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Military Park
Zumba, Yoga, T'ai Chi Kung, Cardio Classes with Mad Cool Fitness, Capoeira, Ping Pong, Lawn Games, and more.
Piano Music, Line Dancing, After Work Music, and Special Events
Chess, Checkers, and Board Games available every day.
Military Park Events
Interested in hosting a photo shoot, concert, picnic, game day, brand activation, experiential marketing, or other public or private event in the park? Please fill out this form or email email@example.com with any questions. Here's a map of the park to help you visualize the space.
About The Park
As the most significant historic park in downtown Newark, Military Park serves as the primary gathering space for surrounding businesses, residents, and visitors. Once taken as a symbol of urban decay, Military Park is now in the midst of a dramatic revitalization that will transform the park into a stunning, highly active space that will include a new restaurant, restrooms, beautiful gardens, and daily free programming from yoga and capoeira to outdoor concerts and games. The park will be privately operated and managed by a nonprofit corporation, the Military Park Partnership, which is staffed by Dan Biederman and Biederman Redevelopment Ventures, who transformed Manhattan's Bryant Park. The Military Park Partnership is currently managing the redesign, construction, and ongoing maintenance of the park.
Originally laid out in 1667 when the city was planned, the 6 acres of Military Park have witnessed a varied history. For the first 202 years of its life, the park functioned as a training ground for soldiers, serving as the camping site for George Washington's troops during the Revolutionary War retreat of 1776. It is storied that Thomas Paine also began writing the first lines of his essay "These are the Times that Try Men's Souls" in
The American Crisis
while camped here. Eventually in 1869, the park became the town commons and the site of several important monuments. In the southwestern part of the park stands the "Wars of America" bronze monument by Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore. The sculpture, erected in 1926, eight years after the end of World War I, features forty-two people and two horses and was intended to honor all of America's war victims. The sculpture was added to the National Register of Historic Places in October 1994. The sculpture also formed the base of a large concrete sword fountain built into the ground. At its tip, a bust of John F. Kennedy by Jacques Lipchitz was erected in 1965. Around the park also exists an old drinking fountain and statues of Frederick Frelinghuysen and Philip Kearny. Yet over time, the grandeur of Military Park slowly declined, and the site fell into disuse, becoming known for its dangerous and unsafe conditions that warded off visitors even during the best days of summer. Then in 2003, the tides began to turn for Military Park. Biederman Redevelopment Ventures, the group credited with energizing New York City's Bryant Park, was hired to analyze and make recommendations for the redesign and programming of Military Park, which included an analysis of existing conditions, recommendations for physical design changes and in-park programs, the preparation of expense and revenue budgets for the redeveloped park, and suggestions as to how to implement the plan. Beginning in February 2010, BRV began the process of implementing the proposed changes. With the MCJ-Amelior Foundation, the Prudential Foundation, and the City of Newark, BRV co-founded the Military Park Partnership, the nonprofit corporation created to develop and operate the revitalized Military Park. BRV assembled a design team and construction plans for the revitalization, and broke ground on May 28th of 2013. Construction is scheduled to be finished by fall, with new programs starting up in spring 2014.
MPP Board of Directors
Vaughn Crowe,
, Military Park Partnership, The MCJ Amelior Foundation Margaret Anadu, Goldman Sachs Miles Berger, The Berger Organization Samer Boraie, Boraie Development LLC Patrick Dunican, Gibbons P.C. Anzella King-Nelms, Trinity and St. Philips Cathedral Damon Rich, City of Newark Ommeed Sathe, Prudential John Schreiber, Theatre Square Development Corporation
Monument Restoration Appeal
"Wars of America"
Gutzon Borglum
(John) Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (March 25, 1867 – March 6, 1941) was a Danish-American artist and sculptor famous for creating the monumental presidents' heads at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, the famous carving on Stone Mountain near Atlanta (he later destroyed it in protest to the KKK's involvement), as well as other public works of art including a head of Abraham Lincoln, exhibited in Theodore Roosevelt's White House and held in the United States Capitol Crypt in Washington, D.C. "Wars of America" is a "colossal" bronze sculpture containing "forty-two humans and two horses". The sculpture sets on a base of granite from Stone Mountain. The sculpture was erected in 1926, eight years after World War I ended, but its intent was broadened to honor all of America's war dead. In describing it, Borglum said "The design represents a great spearhead. Upon the green field of this spearhead we have placed a Tudor sword, the hilt of which represents the American nation at a crisis, answering the call to arms." The "Wars of America" sculpture was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 1994.
To repair and clean; submit conservation report with photographic documentation; develop maintenance plan: $753,170.
"John F. Kennedy"
Jacques Lipchitz
Jacques Lipchitz (August 22, 1891 – May 16, 1973) was a Cubist sculptor. In the artistic communities of Montmartre and Montparnasse, he joined a group of artists that included Juan Gris and Pablo Picasso as well as where his friend, Modigliani, painted Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz. Living in this environment, Lipchitz soon began to create Cubist sculpture. In 1922 he was commissioned by the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania to execute five bas-reliefs. With artistic innovation at its height, in the 1920s he experimented with abstract forms he called transparent sculptures. Later he developed a more dynamic style, which he applied with telling effect to bronze compositions. The German occupation of France during World War II, and the deportation of Jews to the Nazi death camps, forced Lipchitz to flee France. With the assistance of the American journalist Varian Fry in Marseille, he escaped the Nazi regime and went to the United States.
