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True abundance is wholly an inward phenomenon. And while one can physically live without it, as the vast majority of Americans have for decades, if not our entire history as a colonising and westward expanding nation, one cannot inwardly survive much less thrive without this indefinable abundance.
The representatives of law enforcement crave results, even those poorly arrived at, and algorithmic expediency and actuarial fantasy is there to aid them. The “precrime” dystopia portrayed in Philip K. Dick’s The Minority Report (1956) is well on its way to being realised.
It is through our ManualI – our manual override, our consciousness, our awareness – that we have the opportunity to make rational valuations which incorporate morality. Our AutoI, while rational in its own terms, is also amoral. Our automatic benefit-cost analyses drive much of our behaviour, without our awareness; we cannot easily question what drives our Auto-Intelligence.
Should former Labour leader and Minister Andrew Little decide to seek the Wellington Mayoralty later this year he will have a very good, but by no means guaranteed, chance of winning.
Since Australia is now our only dependable defence ally, maybe we should be paying attention to their upcoming election.
Europe seems to be suffering paroxysms of withdrawal, notably when it comes to international conventions. Many states on the continent seem to have decided that international law is a burden onerous and in need of lightening.
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Martin LeFevre - Meditations: True Abundance
Binoy Kampmark: Junk Science And Bad Policing - The Homicide Prediction Project
Keith Rankin: Rational Expectations, Intelligence, And War
Peter Dunne: Dunne's Weekly - Is Andrew Little Wellington's Mayor-In-Waiting?
Gordon Campbell: On Peter Dutton’s Fading Election Prospects.
Binoy Kampmark: Withdrawal Symptoms - Hungary, Europe And The International Criminal Court