More on the subject of Independence Day

The subject of Independence Day 4th of July has been of interest lately, and a new acquaintance who seems more thoughtful than many people, has been focusing on aspects of national defense. A string of email conversation is ongoing, and my most recent contribution seemed worthy of being put in my blog here. So here it is:

Sleep deprivation seems to not be just used for torturing captives to get them to talk, but is increasingly happening among American citizenry, and causes are not clear. Sleep deprived people are unable to cope well with new events, and thus more easily programmed to accept repeated statements, being unable to evaluate it themselves anymore due to the sleep deprivation preventing the brain from clearing out the old stuff in sleep so new stuff can be processed in real time. Probably a group of causes, not always the same for all people. Some are probably accidental, like upsetting the circadian rhythm by watching too much TV late at night. But others are chemical, nutritional. And more worrisome are indications that some causes are electronic and not all are accidental. Yet there seems to have been some deliberate effort to make that happen, possibly - but not for sure - caused by simple business trickery along with a concurrent PR program, when the nutritional supplement called L-Tryptophan (a critically important nutrition for humans, which is increasingly difficult to get in proper ratio in the modern diet without supplementation), which had been in widespread public use for a couple of decades and was giving fine sleep enabling, without use of prescription sleep drugs that provided only unconsciousness. So a batch of cleverly poisoned L-Tryptophan was sent here and people started dying; the FDA jumped on it and claimed it was L-Tryptophan that was causing all the deaths; and banning the sale did stop the deaths, apparently proving their assertion (since it also stopped use of the poison in the batch.) The FDA did not notice that the supplement had been use for some 20 years with no sickness or deaths prior to that, a finding that ought to have been clear to any honest evaluation. But the pharmaceutical business folks had been pressuring the FDA to block L-Tryptophan sale so as to force sale of their inferior sleep potions, and the batch of poisoned L-Tryptophan gave them that excuse, and they eagerly grabbed it and enforced it... all of which seems against the needs of American people, and thus possibly a form of an attack on the American people from within. The "electronic" forms of sleep disruption are more obscure. Over a decade ago, I had stumbled into some lectures by several people who had been instrumental in discovering one such phenomenon, which was traced to signals coming from the then soviet union, some we called "woodpecker" due to its pecking sound when heard in receivers; and the race was on for us to develop our own version of the weapon. Who and why it would be used for now, is another question. Sneaky tools for disrupting and controlling other people seems to be a fascination by some types of people, perhaps classifiable as "bullies" in general.

Yes, some are more concerned with national defense and others concerned with the space program. Vast numbers of things to be focused upon that at the moment seem top priority to different people; it is a big complex interrelated world, ever changing too. My early years as a child becoming aware of what was happening was concurrent with WWII, it was all about national defense by conducting warfare abroad; and was my only frame of reference as to what was important in the world. As peace and more wars later happened, this was added onto my impression as to what was important in the world. Eventually I grew to consider that more important than who was beating up on whom, who was stronger and more clever, were other underlying factors, such as resources and in particular energy became clear that it was key to civilization. And new energy sources seemed to be possible by nuclear research; and/or by space research, since the vast solar energy was available in the space not that far overhead, 24 hours a day, continuously and in volumes far beyond what civilization needs.

