I think global warming is true, but I think its causes are probably an integration of current scientific research and insights from the electric universe paradigm. I base this not only on research from both those perspectives but also the fact that integration of truths from opposing perspectives is the very process of Wisdom itself. In other words when in doubt integrate truths….and keep on integrating them. That discourages orthodoxy and the rigidities and closed mindedness they always engender.

I have a lot of agreement with the libertarian dislike of government, but many libertarians I have interacted with online have an irrational generalization that government is synonymous with tyranny. What if government policy, especially government financial and economic policy, was freeing such as the dividend and discount policies are?

Ideologies and orthodoxies exist on both sides of course. For instance, I just got put on moderation on Billy Mitchell’s MMT blog because I dared to suggest that a universal dividend and a job guarantee could be integrated for better effect than just the job guarantee alone which is becoming a real rigid orthodoxy with MMTers who pride themselves on being liberal progressive.

This country is beginning to descend into a dis-integrative and thoroughly contentious quagmire and the only way out of it is awakening to what an actual integration is. Even if they don’t have a clear idea of what an integration is people are tired of mealy mouthed compromises, poison pill compromises, amalgams simply slapped together or mere liberal or conservative orthodoxies puffed up public relations style. An integration is a thorough combination of the truths and rigorous deletion of untruths in apparently opposing perspectives that creates a thirdness and greater oneness which is one of the signatures of Wisdom.

If we do not wake up and start integrating politically, economically and monetarily then Trump unconsciously wins and so does Putin whether there was collusion by the Trump administration or not because our disintegration is what he’d like to see. Do I fall for the delusions of American exceptionalism, Finance capitalism and our imperial foreign policies? Of course not. I’m for the thirdness greater oneness of a domestic economy that is stable with greater economic democracy and greater freedom and profitability for enterprise and will “force” all other economies to adapt to the new paradigm that accomplished that fact. That is what new paradigms do…because once they are recognized as the incredible breakthrough they are…only the truly stupid or self serving can momentarily stand against them naked for all to see.

As with agriculture, helio-centrism and the Guttenberg press, so with direct and reciprocal monetary gifting.

First off the ideas of a modern debt jubilee and QE for the people are definitely the correct direction to go, but they’re incomplete and one-off. We need an additional monetary policy that is directly tied to the pricing system that would enable a substantial reduction in consumer and asset prices and that yet did not undercut the profitability of enterprise. This would accomplish a true integration of macro and microeconomics and establish a new pattern that, aligned with that new pattern, further regulation of the economy in general and Finance in particular could immensely stabilize profit making systems

New Zeitgeist/Ethic

New Paradigm

New Philosophy

New Theory

New Structural Reform/Policy

New Data

It is obvious from this chart that a new paradigm would have the greatest effects on both philosophy and policy exceeded only by a new zeitgeist/ethic which is simply the ongoing and increasing awareness and agreement by everyone that the new paradigm was well and good.

Also, every level below paradigm change exists wholly or partially within the current/old paradigm and so is subject to its blinding and hypnotizing influence both temporally/structurally and mentally.

Finally, the fact that Wisdom is the integration of opposites and the mind of man, especially as it has come to look upon science as an ultimate truth, that is, an unimpeachable and singular truth….some of the very virtues of science can actually militate against….the very process and the considerable mental benefits of Wisdom. In other words the logicality of science (its reductionistic process and dualistic dedication to the truthfulness or lack thereof of DATA) can mistakenly inhibit and even prejudice one against Wisdom and its NON-DATA insights.

….isn’t but scant part of the actually productive economy, but rather a huge parasite sucking the profits and vitality out of the rest of the economy. The new paradigm of Direct and Reciprocal Gifting doesn’t destroy Finance, simply brings it down off its throne, removes its teeth from the economy and makes it take its smaller and correct place alongside every other business model.

For Instance, with a 50% discount to the retail products of home building (end of the economic process for home building) and Finance (beginning of the financial process for home loans), if you went to a home builder and purchased a $200k home that was discounted 50% it would cost you $100k. Then if the Bank lent you the $100k but rebated you $50k back….you just purchased a $200k home for $50k.  Not bad, huh?

And of course with the dividend implemented and the discount applying to every other retail product for sale you’d have plenty of time and money to pay that loan off.

New paradigms….they’re all upside.

The UK should implement a universal dividend sufficient to make all transfer taxes for welfare, unemployment and social security redundant and thus eliminate-able, a rebated discount at retail sale of 50% thus doubling everyone’s purchasing power (retail sale is the summing point and ending point of all costs and prices for any item so discounting and then rebating to either the enterprise or the consumer by a monetary authority cannot harm any individual or commercial agent because the rebate makes the agent whole on either their margins and overheads or the purchase price they just paid) and then quickly re-industrialize while the export platform nations scramble to sell them as much as they can in the interim….and then realize that the best strategy would be to duplicate such policies in their domestic markets. Of course you could integrate a job guarantee into such a policy network as well for anyone who wanted a job and/or was having a difficult time finding purpose without being able to “put their time in”. Of course with all of this additional demand in play and price deflation almost miraculously being integrated into profit making systems and re-industrializing there would inevitably be more employment than there is under the current austerity if not historically.

Once one clearly sees the new monetary and economic paradigm of Direct and Reciprocal Gifting all manner of new and better options present themselves. That’s the nature of a genuine paradigm change which is a deep and progressive change of pattern, an inversion of primacy with the old paradigm and a change that every aspect of the system in which it takes place WILL adapt to….not the other way around.

The carbon tax needs to be extended to include a carbon sequestration subsidy and additional subsidies for industries to aid them and the entire country to reduce our carbon foot print.

Ending Finance’s monopolistic paradigm of Debt Only enforces costs that are completely unnecessary and hamstrings needed actions. By integrating a new paradigm of Direct and Reciprocal Monetary Gifting into the economy on all levels and enacting policies that align with it we can have not only increased profits and prosperity, but ecological sensitivity and sanity as well.

Wisdomics-Gracenomics does not destroy markets or market theories, it transcends and yet includes them. It enables much more stable markets untrammeled by the austerity of the old paradigm of Debt Only and invites all agents to better profit within a larger conception of power, the power created by the graciousness of Gifting.

With a universal monthly dividend of $1000/mo. and a 50% discount to prices at retail sale that would translate into a two person household potentially making up to $48,000/yr ($24,000/yr in dividends and a doubling of that amount with the retail discount policy) without doing a lick of work for pay. If both persons made and spent their additional $20,000/yr at part time jobs ($40,000 x 2 = $80,000) that’s potential purchasing power of $128,000/yr.

Even if they saved $2000/mo. they would still potentially have $80,000 a in purchasing power per year from work for pay and have $24,000 in savings for a total of $104,000 ($24,000 in savings and potential $80,000 in income from their jobs).

What if they saved $4000/mo.? Thats $48,000/yr. in savings and $31992/yr in purchasing power for a total of $79,992. ($3,333/month from $40,000 in work for pay minus $2000/mo. equals $1333/mo x 2 with the discount = $2666 x 12 = $31992)

Yes, its true they’ll now have to deal with the problems of affluence rather than the problems of austerity, ….but what’s life for but to solve problems, right?