We need to become systems philosophers because 1) an idea whose time has come cannot be effectively resisted and 2) disaster is at 12 and we are at 11.9.

What is the concept we need to recognize and act with? The following are all aspects of that concept:

Personal freedom and systemic free flowingness,

Free gifting as in debt jubilee (practiced routinely by the ancients until Rome),

Monetary Gifting as in UBI,

Monetary Gifting as in fiscal deficits to government contractors (MMT),

Competition within an eco-social ethical set of rules as opposed to the plodding solely self interested dominance and parasitism of monopoly (especially regarding the paradigm for the creation and distribution of money)

Integration and the integrative mindset toward…everything, AKA Wisdom, which could combine the efforts of the various leading monetary and economic reform movements (all of which philosophically align with the concept under discussion) into an integrated paradigmatic whole

All of the above are aspects of the natural philosophical concept of grace.

In a monetary economy like we have, money DOES make the world go ’round. It’s the perfect temporal universe tool for doingness…and the new paradigm concept of Direct and Reciprocal Monetary Grace As in Gifting will (finally) enable us to accomplish the general good with it…if we recognize and act upon the temporal and ethical power of the natural philosophical concept of grace…which has always been the concept behind all human social, psychological and temporal/technological progress.

For anyone with over $24k purchasing power: Sliding scale 1-20% Required Investment In 5% Eco/Peace/Food & Nutrition/Grace Bonds To Fund Research on Solutions To Crises In These Areas. (Examples: Off and Under Planeting of Production, Sovereignly Powerful and Gracious United Nations Organization, Organic Gardening Movement, Funding of Research on Nutritional Supplementation, Wholistic Preventive Health Care Movement, Natural Philosophical Concept of The Aspects of Grace Movement.)

“Science is wonderful, necessary, delicious and it exists entirely within the microbiome/digestive tract of Wisdom.”

Steve Hummel 08/12/2022

Wisdom is the higher order integrative mental discipline and mindset that deciphers operant truths and solutions to problems in the most ethical and efficacious ways possible.

Steve Hummel 08/12/2022

Paradigm perception and wisdom insights/solutions are synonymous phenomena in that they are both deep resolving simplicities. The key to new paradigm perception is simplicity not complexity, not because being aware of complexity is wrong in any way, but because paradigms are deep insights into the operant factors of complexities…that change the nature and entire pattern of such complexities.

Steve Hummel 08/12/2022

It has often been said that normal people talk about other people, smarter people talk about issues and the smartest people talk about ideas. I’d add a level to this: The wisest people think about ideas and their most best most ethical ways of application.

With all of humanity’s social, psychological, political and ecological problems converging on us why are we not urgently pursuing deep and significant change? It’s time for not only change, but mega-paradigm change. When you’re behind 40 to nothing in the fourth quarter it’s time to “Go long, go deep” and that’s exactly what we must do…if we are real about where we are. Mega-paradigm change is the answer.

I’m good at one thing. Perceiving operant factors and ideas. Actually I’m a slow learner, but my secret has always been a willingness to never stop learning.

The idea I finally cognited on was the natural philosophical concept of grace. Grace as in love in personal action and/or systemic policy is the most integrative of opposites concept and ecstatic experience humans can have. It is also the concept behind every historical paradigm change because the realities created by every paradigm change have always been an aspect or aspects of the concept of grace. For instance, increased consciousness/awareness/knowingness, increased abundance, increased knowledge of temporal universe reality, increased likelihood of survival, increased faith as in confidence, hope and love and hence increased joy and appreciation of life and livingness etc. etc. etc.

Wisdom is the ultimate mental tool and integrative of opposite truths discipline, and paradigm changes are the ultimate integrative of opposites mental and temporal universe phenomenon. Wisdom is the art and practice of perceiving and applying deep simplicities, and paradigm changes are deep simplicities in that they are single pungent and operant concepts…that applied efficaciously, change the nature of entire temporal universe complexities.

The concept of a mega-paradigm change is defined as a paradigm change that is immediately, continuously and universally individually experienced, and has many spill over beneficial effects into bodies of knowledge, human systems and/or areas of human endeavor other than the primary pattern of the paradigm change.

The new monetary and financial paradigm is one of only two or perhaps three mega-paradigm changes in the entire history of the human species.

For instance the 50% Discount/Rebate policy makes it much more difficult for anti-social commercial agents to try to de-stabilize the new monetary paradigm by inflating their prices. If a greedy CEO says, “Oh wow, there’s now potentially double the demand for my product, I think I’ll raise my prices by 25%”, but if only one of his competitors says, “No, I’m going to compete on price and maybe even lower my price a little” …just how much market share is the cooperative CEO going to take from the anti-social one?

