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Journal: June 21, 2012
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Commerce                              Calculations: Energy Per Person                              Morality

Morality: One way to look at morality is that it is nothing but a communal desire to tell other people what to do. A cudgel of power of dominance used frequently and effectively, both personally and socially. And when people don’t “submit”?, punishment and banishment. A community is nothing but shared morals. Community morality (sharing, kindness, compassion) often conflicts with personal morality (“Make hay while the sun shines” to “get what I can get”).

In a twist, we extol the virtues of community, disparage the “sin” of selfishness, all so we can punish and/or banish “offenders”, thereby increasing “our” numbers by intimidation and fear (the same motives as “selfish” individuals, e.g. terrorists); thereby increasing “our” power and our ability to “get what we want”, “get what we can, while the sun shines”; the same selfish individual morality the community so dispages.

Power is exhilarating. So we, ISTMRN have “communized” selfishness, to increase its power; selfishness that want to tell other people what to do.

The economy: (Paraphrase) “We have GOT to maintain growth!!!! ABOVE population growth. In a point of view, we’ve got to stop production growth, so we CAN (maybe) continue economic growth. You, me, each of us have a “responsibility” to maximize our contribution by “living up to our potential”, by getting an education, learning to read so we can better contribute from our excess, surplus of our individual contributions. Then managers have more contributions to manage (for a percent), and, because 'a rising tide lifts all boats' we all prosper.”
                              But do we?

Money: It has been said of old, “love of money is the root of all evil” 1 Timothy 6:10. Perhaps true and money is nothing but another name for the surplus. So what is “not” the surplus? “We have to work for money to eat and have shelter, n’est ce pas?” No, we don’t. We need about 3,000,000 calories a day, at least us big ones do. We are perfectly capable of finding year-round shelter for ourselves and one or two young‘uns (less than say, 3 or 4 ) incapable of obtaining their own calories with a lot of time left over for gossip.

World-wide we now turn to infrared (i.e. “use”) thirty times that 3,000,000 calories per day. In the US, over 100 times. Two million or so calories a day is not surplus, everything else is money.