Like the biblical two edged sword they cut both ways. For the Good and its increase in a new paradigm, or the continuation of the disintegration of problematic conditions built up in an old one. For those aware of what paradigms are and who recognize the signs of a lingering old one there is no other path forward and no going back to the old ways once the new paradigm is finally recognized.

It’s funny how ideas take root in one’s mind and just wait for us to re-discover and further integrate them. Re-reading from Part 1 about the various mental games De Ropp enumerates the higher games of art, science, religion and master games, if I may be so bold, I think what I refer to as paradigm perception is the integration of all four of the higher games and which would also be a parallel integrative temporal universe game to the personal master game.

If Wisdom is the process of integration of ideas, truths and apparent opposites and also the best integration of the practical, the ideal and the ethical call it the Wisdom/Paradigm Perception Game. Paradigms as I have previously posted by definition are integrative “things” in that they are simultaneously single unitary mental concepts that fit/apply seamlessly within the area of human endeavor/body of knowledge they take place in and yet create an entirely new qualitative pattern as well. It also fits the integrated duality within an integrative thirdness greater oneness formula I’ve floated here several times.

This is not to lay claim to some terrific genius on my part really, more a combination of flaw, desire for honesty, lucky grouping of intellectual interests, fate/coincidental timing and standing on the shoulders of giants which I would guess parallels the mindsets of most here.

We need a Wisdomics, a Gracenomics. Wisdom is the best integration of the practical, the ideal and the ethical….and grace or whatever other wisdom word you want to hang on it is its pinnacle state or systemic condition.

The true centrist is actually an indicator of someone who is willing and able to integrate the truths in apparently opposing perspectives while simultaneously deleting their separate or mutual untruths. This is actually the very process of Wisdom itself, and is far above what is often thought of as compromise which is merely aglomerating opposing agendas without the truthfulness purification process above.

It would easily enable government financing of new technologies for environmental cleansing and also the kind of resource efficiency and yet increased productivity that would countenance increased throughput yet ecological sustainability. Finally, it would also enable either/both carbon sequestration and/or off planeting of heat and energy.

Donald Trump’s disintegrative naivety is of course stupid enough to be very concerned about, but all of his dithering idiocies may actually be a conscious or unconscious smoke screen for obscuring and never getting to the real power behind nations, their foreign policies and what is actually wrong with modern economies; and that is finance’s monopolistic paradigm of Debt/Burden/Cost Post Retail Sale Only.

Until we see this and come to grips with it by recognizing and implementing the new paradigm of Direct and Reciprocal Monetary Grace As In Gifting and its policies, we will stumble from one real or manufactured crisis to another and never progress systemically let alone culturally and as a species.

The new concept behind modern economic systems needs to change from austere general equilibrium to grace as in the higher disequilibrium of stable, relatively abundant monetary gifting. The temporal universe being in an intensely integrated yet slightly disequilibrated state of continual dynamic, interactive grace as in process and flow, the economy would best capture nature by resonating closely with that reality.

The present economy and business cycle follows the same curve of a failed satellite orbital insertion. The direct distribution of money to the individual via a universal dividend and a high percentage discount and the discount’s reciprocal rebated gifting back to enterprise will enable the economy to achieve orbital free flow/free fall from so called Keynesian wage rigidities that will be much more stable exactly like a satellite’s successful orbit is, that is perturbed only slightly by atmospheric expansion.

This is not DSGE tweaking via the indirect, blunt and unworkable tool of interest rate changes, it is the deep, permanent, direct and transformational breakthrough known as a paradigm change.

DB:  However, we should not go back to a trade policy that was based on lies. We need a trade policy that is about raising the living standards of working people in the United States and the developing world, not just giving all the money to the rich.

Me:  Precisely. And Globalization has always been the profit making wet dream of finance, and also the way for it to accomplish the final coalescence of its monopolisitic paradigm of Debt/Burden/Additional Cost post retail sale Only. And a paradigm being an utterly integrated reality means it is an inherent one, so the only way to actually and effectively change that reality is to integrate a new primary paradigm into the system(s) laboring with the old and problematic one.

PB:  We physicists are way up this learning curve of detecting signals in noise. Signal averaging is the first go to method but signal to noise improves as the square root of sample size. If this isn’t working early on it’s only going to get worse path forward. The only thing that works first time every time is to identify a robust signal variable that jumps off the page. For example Steve Keen keeps pointing out that the correlation over the trailing three decades between the slope of private debt (aka credit) and unemployment is -.93. This is not noisy signal buried in noise. When you find a true controlling variable you don’t need lots of ANOVA and signal averaging. The data grabs one by both ears and screams: Hey. Look here!

Me:  Precisely. And if debt build up is continual and austerity is not the macro answer…how can anything other than a new paradigm of COSTLESS monetary gifting be the answer. Keen and other heterodox economists even acknowledge and advocate monetary gifting as a policy, it’s just that
1) they don’t know how to implement it without causing inflation, although they mouth the flimsy liberal orthodoxy that limited gifting with a UBI would not create inflation. Money of course is NOT the primary and operant factor in “monetary” inflation…it’s the complete freedom that business decision makers have to raise their prices because who or what is going to stop them from doing so???? especially in a macro-economically monetarily austere system when they perceive more money than normal is forthcoming????

2) they haven’t looked at and thought economically about where the terminal expression point for any and all price inflation is (retail sale)

3) they don’t have the knowledge of the digital nature of the accounting and pricing systems and so they miss how a high percentage discount/rebate monetary gifting policy at retail sale could be utilized to break up the idiotic and contradictory monopoly paradigm of Finance, implement the new paradigm of Direct and Reciprocal Monetary Gifting and put monetary and purchasing power scarcity forever in the dust bin of history.

Ah, not looking everywhere for answers (being orthodox) and not modeling temporal realities in their theories and potential policies….just what everyone here is lamenting. It’s way past time that heterodox economists stopped being extremely erudite policy and paradigm dunces.

JJ:  It is scary to think that economists think they can solve problems with models based on individual experiences that are then introduced into large populations. I think that economists are using numbers and models in place of an empathic understanding that using people in experiments can mean real harm for the people, (for example, introducing austerity after banks commit fraud and then are bailed out while those defrauded are foreclosed upon). If economists would think about how people benefit, or not, from policies or actions, then the policies would make sense. Experimentation for the sake of experimentation is a fool’s errand.

Me:  JJ, Exactly. Now if economists, politicians, the lords of finance and large political constituencies would cognite on the fact that, that empathic understanding was the natural personal experience of grace as in love in action/love in application….they’d also cognite on wisdom which is the best integration of the practical and the ideal. Wisdom isn’t wisdom unless it is imminently practical, and as I have shown the policies of economic and monetary grace are best accomplished within commerce’s infrastructure of double entry bookkeeping, using its digital nature and an understanding of where and when it could best be APPLIED in the economic process. Play the policies out with the above criteria in your mind or better yet on a clay table to make them more temporally real to yourself….and the elegant simplicity and yet thorough applicability of them will become apparent to you.

The mental and temporal reflectivities and alignments of logic and wisdom after all DO count.