I had been interested in space from my earliest memories. I made model Buck Rogers type spaceships out of modeling clay as a small boy, and when at age 9 given an X-Acto woodcarving knife set and some balsa wood, glue and paint, from then on I made my spaceships out of balsa wood. Some of them I still have. I was a bookworm that easily did my schoolwork, uncaring about grades, I just craved knowledge and especially about the sciences. My initial effort at college was to work my way thorough by working at White Sands Missile Range helping test guided missiles; my college major was physics. I quickly got interested in electronics, then a part of physics, and it bent my subsequent career into that. But my prior genius quickly ended early in college, due to no support system, and having to mostly eat white bread to save money and not knowing that its wheat gluten was highly toxic to me; I developed severe Tinnitus that made it very hard to understand what was being said in class lectures and endlessly distracting when trying to do homework. I finally dropped out, after briefly shifting my major to psychology, trying to figure out what was going on; the only set of courses I finished was that of Army ROTC, which I finished the mandatory 2 years. Life was quite a struggle, built upon traumas collected more traumas occasionally. Yet I retained my Asperger focus on space travel, all aspects of it. Not all my early genius was destroyed, and in time I was able to determine possible ways to use space to help civilization in a big way; these focused on several needs: the need for cheap, CO2-free and widely distributed continuous electrical power; the need to be able to economically fully process the toxic materials generated by civilization back into fully usable materials again; room to build homes for lots of people which would not disrupt the earth's ecosystem; and ways to reach out economically for the vast materials resources existing in space while also bringing life to the moons and planets which have no life now. This all needed to be economically accomplished by means beyond that of conventional rocketry, and I felt I had found several promising promising electrically powered mechanisms for providing the transportation - through kinetically supported structure space escalators up as high as GEO; but GEO is an excellent place in which to build a huge infrastructure, such as the long-proposed Satellite Solar Power Plants. Despite my fear of public speaking - and lack of academically accepted credentials - I prepared and presented my concepts to space technical conferences; at first I was just laughed away, but eventually the response was just a sullen acceptance despite what I was showing was not in their current business plans; my concepts finally began to appear as peer reviewed technical papers published in conference proceedings nine years ago. Yet I found their focus was all about making money, not about enabling health and thriving to America and the world; my concepts were buried by the powerful, waiting for me to be disposed of so they could take full control of the concepts for their less noble purposes afterward in their own time. Fairly recently I took up the writing of my concepts in the form of science fiction adventures, and so that is what my books are about, and there is some interest in looking at them where I have offered them freely, but not to buy the paperback ones - such as my sci fi novel "Building Up" by J. E. D. Cline - which Amazon oddly has been hiding - I wonder why. So that is where it is at today; I support the "green" efforts of solar and wind power, all the non-space ways, since that is all the current business-driven system will look at since that is how they can make money quickly with little risk. But that is ignoring the concepts I had proposed, which would potentially be able to stop the need for use of oil and coal for energy purposes, starting a dozen years from when an all-out effort was begun. But a huge number of powerful vested interests, clearly caring about nothing except their own wealth and power, are suppressing the process; and are supported by preservation of lots of well-paid professional egos, easily wiping me out - especially considering my Asperger social confusion and verbal incompetence.

So you may see where my space program focus is seen to protect America and bring thriving to her as well as to the whole world, with no need to be invading anybody anymore unless merely acting out old traumas which involve fantasies about opponents who all play the same kind of game, just different labels on themselves; a sad fate for humans who could have done so much better.

Establishing a big picture responsible national authority

Laying awake this morning, thoughts were something about how to preserve the technological development stimulus of business competition to make a better product for the customer, as proven by what the customer base is buying; while also having a larger governing influence that is making sure that the big picture's resource details are also getting filled in, even if businesses are not taking care of all of the needs for some reason or other.

Also related is how to suppress the use of intense advertising to control the customer's urge choices to buy, such as was being done by the American automotive industry causing customers to buy ever more gigantic gas-guzzling SUV's as their sole means of transportation including commute to work, grocery shopping and soccer-moms taking their urchin to the field to play, all of which could be easier done in a small hatchback using half the gas for the trips and being far less dangerous in traffic accidents; all caused by the giant corporations playing on the public's fears of the other drivers and preparation for mass exodus into the wilderness areas, armed with high power rifles to acquire food in a time of sectarian upheaval in the US, appealing to the "survivalist" mode of thinking too; a man could acquire a woman to have children by providing her with a house and a SUV for protection of the family, thus making more profit for the auto mega-corporations and the gas companies, much of that fuel having to be bought from the middle-east oil fields, paid for somehow in trade by a country increasingly unable to manufacture their own goods, gas only to be merely burned up in the daily job commute and soccer-mom trips, but the payment in real goods still having to somehow be paid in trade to the middle-east.

The "big picture" was clearly lost in that system, causing great stress to the country and the world.

Another example is in the American health care system, where tunnel-visioned guidance has bypassed cost-effective potentials (for example, where is the honest intelligent comparison of the efficacy of the various Rife & HRClark electrohealth devices, so widely and well proven by vast numbers of experimenters around the world now, especially integrated into the many discoveries published by HRClark; or the many holistic whole-person-health methods; these would cut into the business profits of the megapharmaceuticals to a significant extent, thus are suppressed, at the tragedy of the public's health), since corporate R&D is guided toward maximum business profit, not maximum customer need-filling at low cost. The virtual franchise on health care is erroneously enforced by governmental authorities, believing the existing business medical system has done the full science behind their services and no one can do better. But the science was guided by businesses who were guided by the requirement to pay maximum dividends to investors, thus only weakly linked to efficacy in maintaining optimum health for the population. As a result we have a poor health population and enormous national burden in health care; should this be any surprise knowing the system was ever guided in development toward maximizing profit by health-related businesses?

