Constitutional Evolutionism

Posted on July 12, 2018 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the argument between constitutional originalists and evolutionists, is actually about limited versus unlimited government. It pivots on the Enlightenment idea of constitutionalism and the meaning of originalist and constitutional evolutionist. In this context, any pick for Supreme court is of absolute importance, to safeguarding our liberty or shackling us in chains. Those who favor unlimited government will want a constitutional evolutionist. People who rather limited government and liberty will choose an originalist. So, we have a debate in the halls of congress, who should be on our Supreme Court, an originalist or evolutionist, and each politician’s stance shows whether he or she favors arbitrary rule and unlimited government, or they prefer limited government and liberty for the people.

The Enlightenment was the time when Constitutionalism became fully mature. Along with other radical reforms, like the scientific method, reason over authority, individualism, natural law and skepticism… which were all at their core, democratizing ideas. The Enlightenment took power from authority, split it up, and put that power in the hands of the people. This has directly led to the revolutionary advances in science, farming, our standard of living and the freedom many of us enjoy today. Many today argue, and teach our children in the public school system, that we need to escape the bonds of the Enlightenment and return to absolutism. They maintain that freedom is slavery, war is peace, killing a baby isn’t murder, fire needn’t burn and water no longer wets.

Constitutionalism is based on contract law. A constitution being a contract between the governed and the governors. It strictly lists the powers of the governors and the responsibilities of the governed as well as the limitations of both. This is based on skepticism. Skepticism that the governors will do as they say without a strong bond holding them to their word. Someone Pollianish might believe that everyone everywhere can be trusted, but a rational person understands that is not the case, and therefore is skeptic of another’s motives and plans. A constitution, a contract, is what the skeptical thinkers of the Enlightenment came up with, to hold the leaders to their word. In other words… limit government’s role, reach and growth.

A constitutional evolutionist is someone with the notion that a constitution must change with the times. It is the ethos of progressives. They argue that a constitution cannot be unchangeable it must evolve as times evolve. They say it is a “living breathing document,” in that it is dynamic, able to keep afoot in an uncertain world. While Originalism is the concept that a constitution should always be interpreted as the writers of the document intended… like any other contract. Because, the originalist argues, what good is a contract if one party can “evolve” it as they see fit? Especially if the other party is barred from any effect on it whatsoever. Clearly, any contract that can be manipulated for the benefit of one party over another, is only a means to deceive, and certainly not a normalizing document.

So we get back to that question of limited versus unlimited government. Originalism is the only path to limited government, since it holds the governors to the contract, and constitutional evolutionism must lead to unlimited government, since it allows the governors to amend the Constitution, (contract), any time they can corrupt five of nine Supreme Court justices. Which is a perversion of what the Supreme Court’s role is. The US Constitution created the Supreme Court, as a means to protect itself, not as a way for underhanded people to usurp power. Unfortunately, psychopaths have recognized that there are only political fetters holding them from absolute power, and are striving for that power. Constitutional evolutionism must be exposed for what it is… the sure path to oppression.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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War is Psychopathic

Posted on July 9, 2018 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the notion that any nation is the enemy of another, is a mere mental contrivance to facilitate the abuse of power. The people of any nation are never at odds with another, it is always and everywhere, governments, that are at enmity with each other. Contrary to public opinion, government is not a means to ordering society, helping people help themselves, providing non excludable goods, enacting a planned economy or creating standards, it is about power. Power of the few over the many. Thrasymachus‘ point is well taken, most people want to live in peace to, till, sow, weed and reap, but there are “great men” who are not satisfied, they have a drive to rule others, psychopaths. Government is how they can rule, with assumed authority and usurped power, to satisfy their egos.

War is the ultimate in psychopathic manipulation. One of the qualities of a psychopath is the need for excitement. Their inner lives are so empty, lacking a conscience, empathy or basic humanity, they need diversion, and what is more exciting and diverting than a war? Psychopaths love to manipulate other people, both to prove their own superiority, (since they know they are in fact inferior to the common run of man) and to prove other people’s stupidity. What better way than to start a war, and get thousands of people, perhaps millions, to die for you? What an ego boost for a psychopath. I guarantee, if a knowledgeable study were done as to what percentage of conquerors, despots and founders of empires… were psychopaths, it would show psychopathy is the common thread.

