SD:  I don’t take anything Trump says at face value, Emily, anymore than I did with Obama. There is no way in hell we are going to see Glass-Steagall resurrected, nor do I expect we will see NAFTA renegotiated in any meaningful way. Trump promised to reform medicare prescription rates by renegotiating prescription rates with Big Pharma, and has already backed away on that and agreed with his corporate handlers that there will be no changes to their rip off scams in that arena. Same thing has been happening with his promises to work towards cooperation with Russia, in fact as I predicted his neocon appointees have instead immediately moved to further inflame tensions with Russia, China, and Iran.

Me:  Exactly Stuart. And that is why maintaining the focus on and integrating any efforts to raise consciousness about the lack of structural financial competition and the monopolistic paradigms of finance is so important…because these two problems are the glue that keeps all of the systemic socio-economic, political and trans-national stupidities, including corporate dominance, in effect.

If there’s any strategy by Russia in this it is perhaps the sowing and fomenting of obsessive contentiousness in the US, the better to cripple the home and still military leader of Finance Capitalism which Putin as a Russian and former KGB operative undoubtedly has a wary historical, economic and geo-strategic regard for. Of course I don’t see Putin or any other national leader having much awareness of the solution to Finance either. They’re all caught up in international corporatist power plays and nationalist politics. Obsession with power and conflict is the modus operandi and apotheosis of Finance. The only place it can go is to the dust bin of history via monetary grace or drag us all into perdition. Despite being a panentheist and Quantum Scientific Animist I find the spiritual reflectivities ironic.

Never let our vision fall to a lesser target than Finance. It is the glue holding all other temporal idiocies in suspension.

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I think the best stance on Trump is agnosticism. Unless or until he clearly breaks right and or corporatist, or indicates he’s aware of monetary movements like Public Banking/Social Credit and espouses policies reflecting that….how can anyone be sure where “his head is at”?

However, as I posted before with a guy like Steve Bannon as his chief strategist flux/confusion/change is his MO. I worry that Bannon who apparently is an advocate of “The Fourth Turning” which is a sketchy “pop” and amateurish view of Man and history authored by William Strauss and Neil Howe, has his ear. Strauss and Howe’s intellectual allegiances are linked to persons and corporations who believed in invalidated neo-liberal DSGE economic theory and the consequent moves toward mergers and acquisitions/hedge fund/derivatives nonsense that resulted in the “great financial crisis” in 2008, so I’m skeptical of the advice he’s getting.

If he was getting counsel aligned with the world’s major Wisdom traditions which is the best integration of the ideal and the practical and has a 10,000 year evolving history of observing Man and his interactions with the world…I’d be a lot more confident.

As an aspect of Grace is the process of Start, Change and Stop, that is flow, and the physical/temporal universe and everything in it must follow that process, the problem is not that Grace is a delusion or scarce or non-existent, but rather that one cannot avoid or escape it!

Hence, the wise and intelligent thing to do is embrace, enjoy and help to more consciously express it within oneself, between one another and in our various temporal systems…most urgently, universally and beneficially to the economic and monetary systems.

Steve Hummel 02/13/2017

That includes the human mind, logic as in the Hegelian Dialectic, science as in the scientific method, human consciousness, Wisdom and the process of Wisdom itself, Spirituality, the physical universe as we know it as well as the quantum universe from which it emanates, numerous patterns throughout nature as well as cosmic patterns such as:

the Fibonacci sequence,

[ (2, 3)     5 ]

electricity/electro-magnetism,

[ (+ charge x – charge)     Electricity/electro-magnetism ]

basic atomic structure,

[ (proton, neutron)    electron ]

the composition of Time,

[ (Time as a moment x Time as a flow of moments)    Consciousness ]

the human natural experience of Grace,

[ (Space x Time)    Self Awareness ]

The major turning points, advances and paradigm changes of history all have as their result an aspect or aspects of the concept of Grace.

Animism– Pre-scientific mutual perception of bliss/consciousness

Hunting and Gathering– Abundance of mother nature

Hindism- Pantheism, Panentheism, a more mentally organized Animism

Judaism– Outward looking/Temporal/Unitary/Oneness aspect of Grace/Trinity

Buddhism– Inward looking/Self Experiential/Unitary/Oneness aspect of Grace/Trinity

Christianity–  Trinitarian aspect of Grace with emphasis on Outward Looking/Temporal Historical Bindback

Agriculture– Increased abundance and control and security of environment

Gutenberg Press– Increased knowledge, communication, learning

Renaissance– Increased integration of thought and knowledge in all areas and resultant blossoming of  arts, sciences and technology

Reformation– Direct access and general distribution of Grace, ending of monopolistic systemic dominance

Industrialization– Increased production of abundance

Paradigm Changes of Wisdomics/Social Credit/Gracientialism/The Cosmic Code– Full conceptual integration and application of both Science and Wisdom and Wisdom’s pinnacle concept and experience, i.e. Trinitarian/Unitary-Oneness-Process nature of Grace, to break up the dominating business model and equally dominating monopolistic monetary paradigms of private finance. Also full integration of Science and Spirituality via full consciousness of the nature of Grace

Conscious  Life and Living is one thing and its opposite thoroughly integrated to the point of being an entirely third “thing” that is a greater and more unified whole.