By having the big picture available and in reference, hopefully the nation could begin fixing these major goofs we got ourselves into. Expecting businesses, corporations, to fill in all the needs of the nation with good efficacy is mere fantasy; corporations do not want such a responsibility either, they are just there to get a piece of the action. If a big picture responsible national authority were established, the "action" could be more optimally fulfilled.

How to stop such a big picture authority from becoming taken over by politics and vested interests, lobbyists, corrupting the vision and the responsible governance? That part I don't know, but it seems likely that it needs to be directly accountable to the nation of individuals we are, and on a fairly quick basis.

The ability of Americans to innovate

I wonder how Obama's trust in the ability of Americans to innovate to solve the big problems we face now, can become expressed.

Could it be that he does not understand that corporations have been methodically controlling expression of innovation, through their otherwise-inexplicable wrongful use of their "Employment Agreements" required for a technical person to get a job? The "employment agreement" cedes all technical ideas an employee spontaneously has while in the employment of the corporation, regardless whether or not the idea was related to the job the person was assigned to do, or even in the field of interest of the corporation; and since the corporations have their pre-existing business agenda they are not willing nor able to make available those ideas to the public in the form of products the public can buy and use. Yet the corporation claims ownership of them and thus blocks anyone else from producing products based on those ideas their employees spontaneously create. Thus over the past decades the corporations have locked up nearly all American innovation, since nearly every technically inclined person has to work for some business, typically a corporation. Even in states which have passed laws forbidding this corporate practice, such as California, the corporations ignore those laws, pointing out the employee will have to fight the corporation in court to prove it... and employees don't want to lose their jobs nor have urge for court battles, thus the ideas are dead.

America is now faced with the legacy of this cunning practice by the businessmen who own and run typical corporations; and employees have long ago learned to not bother submitting such ideas to employers; because of the urge to control, the corporations will merely grab and bury the ideas calling them their business territory, thus killing the products that could have been created somewhere as a result of those ideas.

So how is Obama going to get around this massive long-emplaced intentional sabotage of American ingenuity, the ability to innovate?

Focusing on lessons I still have not been able to learn

In my later years I seem to be focusing on lessons I still have not been able to learn well, such as "horses to water" and "casting your pearls": "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink" (unless they understand the difficult journey ahead, they are not interested in taking action to prepare for it); and "Cast not your pearls before swine, lest they trample them beneath their feet and turn to rend you" (Swine do not recognize pearls as valuable, they look like mere pebbles; and they were looking for you to cast grains of corn for them, how dare you give them pebbles instead! Teach you a lesson, take that!)

A comment re the coal provision in the energy bill

Electrical power is essential to America. Coal is a home-source for such energy; far better than buying from offshore sources for mere oil to burn and is gone but our hard-to-pay debt for it remains. Coal sourced electrical power seems necessary as a desperate form of energy while we have massive wind and solar sourcing projects started and completed; but coal is not a substitute; it is imperiling the world environment and should be done only while waiting for direct solar sourced energy is being created. The risk is that coal business profit interests may secure their long-term income source at the expense of the nation's alternative energy system's creation.

A federal fill-in workforce system for retirees and unemployed to boost the GDP

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Wondering now about what is happening nowadays, regarding approaches to solving big problems coming up. Besides those of energy supply needs, need for independence from offshore energy supply, imbalance of trade, inadequate usage of human resources, unrecoverable damage to the world ecosystem through resource depletion and contaminants widespread, need for housing and efficient ground transportation that is time efficient, among others, which I also pointed out possible solutions,) a new one has appeared, that of lots of people about to retire and the social security fund is projected to run out eventually. Part of this is that younger employees are being told that they are going to have to work hard to pay for the social security of all those retirees, and then when it is time for them to retire too, there won't be any money left for them; this of course upsets them, and they seek solutions, which tend to be not very hospitable.

It seems to me that a better solution than shortening the life-spans of retirees, is to enable them to be part of the workforce, contributing to the Gross Domestic Product according to their capabilities. The whole country is improved and the strain is taken off of the fears of the younger workforce.

