Is there a tendency here...

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and I suppose anywhere else... for the more ideologue of us to live with a floating impression that the rest of the 7 billion people on this earth are replica images (behaving or misbehaving versions) of themselves in terms of how they think or react to their situations and environments? In its even more chronic cases the whole world and underlying realities of the universe might hang in the balance of their every thought, discovery, and change of opinion on one thing or another?

I might be a hermetic but I'm feeling like that's just TOO much magic for me to hold a candle to.

Of the billion with internet access, for most it is economic not intellect.

It is more like most live in the past, and coming to the present thins out the ranks quickly.

Current events is a rehash of TV News, and very few are thinking about the meaning of now and way less about the direction, or directions, we are going.

People posting on PPR on WP are not a random sample of humanity. PPR is a slippery subject, but Science and Technology shows an educated and thinking population. They know the work in the field, and can speculate about it's meaning and possible future.

Magic is, thoughts do turn into reality, but who is doing the thinking gives you the eradication of Small Pox, or of the population of Rwanda.

I have read that you have dug deeply into magic. It is real to me, from other points of view.

No one ever Invented anything. It was always there, they were just the first to ask the right questions, and look with new eyes. As such, I know the undiscovered world is larger than the one known.

It is different things to different people, but some mapping is possible. Over the history of The United States, over six million Patents have been granted, and a requirement is it is new knowledge, first shown by the applicant.

About one on a hundred is a chronic reader. About one in a hundred owns an Art Print.

Those who have written or painted are less than one in a thousand. Those any good at it, one in ten thousand.

One in ten thousand might cover those who produce in any creative field, and most of those fields are not about the fabric of reality.

Give that one in a hundred thousand, ten thousand in a billion, and we have 70,000 mucking about trying to poke holes in reality. Many of those are Academics.

For those who it is not by training, coming as a gift or curse, less than ten thousand who have a natural deviant perception that cause them to trip over unsecured reality, and then the perception to know that is not how it was.

Reality is something that has been force fed us since birth. Like the slit that shows waves or particles, how much of our perception is culture imposed?

There are too many good reports of things that do not fit. UFOs, people who have vanished in plain sight of others, near dead people returning as someone else, the common stories of Witches and Shamans. Diverse cultures seeing and describing the same other world.

There is a gate that leads beyond, and traffic flows both ways.

Finding it may be psychic, but the thing it's self is a physical reality.

It is beyond our life, death, reincarnation, Alien Grays in saucers pop in and out.

Like Invention, it was always there, thousands or millions saw something, then one saw how it worked.

The unknown is much larger than the known, and all our Social Structures want to limit questioning.

For most turning lead into gold was the quest, but there are many forms of lead and gold.

Finding the obvious reality before our eyes has proven to be one of the hardest arts.

Generally ideologues appeal to our greed, and not our morals or principals. They tell us "this is what this ideology can do for you".

Sometimes the ideologues get confused when people's motivation is something other than greed.

Examples:
James Carville: Why do people vote against their interests?
http://thehill.com/opinion/james-carvil ... -interests

Why Do People Vote Against Their Own Best Interests?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gerry-mye ... 85414.html

Why do people vote against their own interests?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8474611.stm

How Republicans Get Americans To Vote Against Their Own Self Interest
https://www.datalounge.com/thread/13381 ... f-interest

Heh, in a lot of ways I was really considering my OP question in relationship to politics and how people model and predict - often times with significant distortion - the current and future behavior of people around them based on certain conditions. I see the scope of the conversation went a lot more profound than that but that's fine.

Why make the question so needlessly complicated?

ALL humans tend to project themselves onto others.

So why would "ideologues" be an exception?

The Greeks who proposed Democracy also saw it's limits.

It will not work for more than five thousand, because that is as many as anyone can identify. The Polis, my city.

Second, rule by the many will vote for lower taxes and higher benefits, and bankrupt the State.

The State will still exist, and resort to harsh measures to survive.

An elected official can claim it was just their job, where a King or Tyrant has to take responsibility.

For a Democracy to exist, it has to vote against it's own best interest, give more money and power to the State.

For the State to continue, it has to get the most votes from the disposal of income.

Low level Welfare and Military excess follows, with productive Merchants, healthy families and farmers getting less than they give, and being taxed more to buy votes from the non productive.

Democracy destroys the core of the nation.

Making the Soil Productive, supporting strong families having many children, government support of Merchants and Industrial producers, makes a country strong, rich, and Fascist, National Socialism works.

Fascism destroys the parasitic and degenerate core of the nation.

Kings and elected Dictators try to moderate between the extremes, but that is everything we have.

We are way into the worst end of the Democratic illness.

Our Parasite in Chief, has been spending a half trillion more than income in the good years, and has racked up more debt than all Presidents before him combined.

At twenty trillion the interest on the debt starts to equal tax income.

Welcome to the Weimar Republic. All of their public employees were promised pensions and health care.

Sic Simper Demonica.

National debt is different from individual household debt and is considered differently by the markets.

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/ec ... l-debt.asp

Trump got me when he proposed a one time tax on capital of 14.2% which would pay off the National Debt.

One, our money would be gold. Not real gold, but a debt free country with our economy, our money would rule.

Taking America out of the debt game, Corporate Securities would pay less, could raise more, which translates to higher pay for more workers, and lower costs for goods and services.

Mortgages and other personal debt is set at Treasuries plus points. Rates would decline as more capital seeks secure investments.

From there we could place a 1% tax on Securities purchase. It would dampen short term speculation, cost $1,000 on a $100,000 mortgage.

All personal income will be subject to Social Security. No cut off at $115,000. If a Small Business pays the whole 15.7%, so does a Hedge Fund. Presently they take their money at long term capital gains rates. Social Security is half of Government spending.

A 1% National Sales Tax, dedicated to a new WPA Publics Works Program.

These things would reduce spending, and increase tax income.

A real National Health Care Program, free, and free education. Europe and Canada might quit badmouthing us.

A minimum Income would cost less than all of the government programs. Abolish poverty.

Fence the border and clear the country of illegals.

The demand for workers will go up so high we will have to empty the prisons and parole them to jobs.

A whole lot of Government Employees will have to find real jobs.

We have not been adding to the National Parks system. Some of them look like a moving parking lot. We have more people, we need more and larger Nature Reserves. This fits with the new WPA Program. Nature does not get to vote, but without them, we die. Some marginal land should be planted in trees and left for a hundred years. I favor a strip a hundred miles wide from The Big Bend to Canada.

We do not have the military we need. We have way too many Generals and need more professional Sergeants. Combat skill is an art of the lower ranks, an art we need to keep.

As a side issue the real troops could run a National Service Army, giving lots of people a year or two of training.

We sent weekend warriors from the National Guard to Afghanistan, six weeks and one weekend a month did not prepare them. A year of National Service for everyone, we would be as unbeatable as the Swiss. We could put ten million in the field.

We can reach these goals and reduce personal and corporate taxes.

No one knows what the future holds, that is why we have to make up a good story and make that much come true.

We can live our fears, or our dreams.