To repair and clean; submit conservation report with photographic documentation; develop maintenance plan: $26,482. To support this work, donate here.
"Philip Kearny"
Henry Kirke Brown
Brown (February 24, 1814 – July 10, 1886) began to paint portraits while still a boy, studied painting in Boston under Chester Harding, learned a little about modeling, and in 1836-1839 spent his summers working as a railroad engineer to earn enough to enable him to study further. He spent four years in Italy; but was never dominated, as were so many of the early American sculptors, by Italian influence. His equestrian statues are excellent, notably that of George Washington (1856) in Union Square, New York City, which was the second equestrian statue made in the United States, following by three years that of Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C. by Clark Mills (1815–1883), and of Brevet Lt. General Winfield Scott (1874) in Washington, D.C.. Brown was one of the first in America to cast his own bronzes. In 1847, Brown was elected into the National Academy of Design. Among his other works are: Abraham Lincoln (Union Square, New York City); Nathanael Greene, George Clinton, Philip Kearny, and Richard Stockton (all in the National Statuary Hall, United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.); and De Witt Clinton and The Angel of the Resurrection, both in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. DeWitt Clinton was the first American full-length sculpture cast in a single piece.
To repair and clean; submit conservation report with photographic documentation; develop maintenance plan: $29,920.
"Frederick Frelinghuysen"
Karl Gerhardt
Gerhardt (January 7, 1853 - May 7, 1940) attended Phillips School in Boston. In 1874, he went to California. By 1880, he had returned east to Hartford, and was married to Harriet Josephine Gerhardt, who came from Dalton, Massachusetts. He worked for a time as chief machinist at the Pratt and Whitney Machine Tool Company in Hartford and pursued sculpting in his leisure hours. He was so successful at sculpting, that in 1881 Mark Twain financed a trip to study in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts.
To repair and clean; submit conservation report with photographic documentation; develop maintenance plan: $42,710.
Media Coverage
One-on-One with Steve Adubato Ep. 291
October 22, 2014
Triple Play: Berger on ways the park transformation is benefiting downtown Newark
October 19, 2014
Newark Is Actually Quite Friendly, Say Its Residents
September 18, 2014
Conde Nast: Okay, Newark is friendly after all
September 18, 2014
"New" Military Park transforming a Newark neighborhood
September 2, 2014
Going Great Guns
August 18, 2014
In Newark, a campaign to restore Military Park monuments
August 10, 2014
Web Extra: A Poem from the Park
August 1, 2014
Award-winning Jersey City restaurant owners to open 'BURGer' eatery in Newark
July 28, 2014
Parkgoers at Military Park in Newark treated to poetry through Lunchtime Poems series
July 24, 2014
Military Park: A Catalyst for Newark's Renaissance
July 23, 2014
Newark's Military Park Expands Summer Event Calendar
June 25, 2014
Weekly 'Guard d'Avant' music festival to begin July 2 in Military Park
June 20, 2014
It's Now Official Military Park Open to the Public
June 17, 2014
Newark feels its new park will spur new development
June 16, 2014
After $3M facelift, Newark's Military Park is the center of splendor
June 13, 2014
Military Park opens with music, politicians' praise
June 13, 2014
Newark's Military Park Rededicated
June 13, 2014
Ongoing support from Newark business leaders key to Military Park's future, board member says
June 9, 2014
Military Park Makeover
June 6, 2014
Military Park Renovations
June 3, 2014
Newark's Military Park Makeover Attracts New Visitors
May 26, 2014
A Walk in the Park
May 23, 2014
Exploring Cafes and Culture in Downtown Newark
May 21, 2014
Behind Reborn Newark Oasis Stands a 'Park Whisperer'
May 16, 2014
Newly Renovated Military Park Reopens
May 16, 2014
They built it. Will you come? Planners of reimagined Military Park planted lots of flowers. Now they want to plant people.
May 15, 2014
As Military Park reopens, developers talk challenges and changes
May 13, 2014
Maritime hopes to 'break mold' in Newark
December 27, 2013
Meet Dan Biederman, the guru of urban redevelopment, as he talks about bringing the Bryant Park model to Military Park in Newark
December 23, 2013
Military Park: The History and its Future
December 9, 2013
Historic Newark Park to Ink Deal for a Restaurant
December 4, 2013
Newark's Re-Designed Military Park Names Chef for New Restaurant
December 4, 2013
Newark's historic Military Park undergoing a revival benefiting surrounding businesses and college students
August 13, 2013
Construction under way for Newark's new Military Park
May 28, 2013
Ground Breaks on Military Park Project
May 28, 2013
Military Park Poised for a Makeover of Epic Proportion
February 27, 2013
Revival Is Planned for a Derelict Downtown Newark Park
February 5, 2013
Public-Private Partnership to Revitalize Newark's Military Park
October 24, 2012
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Edward, the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) arrived in Victoria on 2 April 1920 representing his father, King George V, to thank Australians for the part they played in World War 1.
During his visit to Australia, the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales at the ceremony held on 23 June 1920 in the Great Hall.