Like Mo Ti said, why fight for cultivated land when there is so much that is uncultivated and free to the taking? Even densely populated nations have much uncultivated land, and many are almost all uncultivated land. Yet the first impulse of people, especially those in power, is to take from another what he has built… rather than build it oneself. As Mo Ti also said, why is it easier to buckle on armor and go die, probably horribly, to take from another? When for less effort and danger they could simply build it… in other words, bring uncultivated land under cultivation. How did Lebensraum help all the German boys who died for it? Wouldn’t they have been better off, to have moved to the Alps, cleared some land, built a home… and raised a family there?

Amid the atrocities of World War One on Christmas Eve, some British and Germans crawled onto no man’s land and celebrated the birth of our Lord together, in violation of the “rules of war,” but in concurrence with the laws of humanity. The psychopaths were livid that soldiers had recognized the humanity of their “enemies,” and severely punished the men for it. It has been said, war is someone killing someone else, who in other circumstances, would be their best friend. One strategy tyrants have used throughout the ages, to distract people from their own suffering, misery the government’s own ineptitude, corruption or rapine has inflicted… to some straw man, one that requires violence to quell. In “1984” George Orwell pointed out… perpetual war means perpetual war powers for the elite.

We must recognize that, no matter how much we may want peace, others may not. There is never a time when some despot somewhere isn’t plotting. The only way to stop such crimes against humanity, is to be strong enough to make attacking pure folly, yet not becoming the very thing you are against. Peace take two… but war only takes one. Poland didn’t want war with Germany, but the psychopathic, cult of personality, Fuhrer of Germany at the time… did. Anyone who tells you that we, or anyone, needs perpetual war to keep the peace, is telling you, war is peace and up is down. So, while keeping vigilant for the psychopath running some misbegotten foreign country, we should be extra wary of the psychopath in our midst, because he or she is the far bigger threat… they manipulate us.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Progressive Faction’s Monopoly on Education.

Posted on July 7, 2018 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, to let progressives have a monopoly on our school system, then be amazed our kids graduate as little brain washed socialists, is absurd. It’s like tossing a white blanket into green dye and acting shocked when it comes out green! Of course progressives are going to teach our children to be good little Marxist cogs. Why shouldn’t they? They believe themselves to be our betters. It is our fault. Since we have allowed, and continue to allow, progressives to have a monopoly on our children’s educations. How many of us say nothing when we learn about common core and do nothing to prevent, let alone forestall, the slide to ignorance our progressive monopoly school system inculcates. So we cannot blame progressives for being who they are, the fault is in us… for letting them do it.

Ask any kid you know if they were taught anything bad about socialism in school. Not one will be able to list a thing. Not the Famines, gulags, killing fields or hyperinflation, the history of socialism has been glossed over to the point of perversion. Even teens in college preparation courses are taught nothing about socialism in modern world history, and certainly not it’s role in the deaths of a hundred million people, in the twentieth century alone. Kids have only been taught the ideals of socialism, without the details. Socialism is sold to our kids… rather than them being taught about it in context. Since our kids are not taught about the evils of socialism… how can we expect our children to know what socialism really is? Moreover, doesn’t it say a lot about people who ignore such atrocities?

On the other hand, ask any kid, “Have you been taught anything bad about capitalism and or the United States?” They can monologue for days listing every atrocity any American has done. From slavery to pollution they know it all. Obviously not in context, because that would undermine the brain washing. Like the fact that slavery was world wide in the late 1800’s and that it was the Christian ethos, “do unto others…” that was the death knell to slavery, or that the worst environmental disasters on the planet are in former socialist countries. Context would dissolve the brain washing and so is not allowed. Moreover, teaching kids that their culture is evil, undermines their self esteem, casts them adrift in the world without a culture to cling to, and subconsciously transmits they themselves are bad.

