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Q: Exclude variables in regression based on causality-criteria in SAS I have done my best to search the web for an answer to my question, but haven't been able to find any. Maybe I'm not asking in the right way, or maybe my problem can't be solved... Well, here goes nothing!
When running a regression in SAS, it is possible to do backward or forward selection and thereby eliminating all insignificant variables, which is great, but just because the p-value of variable is ≤ 0.05, that doesn't necessarily mean that the result is correct.
E.g., I run a regression in SAS with the dependent variable being numbers of deaths due to illness and the independent variable being number of doctors. The result is significant with p ≤ 0.05, but the coefficient says, that as the number of doctors rises, the number of deaths also goes up. This would probably be the result of a spurious regression, but the causality is wrong, but SAS is only a computer, and doesn't know which way, the causality would go. (Of course it could also be true, that more doctors=more deaths due to some other factor, but let us ignore that for now).
My question is: Is it possible to make a regression and then tell SAS, that it must do backward/forward elimination, but according to some rules I set, it also has to exclude variables that don't meet these rules? E.g. if deaths goes up, as the number of doctors increase, exclude the variable number of doctors? And what would that
I really hope, that someone can help me, because I am running a regression for many different years with more than 50 variables, and it would be great if I didn't have to go through all results myself.
Thanks :)

A: I don't think this is possible or recommended. As mentioned, SAS is a computer and can't know which regression results are spurious. What if more doctors = more medical procedures = more death? Obviously you need to apply expert opinion to each situation but the above scenario is just as plausible.
You also mention 'share of docs' which isn't the actual number if I'm correct? So it may also be an artifact of how this metric is calculated.
If you have a specific set of rules you want to exclude that may be possible. But you have to first define all those rules and have a level of certainty regarding them.

A: If you need to specify unusual parameter selection criteria you could always roll your own machine learning by brute force: partition the data, run different regression models over all the partitions in macro loops, and use something like AIC to select the best model.
However, unless you are a machine learning expert it's probably best to start with something like proc glmselect.
SAS can do both forward selection and backwards elimination in the glmselect procedure, e.g.:
proc gmlselect data=...;
 model ... / select=forward;
 ...

It would also be possible to combine both approaches - i.e. run several iterations of proc glmselect in macro loops, each with different model specifications, and then choose the best result.

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Q: My subprocess acts like a drive is mapped, but it's not. Fix? I'm making a script in Python 3.7 using the Spyder interpreter that uses the subprocess module to map a remote network drive to computers and then check if a file exists in that drive. For example, I'm mapping the drive on my computer as "S:\" but it's mapped to "C:\" on theirs. It's checking if the file "nircmd.exe" exists on their C:\. When I run my code all I get is:
[-] Could not connect to 10.98.80.142
[-] Could not connect to 10.98.80.147

When I print out: b''
When I print err: 'System error 85 has occurred.\r\n\r\nThe local device name is already in use.\r\n\r\n'
Now I understand this is supposed to mean I already have the drive mapped, but I don't.
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
from os import path

def detectNircmd(computers):
    NIRCMD = "Windows\\System32\\nircmd.exe"
    valids = []
    invalids = []
    for computer in computers:
        try:
            p = Popen(['net', 'use', 'S:', '\\\%s\\c$' % computer],stderr=PIPE,stdin=PIPE,stdout=PIPE)
            out, err = p.communicate()
            if 'success' in out:
                if path.isfile("S:\\%s" % NIRCMD):
                    valids.append(computer)
                    p = Popen(['net', 'use', 'S:', '/delete'],stderr=PIPE,stdin=PIPE,stdout=PIPE)
                else:
                    invalids.append(computer)
                    p = Popen(['net', 'use', 'S:', '/delete'],stderr=PIPE,stdin=PIPE,stdout=PIPE)
            else:
                invalids.append(computer)
                p = Popen(['net', 'use', 'S:', '/delete'],stderr=PIPE,stdin=PIPE,stdout=PIPE)

        except:
            print("[-] Could not connect to %s" % computer)
    print(valids, invalids)

tests = ['10.98.80.142', '10.98.80.147']
detectNircmd(tests)

A: Well I figured out that there was something going wrong with using the try/except statements so I rewrote the algorithm without them and now it works.