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5K walk and morning of fun, with or without your dog
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Conservatives win elections by running on and standing firm on their Conservative principles. Newt Gingrich has an undeniable ability to articulate the Conservative view better than anyone. Newt will take Obama to the proverbial woodshed in any debate, on any issue, at any time. Besides, he has the most feasible, well thought-out plans of all the candidates to begin turning our great country around to recovery, prosperity, security, and back to our roots as intended by our founding fathers.
But don't take my word for it. Go to www.Newt.org, see for yourself, do more research, then make your decision.
99% of the comments made on Newt Gingrich are inaccurate to put it nicely! Find the truth here.... http://www.newt.org/answers/
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Cook: Tuesday isn't so super with Shrek and Newt Gingrich
"It ought to be unfair to the quarterbacks, as presidential candidates should be the best and brightest among us." I'll put Newt's IQ up against anyone's, yours included David! Newt has the proven sucessful experience we need to lead our country at this point in our history. He is a great thinker with bold ideas, and has proven he can convert these ideas into real working solutions, contrary to the inaccurate charges stating otherwise from his past disgruntled colleagues whom he had to take on in some issues, as well as the Republican establishment and pundits. And David, your comment "But looking at the primary ballot is like walking by a mirror, expecting to see a version of yourself, and instead seeing Shrek staring back. Or a Newt." is just childish and condescending.
Rick Santorum leading Barack Obama in crucial swing states
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And this info! •Santorum voted in 1997 to support the Lautenberg Gun Ban, "which stripped law-abiding gun owners of their Second Amendment rights for life, simply because they spanked their children or did nothing more than grab a spouse's wrist," according to a press release from Dudley Brown, executive director of the National Association for Gun Rights. •Santorum voted in 1999 for a bill "disguised as an attempt to increase penalties on drug traffickers with guns … but it also included a provision to require federal background checks at gun shows," again according to Dudley Brown's release. •Santorum "came to anti-gun Arlen Specter's defense in 2004 when he was down in the polls against pro-gun Republican Pat Toomey. Specter won and continued to push for gun control during his years in the Senate," per Brown. •Santorum voted with Barbara Boxer in 2005 on the Gun Lock Requirement Amendment •Santorum voted for the Firearms Manufacturers Protection Bill and then flip-flopped and voted against it in S 1805 – Firearms Manufacturers Protection Bill •Santorum voted against HR 2356 – Campaign Reform Act of 2001 •Santorum voted for an amendment to the Communications Act of 1934 that requires television broadcast providers to give their lowest rates to political candidates. •Santorum voted for HR 1 – No Child Left Behind Act •Santorum sponsored legislation to force companies to pay laid off workers benefits. •Santorum worked for an increase in funding big government programs like Head Start. •Santorum voted for taxpayer money to go to Pennsylvania families for their heating bills. •Santorum introduced and co-sponsored big government health-care bills. •Santorum voted for HR 796 – the protection of abortion clinics •Santorum actively supports the Global Fund, which was created by the United Nations to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, but also "channels a large portion of its funds through Planned Parenthood's affiliates around the world and through a British group Marie Stopes International (the largest chain of abortion mills in the UK, with 66,000 abortions a year.)… to operate in Cambodia, Fiji, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Burma, Kenya, Tanzania, and other countries," according to the pro-life Gerard Health Foundation that provides millions of dollars to pro-life groups. •Santorum boasted of teaming up with Joe Lieberman, Barbara Boxer and Hillary Clinton in his 2006 political ad for re-election to the U.S. Senate, which he lost to Democrat Bob Casey Jr. by the largest margin of victory ever for a Democratic Senate nominee in Pennsylvania and the largest margin of victory for a Senate challenger in the 2006 elections. •Santorum opposed the tea party and its reforms in the Republican Party and conservative movement just a couple years ago saying, "I have some real concerns about this movement within the Republican party … to sort of refashion conservatism. And I will vocally and publicly oppose it."
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At the beginning of this semester in House of Wits, I was amazed by how struck I was by Alice James' diary. I immediately felt an inexplicable affinity with Alice, her commonplace book-cum-diary, and her infectious use of language. It was one of the first times that I explicitly recall feeling such camaraderie with an author, let alone one who penned her only published work (excluding her letters) nearly 120 years ago.
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Pick up a newspaper, and you will discover an amazing thing: we are living in the future. The for-real future of jet-packs, ray-guns, and mind reading. Our revolutionary imaging technology can determine what memories you are accessing, what shapes you are seeing, the degree to which a decade of happy hour has smoothed your prefrontal cortex, and whether or not you associate the face of John Edwards with a particularly debauched collection of short stories. So it would seem, anyway.
For this project, I took one of what Gertrude Stein calls her "plays," and considered what would happen if I were to try to stage and direct it. After reading through it, I attempted to break it down into characters, lines, and to imagine a setting in which it would logically take place.
But first, let's look at "Captain Walter Arnold" just the way Gertrude Stein wrote it, without any additional directions from me.
Captain Walter Arnold
By Gertrude Stein
Do you mean to please me.
I do.
Do you have any doubt of the value of food and water.
I have not.
Can you recollect any example of easy repetition.
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I shrug. "OK."
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I think it would be an interesting idea for us to study serial fiction as a genre.
