Posted To Steve Keen’s Substack Notes 10/24/2025

Systemic/Scientific/Reductive analysis is all well and good and Dr. Keen’s use of these is excellent. However, doing so doesn’t penetrate to the deepest and most powerful level which is the conceptual/paradigmatic level. As Einstein said: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler”. Well, we know that paradigms are single concepts that create new mental and temporal universe realities. THATS SIMPLE, POWERFUL, DEEP AND PERMANENT CHANGE…unlike systemic analysis alone which without recognizing the current paradigm and implementing the new core and operant concept will never achieve more than palliative reforms or worse yet get morphed into something like delusive neo-classical economic theory.

To analyze paradigmatically you have to get past some mental hurdles like acculturative unconsciousness, the egoistic tendency to frame everything as a duality only IOW only morally right and wrong instead of ethically…since ethics are the rational consideration of morals…and thinking with the mindset of trinity/thirdness greater oneness because Wisdom/the mindset of integrating opposites in order to find solutions to apparently unresolvable dualities…has always been associated with “the third way”. Finally, you have to get inside of the primary new paradigm concept itself and look for additional reinforcing aspects of it that will stabilize and increase its reality and workability. Kepler’s discovery of elliptical orbits instead of perfect circles was what really made helio-centrism more accurate than geo-centrism for instance. Viz the new monetary and economic paradigm of Strategic Monetary Gifting which ends the current monopoly paradigm of Debt Only as the sole form and vehicle for the creation and distribution of all new money, this would be looking at the additional monopoly paradigm of The Consumer Alone Must Be The ONLY Agent To Pay Full Price. Break that monopoly up by having the government or central bank pay for 50% of the price of everything at retail sale with new MONEY instead by Debt ONLY…and you transform chronic erosive inflation into beneficial price and asset deflation, double everyone’s purchasing power…and make debt jubilee continual instead of a one off that doesn’t actually solve the Debt ONLY paradigm because it leaves the private banks in control of it.

Posted To Mish Shedlock’s Blog 10/23/2025

Strategic Monetary Gifting (not money MONOPOLISTICALLY created ONLY AS DEBT)

1) resolves all of these political stupidities

2) also resolves our stickiest and deepest economic problems like chronic inflation, chronic insufficient demand

3) enables us to reduce or eliminate several bureaucracies

4) cut taxes

5) enable libertarianism’s delusions to become the reality

Look at it. It won’t kill you.

Why History Repeats Itself

  1. Because we have not realized that the present zeitgeist is Power, Profit and Control,
  2. that it has been in effect for the entire history of the human species,
  3. that without a higher ethic power, profit and control are inevitably problematic and so
  4. the new zeitgeist we need to recognize is Grace as in Redeemed/Redemptive Power, Profit and Control.

And the next and most important step in this change is implementing the new monetary and economic paradigm of Grace as in Strategic Monetary Gifting via a policy of a 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale…because everyone participates in and/or is effected by money and the economy and hence doing so with this new policy would be the greatest opportunity to self actualize gratitude for a gracious gift of price since meditation and prayer.

The Short, Short Course In Paradigmology and Wisdom

New paradigms are always in complete logical and conceptual opposition to the present anomalous paradigm. They are also integrations of opposites to the point of being thirdnesses greater onenesses also known as syntheses. They are deep resolving simplicities and in this respect they are exactly synonymous with wisdom insights. Finally, it can be seen that the beneficial effects of every historical paradigm change have always been an aspect or aspects of the natural philosophical concept of grace.

Discern the present paradigm concept. Then determine its logical and conceptually opposing concept and where, when, how and ethically why to best apply it to the system(s) under analysis by becoming aware of as many of the relevant aspects of the philosophical concept of grace as you can.

