the western capitalist civilization they despise by some universal enlightened tyranny. It is the revolution! So perhaps Seamus McCauley’s son is a pessimist precisely because he belongs to a political household where an apocalyptic outlook constitutes the very meaning of life.

There is a growing consensus on the ground now that climate change is real and something must be done urgently about it. Is there a feeling too in Davos that the biological instinct of self preservation may yet override the economic theory of comparative advantage?

Has the storm caused people to pause and reflect?