Extracts from Constant Conflict /RALPH PETERS(2).

an explosion of disorienting information intruded ever further into "structures of everyday life."

In the past, information empowerment was largely a matter of insider and outsider, as elementary as the division of society into the literate and illiterate.
While superior information--often embodied in military technology--killed throughout history, its effects tended to be politically decisive but not personally intrusive (once the raping and pillaging were done).
Technology was more apt to batter down the city gates than to change the nature of the city.
The rise of the modern West broke the pattern.
Whether speaking of the dispossessions and dislocations caused in Europe through the introduction of machine-driven production or elsewhere by the great age of European imperialism, an explosion of disorienting information intruded ever further into Braudel's "structures of everyday life."
Historically, ignorance was bliss.
Today, ignorance is no longer possible, only error.

The contemporary expansion of available information is immeasurable, uncontainable, and destructive to individuals and entire cultures unable to master it.
The radical fundamentalists--the bomber in Jerusalem or Oklahoma City, the moral terrorist on the right or the dictatorial multiculturalist on the left--are all brothers and sisters, all threatened by change, terrified of the future, and alienated by information they cannot reconcile with their lives or ambitions.
They ache to return to a golden age that never existed, or to create a paradise of their own restrictive design.
They no longer understand the world, and their fear is volatile.

Information destroys traditional jobs and traditional cultures; it seduces, betrays, yet remains invulnerable.
How can you counterattack the information others have turned upon you?
There is no effective option other than competitive performance.
For those individuals and cultures that cannot join or compete with our information empire, there is only inevitable failure (of note, the internet is to the techno-capable disaffected what the United Nations is to marginal states: it offers the illusion of empowerment and community).
The attempt of the Iranian mullahs to secede from modernity has failed, although a turbaned corpse still stumbles about the neighborhood.
Information, from the internet to rock videos, will not be contained, and fundamentalism cannot control its children. Our victims volunteer.

These noncompetitive cultures, such as that of Arabo-Persian Islam or the rejectionist segment of our own population, are enraged.
Their cultures are under assault; their cherished values have proven dysfunctional, and the successful move on without them.
The laid-off blue-collar worker in America and the Taliban militiaman in Afghanistan are brothers in suffering.
to be CONTD.

extracts from Constant Conflict /RALPH PETERS(1)

Constant Conflict/RALPH PETERS
http://web.archive.org/web/19980711230628/http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/97summer/peters.htm
From Parameters, Summer 1997


We have entered an age of constant conflict.
Information is at once our core commodity and the most destabilizing factor of our time.
Until now, history has been a quest to acquire information;
today, the challenge lies in managing information
Those of us who can sort, digest, synthesize, and apply relevant knowledge soar--professionally, financially, politically, militarily, and socially.
We(Americans ?), the winners, are a minority.

For the world masses, devastated by information they cannot manage or effectively interpret, life is "nasty, brutish . . . and short-circuited."
The general pace of change is overwhelming, and information is both the motor and signifier of change.
Those humans, in every country and region, who cannot understand the new world, or who cannot profit from its uncertainties, or who cannot reconcile themselves to its dynamics, will become the violent enemies of their inadequate governments, of their more fortunate neighbors, and ultimately of the United States.
We are entering a new American century, in which we will become still wealthier, culturally more lethal, and increasingly powerful.
We will excite hatreds without precedent.

We live in an age of multiple truths.
He who warns of the "clash of civilizations" is incontestably right; simultaneously, we shall see higher levels of constructive trafficking between civilizations than ever before.
The future is bright--and it is also very dark.
More men and women will enjoy health and prosperity than ever before, yet more will live in poverty or tumult, if only because of the ferocity of demographics. There will be more democracy--that deft liberal form of imperialism--and greater popular refusal of democracy.
One of the defining bifurcations of the future will be the conflict between information masters and information victims.
(TO BE contd.)

eating like a king(General).