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Monday, October 13, 2014
Populations in States of Strategic Fear
(Please, read the previous essay, Fear as Adaptive Device…, before reading this one.)
While our experience of life in the present world says otherwise, human societies are very unnatural structures. We talk of nations, religions, mega-corporations and other vast collectives as though they have substantial existence and understandable definition; they do not. In another of the many paradoxes that attend our present "realities", the bigger and more complex the structures of our organization, the simpler, more primal and less generally adaptive must be the principles holding those organizations together – the less full human expression and experience can be manifest in them. These large collectives are organized around single emotional/behavioral states like greed, fear, and illusory wellbeing; whole societies can be characterized by the primary emotion of their structure. [1]
It would seem that this should make social collectives understandable and give them substance, but no; each individual unit, the human animal, that makes them up has all the complexities of the evolved species and, thus, is both diminished by the acts that fit them to their society and floundering in their struggles with the unavoidable demands of their biological complexity. Ultimately, a huge collective must adapt to being organized around some powerful biological/emotional element that has predictable consequences on the collective's participants: that emotion is almost always fear; just as, it was said, 'all roads lead to Rome,' all large-scale social organizations have adopted fear as the central principle.
This has been going on for a very long time, for as long as human social collectives have been numbered in the thousands or more. Fear-based social organization is so ubiquitous, and our projection of fear-based processes onto the world beyond the social is so complete, that it is almost impossible to realize another option.
Wellbeing is the other option, but because wellbeing is based in a gestalt of needs satisfied, the structural principles are diametrically antithetical to fear-based societies; there is no paradigm of transition from fear to wellbeing in the structure of large collectives even though these two conditions are (were) completely mutually supporting in their origins. How to deconstruct, then reconstruct those relationships and apply them to larger social organizations than the tribal communities of our origins will be the measure of our future as a species.
First, fear-based societies: How is a fear-based society recognized? It is simple; make a list of what you are afraid of. Here is a sample: crime, being cheated, losing a job, being slandered, being devalued, the power of authority, police, taxing agencies, other drivers on the road, the anger (really the fear) of others, disease, costs of medical and legal services, lack of accurate information, strangers, the "enemy," loss of freedom, economic or social collapse, people who believe differently, people who don't like you, environmental collapse, random violence, sexual perversions, God's wrath, the elderly, the young, the future and all the specifics and variations that can be made of these.
Such societies tend to have a fear du jour. The habit of fear makes this a simple process. In fact, without a fear of the day the free-floating fear state would not have a ready reference, and could become dangerous to the economic and political elites that use fear as a controlling principle since the focus of 'national' anxiety might turn on the, actually, easily observable, dangerous actions of the elites.
Now make a list of how society supports your sense of wellbeing. This is a more difficult list; don't let it be only a list of how fears are limited or relieved (see the footnotes). Here is a hypothetical example: my neighbors and I share resources so that no one is forced to face dangers alone; I can express my ideas and concerns freely knowing that I will be heard with respect; the principles and forces of social order are designed to respond to my interests, not to enforce my obedience to some arbitrary standards: Since we live in a fear-based society, these are more wishes than statements of our condition!
I leave it to the reader to fill in specific examples of how the fence lines and corrals of fear control daily movements and actions, for both themselves and for the sub-communities of which they are a part. But these will most likely involve money, credit, social prestige, loss of material standards of living, militarized authority and an amorphous physical fear of the desires and powers attributed to "others" beyond our immediate experience. The sense of wellbeing will come from close association with trusted friends and from illusions of protection supplied by religious and related pathologies. [2]
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In modern societies only human action seems significant; biophysical processes are seen (if they are realized at all) as substrate conditions upon which "real life" occurs or inconveniences to be overcome. This is amplified by the fact that many real dangers do come from the effects of our human numbers, the design of our economics and vast influences of our technologies. But, even though these dangers are certainly real, the use of strategic fear by economic and political elites has been to increase them rather to diminish them. In other words, the fears of the general society are used to make societies more dangerous rather than less.
This last has been, until now, very difficult to see from the position of the so-called middle class societies of North America and Europe. These centers of illusory wellbeing were organized around the relief of fear, not genuine wellbeing; and we are beginning to see how easily the transition is made to the direct use of fear in those societies as the power elites move to globalized control of populations and resources.
There are primarily two real dangers to fear, and to act on in the natural pattern of this essential emotion: (1) the disruption of the biophysical systems that allow complex life to exist and (2) the insanity of a power elite that works assiduously to maintain their authority and their incredible excesses of resource use. The plethora of dangers we are told to fear – the fears du jour – focus our attentions in the wrong direction, with purpose. We must find our sense of real wellbeing in supportive community, refuse the strategic fears delivered to control us and realize the real dangers from the power elite and the destruction of environment (the two are closely connected).
The redirecting of fear is itself frightening – changing old habits of such great consequence – but it is beginning; one need only look to the real attitudes of your neighbors and friends. And since the refocusing of attention is beginning we can expect the quality of the dangers served up to us to increase, both in illusion and reality. But, the nakedness of the attempts to control societies by fear will only become more and more obvious as the dangers are made more and more real.
