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2018-06-10 India-Pakistan
Islam vis-à-vis rat race of materialism
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Posted by Fred 2018-06-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ]  Top

#1 I had a post on facebook today about the political left and right loving entropy too. Just like this mullah seems to.

Here:

Regarding the upcomming North Korea - US summit in Singapore, I have been reading opinions from all over the planet. Yesterday I spent a lot of time reading Asian and South East Asian opinions. Over night I considered it a lot in context with US and EU editorials. I reached this well informed opinion and I hope my words don't upset some of you too much.
None of them have a FUCKING CLUE and they are just spouting BS from their stream of consciousness!
This is due to an incrementalism world view vs paradigm breakers world view. Most politicians and journalist are incrementalist and don't have a clue how to deal with new paradigms. Therefore, from that world view they are just against them. Socialism is in a sense no paradigm breaking permitted so the Left is totally against changes. The right is "don't rock the boat" so they are against new paradigms too.
Entrepreneurs exist by creating new paradigms. That's why politicians of all stripes hate them. But without them we are doomed to entropy as tweaking a steady state at most slows the descent into entropy.
Sadly, as an engineer, I am quite aware that entropy is a bad state to be in. Think dead battery, in a car with no gas, on an empty plain with no wrecker service, no traffic and no gas cans or stations.
Posted by 3dc 2018-06-10 00:33||   2018-06-10 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 re Korea - I wandered twitter links and places like asia times etc.. I was going to do a post with links in Rantburg but it got to cluttered and a cut/paste mess so I deleted it all. The Russian twitter links got quite interesting. I don't think it matters as they are all blind men trying to fathom an elephant.
BTW a core concept seems to be that a train link will go from Pusan all the way to China's New Silk Road and Russia's Trans-Siberian RR. All will be aiding NKor to develop with both South Korea and North Korea using this RR.

All other results drift into the author's fantasies. Nobody knows if the result will be positive. Also most don't seem to want it to succeed. That, in small part, because they will need to rethink their respective world views. And, they don't want to rethink their world views as it's painful for them.

Nobody seems to clue into Pakistan and Iran losing a deniable nuclear and missile testing ground.

If it has that positive result then the feet are cut out from under Iran's nuke program. That leaves the EU's moaning on a lost treaty just moaning...

If Trump is able to end the Korean War, then the incrementalists and their fellow politicians are going to need to switch to being paradigm breakers instead of incrementalists. Their world view will tank. When politicians worldviews tank they usually do too so expect major pushback from the do-nothings.

Trump is an entrepreneur hense a paradigm breaker..
So of course incrementalists will naturally hate him.

As the above article makes clear Islamists will hate him for the same reasons as socialists/democrats do.
Posted by 3dc 2018-06-10 00:45||   2018-06-10 00:45|| Front Page Top

#3 As to Iran's nuke testing.. losing NKor they could only test in Iran or Pakistan.

I suspect if another a/n bomb blows up in Pakistan all sorts of red lines of various countries and groups are crossed leading to lots of a/n bombs exploding all over Pakistan.

If they blow one up in an Iran test site I expect Saudi Arabia and Israel will have a quick joint expedition to Iran...

So if the N-Kor problem is solved its game over in the current environment for a TESTED Iranian bomb.
Posted by 3dc 2018-06-10 00:50||   2018-06-10 00:50|| Front Page Top

#4  Very good points, 3dc.
Posted by trailing wife 2018-06-10 07:28||   2018-06-10 07:28|| Front Page Top

#5 And that's why I have stayed in the 'burg since I first found it via Insty all these years ago.

3dc, I don't know if you're correct but you are certainly thorough, lucid and pointed. I doff my cap to you.
Posted by AlanC 2018-06-10 08:42||   2018-06-10 08:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Nobody seems to clue into Pakistan and Iran losing a deniable nuclear and missile testing ground.
Very cogent point, 3dc, thank you for the insight
Posted by magpie 2018-06-10 11:43||   2018-06-10 11:43|| Front Page Top

#7 And in the end there's entropic doom per laws of thermodynamics.
Posted by Glenmore 2018-06-10 19:26||   2018-06-10 19:26|| Front Page Top

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