The idea that you must go to where the game and the natural abundance of the earth is has now been replaced by the idea that you can now raise and grow the game and the natural abundance in a particular spot.

The idea that the sun and the planets revolve around the earth is now replaced by the fact that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun.

The idea that salvation can only be obtained via the Sacraments of the Catholic Church is now replaced by the idea that salvation can be accomplished by a direct relationship with God.

The idea that Debt and employment are the only valid economic and monetary factors has now been transcended by intelligently integrating monetary Gifting into the system.

Answer:  They are all paradigm changes, all inversions of former absolute truths, all break ups of systemically dominating ideas (scarcity, ego-centrism, non-directness-indirectness/spiritual exclusivity and non-directness-indirectness/empirical-scientific exclusivity-validity)

Politics and politicians are not the deepest aspect of the problems we face. They are part of it as they wield political power, as are economists who are the lynch pin intellectual elite and so wield mental power. This is why most people disdain politicians and are cowed by economists. However, the real power actually lies with Finance as their enforced dominating paradigms of only Debt, only Loans and only For Production (paradigms are generally held conscious or unconscious ideas) go straight to the minds of virtually everyone and yet are generally unperceived. Thus Finance is both the primary structural and ideological power, and its power and significance is not recognized by many.

Our economic and political elites are failing us because they apparently cannot figure out a way to break up the paradigmatic powers of Finance. Wisdomics/Gracenomics is the policy, philosophical and cutting edge physics/scientific extension of C. H. Douglas’s Social Credit and so is the way of undoing Finance’s dominance.

Macro-economics has more or less painted itself into a theoretical corner where they can only tear orthodoxy down, but they can’t come up with any actual or resolving solutions because they look in the wrong places, they look for some abstract answer that doesn’t exist and they are still plagued by and habituated to current paradigms. I’ve seen macro-economists and pundits on all sides getting increasingly frustrated because they see no answer. A few have embraced half of the answer and advocated half of the policies necessary and yet they still do not get the second policy because they are basically unconscious of the philosophical concept upon which that policy is based.  They are also only willing to utilize science and mathematics, which are fine of course, but they are apparently ignorant of the reality and actual process of an even greater and more perceptive discipline, namely Wisdom, and even if they are aware of it they generally would not risk advocating it for a variety of reasons not the least of which is a conscious or unconscious scientistic bias against it, probably because they confuse Wisdom with religion when the two are actually completely separate.

My Book Wisdomics/Gracenomics is the application of Wisdom/Consciousness to economics. I’m not saying it has all of the answers, but it does recognize our deepest economic problems and fully flesh out their actual solutions. So deep that their resolution will transform both the economic and monetary systems. That’s a lot. Nobody else except the people I learned from are even close to that, and I have extended both the philosophy and policies they have heroically carried the torch for, for over 60 years since their founder died.

My other book The Cosmic Code is a breakthrough formulation of the process of Wisdom itself, and an exegesis of its aspects and experiences and shows how it can be garnered and practically applied in virtually any situation personally, systemically and circumstantially.

The solution is recognizing that policies effecting individual and commercial monetary freedom and a free flowing general DISEQUILIBRIUM…are the only way out of all of the conundrums and paradoxes currently afflicting economic theory. wisdomicsblog.com

Scientists and even philosophers will puzzle over all of fragmentation and contradiction in economic theory until they discover the natural concept whose most basic aspect is a thorough integration of bothness/duality itself. Then, if they’re careful and they use the mental discipline of Wisdom even more than the beautiful, important and almost as complete disciplines mentioned above, they will be able to perceive the way out of the current morass, implement policies aligned with that natural concept and so bring us to a third, new and more unified understanding.

AZ:  What is amazing, mind-boggling, flabbergasting — and many other purple adjectives — WHY does this NEED to be said, 80 years after publication of Keynes General Theory? What are the reasons for this regress in knowledge in economics?

Me:  IMO it’s because Keynes only identified and prescribed policies for the structural economic problem when an entirely new philosophical concept and monetary paradigm was necessary for economists to perceive. In other words Keynes did not go deep enough. This was true when Keynes wrote the general theory and is even more pressing now not only because Keynesianism got morphed into neo-liberalism by the false ideology of general equilibrium looking to be justified, but also because the real underlying problem of an inherent, systemic scarcity of demand in ratio to costs/prices has inexorably trammeled on for almost 80 years while the monopolistic financial paradigms of Debt, Loan and For Production Only have also not been countered and broken up by the new and necessary paradigm of direct and reciprocal monetary Gifting.

