@13:50, 12/13/12

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I think you have returned to Japan
after their recent small tsunami and large aftershock.

I have been thinking creative thoughts though not artistic ones.
I have an hypothesis.

Political organizations hate and fear the practice of political philosophy.

The study of political philosophy
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_philosophy)
is the study of orthodoxies.  That is respectable and encouraged.
The practice of political philosophy results in either great uncertainty as to the legitimacy of present political organizations or to new political organizations with different supporting axioms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_philosophy

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Plato (left) and Aristotle (right), from a detail of The School of Athens, a fresco by Raphael. Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics secured the two Greek philosophers as two of the most influential political philosophers.

 

 

Political philosophy is the study of such topics as politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of a legal code by authority: what they are, why (or even if) they are needed, what, if anything, makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms it should protect and why, what form it should take and why, what the law is, and what duties citizens owe to a legitimate government, if any, and when it may be legitimately overthrown, if ever. In a vernacular sense, the term "political philosophy" often refers to a general view, or specific ethic, political belief or attitude, about politics that does not necessarily belong to the technical discipline of philosophy.^[1]
Political philosophy can also be understood by analysing it through the perspectives of metaphysics, epistemology and axiology. It provides insight into, among other things, the various aspects of the origin of the state, its institutions and laws.

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• 1 History
  • 1.1 Ancient
    • 1.1.1 Ancient China
    • 1.1.2 Ancient Greece
    • 1.1.3 Ancient Indian Subcontinent and Hindu Philosophy
  • 1.2 Medieval Christianity
  • 1.3 Islamic Golden Age
  • 1.4 Medieval Europe
  • 1.5 European Renaissance
  • 1.6 European Age of Enlightenment
  • 1.7 Industrialization and the Modern Era
• 2 Contemporary political philosophy
• 3 Influential political philosophers
• 4 See also
• 5 References
• 6 Further reading
• 7 External links

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Krugman today:

"December 13, 2012, 9:06 am11 Comments

Lost Decade Watch

Along with its new policy pronouncement, the Fed released its economic projections (pdf). What struck me is that the Fed expects the unemployment rate to be well above its long-run level even in the fourth quarter of 2015, which is as far as its projections go.
This means that the Fed is projecting elevated unemployment nine full years after the Great Recession started. And, of course, the Fed has been consistently over-optimistic.
This is an awesome failure of policy — not solely at the Fed, of course.When I wax caustic about Very Serious People, bear this in mind. Faced with an economic crisis where textbook macroeconomics told us exactly how to respond, people of influence chose instead to obsess over budget deficits and generally punt on employment; and the result has been a huge economic and human disaster."

Europe and the GOP are barking mad.
Kleptocracy rules.

I will look more and post again today.