Reflection

By Guzziferno

An updated view or summary of sociology in regards to our present human social direction, and how Statecraft evolution and Polity is impacting our social progress. This book attempts in a brief and simplistic way to map our social and political direction using history, and to understand human nature by studying the choice of direction taken thus far. Whether by varying levels of ignorance, indifference, love, concern, determination or greed, activity or inactivity, humanity will inevitably reveal its future strengths and weaknesses by the course of its own actions. This book attempts to discuss and ask why we still exhibit the same existing antiquated problems in modern day society despite our lessons from history and the many directions of political evolution experienced. These problems are now compounded with our new social values and runaway technical evolution which now heightens our perilous position in the 21 century, resulting with the deficiencies in our domestic and foreign policies and our rapidly changing ecology. Perhaps another appropriate title for this manuscript would be "the power and nature of human greed". Finally the author attempts to describe the possible remedies from a simple citizen's point of view and in terms that would hopefully be understandable to other simple citizens, in a great country where simple citizens are supposed to be the active part of a people's government. A people's government that is supposed to Reflect the many rights and regulations of the Constitution of the United States of America.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9781665570244

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Contents

Social and Economic Evolution

History, Fact Or Fiction

Money, Capitalism and the Civil War

Revelation, History Untold

Our System

Constraint

Modern Law & The Decimation Of Family….

Patriarchy

The Law

Penalty

Why

Television, and now the Internet

Good Judgement

History repeats itself

Dictatorship and the Present System

The People

In The Name Of God

The Middle East & The Old world

Violent Aggression A Genetic Curse

What is our Prime Directive?

Reflection

About the Author

In gratitude to my mother, father and family elders for

the love and culture they provided me in this life.

What curious feeling of mind will be

When pupil meets the master

Will it bring on everlasting joy

Or will it only bring disaster

Will truth tell us, the achieved was right

To leave our pre-made paradise

Will truth tell us the achieved was wrong

To end all mysteries making life go on

When we took from the tree the apple of knowledge

And started our quest for truth

Was this mistake the same as God’s

At the dawn of his own youth

And when we find our gods of old

With all our achievements, history told

In spite of this vanity, innocence sold

Will our spirits still be so bold?

And once we’ve arrived

Will their love they send….

What will become of us

When we’ve reached end

Vanity of vanities; all is vanity

I have seen all the work that is done under the sun,

And behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit

For in much wisdom is much vexation,

And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow. – King Solomon

In this time, I am often lost in thought and stumbling on unanswered questions about our world, our nature as human beings and life itself. I have wondered about evolution, the nature of evolution and the evolution of different species of life on earth both past and present. One day I happened to come across a satellite picture taken from space, taken from 115 miles above the earth, of the New York City area. Besides the normal admiration and fascination for such a photo, I was taken by the brown brick, rustic colors representing the urban centers and outer areas of the city. I noticed how these colors slowly faded into the earth’s natural greens and blues, as you moved away from the central city into the Connecticut, Long Island, mainland and Atlantic regions. Thinking further I realized how this city area which displayed no sign of plant life, is only one to two hundred years old in comparison to the earth’s age of 4.5 billion years. I wondered what new threat this new blotch or tumor, as seen from space posed to this planet. Thinking further I wondered about the many other tumors now simultaneously appearing on the face of the planet, like LA, Chicago, London, Milano, Moscow, Tokyo, Beijing, Bombay, etc. The fact, that similar to potentially infectious bacteria they are also growing and expanding, with no mind for self-control, I wondered further, and knew enough to understand that certain parasites when experienced in the human body normally do not stop spreading until they have taken over the host or are forcefully eliminated. I also know that in killing the host, the parasite must also die with the body. I asked myself, as part of a potentially rapid growing organism, was I given the gift to control my expansion or my aggression in order to prolong my own survival? Is this gift or salvation my brain and is it adequately developed to handle these modern problems? Am I smart enough to know when to stop? Is Darwin’s theory of natural selection at work right now testing the human species? Has nature finally created an organism that can do more than just consume? Or are we just a higher order failure, a progressive experiment of nature, a dangerous cross between primitive and more complex? Capable enough to create aggressive technologies and not evolved enough to know how to contain them from uses linked with personal greed, self-justification and finally, self-eradication.

