Why Do We Fight and The Valuation Of Our Existence

Why do we fight

Because we disagree.

Why do we disagree

Because of our worldview.

Why do we have disagreeable worldviews?

Because we clash in the pursuit of resources necessary for the valuation of our existence.

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Schizophrenia and Hypocricy Of The Non-Regulated Global Economy

Recently corporate media has inundated our challenged attention span with news of a 1,000 dead persons, workers at a Bangladesh Garment Factory, victims of the schizophrenic and hypocritical non-regulated global economy narrative.


The corporate media storylines of the 4/24/13; Bangladesh Garment Factory catastrophe has been a stylized focus on the human tragedy, an underlining of the humaness of the dead workers.

In this contemporary social zeitgeist, more is owed the dead workers by those who death trumpet their humaness, but in life exploited and insulted their humaness by keeping silent on the conditions and practices that cumulated in and catalyzed their death.

The resulting editorializing and commentaries on the non-regulated and criminally deplorable Bangladesh Garment Factory work conditions by corporate media post mortem 4/24/13; should have been done pre 4/24/13; with equal zeal.  But considering that the consumers of corporate media benefit from the schizophrenia and hypocricy of the non-regulated global economy which Bangladesh and it's cheap and poorly paid garment factory workers play their umpa lumpa  roles, it wasn't 2.0 worthy of hors d'oeuvre chatter to recognize the humaness of Bangladesh moreorless critique their work conditions.

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A Nations Decline, Idealistic-Violence, Wendy Walsh School Prayer and Religion

A nations decline isn't borne on the wings of decadence and a generalized corruption as historians have classically pronounced.  Unless the corruption is that of a lazy mind.  But a nations decline reflects to what extent, idealism and it's delusions are disseminated as practical responses to problems.

Lately the nation has been grappling with the question of idealistic-violence.  Idealistic in the sense that the violence doesn't further the objective-narrative of progress of the Human Condition.

So into this dialectical struggle steps Wendy Walsh, a self described behavior expert.  Which as professional designation highlights the very nature of a nations decline; with purported analytical response.  Wendy Walsh declared with full entire weight of human history and it's accumulated cognition on her delusional shoulders.  That lack of school prayer, absence of religion are to blame for violence and depravity.

Contrary to the delusions of Wendy Walsh and her idealistic ravings, the violent speech of Religion bears as much responsibility for idealistic-violence as the psychosis of idealism.

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Surveillance Totalitarianism, Circa Post 9-11 and State Security

Leading up to the revision of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, the United States and it's NATO Alliance used to level a polemic of Surveillance Totalitarianism against it as indictment of Socialism and it's Communist anticipations requiring Surveillance Totalitarianism.

The Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies responded with: National meddling, interference and sabotage from the United States and it's NATO Alliance warranted such Surveillance Totalitarianism from the state security apparatus.  The United States and it's NATO naturally scoffed.

Fast Forward to circa post 9-11 and what we now have is the United States and the NATO Alliance applying Surveillance Totalitarianism in a manner the Soviets and Warsaw Pact couldn't have imagined nor dreamed of which confirms the maxim: The naivete of Communist idealism is no match for the repression of Capitalist Facism.

If the state security rationale wasn't good for the Soviets and it's Warsaw Pact goose, then it most definitely isn't for the United States and it's NATO allies gander circa post 9-11 practicing Surveillance Totalitarianism.

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Republicans, The Campaign Disclosure Act, The U.S. Constitution and Progress

Republicans in the U.S. Senate in July 2012 voted down the Campaign Disclosure Act which would have required full disclosure of donor activity to campaigns, under the premise it restricted free speech.

The metrics wielding in contemporary right wing Republican Conservatism politics turns on the head the motivational impetus of the nations Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and replaces it's progress with reaction.  A reaction which true to the Intellectual-Liberalism of it's Conservatism is status quo and elitist in nature.

The objectivity of progress is contextually to know, to understand more, a full disclosure and exposure of the inner workings of phenomena whether it's the natural world or the machinations of donor activity in modern American Political campaigns.  Only those reactionaries and the Intellectual-Liberalism of their Republican-Conservatism foist the idea that status-quo secrecy is progress and Democratic which is what the defeat by Republicans in the U.S. Senate of the campaign disclosure act in July 2012 ridiculousy claims.

