….continually, and you’ll know grace including everything, its opposite and everything in between. Thus will you resolve the apparent conflict between science and spirituality and the fear and the orthodoxy that you’re being unrealistic if you don’t rigorously and only utilize science as a means of inquiry.
Steve Hummel 03/31/2018
Neither a private nor publicly administered money system will ever be safe until we recognize that both/either must be guided by and also deterred from gaming an ethic-zeitgeist of Grace as in the general Good.
Grace as in the general Good is the only concept that can effectively harness and guide power and wealth, and unifying a system to administer monetary grace as in Gifting is much more easily done in a hierarchical fashion which indicates that such a publicly administered money system would be best. This is both Occam’s Razor and the aspect of Grace known as sovereignty applied to the money system.
Finally, as an aspect of the concept of grace is bothness and also bothness integrated a hierarchically administered system of monetary graciousness is also the best way to insure the monetary sovereignty of the individual as well.
Contemplate and apply the many aspects grace and its beatific chains will free you….because grace is also the highest ethical integration of opposites and their consequent thirdness greater oneness.
Macro-economics, which has only been with us since shortly after the Great Depression, is really just an ideology looking for justification of the uneconomic, de-stabilizing and dominating nature of Finance’s monopoly paradigm of Debt Only. In other words it is a discipline that is neither capable of, nor equipped to resolve the real problem….because it resides entirely within the present problematic and illegitimate paradigm of Debt Only which is the “product” of private finance.
The new paradigm of Direct and Reciprocal Monetary Gifting and its policies, regulations and structural changes is the resolution of the problems of the current paradigm and of macro-economics as well.
Helge is right an ideology is an escape INTO one’s own mind. Not looking out from one’s own perspective is an escape from temporal reality, and on both an epistemological scale of knowledge and a scale of scientific integrity it is at the bottom of such scale. Looking out at the temporal universe is second from the top of those scales and knowing is the pinnacle of both. The difference between the two knowings is the scientific one is actually incomplete because it’s only knowing the temporal universe while an epistemological knowing is the integration of seeing/knowing BOTH the temporal reality and one’s own self awareness AT THE SAME TIME. In other words it’s an entirely and completely integrative moment and reality.
The real problem with macro-economics is that it looks for an abstract answer when the best an abstract answer can give one is an incomplete one. Economists need to look directly at the day to day and moment to moment realities of commerce instead of abstractly and/or mathematically thinking ABOUT it. If they did they would be able to see the fact that the point of retail sale is the terminal end of the legitimate economic process because it is where production becomes consumption, and not coincidentally where all costs for every item and service are terminally summed. These insights and a couple of others regarding such point in the economy are what are referred to as stable datums in the midst of the flux and complexity of the rest of the economy. A stable datum if applied to an economic problem can dispel such flux and complexity and become the basis for powerful and effective policy. I suggest economists reflect upon these facts.
…make the economy a lean, mean freeing machine.
And there ain’t nothin’ can stop it if you join with me in the mass socio-economic movement that will bring Finance to its knees and herd the entirety of the political apparatus toward freedom for all.
Young people and businessmen unite! All you have to lose is the chains that Finance has forged to enslave you for the last 5000 years!
Up your game to grace-graciousness and its many beautiful, freeing and life enhancing aspects.
They’re so elegantly simple, effective and beneficial that it’s mind blowing.
1)The point of retail sale is both the terminal summing point of all costs including profit, and also the terminal ending point for the entire legitimate economic/productive process.
2)The money, pricing and accounting systems are all digital, that is identical debits and credits sum to 0.
Hence a policy of a 50% discount at the point of retail sale immediately doubles everyone’s potential purchasing power, and if rebated back to the merchant granting it by a monetary authority specifically mandated to do so makes that merchant whole on all of his overheads and profit margins.
Hence the systemic monetary austerity that has plagued capitalism for the last 100+ years is eliminated, as well as the individual monetary scarcity that has plagued it for even longer.
This single policy breaks up the curiously contradictory virtual monopoly on credit creation that the business model of private finance has enjoyed for centuries, and with which they have been able to skim tremendous profits from the system and forced tremendous unnecessary additional costs on every individual and every other business model as well.
This policy perfectly describes the new monetary and economic paradigm itself and that is its incredible power. It’s stated as Direct and Reciprocal Monetary Gifting.
Pair the discount/rebate policy with a universal dividend of $1000/mo. to everyone 18 years of age and older and there is a long list of individual, commercial and systemic benefits that logically follow.
Retail sale is terminal expression point for all systemic price inflation, hence the discount/rebate policy not only eliminates any possibility of inflation, but painlessly and beneficially integrates “the impossible”, i.e. price deflation into profit making systems.
