What the country needs is a true synthesis/thirdness greater oneness of a seemingly unresolvable duality, like capitalism vs socialism for instance. As liberal-progressive as I am I don’t really see how a largely if not totally orthodox socialism is going to be able to survive the demogoguery of Trump and the acculturated conservatism of republicanism…unless of course the above thirdness synthesis of opposites is discovered and effectively communicated to the general populace.

So here is my policy prescription for that: A 50% Discount to the consumer at both regular consumer retail sale and also at the retail point of Finance, namely one’s mortgage, automobile, insurance and other big ticket item’s monthly payment. This single policy would enable everyone to purchase $100 worth of groceries or other goods and service..for only $50, and yet the merchant gets their entire price with the rebate aspect of the policy so its a win/win for both the individual and the commercial agent as it mathematically doubles everyone’s purchasing power and simultaneously doubles the potential demand for every commercial agent’s goods and services IOW it implements a condition synonymous to “good economic times” which is everyone having a lot more purchasing power (economic democracy) and yet price and asset deflation with no moral hazard or painful effect for the commercial agent. Its the thirdness/synthesis of the dialectic that Hegel and Marx advocated for, but never found a way to accomplish.

This is the policy the democrats need to see and just keep communcating to their constituents and just ignore any objections or other orthodox nonsense. Just keep modeling it to them until they realize its the greatest opportunity to implement economic democracy…since forever.

Its the entire point of purpose fulfillment for both the individual and commercial agent, and so a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at those points benefits both everybody and every enterprise.

Steve Hummel 06/26/2026

Because its aspects are both immanent and transcendant.

Trinity, a thirdness greater oneness of an apparently unresolvable duality. Its what I call The Cosmic Code.

New paradigms are new APPLIED ideas, that is they simultaneously change inward and outward realities. Understanding that inclusive and ultimate integrative of opposites fact is the necessary realization TO SEE its actual power and ACT ON IT, IN OTHER WORDS REPLICATE ITS INTEGRATIVE AND RESOLVING EFFECTS…instead of hiding inside an orthodoxy it invalidates or resorting to the most dread intellectual disease of modernity namely cynicism which tricks very smart people into stopping needed change before it even begins.

Steve Hummel 06/24/2026

Yes, every present perception is a gift. Gifting is evocative of gratitude and both are aspects/fruits of graciousness/loving action. One technique I like to do is look at the space of an open door…until its reality becomes real to you. This often also evokes a stronger sense of the solidity of objects at a distance.

Back to grace and gifting: what if we implemented a policy of a 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale? IOW you get $100 worth of goods or services…for $50, but with the rebate aspect of the policy the merchant gets their full price rebated back to them by the central bank. Voila! Everyone’s purchasing power is immediately and mathematically doubled as is the potential demand for every merchant’s goods and services so its a win/win, and instead of grumbling that “Damn, orios just went up another 10%!, EVERYONE gets to consciously say: “Thank you Mr. and MS merchant for the gift of 50% of the price of EVERYTHING, and instead of cursing the bought and paid for politicians you get to say “Thank you Mr. and Ms politician for passing the legislation to make this everyday gift and opportunity to self actualize gratitude.”

But wait you say, more consumption is not a good thing. But what if we also passed a sliding scale required percentage of utilized gifted purchasing power be invested in Eco-Energy R & D Treasury bonds at say 5-6%, IOW a gift of a guaranteed investment that rationalized action toward resolving our eco-energy crises, that mitigated consumption and again, that EVERYONE benefited from? Instead of capitalism or socialism we could have a Wisdomics-Gracenomics.

Why? Because mathematics is abstract reality and 3, 6 & 9 is the trinity/wisdom signature of the nature of the physical/temporal universe. Also, 3 is yin/mental, 6 is yang/temporal/physical universe and 9 is their integration which describes the trinitarian/integrative mental and temporal universe reality changing phenomenon/effect of paradigm changes.

Finally, the aspects of the natural philosophical concept of grace as in flow, free-flowingness, free gifting, integration of opposites to the point of trinity/thirdness greater oneness, love/loving, ethics/the rational consideration of opposites/dualities etc. etc. etc. are the beneficial effects of historical paradigm changes which themselves are trinitarian phenomena like 3, 6 & 9. Hence, deciphering the relevant aspect of concept of grace, which is the trinitarian concept itself, and its application to our systems…is revealed as a straight-forward intellectual “plug and play” way to effect paradigm change.

Steve Hummel 06/22/2026

I do not understand why you are not all over affirming that my favorite policy of a 50+% Discount/Rebate at retail sale is a breakthrough??? It dramatically affirms your and MMT’s insight that money is created with double entry bookkeeping, and being implemented at both regular consumer retail sale and also the retail point of Finance (one’s monthly mortgage, insurance, automobile or other big ticket item) has macro-economic effect because everyone buys things at retail and everyone who borrows has a monthly payment IOW retail sale is the aggregative point in the entire economic process and so the best place to implement monetary policy using the freshman algebra and double entry bookkeeping operation of equal debits and credits that sum to zero. The policy, like every new applied idea/paradigm accomplishes both complete conceptual opposition to and complete temporal universe inversion of the problematic effects of the current paradigm (Debt Only to` Strategic Monetary Gifting and chronic erosive inflation to beneficial price and asset deflation). You’re brilliant and I learned alot from you, but you have to see the beneficial effects of this policy.

The 50% Discount/Rebate policy at regular consumer retail sale and the retail point of Finance

Steve Hummel 06/202/2026

The 50% Discount/Rebate at regular consumer retail sale and the retail point of Finance.

Steve Hummel 06/20/2026