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Little things are going to annoy and bother you no matter where you are in the world. Whether in your home country, or travelling, or living abroad. The "honeymoon phase" of culture shock has no doubt worn off since arriving here in Korea over a year ago, and there are definitely some things that grind my gears about living here in Korea.
Let's take a lighthearted and not-meant-to-be-offensive look, shall we?
Because sometimes I feel like I might genuinely die. Cab drivers especially, are notorious for speeding through red lights, weaving in and out of lanes at a distance way too close for comfort (with no signal, because that would just be too logical), and just all around driving like they think they are Nascar drivers.
In addition to going uncomfortably fast, they also have difficulty maintaining a steady speed and constantly press on and off the gas pedal. Resulting in me, the passenger, feeling like throwing up every two minutes.
Ok. Bear with me, this takes some explaining. Picture a city bus, with the rows of seats on either side, seating two people; one window seat, one aisle seat. I don't know what it is, but there is a general trend among the vast majority of public transit riders to only sit in the aisle seat when they are alone. This is fine! However, back home, once the bus starts getting full, this "aisle seat dweller" with usually move to the window seat, so the person standing can sit down in the aisle seat. This is not the case in Korea. Every time this happens to me, I literally have to crawl over them to get a seat. AND THIS ISN'T ME BEING RUDE! This is after the Aisle Dweller and I have made eye contact and they motion to the seat next to them, for me to sit down. Then, once it's my turn to get off the bus, cue the awkward crawl across their lap again.
I have racked my brain trying to figure this one out. Are these Aisle Seats simply more prestigious than window seats? It does get a little draft next to the window in the winter. Perhaps there isn't even a reason, but nevertheless, it grinds my gears.
Because sometimes I just don't feel like eating cake at 9 in the morning. Korean culture is very oriented around sharing food, and them wanting to feed you is simply them showing you they care (so I have been learned, and been told). It is kind of rude to reject food, and as the people pleaser I am, I oblige. The combination of aiming to please, and loving all food but equally loving eating healthy, serves to be a bit problematic, and a source of anxiety for me.
(Sidenote: This may be a double edged sword. I am also extremely thankful for this free food I am being given, and all the new food I have been able to try, because of this).
Because sometimes this girl doesn't feel like carrying around her garbage until she finds a bin to put it in! No wonder the littering here is bad (…but that's a story for another day).
Because when I want to clean my hands, I don't really want to touch a grimy and slimy soap bar that everyone else has touched. Liquid soap pumps please and thank you!
Because it's just…………not………..a nice sound. To put it nicely.
And there you have it. 6 things that "grind my gears" about South Korea.
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Haba Tomohiro personality type is ENFP, and I've previously described some of the qualities that make up that personality type. He's a talented and creative person, and because of the way he's built his life, he's able to adapt to new situations and move forward easily. He also has a strong sense of humor and an ability to see the "fun" in life.
Haba has always been interested in manga, and since he was very young he didn't think of himself as a manga artist. He had a normal childhood, and there wasn't anything special about his schooling or the other people around him.
Of course, he was interested in manga, but he didn't think of himself as a manga artist. In elementary school, he tried drawing people, cars, buildings, and so on, but the drawings were all so-so. He didn't have the talent to be a professional artist.
Then, in his second year of high school, Haba suddenly found himself in a manga club. He really liked being in the club, and he started to draw manga regularly. Before long, he began to think that he had the talent to be a professional manga artist. That's when he started trying to draw manga seriously.
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Tyson Ritter
Real Name/Full Name Tyson Jay Ritter
Nick Name/Celebrated Name: Tyson Ritter
Birth Place: Stillwater, Oklahoma, U.S
Date Of Birth/Birthday: 24 April 1984
Height/How Tall: In Centimetres –185 cm
Weight: In Kilograms – 74Kg
Parents Name: Father –Tim Ritter
Mother – Tracey Rains
Siblings: Yes (2) Balley Ritter, Zack Ritter
School: Stillwater High School
College: N.A
Girlfriend: N.A
Wife/Spouse Name: Elena Satine
Kids/Children Name: N.A
Profession: Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Actor, Model
Tyson Jay Ritter is an American singer who was born on 24 April in the year 1984. He is not only a Singer, but besides it, he is also a songwriter, musician, actor and last but not least he is also a very fantastic model. He is primarily best known for being the leading vocalist, bassist, pianist, and also for being a great songwriter too. He has given much fantastic performance back to back in his every different type of appearance in a different role.
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Ritter was born on 24 April in the year 1984 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He was born in the family of Tyson Family. He was born as a baby boy to his parents Tim Ritter and Tracey Rains. His mother was an employee at the Stillwater Public School. He also has an elder brother and also a younger sister.
So, how old is Tyson Ritter in 2022 and what is his height and weight? Well, Tyson Ritter's age is 37 years old as of today's date 21st January 2022 having been born on 24 April 1984. Though, he is 6′ 1″ in feet and inches and 185 cm in Centimetres tall, he weighs about 163 lbs in Pound and 74kg in Kilograms.
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Tyson Ritter is a multi-talented person you would be ever met with. He is a most fabulous person. He is blessed with the skill of music, which has helped him to carry on with his future. He has always been a talented singer, a fantastic songwriter who writes beautiful lyrics for a song, a fabulous actor who has performed and showed his talent of acting, and a model who can give a fantastic pose and can present anything with which he has been allotted with.
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He has been the best friend of bandmate Nick Wheeler since the day when they have met with each other in their high school. Ritter has also been an investor in various types of technology companies which also includes Hooch App.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Sept. 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT: AMPE) today announced that Dr. Bar-Or has decided to retire, effective September 30, 2018, from his full-time position of Chief Science Officer (CSO) of Ampio but is retaining his positions on the Board of Directors (BOD) and Scientific Advisory Board (SAB).
Dr. Bar-Or explained. "The time is right. The critical Bioassay Section of the Chemistry, Manufacturing Control (CMC) filing for Ampion™, which is being prepared for submission to the FDA, is nearing completion. The validation and the complicated Mechanisms of Action (MOA) of Ampion have been elucidated in ten publications in peer-reviewed journals over the last six years with an 11th accepted for publication and a 12th under review, which summarizes how all the interrelated MOAs work together to create a unique healing environment in the knee. Collectively, these articles and other reported clinical trial results have conveyed that this environment provides not only near-term pain relief and improved function for patients severely afflicted by OAK, but also preliminary evidence of disease modifying regeneration of cartilage. Now, I want to take up some fascinating projects at the Trauma Research Center where I serve as Research Director for eight medical institutions."
Mr. Macaluso, Ampio Pharmaceutical's Chairman & CEO expressed his appreciation: "The unique body-of-work that Dr. Bar-Or has contributed to the Company has moved the Board of Directors to award Dr. Bar-Or the title of Chief Science Officer Emeritus to reflect its acknowledgement of his pivotal role in the company. Authoring over 160 peer-review journal articles and more than 500 patents testify to his remarkably curious and relentless intellect. To the company's benefit, he remains on our BOD and SAB."
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One of the things I miss is the convenience of frozen meals. I know they're typically not the best nutritionally, and they often cost a lot, but on days when you just don't feel like cooking they're better than fast food. But they're filled with additives that contain gluten.
While gluten-free frozen meals do exist, you can't just run into any supermarket and pick one up. They're usually found at specialty shops, like Portions in Guelph.
On a recent trip in there, I decided to try a frozen lasagna from Caesar's Pasta. On the night I ate it, I was exhausted from a long day at work and was so thankful to have a meal in the freezer that I could just pop into the microwave.
I think next time I'm at Portions I'll pick up a few more to stash in my freezer.
I just bought one of Amy's Organic Whole Meal Black Bean Enchiladas frozen dinners. I'm SO excited because there are so few frozen dinners that are for GF folk. I really dislike rice pasta texture after being frozen so I'm excited to see how the corn tortilla holds up. Amy's has a LOT of GF options.
I've generally avoided the frozen dinners at the supermarket because of that same reason. We have a gluten free store in Guelph where I found the Caesar's.


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Aurobindo form JV to tap Russian pharma market
PharmaTimes
Indian company Aurobindo has become the latest drugmaker to forge an agreement with a Russian company in order to overcome reimbursement obstacles for imported medicines.
Aurobindo has formed a joint venture with Russia's OJSC Diod that will construct a manufacturing facility near Moscow to make prescription and over-the-counter generic medicines. Called Aurospharma, the 50:50 JV will service the pharmaceutical markets of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
In 2009, Russia's government published a concept paper in which it laid out plans to reduce the country's reliance on imported medicines. One of the measures which gave overseas drugmakers pause for thought was a clause giving preference to domestically made medicines over imports in the national reimbursement system.
While details of the plan remain sketchy, a number of drugmakers have taken the document as a prompt to start establishing domestic production capacity in Russia, and Aurobindo joins the likes of Novartis, AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline in that effort.
In a statement, Aurobindo said the JV will focus on "socially significant" medicines, adding that Russia's new strategy will "make modern pharmaceuticals more affordable and accessible to the public at large" both in Russia and customs union partners.
The construction and validation of the plant is expected to complete in 2013, it said. As part of the agreement ownership of CJSC Diod's pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturing business - CJSC Olifen - will be transferred to the JV.
AstraZeneca in generics pact with India's Aurobindo
http://www.aurobindo.com


