1. How many de facto wars has Obama on his hands? Six. See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/us-drones-target-two-leaders-of-somali-group-allied-with-al-qaeda/2011/06/29/AGJFxZrH_story.html
2. Are the US Treasury and Fed actions part of a great Ponzi scheme? See Timothy Geithner's letter to Senator Demint in http://www.zerohedge.com/article/obama-redirects-broke-us-government-playing-class-warfare-card-focuses-millionaires-and-bill wherein he implies that the US taxpayer is the victim of a gigantic Ponzi. For a beautiful classic as an object of comparison, see Adam Ferguson's (1975) "When Money Dies - Nightmare of the Weimar Republic," see: http://university.unitedstatesliberty.org/654/textbooks/adam-fergusson-when-money-dies-nightmare-of-the-weimar-collapse/.
3. Our n-categorical analysis tells us to look for the morphisms between objects to find categories, and then the morphisms between categories (functors), and the morphisms between functors (naturality) leading us to adjunction, where the left adjoint is equivalent to the right adjoint. This procedure, while sounding mechanical, is entirely trackable and ensures us that our metaphors and analogies are not entirely baseless, and can be re-conceived as programmes in reality! At a terribly general and abstract level, what we perceive as an object A in reality is transformed in ourselves as an object B, and when the object A is conceived as an object in the mind as object C, this C comes into the mind from the object A. Let's call the morphism from A to B, f. And from B to C, g. And the morphism from A to C, h. The category is defined as the transit round the objects through the morphisms such that h:gf. This is an important result oriented relation. Note also the two steps g and f become in some sense 'equivalent' to h. This basic conjurer step of "2 into 1" replicates one of the greatest fundamental tensions in the deepest parts of philosophy about what do we mean by number, quantity, of quantity being the primus unus of quality, of set theory's fundamental assertion that a singular attribute (intensionality) is equivalent to an impossibly innumerable collection of elements (extensionality) and finally, to the fundamental logical principle that the assertion of a falsehood (the many lies) as premise and implicating a truth (a singular factual and verifiable truth) can imply as an entire statement the truth of such statement. Most of what we "know" is in the form of the latter statement -- whose classical name I forget but hereby name for convenience as "altum fuit," for "he went to the bottom", as opposed to "alta fuit", he went to the summit.
4. One of the practical points of these exceptionally simple abstractions on rhetoric is to see whether we can apply them to guide our actions in life. Can you see the categories, morphisms, isomorphisms, functors, naturalities and adjunctions in your life? The philosophy of the 21st century will be written in the code that programmes, and the programme beyond all programmes will need protection.
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