Our planet miraculously holds life despite the odds, when realizing the millions of planets that do not. To admit that there is life on any planet in the universe including our own floating little home is like admitting to the existence of UFOs. The odds of extraterrestrial life existing over terrestrial life is much higher considering terrestrial or Earth being a much smaller parsec of the greater universal space. Yet, unless this is all a dream, we are the living proof of the miracle of existence. We are here, although the odds of finding another earth, based on our present capability is almost inconceivable.

Why then would we ever allow this miracle of our world to die before its natural time?

It is incredible to contemplate that despite the overwhelming odds against life on this planet, we are still progressing towards the self-destruction of this existing miracle. It is true that natural catastrophes have changed the fate of other extinct life before man which was unpreventable. But the human animal has been given a special gift of higher thinking which may be the added link in overcoming some disasters especially the most threatening at this time, those that are human created. We have been given this capability to foresee, reason, plan, mitigate, overcome and prevent destructive forces which may buy us more time, to evolve further in time, more intelligently and more successfully.

Man has appeared on earth only in the last 30 seconds of the earth’s 1-hour history. Using this respective time scale man has changed the face of the earth with his population boom and industrial revolution all within the last 1 second of our world history hour. After millions of years of evolution, we only started a slow migration out of central Africa towards the Middle East 200,000 years ago. At the time the Bible was being conceived, only 6,000 years ago, it is estimated that the total world population of man was less than the population of the State of Texas today alone. We have tripled in numbers several times just in the last 2,000 years alone and more so during the last 200 years due to scientific and technical achievements and advances in agriculture and use of fossil fuels. We have evolved and migrated from The Middle East and Africa until we finally circumvented the entire planet and reconnected as American Indian and Scandinavian Norseman in northeastern Canada. And, as we continue to multiply, our world’s space remains the same. We are now experiencing the rapid melt down and fractures in polar ice caps. We have and are experiencing the progressive destruction of the ozone layer, the simultaneous extinction of the most numerous groups of animals and plants at any one time, the increase in temperature of our world’s oceans, destruction of global forests, coral reefs and environment, all required foundations for our survival. We see all these events and we are doing nothing, for all that we claim to do has amounted to nothing, since the destruction we have started is increasing and outweighing all else in the way or effort to subdue or mitigate this growth. How much room do we have left? How much time do we have left? Has the man made technologies surpassed the average man’s comprehension of his own creations? Is technology evolving much faster than man’s own mental and physical evolution? The use of our technology for personal enrichment and destruction tells me that the answer is yes.

Although social evolution is evolving incredibly faster than our physical evolution and our technical evolution even faster than that of our social evolution, many of us do not take notice or comprehend these graphics visually or mentally. This is perhaps due to our short lifetime and education, which misses most of the many repercussions to this timetable offset. Therefore; it is questionable whether or not we can physically keep up with the more advanced social and especially technical changes that we continue to impose on ourselves. Perhaps if we were blessed or cursed with eternal life on earth, we would think and plan the future differently.

I ask if material growth, rapid expansion, continuous increased productivity is actually required for humane survival? Is this rapid planetary growth the actual cause of global warming? I must now recount a strange experience that I had at home, which has aided me in believing that the answer is also yes. On one occasion, I was unfortunate to return from a two-week absence back to my home to find my refrigerator disabled. The frozen meat which lay within the freezer had not only defrosted but in a stage of rapid decay. The smell was intolerable and a natural product of the new life previously non-existing, and this new life now feeding and multiplying throughout the meat was fact. But, the one thing that this experience taught me, a lesson which I would not have learned without this event, was of the heat generating from the meat packages, or more accurately the new living bacteria, which were now well above room temperature. This environmental condition change happened within the same closed chamber, with the introduction of a new life previously not present, much like the earth prior to and after mankind. The idea of temperature increases relating to increased congestion and increased reproduction of our species is now very real to me. The idea of controlled breeding, controlled production, controlled consumption and controlled temperature related to and for ecological balance is now also very real to me.

