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Julius Caesar of the Internet
Wall St. Journal ^ | May 08th 2010
Posted on Sunday, May 09, 2010 1:34:28 AM by Steelfish
Julius Caesar of the Internet The FCC puts another industry under political control.
A federal appeals court ruled last month that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to regulate the Internet. No worries, mate. This week the Obama Administration chose to “reclassify” the Internet so it can regulate the Web anyway. This crowd is nothing if not legally creative.
Read more at link.
It is exceedingly strange, the things you find when you aren’t looking. This is one of them...pre-election:
http://intraspec.ca/NatalChart-BarackObama.php
My read of Barack Obama...
In context of the MBTI, Obama is an ENFJ, an Extroverted iNtuitive Feeling Judger, with significant Introverted Thinking (manifesting in a tendency to decide for others, rather than let them choose for themselves) and Introverted Perception (manifesting in a tendency to control relationships).
Obama’s ennea-type is Two, with a strong Three wing.
The passions (”sins”) are pride and deceit, rather than accidia and anger (9w1).
Heart triad (2,3,4), not Gut (8,9,1).
Obama’s birth chart presents three powerful dynamics: a kite formation, a grand square, and a mystic rectangle. Two points of the grand square are integrated with the base and apex of the kite, and two points are integrated with the rectangle. The other two points of the rectangle engage a critical aspect: Mercury opposition Jupiter/Saturn in the 12th House. The key element is Chiron (the kite base) in the 1st House, opposing Pluto (the kite apex) - which is weakly conjunct the North Node - in the 7th.
As Chiron struggled with a mortal injury for which there was no apparent remedy, Obama is also a “Wounded Healer”. In this case, however, the injury presents as a narcissistic conflict that arises from abandonment. The absent father figure is unconsciously idealized and cathected as a self-object, temporarily filling the void and providing the required narcissistic supplies for ego stability. As developmental needs are no longer met by the paternal self-object, there arises a cognitive dissonance that demands new models to serve as self-object and satisfy the self.
The maternal object is viewed with ambivalence because she cannot resolve the wound and may have caused or abetted it. She contributes to the cathecting self by instilling the belief that the developing child is of superior capability and intelligence. She also reinforces the cognitive search for new models which supersede previous self-objects as the necessity arises.
Obama harbors a deep need to resolve personal feelings that he is an outsider and does not belong, yet he is convinced that his superior intelligence and empathic capacity confer upon him a special knowledge, a personal entitlement and moral authority. The need for acceptance precludes outright self-assertion of his superiority, because this is not a pragmatic strategy; rather, he understands that acceptance must come through a focus on the perspectives and concerns of others. He is adept at reading the attitudes of others and can quickly absorb ideas, then skillfully present them as his own. His empathic abilities and capacity for mimicry (e.g., he will incorporate the vocabulary, use similar postures, and alter his pronunciation) to make it appear that he is not different. One may come away with the impression that “he is just like me”, only later to realize that things may not have been as they seemed. Obama is not focused on the subject, but on egoic performance in maintaining cognitive stability in respect of the internal self-object. He will remain inaccessible and unknown because he is unknown to himself, a man of peripatetic ideas and assumed roles.
For Obama, truth is relative, an internally mediated variable he believes is subject to social manufacture. What is “real” is a matter of agreement. Positions will be adopted on the basis of their relevance to the casting of fact that serves his immediate objectives and facilitates his acceptance by others. While there certainly are causes close to his heart, these do not escape the influence of the narcissistic conflict: conflation of personal with collective needs makes it likely that he will fall prey to narcissistic snares — that he can know all and heal all, or to the defensive belief that he is never wrong. Attempting to take the tiger by the tail, he will confuse personal attributes with the collective capacity and will, making it possible to cast himself as a symbol or see himself as the cause, leading to an over-estimation of his ability to handle such responsibilities as may be acquired in the process. He will become impatient and dogmatic because people do not understand that he knows what is best for them, the nation, and the world. He will also evince suggestibility in response to the demands of important partners with whom he has allied himself in the quest to achieve his vision of the truth.
Obama has certainly inspired and made us think, but his best contribution may not be as president of the United States. — Richard Dagan
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20004465-38.html
Comcast: FCC opening Net neutrality door ‘scary’
PALO ALTO, Calif.—A Comcast executive on Friday took aim at federal regulators’ recent Net neutrality decision, saying the move could apply the “heavy burden of regulation” designed for the analog telephone network to the Internet.
Joseph Waz, Comcast’s senior vice president for external affairs, said the Federal Communications Commission appears to be “well-intentioned” in its decision announced earlier this week. (See CNET’s FAQ on the topic.)
But, at a Stanford University conference, Waz said federal regulation “cannot be guided by good intentions alone” and “what could be applied once you’ve opened the door is scary.” A future FCC, for instance, could choose to use the precedent to impose more telephone-era rules such as price regulation.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s proposal—which will probably take the better part of a year to turn into formal regulations—”ultimately opens the door to the entire heavy burden of regulation,” Waz said. He added that he has a 16-page legal memorandum drafted by Comcast’s attorneys to read later in the day.
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