This is an achievable thing. For example, I have suggested a fairly worked-out way of doing this, and have told of it in this blog as well as elsewhere; but it does not seem to be being heard. This is a common response I have gotten over the decades; and each of the problems I foresaw and offered ways to solve it in time, were also ignored; and the situation is upon us and we still seem to think that the problem will go away by itself and all will be OK as it was before. Decades ago there was a song called "Manana" that expressed this attitude; it is also like saying why bother stopping to fill the gas tank, the car is running fine now so why stop and gas up, even though there still is a very long way to go?)

So I wonder, why are normally intelligent, responsible, and educated people responding this way? Planning ahead is something that lots of esteemed folks supposedly do; and indeed, demand total authority - but not responsibility for the overall effects.

In wondering about this, letting it simmer in the back of my mind, I once again have come around to the same possible cause that I came around to before, a few times.

It has to do with how we learn to interact. Complex subject, sure; yet some basic ways seem to appear: we learn to interact by watching others interact; by playing games; and finally by being trimmed up by the brute facts of ongoing individual life experiences.

We learn from watching our parents interact with each other and with other people, including with ourselves; we learn from interacting with siblings, if we have any. In school we add to the observations from watching teachers and classmates. These all condition us to respond as individuals to the outer scene.

Before sports training, teamwork ways get conditioned by being part of the family team, given instructions by parents; then by teachers in school; finally by bosses on the job.

All these things presume there are no big problems needing solution by a large number of people. We learn about how to function as part of a team largely thorough team sports, both participation and observation of others playing the games. The game of football can be used as an example, although other team sports such as basketball, baseball and soccer are some of the other examples. Football embodies the concepts of territories (the two halves of the football and their respective goal posts) and scarce commodities (the football) and the need to coordinate the team members so as to achieve their common goal.

I wonder, why have a basic sport involving pitting one team against another? Probably because that makes the resulting strife quite complex and pitting against the other on several levels, including physical fairly violent action. But it requires the concept of "opponent" to play the game; the "we are all on the same team" does not work in such activities as team sports like football or basketball. Just as much as the team sport teaches how to function as part of a team, it also equally teaches the principle of actively preventing the success of others (the opponent team.) The principle of acting to cause the failure of others' efforts is an intrinsic part of this mode of how people learn to interact.

And in real life, people are responding to others in the ways they have learned. And having been taught that one succeeds by causing the failure of the opponent, this becomes a mode of response. While the concept of the nation being one whole team, this lacks the basic part of the concept of "opponent" with which people know how to interact as taught to them.

Political turmoil provides a sufficiently familiar mode, the other political party is the opponent team to be thwarted in their goals so as to have one's own political party win. This is more than just the differences in ways to solve a mutual problem nor even agreement that there is a problem to be solved. This prevents the nation from functioning as a whole team in solving the nation's problems and providing the needs of the people of the nation. It is well known that "a nation divided against itself cannot stand" yet the political divisiveness persists; some groups are more into the deliberate sabotage of the other sides efforts than others who are responding more to the needs of the nation instead of those of a particular political group.

Even war can be a means to unite a group of mutually hostile people, as has often happened down through history. "War" grabs the attention of the sparring folks and they realize they must put down their petty differences and work together to "fight the enemy team" or they will be overrun and all will lose, so they work together in wartime. The use of the word "war" has been used in other related ways, such as war on drugs, war on cancer, etc, in an effort to get people to work together to resolve some problem, by defining the opponent team (another nation, or some lesser foe such as "drug escapists") so as to unite the folks to be a team working together.

In other words, it is looking like many, maybe most, people need to see themselves as part of a team that is assaulting folks who are on an opponent team, in order to know how to function as a team. And that this behavior is acquired from the games of team sports.

So bringing this into the context of the original concern discussed here, that of why are people not responding to solve the productivity crisis coming up as expressing in several ways including the anticipated social security funds dwindling, the response as taught by football (for example) is to assault the opponent to cause the opponent's failing in their goals. The opponent becomes all those retirees seen as leeching off the younger workers having to work hard to support the hordes of retirees. The ingrained responses from team sports produces this response of how to perceive and handle the problem.