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Craig Watkins District Attorney of Dallas County, Texas, The Black Community and The Application of State Organized Violence and It's Justice Ideal

Why isn't Craig Watkins, District Attorney of Dallas County, Texas recognized in a serious way by the Black  community and it's intelligentsia.

During Craig Watkins tenure as District Attorney he has exonerated approximately twenty-one wrongfully convicted persons, one at least thirty years of unlawful imprisonment.  This is extraordinary, an American Prosecutor actually concerned with getting the application of state organized violence and it's justice ideal right.

The undeniable nexus of American society with the Black American Experience is that of state organized violence and it's justice ideal.  Despite the pervasiveness of criminality within American society the sanctioning and imprisonment of back offenders has always exceeded it's per capita ratio.

One would assume that the Black community and it's intelligentsia would exploit the utilitarianism of Craig Watkins as a shaming and critical polemic against other District Attorneys who execute the duties of their office as a mandate to only prosecute and sanction Black people--- idealistically Craig Watkins has been ignored and toils unnoticed.

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Anti-Social Security Trust Fund and The Idealistic Conservative Impetus and it's Intellectual-Liberalism Of Control

The Anti-Social Security argument perpetually made by Conservatism and it's Intellectual-Liberalism that  for every dollar paid by wage earners into the Social Security Fund, three or more dollars are extracted or paid out unearned.  Has nothing to do with "what is money" and Political-Economy fact but everything to do with the idealistic Conservative impetus and it's Intellectual-Liberalism of controlling the Political-Economy illiterate majority.

If each dollar paid into the government trust fund of Social Security isn't value appreciating parallel with the nations GDP (Gross Domestic Products).  Why then is the same dollar, privately speculated by it's critics, the idealistic Conservative impetus and it's Intellectual-Liberalism, appreciating in it's stock market activity?

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"What Do Women Want," Dialectical-Materialism, The Daughter-Relationship and Value Speculation

Idealism poses the question: "What Do Women Want" and responds with it's typical one dimensional impetuous hubris, "Let the Woman decide".

Materialism on the other hand, specifically dialectical-materialism ignores the question and instead observes the subjectivity of it's organic fact, that the response is at the expense of the fact, the quality of the daughter-relationship determines what daughter as Woman will want.

The daughter-relationship more than any other social relationship has within it's circumscription the tensions of immature contradictions and the mature antagonisms of human Political--Economy as organic base. Irrespective of class and nationality.

Recently, the daughter-relationship dialectic has again been examined in a new book "Lean In" by Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook and as expected of a nation flailing under the fog of idealism and the Intellectual-Liberalism of it's conservative ideation, it was welcomed apoplectically.

Dialectical-Materialism reminds us that the vacuous nature of idealism and the Intellectual-Liberalism of it's Conservative ideation would have us observe social relationships and human Political-Economy as existing in a vacuum or biologic inconsistencies and suppositions of cultural biases.  We at Apropos in defense of dialectical-materialism reject that.

We at Apropos state it bluntly: The Daughter-Relationship dialectic and it's "What do Women Want" question is fundamentally that of value and it's speculation.

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Barack Obama, Nat Turner, Steve Harvey, "Hoodlum" And The American Experience

From Barack Obama, President of the United States, honoring Nat Turner in his 2/22/12; speech at the African-American Museum to Steve Harvey's the talk show host recognition of his father.  Who Steve Harvey unflappably describes as a "Hoodlum" as being the motive force in his life who inculcated and instilled work ethic in him, to quote "Being a Man," there is a dynamic unfettered in contemporary society that at it's heart has the thrust of the Black Experience on it's own terms, without that axiomatic, apologetic taint of eurocentric understudy.

The usual narrative of the Black Experience meaning it's distortions by eurocentrisim is a pacified, defanged and caricaturized one.  Where a Nat Turner or a "Hoodlum" are valueless and not invaluable as the recognition by Barack Obama, President of the United States and Steve Harvey a successful talk show host imply.

That the Nat Turner, the "Hoodlum," facts of the Black Experience are invaluably on equal terms with all other facts of the American Experience.

If Thomas Jefferson, an owner of Slaves, trader of Slaves is redeemed.  Then we must grasp the one-dimensional nature of all critique hurled at the Black Experience at the idealistic expense of it's organic base the American Experience.

