User:Amorrow/Statesmanship
Statesmanship
Statesmanship used to involve a lot of time alone, without the interruption of modern global instant communications or mass media, without the modern short attention span of the short news cycle. Sometimes without regard to their momentary popularity or what news item is currently receiving publicity. They too do not like laws passed for one or a few persons or one or two events. Statesmen aspire to contemplate mulit-century geopolitical issues. Consider Herbert B. Dixon, Jr., Stephen V. Manley, Aaron_Persky, Sen. George_J._Mitchell (D) and many others.
AWM attempts to be a prophet. Money is very short term. It is very fast-acting, but the results are sometimes rather a bit more ephemeral. Money can now moved around Earth in a fraction of a second. Tiny fractions of a second matter in trading on the stock market as humans attempt to use their superior G-d-given minds against computer algorithms. The Stock market crash of 1929 occurred with little warning. Congressmen now typically spend at least 50% of their time in Washington D.C. on fundraising."Democrats and Republicans alike are compelled to sign confidential agreements with their parties’ campaign committees, pledging to meet specific fund-raising goals each quarter in exchange for a commitment of heavy financial support as the election draws near. Both parties’ campaign committees monitor their members’ progress weekly."[1]
In the 1997 very successful animated film Princess Mononoke, the giant boar-g-d Okkoto laments: "Look at my tribe, Moro. We grow small, and we grow stupid." See also, e.g. Aaron Schock, Felisa Wolfe-Simon and many others such as IT personel who live their lives attempting to control other of G-d's children via computer/network/database triads.
AWM is worried when laws are changed quickly, such as in the Elizabeth Morgan case, Terri Schiavo, Brock Turner and such. AWM listened carefully George Shultz on May 11, 2009, and recognized the importance of "living in the future" (and also emotionally far, far away). Shultz is ready to talk about that when it comes to nuclear weapons, but he is afraid about other issues that might be related to "living in the future". Shultz is able to maintain his conservative political views and, like a duality, the notions that:
- Time and the tide wait for no man.[2] We careen forward in time. We must study the Past and learn from it, but after that we do as well to reconcile ourselves to the mutability and eternal nature of the Past and just think of it all as God's will. Just maintain our adultness and our ability to engage in self-governance and mentally be in the Present.[3] The Future, to some degree is our will.
- he is made of atoms.
- his immense improbability, starting with his conception-event, which was a complex process that could easily have resulted in some other spermatazoa, corresponding to some brother or sister taking his turn to be alive at all from him.
- his excellent parents having six children, like he did, is probably not such a good plan into the indefinite future for every other person on Earth.
- reaching his goals about nuclear weapons might be related to and even have as a prerequisite stabilizing world population.
- discussing such notions in an integrated manner might seriously detract from his momentary popularity.
- people just want to take their turn to be alive at all and then "not talk about" on their deathbed how little they accomplished in helping humanity to address such objectifying geopolitical, multi-century issues.