Steve Hummel 02/11/2017

[ Non-temporal, Non-Local Utterly Integrated Quantum Reality  <–>  (Apparent Dual Nature Of Physical/Temporal Universe) ] = Primary Reality of Quantum Universe

The whole problem economically is that everyone, including the leading economic theorists, is so hypnotized by THE IDEA of Debt ONLY. We require a new monetary paradigm of Gifting to be thoroughly integrated into the debt (as in + and -) based pricing and money system. Gifting will enable us to resolve so many of our modern technologically advanced economic problems that it is amazing that theorists do not see it. Again they and nearly everyone is hypnotized by the paradigm of Debt ONLY.

Here is a list of problems that Gifting resolves and from both the perspective of the left and the right’s agendas:

Economic Democracy- Left

Governmental/Taxation Bureaucracy- Right

Macro and Micro Stability- Left and Right

Financial Domination- Left

Renewal of Profit Making Systems- Right

Beyond economic and political solutions Gifting will resolve the restraining of Mankind’s mind by the overwhelming amount of time and energy currently required for the overwhelming majority to attain and maintain material and financial security.  Leisure, which is not idleness, but rather self determined directed activity, will free Mankind from the failed and now enforced idea of homo economicus and enable us to fulfill our actual species designation of homo sapiens, i.e. wise and discerning man.

The happy and full life has many purposes in addition to employment. Gifting vastly increases the number and range of purposes available to the individual and will usher in a new Renaissance if guided by the the natural philosophical concept upon which every one of Mankind’s wisdom traditions and monetary gifting is based, namely  Grace/graciousness.

The problem is that even if you have control of the currency if you don’t craft monetary policies that costlessly hits the actual problem, namely that the system creates a flow of total costs that always exceeds the flow of total individual incomes, you won’t solve the actual systemic problem. In other words you can palliate the economy’s problem forever and ever by both cutting costs and by dumping more money into it in the form of debt or even with debt free money for infrastructure etc. ….but you’ll never ACTUALLY SOLVE the systemic problem until you DIRECTLY GIVE THE INDIVIDUAL A CONTINUAL GIFT OF MONEY in addition to what they may or may not make via employment.

And then, if you don’t have a policy that eliminates the inevitablility of demand pull and circumstantial cost inflation you’re still not going to stabilize the economy. The idea that you won’t have inflation if you have equitability of supply and demand is just another liberal half truth….the same as the conservative notion that the economy tends toward equilibrium is a falsehood/half truth.

If you don’t stop Finance from controlling things they will do whatever they can to encourage/outright bribe/create/ inflation….and they’ll succeed. You have to have a policy SOLUTION for BOTH scarce individual incomes AND inflation of all stripes. Otherwise you’re just fooling yourself that you’re solving the problem and also letting finance wriggle free to rule with its monopolistic monetary paradigms.

MMT has the process of money creation correct. However, what nearly everyone misses including MMT and heterodox economists are the correct structural and paradigmatic targets, namely the virtual monopoly on credit creation by private finance and the ideas that money can be created only as debt, as a loan and only for production. Structurally, a public banking system could establish the needed competition to reduce financial costs, and either mandating the Federal Reserve or fourth branch of government with full political independence to create and distribute a $2000/mo. universal dividend to everyone 18 and older and also that sets a discount in the range of 30-40% to retail prices and then distributes the monies/rebates participating merchants for those discounts so that they can be whole on their overheads and profit margins. This downsizes the 5000 year old problematic business model of finance and accomplishes more monetary and economic democracy and frees enterprise from the vain attempt to solve a systemic lack of demand/individual income by re-distributing that scarcity….instead of simply costlessly eliminating it by income and price gifting.

At time of paradigm change everyone except those who have fully recognized the new concept is blind, stupid and clinging to foot dragging partial reforms. This is no insult to anyone, it’s just the nature of paradigm change/consciousness raising.

At time of paradigm change everyone except those who have fully recognized the new concept is blind, stupid and clinging to foot dragging partial reforms. That’s just the nature of paradigm change/consciousness raising.

Steve Hummel 02/08/2017