The person who contemplates grace/graciousness becomes a continuous life lesson for those around them.

Steve Hummel 12/13/2017

Beauty can be expressed in many ways, and in the arts even what appears to be its opposite, but being a harmonic of Love there’s always a positive lesson to be learned from it.

Steve Hummel 12/13/2017

If the rate of change in Debt must never decline because it means recession, that rate can never realistically be in equilibrium with its need or desire and continual Debt/Loans, even at 0% interest eventually overwhelms the system, then the system as it is….is unresolvably unstable….except a new monetary and economic paradigm be deciphered and integrated into the system….and any call for anything less means that at least a patina of General Equilibrium remains in the mind of such theorists and even more importantly those same theorists are on very shaky ground advocating continued palliation…when an actual solution of a paradigm change exists.

AT:  In a move that will spark fears across the EU of an “Italexit”, three of the country’s political parties are backing the introduction of “Fiscal Credit Certificates” as an alternative to the euro.

The complex plan has the approval of the European Central Bank.

Among the parties backing it is Silvio Berlosconi’s Forza Italia, which has enjoyed an astonishing comeback in the polls.

The revelation comes as Martin Schulz, the leader of Germany’s Social Democratic party who is tipped to become Chancellor Angela Merkel’s deputy, last week called for the creation of a United States of Europe by 2025.

The certificates, known as CCFs, give workers and businesses tax breaks to boost income and productivity.

Although not legal tender, everybody can use them to pay taxes, buy government services or exchange them for goods or euros.

Me:  Every little move toward monetary abundance instead of austerity is a step in the right direction, but why not implement a 50% discount to retail consumer products by having a monetary authority rebate half the money used to purchase whatever back to the individual? That way everyone gets an immediate 100% increase in purchasing power…and as consumer price inflation is expressed and measured at the point of retail sale if you implemented the policy at that exact point and time you’d not only not have any possibility of inflation you’d be integrating price deflation beneficially into profit making systems.

The ECB, FED, et al don’t mind palliatives and reforms that leave them firmly in control, but I doubt they’d look kindly toward a single policy that had the potential to reduce their market for Debt by half.

JR:  Three reasons Steve:
1. The discount scheme is the one of Douglas’ ideas that he never explained properly. Either of the two ways he stated it. I don’t believe it is workable.

Me:  Well discounts have been around for a long time and have worked just fine for merchants, just not ones that are monetarily fixed to the exact point of retail sale and benefit both merchants and consumers. Two of the signatures of paradigm change are inclusion/integration of opposites and extension/saturation of effect.

JR:  2. Anyone doing a simple calculation could work out that, under present circumstances, at least 80% of the value would go towards rich boys toys.

Me:  Well, the politics and economics of envy are not very effective or edifying. I suggest you delete them.

JR:  3. A 50% estimate for it is the sort of startling fairy story that suggests in serious peoples’ minds that we are simply a group of the lunatic fringe.

Me:  John, you’re a good ole guy that cares, but you need to get over the embarrassment and disappointment of Social Credit’s defeat at the hands of the deluded and merely self interested so that you stop projecting their invalidative tendencies on people with innovations that will “sell” and who you should thus be backing.

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Me:  Yes, that confirms Douglas’s most basic insight. The problem though was Douglas, as much of a genius as he was, still had traces of orthodoxies like General Equilibrium inhibiting his economic vision, (although I understand there was occasional debate between Douglas and early Social Crediters about the size of the Gap and hence what might be the proper percentage rate of the discount policy and the size of the dividend). At any rate his followers fell back into the General Equilibrium theory mindset thus making an easily gamed palliative out of the paradigm change that Social Credit actually could be. That’s always been the problem with orthodoxies, they lose track of the process of Wisdom (integration of the truths in apparent opposites) and the pinnacle NATURAL concept and TEMPORAL application of Wisdom whether you call it satori, samadhi, atonement or grace…two of the aspects of which are process and flow as in conscious and continuous open mindedness, and thus they lose their original vision.

RB:  I’m not a big fan of “the gap” and Social Credit, which seems to base it’s theory on accounting analysis, which is the tail wagging the dog of economics. Accounting is a tool to track economic activity, and can be manipulated endlessly to prove anything. We’ve been through this discussion a thousand times. But as we see here, there is some common ground.

Me:  Double entry bookkeeping and its subset cost accounting are not just “bean counting”. They are the tools along with calculus…that help reveal the economy’s deepest problem….if one also brings actual economic looking/analysis to the day to day operations of commerce instead of either ONLY looking at the macro economy, or not looking at all and just repeating dogmas like the labor theory of value…which Marx by the way actually came around to acknowledging wasn’t really true.

