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Is there life after the market retreats part II?



The element of time and energy plays an important and decisive role in understanding what exactly is a post-institutional effect. A post- institutional effect is one in which institutions that we are strongly accustomed to are fast eroding and being replaced by either virtual or de novo ones. By the latter I mean by forms and structures that we do not and cannot possibly know how it will look like or turn out to be in the near future. In order for a post-institutional effect to take place or to understand why is it taken place at such a stronger rate than ever before we must not overlook certain factors. One of them is that with a post-institutional effect would not mean that the underpinning variables are no longer wanted or needed. For instance, should and indeed it does, applies to states would not mean that there is no need for government or for the markets, the exchange of goods and services, the ethics about the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ social equality and so forth. Another factor it does not mean that there will possible be a reversion of old conflicts or forms but at the same time the change and to say it precisely the dynamic changes of the underpinning values will have from a historical perspective a warped outcome. A good case in example is the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The underpinning value here is the techonology developed by mankind going way out of control. My assertion is that nuclear weapons are highly obsolete these days namely again going to the debate and understanding of technology in this light. For instance what makes technology technology, the use of human invention and the ability of mankind to recreate and redesign nature is based theoretically on his ability to see nature beyond his or her senses. Think of some of the simplest inventions that ran across thousands of year, such as the day mankind invented fire, introduce the bronze and iron chariots, developed irrigation techniques, discovered electricity, then the light bulb, the horseless carriage now referred to as the car, plastic, fission technology and the internet itself(though this last one isn’t so simple). One of the basic premise on the strength and drive of technological innovation is the ability to control and provide for the many. The setback to this however is that like anything else technology despite what anyone would like to believe is the ability of those to elude it. As the elusiveness becomes greater the restraint in which one would allow to be used the fantasies and awesome power there of weakens, the idea that Osama Bin Laden for some bizarre reason is able to elude the US for some time only shows the prospects and intensity of another terrorist strike or war would no doubt diminish the previous ones at the onset at the turn of the century. Where as Bin Laden represents those entities outside the ‘state’ trying to do damage to whatever there is and left of the world order. It is In fact Bin Laden himself who becomes one of the other single actors trying to acquire nuclear weapons himself. How Bin Laden came to be and how the shift from states or empires conflicting itself rest again on the use of nuclear weapons in other conflicts namely in Bosnia (pellets), Iraq(even though they use heavy bombs loaded with over a ton of cement) and Afghanistan(bunker-busters) as they call them. So the idea that the likelihood that the US, some rogue nation or fringe terrorist use some type of nuclear device remaining small and distant is an assessment that is just totally off the mark. Think of the use in urban areas in the US of dirty bombs.

Nuclear weapons itself is perhaps one of the stronger if not the strongest inventions of mankind. However we must not be misled that there isn’t a thousand or perhaps thousands of other inventions on that level that have been created. It is just the level of such an invention in which it has occurred that allows us to understand the function of the elements of time and energy. Dealing with technology only asserts that people are controlled too much and are understood too much on economic factors or at least to understand anything outside of it as being incomprehensive. Therefore we must look at things in the mere factor that states, war, economic achievement, and the notion of what it is to be an individual is shaped by the energetic forces that must be let loose. The civil rights movement is perhaps over the last fifty years in the United States is perhaps the strongest one in which case if anything that should catch up with the way policy makers and activism see things it will be here. The best way to define the civil rights structure in the United States is the level of intervention in which basic human needs and protection of civil liberties is articulated to whatever government structure there is. I would like to agree with any historians and critics that it is in the forms of Reconstruction periods. Here there are perhaps two of them that occurred, the starting points remaining dubious but the end points that many would more than likely agreed upon. The First Reconstruction period can be start anytime from the the beginnings of the civil war or when the South was defeated and the 13th 14th and 15th Amendments was added to the US Constitution and Union military occupation in those states and ended in dreadful election of 1876. The Second Reconstruction can be anywhere from the end of the Second World War or the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1854 to no doubt 1996 when for some weird and strange reason the voters in California voted for the notorious and infamous Proposition 209, outlawing affirmative action and racial preferences in institutional admittance and hiring. It would have gone even crazier with the one I can’t remember it only a few years ago. If there is a Third Reconstruction it will no doubt arise from some bizarre reason out of the World trade Center attack several years ago in which case hate crimes and enmity to foreign born citizens became increasingly prolific. How the World Trade Center attack occurred has to deal with the time of not enough if poorly sought government intervention in the areas of civil rights taken place such as the idea that if we are living in an increasingly mobile society there are definitely be much stronger pressure on societal resources in different and stronger forms. The terrorist who committed the attacks weren’t people who lived in the ghettoes but were attending flight schools, able to wire money into the US. In fact it was learned that the profiles of these terrorist pretty much contradict of what most people thought any terrorist that would likely commit these act to be. Most of them had children, well educated, and by our standards had a profession( I am not too clear on this but the argument would lean towards this way).

The energy assessment apart from the time factor has to do with the insatiable need of society for stronger computers and the post-institutional effect on the economy. As there is a need for stronger computers, there is a need for the basic element in which is processed the main component of the machine, the microchip or sand. As more computers are made, more are simply thrown. This change affects how business is being performed, how people view each other, how class structures are shaped. Sooner or later something have to give, the need for newer and radically different technologies to come take its place-such as nanotechnology. In effect the ability of these terrorist being able to overtake a plane using only boxcutters is the massive force and unleashing of energy being taken place. There is no doubt a strong story line that resulted from this. Of course, the ousting of the Taliban and Hussein from Afghanistan and Iraq respectively is in retrospect one but I would argue that it just reflect the obsolescence of state institution, structures, conventions and mores. I think what you see in Iraq is just a forum that historians would see twenty years from now of the post-instituitional effect and obsolescence of the state itself, free markets, democracy, and so on. The bombing of Madrid, the Virginia Sniper case, Martha Stewart going to prison, the shutdown of the NHL, North Korea having the nuclear bomb , the recent tsunami disaster(which is almost like a small scale world) and stuff like these reflects more of the reality of a post-9-11 world. The post-Soviet man or woman if he or she needs to survive and feel free must somehow or another reflect his or her personality throught these events. If to say the least where does he or she fits in is perhaps much more difficult to explain then to see.

In the March 25, 2005 issue of the Boston Globe(‘Mapping Genes-quickly, ppD1and D4) scientist will be able to do what took well over 10 years and close to 3 billion dollars in be done in as a little within an hour. The gadget is known as the ‘454 Life Sciences Genome Sequencing System’ costing a’ mere $500,000’ in which a technician or scientist is able to place on a very tiny plate the size of the width of the human hair single strands of a DNA sequence in which a special digital camera , along with a chemical reactions, lights is passed and able to take snap shots of each strand or genetic code. This is pretty difficult for me to explain but the level of debate in which things take place and what newer generations must deal with a have certainly been compacted to unreal levels that is groundbreaking and unavoidable. A post-institutional effect wouldn’t just rely on the fact of what new medicines and treatments that will take place but what evils or darkness that lurks outside. Such technological advancement is the equivalent of detonating a nuclear device in one’s room. Not only will government will have to intervene and regulate the matter but there will be others who will use it to seek such tools for their own ends. The world of only one Bin Laden has certainly run its course. The concept of armies and empires will have to be drastically redefined and alas the post-Soviet man in his or her thirst to substitute those household and luxuriant needs in which the market and economy cannot sustained in other forms of slavery or labor exploitation and on the brighter mass entertainment.