Sun Tzu however IS relevant in the conflict over applied ideas/paradigms. Specifically his insight that if you can convince the enemy (read all of us) that there is no reason to go to war you (read the banks and oligarchs) will win every war without a single battle.

This characterizes the modern intellectual disease of cynicism where otherwise intelligent people unwittingly become erudite dunces because they stop before they even begin.

New paradgms are simple as in single ideas/insights and yet deep because they are the key applied realities that transform the entire pattern they are relevant to. They are geo-centrism vs helio-centrism, nomadic, tribal hunting and gathering vs homesteading, urbanization and agriculture and Debt Only vs Strategic Monetary Gifting.

Go simple, go deep…and keep going there.

Read my response to Alvar Nunez. Its that pols and pundits don’t know that the problem is the current MONOPOLY paradigm for the creation and distribution of all new money which is Debt ONLY. Its perfectly analogous to the the Roman Catholic church’s monopoly paradigm of Salvation Via Roman Catholic Sacraments ONLY. We require a monetary and economic reformation that breaks up the Debt ONLY paradigm, and the best application of that new paradigm which incidently aligns conceptually with Greenbacks as well as Keen’s Debt Jubilee, UBI and MMT’s job guarantee namely Strategic Monetary Gifting…is the 50% Discount/Rebate policy at the various payment points of retail sale where the central bank creates and distributes the rebate monies back to the merchant granting the discount to consumers. And we better be awakening to this fast with AI probably precipitating a crisis of failed demand in the very near future.

C’mon.

Steve Hummel 09/03/2026

The high percentage is actually the key to its applicability and necessity of opting into it because if it were a smallish number it could simply be inflated away by the merchant while with a 50%+ percentage it would be mandatory because even the stupidest consumer is not going to pay you 100% of your price when they can walk down the street and only have to pay 50% of it…to your competitor.

The merchant grants the price discount/credit, the central bank rebates/debits the total daily discounts of the merchant with gifted money so they are made whole on their entire price.

The retail/payment point of finance is one’s serial monthly loan payment. Apply the 50% Discount/Rebate at that point where the bank grants the discount and the central bank rebates the entirety of that amount…back to the bank. Voila! the borrower gets that $500k house for the equivalent of a $125k loan payment and the bank still gets its pound of flesh.

The FED is the ultimate monetary authority and so also the ultimate creator of money. It has bailed out banks and other financial agents many times since its inception and it is time to make it The General Reserve by mandating it to create and distribute the monies of the 50% Discount/Rebate policies of the new monetary and economic mega-paradigm change.

This is the urgent job of all legislators on both sides of the aisle, and the pharisees/economic pundits and theorists and banks/other financial agents/oligarchs/powerful wielders of the present paradigm need to bow to that and the obvious benefits of Wisdomics-Gracenomics.

Get it and do it with post haste.

Regular Consumer Retail Sale: $100 worth of goods or services for $50

Financial Retail Sale: Your mortgage, insurance, automobile or other big ticket item’s monthly payment which means the $500k house you got a 50% Discount down to $250k at the home builder/seller the central bank pays 50% of your bank loan’s monthly payment…to the bank and so you get a $500k house for the equivalent payment of a $125k loan.

State and Local Government Sales Taxes: As state and local governments and their taxes are non-sovereign and cannot be created by themselves and as they are included in every regular consumer purchase that means 50% of their costs are reduced to the consumer and with the almost inevitable increase in consumption because of the doubling of everyone’s purchasing power the revenues of those governments will undoubtedly increase as well.

Federal Government Taxes and Deficit Payment Point of Retail Sale: Currently the US Treasury must tax US economic agents individual and commercial to fund the government, and float treasury bonds to fund any deficit. Mandating that the central bank fund 50% of the federal budget with a 50% Discount to tax payers/Rebate back to the Treasury policy cuts the taxes individual and commercial agents need to pay for the government’s budget by half and likely eliminates any deficit as well, so then no need to float treasury bonds to cover it.

Charity/Philanthropy Point of Retail Sale…With a 100% Price Increase/50% Rebate Policy: The gracious benefits of charity and philanthropy of a $38/mo. contribution to the ASPCA etc. etc. only costs one the normal $19 and so the total contributions, benefits and virtues of charity/philanthropy/graciousness are potentially doubled.

IOW the integrative, thoroughly unitary and continuous thirdness of duality/opposites in this instance of capitalism and socialism into a Wisdomics-Gracenomics.

Its also the christian, islamist, hindu, the great god mugjub who lives up the yap yap river and even the quasi-religious ideology of scientism’s intention because grace as in the unitary state of love, loving intention and action is universally considered the peak experience of all of these, the the intellectual process of wisdom itself and the sanest purpose the individual can pursue as well.

Its the next step toward the mega-paradigm change of a culture of Gracientialism because it will transform the problematic human temporal universe systems of economics and finance that everyone must and does participate in into the greatest opportunity to self actualize grace as in gratitude for a reciprocal gift of price, purchasing power and demand for every merchant’s goods and services since the development of meditation and prayer…with a policy of a 50% Discount/Rebate at the various points of retail sale in the economy.

And you don’t even have to chant the right name…just go to the store and buy something. Its serendipity, synchronicity and spirituality all wrapped up in a single economic policy.

Steve Hummel 08/30/2026

And likewise its an absurd misunderstanding and actually arrogance to deny the gifted benefits of the new monetary paradigm created by the 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale, and the rest of the new paradigm policy program.

Do not be deceived.

Steve Hummel 08/27/2026

…so why don’t we do the same to break up the present monopoly monetary paradigm of Debt Only with a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at the various points of retail sale? Its a tremendously unconscious and mistaken oversight considering that such a tool and policy resolves the deepest problems and anomalies of modern economic systems like chronic price and asset inflation, chronic austerity of monetary/purchasing power and so demand for virtually all goods and services and the human civilization-long rule of humanity by Finance. It doesn’t make sense to not implement this solution when you can simply model its multiple systemic and individual beneficial effects.

Get outside of the box of the present monopoly monetary and economic paradigm concept for the creation and distribution of all new money which is Debt Only, and we will have arrived at the probably only the fourth mega-paradigm change in human history. And that doesn’t even measure the new paradigm’s social, psychological and spiritual benefits like how it makes participating in the economy the greatest opportunity to self actualize grace as in gratitude for a gift…since meditation and prayer.

So be it.

Steve Hummel