10% “pass On” discount/rebate policy at the point of every business model’s retail product sale. Eliminates any inter-systemic price inflation and integrates price competition painlessly and beneficially throughout the entire economic/productive process.
Taxation as encouragement of human and economic virtues and discouragement of human and economic vices.
Retailization and public administration of the business model of finance
Extension of the end of the economic/productive process to include publicly administered finance so that it can also benefit the individual via the retail discount/rebate policy
Transfer tax and income tax elimination for both the individual and enterprise, and the elimination of their respective governmental bureaucracies as well
Rejuvenation of both profit making systems and the emotional tone of western civilization from anger, obsessive contentiousness, enslavement, hopelessness and despair to individual, commercial and systemic freedom, hope, joy and a new ethic-zeitgeist of grace-graciousness from which the new monetary and economic paradigm is philosophically derived.
Both socialism and Finance capitalism are largely uneconomic. Integrate their dwindling truths and delete their burgeoning untruths and you’ll have competitive and innovative profit making direct monetary distributism. Follow the logic and good common sense of the Hegelian dialectic by ending the obsessive contentiousness of the above two forms….so you get to the actually progressive point of their synthesis/integration….and we may avoid the dis-integrative state that results from such obsession gone on too long.
…discourages and virtually eliminates any “human freedom to act in a chaotic system” type price inflation by making competition for price an assured reality throughout the entire economic/productive process. And with the additional savings that every business will reap with the elimination of both transfer taxes and incomes taxes becoming redundant with the dividend and retail discount/rebate policies it will be extremely hard for any enterprise to justify price increases anyway….except for purposes of naked greed, desire to profit and willingness to try to destabilize a system despite such policies finally freeing them from the systemic austerity that the monopoly paradigm of finance has enforced upon them for so long.
Thank you. Yes it was an inspired innovative policy idea that I alone came up with.
@peterbloda
Yes, Keen via Minsky re-discovered the validity of C. H. Douglas’ A + B theorem which stated that A as a flow of individual incomes will not pay for A + B as a flow of costs. Keen’s debt deflation hypothesis (that a flow of the continual build up of debt service costs, even at 0% interest, will eventually overwhelm the ability to service those costs) is simply a re-statement of Douglas’ insight….and the costless nature of the new paradigm of Monetary Gifting…is the only actual solution to that conundrum.
Though this is obvious when one ACTUALLY sees it, the two reasons Keen hasn’t announced the new paradigm is because even though he has a first rate mind, he doesn’t have the full mental skill set for paradigm perception, and being a macro-economist is caught up in three times removed abstraction and so hasn’t looked directly at the everyday operations of commerce. Hence he misses the significance of the point of retail sale and how tying monetary policy directly to it can reverse the problematic build up of ever increasing costs.
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic. It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand”
― R. Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
“Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“The minute you choose to do what you really want to do,
it’s a different kind of life.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is quite staggering”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller, Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity
“Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller, The Buckminster Fuller Reader
“Today’s news consists of aggregates of fragments. Anyone who has taken part in any event that has subsequently appeared in the news is aware of the gross disparity between the actual and the reported events. We also learn frequently of prefabricated and prevaricated evens of a complex nature purportedly undertaken for the purposes wither of suppressing or rigging the news, which in turn perverts humanity’s tactical information resources. All history becomes suspect. Probably our most polluted resource is the tactical information to which humanity spontaneously reflexes.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller, I Seem To Be A Verb
“God is a verb”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path
“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“…primarily the individual is going to study at home.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller, Education Automation: Freeing the Scholar to Return to His Studies
“Few realize that political action offers little solution to the world’s major problems. Few understand that the elite have created political parties in order to prevent real change from ever taking place. The political arena is merely the “sty” in which two or more mutually hostile agencies, created by the same hidden hand, get the chance to pummel one another. As alternative researcher Juri Lina so brilliantly put it: When the left wing Freemason is finished, the right-wing Freemason takes over The point has been emphasized by many an insider: The elementary principle of all deception is to attract the enemy’s attention to what you wish him to see and to distract his attention from what you so not wish him to see – General Sir Archibald Wavel The world’s power structures have always ‘divided to conquer’ and have always ‘kept divided to keep conquered.’ As a consequence the power structure has so divided humanity – not only into special function categories but into religious and language and color categories – that individual humans are now helplessly inarticulate in the face of the present crisis. They consider their political representation to be completely corrupted, therefore, they feel almost utterly helpless”
― R. Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path
“Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary — the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there’s a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trimtab.
It’s a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trimtab. Society thinks it’s going right by you, that it’s left you altogether. But if you’re doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go.
So I said, call me Trimtab.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren’t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn’t be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person. ”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty…….. but
when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is
wrong.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“Everything you’ve learned in school as “obvious” becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