This is an idea I've been thinking for a long time. This month I've structured the plan for the creation of my online course.
This course will have 10 online lessons that you'll receive in your inbox after enrolling (1 lesson per day). Currently, I'm working on this course, writing up the content, creating worksheets, printables and more.
The best thing is that it's going to be completely for free. If you want to be added to the waiting list, you can sign up now, and once it's ready you will be notified.
On the 31st I did the PhD Viva Voce (this is the final exam to get the PhD) and I passed! I'm so happy for this as it has taken 3 years of my life. The topic of my PhD is data analysis applied to the oil and gas industry.
From now, I've become a doctor and that means I will have a better career progress.
The best thing is that now I have more free time to use on my blog and travel around the world.
This month I've spent some time trying to figure out the direction of Passive Income Wise. If one day I want to quit my job and blog full time, I need to compromise with working on a daily basis and during a fixed time (like a normal job).
That's why I scheduled a working plan for working days and for weekends. I'm planning to spend 20 hours per week (this is the bottom line) on my blog.
I've also set a number of goals for the upcoming month, 3rd month, 6th month and 1st year from now.
This month we took a leisure trip to Germany (we've never been before) and it was great. We did it during the week before my PhD exam so I can relax and stop panicking. Some people may think I'm crazy going on holidays days before such an important day, but for me, it was the best idea we could ever have.
We drank one of the best beers in the world (german red beer) and a variety of sausages. German sausages are the best, if you ever travel there, you should try them!
If you ever travel either to Munich or Nuremberg, you can ask me and I'll tell you what to visit!
In March I published 4 posts (including the February income report). This month I've been focused in long posts, between 1,500-2,000 words. I've come to realize that it's better to publish less often but more in-depth posts than short and less useful articles.
I've also spent some quality time in creating the material of my online course.
The 25 strategies to increase your blog traffic has been one of the favourite posts this month and it seems to be helpful for other bloggers. The reason why I wrote it, it's because many people asked about how do I manage to have my traffic numbers, so I decided that a post will ask this question better than a simple comment.
The websites I use to generate this income are American Consumer Opinion, Swagbucks, Vindale Research, Survey Downline, Earning Station and Qmee.
Last year I needed an upgrade for the host of my Niche Site 1. Before I was using a shared hosting with a limitation of 150 GB of transfer data, now I have my own VPS in where I have up to 5,000 GB and I can host an unlimited number of domains.
The initial investment for the hosting and domain name (for PIW) was done in October and this one is already running for free.
March has been the best month so far since I started in terms of net total balance! Hurraaay! After 3 months being stuck near the $500 profit, I've been able to reach almost $800.
Be aware that I put a 30% aside to pay taxes and the money that goes to my savings is less than the reported above.
Every month I try to spend around $100 in plugins and other useful stuff to improve my blog performance. This month I didn't purchase anything. However, I would like to purchase a bundle of courses in April (I'll give you more details in the next income report).
This is my 18th month reporting my accounts and it seems to keep growing little by little which make me so happy. Obviously, it's nothing to compare with other famous bloggers, but for a starter like me, it's considered an important milestone. I am having nearly $800 profit and this is something I've never expected to happen.
Imagine what would you do with an extra $796 extra per month?
The graph below shows my income and expenses since I started with my Niche Site 1 in February 2015. It seems incredible that I've been on this for more than two years!
March is the 7th month I am donating a part of my income to children with health issues and learning disabilities.
After a few months, I am back reporting my traffic and metrics. And I do it because of you.
I received emails, comments, and even a phone call just asking to continue reporting my traffic.
I will report the metrics only from this blog.
Since I started using Tailwind (Pinterest pin scheduler) my traffic has increased a lot. A few months I ago I barely received a few hundreds of visits, and now thousands!
I went from 3k to nearly 20k page views! 4 Pinterest viral pins brought me nearly half of the traffic this month.
The traffic sources are mainly coming from Pinterest (73%) and Direct. A couple of months ago I didn't receive any traffic from Pinterest and this month it's my main source of traffic thanks to Tailwind and the pin scheduler tool.
If you want to try Tailwind for free you can do it following this link (and get a $15 discount). It offers auto scheduler for 100 free pins at optimised times depending on your audience.
Organic traffic is building up month after month. I already have some long tail keywords ranking in positions 2-3 in Google.
It seems that people from Pinterest like tips to make/save money, 7 out of 10 of the most visited posts are related to these categories. The favourite posts are my list of more than 25 ways of saving money every month, which is a compilation of tricks I use on a daily basis to save up to $800 every month and the 7 blogging hacks that will save you 40 hours a week, which is a list of resources I use on my blog every week to save time.
Did you like my March Income Report? Are you interested in earning income online?
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Hey, Francisco. Congrats on the PhD! That is a great hurdle to cross.
I'm finally setting up my Pinterest account after months of procrastination haha. This gives me some hope.
Thank you, it has been a long journey but finally, it's done!
Well done in setting up your Pinterest, if you ever plan using Tailwind, please, ask and I'll be happy to help.
Wow congrats on a successful month! Looks like your blog traffic is booming. I looked into Tailwind last week but haven't purchased it yet. Great to know it's working out well for you!


The theme this week for Thrift Style Thursday was chosen by Kristi of Delightfully Kristi - Pastels. I have no problem with pastels, but I have found lately I don't actually own a lot of them. I go for more bold and bright colors these days it seems. I'm also very fair skinned, so I tend to avoid super light shades so I don't look too washed out. Anyway, here is what I came up with, it's probably borderline pastel, but I did my best!
It's funny, while we were enjoying our anniversary dinner last night I mentioned to Nate that the theme for today was pastels and I wasn't sure what I was going to wear yet. I kind of had this skirt in the back of my head though, because while it isn't super pale, the fabric reminds me of something pastel because of how light and linen like it is. Nate said to me "how about something salmon?" To which I said "well, that's not really pastel" but I still thought it was funny because I was totally thinking about this skirt!
I was pretty excited about how well this cute top matches this skirt too. I just found it at the thrift store the other day and didn't even have this skirt in mind to wear it with. I actually thought I'd end up mostly wearing it with jeans or something, so this was a pleasant surprise! I thought the lighter color blue also kind of felt pastel like too.
So there you have it! I feel light and springy and I think that is what pastels are all about! Be sure to check out the other Thrift Style Thursday ladies at their blogs below to see what they came up with for pastels this week!