[1] Fear and wellbeing are primal motivational (emotional) states; temporary relief from fear is not wellbeing, though it has come to be seen so. The full emotional state of wellbeing has become rare. Greed is the infantilization of the normal developmental process, an emotional neotony.
[2] Religious behavior has not always been pathological, though it has always been illusory. When humans lived in intimate contact with biophysical reality, the details of which were beyond their understanding, adaptive processes adjusted behaviors to function effectively. Explanations for the behaviors were most often fantastical, both because detailed understanding wasn't possible from the existing knowledge base and because the fantastic could have poetic power. In today's world, religions are madness driven by biological impulses with only circular self-referencing as guide; they are a perfect vehicle for the delivery of illusory fear and illusory wellbeing – the very essence of strategic fear.
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Fear as Adaptive Device and Political Instrument
Preamble: In today's world we identify a variety of "primary" emotions, and many shades of the primary ones. We even lay out an emotion wheel like a color wheel and sometimes bend the wheel into a cone to model both the quality and quantity of emotion. But like the color wheel there are basically two forms of emotion just as there are warm and cool colors: the emotions of approach/attraction and the emotions of avoidance/rejection – this is how we live, how life functions; we try to move toward objects and situations that benefit the living condition and try to move away from (or remove) objects and situations that endanger the living condition: the rest is enigmatic detail. The primary emotion of approach is a feeling of wellbeing. The primary emotion of avoidance is fear. And just as successfully negotiating an approach can morph into whole varieties of related feelings, situations that first and foremost begin with fear tumble through a number of related states depending on how events progress.
Human bodies do not bring the whole profusion of emotional states into the world, rather we bring relatively simple patterns of motivated approach and motivated avoidance to the new complexities of "modern" life; it is these complexities that organize our basic emotional simplicities into the apparent patterns of emotional expression exhibited today. Emotions have always been the interaction of a few physiological states with a variety of environmental events; the formation of emotional states without immediate and clear environmental referents is, at base, destructive and pathological.
There is slow fear and there is fast fear. There is unforeseen fear and there is strategic fear. Yet, all move in the body and mind similarly, through the basic design of this physiological 'emotional' state. Fear is simply the organizing force and design of the body, mental processes and (for social animals) community for response to potential damage. Danger that has no premonition only has consequences: a floor collapses from under you and you control your fall as best you can; "fear" comes later.
Slow fear and fast fear are part of our evolutionary history. Dangerous animals, plants and situations are in the world – dangerous meaning that animals and plants are either adept at protecting themselves or are adept as predators, and that physical forces, like gravity or lightening, can create harmful situations. Slow fear mediated caution and fast fear organized immediate personal and social action, importantly, (almost always) in response to real dangers.
Unforeseen fear and strategic fear are largely new, meaning that these origins of physiological fear states were not a significant part of the evolution of the fear response. Having a deep and intimate knowledge of one's environment and the highly probable patterns of life obviates unforeseen fear, and the "all for one and one for all" adaptive structure of hominin tribal communities greatly limited strategic fear as a social device.
The balance of reality based fears, formed from recognizable environmental sources, to undefined fears has been turned on its head. There are few occasions today of environmentally perceived slow fears organizing caution within a community, rather amorphous states of fear predominate for which no meaningful action is generally recognized as effective. Fast fears have few predicable sources and few appropriate responses – often the most effective response is to be unafraid; not an especially natural response. "All we have to fear is fear itself," is a recognition of the existence of strategic fear.
A major consequence of this is that fear has gotten a bad name. Environmentally based slow and fast fears are perfectly fine emotions, tuned to the conditions and occasions of 'normal' life. This is so true that many people would not even call much of what is motivated by fear in these originating forms as fear at all. More and more today the idea of and word fear is restricted to the "unnatural" fears, unforeseen and strategic; we are afraid of what we do not know, what we cannot see coming and what we are told to be afraid of. Just how unhealthy this is for individuals and societies is increasingly clear.
Physiologically, fear is not designed to be a constant condition, but rather a transitional state that motivates action and, thus, dissipates the fear response through adaptive behaviors. Two examples: (1) Slow fear: I learned as a small child to walk in the swamps and palmetto/pine barrens of central Florida with great caution; there be dangerous snakes in remarkable abundance! And yet, I, and my friends, walked and played there with ease. A tiny rush of cautionary fear would color the moment if the ground could not be seen ahead of the next step forward, and immediately and completely dissipated when a palm leaf was moved or other action was taken to disclose the area around the advancing footfall. (2) Fast fear: I once surprised a sleeping mountain lion in the New Mexico wilds, both of us on foot. The quality of my attention and speed of thought was pushed up at least an order of magnitude for the ½ an hour or so that the lion and I played primal tag through the juniper/piñon woodlands. By the time it quit following me – when the ground cover became more open – I was spent; all that was left was exhilaration, and I had never felt any emotion that I had previously known by the name of fear.
Unforeseen fears are things like the random acts of "violence" for which no meaningful precautions can be taken; it is especially these fears that are useful strategically.
The essence of strategic fear is not that nothing can be done, but that 'you' can do nothing while some 'other' can mitigate the danger. This is a most unnatural condition; living things have always had the tools to take on environmental realities, individually or as social collectives and, when as social collectives, individuals were full partners in the responses to the dangers. This is obvious from the simple fact that living things exist as individual phenotypic representatives of their genotype (think it through)! Unforeseen and strategic fear pervert this 4 billion year old reality.
