Shapes of Things

According to Thom Hartman's upcoming book, the shape of the economy is not only bad now but will continue to be for years. Apparently Thom's next book will be titled "The Coming Crash of 2015." My guess if that his hope may be "If things get bad enough somehow the people will wake up and see the error of their ways and throw the republican bums out and elect liberal democrats in their place. I've been beguiled by this "things can't get any worse" fallocy so many times I wouldn't assume that some cosmic hand is going to step in to either save us, or rouse the people to common sense. It's never worked with the family or Christian friends. The truth is that you "hit bottom" not at some mystical point but rather when you "decide that you've just had enough" and act on that. The truth is we don't have to wait for 2015 to act, we can act right now. We can act next year. We could have acted in 2009 and crafted the stimulus bill so that it created the jobs we really needed to have instead of boondoggle givaways to voters in certain districts. We could have had a President who commanded moral authority. Vincent Bugliosi points out that a big factor in Chris Darden and Marsha Clark loosing the O J trial was that there was absolutely no moral outrage or telling the jurors "You OWE it to those two dead young people to turn in the right verdict". Only God knows why Americans haven't found the will to get their electoral act together before this. I thought "If we ever elected a Black president all our problems would be solved". Boy was I proven wrong! In order to "break out of our rut" what we're most likely going to have to do is abandon political party structures. And you know what they say, "A rut is just an open-ended grave". We cannot be cowed by either tradition or think we are acting in the name of "expediancy". Here's a news flash. Anything that "doesn't work" can't be called expediant. And what we have tried up till now hasn't worked. Reformers have never been afraid to do in the past. Even Jesus said "You can't put new wine in old wine skins". But people just don't have the balls today to do the things patriots routinely used to do in film excerpts from "Profiles in Courage" we used to see in school.

Now they have something called "Tea-vangelists". Well, it's the dreaded union of Ayan Rand and the Holy Spirit. The results can't be good. The tea party were people who held Ayan Rand as their hero - - as Hartman has pointed out many times on his show. In their character they are essentially godless heathens who care only for themselves. There is no sense of helping out your fellow man, as Jesus taught, and there is no sense of "stewardship of the earth, which belongs to God" as God told Adam and Eve to do. My continuing growing disdain of Christianity largely centers on the fact that little by little, Christianity is slowly and inevitably becomming less "Christian". First it was the hyper commercialization of Jesus trinkets and "Jesus music". Then it was their "Me, first and last" gospel. To this Neil Savedra added in his two cents of "Don't depend on God for nothing". And finally the tea party throws in their tax element imputing near holiness to the Wall Streeters and the transnational corporations and the banksters. And at the same time saying those who plead for a more equitable distribution of wealth in America as "liberation theologists" or "collectivists" or just suffering from "Coveting thy neighbor's goods" as the tenth commandment prohibits. Now evangelists are appealing to housewives that are home during the day saying "You are the ones who started the tea party movement and I must say that's a pretty big joke for God to play on the liberals". They are playing on the discredited myth that the tea party of a "grass root movement of concerned Americans". Randy Rhodes says she was fooled by them originally but I never was. Of course in a Dylan song Bob Dylan speaks of "the tea preacher looked so baffled, when I asked him why he he dressed with twenty pounds of headlines stapled to his chest". The rest of the verse goes "But he curse me when I proved to him, that a whisper said not even you can hide. You see you're just like me. I hope you're satisfied". This would allude to sexual conduct. Randy Rhodes points out how the Republicans are quick to forgive their own gross sexual conduct. What do you do with someone like Mark LeVin? As Hartman points out these appeals to the social right are just trinkets and come-ons, to suck you into their real agenda of having corporations take over the world and have our Constitution be irrelivent.