Ask any graduate of a government monopoly school system, “What good about capitalism and or the United states have you been taught?” They will look at you like you have three heads, and answer, “Capitalism is evil and is based on greed.” They have been mind numbed. Our schools teach them, not to think… but to react emotionally. Like Pavlov’s dogs that drool when they hear a bell, our kids react as they have been programmed to, without having to burn a calorie thinking about it. Obviously, such schooling is great for a people that would be slaves, but wholly worthless to those who would be free men and women. Which is why the progressives are passing laws, limiting the ability of people to get their kids out of the indoctrination centers, where they could get an actually useful education.

When one is taught only the bad about a thing, and none of it’s merits, while being inculcated in the good of it’s opposite, with none of it’s demerits, by someone assuming authority, it is not educating. When those doing the brain washing are our leaders in government, culture and society, we know they have an agenda, to move the people away from self aware, educated, constitutionally informed, individuals… to become cogs in an autocratic state, where the elite are masters and the rest of us are slaves. So we must ask ourselves, “Do we want our children to be trained to be slaves… or free people?” If we want them to be slaves, then do nothing and that will be the result, but if we want our children to be able to think for themselves, be prosperous, productive, educated, free people, we must act… and act soon!

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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On Independence Day

Posted on July 5, 2018 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, as we celebrate Independence day, we should keep in mind the true significance of this day. The independence of the United States, or at the time semi united colonies, was a watershed in human history. It became the first rationally formed government based on the advances of the Enlightenment. There had been many rationally formed governments over the millennia, but none had included… Natural Rights, which gives rise to individualism, Constitutionalism, in which government is formed by contract limiting it’s power scope and authority, as well as Montesquieu’s idea of breaking the executive branch into two parts, the executive and the judicial, to further limit the likelihood of a government escaping the bonds of it’s constitution, which had happened so many times in the past.

Constitutionalism was an older idea that had met with limited success. Madison wrote extensively about the past failures of other constitutions in the Federalist Papers. Nevertheless, the independence of the US from Britain, and indeed Europe, allowed the framers of our Constitution the ability to write a totally new Constitution. One that included modern advances in philosophical thought, psychological advances, with eyes wide open as to the the nature of government, it’s tendencies and written based on debate and discourse, rather than imposed by trickery or force of violence. The Framers examined the examples of ancient Greece and Rome, even considering mimicking the Roman system since it had lasted so long, but in the end, decided to write a brand new Constitution.

There have been many rationally formed government’s. In ancient Persia, after the Magi killed Cambyses and were exposed, they debated whether to try democracy, aristocracy or continue with monarchy. They decided on monarchy since it had worked so well with Cyrus the Great. So there have been many rationally formed governments even long ago. The idea of natural rights on the other hand, was new, and had only been born into being by John Locke. For the first time in human history, the conventional idea of the founders of a government believed that everyone had Rights that derived from God, or the Universe, that exist outside of human imposed government, both oppressive and lenient. The idea of the Individual as an autonomous self important person was born and writ into law.

Aristotle wrote, there are three “right” forms of government, three “wrong” forms of government and one “ideal” form. The three right forms, monarchy, aristocracy and polity, the wrong forms, tyranny, oligarchy and democracy, and the ideal form is a republic or blending of three forms. Montesquieu was an intellectual who looked into why governments fail. He noticed that the most common failure throughout human history was that they eventually became tyrannical. He also noticed that tyranny usually arose from the executive branch (Monarchical part). The executive abused his power to adjudicate law. Making law a means to oppress rather than normalize. So he removed adjudicating law from the executive to eliminate it’s ability to abuse that power, and the Framers embraced that wisdom.

The US Constitution is a document of profound intellect tempered with deep wisdom. It establishes that each of us, you, the guy down the road, the women hanging laundry and I, have intrinsic value based on Natural Rights. Our Constitution guarantees our natural Right to, free speech, freedom to keep and bare arms, freedom of religion, freedom in our person and papers as well as freehold land Rights. It limits the role, scope and power of the government strictly to those it actually enumerates, not what can be levered in by a clever twist of logic. Madison even saying explicitly in the Federalist Papers that what powers the Constitution does not give… it does not allow. The celebration of Independence Day is celebrating not just the declaration of independence but the advances of the Enlightenment as well.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Logical Inconsistencies of Socialism.

