Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: The key moments from day two – BBC News

There is clear evidence in two member-nations of the Ultra-West, those nations created over the seas in relatively recent centuries by migrants from Europe, of family breakdown, leading to a rise in social alienation. Without the stability of even the nuclear family, can such societies (based on individualism) survive?

The fields of psychology, sociology, and political science should be fused into the field of human herd dynamics (with biology and engineering serving auxiliary roles). “A riot is the language of the unheard.” Martin Luther King Jr.

Not long ago, I was told a story about two neighbors in a middle class neighborhood. One was a couple mid-50’ish, the other was a dad with 3 teenage sons, their mother was not around. The men of the two different households had mild conversations at times mostly over cars and automobile topics as the Dad of the 3-teenagers was rebuilding a pick-up truck.

Last year, I was discussing with an overseas acquaintance from South East Asia who is in Europe studying in college, a student of history, economics, and geo-politics. Specifically we began a lengthy dialogue on a blue print to build a world class superpower state from scratch, that is to say, with a non-educated population base and the basics of an independent nation with some resources already available, reserves yet untapped. Okay so let’s consider this proposition for a moment shall we?

In countries ruled by individual freedom, particularly the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (here described as the Ultra-West), society has been claimed to be deteriorating over the years through rising asserted personal rights. What constitutes societal deterioration?

Not long ago, I started a new series of articles discussing the future of artificial intelligence. Specifically how humans would have to compete for jobs in this future against the machines, smart machines with sophisticated algorithms, AI, and perhaps, even the ability to program themselves. How can humans compete against artificially intelligent robots doing mundane tasks in the work environment?

Freedom is often acclaimed as one of the highest aspirations and most valued conditions of man. Ideals of freedom are woven into every culture and civilization, every country, state, society and individual. It is an essential ingredient of our human requirement and is a most powerful motivator of the personality.

Today, the social networks are busy being data mined by political strategists, corporations, and marketing companies. They want to survey everyone in the world without their knowledge of this fact, and they want to gather all of their opinions, and use the information for their gain. Now then, if you have an opinion of your own, and a strong belief about something, that is to say if you stand for something in your life, it in the future you may not be able to compete with computers due to the Internet.

While discussing the topic of proposition 8 and same sex marriage with a friend a few years ago, he explained marriage to me from a unique perspective that has stuck with me ever since. He said that marriage and it’s definition is a religious concept that has been adopted into civil law from centuries of tradition and culture, that is not only accepted in America but is shared by the majority of the people in the entire world.

So much of what is claimed to be known is speculative belief, some beyond verifiability. Then, there is the real question of how we know what we claim to know, confounded by known unknowns and unknown unknowns.

The need to know and to understand mankind’s place in the universe is widespread. However, the complexity of the issues, the timelines involved, and the difficulties of observation and measurement, result mainly in beliefs, many of which are un-testable.

It’s often been said that patience is a virtue, of course, in this day and age of Twitter, Facebook, and nano-second multi-tasking it is certainly a lost virtue. Some might say that patience is underrated. In many regards patience makes no sense, why wait when you can go after what you want right now?