Opt-In Pledge

Every enterprise will benefit from these policies by a doubling of available individual income which will mean their sales have the possibility of doubling as well. They also save money via the elimination of transfer taxes and the drastic reduction in business and individual income taxes. They will benefit by the entire system now being much more prosperous and stably free flowing so they can plan much more securely. Finally, they will save a tremendous amount of costs because interest rates for new loans will be 0% or in some cases very minimal. In exchange for all of these benefits they will agree to the following opt-in pledge:

• We will not inflate our prices at all, and if we have legitimate additional economic costs we will factor only those additional costs into our prices.
• We will not cut our employees wages.
• We will agree to a monthly forensic examination of our accounting records.
• We will faithfully pay the 3-5% rate of taxation required to solidify and assure the authority of the government to implement the benevolent policies of the new paradigm.
• We will abide by any regulations, taxations, punishments for cheating, trying to game and de-stabilize the economy for everyone despite the fact that it has benefited us greatly.

I’m more interested in helping people self actualize grace within themselves and building systems and a society that reflects and encourages its expression than fleshing out and trying to enforce some ism.

Monetarily free people with a strong moral sense, the wisdom of graciousness and the time to pursue their own self determined purposes will be more stable than trying to fit everyone into a single ideology.

Solutions should be simple, but not so simple that they do not resolve problems.

The 50% discount/rebate policy is a perfect example of such a simple and yet resolving solution.

Everything except perhaps a zen meditation on the present time environment is a paradigm-consciousness contemplating and trying to understand itself.

Steve Hummel 10/15/2018

Me:  What if there is a point in time and space where all of the mathematical and empirical systemic complexities and at least several attending orthodoxies that seem to hold the economy’s major problems in suspension….can be cut through and set aside with a simple but deeply insightful understanding of the digital nature of the money system, accounting system and the entire economic/productive process….so that a digital set of policies can resolve them and invert economic and monetary realities from austerity and scarcity to abundance???

And what if economists aren’t looking at that point, its significances and the undeniable temporal universe effects of those policies?

In other words what if there is an Occam’s Razor solution that is right under their noses…and virtually every economist and pundit is either missing it by not looking at it or, because it is contrary to certain orthodoxies, reactively invalidating it?

Play out on paper, in your mind or on a clay demo table the IMMEDIATE and ongoing temporal universe monetary and economic effects (and their “knock on” effects in other systems as well) of the dual policies of a $1000/mo universal dividend distributed to everyone 18 and older and a 50% discount/rebate monetary policy at the point of retail sale. Then align any other policies, regulations and realistic necessities given a flawed world….with an aspect of the PHILOSOPHICAL concept behind those policies, grace as in Monetary Gifting….and take a deep breath and enjoy the integrative new paradigm.

KZ:  Craig, what you describe in a failure of human imagination. Not uncommon. And even more so in times of imagination dulled by taking too much as certain and fixed. For humanity certainty is impossible. Best humans can hope for in durability. And even that is difficult to achieve. Read Toynbee’s “A Study of History.”

Me:  Well yes, but it’s more than just a failure of imagination it’s a failure to understand and embrace Wisdom. It’s true that the temporal universe is process and hence uncertainty…which oddly enough makes uncertainty…the only certainty…..so embracing/fully integrating one’s consciousness with process and the uncertainty of continual change is not only Wisdom it’s a description of the flow state i.e. Wisdom’s pinnacle concept of the state of grace.

But Wisdom/Grace incorporate within them the specificities of science in an integrative way that enables us to acknowledge all realities while transcending any anxiety and need to grasp/unnecessarily conflict with same.

All of the doubt, polarization, increasing contentiousness and disintegration we see looming up around us is a result of moderns either rejecting or forgetting Wisdom and its resolving nature.

We’re stuck in an ever more stressful head butting/pissing contest between thesis and antithesis….and have forgotten the route and thirdness greater oneness purpose of the dialectic….the synthesis that is another definition/aspect of
grace.