Of course there will also be regulatory tax incentives to abide by the rules of the new paradigm and tax disincentives for not doing so as this is simply recognizing that its not an entirely ethical world we live in, but the point is that major/paradigmatic changes solve problems and make further problem solving easier by changing the operant/most important problematic aspects of a current paradigm.

That’s what the dialectic is afterall. It’s not just conflict between thesis and anti-thesis forever and always for specific problems and particularly for new paradigms/paradigm changes which are the quinessential integrative phenomenon.

Wisdom has always been “the third way”, the integrative thirdness greater oneness of only the truths, the highest workabilities, most relevant applicabilities and highest ethical considerations of a seeming unresolvable duality/problem.

Learning to think in terms of trinities, unities, onenesses and processes aligns with the natural philosophical concept of grace because these are all aspects of grace, and also are perfectly applicable to and descriptive of temporal universe reality.

The truth is private for profit money creation is not a legitimate business model at all. Why? Because loans/money creation is always a very costly occurence pre-production (as in business start ups and business expansion) or post retail sale (as in mortgages, auto loans and other big ticket items). Thus it exposes private for profit money creation as a wholly exterior parasite on the actually productive process. Investment banks that only utilize already created money/savings and other such financial services are legitimate business models.

Money creation needs to become a public utility guided by the most beneficial and ethical concept humanity has ever self actualized, namely the natural philosophical concept of grace, not grace as in some religious, sectarian orthodoxy, but grace as in as in love in action/systemic policy.

The way to herd the political apparatus toward economic abundance and ecological sanity is to communicate the incredible benefits of the new monetary paradigm of Direct and Reciprocal Monetary Gifting most specifically a 50% Discount at retail sale all of which discount is Rebated back to the enterprise granting it to the consumer so that they can be made whole on their overheads and profit margins. This single policy has the following empirical/mathematical effects: 1) ends inflation forever for every individual agent by implementing BENEFICIAL price and asset DEFLATION into profit making economic systems. “Holy orthodoxy exploding and temporal universe reality inverting occurence. That’s a paradigm change all by itself. 2) Thus it ends any argument for fiscal austerity enabling running the kind of fiscal deficits necessary to confront climate change. 3) It immediately doubles every individuals purchasing power so if you’re making $20/hr. you can now purchase at a rate of $40/hr or maintain your present lifestyle and save/invest at a rate of $20/hr. 4) It potentially doubles demand for vitually every enterprise’s goods and services integrating the self interests of enterprise with their consumers. 5) It consequently isolates Finance from every other legitimate business model making it a huge economic and politically powerful issue. Finally, and most importantly it breaks up private banks’ monopolistic paradigm of Debt Only as the sole form and vehicle for the creation and distribution of money.

I’m all for MMT, UBI, etc. etc. They’re all very good reforms, but why not deal effectively and terminatedly with the truly operant factor in the economic system, namely the current monetary paradigm???

Because Its Economic Wisdom, because it is the very expression of the natural philosophical concept of grace…in the economic system.

Ok, what is Wisdom? Wisdom is the integrative mental process itself, and so the means of garnering wisdom on any discipline, science or situation. Thoroughly integrate what are seemingly unresolvable opposites into a thirdness greater oneness and you have accomplished a wisdom insight. A wisdom insight is the realization of an operant factor and where, how and when it resolves a problematic duality. Wisdom insights are deep simplicities because they resolve problematic dualities. And that’s why my books title begins with the word Wisdomics, because it is about economic wisdom, economic integration of problematic dualities.

New paradigms/paradigm concepts are the quintessential integrative phenomena because they always resolve problematic dualities and point the way toward thirdnesses greater onenesses. That, by definition, also makes them wisdom insights.

Okay, what is the natural philosophical concept of grace? It is the most integrative concept/experience that homo sapiens can have. The definition of grace is: love in action, toward oneself, toward others, in human systems and (if you’re going to be wise and thoroughgoing about it) in your conscious perception of everything in every moment of one’s life.

Grace/graciousness is the concept/experience behind every human progressive moment including moments of paradigm change/mega-paradigm change. This is because grace is the natural state of…the cosmos. Yes, it’s that panglossian…except it’s also trinitarian, that is it includes all opposites (and your unconscious or conscious ability to choose them) entirely integrated to the point of thirdness greater oneness. The natural state of the temporal universe is grace and your nascent ability to experience each moment of it and whatever is momentarily in it, is what has always been known as the ecstatic experience of god.

Mega-paradigm changes, of which there have probably only been two previous occurences, are direct, universally experienced and continuous expressions of grace/graciousness that not only effect paradigm change in a specific system, body of knowledge and/or area of human endeavor, but they also have beneficial “knock on” effects in other such areas that are apparently unrelated.

The above is why I used the term Gracenomics in the title of my book. Because it is the way to implement a direct, universally experienced and continuous expression of an aspect of the natural philosophical concept of grace (Monetary Gifting) in the economy.

In other words because it is potentially the next mega-paradigm change in human history.