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UFL: On Its Last Legs, Sadly
October 23, 2011 By paulmbanks Leave a Comment
The United Football League held its title game in Virginia Beach on Friday night in front of just over fourteen thousand faithful. This is just proof of Jerry Seinfeld's assertion that fans simply cheer for laundry. The league provides a quality product at affordable prices in markets that should be starving for the new national pastime.
Jim Fassel is the head coach of the Las Vegas Locomotives and Marty Schottenheimer is the leader of the Virginia Beach Destroyers. The two men have accomplished momentous things in the NFL for long periods of time. They chose to hitch themselves to this fledgling situation rather than become coordinators or enter the college game because they correctly felt that the games would be played at a very high level.
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Northwestern Alums Drafted by UFL, What's the UFL?
June 21, 2009 By paulmbanks 3 Comments
By Paul M. Banks
The United Football League (UFL) held its inaugural "Premiere" Season Draft June 19th. After the league' worked out players in Orlando and Las Vegas. Three of them are former Northwestern Wildcats including:
Last year's Quarterback C.J. Bachér, (I'll give you a dollar if you can pronounce his name correctly, hint: it's not "back her" or "bocker") Starting Linebacker Prince Kwateng (no, this is not the same Prince from Burkina Faso who emails you every day requesting $500 to handle the wealth transfer process of his $3 million inheritance from the King of Congo) and LB, and former Big Ten tackles leader Tim McGarigle earning selections.
Bachér was selected by the New York franchise while Kwateng and McGarigle went to Orlando and San Francisco, respectively. (Nicknames of franchises not yet chosen for this thing called the UFL)
Each team selected 24 players and now owns their rights if they choose to play in the United Football League. The remaining spots on each roster will be filled in July with players that coaches had previously identified and did not have to attend the UFL workouts and then again in mid-August with players that have been released by the NFL during training camp.
"Premiere" Season Head Coaches include former NFL coaches Dennis "the UFL is exactly what I thought it was" Green, Jim Fassel, Jim Haslett and Ted Cottrell. Other Big Ten representation in the UFL includes former Wisconsin QB Brooks Bollinger and Michigan RB Chris Perry.
The UFL will play its regular-season games on Thursday and Friday evenings in the fall, with the first regular season game kicking off in October and the Championship Game scheduled for Thanksgiving weekend.
To view the complete "Premiere" draft list. It doesn't include former Mizzou QB Chase Daniel, so the league has that going for it; which is nice.
Rar Rar Rar! Other Wildcat tidbits
In other Northwestern alumi news, former NU forward Winston Blake (1999-2003) received his MBA from the University's Kellogg Graduate School of Business on Saturday. I only know this because my girlfriend Lisa was in the same graduating class, and I was there for the Welsh-Ryan Arena ceremony. I'm not keeping tabs on Blake or anything. I figured since he's second on the school list in three-point field goal attempts (he was first at the end of his career, but got passed by Craig Moore last season) and in the Wildcats' all time top 25 scoring list, he's got enough people following him.
Former NFL running back, Heisman Trophy winner, restaurant owner and host of "The Quad" Eddie George is also getting his MBA at Kellogg, except he's in the "executive program."
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fathersullivan.com: Let's congratulate every James on this his feast day.
Let's congratulate every James on this his feast day.
Today is the feast of St. James, brother of St. John. Put to death by Herod, it happened that one brother was the longest living Apostle, while he, James, had the shortest life.
This is the feast day of everyone named James. It invites you to remember the good men bearing that name. Pray for them on their feast day.
Jim and I were quite opposite in many ways. He had his own extra prayers he added at Mass, and I guess I had more peculiarities than he did. Husbands and wives, take note! Jim and I got along beautifully by letting each other be different.
Another James who immediately comes to my mind is Jimmy Stewart. There was much about him that helped make America a fine country. As a boy, he was a fan of Lindbergh. The week Lindbergh was to fly the Atlantic, Jimmy stayed home from Princeton, using the window of his father's hardware story to show the flight, he had the Atlantic and the Eiffel Tower there.
I was on vacation in Kyoto Japan in 1957 when I saw an advertisement for the movie "The Spirit of St. Louis." I was almost alone in the theater, sitting in the cockpit with Jim and Lindy, waving to the people in our fly over of Dingle Bay.
James Stewart joined the Army as a private, but his flying experience pushed him up into the Air Corps. From the day he joined he never gave another movie interview. In the bombing raids over Germany all the pilots wanted to be in his wing, because he was the most skilful and safest man to work with. Happy feast day, James! We know you are again up there above the sky.
After I get started on this a good number of fine men named James came calling on me. I'm sure it is that way with you to. Happy Feast Day, James, one and all!


