I remember sitting on the grass in our front yard in Milledgeville Illinois and looking up at the sky and the clouds. It was a truly wonderful and beautiful experience. I couldn’t put a word to it at that time of course because I was still in “the wonder years”, but being lucky enough to remember it has enabled me to serially tap into its grandeur and realize that life, living and consciousness of the moment, each moment, is the greatest human blessing possible.

Steve Hummel July 6 2025

The ability to think or perceive a truly new, conceptually completely oppositional and yet thoroughly integrative thought, in other words a synthesis/trinitarian/thirdness greater oneness thought, and then discover how to best implement that idea, is the rarest of human capabilities. Its the very impulse and process of the superlative intellectual discipline known as Wisdom.

Steve Hummel July 6 2025

Regulate the bond market in ways that prevent speculative excess and always have the FED ready to buy any and all of them. Meanwhile double everyone’s purchasing power with a 52% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale which ends inflation. Then proportionally tax every enterprise that increases their prices more than 2% at a rate of 100%. Meanwhile, on a sliding scale “tax”/withold Gifted money into 5-6% eco-energy & infrastructure treasury bonds which mitigates consumption while directing investment toward rational planetary goals.

Systems were made for Man, not Man for systems.

That way the idea of Monetary Gifting being integrated into the economy at retail sale and hence for EVERYBODY…can remain unfulfilled for ANOTHER 8000 years.

The church gets to keep 1% of the total stipend and distributes 99% to the individuals of their congregation.

This is not establishing or inhibiting a particular religion, but enabling the highest spiritual experience known to man.

Because the zeitgeist of Dominating Power and Control was continually acculturated for the entire course of human civilization…until the new zeitgeist of Redeemd/Redemptive Power and Control began with that policy.

Short answer is to find the applicable systemic aspect of grace and then craft policy that will result in personally experiencing that aspect. This is the premise and effect of my book Wisdomics-Gracenomics and its policy of a 50% Discount/Reciprocal Gift of price at retail sale. In other words you make participating in a universally required for survival activity, i.e. the economy, an opportunity to be grateful for a gift of half of the price of virtually everything, for doing so.

Beyond that we could suggest/encourage people do the basic mental things that enable and elicit the experience of grace like LOOKING at the things in the present moment like space, colors, objects and every other potential experience of each moment instead of continually THINKING/ABSTRACTING INWARDLY AWAY FROM same…and reward them for doing so. Imagine getting paid in some way for self actualizing the greatest and most beneficial experience humans can have? Establishing that feedback loop might be the greatest mega-paradigm change in the history of the species and the planet.

I like your tendency to question ideas.

The answer to your title question is…

1) because we don’t analyze on the conceptual/paradigmatic level
2) because new paradigms are permanent progressive solutions and yet in the post enchantment/Enlightenment world the paradigm for intellectual inquiry has increasingly become the monopoly concept of Science Only instead of Wisdom which is the intellectual impulse and discipline of the integratiion of opposites and so we tend to get caught up in analyzing problems instead of pursuing solutions
3) hence brilliant people like Warren Mosler and Steve Keen can correctly identify the way money is created (accounting) and yet can’t imagine applying its equal debits and credits tool most efficaciously at retail sale (because its the single universally participated in and hence macro-economic point in the entire economic process) to reduce the price at retail sale by crediting the consumer with a 50% Discount thus doubling everyone’s purchasing power and yet with the Rebate/equal debit aspect of the policy the merchant gets their full price so no moral hazard and finally
4) the monopoly paradigm CONCEPT for the creation and distribution of new money of Debt ONLY that the palace or the private banks have wielded since day one of human civilization is broken up by integrating its opposite concept (the impulse and process of Wisdom) of Monetary Gifting (aspect of the natural philosophical concept of grace) into the Debt Only system and so neo-classicalism is transformed into Wisdomics-Gracenomics.

Me to yossarian on Dave Foulkes’ substack:

yossarian, why not have the central bank pay for 50% of everything at retail sale which would include not only groceries but your car payment, mortgage payment and insurance payment? Better yet create a monetary institution paralleling the central bank that gifts that 50% of the price of everything and so benefits every economic agent commercial and individual…instead of like The FED being the hand maiden of the banks in “normal” economic times and the bail bondsman for the banks after the banks serially fuck the system over with their monopoly paradigm of Debt Only? With that set up even the banks benefit because the parallel central bank pays them half of their point of retail sale. Only thing they have to give up is their monopoly control of the monetary paradigm. Which I’m sure they’d object to, but what if you just ignored that and kept broadcasting to EVERYONE the fact that the new central bank is doubling your purchasing power by implementing beneficial price and asset deflation. Thats the start of the biggest, most consequencial and irresistible mass movement for “an idea whose time has come” since we went from nomadic hunting and gathering to homesteading, urbanization and agriculture.