We need to heed to the history of paradigm changes and the signatures of their historic accomplishment.

One of those is that they have always been accompanied by a new tool and/or insight. Like the elementally significant, deep and powerful but simple point where production becomes consumption, namely retail sale, and of a direct and reciprocal price and monetary policy at that point.

The increased economic workability, universally beneficial applicability, ascendant ethical consideration, and potential affects of such a policy in other problem laden bodies of knowledge/areas of human endeavor and so make such a conscious discovery a potential mega paradigm change of which there have only been two in human history. Those were the accomplishment of conscious self awareness which opened Pandora’s box and the apparent chaos of yea and nae, and the change from hunting and gathering to agriculture, homesteading and urbanization which enabled increased comfort-ability with that chaos but failed to follow through to discover and generally apply the ultimate unitary natural philosophical concept of grace as in love in individual action and systemic policy.

All of the well-intentioned research and detailed economic erudition would pale to insignificance alongside a pattern change in finance and the money system from Debt Only to Direct and Reciprocal Monetary Grace as in Gifting.

With the universal dividend and 50% discount/rebate policy at retail sale we will have a Quasi-Monetary Demand Economy and the first truly free and undominated financial one. Right now we have confused chaos for a “free” economy and allowed Finance’s monetary paradigm of Debt Only to rig and smother that chaos.

We must throw off the slave mentality we’ve been socialized into and create the mature and realistic economy that the new monetary paradigm creates.  Civilization and the planet depend upon it.

Steve Hummel 06/04/2020

The only economic questions needed answered are: What is the retail price and how much are you going to discount it and rebate the discount back so that total debt diminishes instead of builds up?

And everything else will fall in line with simple but straight forward regulation to keep corporate decision makers from trying to game the discount/rebate policy…despite the fact that it’s effects are wildly in their interests and to their benefits.

The most important factor keeping the problems of criminality, social unrest and economic instability chronically in suspension is poverty, and the key factor enforcing poverty is the current paradigm of Debt Only. The new monetary paradigm of Direct and Reciprocal Monetary Gifting and its policies would completely transform the economy and the society.

Steve Hummel 06/02/2020

No one and no factor can excuse monetary and economic dominance, which is the antithesis of freedom.

Graciousness is the ultimate meritocracy and the essence, experience and expression of true freedom.

Steve Hummel 06/01/2020

Macro-economics has suffered from a sad lack of knowledge regarding the economic significance of accounting/double entry bookkeeping. As a result it has veered off into mere mathematics and flimsy if not complete irrelevance. When one stacks the real world power of mathematics up against self interest, the abstract truths of mathematics basically disappear.

Attending to the conventions and groundings that accounting has on the money system and hence the economy enlightens truth and points the way toward real world economic solutions that are able to nullify the seeming power of vested self interests.

Add to this the fact that a monopolistic monetary and financial paradigm of Debt Only for the creation and distribution of money/credit must be de-stabilizing because if the system creates a flow of x + 1 of debt service costs and only creates x of monetary ability to service them….and the completely obvious solution (not palliative) to that paradigmatic problem…is a new paradigm.

Note: This is not the crank monetary idea that interest is the be all and end all of the problem as the system is unstable if the flow of debt service costs of loans at 0% interest exceed the flow of ability to repay those costs.

Then one needs to be aware of the signatures of historical paradigm changes like simplicity of the actual operation of new paradigms, complete conceptual opposition to the present paradigm, the complete inversion of present paradigm problematic realities, abundance and increased survival. Finally,  one needs to consider the new concept of mega paradigm change which is one which immediately, empirically and continuously affects virtually everyone and has “knock on” beneficial effects in areas not directly related to the body of knowledge/area of human endeavor that the new paradigm applies to. Examples of mega paradigm changes are the emergence of self awareness in the species and the change from hunting and gathering to agriculture, homesteading and urbanization. The new monetary and financial (and thus economic) paradigm of Direct and Reciprocal Monetary Gifting will be only the third mega paradigm change in human history.

Until one discovers grace they are lost, no matter whether they be dedicated scientist, activist for any and all reforms or advocate for the various disciplines for upright living.

Grace is nothing more and certainly nothing less than self actualized love in action. Grace is the universal and ultimate solvent for internal and external conflict, the deepest and most grounding experience you’ll ever have and the only foundation upon which sanity, rationality and civilization can be united and sustained. Grace is union with the present moment and, upon reflection, whatever existed in the past or will exist in the future.

Contemplate grace, cultivate grace, eat, drink and breath grace. Grace be with you.

In the last analysis Social democracy is only the other side of the orthodox present paradigmatic coin. Not that social democracy isn’t somewhat more workable and has ethical content superior to capitalist ideologies of any stripe. it does, but it doesn’t fulfill the thirdness greater oneness new pattern definition of a genuine paradigm change which is desparately needed, and it for sure doesn’t accomplish the personally immediate and continuous or the systemic broadness effects of a mega paradigm.

We can wander for another millennia (or decades) in the obsessively contentious death throes of the capitalist-socialist dualism or we can integrate their truths in a way that changes everything. It’s our choice….or folly.

I begin to think that the present paradigm for legitimate inquiry, namely Science Only, is almost as antiquated and in need of change as the present monetary and financial paradigm of Debt Only. If it weren’t a fact that the monetary and financial paradigm has been unchanged for virtually the entire history of human civilization and the present paradigm of inquiry has only been dominant for the last four centuries that would be true.

Monetary Gifting and Wisdom. The next two mega paradigm changes.