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CES 2017: New routers defend smart homes against hacks
Security firms have launched routers at CES that can stop smart household gadgets being hijacked by hackers.
Posted on January 6, 2017 by Csáki Anna in Communication, Cyber Threats, Futurism, Gadgets, Hacking, IoT & VR, Privacy, Smart City, Smart Devices, Smart Tech, Society, Software, Technology
Symantec, BitDefender and Intel unveiled devices that scrutinise data as it flows across home networks.
The companies say routers with built-in defences will be essential as homes are filled with net-connected gadgets.
The routers also come with parental control features that help manage how much time children spend online and what they see.
"You will have to buy a security solution for your internet-of-things," said Alex Balan, chief security researcher at BitDefender.
The "internet of things" refers to the growing collection of smart gadgets that can be controlled via the net.
"Pretty soon everything will be connected one way or another and managed by a smartphone app," said Mr Balan. "You won't be able to avoid it."
But that interconnectivity and ease of use comes at a cost, he said, adding that the end of 2016 had seen a surge in attacks that compromised net-connected CCTV cameras, televisions and media servers.
The poor security on these gadgets led to them being enrolled in massive networks by hackers who use them to carry out overwhelming attacks. One network, called Mirai, staged some of the biggest net attacks ever seen.
The problem has got so serious that the US Federal Trade Commission has kicked off a competition to create tools that consumers can add to their home network that can protect IoT devices from attack. Cash rewards of $25,000 (£20,000) will be given to the best entrants.
"Security for these devices has to start at the network level," said Gareth Lockwood from Symantec. "There's no other way to do it."
As the entry and exit point for home networks, routers were the best place to put a security system that can watch for malicious traffic coming in and cut off hackers trying to access insecure kit.
While current home routers do have security systems, most are pretty basic, said Mr Lockwood, and none is ready for the explosion of smart devices predicted to be in use soon.
"If we look forward four to five years from now we expect to see between 20 to 30 billion devices in homes," he said. "There'll be tens of devices per household."
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The three companies launching secure routers at CES are taking slightly different approaches to solving the IoT headache though one common feature they share is a smartphone-based management system.
Symantec launched the Norton Core that is intended to replace the router supplied by an ISP. In the US, the Core will cost $279
BitDefender unveiled the Box which sits alongside a home router and polices traffic as it flows across a network. The Box currently costs $129
Intel Security has signed a deal with hardware firm Arris to include its security software in a specially-made line of home protection routers. Intel has yet to release prices for these products
All three will face competition from established devices such as the Cujo smart firewall and the Home Halo and Eero products as well as from Asus which has teamed up with Trend Micro to put security software on its routers.
The devices launched at CES will only initially be available in the US but will reach other regions later in 2017. Typically, buying one of the secure routers includes a subscription to a firm's standard security software that runs on desktops, laptops and tablets.
All three also include net access control systems that let parents decide for how long different gadgets can be used and which sites youngsters can visit. Some, such as the Norton Core, have an internet pause button that cuts off access for everyone in a household.
Via: BBC
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38415067
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Capitalism & Economics - A Process-Based Ecological Society
Fulfill Your Dreams
by Peter Rollins, May 18, 2020
In 2018 I joined Rob Bell on his Holy Shift tour. This is a recording from one of the stops. In my talk I explored the idea that the Holy can be approached as a wholly other dimension that cuts across our being. A dimension that we attempt to hide from and ignore. Yet the more we ignore it, the more this wholly other dimension creates unholy hell in our lives. In contrast, if we are able to turn our attention towards it, and orient ourselves to its tremor, it can bring new life to us.
Listen to the full talk here
(https://soundcloud.com/peter-rollins/holy-shift-the-wholly-other-inner-dimension)
Peter-Rollins · Holy Shift Tour | The Wholly Other Inner Dimension
Continuation of an 8-Part Series
Part 1 -
The Philosophy of Ayn Rand Should Never Define Christianity Nor Capitalism - Part 1
What Can We Learn from America's Several Forms of Capitalism?
Rethinking the Diversity and Varieties of Capitalism
What, If Anything, Can Justify Inequality?
The Contours of a Post-Capitalistic, Whiteheadian-based, Cosmopolitic Ecological Civilization and Society
Matthew T. Segall - Cosmopolitic Ecological Civilizations
Capitalism & Economics As Process-based
Before exploring the subject of A Process-Based Ecological Society we must introduce the subject of Process Philosophy to those unacquainted with it. For a fuller discussion go to this index here - Index - Process Philosophy & Theology. You will find many articles exploring Alfred North Whitehead's Process Philosophy.
And don't worry, I've made it simple and instructive and have approached it from many different angles. However, this index is in no way definite. As you will quickly tell it will want for many more approaches and degrees of depth. Let us just say that the year 2020 is but the beginning of this nascent subject on constructive postmodernism for the 21st Century.
Know too that a subset of Process Philosophy where it concerns Christianity alone may be known as Process Theology even though we must consider Christianity as but a subset of a larger set we'll generally denote as Religion. Hence, a more formal field of study for Process Theology would include all subsets of religion under the primary set of Religion. Let us call all those points of commonality between all religions as the set of Interfaith Relational Elements.
Since 2011 Relevancy22 has been dedicated to developing a Contemporary Christian Theology. Hence, the website here will always be primarily concerned with how to integrate Westernized (creedal) Christianity into the lattice work of larger ideas such as Process Theology among other main themes considered foundational to the Christian faith, bible reading, and the practice of said faith within the context of the world.
Specifically, in regards to capitalism and economics, I would like to introduce the new idea of a process-driven world into the science, practice, organization, politilization, and governance of a temporal society whether it be capitalist, socialist, marxist, communist, or some version of of these or others pertaining to society, materialism and metaphysics.
And with respect to an evolving American democracy, how to integrate a process-driven economy within an evolving open democracy based upon the principles of Christian humanism (known today as social justice) utilizing process philosophy as a foundation.
Above is a photo asking the question how to piece together the missing link. Open Theism tells of an undetermined, open future. One that may be chaotic and yet fully imaged in God and necessarily abundantly flowing with God's Self. Process Theism we have briefly covered while indicating that creation has necessary (freewill) agency and with agency has come conflict Christianity calls sin and evil.
So what's the missing link? Relational Theism. As process theology has indicated, all things are connected to all things. The are deeply connected. And being in God's Image of His Being or Self, it is conflicted in its drive to find fellowship, wholeness, and completion. We might say that these elements are part of its teleology, or end game. Relational Theology is but a fuller statement of this part of process theology.
Bottom line. Process Theology is the basis for Open and Relational Theology. These latter derive their activity from the former. As such, the proper description of God's creation is one that is an open and relational process theology. They go together. Inseparably. And it is this kind of process an economic principle should strive to emulate through its many cultural, ethnic, temporal, and geographic forms. One that is open, relational, and process driven.
One last thought. Since we live in the 21st Century we should then be talking about postmodernism and how it has become the end game to modernism's death. (I might make the argument that post-postmodernism of the post-truth era is actually modernism's death knell, but the principle is the same.)
However, what we might expect next is one of two things: Either more authoritarian-driven world economies (e.g., Trumpian economies of oppression which will not be good thing) or perhaps more participatory world economies wishing to work with one another (I rooting for this later!). Time will tell.
Coupling Open and Relational Process-based Economics with Postmodernism we might look at the following set of statements in summarizing a "Constructive" form of Postmodernism from a "Process" viewpoint:
"Process theologians and philosophers sometimes speak of themselves as "constructive" postmodernists. They are postmodern in their rejection of many of the canons of western modernity:
