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Tidbits #60
Posted by: adonis49 on: August 4, 2020
Tidbits #60
Scientists may have found a new blood test was able to detect some cancers up to four years before patients had symptoms.
Do you agree on the position that a state’s sovereignty extends beyond its physical territory into cyberspace, and that countries, in turn, shouldn’t interfere with how others regulate the internet?
In 2018 , European model for internet economy stated the privacy rules known as GDPR fragmented the internet in their own way, with the aim of protecting user data from the prying eyes of US tech giants and government surveillance.
It means “Doing politics“: Faire la greve, les marches et les mobilisations pour pouvoir vivre avec les mêmes droits que tout le monde s’appelle “faire de la politique”
The only time Lebanon had a census was in 1932 during French mandate, and Lebanon is less than 5 million. Bangladesh of 100 million and one of the poorest country had a census recently. From election campaigns, statisticians figured out that the Maronite sect increased 1.6 time, the Muslim Sunni 7 times, the Muslim Chiaa 10 times, and the Druze 3 times. These rates are Not to change for the 5 million Lebanese. Pragmatically, the Chiaa sect is already demographically the majority and increasing steadily.
The customs and traditions of the Land in the Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Palestine…) were practiced thousands of years before Judaism came to be. The Jewish religion, written in around 200 BC in Alexandria, adopted the customs of the Land and wrote in the same style of imagery, maxims, and aphorism.
The “Whites” believed that all humanity was also White in the last 4 centuries, in moral standards, taste, fashion, standard of living, culture…. And still behave accordingly.
When I hear that consumption increased, I know that nature and earth are getting sicker
We like to think we’re special, but the truth is that humans ain’t nothing but mammals. This is particularly true when it comes to sex, and Not that good at it.
Stay clear from your God. Refrain from mentioning His name, pray for Him, communicate with Him or get familiar with His company. Have you associated with a powerful person and didn’t experience frequent Loyalty tests? Your life will be reduced to constant stress and total unhappiness.
La Majorité Silencieuse s’adapte aux crimes, les violences, la peur…: Je ne voit pas un future sain à l’humanité’
It is a bad Sign: A colonial citizens visiting an isolated location overseas.
When a country is reduced to but a Land for sectarian martyrs (shouhadaa2), and nothing else to celebrate but the sectarian religious events, then who is willing to take over (mandated power) this totally bankrupt people, politically, economically and financially?
Wisdom is earned, Not given or shared. Especially wisdom coming from older people: Each generation doesn’t lend an ear but to itself. When other people give us the answer, it belongs to them and not us.
While we might achieve the outcome we desire, it comes from dependence on others that we refuse to recognize, and Not from insight.
“J’étais toujours frappé’ quand je voyais les cheikhs tomber a genoux au milieu du désert, se tournant vers l’Orient et toucher le sable du front. Qu’était ce que cette chose inconnue qu’ils adoraient vers l’Orient?’ (Napoleon Bonaparte).
En fait, Mohamad avait ordonné’ de se tourner vers Jerusaleme avant de changer d’avis 13 ans après, et de se tourner vers la Mecque. Mohamad ne voulait plus une religion de “continuit锑 mais une religion à Soi. Une religion pour les peuple des déserts. Les peuples qui n’avaient cure des dogmes abstraits. “Si une idole ne satisfait pas mes desires, je la détruis et je la remplace par une autre”
We all agree that doing politics is a serious profession. Not anyone is capable of assuming his mandate to serving the community: a voted in political candidate is to be at the beck of his community 24 hours a day and fielding all kinds of requests; he has no reliable methods to controling his daily activities and set aside relaxation periods.
And yet, candidates to “serving the public” are not taught and trained in schools like all the other professions. Actually, most of the students graduating from high schools and universities have acquired a terrible bad connotation for the term “politics” or “doing politics”.
You have candidates who think that because they have an academic position, an administrative job with a private company, or just an earning job that they have the right to run for political positions, regardless of the specific job qualifications of being people-oriented and frequently communicating with voters, and listening intently and seriously to voters requests and demands.
If candidates fail to prove that they are people-oriented before election, how do you expect him to follow up on the daily and countless people’s problems?
People enroll in the field of “political science” thinking that this field will train them for the political arena; wrong! The field of political science does not train people in the social and psychological behavior of people, which are the right tools for doing politics.
Acquiring sketchy understanding of the macro politics by lumping whole nations as a single entity or whole regions as potential enemies is not the correct way for training politicians to thinking rationally and for the good of the people in the long term.
There are so many candidates running for political seats (municipality, parliament…) who actually pray not to succeed in their campaigns. They know, not just theoretically, of their limitations but also in their gut feeling, that they are not ready for serving the community 24 hours a day, day in day out. Those candidates have learned to establishing a life-style that is mostly peaceful, secluded, reclusive, and not immersed in frequent communication with people; they are terribly bored with discussions, or reading reports, or listening to constant recriminations and requests. They want volunteer assistants to aids them to communicating with people because their “lazy” life-style is not compatible with actual political frenetic demands.
Yes, they pray to fail but they cannot help it accepting nominations to run: It is so nice to playing the “pasha” for a short period; playing the game of the short-lived leader; smiling in profusion, but having nothing to say or any detailed program to follow up with zeal.