Posted on July 2, 2018 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, progressives, socialists, Marxists and charlatans, but I repeat myself… epitomize a total lack of consistency. They must because they are selling something they themselves would not want. Snake oil is not something the seller will use, nor sell someone he or she loves, it is for marks. To be consistent, for someone to believe in the institution of slavery, one must also be willing to be a slave. To say that one is above being a slave but others are not is a failure in their logic. Admittedly, a self serving, logical failure. The rank and file socialist might actually believe in what he or she is buying, drinking gallons of the stuff, but the people selling it to them know better, and plan on being at the top when utopia strikes. Like in Venezuela or North Korea.

Logic must be consistent. You cannot say that everything is made up of atoms… except blond hair. That doesn’t follow. Conservatives and libertarians are often attacked by progressives for a lack of consistency, “How can you be for the death penalty if you are pro life?” progressives will sneer. As they Ignore their inconsistency of being anti death penalty and pro abortion. Meanwhile, most true libertarians are pro life and anti death penalty. Because government is made up of human beings, and no human being can be fully trusted in every way, and in every circumstance, government cannot be fully trusted in every way, or in every circumstance, yet as progressives hold their fellow man in absolute disregard, they still argue that government is infallible, showing their inconsistency.

Socialism was founded on inconsistency. Rousseau lived as an aristocrat in the most hedonistic way possible, in a hedonistic time where socialists believed themselves God’s equal. He lived the polar opposite of a spartan utilitarian, yet he wrote vociferously about how much better government imposed egalitarianism would be for everyone. It would seem that Rousseau more hated the people he cavorted with than adored equality or outcome. To be consistent I must ask, why then did he live the life of Reilly… if he honestly believed the egalitarian one best? Because he was selling snake oil. The snake oil salesman doesn’t drink it himself! The snake oil of socialism, potentially fatal for large swaths of humanity, is very very profitable for the salesman.

Is the law consistently applied today? For law to be legitimate it must be consistently applied. No matter the victim or perpetrator’s station they both must be equal under the law. Yet today we see in the news daily, that some are above the law, some are subject to it and others are below it’s protections. Those of the progressive faction, that make the laws, can plead ignorance of them and have done so many times. Even as ignorance under the law is no excuse, for those of us not involved in their making. The secretary of state got away with a private server with top secret information on it, with minimal security, while a kid on a submarine took a selfie, and sent it to his girlfriend and went to Portsmouth for it. So, no, law is not consistently applied, it has become arbitrary.

We have shown the foundation of socialism is inconsistent, socialist theory is inconsistent and that theory applied, has led us to have an arbitrary legal system. The progressive faction must be inconsistent, because they are selling snake oil… and they know it. Which is one reason liberals are always on the attack. Progressives, like Obama, live the high life, while decrying it at the same time. Rubbing elbows with celebrities, as they secretly loathe them for their celebrity status… like Rousseau. Progressive leaders are of such low caliber, when in power, they abuse that power to their own selfish aims, even as they demand from everyone else, absolute fealty to their laws. They, by their actions, show themselves to be charlatans and hypocrites of the highest order.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Tolerating Political Violence

Posted on June 28, 2018 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, at this point we must ask ourselves, “How much political violence are we going to continue accepting from progressives and the left?” Everyone knows that almost all political violence comes from the left, actual violence, where someone gets injured not feelings hurt, because someone didn’t pay for your drug habit. People maintain the fiction that political violence from the right is just around the corner, but there hasn’t been a cross burning on a victim’s lawn for a long time, but there have been many riots where the rioters called for death to cops, smashed windows and pulled innocent drivers from their vehicles and beat them within an inch of their lives. Why is violence from the left tolerated, why are they so reliably violent and what is the goal of the violence?