The idea that the self is an isolated subject cut off from the world by the boundaries of the skin. In contrast, we are not alone but are connected to everyone and everything;
The idea that the many forms of life on earth are but resources for human use. In contrast, both the earth and its people are more than mere sources for utilitarian purposes to be used and cast off;
The idea that Western Models of development are normative for all. In contrast, yes, there is more to life than the American or Western view of the Universe and of its ages past or yet to come;
The idea that the universe itself is a collection of objects not a community of co-evolving subjects. In contrast, process thinking states all entities are evolving in community together, not alone, and certainly not desperately alone;
And finally, constructive postmodernists simultaneously affirm an alternative and more holistic view of human life and the world. Some Westernized Christians (also Jews, Muslims, and Oriental thinkers) turn to the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead as a source of this alternative vision." The ultimate identity of ourselves or of anything is not simply that of "being" but "beings in process of 'being' or 'becoming'.
The Institute for Ecological Civilization works internationally to support systemic approaches to long-term sustainability by developing collaborations among government, business, and religious leaders and among scholars, activists, and policy makers. We build effective partnerships across social sectors through consultations, think-tank gatherings, and policy engagement. - IEC
Capitalism & Economics As An Ecological Civilization
The present trajectory of life on this planet is unsustainable, and the underlying causes of our environmental crisis are inseparable from our social and economic systems.
The massive inequality between the rich and the poor is not separate from our systems of unlimited growth, the depletion of natural resources, the extinction of species, or global warming. As climate predictions continue to exceed projections, it is clear that hopelessness is rapidly becoming our worst enemy.
What is needed—urgently—is a new vision for the flourishing of life on this planet, a vision the authors are calling an ecological civilization. Along the way they have learned that this term brings hope unlike any other. It reminds us that humans have gone through many civilizations in the past, and the end of a particular civilization does not necessarily mean the end of humanity, much less the end of all life on the planet.
It is not hard for us to conceive of a society after the fall of modernity, in which humans live in an equitable and sustainable way with one another and the planet. Let us then explore the idea of building ecological civilizations by asking eight key questions about it and drawing answers from relational philosophies, the ecological sciences, systems thinking and network theory, and the world's religious and spiritual traditions.
Ultimately, a genuinely ecological civilization is not a utopian ideal, but a practical way to live. To recognize this, and to begin to take steps to establish it, is the foundation for realistic hope.
To begin with, the work of creating an ecological civilization can seem nebulous and is at times hard to describe. Therefore, the Institute for Ecological Civilization has created the following diagram to give you a visual representation and broad overview of our work and values. We've used a tree because we consider it a great model for how we see our work progressing and being sustained.
Ecociv's method for cultivating change involves bringing people together from various sectors of society to do three things:
visioning exercises where they imagine how an ecological civilization could look;
backcasting – working backwards from that reality to identify a set of concrete steps needed to reach it; and,
roadmapping – identifying an action plan to begin taking these steps.
The tree's roots represent what we consider to be the foundations of an ecological civilization – things that must happen for this new kind of civilization to dawn and flourish. Visioning and backcasting happen at this level.
The trunk of the tree is where we roadmap – thinking deeply and strategically about our next steps. What are our goals? Who do we need to reach out to? How do we envision addressing potential roadblocks? What series of actions will impart the greatest impact? Here we need to stand strong and tall, drawing wisdom and resources from our roots.
The branches and beautiful array of colored leaves are the fruits of our labor – qualities that define an ecological civilization. This part of the tree is also a symbol of hope. Just as leaves take in sunlight and create food through the process of photosynthesis, we draw hope from the vision of an ecological civilization and this gives us the nutrients and energy to sustain our "root and trunk" (visioning, backcasting, and roadmapping) work.
MEET ECOCIV - An Introduction to our work
by EcoCiv, Mar 20, 2020
What Is An Ecological Civilization?
Ecological Civilization describes a world in which human communities (our systems of economics, agriculture, education, production and consumption, etc.) are designed to promote the overall well-being of people and the planet. It's a vision for a more sustainable and just society; a world that works for all.
The transition toward ecological civilization will require transformation at a far deeper level than most people realize. Beyond important changes like adopting renewable energy, driving electric cars, and eating less meat, transitioning toward an ecological civilization requires a paradigm shift in which the fundamental systems and structures of our civilization are reorganized according to ecological values. This paradigm shift arises out of an awareness that our major social and environmental challenges are all interconnected, requiring integral solutions for the common good.
Authors Philip Clayton and William Andrew Schwartz give us a comprehensive look on what an ecological civilization could look like. It explores the idea of ecological civilization by asking eight key questions about it and drawing answers from relational philosophies, the ecological sciences, systems thinking and network theory, and the world's religious and spiritual traditions.
Capitalism and the Lost Object
by Peter Rollins, Jul 29, 2020
This is a short clip from a pyroseminar called 'Losing the Lost Object'. In this clip I discuss a way of understanding what the Lost Object actually is... namely, a virtual object that exists only in its impossibility. Get full seminars, book studies and courses by joining my Patreon. Over 100 hours of material: https://pyrotheology.com
References for further Reading
Process-based Capitalism & Economics
Transformative Ecological Economics (Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics) 1st Edition, by Ove Jakobsen (Author), March 5, 2019
When we look at the state of the world today, what is most evident is the fact that the major problems of our time – energy, environment, economy, climate change and social justice – cannot be understood in isolation. They are interconnected problems, which means that they require corresponding systemic solutions. Today's global economy has brought about critical distress for ecosystems and societies and we have to go to the very root of the problems to find a way out.
This volume develops a synthesized interpretation of ecological economics integrating different levels: (economic) system, (business) practice and the (economic) actor. It discusses how changes on a systems level are connected to changes in practice and development of individual consciousness. Transformative Ecological Economics delves into the insight and knowledge from different sources of inspiration (thermodynamics, Darwinism, anthroposophy and Buddhism) as well as into an integrated story describing and illustrating the core ideas, principles and values that characterize a utopian society anchored in ecological economics. Implementation of the deep changes demanded depends on our ability to write a new story, a utopian one for sure, but one which is in accordance with and based on the reality in which we live.
This book will be of interest to those who study ecological economics, political economy and environmental economics.
Marx and Whitehead: Process, Dialectics, and the Critique of Capitalism (SUNY series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences) Hardcover – January 29, 2004
A reading of Marx's critique of capitalism through the lens of process philosophy.
Marx and Whitehead boldly asks us to reconsider capitalism, not merely as an "economic system" but as a fundamentally self-destructive mode that, by its very nature and operation, undermines the cohesive fabric of human existence. Author Anne Fairchild Pomeroy asserts that it is impossible to appreciate fully the impact of Marx's critique of capitalism without understanding the philosophical system that underlies it. Alfred North Whitehead's work is used to forge a systematic link between process philosophy and dialectical materialism via the category of production. Whitehead's process thought brings Marx's philosophical vision into sharper focus. This union provides the grounds for Pomeroy's claim that the heart of Marx's critique of capitalism is fundamentally ontological, and that therefore the necessary condition for genuine human flourishing lies in overcoming the capitalist form of social relations.
EcoCiv Podcast #17 - Matthew Segall:
Whitehead, Marx, and Ecological Civilization
https://ecociv.org/podcast/ecociv-podcast-17-matthew-segall-whitehead-marx-and-ecological-civilization/
Matt & Andrew Schwartz discussed Marx and Whitehead last week.