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Aunt Jemima's Like Wendy Williams, The Talk Show Host and Her "Well Spoken" Black Critique

Aunt Jemima's like Wendy Williams The Talk Show Host, in their mediocre inability to provide substantial contextual narrative to popular culture are the ones who keep the idealistic futility of stereotyping alive and well.

Wendy Williams will always to a fault critique Black pop culture personalities with the "well spoken" qualifier which she never does with White pop cultural personalities.  The implication being, speaking is something Black people have to do well.

So what is this "well spoken" critique Wendy Williams as Aunt Jemima apologist presents?

The "well spoken" critique is one rank with the stench of self hatred and inferiority loathing.  It simply says Wendy Williams perceives her Blackness and heritage through the "I Am Thy Darker Brother,"  "Gone With The Wind" prism.  Which supposes idealistically that Black people are inarticulate and speak in a peculiarly distinct manner that isn't "White Like" and somehow disqualifys and devalues their cultural vantage narrative.

What the Aunt Jemima mediocrity of the likes of Wendy Williams are incapable of grasping is Value
in it's pop cultural context as in all other social aspects is dialectical. The mere existence of Wendy Williams as Talk Show Host speaks to the dialectic and her "Well Spoken" Black critique only emphasizes the latent inferiority complex of Wendy Williams and her Aunt Jemima inclinations as default.

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Wayne LaPierre, Government, Disinformation and What Is Lawful

Wayne LaPierre, executive Vice-President of the NRA is wont to say and we paraphrase:  Government shouldn't dictate what gun owners lawfully use to protect and defend their families.

This exampled Wayne LaPierre paraphrase is typical and endemic of what passes for contemporary public debate, it's discussion and polemic.

The only thing gleaned from Wayne LaPierre's Pro Gun anti-government statement is: It's crass disinformation, intended for the inattentive and gullible ears of the naive and idealistic.

In response to Wayne LaPierre we state: Government doesn't have to dictate what is lawful because it is the arbiter and determinant of what is lawful and unlawful.

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Disservice Done By Corporate Media To The Nations Political-Economy and Intentionally Misleading Commentary On Presidential Legacy

A disservice done by corporate media to the nations Political-Economy is with the way it flames national issues and points of discussion.

How often are we told by corporate media journalist as Soledad O'Brien, John King, Gloria Borger et al that there is tension between a Presidents agenda, what a President wants, Presidential legacy and what the party wants or what Congress wants.  This descriptive characterized tension of a Presidents agenda, legacy and what the party Congress wants is a disservice done by corporate media because it is wrong and intentionally misleading.

A Presidents agenda, legacy, a party's platform, what it wants, what Congress wants are reflective of what people, the citizenry want and that is how corporate media journalist as Soledad O'Brien, John King, Gloria Borger et al should describe such Political-Economy activity.  On the contrary what we are told which borders on indoctrination is this false tension between a Presidents agenda, Presidential legacy and what Congress wants.

An aspect of corporate media's historical duty is to illustrate the unity between what citizens vote for and what is accomplished by the political functionaries.  Instead, what Soledad O'Brien, John King, Gloria Borger et al assault our senses with are intentionally misleading commentary that are a disservice to the nations Political-Economy.

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Christopher Fountain, The "Media", Selective Critique and Reaction

Christopher Fountain an Attorney Blogger is typical of the morass of Intellectual-Liberalism.  There isn't rhyme or reason to his practice save reaction.  So on 12/27/12; during his interview on CNN's Starting Point  Christopher Fountain stated that the motive force guiding him to release the addresses of journalist at the Journal News a Suburban New York newspaper was he wanted to "hit back" at the "media" and particularly the Journal News for releasing the names of gun permit holders in it's readership area.

Apropos takes no position on the practicality of the Journal News publishing the identities of gun permit holders in it's readership area.  But what we will focus on is the hypocrisy, inconsistency and Intellectual-Liberalism of the Christopher Fountain's who muddy our national reason with their idealism and it's reaction.