If such actions were being done by right wing nuts, the media would whip society into a frenzy, yet they are silent as left wing nuts do it? The Main stream media, or legacy media has been thoroughly discredited, both by revelations by government and by their own actions. No one honestly believes the MSM that calls itself unbiased is in fact unbiased, it is very very slanted. The three corporations that own all the legacy media are run by new class progressives. Perhaps that is why the MSM called a bunch of geriatric people setting in lawn chairs with an American flag taped to the side, as they swilled soda and listened to speeches about the US Constitution… terrorists, violent fringe, Tea baggers and racists. The MSM tolerance of political violence is because of bias.

Socialism is at it’s foundation violent. You cannot take from one to give to another without taking. To say it’s voluntary is absurd. Is a robber violent when he puts a gun to your wife’s head and demands you “voluntarily” hand over your wallet? If the core of your philosophy itself, legitimizes violence, then why would you have any compunction about using violence to manipulate the political process anyway? That would be like an alcoholic avoiding beer to get some wine… that would come quicker if he drank the beer! Even a cursory glance at history shows that rioting in the street is the least of what you can expect if socialists get their greasy fingers on the levers of power. From Stalin’s purges and Mao’s famines to Venezuela today, the death toll goes up vertically once they are in power.

The goal of the violence is power, and power is maintained by violence. Progressives strongly believe in Mao’s words, “All political power comes from the barrel of a gun.” With that power they will be able to break a few eggs. The society they will create will be based on violence, legitimate authority only comes from willing and informed people, while illegitimate authority comes from violence. A good way to predict future actions is to look at past actions, in this case socialist actions, when they have come to power. On this count, history is unambiguous, every time socialism becomes the dominant political power, it crushes free speech, imposes ever more oppressive regulations, starves to death swaths of it’s population, and jails many of the survivors, while the political class live like kings.

So again, How much longer are we going to tolerate, from progressives, that which they would never tolerate from us, nor should they! Violence in the advancement of a political ideology is itself an indictment of that ideology. Our schools teach everything bad about the West and especially the US, but nothing at all about Stalin’s Gulags, the slaughter of the Kulaks, the Ukrainian famines, Mao’s Red Guard guilt in thirty million deaths or even Pol Pot’s Killing fields! Even the most progressive of our media, NPR, admits most political violence emanates from the left. Our progressive comedians, leaders, pundits and politicians openly call for violence and we just tolerate it. It’s time to stop tolerating violence… even when it comes from the left.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Turn Away From Hate and Violence

Posted on June 25, 2018 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, there are powerful, diabolical forces, conniving to create chaos and violence in the West. How do we know this? The world all around us tells us so. From obvious arbitrary rule to the entire fake news controversy, every input we receive from the culture, media and politics is towards violence, intolerance and willful ignorance. The trifecta that is efficient stupidity. Why is anyone surprised, when a culture, political discourse and media normalizes violence… then becomes violent? It is a trap that some powerful people have set for us. We can take the bait and act out our wrath, and we will have given them the excuse they want, to completely do away with our Constitution. Perhaps keeping it in name only to give some “legitimacy” to their usurpation.

These powerful diabolical forces have near monopolistic control of the legacy media, judiciary, universities, banks and culture. There are three corporations that own all the legacy media, while the public broadcasting network, is paid for by government. Everywhere you turn you get the same point of view, unless you change to alternative media, or foreign media, which is why the legacy media coined the term, “fake news.” To regain their monopoly to our minds. Our Universities have long since ceased graduating students, ready to compete and win in a market system, and instead producing angry Marxist ne’erdowells, intent on defecating where they eat. Our universities even openly call for the elimination of freedom of speech! The very foundation of the university system’s legitimacy!

The political faction under the control of these evil people uses violence and the threat of violence as a political tool… and the media who are also in the thrall of these powers, hide and misdirects the blame for it. Every mass shooting is immediately blamed on some right wing nutcase, until it is proven they were a left wing nutcase, after which the media that calls itself unbiased, drops the story, often without even a correction. The violence we see on college campuses against incorrect opinion is ignored. Meanwhile open calls for the murder of police by left wing, well financed groups, like ANTIFA and BLM is legal while the wrong Facebook post, that is both true and nonviolent, came land someone in prison in many European countries. The obvious incentive is to violence and away from peace.