Audio Player - https://episodes.castos.com/5ea79416f0e6f9-52862104/Matthew_Segall.m4a
Footnotes2Plato Website -
https://footnotes2plato.com/2019/07/18/ecociv-podcast-on-whitehead-marx-and-ecological-civilization/
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Marx & Whitehead
I am Matthew T. Segall.Wisdom lover, soul-maker, star-gazer, and lifetime member of team human. By day I am Assistant Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
Andrew Schwartz speaks with Matthew Segall, who is a philosopher at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and a popular blogger at Footnotes2Plato.com. He is also the author of a number of books, including The Physics of the World-Soul: The Relevance of Alfred North Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism To Contemporary Scientific Cosmology. Throughout his work, Matthew consistently demonstrates an ability to clearly explain complex philosophical concepts, and to show how they are relevant to important matters of politics, science, and religion.
At a recent conference in San Francisco, he gave a talk called "Whitehead and Marx: A Cosmopolitical Approach to Ecological Civilization." In short, Matthew argues that Whiteheadian process philosophy and Marx's critique of capitalism must be brought together. Process philosophy, he suggests, not only helps to "diagnose the metaphysical roots of the present ecological catastrophe," but also provides a corrective to Marx's anthropocentric view of nature "as dead and awaiting the value-creating power of human consciousness."
In this episode of the EcoCiv Podcast, Andrew and Matthew discuss the importance of thinking with Whitehead and Marx about an ecological civilization, imagining societies beyond capitalism, developing a non-anthropocentric politics, and why Matthew says we need to think and act locally.
Music Credit: "lax" by Fascinating Earthbound ObjectsLicense//Song Link
Physics of the World-Soul: Whitehead's Adventure in Cosmology, April 29, 2019
Whitehead was among the first initiates into the 20th century's new cosmological story. This book bring's Whitehead's philosophy of organism into conversation with several components of contemporary scientific cosmology-including relativistic, quantum, evolutionary, and complexity theories-in order to both exemplify the inadequacy of the traditional materialistic-mechanistic metaphysical interpretation of them, and to display the relevance of Whitehead's cosmological scheme to the transdisciplinary project of integrating these theories and their data with the presuppositions of human civilization. This data is nearly crying aloud for a cosmologically ensouled interpretation, one in which, for example, physics and chemistry are no longer considered to be descriptions of the meaningless motion of molecules to which biology is ultimately reducible, but rather themselves become studies of living organization at ecological scales other than the biological.
Marx and Whitehead: A process reading of capitalism (1999)
by Anne Fairchild Pomeroy, Fordham University
Subject Area - Philosophy|Economic theory
Collection for Fordham University. AAI9926888
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI9926888
Abstract Download - https://search.proquest.com/docview/304500034
Bertell Ollman has argued that Marx's theory of alienation and his use of the dialectical method reveal the deep dependence of Marx's project upon a philosophy of internal relations. Marx and Whitehead: A Process Reading of Capitalism, is the extension and development of this claim. The philosophy of internal relations which implicitly underlies and provides the foundations for Marx's analysis and critique of capitalism is, I claim, a process philosophy, whose most complete and nuanced articulation is to be found in the work of Alfred North Whitehead. By explicitly recognizing such a foundation, we are able establish an absolute continuity between Marx's early and later writings; the early, "humanistic" writings present the philosophical foundations for the later political-economic critique. By identifying this coherence and by exploring its processive underpinnings, the critique of capitalism, as it is expressed by the labor theory of value and the critique of wage labor, is enhanced and intensified. By recognizing the processive claims underlying Marx's notion of production, we ultimately see that the critique of capitalism is a critique of the form of social relations in which the wage representative of necessary labor time merely reproduces human life in an ontological fashion reminiscent of inorganic forms of process which primarily reiterate their valuative patterns, and in which the creative novelty of surplus labor time is also objectified in inorganic commodity form. Therefore, wage labor is real alienation from our ontological essence—our creative-productive activity, and so it is also alienation from the natural world, our products, and one another. Within the practice of capitalism, the processive universe is genuinely commodified. Novel creative and valuative activity is transformed into commodity or money value. Since creativity is the very engine of process, capitalism is, quite literally, anti-processive, quite literally anti-humanistic, quite literally an economy of death. It is a lived form of misplaced concreteness. The most basic contradiction in capitalism is self-contradiction. Finally, a processive theory of human consciousness is examined in order to articulate the emergence of dialectical consciousness as radical and transformative consciousness from within the structure of capitalism itself.
Marx and Whitehead: Process, Dialectics, and the Critique of Capitalism
Pomeroy, Anne Fairchild, Marx and Whitehead: Process, Dialectics, and the Critique of Capitalism,
SUNY Press, 2004, 231pp, $45.00 (hbk), ISBN 0791459837.
Reviewed by Jeanne Schuler, Creighton University
https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/marx-and-whitehead-process-dialectics-and-the-critique-of-capitalism/
Marx's texts are among the most demanding in modern thought, though they are often short-changed by scholars and sidelined in the curriculum. Marx's contributions are typically summed up in wooden ways that do not open up a line of thinking or research. Consequently, their impact on the practice of philosophy and the social sciences is negligible. Why study Marx? The vocabulary is not remarkable. But adequately reading the texts takes us beyond the familiar modes of analysis to a largely unknown mode of thinking. Few readers come prepared for the task. Marx's debt to Hegel is acknowledged without grasping the pervasive difference in how Marx understands knowledge and the modern world. His use of categories and understanding of reality are not comparable to his contemporaries; they are closer to Aristotle than to Kant. Marx is not a skeptic in the mold of modern thinkers who first separate thought from objectivity and then struggle to draw them together. Marx's skepticism is directed at capitalism, not at truth or the possibility of human understanding. With Marx, form is not contrasted with content--as the subjective isolated from the objective--but social form describes the specific purposes that characterize society in pervasive ways. How do we appreciate a thinker who is not bedeviled by the usual doubts and conundrums that hog-tie modern thought?
First, consider the obstacles to reading Marx. The standpoint of conceptual polarity often frames debates about Marx. Is Marx an idealist inspired by justice or a materialist who dismisses norms in favor of empirical science? If Marx is a materialist, can he account for a critical theory, such as his own? Are humans free to revolt or determined by burdensome social conditions? If the present is shaped by the past, how will non-capitalist social forms emerge from capitalist society? How can negation arise within a totalizing form of society? A major roadblock concerns the legend of the "two Marxes": the young humanistic critic of capitalism and the older systematic theorist of capitalism. Supposedly, the moral passion of the young thinker disappears into the scientific mindedness of the author of Capital. The later critique then fails to appreciate the human agency and political life that generate social change. Norms disappear as the intricate system of categories unfolds. Marx delivers a theory but no longer clearly addresses exactly what is unjust about capitalism or even how we could address this question. Is labor the problem or does labor hold the key to human liberation? Lurking behind the present neglect of Marx is the suspicion that these texts primarily focus on communism and are thus refuted by history, since communism is thoroughly discredited. As we see, the path to engaging Marx's texts is obstructed from numerous directions.
Anne Pomeroy tackles these obstacles boldly by turning to Whitehead's metaphysics in order to open up Marx's critique of capitalism. Her proposal is striking on several grounds. Whitehead is not fabled for accessibility; how can the arcane ideas of process philosophy shed light on Marx's texts? Furthermore, Whitehead was not shaped by an encounter with Marx's texts, and he pled ignorance concerning Hegel's legacy. One thinker focuses on historically specific social forms; the other identifies the encompassing dimensions of all reality. How can such disparate projects be fruitfully joined?