Christopher Fountain a Blogger self-styled "publisher" implied that he is the correcting force to the media that runs roughshod over gun owners vis a vis Conservatives.  This explicit criticism is at the expense of Christopher Fountain himself being a member of the "media" per virtue of his practice as a blogger.  His hypocrisy, inconsistency and Intellectual-Liberalism is pathetically glaring with his admitted "two wrongs" reaction to the Journal News identifying gun permit holders.

This selective critique and it's reaction to the euphemistic "media" by certain elements of national polity as represented by Christopher Fountain serves no other purpose than that of backwardness.  A backwardness that has it's fountainhead in shadows long illuminated by progressive thesis in contrast to reaction and it's recklessness.

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Production, It's Means, Labor, "Right To Work", The Intellectual-Liberalism Of Republican-Conservatism and Speculative-Value

We know the history of production and it's means, we know the labor, management historical-narrative and both are diversions and distortions from the real work of what is the redemption of Speculative-Value from the alienation of it's idealistic narrative.  Pursuit and existence of the "Right To Work" idea by Intellectual-liberalism of Republican-Conservatism fits this tactical diversion and distortion.

In order for production, it's means and labor to redeem itself from the distortions of Speculative-Value and the Intellectual-Liberalism of Republican-Conservatism, the world of Political-Economy, it's facts and laws must be stabilized.

Historically revolutions have attempted to secure the stability of Political-Economy, it's facts and laws at the expense of challenging the Intellectual-Liberalism of Conservatism and it's Speculative-Value supposition.  The result of not challenging the Intellectual-Liberalism of Conservatism and it's Speculative-Value suppositions allows Political-Economy inaccuracies to dominate human existence and the sisyphean re-invention of the wheel.

The "Right To Work" push by Intellectual-Liberalism of Republican-Conservatism and its Speculative-Value suppositions, in absence of the necessary polemic to annihilate the "Right to Work" idealism, organized labor and unions should pursue the tactical statutorial position:  That any publically traded company should set aside 49% of it's gross sales specifically for wages and compensatory purposes.  The stress and tensions exerted on the publically traded company dialectic by speculation and Speculative-Value, it's constructed obligations and anticipations are the source of Political-Economy instability which unionization of organized labor is up against.

With 49% of gross sales set aside for wages and compensations.  Production, it's means and labor will not be short changed due to the constructed obligations and anticipations of speculation and speculative value.

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People Nor Guns Kill, Bullets Do and The Second Amendment

Contrary to easy way out reasoning, people nor guns kill, bullets do.  The Second Amendment of The U.S. Constitution is complete and fundamental in all respects.  It secures us the right to gun ownership.  Due to antagonisms in American society gun misuse is a existential-debilitating fact.  In consequence, responses set sights on the Second Amendment reactively.

We at Apropos state this: Gun ownership is a right, but the State should license possession of bullets.  The manufacturing of bullets should require individual bullet casings are embossed with lot identification.  The bullet license is specifically for purpose of gun misuse and retracing the history of the bullet to the licensed buyer.  Licensing and ability to retrace the history of a criminally misused bullet is the least intrusive and compromising of the Second Amendment as the State balances it's duty to the security and safety of it's citizens.

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Barack Obama Reelected President Of The United States, Republican-Conservatism Severely Trounced and Speculative-Value and It's Distortions

On Nov 6, 2012; Barack Obama (D) was reelected President of the United States by defeating Mitt Romney (R) in a Electoral College landslide and also winning the Popular vote.

Apropos the Blog of Political-Economy stands in solidarity and witness to the reelection.

This campaign and ensuing reelection was specifically momentous because reaction and it's motive force, Republican-Conservatism was severely trounced at an epic stage in the Imperialistic development of Speculative-Value and it's distortions.

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Speculative-Value, Political-Economy, Money and It's Currency Means Is A Result Of Government and Governance

What Speculative-Value, It's speculators, the Intellectual-Liberalism of anti-deficit, governmental spending critique ignore is this: When we return to the primitive basics of Political-Economy and money and it's currency means is removed from the Human Condition.  What we find is an absence of the investor class or venture capitalist as deceptively currently described by the Intellectual-Liberalism of Republican-Conservatism, job creators.  Because in the absence of money and it's currency means, the realization of value in the Human Condition is by the producer and creator-inventor class or farmers and artisans. This class and it's social-activity objectifies value by it's productivity.  For example the farmer produces food, the cattle rancher domesticates cattle for human consumption, the artisan creates and manipulates metal.  All this activity appears and happens in the absence of money and it's currency means.