The immediate goal is to sow such discord among us that we step into the trap and become violent ourselves. Diabolically powerful forces seek us to turn against each other. They use violence, heart rending pictures, arbitrary rule, openly detest our Constitution, and manipulate us in every way, to get us to split up… to fight, brother against brother, sister against sister and friend against friend. Why would I hate someone who I love… simply because they have a different opinion than I? Am I so childish, I cannot tolerate the opinion of another, even if I believe that opinion to be untrue, dangerous and offensive? Of course not. I am a mature adult human hearted person. I embrace the advance of the Enlightenment, and would rather have discourse than violence.

Armed with the ideals of Marx, the rationalism of Nietzsche, the insights of Freud and the cold calculating of Darwin, they believe the ends justify the means. To their ends, they will manipulate the religious to war, anger the peaceful to kill, converting our most noble emotions to evil, thereby making us their pawns. So I stand with all my brothers and sisters, together we stand against the violence that seeks to turn us against each other, the propaganda that intends us harm and the manipulations of psychopaths. Trust in each other, against everything the media, culture and government inculcate in us. Individually, each choosing what he or she believes is best, with tolerance and openness to reason, can we make this world better for every generation after us… or we can take the bait.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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PMP

Posted on June 23, 2018 by john

Please take a moment to consider this:

Pepin Magnetic Propulsion, (PMP) is an evolutionary inter planetary drive concept. Rather than accelerating on board matter, to “push” the ship by the Newtonian reaction, PMP would use magnetic fields, as a boat does oars, to propel the ship forward by pushing on the Sun’s solar wind. The upper limit of speeds that could be achieved are relativistic, because there are no moving parts, all the work is done by electronics and magnetic fields. One of the primary advantages of this concept is that propulsion could be constant half way to the destination, at which point the ship goes zero G for a moment as it turns, then decelerates the second half of the journey. This would cut down travel times and if the acceleration is sufficient can mitigate some of the effects of zero G. Another advantage to the PMP concept, is that the magnetic fields necessary to gather and accelerate solar wind would also dramatically lower the ionizing radiation load on the passengers, just as the Earth’s magnetic field shield’s it’s inhabitants. While the advantages are very real and very enticing, the technological advances needed to build such a system are large.
The first technological hurdle would be the magnetic field engineering:
To design and test a system, that both projects a magnetic field like an oar, and operates effectively as an oar, but on the solar wind has never been done. Although the solar wind is a wisp. Even if you could only grab a few dozen ionized hydrogen atoms hard enough, to accelerate them to a speed fast enough, that in and of itself would impart a fair amount of momentum, not due to the mass accelerated but the speed accelerated to. The closer to the speed of light particles could be accelerated to, the more efficient the drive would be. Perhaps a secondary magnetic filed could be focused to make a magnetic fulcrum… like an oarlock. Then even if coils were used to generate and move the primary field, the extended field beyond the secondary field’s fulcrum would be much faster. It might initially be the case, the PMP driven ship need be surrounded by a large cylindrical magnetic field reflector, several meters out… to improve the efficiency of the system. It would have it’s own engineering difficulties but might make the magnetic engineering much easier. There is the possibility that a type of oscillating “propeller” type of magnetic field may be the most efficient. By forcefully “knocking” solar wind, rather than gathering and accelerating it to high velocity, and extending much further out and so effecting much more solar wind, this system could be very efficient. Others will probably think of even more efficient ways to accomplish the magnetic field engineering.
The second technological hurdle would be generation of the enormous amounts of electricity it would take to operate such a system. While no propellant would be needed it would require electrical energy to generate the magnetic fields.
Nuclear reactors immediately jump to mind. The technology used in nuclear submarines is mature and safe. Since no propellant would need to be carried, only fuel for the reactor, the ship could operate for years, traveling from planet to planet, without needing to be refueled. Large fuel cells could be effective in that they would have the benefit of being fairly efficient and using hydrogen which will probably be available in orbit at sometime in the future. The technology is far from mature and would need further investment. Fusion would be ideal but is way too far in the future to be a possibility at this stage, heck, we
may get zero point energy first!
The third technological advance needed would be to protect the passengers from any negative effects of the magnetic fields:
Clearly, exposure to the extreme magnetic fields required to grab and accelerate solar wind sufficient to impart thrust, are not something that would be conducive to a long life. While this may seem like a daunting task we must remember that magnetic fields are easily manipulated, especially by ferrous objects. A thin skin of some strongly magnetic substance like neodymium, surrounding the passenger compartments, would possibly channel the fields safely away. While this approach would add mass to the ship, by becoming magnetized by the surrounding fields, it would be a very effective shield against solar eruptions. Perhaps the primary magnetic fields can be manipulated in such a way by the secondary’s that the passengers are not effected. This would be the most elegant approach, in that it would not add mass and suggests a much greater understanding of the technology.
The fourth engineering hurdle would be communication while the drive is active:
All radio communications would be negatively effected by such powerful magnetic fields. While the fields the ships’ passengers would be exposed to could be mitigated in a number of ways, communications to the outside world by radio would be next to impossible. Line of sight pulsed laser might be an alternative to radio while the drive is active. The technology is relatively mature in the fiber optic telecommunications industry and the crossover engineering should be minimal.
All other technologies required to build a strictly interplanetary craft utilizing PMP technology are in common with any other attempt to travel to another planet… while PMP would mitigate some of the most vexing. PMP would effectively stop the exposure to dangerous charged solar wind, if it can be made efficient enough to generate sufficient thrust, it would mitigate the negative effects of weightlessness on spacefarers, and any space ship constructed with this technology could be used to travel anywhere in the solar system… opening up the asteroids for mining, Mars for colonizing, the gas giants for exploration, the Kupier Belt for science and God knows what else.
Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Trump’s Space Force

