Science and Mathematics alone do not free. They only truly free when they are aligned with a philosophy that embodies individual freedom and systemic free flowingness, and is also aligned with natural good will. That philosophical concept is Grace and that ethic is graciousness.

Science and Mathematics are epiphenomenon of the brain. Grace is an epiphenomenon of consciousness, and the quantum mechanical nature and thus the vector toward consciousness is the most basic reality in the cosmos.

Expressed in The Cosmic Code it is:

[ Quantum Mechanical Nature/Consciousness  <–>  (Love x Grace/Love in action)  ]

Not only is aggregate individual demand being eroded by these corporate trends, but AI will undoubtedly destroy same at a rate many times higher than it ever has before in the immediate future. Then, on top of all this erosion of purchasing power you need to consider the empirically verifiable data that shows that the system is inherently cost inflationary on its lower bound, i.e. there are increasingly additional costs of depreciation (as well as other additional costs) in modern technologically advanced economies over and above the monetary inputs of finance. Again, this data is in the cost accounting figures of any “going concern” and the completely correct cost accounting convention that “all costs must go into price” enforces it. This latter inherent cost inflationary fact undermines the completeness and validity of economic theorists across the entire spectrum left to right. Economists can get their advanced degrees without taking so much as an elementary course in accounting, and understanding mere debits and credits does not expose the relevant data, their relationships and their economic consequences. That takes a thorough understanding of the subset of double entry bookkeeping known as cost accounting. Couple these systemic facts with the curiously monopolistic monetary paradigms of Debt, Loan and for Production ONLY enforced by the business model of Finance and there is no current way that the system’s underlying inherent cost inflationary scarcity ratio of total individual incomes to total costs/prices….can be resolved. It requires a new monetary paradigm of Direct Gifting to the individual and a reciprocal gifting of price to the consumer at retail sale and then a gift of money back to the merchants who give that discount so that they can be whole on their margins and overheads.

Integration of opposing truths solves problems. Reform merely pushes the pieces around, generally while a dominating power sits heavily on your ass.

Steve Hummel 03/01/2017

Systems are obviously not people so they cannot act. Rather, the action of systems is policy. A theorist can probe and surmise and conclude forever and a day, but his policy recommendations and whether or not they actually solve a system’s problems is the true test of his theory and insight.

Steve Hummel 03/01/2017

A BIG is finally coming into mainstream thinking even though its antecedents go back more than 90 years and I have been extolling its necessarily abundant equivalent for almost ten. Beyond this an abundant universal dividend must be paired with a retail product discount of similarly abundant percentage in order to achieve complete “buy in” by business and to finally and terminally end the monopolistic dominance of Finance’s monetary paradigms of Debt, Loan and For Production….ONLY.

It’s a physically, mentally and spiritually reflective universe if you remove all of the mental barriers like out dated orthodoxies of all kinds, and intellectual fragmentation.

Spiritually:  Atman <–>   Tao  <–>   Devekut <–.>  Grace

Philosophically/systemically/economically:  Gifting  <–>  Grace

Naturally:  The symmetry/reflectiveness seen throughout nature

Steve Hummel 02/28/2017

Michael, I saw you’re interview on Max Keiser and I like what you’re saying regarding Ken Wilber’s integrative viewpoints. The very process of Wisdom itself is the integration of truths, workabilities and the highest ethical considerations of apparently opposing ideas, theories and paradigms. I have a blog wisdomicsblog.com where I have placed my internet postings to various places on the internet over the last several years to places like Steve Keen’s youtube and Debtwatch sites, Ellen Brown’s Public Banking Google group and Mish Shedlock’s current blog. I hope you will visit it. I am compiling my economic, monetary and philosophical writings into two books entitled “The Cosmic Code: The New Integratively Scientific Theory of Everything” and “Wisdomics/Gracenomics: The Policies of The New Economic and Monetary Paradigm”.

The important thing to keep in mind is that no matter what the actual facts are (or aren’t) regarding manipulation, that Finance and their structural and paradigmatic control is what holds most of our problems in suspension. That is what needs to be focused on. Why? Because what appears as a fact or an agenda from either side can be construed as reality and then obsessed over, politically debated and analyzed three ways from the middle and in the process….no progress is actually achieved. One needs to exteriorize one’s self from the fracas and befuddlement, rededicate one’s focus on Finance as the underlying problem and move to the next higher concentric circle of mindset which includes and can integrate all of the economic realities and come up with a more workable system not to mention a more ethical one. And one of the essential aspects of the next higher concentric circle of mindset is action. The wisest thing in Life whether one looks at it from a natural or supernatural perspective is Love, and no matter from which perspective one views things Grace/graciousness is God’s and/or the individual’s expression of Love IN ACTION.

Integrate Public Banking’s agenda with Wisdomics’/Gracenomics’ policies and ACT by creating a grassroots mass movement showing opposing political constituencies their mutual interests in ending the rule of Finance….and we could actually make progress.

It’s the difference between short term economic process and evolutionary paradigm change, and ideological half truth as opposed to broad and far seeing vision.

Paradigm changes are characterized by integration of a new idea into an existing structure….that genuinely transforms the entirety of the system because a basic inversion of a “truth” has occurred and a former overweening power has been taught a lesson in humility.

An accurate observation of the present economic system like “creative destruction” is usually grasped onto by political and economic ideologues in order to further an agenda, and it can even be affirmed by economic theorists as a truth when all it really is, is an accurate observation of a system where blunt force short term change is the rule despite much more humane and ethical options being available….if the dominant economic force making its blunt effects a “reality” is actually looked at and made to take its place along side the rest of the system’s agents.

Historical examples,  underlying concept behind the paradigm change in each case