Money and it's currency means happens as a specific mechanism to facilitate stability of expressed relations, conveying produced value in the Human Condition.  What this means is the emergence of money and it's currency means occurs when government or governance is developed.  So with the appearance of money and it's currency means do we see the emergence of speculative-value, speculators, the investor class or venture capitalist as Political-Economy phenomena fact in the Human Condition, specifically to profit.

The fundamentals of the Human Condition as we find it is the producer and artisan-inventor class interacting directly with the natural material environment without money and it's currency means objectifying value.

The creation of money, it's currency means is a result of government and governance and not in spite of it.  Speculative-Value, speculators, the investor class or venture capitalist contrary to the sophistry of Republican-Conservatism and it's Intellectual-Liberalism owe their existence to government and governance. What this means is the anti-government critique as formulated by Republican-Conservatism and it's various stooges is simply a diversionary gambit and a distortive tactic to win elections.

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Jake Tapper of ABC News, The Vote and His Purported Professional Ethic

Jake Tapper of ABC News has said he doesn't vote in national election because he wants to be objective and uninfluenced in his reporting and journalism.  This position and it's sophistry is indicative of the pretentiousness squeezing the credibility and objectivity out of corporate media.

Whether or not Jake Tapper honors his civic duty and vote has nothing to do with whether he has the intellectual-honesty and the purported professional ethic to require politicians define the national society and Political-Economy correctly.

When Jake Tapper starts doing this the antagonism between his civic duty of voting and his professional duty will cease.

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The Stooge Vivek Wadhwa and American Material

The author stooge Vivek Wadhwa, a Duke University Professor in his new book Exodus: Why immigrants are returning home, continues that paternalistic sophistry, the supposition that America as material object is realized opportunity and the world's educated should immigrate to it's shores at the expense of the corruption and backwardness of their natal homelands.

Seldom does the paternalism advanced by stooge Vivek Wadhwa critique the state of the human condition, the relations with the rest of the world's nations from the point that the internationalist nature of American Political-Economy has everything to do with the corruption and backwardness of the developing and underdeveloped world which is then conveniently utilized as polemic justifying immigration to the exceptionalism which is America as material object.

The mental labor of the likes of the stooge Vivek Wadhwa would do us good were the critique honestly directed at those sets of relations being exploited by American Political-Economy in opposition to the positive development of the developing and undeveloped world.

Because in the absence of such critical honesty the nature of our developed American exceptionalism is always at  the mercy of the paternalist hypocrisy spewed by the one dimensional gibberish by the likes of the stooge Vivek Wadhwa.

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The Republican Party, Conservatism, The Obama Administration and American Power

This contemporary Republican Party and it's practice of Conservatism has a stupid and reckless way of critically dumbing down politically  anything their political opposition does.  So what we now have after the recent 9/11/12; attack on the U.S. Libya embassy and killing of Ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 other support staffers by supposed Libyan partisans is the Republican Party and Congressional Republican making the Intellectual-Liberal argument that anti-American protest and embassy breeches in the Middle-East are happening because extremist are not scared of America, with inference that the Obama Administration has weakened and diminished American power and might.

This begs this when are radicals, extremist, rebels ever scared of the status quo and it's organized violence?

So the position of these opportunistic Republicans is the Taliban and Al Qaeda slaughter of U.S. military forces in Afghanistan and Iraq is happening because U.S. military force isn't scary enough?  The tortures at Abu Ghraib, Bagram Base Guantanamo Bay and renditions  to C.I.A secret sites are not moral hazards enough to dissuade rebellion?  Have attacks on American interest nationally and internationally i.e.Oklahoma City and U.S.S. Cole occurred because the perpetrators thought twice about American Power? The U.S .S. Cole was a war ship, a war machine, the epitome of organized violence and relative power yet it was attacked.

The response Congressional Republicans and their opposition to the policies of the Obama Administration present is per virture of their opposition to the Obama Administration anything and everything happening under it's tenure has to be viewed through an antagonistic prism.

So American governance in the 21st century as strategized by the Republican Party and its Intellectual-Liberalism is the reckless dictatorship of Conservatism.

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