The essence, therefore, of strategic fear is the separation of individuals from the information needed to evaluate and prepare for dangers. This allows two options to those who position themselves to use the fear response of others for their advantage (the nature of strategic fear). The first is to control information about real situations and the second is to manufacture dangers that do not exist in reality.
There is simply no natural reason that the realities of the situations that we face cannot be made clear to all the participants in society – the only reason is that strategic fear is so useful to a select few. If the people cannot act individually and as communities on the actual slow and fast dangers that face us, as individuals and communities, then there will be no future.
(The next essay soon to come: populations in states of strategic fear vs. populations in states of wellbeing.)
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Saturday, October 4, 2014
Which Way the Wind Blows
If you have ever driven across western Oklahoma, you may have noticed a strangely disconcerting habit of the trees: they grow bent toward the east. At first you may notice three or four trees, all bent in the same way, exciting the question of why a farmer would plant them and shape them that way; then begins to resolve the recognition: all the trees are bent, single trees, sparse groups of trees around abandoned farm houses, shrubby wind-breaks around tenacious inhabited homesteads, all bent toward the east.
From the wind tunnel tested quietness of an air-conditioned car zipping along I-40 at 70 miles per hour these trees are an enigma. If, however, you stop and get out of the insulated travel contrivance, the solution becomes clear. The wind blows from the west constantly. Not just a breeze, rather an almost constant strong wind; it is said to have driven people mad, and it does bend the trees, not just for the moment, but actually grows them to fit its unseen presence.
Billions of tons of air, moving relentlessly over the ground at 10 to 30 miles an hour (and at times gusting to higher speeds) shapes the new growth twigs, the twigs grow into limbs, the limbs become the secondary trunks and all bend to the direction of the wind. Where does the wind come from – this universally shaping presence?
It must come from some place or process beyond our common understanding. It is not random; it does not relax. Some force creates and sustains it, but that force cannot be seen on the far horizon; from there, there is just more wind. Travelling west into Texas, and then into New Mexico, there is only more wind.
Study will supply an answer; the shape of the ground and motion of the earth, the heating and cooling of land, water and atmosphere, the latitude in relation to the jet-stream – nothing that can be seen from living on the ground in western Oklahoma. But, the effect is clear from the ground: a steady unrelenting force that chances the world by its constant shaping influences on everyday events.
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I think it no coincidence that the Koch family is from this part of the country. Just as the wind shapes the trees, the visual and visceral metaphor of unrelenting pressure shaping life is as constant as the wind. Add to this metaphor the power of wealth, wealth in such amounts that can it act like solar energy exciting the atmosphere, and the conditions are ripe for a political/economic wind bending the actions of politicians and the attitudes of the people.
Understand, the trees are growing in their normal response to gravity; they "think" (in the genetic ways that trees think!) that they are growing straight and tall. They are only bent relative to an objective notion of vertical. The constancy of the wind bends all of the trees and so they are all normal within their space.
For someone born in Sayre or Hobart, someone who has never left the place – like someone who has never had their views broadened by questions that challenge their parochial values and understandings – straight growing trees would be unusual and disconcerting. How is one to understand that the winds may stop, may blow from the east or north or south. How is one to understand that Christianity does not support Libertarianism, that wealth is not a measure of God's favor, when that is how the wind blows from every radio every hour of every day. People bend to the wind too.
The wealth of the Koch family, and a few others, is so vast that it has become like the motion of the earth, like the jet stream, like the radiant heat of the sun and is driving the political and economic winds; bending all before it. The bending has come to be accepted as normal; growing straight is becoming the unacceptably aberrant. Billions of dollars concentrated by the interests of small groups bend the headlines of news stories. The editorial writers for newspapers bend in the wind. Voters' ballots are scattered by the wind in predictable directions. School boards, city councils, state legislatures, Governors, national representatives, all levels of jurists, presidents all bend to the unrelenting movement of the money power blowing over and around them.
What is the substance and source of this "wind?" What gives it a consistent direction? And, what is its history as a force? These are basically "meteorological" questions: such questions are answered by the accumulation of myriad details, organized into patterns of influence so that, we learn, a dropping barometric pressure presages a storm; changes in humidity and temperature, direction of wind, ocean surface temperature and a dozen other variables predict weather over the next few days – and, properly modeled and understood, predict climate over the next 10s and 100s of years.
The study of these economic and political winds is contained in the details of our history; it is abundantly clear. However, in a perversity common to many human behaviors, the prevailing forces actively bend these understandings to the benefit of narrow, but powerful, interests. For example: the details of economic analysis make clear (clear as the fact that high humidity is a presage of rain) that, in the present western economic model, progressive taxation with a 50% or greater taxation rate for high incomes results in greater economic stability, reduced poverty and generally healthier society. But this 'obvious' conclusion must be blown into a new shape, otherwise, the power of wind generation is reduced. When taxation is less progressive, when rates are low for those who have found a way to accumulate abundance from the society's economic activity, economic power is concentrated and winds blow hard with the constant bending of all the activities of society.
