…is the realization that the paradigm concept of all new paradigms is the natural philosophical concept of grace.

Why? Because then, all you have to do to accomplish a genuine paradigm change is discover the relevant aspect of the concept of grace and apply it. And new paradigms are not palliatives that are quickly gamed and overturned they are permanently progressive phenomena that invalidate old orthodoxies and establish higher and greater truths. In other words it greatly accelerates both mental and temporal universe problem resolution, and in the case of the new monetary paradigm of Strategic Monetary Gifting with its 50+% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale it also creates a universally participated in and necessary everyday activity and opportunity to self actualize gratitude for a gift. In other words it would continually evoke and elicit a fruit of grace/graciousness, and so would not only re-inforce the greatest but mostly neglected human insight that self awareness/consciousness is a wonderful gift, it would establish a systemic way of making that insight more real…to everyone!

Addendum: But religion you say already does this. Well yes, but way, WAY too often no, because every religion has a history of deteriorating into a problematic duality that loses its focus on grace and becomes a mere enforcement mechanism for authority and control. Now that doesn’t mean practicing a religion can’t be a very, very good thing, it simply means its subject to duality/the very definition of problems (thought/counter thought, emotion/counter emotion, effort counter effort). I had a grandmother, who was disarmingly gracious by living a loving and humble life. Thats wisdom and spirituality/a true thirdness greater oneness/synthesis of duality known as a state of trinity, not just religion. Thats also why I call my book about the new monetary and economic paradigm Wisdomics-Gracenomics and hope that its implementation is serendipitously a permanent way of increasing such spirituality.

Steve Hummel 03/10/2026

…like 95+% of the bonds that fund that deficit go to the banks and the wealthy…who can afford to purchase them…and don’t really need that gift. And this is why the 50% Discount/Rebate gift of price at retail sale is so beneficial…because it benefits EVERYONE. It is in fact the very expression of economic and monetary democracy, and the greatest stabilization of capitalist economies since forever.

Which means what? That it fulfills the goals of both capitalists and socialists so its an integration of those opposite theories that effects a true thirdness greater oneness/synthesis which is the cardinal signature of historical paradigm changes. It would usher in what I call Wisdomics-Gracenomics.

Look at it, get excited about it and get on the band wagon mass movement that will inevitably herd every pol toward implementing it.

Steve Hummel 03/09/2026

That is I am an applied philosopher…because paradigms are concepts/ideas that are applied and so their aspects become our individual and temporal universe realities. Paradigms over time become anomalous, that is they don’t work the way they were discovered/designed/supposed to work, and paradigm changes are nothing more and certainly nothing less than new applied concepts/ideas that resolve the anomalies of the current paradigm of the system or systems under analysis.

My discovery, not necessarily due to such great intellect, as that discovery came about as the result of an early childhood mental decision/postulate I luckily made after an emotionally disturbing experience (hearing my mother’s reaction to finding out that her father had just died in an automobile accident) and numerous additional lucky experiences and decisions that coalesced around that postulate; was to recognize the paradigm concept behind every historical paradigm change IOW the paradigm of paradigm changes…which is the natural philosophical concept of grace…and specifically the aspects of grace known as nowness, newness and continual flowing and integrative mental and temporal universe change itself. Grace is the Nadia Comeneci of paradigms and paradigm changes, and understanding/experiencing its multitudinous aspects can lead to perfect 10’s of increase upon increase both individually and to whatever system one may chose to apply it to.

Steve Hummel 03/09/2026

…one must accept the beatific ethical chains of graciousness. Yes, its a paradox, but to deny ethics is chaos not freedom, and to revert to the dominating attitude of gross moralism is an affront to the rational considertion of morals…which is what ethical thinking actually is.

Contemplate the relevant and multitudinous aspects of grace/graciousness in every situation and every system and you’ll never put a foot wrong.

Steve Hummel 03/08/2026

Excellent broad analysis. IMO there is one thing more we need to do that should make most Iranians more cordial despite the war and that we didn’t do when the USSR became Russia back in the 80’s, and that is, after we’ve won the war, is to offer The Marshall Plan, nay an uber Marshall Plan to Iranians. And how do we do that? We implement a single policy that changes the current human civilization-long monetary paradigm where virtually all new money is created ONLY AS DEBT, and that policy is a 50+% Discount/Rebate policy at the various points of retail sale in the economy. That way everyone can buy $100 worth of groceries for $50, buy a $50k automobile for $25k and a $500k house for $250k…and yet with the rebate aspect of the policy the merchant in every instance gets their full price for the product or service. Voila! Everyone’s purchasing power is doubled, chronic erosive inflation is transformed into beneficial price and asset deflation and in Iranian’s point of view your worst enemy has become your best friend. Toss in that this single policy is the gretaest opportunity to self actualize gratitude for a gift since meditation and prayer. There’s an entire policy program in my book that rounds out and stabilizes the new monetary paradigm here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C49B9PX7

Examples of each.

The flowing of a duality/potential conflict that continually met elicits trinity/fulfillment/unity/resolution. Like a legal and economic contract.

Example of its lack or absence: “Where are your papers mother fucker!”

What we didn’t do when the USSR became Russia in the 80’s, that is, The Marshall Plan, nea The Marshall Plan with a new monetary paradigm.

Steve Hummel 03/05/2026

Integrating the new monetary paradigm of Strategic Monetary Gifting into the economy with the 50+% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale and the rest of its related policy program.

Because it resolves the normal conflict of interest between merchant and consumer into a synthesis/Thirdness Greater Oneness Solution that benefits both equally. How? By mathematically doubling the potential purchasing power of every consumer while simutaneously doubling the potential demand for every merchant’s goods and services. In other words its “all good”…for every agent (except perhaps for monopoly enterprise, although they’ll benefit by the increased demand also…even though they’ll have to give up their dominating control…which is actually a benefit because transitioning from the out-ethic state of domination to competitive and yet genuinely of good will toward the consumer…is probably the greatest benefit. Just ask the Roman Catholic Church which benefitted thusly after The Protestant Reformation.