…that obsessive contention makes them part of the problem, and that integration of opposing truths and simultaneous deletion of opposing untruths is the solution. Integration is Wisdom. Obsessive contention is merely semi-conscious orthodoxy in disguise. Well considered resistance to flaw and untruth is not obsessive, and is understandable on both sides, but orthodoxies always have untruths, blindness and unconsciousness in them. Wisdom-Integration is of only truths, only workabilities and of only the highest ethical considerations.  When in doubt integrate!

President Trump and the American people are inevitably going to lose because neither the orthodoxies of the right or left are up to the task of resolving our problems. Trump is counseled by Steve Bannon who believes in a sketchy historic theory called The Fourth Turning, and who counsels Trump to participate in a destructive and counterfeit trinity-unity known as force, flux and “Progress” as in take more power. Trinity-Unity is indeed the correct intellectual, philosophical and non-provincially spiritual concept that is necessary for the resolution of our systemic problems, but it is the trinity-Unity of Faith as in Confidence, Hope and Love both within oneself and its active form in the temporal universe also known as Grace. Now there is a concept with a real and transformative pedigree.

Steve Hummel 03/24/2017

Presently the money system is basically an enforced Banking accounting cycle of Debt distribution to an agent and its reciprocal repayment to the Bank.  It is a digital/Debit-Credit system that has been with us for over 400 years and is an excellently workable one.

With the new monetary and economic paradigm of direct and reciprocal monetary Gifting being integrated into this system new receivers of reciprocality are created, namely the individual and every business model. This enables a more democratic distribution of credit/purchasing power, ends the currently enforced and dominating Financial/Monetary paradigms of Debt, Loan and For Production Only,  resolves the present inherently cost inflationary economic system and costlessly transforms it for all agents.

Neither the compromisers, nor the extremists ever have the full and complete answer. It is always the innovators and integrators in cooperation with the new paradigm perceivers who are able to provide such.

Steve Hummel 03/24/2017

Also, this fits perfectly in The Cosmic Code:

[ (Innovators x Integrators)  <–>  New Paradigm Perceivers ]

that the economic, monetary and political systems need a complete re-boot/paradigm change? Witness the present healthcare debate in the House. There is no longer any compromise that is able to satisfy either of the two parties…or even the party that wants desperately to change the current system. In fact compromise is itself now impossible. What is required is something entirely different called integration of the truths of opposing theories. Even single payer is a non-starter, not because it wouldn’t be an improvement, but because it would be an inclusion of an untruth regarding the system’s actual problem (that re-distributing a scarcity can result in the resolution of that scarcity) which violates the rules of an actual integration, and is also unworkable because it is anathema to both the political majority and to an already over burdened business community and populace. The true means of resolving the issue is the same one that would resolve the monetary system….the integration of a new paradigm of direct monetary Gifting to the individual and also to enterprise.

When neither orthodox reaction nor compromise will any longer work….an actual integration becomes the only option.

Me:  Extremely important understanding. It means that what economics actually needs is a new philosophy. In fact it also signals that what is required is a new paradigm to be integrated into the present monetary and economic systems. The signature of paradigm changes has always been a swapping/inversion of position of dominance/primacy and also a thorough integration of opposites which re-integrates all of the components of the entire system. As the Copernican helio-centric paradigm change was a swapping/inversion of the position of the earth and the sun and the understanding that the sun was to be considered the primary astrological center it was a thorough integration of opposites and a re-integration of the entire system. As Finance is the current dominant/primary business model and its enforced paradigms for the individual are Only Via Debt/ Loan and For Enterprise, For Production Only, so direct monetary Gifting For Consumption is its opposite. Intelligently integrated and implemented into the digital money system this would end the curious and almost entirely overlooked dominance of Finance in what is supposedly a system that advocates free competitive markets, re-integrating and stabilizing both the micro and macro economy.

JD:  The question for a science, which economics should be, is whether a mathematical construction bears a useful resemblance to the observable world. This can only be decided by *observation*.

Going on about Godel’s theorem only continues the confusion that mathematics is science. It is not. It is a tool used in science.

