The left had better start allying itself with small to medium sized businesses because their interests dove tail with that of the individual, i.e. a supplementary income serves both of their purposes. Just drop all of the reactive orthodoxy on both sides of the political aisle. If one values power, control or being right in their own mind more than individual freedom and systemic free flowingness they are part of the problem not the solution. The alliance of the individual and the vast majority of business entities is exactly the prescription for the political fight that is inevitable and necessary.

God is Nature as in essence and God is the experience of Grace/Self Awareness/Consciousness in its various aspects and ultimately in whatever a conscious being is experiencing.  God is whatever one conceives, believes and/or experiences as transcendental.  God is Nature and super nature…whichever and however one cares to assign/believe it.

God is both the naturalization of Spirituality and the re-sacralization of Nature.

In the end fuck both scientism and religiosity, or rather fuck them as orthodoxies and integrate them into the third, higher, more unified state and discipline of ethical experientialism, of gracientialism. It’s time for humanity to evolve, survive and thrive.

The FED did what it did out of macro-economic orthodoxy/stupidity and/or the self interest of the TBTF banks and other financial institutions like itself in keeping everything in such a muddled but quasi-tolerable mess that the general populace won’t rise up en mass and kick their asses or bash their heads in. It’s up to us to recognize this super slow-motion train wreck strategy by standing up on our own hind legs and demanding that policies be implemented that terminatedly end their dominance, that correct the specific and most basic problems of the economy and that will consequently free both the individual and enable the system to be free flowing.

Debt can specifically be a loan or an obligation of exchange of goods and/or services…as is money whatever form it takes.

Good. Now that we’ve established this perhaps we can look at the fact that the present system creates a higher rate of flow of total costs and so prices than it does a rate of flow of total INDIVIDUAL incomes, and that this systemic condition is rapidly being exacerbated by artificial intelligence….and then resolve these realities by gifting the individual with a supplementary income not associated with employment. Then, if we’re really smart, we can gift them with a sufficient income to reduce the consumer financial market to the extent that it reduces the business model of Finance from an oppressive and manipulative monopoly to a garden variety business model like any other that exist in the economy. Finally, we can gift both consumers with a discount to prices at retail sale (which is where all costs for any item or service are terminally summed and so a discount becomes a true macro-economic tool) and retail merchants with a rebate of their total discounts to consumers thus not only eliminating inflation but actually effecting price deflation while maintaining the positive things of profit making systems and simultaneously creating a much more equitable distribution of money that not coincidentally will also enable an increasingly mechanized and AI economy to actually be functional. Doing these things will create much more than either one or both of the separate agendas of left or right have been able to produce for the last 80 plus years.

I’ve read your writings Bob. Their perceptive, intelligent and come at things from a very similar perspective to my own. We should not be at odds with each other, but rather in essential agreement.

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Yes, Steve our views are similar in many areas.

Bob,

I agree that to help convince everyone, particularly those in the economic and mathematical professions it is important to include such. Douglas’s A + B theorem and the observation that a costing/pricing system actually exists because the cost accounting convention (that is ubiquitously applicable and applied) that all costs must go into price is important as a tool of enterprise and also actually enforces A + B….is that model. And the ongoing cost accounting statistics of any enterprise (and so the macro-economy) can be taken, the calculus done on them and so the dynamic nature of A + B empirically and mathematically shown.

As it is merely a mistaken orthodoxy that governments must have balanced budgets (the MMT insight) so is it a mere and mistaken orthodoxy that the macro-economy must be merely statistically balanced. This is why the discount mechanism could and should be utilized to proactively create price deflation within a profit making economic system because it actually can be utilized to do that, and because it helps to ally the interests of both the individual and the vast majority of enterprises so as to better overcome the present power of Finance and finally, because (like the concept of Grace) it further complements abundance of individual incomes and is non-entropic and so balances the entropic nature of the economy in a higher and fuller sense.

By the way, a Social Credit economic system is neither a power, profit and control mad capitalistic one nor a socialistic RE-distributive one, it is a third, integrated and unified Distributive system whose policies are direct mandates to ethically consider and reach fully to the individual.