And thus suggestions are simply not part of their comprehension, suggestions as to how to have retirees (insofar as they are supported by the social security system; some have become wealthy somehow and thus not need the social security system, but few do so) to continue to contribute at a reduced effort rate, instead of dropping out of the nation's productivity system.

The people seem to have to comprehend it all in terms of teams fighting other teams so as to receive the winnings for life activities. Even corporations have to compete with other corporations, and not just to make a better product but also to spy on the efforts of the opponent corporation and even sabotage the other's efforts per the rules. Meanwhile using advertising to cheerlead themselves on to create the customer's desires; such as the auto manufacturers using the advertising system to get people to want to buy the hulking SUVs even for the daily commute - self-defense against collision by those opponent hulking SUVs out there on the road, for one thing - even though the SUV design was intended for the rare sport of taking on expedition into the wilderness areas rough roads, and consumed huge amounts of fuel - again missing that 2/3 of the nations fuel has to be acquired from other parts of the world and somehow paid-for via balance of trade, even when we are not having our products bought so as to balance that trade; thus the nation has to borrow yet with no apparent means to pay back, lacking products other nations want to buy from us.

Is "conflict" the only means for people to move off the couch potato mode? What happened to the mode of ever tidying up, planting seeds, tending the garden, keeping all in good shape and checking it out to make sure of it, and building onto what is, and occasionally bringing in some completely new interesting activity? Could it be a problem primarily due to the "football" interaction model as being the primary instruction for teamwork - which unfortunately includes the principle of teamwork activity to cause the failure of the other team's folks?

Thus the problem, in this case, becomes one of how to get such folks to take on the problem of how to support retirees - including the young workers now who will eventually become retirees - on into the indefinitely distant future.

The social security system is there because most folks do not have enough surplus from their daily life to put into savings that will definitely be there upon "retirement" age; so the nation's government enforces the savings via the social security system; and it works. A few folks are lucky enough to win big and thus have much surplus to live off of when they reach retirement age, some even retire when still quite young when they happen to financially "win big" somehow - but for the majority of people, they can save some for retirement but the needs of the present during those years requires most of their earnings. (I have conjectured into harsh alternatives in some of my science fictions writings, such as "The Ark of 1984's Future" in which everyone has to work or "go early to the digestion tanks.")

So the definition of the problem expands from that of how to cover the costs of a growing pool of retired folks dependent on social security, to include the response to the problem as conditioned by the need to frame it into team sports pattern of behavior which requires the mode of working to prevent the success of others efforts to achieve. That inclusion into the problem would account for the lack of ongoing actions such as by starting up something like the "Home internet-linked manufacturing workstations" concept (which I have written about, including in this blog back about January 2009; it includes partial product manufacturing equipment as part of the home workstation, among other additions) for efficiently keeping the retirees and the unemployed actively contributing to the gross domestic product of the nation.

Another factor is that quite possibly people expect that the business employers are the only ones who can provide meaningful productive work for people; yet businesses do not consider it is their responsibility to enable all people to work to their optimum comfortable productivity level so as to expand the GDP of the nation, but instead the businesses are out there just to make a fast buck the easiest way possible, that is all they do. Is unreasonable to expect the businesses, corporations, to take on the whole job (and it would be like the proverbial "trying to herd cats.") Perhaps there could be a large corporation created that takes the job on, to fill in all the cracks left by businesses which have staked out their territories of products and services, from the the overall nation's needs, as is done now. But those are just the unwanted areas, unprofitable seemingly, yet of major importance only to the nation as a whole. Thus seems appropriate to be a government function, to define it, get it going, and either continue to run it or to step back to be an overseer function while a more normal corporate business type activity actually does the work.

And that work would be to keep all people busy to some extent (those who are not otherwise adequately employed or fully self-supporting) exercising skills, learning new skills, learning new knowledge, practicing producing goods and services as coordinated by the employer who would be the federal government, which in turn has the responsibility to leave no one out of the GDP system's productivity. Regular employers, corporations and small businesses, would continue much as at present, except when they want to expand and hire more people, they would get the new employees from the pool of employees of the federal GDP-stimulating workforce. And similarly, when a business lays people off, the people would simply move into the federal (or state) fill-in employment system.