Eating like a king ( a General)

When hla myint’s wife is “ in good mood “ she prepares at least 5 dishes;
Today hla myint is lucky ;
The lady is in good mood;
hla myint eats like a king(general).
hla myint’s list of delicious dishes today !
၁။ အာ လူး ေျခာက္္ေျခာ က္ေက်ာ္ ( finger shaped potatoe chips).
၂။ ေဘာက္ေလာက္ရြက္ သုပ္
၃။ ႏွမ္းပါတ္ခ်င္ခ်က္
၄။ ဇရစ္နဲ.အေၾကာ္ခ်က္
၅။ ငါး အု ခ်က္
၆။ အခြန္ခြာထားေသာၾက က္သြန္နီ ဥ ၾကီ းမ်ား
၇။ အခြန္ခြာထားေသာၾက က္သြန္ျဖ ူ ဥ ေလး မ်ား
၈။ သန္.ရွင္းလပ္ဆပ္ေသာ ဆား ခြက္ကေလး
Eating like a king ( General)

Problems of “spamming”

Problems of “spamming”
Dear “online” friends,
Because of ur complaints , I look for the meaning of “spamming “ in Computer dictionary & I find the following meanings.
*Plz forgive me if I commit “spamming”;
*Plz do not/ retaliate !
* this problem may be because of my lack of technical knowhows(knowledge of plugins or buttons);
*u can also mark mine as “spam” or block me.
Hla myint(From Mandalay with love.).

*spam1 n. An unsolicited e-mail message sent to many recipients at one time, or a news article posted simultaneously to many newsgroups. Spam is the electronic equivalent of junk mail. In most cases, the content of a spam message or article is not relevant to the topic of the newsgroup or the interests of the recipient; spam is an abuse of the Internet in order to distribute a message (usually commercial or religious) to a huge number of people at minimal cost.

*spam2vb. To distribute unwanted, unrequested mail widely on the Internet by posting a message to too many recipients or too many newsgroups. The act of distributing such mail, known as spamming, angers most Internet users and has been known to invite retaliation, often in the form of return spamming that can flood and possibly disable the electronic mailbox of the original spammer.)

ဒိုင္ နဲ.ယွဥ္ျပိ ုင္ ကစားရေသာဂိမ္း)

Words study (strange game ; ဒိုင္ နဲ.ယွဥ္ျပိ ုင္ ကစားရေသာဂိမ္း)
rules are reset continuosly to the advantages of favored player!
Hla Myint

strange game !
... referee and player are same;
... rules are reset incessantly to the advantages of favored player!


strange country where strange games are played!
strange country where strange games are played! strange game;
... referee and player are same;
... rules are reset incessantly to the advantages of favored player!

By Chinese Guru - Nov 6 2010 - (update)
soethein1938@gmail.


Labels: strange game / playing against big REFEREE
on sham constitution,election,heavy-handed dirty rules, regulations & protocols.

Eating like a king (a General) !

words study/Eating like a king ( a General)
When hla myint’s wife is “ in good mood “ she prepares at least 5 dishes;
Today hla myint is lucky ;
The lady is in good mood;
hla myint eats like a king(general).
hla myint’s list of delicious dishes today !
၁။ အာ လူး ေျခာက္္ေျခာ က္ေက်ာ္ ( finger shaped potatoe chips).
၂။ ေဘာက္ေလာက္ရြက္ သုပ္
၃။ ႏွမ္းပါတ္ခ်င္ခ်က္
၄။ ဇရစ္နဲ.အေၾကာ္ခ်က္
၅။ ငါး အု ခ်က္
၆။ အခြန္ခြာထားေသာၾက က္သြန္နီ ဥ ၾကီ းမ်ား
၇။ အခြန္ခြာထားေသာၾက က္သြန္ျဖ ူ ဥ ေလး မ်ား
၈။ သန္.ရွင္းလပ္ဆပ္ေသာ ဆား ခြက္ကေလး
Eating like a king ( a General)

rules are reset continuosly to the advantages of favored player!

Hla Myint

strange game !
... referee and player are same;
... rules are reset incessantly to the advantages of favored player!


strange country where strange games are played!
strange country where strange games are played! strange game;
... referee and player are same;
... rules are reset incessantly to the advantages of favored player!

By Chinese Guru - Nov 6 2010 - (update)
soethein1938@gmail.