Abstract Crime and Ice Skating

The thought I woke with this morning was Abstraction.  It was probably born of my experience yesterday on a high mountain lake.  Frozen at the beginning of the the winter season into a skating paradise.  It took a couple mile cross country ski to get to it.  It was the finest open frozen lake "wild" skating I have ever done since high school.

There is little or no abstraction in an intimate connection with nature.  Even if the encounter is abstracted to the very high level of poetry.  It started with a one to one relationship of me to nature, us to our world.

Michio Kaku is a brilliant man.  Last week I viewed a video in which he talks about artificial intelligence and high levels of abstraction.  My first encounter with his thoughts was on the web many years ago.  A background comment was that he loved to ice skate.  Thoughts of the nature of the universe came to him when he skated.  I felt a soul connection.  Last week I tucked a note away in my mind to write something about Michio and his latest video.

Waking with a thought to write about Michio I browsed the latest on the web first.  One of the sites I have not been to often since the Iraq war is Counterpuch.  Excellent site.  Still is.  I read this on that site this morning and my focus shifted from writing  about the positive value of reducing our abstracted distance from nature to an up close one on one relationship to the the negative nature of abstraction that distances us from grasping the nature of the one to one relationship at its core.

This negative nature of abstraction is exemplified by this at Counterpunch:  The American Criminal Elite: An Orgy of Thieves.  JEFFREY ST. CLAIR and ALEXANDER COCKBURN are focused on a new war.  The war internal to the Homeland.  It presents the crime of theft as simply as it is perceived to be on a one to one basis.  A thief, a gun and a victim.  Low class crime.  No abstraction of crime there to cover up what it is.  As crime becomes more abstract however it is harder to recognize.  It becomes more abstract because it is made to be more abstract by design.

Higher level abstract crime is practiced with far greater return as demonstrated by those that get the most money from its practice.  Generally called the higher economic class, the wealthy, even though it is a subset of the wealthy that continues to make their money the old fashion way of old school theft in the industrial age abstracted to the technological age.  Bill Black calls it Control Fraud.

High level abstraction is a two edge sword.  Cuts for good.  Cuts for bad.  Either way it is difficult to understand simply because it is highly abstracted from the real things at the foundation of its conceptual structure.  When it serves us and our needs the high level of abstract structure is open to investigation, validation, understanding and refinement.  The "dark side" of high levels of abstraction robs us of what we value through structured control fraud abstractions that is hard to understand, with no documentation.  It must be hidden or, more likely, hidden in plain sight but made so complex by smoke screens fraught with loop holes to hide exactly what it is and the structure that enables it.

The only public description of the abstract structure that supports the criminal elite comes when it is brought to trial and the wheels of justice expose the structured truth of the abstract elite criminal system as evidence of the crime.  The defense of the criminal elite in this case?  Never come to trial.  At least not in the formal justice system.  Never come to trial in the court of popular opinion.  The opinion formed and shaped by the media to a great extent.

This link:  A ranking of the worlds richest people.

That is the dark side of high level structured abstractions that support crimes against society using the tools of the information age.  Now that I have gotten that out of the way I can move on to the glory of Michio Kaku's universe where things are not moving away from us in increasingly abstract conceptual structures of levels but are moving towards us and we come full circle back to the essence of life.

I am going ice skating this morning.  Dance on ice with the thoughts of Michio.

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Update 9 Dec. 2013

Michio expresses an idea here on unity:  Is God a Mathematician  While the YouTube video is more recent it is something that he has said before, perhaps in connection to ice skating.  I recall writing down what he said years ago thinking it was so profound and at a time that I was looking at string theory.  In the YouTube video he gives a supporting explanation of his final statement that I found to be so profound:

"The mind of God is Cosmic Music.  The music of strings resonating through 11 dimensional hyper space."

It is absolutely logical that the brilliant mind of Michio Kaku would seek the one thing that explains all.  I like the part where he explains the length of the probable mathematical formula that that would hand us the physics explanation solution .  He holds up two fingers about an inch apart.