recently, in that book 'Her-Bak' about the Egyptian mystery school candidate pupil and his teachers, well, recently in that it was read recently so it's fresh in the mind, one of the teachers, talking about (ancient) Egypt's considerably long history of thousands of years, so that even going back 4000 years, they would refer to their own 'ancients' as those from thousands of years beforehand that had transcribed the hieroglyphic language of symbols to simulate real truths....
one of the teachers says that with the ancient Egyptians (so those preceeding his own ancient time) and even in his own time, the dominant goal in the economy, for bricklayers and artisans and simple builders and the like was always quality first... he goes on to say that sacrificing the principal of quality first leads to placing quantity first and therefore to luxury, excessive wealth, greed and unhappiness....
i must say, that in my own home, everything is marvelously comfortable.... i have a cowhide footstool that cost about $215 which i would consider an expensive outlay for a footstool.... the couch is leather and also expensive, everything is fairly good quality, even the construction of the building seems to me to be of good quality, including the swimming pool.... this kind of comfort can lead to laziness, but on the other hand, living in overly ugly interiors can lead to depression and worse.... this is certainly a nice home to call home and come home to - i wouldn't want to bring a baby into this world in something uglier
moving on to macro-economics, as a taxi driver, i meet a great deal of people with studies in economics and who work in finance or related areas.... notably, one american guy on his way to the airport was working at the world bank in switzerland or something like that - this guy was in no wise apologetic or negatively critical of the actions of the wall street brokers who helped facilitate the collapse of 2007... generally 'wall street' types are very often motivated by greed....... what would quality in macro-economics look like, as opposed to quantity? how does the inclusion of the 'pursuit of happiness' in the american constitution apply to macro-economics and why would nietzsche, who clearly foresaw the unification of europe, long before anyone else did (at least in writing - although, who knows? maybe Napoleon was the God Mars itself incarnate and worked actively to bring it about), why would he have predicted that a strong unification of europe could lead to an ability of europe to impose a will that would play out into a thousand years ahead of time? or, to put it another way, why do western 'market' types even care so much about the european Euro currency and economic union so much?
why should money markets care about the european trading bloc anymore than they would begrudge some sultans in arabia from becoming ludicrously rich or investing their money in america? consider how many burgeoning economies there are, brazil, india, china, russia, all of south america, very many other countries, with so many macro-economies around the world, why should investors and money markets care so much about the european union and european economic union? what does american happiness and the american pursuit of happiness matter to the europeans?
my understanding is there are currently technologies in the pipeworks, like an algae that can convert co2 to petrol and water which is currently more expensive, including separating the water from the petrol, than just old fashioned drilling; but not ridiculously more expensive
some american companies are working on wind turbines that fly on blimps 10kilometres above the ground where the wind is 3 or 4 times stronger than on the ground....
many people believe there is already the technology to run cars on water using some process of separating hydrogen from oxygen through electrolysis or something like that
will oil companies try to withhold technologies like these, or will simple market economics of preference for the cheapest possible available goods prevail in holding back newer technologies?
people predict water would become scarce, but if new technology is developed for cheaper desalinization plants or very cheap purification tablets, than how could water become a difficult commodity?
a threat seems to be overpopulation coupled with excessive use of available resources at present, especially wood, coal and petrol... also the polluting of the oceans, however, there's nothing to say that people won't be able to create artifical meats including fish meats on a massive scale in factories
is this the kind of 'terrible will' that nietzsche predicted the european union would be able to impose, a thousand years into the future... what did he mean and can we just write his prediction off as incorrect? again how can europe's economic union be so strong, and so important as to affect money markets so much these days?
what is the relationship between the EU, the USA and China, economically speaking.... how does behavior between the U.S. and China affect the EU?
the americans are arguably the most patriotic people in the world, very generally speaking, and one of the few nations that will refuse chinese investment on patriotic reasons, e.g., chinese attempts to buy large companies like large petro-chemical companies... but then again, the americans have propped up saudi arabia for decades, when they could have just annexed it, if they really wanted to be an empire (which they obviously don't coz otherwise they would have annexed and taken over saudi arabia a long time ago) --- furthermore the americans allow the saudis to invest their considerable wealth freely into america and very often entertain them even when they prove themselves to be 100 times the douchebags that the chinese are
why are americans so suspicious of china, sure china is commie but saudi arabia isn't a democracy either... why are americans so pro-saudi and so anti-china?
one time, in a very expensive upscale restaurant in manhattan, where the most expensive bottle of wine or champagne went for $7000 and desserts for two with very little else could easily cost $400, i joked with a co-worker in the kitchen, looking into a pantry, he asked me, 'what are you looking for?' i responded: 'happiness', to which he immediately replied incredulously, without any hesitation and with a tone of certainty: 'well you're not going to find it in there!'
will the european union end up being massive pricks just because they can? because they think happiness stinks and the only thing that might approximate it is being some kind of do-gooder, obnoxious prick arsehole - hyprocrite aparteidist 'egalitarian': kind of like an anglo-ossie or an american with an anglo name and an anglo-aussie on a bender together?
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