Now, for the sake of simple survival, I must ask, are food and shelter not enough for mankind? How much of our work and tax money supports the system which simply provides our food and shelter, and how much is spent on political and economic programs designed to enrich and empower industries of global leaders and curb the aggressions of other leaders or powers who would contest the present leadership for the same goals, decadent growth and domination. We have always been able to point a finger at the Russian working class unfortunate about power hungry government needs. Now we can look at the slowly diminishing American middle class, which must now also support an increasingly expanding, absorbing and increasingly tax evading industrial power structure. Just because we now have one of the greatest provisional systems in the world, should we let our ecology or life’s blood slip away in negligence to the goals of these aggressive powers? How temporary is this new abundance or provisional system?

As the Russian government’s need to compete with America’s military power, ended in its near bankruptcy in the 1980’s, I fear that uncontrolled industrial power, terrorism and multi insurgencies will eventually bankrupt our nation and irreversibly damage our ecology in our government and its controllers endeavor for world domination, before it simply enriches our oil, defense and other self-built uncontrolled and profit driven industrial powers and sub servant government agencies.

It seems that we cannot distance ourselves too far from the rest of mankind or their faults, for neither of us from either side of the globe have evolved any faster than the other.

The world is my country and doing good is my religion- Thomas Paine

When I learned of Thomas Payne’s seventeen page article Common Sense and that it was adopted as the backbone of the American Revolution, I asked why not try to continue providing society with pieces of literature reflecting hopefully more common sense, for the further enrichment and benefit of human society.

This paper is written with this thought and hope.

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EVOLUTION

Socialism, Capitalism, Dictatorship, These are the generally recognized systems of governments.

Democracy can be lacking or apply to any of these systems to some degree, for even Fascists were first allowed into power by some majority force and consent. What are the correct politics or governing system? History has shown that at different times under different circumstances each of these systems have served its place or served as a desperate alternative in the face of the mismanagement of the former. As it is also a fact that not all situations or sicknesses can be cured with one medication, it seems all forms of government have served society, and even today right wing politics exercising force with the threat of violence still does play a role in all governments. I have also included capitalism because it has influenced and controlled governments outright. Capitalism may not be a structured political party with a political office although; it is a natural economic system or a natural system of survival or tendency towards gain, profit and power that has worked its way into all political systems. It is now also being managed, organized and orchestrated with precision in order to rapaciously control governments by an international minority of financial powers which moves across borders without restriction. It seems that throughout history capitalism has been and is an instinctive human tendency that repeatedly grows back in all societies throughout the economic roller coaster rides of history. As its corporate powers grow and its dominance becomes prevalent, different forms of government have repeatedly emerged to try and manage it successfully without being corrupted by it, using their own doctrines. Most recently China has temporarily milked it much more successfully through better control by central government, and the result speaks for itself. Where capitalism is not controlled, it to a great degree rules nations primarily for its financers and not for the benefit of its entire people.

What are the correct politics? Let us first look at the societies in the past and how they have changed to the present. During the middle Ages in Europe certain agricultural tools were revolutionized which inspired the increase of small farmers and landowners over the original or ancient migrants, hunter-gatherer societies and also in the socially structured times of poor, dependent indentured soldiers. At one time special plows were modified from the Mediterranean model with an added forward cutting tool designed to open up difficult terrain more common in northern Europe. Rather than practice the bow for the army ranks of their kings as their only means of security they could now farm small plots of previously unopened land and provide beans for themselves. These people grew to become basically self-sustaining family units with some autonomy and freedom. During these times, soldiering as an only means of security temporarily declined for lack of need. But again, as these self -sustaining small farmers grew through the centuries, eventually some of these people became more productive, more aggressive and more prosperous than the rest. As time passed more local land barons emerged who became local powerful princes. These new powerful men soon clashed with each other for local control. This competition among regional neighbors soon required the need for formidable protection, which increased the spread of the castles. Now the small farmers who were spread out across the countryside found themselves in the middle of local wars, which devastated the local areas and demanded identification of allegiance for survival among the warring parties. There was no neutrality or little else for a small farmer caught in the middle. These common people soon required the castle protection of the local prince to protect them from the wars and power struggles brought about by the same local prince. In return for protection, the people had to pay with what they could and as levied tribute began to be permanent and difficult, the farmers began to lose their lands to this local land baron who became a land lord as well as a prince and eventually, a wealthier and more powerful sovereign.

