Science and Technology:  Differences between Serious and Meandering. 

Winstar… according to the Larouchies — passed onto the Youth in the battle against the Baby Boomers — is something to the effect of:

Newtonian book-keeping and flim-flammery?

At any rate, it is part and parcel, from this vantage point, to the story of the fall of PMR as the internal (to the cult / organization) faults of the Baby Boomers.  Actually its Bankruptcy strikes me, for Larouche’s purpose, as a cautionary tale of “going out on your own” and leaving the Bosom of the Larouche Cult and its various abuses.  The secret curse is that Larouche is beyond the realm of compensation, balance books, and profit margins and further in a field where if he ever gets called to task for breaking the law, it is conceptualized as an Oligarchic Plot against him.

Here’s a recounting of the story of Winstar.  Make of it what you must — a corporation which (ahem) developed an advanced telecom that developed line-of-sight millimeter-wave terrestrial links using digital radios in the 38 Gigahertz band.  And was a corporate entity designed to be bought out by a bigger corporate entity.  And then was sort of lost in the dot com bubble burst –(you know… that rough and wild economic system the nation and world runs off of where new sectors of the economy grow and than contract and sort out?).

At bottom, a truer quest in the realm of applied science than our dear Cryonics – fan and friend, Phil Ossifuer (and various aliases along those lines) and his congregation of blogs and banishments from Cryonic themed message boards — banned because they have no interest in hearing about a g-damned cult leader.  Mind you, Futurenauts, you need not fear Larouche.  The thing has been comical.  My favorite item was Rick Potvin’s rants against Arthur C Clarke when the “Futurenauts” paid their respect to that great Science Fiction author.  But the thing is puzzling me.  Is there a 21st Century Science and Technology selection on the topic of Cryonics?  Perhaps Cryonics is the proposed solution to Larouche’s impending crisis of his Immortality — cue the show Futurama and the collection of famous heads.

I suppose the answer is simply that it falls into a cluster of “fringe” topics for “Phil Ossifur” — not that there’s anything necessarily wrong with the fringe — a lot of good ideas float there and come from there.  I was listening to former Larouchie and current Mars Society head Robert Zubrin on George Noory (fringe on fringe), and after a spell I’m convinced Zubrin should be elected president over Obama and McCain.  (Zubrin, I think, wants us to go to Mars and beyond, and left Larouche-land when he realized that the cult was not terribly serious in their stated ideas on the subject, and used those ideas as a money generator and cult- bait and switch.  Which is he has something of a fringe position and realized that the only way to get it out of the fringe was to start his own advocacy think tank and make it real.)  I’m not entirely sure he’s right about Ethanol (I’ve always thought it was a boondoggle, and depressingly a political potent one) — but maybe he’s right… what do I know?

… Incidentally, here we see the Larouchies preying on the currently political desperate, so you know?  The Cryonics enthusiasts need not feel too bad.

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