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Evan Bayh's withdrawal is just the most publicized of many resignations and withdrawals of senators and congressmen no longer willing to fight the silly fight that represents our current form of politics.

What if the problem with health insurance wasn't about the government?

After watching months of mindless blathering about government bad vs government good and how it is saving or ruining our lives yada yada, it is refreshing to see at least one thoughtful and creative response to the health insurance crisis.

Wars and environmental challenges, minor issues such as these are the result of ignoring worldwide problems for long periods of time. It takes a lot of determination to ignore such large problems, because most solutions really want to be applied, and have to be held back with significant force.

This blog explores the idea that our differences might be much simpler to conceptualize than we are giving them credit for.

Is There A Magical Force Beyond Just Momentum ?

What is this force that causes people to go against their own impulses to fix things, and to ignore solutions that have been readily available for decades? Momentum often gets the blame, and I won't argue with that, but I'll propose that this force is much more magical than the mere momentum of human behaviors - there are underlying contracts.

This blog is being "re-purposed". That means everything that's not truly related to What If or Could Be issues is being moved to more appropriate locations.

Java: 

• http://appwriter.com

Personal:

• http://betterologist.net

Two years of content on this site will begin to migrate as 2010 approaches. 

America was founded on the separation of church and state, perhaps it should have been "religion" and state instead, and then we could avoid things like this meltdown that we are currently suffering from.

In my view, the cause of the meltdown was a simple confusion between the religion of free markets and the underlying fundamentals of free markets.

Complex things are not useful; useful things are not complex. Mikail Kalishnakov

I am studying both disciplines here lately

• NLP ( in this case the MetaModel )
• Business Rules (a way to sort out the "if this, then that" logic that guides actions.)

No relation to each other, I just like them both.

But if I add in a third thing called the Rule of Seven it seems that humans are just not ready to do both rules and NLP in one easy operation. Pick any two

Capitalism has many meanings to many people through many different periods of time, as this wikipedia article on Capitalism suggests. 

The central "metric", or measuring stick in Capitalism seems to be money, or sometimes in a more abstract sense power, such as the power that having lots of money brings someone. But mainly it's the "more is better" metric, expanded to whatever culture it is implemented in.

My topic today is not, for me, hypothetical ...

... and I would be delighted to hear from anyone else in this predicament, and how they approach it.

For a couple of years now, I have been spread out over all the computers that I have been asked to work with. (including some of my own). This includes the following:

This whole thing about Automation and Creativity is an odd contradiction.

I have half a day of work getting my 4 minute blog created from a one hour bike ride yesterday.

I can now automate most of these tasks, they are already much more automated than they would ever have been 5 years ago, but the more automated they are sometimes the least creativity.

Its an odd contrast.