These people were now required to work what was once their own land, as serfs for the local lord, for a percentage of the produce, their major crop stocking the lord’s castle, all for protection. Now without the local lord’s permission to labor, they were suddenly found without land, without earnings, without protection and at the mercy of nature, their lord, and their lord’s enemies. Their master’s sins, now theirs by association would receive no quarter. Some of you may think that this feudal system is outdated, but it is not. As regional princes grew they became provincial kings and finally national leaders and powerful families, which are now staking the final prize, world dominion. Let us ask ourselves, what capitalism is, and what monopolization is, what the present nature of the property tax is, what medical aid as a controlled business is, and what the true price is for doing business in this way, in these modern times. And, in a time when warring princes and lords are still abundant, just how historic is the ultimatum "you’re either with us or against us" (Quite similar to a mafia system of respectable nobility). America today requires most of its subjects to work for or depend on American industry for all of their personal needs and securities. If you are not one of the few who has established your own successful business, which provides excessive profit, (excessive to your actual minimal needs) or a top executive with the same, you are one of the majority who must work for an enterprise which provides basic salary, subsidized medical insurance, and now becoming more scarce, a means for retirement securities. In this situation, you must belong to a group or a corporation, a political party with influence in an agency or civil service position. Without this affiliation, you cannot generally participate in an affordable medical plan, you cannot pay your property taxes which allow you to continue to maintain or own the home which you may have already purchased using your own efforts and money earned, you cannot protect yourself and provide for your family, in essence; you do not have the protection of the castle. Under this system you must belong to a local lord or a corporation simply to maintain affordable medical insurance and for those of us who are lucky, maintain tax payments on an already purchased home for fear of losing it to agencies like HUDD, and to auction with your entire investment (and for those who are not so lucky, continue to purchase their home through a lifetime of bank serving mortgage payments added).

Do I believe that people should not have to work for their needs? No, I do not. Do I believe that there should be a safety net for those workers and their families who are suddenly cut off without labor, income and protection, protecting small property and health? Yes, I do. (Regarding human labor, I also believe in the establishment of the new European worker cooperative businesses owned and operated by the workers themselves, and for the benefit of those workers. Some now existing and actually working in parts of Europe successfully with the help and blessing of their local governments. These structures increase workers stride to better products simply out of personal pride of shared ownership and enthusiasm from personal management. They would surely provide better and more secure working conditions for themselves, with greater allocations or proportions of profit from earnings for reinvestment back into their own operational success and survival, and never considering outsourcing their own employment security by cutting their own positions to reduce overhead costs).

Americans have carried this old feudal system of worker/servant to the New World, from Europe where it has been greatly mitigated under their present social democratic systems, and where we in turn have instead increasingly cultivated it for our own present society. In America it originally materialized in the form of outright slavery for some, and the deplorable living conditions, unbearable working conditions and poverty wages for the others claimed free Americans, to recall the times of the Molly Maguire’s, western Appalachian mining communities, Blair Mountain revolt and urban 19th and 20th century factories and their history of multiple worker strikes and violent state suppression’s from coast to coast. This included most of the old poverty class, immigrants, and of course children of the industrial revolution subject to 18-hour days with usually dangerous duties. These conditions have now been passed along to the children of third world nations, where we at home are not exposed or affected directly by these conditions, and they in turn not exposed to or affected by our own modern labor laws. American industry has also practiced this feudal system on the agricultural people of Central and South America, where friendly governments have agreed to use most of the cultivatable farms which were once owned privately, for the mass production of fruit and vegetables for U.S. markets. The people, who once owned these lands, now are able to work them under a new monopoly at a low wage for their local lords and American and foreign industries.

This modern feudal or capitalist government has also openly expressed its loyalty to Wall Street and the Chamber Of Commerce over the working man by allowing some of these people to illegally enter our borders and feed the profit starved US industries labor ranks, industries which refuse to pay livable wages to prospective US workers, while demonizing the needed refugees (driven by changes, labor demands and politics) without providing them proper immediate aid and using them to attack failed and corrupt political immigration policies. Alternatively, those needed and used to labor are allowed across despite the knowledge and publicized fear of potential infiltration of enemy combatants or terrorists. And, looking back at South America, even lands which were previously uncultivated and ecologically precious are now being opened up for U.S. and world destined beef production and International logging industries. This includes the invaluable rain forests, which our government is so eagerly trying to save or at least claims to want to save through our selected media. The sadist part of all this, is that there are even those who will claim that none of this is true. At this point in our actions, and our history, I would be compelled to question if it is I or they who are delusional. But, the destructive power of greed is no illusion and it is historically and presently man’s greatest growing threat, and from the Roman times of the Gracchi brothers to the times of Gandhi, Hoffa and Bill Haywood, many men have devoted and sacrificed their lives in an attempt to combat the injustice and damage affiliated with it.