Internet-Linking of the workforce seems capable of providing the means of coordinating the non-private-employed folks, so that they can remain at their homes (thus reducing fuel and time wasted by commute to centralized work-sites) while employed by the fill-in federal (or, again, including state) workforce system. Some forms of the federal fill-in workforce system jobs could be outside the home, involved in physical activities not suitable through simulations on the home computer; for example, actually doing the proverbial "digging holes and filling them up again." kind of thing; but these involve the expenses to the nation of energy and time and material costs and thus not as efficient; but for some activities - such as the actual experience of digging a hole and filling it up again - that might better be done on some real job as part of a private business employer's OJT for specific jobs to be done.

What is the likely response to what I have written here? (Beyond the usual "we don't know you, you are nobody, we are the great ones" usual ego thing, of course.) Most likely those who think that the email ads for "work at home" activity will solve the problem; along with already existing telecommuting activity; so, forget it. Such a response indicates totally not understanding what I have said here; and most likely, not wanting to understand; because of the conditioning such as via teamwork being taught through team sport conflict focus. Yet this is written in case there are still some Americans for America, somewhere out there, who might stumble upon this not-well-written item, much like a note put in a bottle and set adrift in the sea.

In summary:

a. The need to focus on individual American productivity evaluation and sustained increase. This as different from the up-to-now focus on individual productivity only as arranged by employers in corporations and small business. The productivity as arranged by employers in business, typically corporations guided by profit and territory, are not beholding to the nation to provide the nation's productivity and the individual's productivity maximization except what happens happenstance in the process of making a profit in their business territory. The matching of productivity with the salable products and services tends to guide productivity via reality-testing - that is, do others pay money for the produced goods and services happening as a result of productivity, the exercise of productivity - like the proverbial digging holes and filling them up again - would fill in the blank areas that are not currently utilized in the profitable goods & services provision and sale, keeping the individuals - all Americans in this case - exercised and experienced. This conflicts with the system of better-than-others that motivates the majority of people, so that needs to be taken into consideration too somehow. (Related to this concept is an interesting email this morning from staff@innovationnetwork.biz about what they call "brain-fitness" - analogous to "physical-fitness" brain-fitness would have businesses have teams that regularly take time out a few times a week per their idea to participate in online games designed to exercise the brain. So building on this idea, incorporating my prior idea here, would be called "productivity-fitness" perhaps.)
b. The current high unemployment stems from the aggregate businesses waiting for business to ramp up again to re-hire the workers, most likely; and thus would not approve of anything that would absorb those potential workers before their former employers take them back.
c. Again recalling the effects of teamwork being taught via participation in such team sports and football, baseball, and basketball; yet in each case, just as solidly as the concept of practicing mutual support to achieve common goals (goals set by the game's rules) it equally solidly ingrains the concepts of acting toward thwarting other people from attaining their goals. What is the effect of that instruction & practice (via the sports games) doing to civilization's progress, could it have to do with the wars and the building of enough nukes to wipe earth out from the planet, that sort of thing? Is it not possible to teach wisdom along with teaching knowledge?

Awareness of, and responsibility to, the overall system, the "big picture" needs to be done.

Hypnotized by doing iterative goal subroutines and losing sight of the actual goal

Describing a concept several ways: toward a specific long-range goal, adopting an efficient iterative subroutine heading in the general direction of the goal, but without reference to the actual goal so as to check validity of efficiency of the subroutine for achieving the actual goal, the adoption of the easy iterative subroutine could carry one past the goal and never reach it.

Or, as in taking a long trip to a small town way across country, and getting on freeway system, setting goal for maximum distance per time and focusing down to that subroutine of taking fastest road, unable to think of getting off the freeways at an optimum point to go on slower roads that actually can get to the small rural town far off the freeway system, but instead they just keep going, fixated on choosing the freeway that enables them to go the furthest in the shortest amount of time, but which never arrives at the goal.

Much of the country seems to have opted for the iterative subroutines, without also checking before each iteration's start, that it indeed gets to the goal.

For example, the automobile system's car manufacturers, are they guided by the goal of the most fully efficient means of people getting from the locations chosen by the consumer, or are they guided by making the most profit for the least effort, without reference to the actual transportation goal... even using the advertising industry to waylay the consumer from attention to the real goals but instead be fixated on style, prestige or other dazzle?