KZ: Currently timespans ranging from a few months to a few years determine most formal planning and decision-making – by corporations, governments, non-governmental organizations and international bodies. Quarterly reporting by companies; electoral cycles of 18 months to seven years; planning horizons of one to five years: these are the usual temporal boundaries of our hot, crowded, and flattened little world. In the 1980s, this myopic vision found a name: short-termism. Short-termism has no defenders. Everyone seems to be against it, and yet proponents of alternatives are also in short supply. This is surprising. Everyone involved in any aspect of the humanities but particularly historians should have been opposed strongly to short-termism. The mission of the humanities is to transmit questions about value – and to question values – by testing traditions that build up over centuries and millennia. And within the humanities, it is the discipline of history that provides an antidote to short-termism, by giving pointers to the long future derived from knowledge of the deep past. Yet from the 1970s forward, most professional historians conducted most of their research on timescales of between five and 50 years. Large stories, told across long sweeps of time, became both unfashionable and unfeasible, at least for anyone claiming professional competence as a historian. Short-termism became accepted as usual and normal because the humanities, and particularly historians failed to do their job. Set loose short-termism in business and economics merely followed the path laid out for them by the failure of humanities and historians.

Me:  Short-termism only is the antithesis of Wisdom. When you integrate the truths/insights/advantages/strategies to be derived from both the short term and the long term…you’ve plopped your mind down in the deeper insight of Wisdom and the cosmic code:

[ (short term x long term) –> Wisdom ]

KZ:  That was not my intent, Craig. The long-term and short-term make human history. History is the sight of the creation of human cultures. These cultures are crippled without both parts of human history. Which, I guess translates to human history, complete being the source of the grace you mention.

Me:  Ken, Pardon, my response was not intended to be contrary to what you said actually, only to re-affirm the integrative nature of wisdom and its process.

To me grace is really synonymous with consciousness full or otherwise. IMO the original paradigm change was the human species awakening to consciousness. And the final one will be their realization that on an elemental and yet imminently experiential level the basic nature of the cosmos is that very same “thing”.

KZ: Craig, I think it’s the way you use language to express these beliefs that throws me off. My perspective tends not to use such grandiose words as grace and cosmos. The non-specificity of such terms leads me to look at them as ways to impede clear understanding.

Me:  Yes I understand that words/concepts like grace and cosmos are traditionally religious and/or holistic. But that’s why I keep capitalizing the adjectives NATURAL and PHILOSOPHICAL before the word grace. Minds run entirely too much in single and exclusionary modes. Concepts like grace and cosmos are polar opposites to the mindset of science which is unfortunately solely empirical, mentally fragmenting and objectifying and last but not least entirely too culturally habituated.

What?….am I against science? NO! I’m 100% for science itself….just not science as an orthodoxy, as an incomplete and hamstrung mental discipline….especially when Wisdom includes the scientific method.

The sages of the world’s major wisdom traditions were the scientists of their age, and their lore and mental techniques are proof of how disciplined and honest they were…and with a much trickier subject matter than the physical universe.

Viz economics (and I’m not trying to be exclusionary here and recognize that others here have criticized mere mathematical and axiomatic techniques) who is actually advocating a more empirical approach to investigating our economic problems those who are off in some mathematical/abstract quasi-fugue ….or me who wants economists and pundits to look at and analyze the exquisitely empirical tool of double entry bookkeeping so as to decipher its digital nature and what I refer to as its “Triple Power Point” of retail sale in order to see that a digital monetary policy at that point effects every signature of a paradigm change???

Integrate opposite perspectives/tools/mindsets/truths and you’ll be able to see and accomplish an actual thirdness greater oneness that transcends dualistic orthodoxies.

Lord please enter president Trump and make him aware that the unity of grace as in love in action is your nature and requirement not the polarization and ugliness of political demagoguery. Help him to learn that the integration of opposing truths is the process of wisdom and the route to its gifts of discernment not a half baked and deluded idea like “fourth turnings” which is mistaking chaos with positive change. (Help liberals out with this as well) Thanks, and as you ARE grace I know that you will keep pursuing president Trump, as love in action never ends….even for what appear to be lost causes.

…everything…physical, temporal and naturally philosophical.

Its the complete undercut, overview and free flowing mode of action.

….not having a better, more rational and beneficial alternative to commercial decision makers raising their prices in an austere system caused by an inherent scarcity of total  individual income and hence a scarcity of total available business revenue.

And the policies of Wisdomics-Gracenomics are that better paradigm changing alternative for business, the individual and the entire system.