HISTORY, FACT OR FICTION

Historical perspective is thus not a by-product of the passage of time. A more accurate view derives from Leon Festinger’s theory of cognitive dissonance, which suggests that the social practices of the period when history is written largely determine that history’s perspective on the past

There are many facts of history, and the larger portions of its details are obscure or have simply vanished from the pages of existing books. It is my goal here to discuss only a few in order to provide us with an idea of the potential amount of detailed knowledge that we have been denied in our education system. There is also the misleading of our understanding and acceptance of wider subject’s ranging from past events, to the meaning of "just laws". In discussing these few unpopular but significant subjects and facts I hope to spurn our sense of curiosity and use of human logic to try and fill in the missing reason for these voids of awareness both past and present. I ask myself, is this knowledge vacuum or our lack of understanding a product of intentional misleading or programing? In a time when senseless acts increasingly play out in our world and in our lives, the reoccurring questions are who benefits and who tracks where the benefits or the money goes?

The spirit of capitalism has always existed and in the middle ages the opportunity for its expansion was triggered among the common people and a wider population in Europe. History follows that;

"During the middle ages the effects on the rise of towns on agriculture were striking. Manors which in the early feudal age produced only for home consumption were now able to produce a surplus for sale outside. Grain became an article of mercantile circulation brought by the peasant to the town* or sold to the merchant who traded foodstuffs. As a consequence, money circulated more freely in the countryside. Peasants (serfs) were able to buy freedom or to become tenant farmers paying a fixed rent. Some became laborers for hire. The size of holdings could be increased more readily by hard working peasants who invested their savings in more land. Even the bourgeoisie speculated in land. The immobility of the manorial relationship was broken."

(*towns and communities now arising again from the increase of this new commerce and its merchants counter dependency to do business close to each other, the 1300’s saw the restart of urban growth at a more pronounced scale not seen since the days of classical Rome and its empire)

Since the dues and rents exacted by the landlords were usually fixed by immemorial custom and did not fluctuate, and since the general increase in money caused a rise in prices, many landlords – nobles, abbeys, and bishops faced serious financial loss if not ruin. These, in order to keep their serfs from running away to the towns and if possible to increase their revenues, were forced to enfranchise serfs and to accept money rent. Since the process of emancipation was the result of economic change, it was more rapid and widespread in the regions where commercial development was most advanced. (Economic control tools would now include manipulating cost)

In regards to this economic evolution, the race or quest had started in the reach for financial freedom and financial power between the workers-serfs or peasant farmer and the financial powers who traditionally controlled workers, soldiers, land and resources. Eventually those who controlled more wealth and power were able to regain control of the people by controlling and increasing costs, rents, etc. in this new system where and when desired, devaluing services and salaries, and in the process reestablishing and controlling debt.

Nowhere over time is this example more evident than here in the land of refugees where many people ran to attain freedom from the same suppressive system. Control through debt has now reached a level where even purchased homes and middle class wealth can be lost for lack of property tax payments and the unaffordability of medical services, education cost, and fundamental securities which among many other nations are still provided, protected and maintained today to a greater degree and confirmed by statistical comparison.

In regards to the impact to our climate and the crisis of rapid ecological changes resulting from these social changes; the rise of towns and urbanization in the last several centuries were very gradual until circa the last century. History sources state;

But we must be aware of exaggerating the importance of the (new) medieval towns. Europe was still largely agrarian. Only in relatively recent times has European civilization taken on the predominantly urban aspect which it now has.- (History of Europe, MacMillan Co. 1956 edition)

This super urbanization has now expanded more rapidly in America,,, and in the wake of this power growth catalyst, follows nations like China, India, Southeast Asia and others. While flying into Heathrow airport in 2018, I was surprised to see how much country side still remained relatively undeveloped outside the city boundaries of London, a city which is twenty centuries old as compared to New York City, only a few centuries old and whose urban development now spans all visible horizons.