Or in the medical system, is it guided by minimizing down-time of people, maximizing up-time for the people of the country; or is it endlessly guided by the easier-seen goal of making the most money for the least effort? Losing sight of the goal of maximizing up-time of the people of the nation, and instead focusing down on the easier-arranged goal of ensuring maximum income for the health-providers, it is likely that the short vision is seen that it is chronically sick people who provide the income, not well people. Health territorial control by licensing those who are allowed to provide health care, without actual guidance of maximizing the up-time of the population, the system is locked into whatever is provided by the above-mentioned system, substituting the much different goal of maximizing profits for least effort, instead of the goal of full functional dynamic health for the interdependent population. (Or are we not interdependent?)

The fixation on the lesser subroutines, without reference to the actual big picture goal, rarely can get us to the real goals. In fact, we are at risk of losing sight of the real goals; perhaps only vaguely realizing that things are not going well, having forgotten what our real goals were.

How to fix that problem? Or have we become too fixated on the subroutines that have rewarded us with paychecks and goodies, to be able to be flexible enough to adopt the means for getting out of the subroutines when they are no longer the most efficient path to the goals of the people so they can long-term thrive?

The form of evaluation called "does it make sense"

The form of evaluation called "does it make sense" seems to sometimes be substituted for using the scientific method.

And those who do so, seem to believe that "making sense" is equivalent to doing an unbiased truly adequate scientific experiment and observing the result.

Sure, each person needs to make quick decisions in the course of daily life, based on a wide variety of past experiences and knowledge. This seems to condition us to believe that such evaluations are indeed equivalent to the verifiable facts, when something off-the-edge of expectable events is presented to oneself.

Also, sometimes the esteem, the apparent credibility of the source, factors in on the "does it make sense" evaluation.

One way that has some success in getting past these barriers is to arrange to have people actually experiment on themselves in a group setting, and then ask "did it work or not" or "what were the effects that you found."

This approach has had interesting success for gaining some acceptance of a process that "does not make sense" to the average American, a process called "Emotional Freedom Technique" or "EFT" as its easy acronym. It makes no sense that mere tapping on specific points on the face and upper body, while focusing on the memory of some disruptive event, can quickly and permanently convert the disruptive memory into just a plain memory that no longer disrupts the person's life. Makes no sense that such a simple thing could provide such a lasting benefit - might even be called a blessing - for so little effort. It is like the memory of the event clearly remains, but the memory of the disruption is just gone, following the rather rote tapping process. Actually doing the experiment is the only way to enable people to get past the "it does not make sense" barrier for evaluating the technique.

In such an experiment there is the element of "subjectivity" one would expect to influence results. Being open-minded as to what results might happen is not always easy to do.

For example, if someone is presented with a technique that easily and quickly eliminates the stress of an event on a person, if the person has a deep belief in the stored pain of punishment for wrongdoing is required to force people to be a good citizen, such a stress-removal process might be seen as opening a Pandora's Box allowing all those bad people to be bad again; thus would be seen as quite a risk, and could influence any opportunity to make an unbiased evaluation of the experiment even on oneself. Also, if one has a history of punishing others to correct their bad behavior that had been displayed due to acting out the disruptive stress stored in them, it would put a burden of wrongdoing upon the person who has been judge-jury-punisher for so long; and be seen as the actual wrongdoer instead of the esteemed authority: possibly an intolerable situation, and thus would seek to keep things just like they were, forget this EFT stuff.

Is the stored stress of pain really necessary to prevent people from being assaultive to others? And, how much of assaultive behavior is triggered by stored stress of past pain in similar circumstances - it is said that people who are abusive, were themselves abused; monkey-see-monkey-do kind of phenomena. What would happen if all those little traumas of being abused were erased as if never were, with only the plain memories left intact? Or are bullies and the greedy powerful simply incorrigible and have to be controlled by fear of more painful trauma being imparted to them to get them to fit into society? - Really?

Another interesting phenomena regarding doing "EFT" is that it works so well that the person being tapped on in the experiment tends to not remember the stress that had long been there before, but only remembers the experience as just a cause-&-effect learning experience, so what; it works so thoroughly. The "Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle" - that is, in the process of observing something, you change that which was observed - is quite strong in these experiments; that which was there before is no longer there to measure, as if the nature of reality itself has changed for the person. Third party onlookers can observe the before and after results, however.

Sometimes the effort to set aside the form of evaluation called "does it make sense," and then doing the scientific method thing, doing an unbiased truly adequate scientific experiment and observing the actual result, can be outstandingly rewarding to one's life.