If all the activities of society are bent by the economic and political winds, seeing and understanding how the world might form without those forces becomes very difficult, and impossible for most people who must go out into those winds every day. But, if it is realized that the force of these economic and political winds are coming from a condition over which the people have power, that collectively we can change the humidity of money power, change the barometric pressure of political interest, then the forces that bend our every experience of life can be reduced from hurricane and tornado levels, can allow more local, benign and comprehensible influences.
It becomes, therefore, a direction of the constant and bending wind toward those sources of influence that might inhibit them: education, organized society (meaning the organizing of labor since almost all of society 'works' for a living), the fecundity of women (a condition that inherently rejects the bending of their children's lives), common leisure from which experience of and desire for 'straight growing' might develop, the physical commons from which the people might have experiences free of the prevailing winds, social safety nets and health care from which the people might acquire the courage and strength to bend back against the wind. And finally all the minor tempests that swirl and buffet the society into confusion whenever it appears that some organized experience of the prevailing winds might be coming clear to a significant segment of the people.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014
More on Conservatism and Liberalism
Preamble: Focus on the details of current events without some general principles to organize our thinking leads only to greater confusion and less clarity. Assad, ISIS (ISIL), Sunni, Shia, rebels, insurgents: even when honestly attempted, these are still descriptions of a stirred ant-nest. The same can be said for fracking, carbon tax, sequestration, climate deniers… or for any other of the contentious concerns that profligate humans have stirred up. We are certainly complex, but we are still only an animal born of the evolutionary processes by which every other organism has come to the world; and we are understandable when we can see our actions from an appropriate perspective.
Broadly, there are two forms of what is conflated together as politically conservative. It is no accident that such a conflation has occurred; one form is parasitizing the other. Historically, political conservatism may be understood from its dictionary definition: holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics or religion.
This form of conservatism has a long and essential history in the human social process. The tension between traditional attitudes and values (implying those values that have been adaptively efficacious) and new attitudes and values (implying those values that are in the process of adapting to changing environmental and social conditions) is the primary means by which effective human action is arrived at. Those people who are constitutionally conservative, in principled opposition with those people are constitutionally liberal [1], serve the body of the community by keeping the focus on what has worked well in the past (a good, but imperfect, predictor of what will work in the future) while novel solutions to new situations and problems are being presented and tested – solutions that may lead to success or to failure.
Obviously, this only works in a community structure where these two ways of generating responses are realized as equally valuable by the community as a whole, a generally conservative position in itself. Novel approaches are allowed their opportunities within the framework of established principles. Long working designs are not discarded easily; new designs for actions (beliefs, attitudes and values) must prove themselves and are given the chance to do so.
However, such a benign presentation should not hide the fact there can be considerable tension between these quite different ways of looking at the world. New attitudes challenge tradition; new forms of action advantage new constituencies and often disadvantage established ones. The leveling force is the main body of the community and its "conservative" position that all factions have a say, that new situations sometimes call for novel solutions and that proof of new options be given a chance, but in the context of established "reality."
This has worked very well over much of human history to both allow for adaptive change and to keep the pace and variety of change within the comprehensions of the community. Seen with perspective, neither the conservative or the liberal position is correct, nor should they be; the function of such a design is to keep the human community well adapted to the surrounding world as that world changes.
There are two elements that have come to torture this design, essentially, beyond recognition, and are presaged in the above: the advantage shifting of change and the effect of the rate of change on the comprehensions of the community. The leveling force of the community depends on change not disrupting too dramatically established hierarchies of influence and not occurring so rapidly that efficacious adaptive responses cannot form. And so, because human populations and technical development have been increasing exponentially, the leveling force of native community conservatism has been lost from the adaptive process. [2]
We have certainly not stopped adapting, but have, for a few thousand years, been changing faster and faster with greater and greater disruption of hierarchical structures and community comprehensions of our place in the world. This leads to a distortion of the natural conservative position and the natural liberal position; both of them entrenching into their own sub-communities.
When people with no real dedication to either the principled conservative position or the principled liberal position, but with only advantage seeking as a goal, pursue their interests in an environment largely free of a comprehending community, they are free to pick and choose those aspects of the adaptive process from which they can gain. And while both conservatism and liberalism offer advantage seekers opportunities, it is the natural conservatism of the community (even in its lack of real comprehension – especially in its lack of comprehension) to which advantage seekers most often appeal.
Remember, conservatism is about continuity, maintaining hierarchy and seemingly successful adaptive designs. Liberalism is about novel and almost always untried solutions to real problems that, many times, the community has not yet clearly identified. And when changes in physical and social environments are coming faster than can be incorporated into the community's adaptive processes, advantage seekers can offer the community simplified "think-tank comprehensions" about which the community can become "conservative," thereby favoring those who present themselves as like-minded.