Posted on June 20, 2018 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, Trump’s Space Force initiative has the potential to be genius, or the deep state could kill it. Opening space in such a way will have many effects, on our economy, our global situation, energy production, technology and humanity’s survival. Only Russia, China and the US will be in the space league, but very soon others will join, Japan probably, but not any EU nation or the EU as a whole. For the EU to compete would require a paradigm shift in their policies and governments. (Which may happen given recent election results). Even the scourge of drugs might be alleviated, by hope, hope for a brighter future such a program will breed in our youth. Those who seek the best for all of humanity will, or should support it, while those who seek one world government will despise it.

This space force initiative takes the focus off nuclear weapons, religious wars and simmering genocide and changes it to space. Like the cold war superseded local conflicts and national governments, a new space race will supersede other conflicts, short circuiting them. The “great powers” will turn from coveting cultivated land to uncultivated land. Much of the world’s violence is fueled by the attention it gets. Local violence wouldn’t get the eye balls it used to, nor the funding that attention pulls in, the world media would have a much bigger story to cover. Only those nations with a viable space program would have international standing. Military budgets therefore, would put less emphasis on build nuclear bombs and more on space ships… making us all safer.

Like the Moon shot before, such an initiative will give funding to basic science and technological advancement, and also like the Moon shot, will lead to economic opportunities and advancement of our standard of living. Of all the things government spends money on, only basic science and the space program have yielded tangible economic benefit, and therefore, were investments rather than squandering money. Basic science is crucial but expensive, and results in little immediate economic return, so companies will not do it in favor of more profitable enterprises, but the long term economic gain is incalculable. The integrated circuit chip is one advancement that we received largely from the Space program. Imagine how different our world would be today without them?

Fusion energy may be less than a decade away or it might be technologically unworkable, nevertheless, other perhaps more exotic means of generating energy will need to be devised. There is no air in space to burn fossil fuels, so that avenue is out, even on Mars. Solar or nuclear are the only alternatives today, but “necessity is the mother of invention,” so as the demand increases so too will the technology to meet that demand. Those technological advancements in producing energy will have direct applications here on Earth. While all my friends know, I am the antithesis of an environmentalist Marxist, such technologies will result in cleaner energy production here, making the planet cleaner as well. Moreover, cheaper, cleaner energy will further drive up the standard of living of the entire human race.