Getting back to political and economic history;

A distinction has been drawn between the definition of Capitalism and Feudalism, One being made of private owned corporate states which work for profit and the other a socialist economic state which is owned by land barons and kings. What I see is not so much a distinction but a greater statistic of similarities which are shared by both systems as would be perceived by the majority of the working class. What is common is that both systems have enriched themselves on the efforts of the common laborer. No one individual has ever attained enormous wealth in a world of a population of one, comprising only of themselves and within a period of only one lifetime. Great wealth is usually founded on the labor and efforts of many whose efforts and achievements are owned and controlled by one. Very few individuals in history had the individual graces to establish the collective power or influence of what we measure today in the strength of billionaires. No one individual has the physical or mental ability or offers such enormous value singularly within any market to accumulate such dominance and command, (command in the way of admiration and genius versus only finance and wealth) over others. Only through the invention of currency or cash has this been made possible. If an individual can create, multiply, steal, manipulate, direct, invest, accumulate, and control currency, this individual could control and dominate society. This individual or entity of individuals could be completely ignorant or void of necessary skills or professions required of daily survival in the natural world, but could command those who have and can provide them. Let us contemplate for a moment that Power, can be attained by only knowing how to control, direct and accumulate printed papyrus notes.

This is the danger of unqualified leadership or blind capitalist control and why it is capable of exposing us to even more danger than totalitarian control, as bad as that can be. Totalitarians are usually public figures recognized and held responsible for their decisions, most controlling capitalists are not.

Except for a minority of psychotic individuals, many dictators throughout history were most born of socialist ideals, values, and intelligence (loved or hated) and have demonstrated their abilities in their rise and control without the magic of finance or of purchasing power primarily, whereas armies of capitalists authorities base their power on one worshiped resource, and one goal for the same resource gain during their overwhelming time in power historically. Capitalist controlled government is control by finance in the pursuit of greater finance. Finance controls politicians and dictates legislature. The difference between Politics and finance?,, Finance is a gun,, Politics is simply knowing when to pull the trigger -(Don Luchessi, Godfather III). The longer the unmitigated control of finance, the greater the accumulation of concentrated wealth and power, the greater the accumulation of wealth, the bigger the gun and greater the power of intimidation, or the power of ultimate control. The goal of this control is almost always for self-enrichment and self-empowerment. ~Here too absolute power corrupts absolutely.

In America some fear too much government. The reason we have such a sour taste in our mouths for too much government (aside from being trained) is because this government has been increasingly controlled by capitalist forces for the past 200 years, with a temporary reversal of power to the people in 1932. If this government was more just and responsible for the welfare of all and the balance of wealth and power with control over monopolization within the market, we the middle class would not find it so distasteful. In essence when we criticize big government in America we are criticizing Capitalism or the competing forces or political parties that represent it, both party’s serving capitalist financial authorities. By attacking big government we simply provide or open more avenues for greater capitalist control of the same weakened government when demanding the minor limited changes allowed to us, using an insignificant and periodic vote. This vote simply bounces power back and forth between the same two parties or within the same controlling authority which tweaks or incorporates its own changes — in a system kept fluid and in perpetual change. Any change of true significance provided accidentally to, and benefiting the working class can be reversed by the next election. This perpetual change maintains an environment of perpetual conflict and instability even in the most basic issues of common sense and in issues regarding the foundation of the common people’s securities.

With the exception of some revolutions in which governments were afterwards again reorganized temporarily by yet another new government, most were slowly overturned to the original powers of finance and not the people (the fate of the New Deal). Perhaps the only pure socialist established societies I can imagine in America are the Pennsylvania Amish communities or American Indians before we arrived and even they had a chief or community leaders, trading and providing mostly in services in the absence of CASH, whether it was in short supply or simply nonexistent. It is also difficult for many scholars on all political sides to accept that a central government is absolutely necessary in establishing socialism or a competitive free market economy that serves everyone correctly and justly in balance; but throughout the history of human societies and in human nature itself, it seems that it would be unrealistic to think that a central government is not necessary. The establishment of currency has allowed the greedy or desperate to mount and accumulate infinite