Sander's Plan to Turn Post Offices into Banks

 Good idea Bernie!  Link is here.

For the benefit of the people (is that Socialism) this is the business practice what Bernie wants to correct. Conservative Free Private Enterprise has a different view.

I commented previously in this blog about the importance of a federal government physical presence at the local level in every city and town in the USA.  A presence to extends physically to every postal address.  Nothing else in the federal government has such a physical presence down to the granular level of connection to an individual citizen.

The growth of the Information Age is made possible by the logical separation of information from its tight binding to a physical medium.  Nothing illustrates it more or better than an old school letter that has been replaced by email.  The letter carrier agency is now the internet.  The letter now called email is still carried physically by wire and or by radio wave or other form of physical carrier method.  The Information Age breaks the tight physical binding of logical information to its physical medium that we can hold in our hands and takes the abstract concept of language which is the wrapper of the information and places it in a higher degree of abstraction that does not require paper to convey.

While information and its physical connection to the medium that stores and transmits it is becoming increasingly separated by higher levels of conceptual abstraction distance between the physical and logical connection layers I believe this to be true:  There is always a connection.....until we can read each others thoughts and then there must still be some physical connection to transmit and store and process those thoughts.  We have not come up with that yet but when we do it will still involve a physical relationship between our mind's conceptual representations/interpretation and all those electrical impulses and synapses in the brain to process them.

So that is my case for the never ending connection between the nature of conceptual thought and the physical real world.  They grow farther apart and become more independent entities freeing each other of the inter-dependent nature that impose mutual restrictions on efficiency in communication processing and meaning but must always have the connection between physical medium and logical meaning no matter how many abstract steps it takes to connect them.

Post Offices and the physical postal communication system, down to the local geographical level are a physical entity that we must preserve.  It is our link as citizens to our federal government and its services.  It will be our only physical link when federal government evolves to become e-government.  It will be our fail-safe physical presence connection among ourselves at the federal/state and local level.

Maintaining that physical/logical conceptual relationship to the extent that we can always resurrect the binding nature of the relationship to the extent of degree necessary to backtrack historical separation made possible by technology to a level that provides the necessary services to maintain our functions as a nation is vitally important.

There are two examples of the physical representation of a thing and its abstract conceptual expression.

To clarify this idea before I express the idea in the following paragraph:  What is being read here in letters, words is physical as if they were written on paper yet the physical medium is electronic.  Still physical viewed on the screen, relatively unchained from any physical representation format like paper but tightly tied to its conceptual meaning.  However, with a keystroke I can send it all back to the its historic (pre-historic considering the Information Age progress over my own life time) form of printed on paper!  The backward chain remains unbroken!  And it is quicker than monks transcribing the bible!

Two examples:  Maybe not the best ones but off the top of my head they seem to fit.  Maybe not after I finish writing about them but food for thought in any event if the chain of my thoughts have any connection value?  Don't know yet.

Military/Police  Establishment Entity and Power as agency of  State.
 and
Spiritual Establishment Entity and Power as an agency of Religion.

Two ends of a continuum of power separated by their ultimate degree of tightness of binding, communication and expression between the nature of their physical and conceptual relationship.

Both have a physical presence.   I contend that they have an equal degree of presence and a variable degree of conceptual influence from centralized to localized.  Think about it.

Military/Police Establishment are boots on the ground in town at the local level as our city police force and its police presence in offices and patrols.

Spiritual  Establishment entity are boots on the ground in town at the local level as our spiritual ministers and their church presence.

Guns and force are hardware tools of expressing the physical oriented nature of Military/Police in purpose/application and relate through several degrees of software abstraction to their associated controlling conceptual entity.

Beliefs are tools of the conceptual oriented nature of Spiritual Ministers that relate through several degrees of software abstraction to their physical application and connection to their associated controlling entity. 

Two ends of a spectrum book ended by Physical and Logical

Each with a founding footing at an opposite end with a conceptual chain of implementation toward the other.  One entity chooses to implement the relationship with a software program based on one or the other ends as the Subject of the relationship and the other as the Object of the relationship that gives meaning to the resulting Subject/Action/Object entity relationship.

This is going somewhere.  For me at least.

Maybe the way to sum it up is:

There are many a slip between the cup and the lip.

The meaning of the slip is really embedded in the choice of the cup or the lip playing in the role of subject or object.  They are each only physical entities that serve a higher conceptual relationship expressed in some mystical format called the cup of life?

Bringing this all back to what Bernie expressed as a good idea to enhance the purpose of the Post Office:

There is not another agency entity like the Post Office other than Police or Ministers and their associated physical locations in our communities and direct delivery of services to our citizens with an equally strong link of "software" connecting abstraction to the associated controlling entity.

In the case of Police at the local level the controlling entity is the state up through the Local/State/National level for law enforcement.  The Post Office delivers a different service to all our citizens that is not security related but has a different service orientation that it performs as an established and well known geographic specific entity in every city/town in our country.

The Post Office is a socialized institution providing social services.  Its services should be expanded to serve our citizens.  It is in an excellent position to do this due to its localized presence as sole source of physical services to community as well as physical portal to conceptual services of government.

It is the objective of private enterprise extremist to adopt or eliminate government services to increase profit and/or reduce government control of private enterprise for the public good.

Reduction of Postal Services at the community level or elimination of the Post Office as an end game serves the objectives of Private Enterprise Extremism.

In the broader view of the thinking expressed in this blog entry it is Free Private Enterprise that stands equal to state and religion in its geographic and conceptual presence through out our entire nation at the local level.  Its specific controlling entity at the national level its is local connection through "software" operations of business is not a equally defined.  That is the nature of the concept of competition.  On the other hand a goal of business is to eliminate competition but it must be done in accordance with "business rules".  Self controlling, regulating and enforcing, of course.