It's always humbling to admit you were wrong about something, especially when you thought you hit upon the holy grail of dimensional theories. But this is just the case with me where I checked out my theory of 2009 on dimension prediction and learned that I was flat out wrong. I checked out Wickipedia. They used a trippy demonstration of a four dimensional cube and even had animations. We now come to that 24 sided cube thing in Wickipedia. I have deduced that the number 24 is correct. There are only 24 frames in their cube and not 36 because I was counting twelve of them twice. There were four connecting faces extending from each of the six primary faces like the opening up of a box connecting the nearer cube with the distant one. I made the logical error of assuming each "box" opened with four flaps and got 24 when there were only 12. Also I counted out the dimensions one by one. The exercise went like this. Dimensions 1 and 2 separated by 3; dementions 1 and 3 separated by 2, dimensions 2 and 3 separated by 1. Now I’ve done a quarter of them without using dimension 4 at all. I could do the same sort of calculations three more times omitting the numbers 3, and then without 2, and then without 1, and if you double each calculation you get 24 cube faces. I made a logical error in my original formula two years ago. The number of faces for 4 dimensions is 24 because each set of six planes can play itself twice with one remaining dimension number, and twice again with the remaining dimension number making 24. It’s just that simple. You can do this exercise with five dimensions where you would have 10 plans and three numbers to use, giving you 30, which gets doubled to 60. With six dimensions you have 15 plains and four unused dimensions and 4 x 15 is 60 which doubles to 120. With seven dimensions you have 21 planes and 5 unused dimensions which after you double it gives you 10 x 21 or 210 faces on a seven dimensional cube. Keep in mind according to the rules of the game all the corners of the cube must be ninety degrees and each cube must have two congruent faces that are both parrell planes to each other but also perpimdicularly separated from each other. All the shapes need not be squares, but the two opposing faces must be congruent and parrellel- - - and also perpendicularly separated.

In three dimensional shapes you have the tetrahedron which can double to a hexahedron, you have the prison, with a triangle on top and three sides that are square and a triangle bottom. You have your triangle shape of three trapezoidal slanting shapes top and bottom with a triangle shape on the top and bottom. With four you can have a pentahedron which doubles to an octahedron, which is a doubled pyramid. You have your standard cube. You have a skewed quaderalateral on top and bottom with sides as rectangles or your basic flat “diamond” shape. You can skew again to have two more skewed sides in addition to the skewed top, and you can skew again in the other direction to have all six sides skewed as diamond quazdralatterals. Also you can use the same slanting trapezoidal shape guimic with a square top and bottom and four slanting trapezoidal sides at a 45 degre angle with a midsection of rectangles, to give you a square shape when viewed from the top and an octagonal shape when viewed from the side. And you can do the slanting trapazoid thing by itself without the middle portion made of squares and make the angle 30 degrees above and below the horizon on each side of the horozontal axis, to form a hexagon shape when viewed from the side. In addition to these Sketch has other shapes involving the “diamond” shape that are rather trippy. This is mixed with a diamond shape running vertically. With five sides you can have you basic Oreo pentagon, which has nothing to do with Collin Powell as chief of staff. You have your dou-decahedron all pentagonal sides shape, like that calendar paper weight thing we had in the early seventies. You can also have a single or doubled pentagonal pyramid, which would have ten faces. You can also have a pentoganal shape with trapezoid sides slanting in from a common center with a flattened top and bottom allowing for a pentagon on these two faces. Sketch also features pentagonal shapes with a mixture of triangles and pentagons, and also pentagons and hexagons combined in one shape, don’t even ask me how. There is also a pentagonal shape made entirely out of triangles. I believe this employs twelve pentagonal pyramids only slightly raised, on each of the twelve pentagonal faces. With the hexogon you can again your basic Oreo hexagon with the six rectangular sides and a hexagon on top and bottom. You can have a doubled six sided pyramid with all the lines coming to singular points at top and bottom. You can combine these shapes to include a rectangular shapes middle. You can have slanting trapezoidal sides (six of these) top and bottom below a horizontal medium with a hexagonal top and bottom. You can also have a shape that’s a hexagon of hexagons forming a circle with a jagged zig-zag roof line kind of line an open out folding fan- - with all the connecting lines coming to a peak at the top or at the bottom. They say there exists a shape made up of pure hexagons made up of 72 faces but Sketch doesn’t have it. Finally we come to curved surfaces. We have your basic cyllender, which can be flattened out into a cookie or coin shape. You have your sphere, your cone, and your doubled cone. You can have a doubled cone with a flattened circular face top and bottom. And you can have your basic sphere with a sliced off top and bottom akin to your frizbee or flying saucer shape. You can vary this theme with a shallow cyllendrical midsection and conic tops and bottoms. The possibilities are amazing. Don't get tripped out by the blue if it shows. These are texts not included in a letter to two people this morning.