Pomeroy reconceives the disparity between social critique and metaphysics as a source of illumination, "a clash of doctrines . . is an opportunity" (3). Marx and Whitehead are only apparently at cross-purposes; actually both are "deeply innovative" in kindred ways. With such notions as misplaced concreteness and dialectic, Whitehead can clarify Marx's meanings. Confusion concerning Marx's theory sets in when abstractions necessary for analysis are mistaken for the concrete or the phenomenon. With the help of process thought, readers of Marx can pay better attention to the "degrees of abstraction" or "levels of specificity" that make up a critique, thereby distinguishing the general abstractions that are applicable to every society (such as use values) from the abstractions specific to capitalism (exchange value).
The affinity between Marx and Whitehead that Pomeroy recognizes exists on several levels: both thinkers situate ideas in experience and history as fallible generalizations. Both begin with experience and return to it; both identify the false dichotomies and abstractions that mystify thought; both develop concepts that could be described as dialectical. Both are said to rely upon internal relations in their analyses: Marx at the level of "macrocosmic empirical analysis of social production" (69) and Whitehead at the microcosmic or metaphysical level of actual entities. Marx's category of production is the functional equivalent of process in Whitehead's thought. Both process and production share these features: "Productive ability as the driving force behind world process (creativity), creative dependence on the given as its source and product (actuality), and thus deep interdependence of all elements of reality on all others as mutually constituting (being as fully relational)" (61). Persons--like the actual entities of metaphysics--transform the given data in producing their world as new (66). With the notion of internal relations--appropriated from Leibniz by Whitehead--Pomeroy endeavors to dissolve intractable standoffs, such as freedom/determinism, physical/conceptual, one/many, or possibility/necessity, by showing how both dimensions constitute each entity. Being determined by the past does not exclude the emergence of possibilities in the present. Creativity is fundamental to the emergence of things from prior conditions. What ordinary habits of thought separate, process thought discloses as inseparable. The basic ideas of Whitehead, in Pomeroy's hands, allow us to get past the sterile readings of Marx and show the continuity between the early and later texts. "Whitehead's metaphysics will present us with new language … of feeling and relation … mutual constitution and creativity … organicism and materialism … language … rich with developmental possibilities" (14).
By appealing to process thought, Pomeroy locates normativity within the most fundamental features of all things. To read Marx adequately requires upheaval at the level of metaphysics. "The metaphysical is itself the indictment" (195). Norms are not "outside reality." They do not arise from feelings projected by subjects onto objects; norms are not constructed; they are not planted on the subjective side of a subjective/object divide. The normative dimension goes to the core of reality; the critique of capital is generated by the tension between the dialectical process that underlies all reality and the undialectical form of capitalist production that impoverishes and distorts basic features of reality.
For example, to understand what's wrong with wage labor is to grasp the tension between the process of production--whereby individuals constitute both self and their world--and the fixed quantity or wage which is said to be the equal to this process. What is dead--the wage--in principle cannot measure living labor. "The exchange of a determination that is past for the human activity that is present(ed) is absolutely illegitimate" (120). Pomeroy calls this the "first injustice from which all the further injustices flow" (121). Capitalism violates the "original ontological incommensurability of persons and things" (122). To treat persons as objects exemplifies injustice.
In a similar way, the expropriation of surplus value separates persons from the newness or excess that marks their activity as "truly human." Pomeroy identifies the capitalist notion of "surplus" with the metaphysical category of "novelty." Human labor is treated as an object when stripped of this excess. The push to reduce necessary labor in order to expropriate a larger surplus robs persons of their inherent nature as creative. What constitutes the self and its world must belong to the self. Capitalism unleashes human creativity on a massive scale, but does not allow genuinely new possibilities to arise. "Present creativity sparked by future envisionment has been reduced to the abstract monetary expression of the generalized past labor of my brothers and sisters. Their creative lives have paid my wage and mine has paid theirs. We are the price of … one another's enslavement" (124). The necessity under capitalism to measure living labor in terms of the abstractions of value violates our fundamental human character. The category of value in the later Marx conveys with more precision the injustice expressed in the young Marx's account of alienation. Capitalism does not acknowledge human beings as free and creative, but simply compels labor to pump out surplus value. Persons--the origins of value--come to exist at the mercy of their products. "Value is really congealed labor--that is the life blood, the potential and real creativity of the human being hardened into mere physicality--into the not-human. Subjective creativity is the absolutely unique and free … activity of the individual, and capitalism requires that it be treated as what it is essentially not and traded off for this absolute other" (124).
Through Whitehead's lens, Pomeroy shows that capitalism is subject to critique because it is metaphysically deficient. Though capitalism cannot squelch metaphysical reality, a system founded on private property diminishes the "relational solidarity" of this world. The universe exists as process that constitutes each individual as unique. But capitalism harnesses creativity to sameness, the ongoing expansion of surplus value. Humans produce what is genuinely new, but "as capitalism operates, the world grinds toward stagnation" (146). Reality is dialectical--a whole constituted by interacting parts each of which matters--but under capitalism, reduction, separation, and abstraction take precedence over organic relations. Solidarity and relational continuity describe how things are. When capitalism splits apart nature, producers, owners, and consumers, it does not keep faith with what is. "Capitalism is a disaster for processive reality" (164). The volatility of capitalism originates in metaphysical disruption and leads continually to economic crisis and destruction of nature.
Understanding the differences between the thinkers is as important as appreciating their similarities. Overall, Pomeroy respects the distinctiveness of each thinker even as she coaxes real illumination from this unusual encounter of minds. She is rightfully uneasy with the duality that pervades Whitehead's thought. His dialectic situates opposed factors as simultaneous and belonging together; this philosophy of internal relations breaks through conceptual standoffs by stipulating unity. This "binding together into unity" differs from producing reconciliation through a process of thought. Neither Hegel nor Marx says much about the meaning of dialectic, except to reject any method that is treated as separable from the material. But in practice, their initial accounts develop from empty abstractions to more determinate or concrete concepts. The difference between Whitehead's philosophy of internal relations and Marx's immanent critique needs to be addressed more fully. For example, how does a philosophy of internal relations convey external relations, such as the externality of non-commodified human goods from market relations?
Pomeroy is most persuasive in showing how Whitehead's metaphysics corrects the rigid demarcations that distort our reading of Marx's texts; however, mapping metaphysical categories, such as creativity, on to capitalist forms, such as surplus labor, itself runs the risk of "misplaced concreteness." Necessary labor is no less creative than the labor designated for the expansion of surplus value. The differences between metaphysical generality and the specific forms of capitalism cannot always be bridged directly. Pomeroy responds well to the challenge of tailoring metaphysical categories to the specific focus of a critical theory of capitalism in identifying what is unique about human activity. Basic features of reality--such as the conceptual and physical poles or the creative decisions of actual entities--pertain to all entities. Pomeroy must adapt these general features of the world to the specific labor of persons. The differences between persons and the non-human world--such as reflection or freedom--are matters of degree but are suffused with importance.
One might wonder: can Whitehead succeed, where studies of Hegel failed, to elucidate the deep structure of Marx's thought? Does Whitehead's metaphysics improve our understanding of Marx's critical theory? Under Pomeroy's hand, these texts are engaged in a fruitful encounter. She moves between these demanding thinkers with persuasive readings that reveal the politics implicit in process thought and the sterility avoided by a conceptually richer approach to Marx. Pomeroy writes with passion and clarity. Her analysis doesn't disappear into the thicket of Whitehead's categories but stays focused on their political and economic implications. She argues in a splendid way how process thought anticipates new social relations. Her boldness is rewarded with a well-written text that sheds light on both thinkers, while addressing the tough issues raised by Marx's critique of capitalism.
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