Homeland Security Watch

Comment by William R. Cumming

September 20, 2012 @ 12:45 am

Some might argue that “reality” is that in which the majority agree!

Perhaps the HEISENBERG PRINCIPLE CONTROLS RESILIENCE also. The observer impacts his/her reality!

Comment by Philip J. Palin

September 20, 2012 @ 3:53 am

Bill, While uncertainty will be part of most contexts and our individual angles on reality will differ and understanding full-reality is not possible, doing our honest best to engage reality still makes a very real difference. Isn’t that your experience too? From Plato’s allegory of the cave to Joseph Campbell’s abandonment of illusion to John Boyd’s structuring, unstructuring, restructuring… the task of being effective — even the goal of living fully — is to see and hear beyond our ideologies, our attachments, our hopes, and our fears to see and hear what is actually before us. I have a nagging sense that most of the real problems of homeland security are not as complicated as the self-created shadows, smoke, and other stuff that we (me too) have added to the core realities. If we could clarify a shared context, we would be much better able to solve real problems. What bouncing back (resilience) or bouncing forward (adaptation) each depend upon is a roughly accurate — and shared — understanding of reality.

Comment by William R. Cumming

September 20, 2012 @ 7:26 am

Nice riposte Phil! Ah yes simplicity. Really all those goes on now in the west is continued religious wars, often masked by a thin veneer of secularism. And in the east an effort to deal with demographics.

Well time will tell how well we and others deal with our realities.

And in the meantime make sure to punish those who don’t know we are right and they are wrong.

Comment by William R. Cumming

September 20, 2012 @ 7:28 am

By the way looking like a new round of MORTMAIN statutes in the EU for its continued pursuit of the cafe society as opposed to reality of necessity to work.