Me:  Economics should strive toward scientific status, however, human beings and enterprises and their leadership not being altogether rational and ethical actors will always make any theory less than scientific. It’s just the nature of the system, the agents in it and hence the body of knowledge itself. Economic theory should strive most importantly and urgently for Wisdom. Science is a form of Wisdom actually, but an incomplete form. We need “the full armor” of Wisdom which includes science, philosophy and ethics, and we need an open mind to new ideas regarding all three.

GD:  Craig, I don’t disagree with your description of what economics needs to consider, but your picture of “science” seems to be that it deals only with inexorable clockwork mechanisms. Modern science includes complex self-organising systems that can embrace living systems without killing them. I’m not saying it’s easy, but it’s not excluded.

So when I say economics should be a science, I’m really only saying that it should look for the regularities discernible in observations and describe them. Even human affairs have some patterns, imperfect though they may be. Otherwise, why would historians bother?

Me:  Not really. There is actually three types of science. Orthodox science, “good” open minded science and scientific breakthroughs which are generally characterized by a re- integration of a scientific viewpoint that is aided and abetted by an aspect or aspects of consciousness. The most recent of which was Einstein’s imagination/visualization of a man leaping out of a window and sliding down space-time. Physics has been struggling for almost 100 years to reconcile quantum realities with empirical particles when they would probably be smarter to realize that the quantum universe where particles continually come into being and then go back out of existence is perfectly reflective of the actions of human consciousness reaching out and experiencing the temporal universe and then withdrawing from it and in so doing that part of the temporal universe…for them and in that moment….goes out of existence for them. This does not invalidate the reality of the physical/temporal universe, but it does mean that our consciousness and its actions are reflective of quantum reality and are very likely a factor that rigid and arrogant orthodox scientific empiricism/positivism unconsciously uses to impede scientific breakthrough. Economics would undoubtedly scientifically benefit from the inclusion of consciousness and its many reflectivities in considering new policies.

Me:  If economic theories cannot be proven correct, which is true, then the correct and wise thing to do is to focus on the best, most beneficial for all economic philosophy and its aligned policies. In other words look/think/integrate and do not fail to act….to correct the economy’s historically problematic facts/areas. Market worship and any other present orthodoxy then is exposed as irresponsibility and/or conscious or unconscious defense of the status quo. Here’s a short list of such problematic facts/areas:

1) Chronic/continual scarcity of individual income
2) Chronic inflation
3) The monopolistic dominance of Finance’s monetary paradigms of Debt, Loan and For Production Only (This has been problematic for at least the last 5000 years)

One last little hint: Integration/Wisdom has always been the process of resolving opposites in a way that combines their particles of truth, workabilities and highest ethical considerations and simultaneously deletes their untruths etc.

One of the deepest secrets of the cosmos is reflectivity. It is also one of the primary and highest aspects of consciousness. Reflectivity denotes twoness/duality/withdrawal/inaction from the temporal/physical universe.

The deepest secret of the cosmos is Oneness and it is also the primary and highest aspect of consciousness. Oneness is accomplished by the act of reaching out to the physical/temporal universe and consciously becoming one with it. When one reaches out to the temporal universe it becomes real to one. When one’s consciousness withdraws from something in the temporal universe in that moment and for all practical purposes it ceases to be real to one. Reaching and withdrawing of consciousness are the actions of a conscious being in the temporal universe. They also exactly reflect the state of the quantum universe where particles are continually coming into being and going out of being within a field of consciousness all three states being so utterly integrated that they are virtually a oneness. Basically the only difference between the quantum reality and temporal reality is that there is a lot more space and time in the temporal universe and consciousness is more subtle and so missed, while in the quantum universe consciousness is a fully integrated and active part of it.

In the final and most important analysis insisting on maintaining a positive balance of trade is a form of dominance, and dominance being unethical on its face it cannot be a part of or a justification for economic policy.

Steve Hummel 03/24/2017

and all of the nations social, political and economic problems immediately become easily resolvable as well.

How could you have price inflation if there was a substantial (and rebated back to enterprise) discount to prices at every cost/price totalizing and stopping point throughout the entirety of the economic/productive process including retail sale itself.

Answer: You couldn’t.