These advantage seekers are the second form of what has, today, been conflated with the principled conservative position. This has gone so far as to redefine conservative in such a way that the principled conservative position (which would reject raw advantage seeking) is increasingly denied as a worthy value. Imagine, as in a sci-fi film, a human body being invaded by an alien form and taken over while continuing to have the appearance of the original person. [3]
Of course, the advantage seekers have not avoided liberalism, leaving it to remain in its original principled form. Novelty creation has been co-opted, offering the ordinary as "new, bigger and better." The "individual" effort of novel solution-seeking has been perverted as the "freedom to seek personal advantage," free of biophysical and social restraints: the Libertarian infantilization of community values. But, these are only local co-optations, liberalism's evidence based problem recognition and solution seeking may meet the advantage seekers goals in technical pursuits, but not in social and political realms. "Liberal" education and devotion to evidence based, scientific process, understanding do not serve well the advantage seeker; too many questions are created for which the "new" conservatism has only, fairly obviously, self-serving answers. (see Conservatism's Yellow Brick Road for more on this issue,)
[1] Of course, these broad habits of process don't exist in a pure form within a person; each person contains elements of both, and could not live in the world successfully otherwise. The difference is that, on balance, one person will generally approach daily events by calling on socially agreed behaviors and attitudes while another person will see each event as potentially unique, calling for specially discovered behaviors and values. Intelligence in the first case is used to justify the existing models even as they fit less well and intelligence in the second case is used to fit new solutions to events.
[2] Once community is effectively removed as a central principle of design, only advantage seeking is left as an ordering principle. It must be clear in attempting to use advantage seeking as a way to defeat advantage seeking, it is this model that has been used to replace the force of the community, that it will always be turned against any resurgence of community principles. Community values and advantage seeking are antithetical.
[3] If we follow this analogy more fully, it is clear that for such a total takeover the very DNA of the original person would have to be selectively denied expression or rewritten along with existing learned motivational designs. Similarly, the basic biological designs of human community must be crippled for advantage seeking to replace human communion.
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Is the Internet a fad?
This 1995 Newsweek article (via The Big Lead) on the future impact of the Internet is so hilariously wrong it almost seems fake.
Good thing I never was stupid enough to write an article detailing what I was thinking and saying about the Internet at the time: fad!
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151 thatguythere 47, Sat, 14th Jan '12 1:37:44 PM from Masyaf
MentorIt wouldn't have been too hard to just put a message in "This is your last chance to do anything before the ending"
152 Spirit, Sat, 14th Jan '12 1:57:28 PM from America Relationship Status: Hooked on a feeling
Scumbag LeeThat, and it's a stretch to see 121 days left and realize the point of no return is right around the corner.
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Just played the game through, and I enjoyed it. Fortunately, I managed to avoid the hype, and inadvertedly ended up playing it before any of the other Fables so I didn't have any expectations. Now that I've bought The Lost Chapters, I can see a lot more behind the complaints. I played the PC version, but this laptop is brand new, so I probably had a cleaner experience. There wasn't much lag, the graphics were pretty good, and I don't have an Xbox version to compare it to so maybe I'm talking nonsense. The combat is different from Fable I (and probably II); but, I did sort of enjoy being an overpowered magic user who could just hold down surround spells and watch everything die in almost a single hit. The first two Fables could be roughly described as "Hero builders" — but III? Not really. It's got a lot of customisation as far as games go, but it's not on the same level. The Hero of Brightwall is, basically, good. The choices in the game that are Evil seem to be mainly included just for fun (killing everyone in the village and then farting on a bunch of people's faces is a hard thing to justify in any game) or in order to sort of tempt the player into Less-Good (you're running low on Gold...*... but if you want to get it safely you'll have to listen to an obvious villain and turn the orphanage into a whorehouse... but if you don't do that everyone dies). In this way, III's hero is more of a character in his/her own right, especially with that little voice. On the other hand, you lose the earlier games' ability to turn into, like, a giant hulk with devil horns popping out of his head. Which was, quite frankly, bloody awesome and really gave you a sense of progress. Both ways have their ups and downs, but I think maybe because of this III's style might have worked better as a spin-off type thing. I liked III's plot better than I, but from what I've heard of it II's does sound better. I did like the whole industrial theme.
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154 JAF 1970, Wed, 11th Apr '12 8:33:55 AM from New York
Jonah FalconMolyneux has called 3 a "personal failure", but if you read between the lines, seems like Microsoft forced him to release it early. Which explains why he left the company he founded.
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155 Marq FJA, Fri, 13th Apr '12 12:55:46 PM from Saudi Arabia Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
O' Allah, save EgyptDidn't see a general Fable thread, so I think I'll post this here. I notice that the Fable games' main pages and character sheets are pretty much devoid of any mention of the possibility of having the Player Character indulge in bigamy/polygamy via careful spouse-management and/or maximizing their attractiveness. Why is that? Are there no tropes that apply?
Ash-shaʻb yurīd isqāṭ ḥukm al-ʻaskar
156 Marq FJA, Mon, 26th Nov '12 4:02:41 AM from Saudi Arabia Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
O' Allah, save EgyptOiiiii... Did I accidentally kill the thread?
Ash-shaʻb yurīd isqāṭ ḥukm al-ʻaskar
157 Game Chainsaw, Mon, 26th Nov '12 4:32:03 AM from sunshine and rainbows!
The Shadows Devour You.If the tropes fit go ahead and add them.
158 Marq FJA, Mon, 26th Nov '12 4:48:39 AM from Saudi Arabia Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
O' Allah, save EgyptThat's the problem: I don't know what tropes would apply since I don't own/play the game despite being being sort-of-a-fan of it.
edited 26th Nov '12 4:48:56 AM by MarqFJA
Ash-shaʻb yurīd isqāṭ ḥukm al-ʻaskar
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