Unfortunately the “discussions” here have been a combination of orthodox replies and refusals to engage while ignoring my acknowledgement of the truths in PB and the need for integrating the various monetary and economic reforms in a way that would resonate with the large constituencies that are needed for political implementation of the best parts of their separate agendas.

JR:  Robert,   Don’t be put off by some who make ridiculous claims about its extent.

Me:  “Don’t be put off by some who make ridiculous claims about its extent.”

 Correct John. Instead pay attention to the paradigmatic, philosophical and policy extension of Social Credit aka Wisdomics-Gracenomics.

MK:  Greece is next to leave the EU

Me:  Yes, the EU is disintegrating right before our eyes as is America and by contagion the rest of western civilization. And the remedy is a higher re-integration of its institutions, economies and values, a part of which is the thrust of Public Banking in its structural balancing of the power of private finance. All PB, MMT and the theorists of Steve Keen, Michael Hudson and others need is integration of their separate truths under a clear philosophical and paradigmatic vision.

…is continuous self presence and the secret to economic insight is monetary policy implemented directly to the individual and also at the present moment of sale.

Steve Hummel 12/11/2017

Foreign ownership of land is the minor vice to the major subterfuge of corporate and financial globalization which was and still is the triumphalist attempt by Finance to coalesce the power of its monopolistic, parasitical and hypnotizing paradigm of Debt Only.

The old catholic concept of subsidiarity would be a much better economic and humane path to follow, but when you’re the overweeningly wealthy and powerful force in all economies and your paradigm is the problem itself…it’s hard to muster the insight, the humility and the ethics required to step down and let a new pattern resolve the mess.

But then it’s always hard to see past an old pattern….unless you see the new one clearly and fully.

Wisdomics-Gracenomics is the pinnacle of mental paradigm perception and temporal universe present time observation and insight into the significance of the point of retail sale throughout the entirety of commerce. It is the essence of integration itself and the encompassment of that process for micro and macro-economics. It’s total vision and the minutinea of economics at the same time.

Libertarians are so caught up in the irrational generalization that government is always tyrannical that they miss the fact that politically implemented monetary and economic policies based on the graciousness of Gifting could effect the freedom they so cherish. That and the fact that so many of them are reactively against anything that smacks of spirituality that they also miss the fact that the state of psychological grace is the only human experience that is the ongoing dynamic integration of truths that engenders conscious awareness of freedom/liberty amongst known barriers toward positive, constructive and ethical goals…..which is what libertarians say is their very goal.

And I identify with libertarianism, just not any orthodoxy that unnecessarily attends it.

Leisure, Employment and Purpose

And the philosophical pillars are Wisdom, Gifting and Wisdom’s pinnacle concept Grace

The route to thirdness and greater unity-oneness is accomplished via the thorough integration of true/relevant bothnesses/dualities/oppositions.

This is why The Cosmic Code is such a formulaic breakthrough because it outlines and expresses this exact process.

Reserves are necessary at the central bank account and in the repo market in a paradigm of Debt Only. Monetary gifts on the other hand are their own reserves, and appropriately and insight-fully integrated into the money system would end the primacy of the paradigm of Debt Only.

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DH:   I would argue that it is not that complexity arises as a result of energy flows, but rather the opposite. Energy flows are a result of complexity. Auto-creative systems, (i.e. complexity) appear to violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics, in that their development results in a decrease in entropy within the system. As such auto-creative systems are, in accordance with the 2nd law of thermodynamics, unstable. Indeed the fundamental requirement for auto-creativity is ‘constrained, or bounded, instability’. Complex abstract systems such as modern societies, economies or, on a smaller scale, individual production systems, are also auto-creative systems. iTes in a state of constrained instability.

Me:  Yes, that is actually the more integrative and naturalistic perspective on energy. The problem with any law is that it hardens into an orthodoxy and then is not looked at from a broader and more inclusive mindset. Authoritarianism is the hasty and intolerant dealing with such complexity. General Equilibrium largely became an orthodoxy in this way. Disequilibrium theory could actually fall prey to the same process unless it utilizes philosophy-ethics and paradigm perception to keep it open to fresh understanding. This way mere Disequilibrium theory can become “the higher Disequilibrium” (ethically its policies do more for the greatest number) and by realizing that the signature of paradigm change is an inversion of an essential reality and/or current orthodoxy….better enable theorists to perceive and expand upon the deepness of paradigm change.