James Felton Keith

James Felton Keith (born September 25, 1981, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American author, academic, engineer, entrepreneur, and expatriate living between The USA and The Republic of South Africa. Keith is most recently known for his controversial thoughts on natural selection, spirituality, ownership, job creation, and democracy per his 2010 publication Integrationalism: Essays on the rationale of abundance
Biography
Early Life
James Felton Keith was born in Detroit, Michigan to a middle-class family and attended public and charter schools during his adolescence. After graduating from in 1999 he left the state to attend college at Tuskegee University.
Academic & Career
While an undergraduate Keith studies Mechanical Engineering and Physics and held internship and research roles with Bing-Group, owned by Dave Bing, Detroit Mayor and NBA's 50 Greatest Players,as well as, Ford Motor Company and Procter & Gamble. Upon graduation Keith worked as a design engineer for the former DaimlerChrysler to construct the seat framework for vehicle brands in North America, Europe, and Asia like the Chrysler 300C, Dodge Charger, and Dodge Magnum.
Soon after starting his engineering career Keith noticed a need to merge his technical discipline with modern management and economics. He enrolled in the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to study finance and control. At the same time in late 2006 Keith was contacted by Eskom Holdings in South Africa to lead a series of projects in their enterprise division. Harvard insisted on Keith's physical participation in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Keith decided to leave the USA to live in Johannesburg. After leaving the United States he transferred nine graduate credits to Lawrence Technological University during his Masters in Business Administration work.
While in South Africa Keith started a series of distribution and consulting businesses geared around financial markets, energy controls, and business operations, including ESI Connect Telecommunications (Pty.) Ltd. and Enxit Group, LLC. As a result of his diverse and adverse experiences across national and cultural lines, Keith started to question the incentives that drove his for-profit work, and studied capitalistic philosophy informally over the internet.
In 2009 Keith refocused his life work on wide spread economic development and asking the tough questions that he and others required answers to. in 2010 he enrolled in a Masters degree program at The Pennsylvania State University in Community and Economic Development in order to grow his network in the field. He also travels regularly to Lansing, Michigan to work as a visiting specialist with the Land Policy Institute at Michigan State University in order to engage solutions for his home region and like depressed communities.
Philosophical Point-of-View
Integrationalism
:: From the time of the first recorded history until now, it has been sensible to gauge futury in the context of tribal tolerance, acceptance, and cooperation. Classical economics (198,000 B.C.E. - 2010 C.E.) has rightfully acknowledged the vast diversity of understanding and participation in the human experience, yielding technological developments, socio-cultural developments, and political developments design around a seemingly tribal manifestation of human interaction. The most modern philosophy can only afford to see as far as its technological developments. In order for human kind’s next steps to occur, well, we require a more comprehensive approach to understanding our ability to discover, develop, and deploy our now integrated interests.' '
Human Selection
Keith argues that human selection has succeeded the potential of Darwin's natural selection
:: Human kind has made the first step towards completing the human selection node of the existence cycle. We have the technological extensions to control how we consume energy, cultivate life forces, protect life forces, migrate life forces, and disseminate all knowledge to interested individuals. There is one huge problem that exists completely outside of the technological realm, as the speed of our technological development greatly exceeds our socio-political development. In an ideal world it would be unthinkable to experience one species recognizing two completely separate kinds of wisdom; however, it will be a reality for some time while we recognize ourselves. On one end of the spectrum, there will be the people who only know of natural selection, or some spiritual force, and the uncontrollable wills of the world around them. On the other end of the spectrum, there will be the people who benefit from human selection, that recognize their limits as the ends of the universe or multiverse, as Dr. Kaku would put it. In order to begin to experience our real potential well, we must engage everyone.' '
Transhumanism
Keith argues that spirituality endorses any behavior at all, and therefore nulls the potential for ethical behavior
:: Over the past 200,000 years spirituality has dominated the human consciousness including the identity of a wide array of immaterial theologies, ideologies, and mythologies. Human ability to compensate for the unidentifiable and unknown over the millennia has provided some extraordinary philosophical exploration; so much so, that thinkers have used spirituality’s lack of rigidity to endorse everything from cultivating life and death alike. In Integrationalism I will demonstrate that any activity is justifiable in reference to spirituality; and further, ethical ambiguities and disincentives to promote trans-humanism are prevalent. Considering the ambiguities, I offer an alternative of understanding to all spiritual philosophy.' '
Selected Publications
*Integrationalism: Essays on the rationale of abundance, May 2010 [http://books.google.com/books?iddgOinwwR-FoC&sourcegbs_navlinks_s ISBN 1452858934]
*Conjoined Wealth Funds, November 2010 [http://www.google.com/search?tbsbks:1&tbop&q=+inauthor:%22James+Felton+Keith%22&sourcegbs_metadata_r&cad6 ISBN 1453660828]
Selected works
* Keith, James Felton (2010) Cash Cab Economics
* Keith, James Felton (2009) Conjoined Wealth Funds
* Keith, James Felton, All About Business, 3/9/2010
* Keith, James Felton, Inspivia Magazine, 9/16/2009 Jobless Recovery
* Keith, James Felton, Inspivia Magazine, 5/30/2009

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