Those faked “politicians”, actually ruin campaigns by their lethargy for not activily running seriously. As voters, we like to claim that this candidate has a good program but we always fail to investigate if he is up to the demands of the task serving the community by following up on requests for the long haul. It is character and inclination for “doing politics” that count most: Programs can be altered and improved but how can you change individual character and behaviors?
For example, if you know a candidate who is constantly pessimistic and skeptical about making a dent in any kind of reforms; that all is already lost for any change, would you vote for such a candidate?
If this candidate is never sober anytime of the day, would you vote for this candidate? And yet, as election comes, hop, he is a candidate and on top of the list. He always fails and his list of candidates too!
Problems with our politicians stem from three factors; first, most of the politicians inherit their jobs, one way or another; they realize soon that they are not up to the requirements and don’t want the hassle; and thus, they delegate their responsibilities to people who were not elected in the first place.
Second, politicians don’t work for the long term success because they don’t find the time to read, reflect, and grow their inner power.
Third, they are not people-oriented. Among the very few politicians who satisfy the two criteria of proven records of capable providers and verbal intelligence, only those who realize the need to strengthen their inner power through reading and reflection and actually taking short “sabbaticals”, away from the media have the potentials to become leaders of people.
In “Hiroshima my love”, Marguerite Dora says: “Human political intelligence is a hundred folds lower than scientific intelligence.” On the face of it, many would be nodding their heads in consent. We have got to analyze political intelligence from a different perspective to appreciate that the previous statement is not correct.
When we deal with human behaviors that are first, in the hundreds of varieties and ever changing with time and conditions and second, the inability of human cognitive powers to assimilate the different interactions of even four factors, or variables at the same time and third, juggling these interactions in real time and under pressure, we can grasp the far complex intelligence requirements of doing and thinking politics.
Maybe Marguerite Dora meant that the social state of affairs of mankind is not improving due to lack of intelligent political actions and appropriate decision making in institutions. I say, encourage political institutions to get people engaged and freely expressing their opinions on reforms and you may judge on the superior mankind political intelligence.
Democracy, without prior selection of politicians based on cognitive and emotional testing for mental capabilities, is tantamount to more of the same repeated errors and mistakes for the public good. Political intelligence would then be vastly appreciated to its own merit when candidates satisfy cognitive and emotional criteria before submitting their applications to public political posts.
The vote of the people would make much more sense when people are initiated and exposed to the complexities of serving the people and extending a higher value for the term “doing politics”.
The necessary condition, though not sufficient, for a politician is to have demonstrated that he loves to communicate with people, and to field requests around the day as the main job of public server: He learns to be pragmatic because he is listening to the demands of the people.
A Few Good Politicians
Posted by: adonis49 on: February 6, 2009
A Few Good Politicians (February 6, 2009)
Our problems with politicians stem from three factors:
First, most of the politicians inherit their jobs, one way or another. They realize soon that they are not up to the requirements of the arduous job, and don’t want the hassle; and thus, they delegate their responsibilities to people who were not elected in the first place.
Second, politicians don’t work for the long-term success because they “Don’t find the time to read, reflect, and grow their inner power“.
Third, most politicians didn’t walk the streets, and reluctantly communicate with potential voters: they are not people oriented, which should be the main job description for a politician.
Among the very few politicians who satisfy the 4 criteria of proven records of people oriented, capable providers, continuing education, and mastery of verbal intelligence, only those who realize the need to strengthen their inner power through reading and reflection, and actually taking short “sabbatical” away from the media have the potentials to become leaders of people.
We all want to be “providers”, the Patriarch, or the Matriarch.
Only the minority of us can be providers and are willing to take on this responsibility and dedicate their time and nerves for that constantly demanding job.
Among this minority we have people with good “verbal intelligence” or orators who can be candidates for political career.
In “Hiroshima my love” Marguerite Dora says:
“Human political intelligence is a hundred folds lower than scientific intelligence”
On the face of it, many would be nodding their heads in consent. We have got to analyze political intelligence from a different perspective to appreciate that the previous statement is not correct.
When we deal with human behaviors that are extremely complex because:
First, characters are in the hundreds of varieties and ever-changing with time and conditions Second, the inability of human cognitive powers to assimilate the different interactions of even 4 factors or variables at the same time and t
Third, juggling these interactions in real-time and under pressure then, we can grasp the far complex intelligence requirements of doing and thinking politics.
Democracy, without prior selection of politicians based on cognitive and emotional testing for mental capabilities, is tantamount to more of the same repeated errors and mistakes for the public good.
Political intelligence would be vastly appreciated to its own merit when candidates satisfy cognitive and emotional criteria before submitting their applications to public political posts.
We all agree that doing politics is a serious profession.
And yet, candidate to “serving the public” are not taught and trained in schools like all the other professions.
Actually, most of the students in high schools and in universities, graduate with a terrible bad connotation for the term “politics”.
People enroll in political science thinking that this field will train them for the political arena; wrong!
The field of political science does not train people in the social and psychological behavior of people, which are the right tools for doing politics.
Acquiring sketchy understanding of the macro politics by lumping whole nations as a single entity or entire regions as potential enemies is not the correct way for training politicians to thinking rationally and for the good of the people in the long-term.
The vote of the people would make much more sense when people are initiated and exposed to the complexities of serving the people and offering a higher value for the term “doing politics”.
A professional politician is necessarily pragmatic because he works toward consensus as he communicates extensively with citizens and listen carefully and seriously to their demands.
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