Posted To Steven Greer’sPodcast 10/20/2025

If we are to have both disclosure and our own evolution we need a paradigm change in the economy and the money system where new money is not only created as debt, but also as a 50% gift at the strategic point of retail sale (because everyone participates in retail sale). Thus it would make going to the store the greatest opportunity to self actualize gratitude for a gift since meditation and prayer. Gratitude is a major aspect of the concept of grace as in love in action and is hence the key experience pointed at by all of the world’s major wisdom traditions. This could be a key step in our evolution and also in moving beyond the present zeitgeist/ethic of the age that humanity has been grappling with forever which is Power, Profit and Control and toward a new zeitgeist of Redeemed/Redmptive Power, Profit and Control. Dr. Greer, if you’d like to see an entire policy program for implementing these changes in the economy, money system, society and the minds of everyone I would be happy to discuss this with you. I have written a book about it if anyone is interested to see it here: https://www.amazon.com/Wisdomics-Gracenomics-New-Monetary-Paradigm-Policies-ebook/dp/B0C49B9PX7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1552358772&sr=1-1-catcorr

Reinforcing Policies To Stabilize The New Monetary Paradigm

A 50% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale transforms chronic erosive inflation into beneficial price and asset deflation…by increasing the money supply with Monetary Gifting. Milton Friedman turns over in his grave. Make the discount permanently 52% that enables enterprise the freedom to potentially increase their prices by 2% per annum, also index the Discount/percentage to an honest assessment of monthly inflation and then tax any revenue enterprise may or may not gain from inflating further at a rate of at least 100%. Finally, create The Department of Competition, Innovation and The Public’s Bully Pulpit that has weekly press conferences that points the finger at greed inflaters and asks consumers what they are going to do about such anti-social behavior that erodes their purchasing power.

Of Zeitgeists/Ethics of The Age

The only thing worse than lunatic leftists is lunatic fascists. Fascism has been historically condemned and rightly so because it reinforces the current anomalous human civilization-long zeitgeist of Power and Control Only, while democracy, incomplete and feeble as it is, is at least aligned with the the new zeitgeist we need to become aware of which is Grace As In Redeemed/Redemptive Power and Control.

Personal Quote

Nothing of real and lasting consequence happens in the temporal universe and in the minds of mankind…until they change their ideas.

And the most important ideas to change are the APPLIED ideas also known as paradigms.

Steve Hummel 10/20/2025

Posted To Steve Keen’s Substack Newsletter 10/19/2025

Your systemic analysis is as usual spot on. However, if you would analyze conceptually/paradigmatically you would see that a policy of a 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale where either the government or the central bank simply creates money with Strategic Monetary Gifting to rebate and make retailers whole on their full price (especially at the retail point of finance, that is one’s car, mortgage or other big ticket item) you implement permanent debt jubilee instead of a one off jubilee and then let Finance go right back to screwing up everything for another 60-70 years with their present monopoly paradigm for the creation and distribution of all new money. Would you please consider modeling the effects of the above policy and the entire policy program in my book here: https://www.amazon.com/Wisdomics-Gracenomics-New-Monetary-Paradigm-Policies-ebook/dp/B0C49B9PX7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1552358772&sr=1-1-catcorr

Why Democracy Is Failing

First, our American fore-fathers’ had this wonderful and wise idea called democracy, but it was never really implemented. Instead what occurred was a suave oligarchy instead of the overt form of same that has been the fact everywhere since Sumeria. And that was an actual progression, but not the solution that would enable a true democracy. So what is that solution? Its a paradigm change in the money system and hence also in the economy, the entire social system, our politics and the minds…of everyone.

Thats right everyone because:

1) money is the human invention that enables and facilitates the economy,

2) everyone participates in and/or is effected by the single universally participated in point in the entire economy which is retail sale,

3) Voters in a democracy vote their pocket books because more and better ability to purchase is in everyone’s self interests and

4) the normal and very beneficial personal response to receiving a gift is gratitude…and that is why integrating the new monetary paradigm of Strategic Monetary Gifting into the economy at the point of retail sale will be the greatest opportunity to self actualize gratitude since meditation and prayer and is what will

5) create the mega-paradigm change above that also begins to move us from the present zeitgeist/ethic of the age of the dominance of Power to the new zeitgeist of Grace as in Loving Personal and Systemic Action.