Steve Hummel 04/09/2017

Some economists actually stand looking at the concept of grace as in monetary Gifting, even suggesting partial policies that perfectly reflect it and still fail to understand that it is the thing, the new paradigm required to resolve the problems of the economy and money system…simply because they are unconscious of that concept.

Steve Hummel 04/09/2017

You are quite right Dr. Keen the present overriding economic viewpoint does actually (and incorrectly) posit perfect control, equilibrium and an ethic of power. And that is why the economic and monetary systems require an ethic of Wisdom (not provincial religion) and reflectively its highest concept grace as in monetary Gifting to stabilize them, not to mention make them humane and ethical for all business models and the general population. wisdomicsblog.com

You’re right again Dr. Keen, in the temporal universe there is no general equilibrium except for a moment, and in the next moment it’s changed so it’s actually a general disequilibrium. Add to this insight the fact that in modern economies the rate of flow of total costs (and because all costs by cost accounting convention must go into prices the rate of flow of total prices) always exceeds the rate of flow of total individual incomes and you’ve discovered the most basic cause of the general disequilibrium. Now the answer is not to inject money into the system through enterprise as this just re-initiates the basic problem. Nor is the solution to inject a mere statistically equilibrating amount of income directly to the individual. That would be to commit the sin of equilibrium in the temporal universe that is in continual flux. No, the answer is invert the problematic ratio above and in so doing create a scientifically valid “higher disequilibrium” that sets the individual and every commercial enterprise free and enables a much more stable free flowingness to the entire system. And just as a “kicker” breaks up the dominance of everyone by Finance as their monopolistic paradigms of Debt, Loan and For Production only….are countered by a saturation of the economy with Gifting. wisdomicsblog.com

I have tremendous respect for the intellect of economists like Steve Keen and Michael Hudson. They utilize mathematics (Keen) and understandable outrage (Hudson) very well. I have in fact learned a great deal about economics from them. However, with all due respect, what I have and they don’t have as much of, are paradigm perception and other insights available with Wisdom. Wisdom is not religion it is a deepening and broadening mental discipline that has the scientific method as one of its tools and aspects. Wisdom transcends science while including it. Wisdom enables one to see things more clearly, more comprehensively and more dynamically, and hence enables one to more confidently proclaim, to act and to see policies that will have deeper and broader effects. Wisdom is the pinnacle mental discipline….not science. I’m more for science than 99% of scientists because I see from the perspective of Wisdom, and so I’m more aware of whether science is orthodox and so held back, open minded and so has the potential to consider Wisdom or is actually wise science because it has incorporated an aspect or aspects of consciousness itself into the scientific method and so is close to scientific and/or paradigmatic breakthrough.

Steve Hummel 04/08/2017

Why must every other market both human and economic suffer long term disruption ….except Finance.  Oh sure, Finance suffers a little momentarily, but never loses its control and dominance of the overall economy….so it never actually suffers. And when a panic occurs who gets the immediate help? That’s right, Finance. What if we gave permanent and system changing help to both the individual and every other business model except Finance, and did so in a way that also de-throned and de-toothed Finance’s obviously unethical dominance….of virtually everyone?

Hey economists! Hey politicians! Hey every other business community! Hey every individual!  Wake the fuck up and realize that Finance’s dominance of you,….that’s unfair, uncaring, and very unpleasant dominance of you….is the biggest problem you should be focused on, is the thing you should continuously be protesting and pressuring the entire political apparatus to fix and is the thing you must never give up on until it is completely remedied!!!

QE For The People has been around since C. H. Douglas and is enlightened. However, QEFTP needs to be abundant enough to guarantee a virtual middle class income to be truly effective in ending the curiously seldom understood fact that the business model of Finance dominates every other busness model and 95% of the general populace. It also requires a dual policy wisely and strategically implemented at the retail product of every business model including of course retail sale itself. This policy is a substancial discount to the retail product of every business model (say 25% and up) that is rebated back to the business model by a monetary authority specifically mandated to do so. In implementing these two policies the entire economy is interpenetrated by the new monetary paradigm of Gifting which is needed to undo the dominance of Finance, and price deflation is harmlessly integrated into profit making systems. There are at least a half dozen further benefits resulting from these two policies that integrate the best aspects of the liberal and conservative agendas which they have not been able to accomplish in 150 years of obsessive unconscious contention and invalidation. Man needs wisdom (not religion of the pre-scientific or the scientific kind) because wisdom resolves and ethically ascends. If you want to understand wisdom applied to both economics and to science check out some excerpts of my two soon to be published books Wisdomics/Gracenomics: The New Integrative Economic Theory and Monetary Paradigm and The Cosmic Code: An Integrated Duality Within an Integrative Trinity-Unity at wisdomicsblog.com