Given that the market system has the uncanny ability, not only to meet needs but to create new ones, is a strong indicator that these advancements will happen. There is however a powerful force that stands against such advancement. Globalists shudder at the thought of anyone getting off planet and out of their grip. They seek to make us ants, while a thriving space industry, growing in the loam of liassez faire will make us more individualistic. They control the media, academia, the bureaucracy, judiciary and congress as well as the entire structure of the EU. Peace, liberty and prosperity are diametrically opposed to their interests. Because war and want lead to autocracy, and it is world dictatorship they seek. So it may be genius or it may be for naught… depends if we, or the globalists win.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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What is Wisdom?

Posted on June 18, 2018 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me… wisdom is the effectiveness of our vastly simplified abstract mental constructs of the world around us. As we age we hone those mental constructs to be ever more effective at allowing us to efficiently navigate the world we find ourselves in. It is not possible to recognize, let alone understand, all the intricacies of the world, our mental facilities are just not up to the task. As a result we simplify the world around us so we can function in it. Which is why we make mental constructs of the world. We cannot roll every bit of information into our minds about a chair… let alone the complexity of a human being. Wisdom then, is the functionality of the mental constructs we create to make sense of an overly complex world, and allows us to operate in it.

A mental construct is a mental image we hold in our mind’s eye about everything that exists. When someone says “bulldozer,” we immediately create in our mind’s eye an image of a bulldozer. Perhaps a Caterpillar D9. We picture a machine with tracks and a blade that pushes dirt. To us then, a D9 is the epitome of what a bulldozer is. But that is a simplified version of a bulldozer. A bulldozer has an engine that is different with every incarnation of a bulldozer, it may or may not have tracks since some have steel tires, it could have a blade but some have buckets, it could run on diesel but some run on gasoline or it may or may not be covered in a canopy. The point is, we create a mental construct of every noun, verb, adjective or adverb we know. The accuracy of the image is less important than the utility of it.

Think about all the information that is your dog. We all think we know that furred little rascally angel laying on the floor sleeping it’s life away. How complex is a dog anyway? Very. A dog is the result of centuries of breeding, he or she has a unique personality, some have fur and others have hair, they could have fleas, intestinal parasites or dog flu. That dog on your floor that kisses your face in the morning is far more complex than your mental image of it suggests. Moreover, the utility of that mental image largely determines your interactions with it, for good or bad. If you believe your dog is friendly, but it is not and bites someone, that is a failure of your mental construct. If your mental construct of your own dog is lacking in some way, that mental image is not a help, but a detriment to your relationship with him or her.

If those constructs are effective, then we get along well in the world, and if they are not we flounder. When our mental constructs are effective, they help us navigate the world with little difficulty, but when they are lacking in some important way, they become a hindrance. We spend our lives honing our mental constructs to be ever more effective and accurate. That is why an older person usually has more wisdom than a younger person… they have had more time to sharpen their mental constructs. We can therefore say, wisdom is the effectiveness and accuracy of one’s mental images of the world around him or her. Intelligence then is clearly different from wisdom, in that intellect is the ability to manipulate objects and ideas in our mind, while wisdom is the accuracy of our idea of the world.

While intelligence is a good predictor of who will gain in wisdom as they age, it is not the primary one. Openness to ideas, control of one’s ego, situational awareness, etc… are more important when it comes to honing one’s wisdom. This is highlighted by the fact that many people with advanced PHD’s cannot hold down a job and flounder in real life. They may be the smartest person in the room but their mental constructs of the world are deficient. The difference is in the effectiveness of the mental constructs they create. So take a long hard look at your mental constructs of the world. Are they helping you get ahead, making your relationships better, do they keep you happy or make you depressed? If so, change or hold onto them, as their effectiveness dictates.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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