As for the banking system itself the Social Credit concept of a national credit office (NCO) which could double as or include the central bank and which would in essence be a fourth branch of government with full separation of powers and constitutionally mandated policies of the dividend and discount as well as a sovereign 0% original creation of credit to disburse to Banks pretty much fills that bill. I do see both Public Banking and private finance as being possible in a Social Credit economy but the private part would be completely and clearly distinct as inter mediating only priorly earned profit and savings and understood in no uncertain terms that its loans were in no way the general public’s responsibility. I see structural public Banking as actually being able to loan money to businesses and individuals at very low rates (1-2%) which should not at all be any problem with the dividend amount and discount percentage I envision, and rather than tax the populace to run such a system those low rates could pay the salaries and wages of the employees of the system. Eventually AI might be able to completely mechanize the process, but we’re not there yet.

Interest is indeed a very large part of the gap, and waste which is also very large proceeds from it.

However, the logic of structural monetary and economic reform is infinity based, that is there can be an infinite number of progressions (or retreats) from the actual solution, and actual enslavement can continue to exist, even if it be more and more subtle, throughout the process.

An example of this is Keynesianism which the neo-liberal DSGE economic ideology quite easily tossed overboard.

The logic of solutions, integration and Wisdom is trinity based: Thesis, antithesis and synthesis-unification. Furthermore Wisdom necessarily includes an ethical consideration, and while reform may also have it, historically it has always been willing to compromise if it perceives progress, which equally historically as per Keynesianism above, we see is a very unstable and reversible process.

Now none of this means there can’t be reform AND solutions (i.e. Public Banking and Social Credit), but what it means is an ENDURING AND REFLECTIVE aspect of an actual solution MUST BE A PART OF ANY REFORM. That means that dividend and discount mechanisms MUST be a part of whatever monetary and economic reform also occurs. That is, it cannot and must not be compromised away. It, (INDIVIDUALLY ABUNDANT monetary grace the free gift) is the next NECESSARY evolutionary IDEA in economics and money systems.

An example of this is Social Security which is a monetary reflection of the solution (albeit incomplete, indirect, relatively scarce and RE-distributive) has endured despite continual attempts by deluded and regressive forces deriding it for 80+ years. The idea/the concept of Grace as in abundance will (correctly) always trump austerity in the minds of men in the temporal universe. As will balance as in satisfactory enoughness and full responsibility as in ethical restraint, which are also aspects of Grace.

If we contemplate, trust and insist on policies aligned with Grace being an ESSENTIAL aspect of reform then it (the freedom of Grace) can and will come to fruition much more rapidly than if we only settle for reform.

None of this is necessarily religious (nor necessarily not religious) it is however spiritual/naturally metaphysical in nature.

That there must be a mere macro-economic equilibrium of individual incomes and costs/prices…is simply an orthodoxy that can be overcome with the macro-economic tool of the discount, and I contend must be overcome by using it to proactively create price deflation. With the discount we can have workable profit making systems and price deflation at the same time. Frankly I don’t care what Douglas or anyone else said or didn’t say about this.

Douglas envisioned money becoming a ticketing system. That will never happen without a proactive downsizing of the market for consumer finance in particular, the market for commercial finance in general and wresting away initial and primary control of the creation of credit in the financial system from the banks…whether they be private or public. The truly powerful thing about the discount mechanism is its macro-economic/aggregate nature. Thus it can be utilized to reduce aggregate GROSS costs for enterprises with the benefits going to both the individual and the enterprise and thus reducing the market/the need for finance as a whole. Banks and the business model of finance can still remain profitable, but the power of money creation is too corruptible for private and even public banking…that capability must be reserved for a sovereign entity and then only with a policy mandate that is thoroughly controlled by a fully fleshed out concept of Grace.

Grace after all is powerfully and proactively dealing with problems….with actual solutions, not palliatives, half measures or reliance upon mistaken orthodoxies that palliate problems or prolong solutions in any way.

One of the secrets to happiness is a good and ready sense of humor. Every study of happy people shows them to have had or developed humor as a strong character trait. Why is humor so essential to happiness?  Well, it breaks up the habitual seriousness  that one almost inevitably falls into in Life if you don’t cultivate a sense of humor. It is a release in this sense. A genre of humor is referred to as “the reversal” which consists of stating a reality everyone is familiar with and then stating/juxtaposing an absurdity that mocks it right afterwards. This goes right to the heart of Grace which is the fully integrated state, a mental and emotional integration of opposites from which some higher, or in the case of humor some higher and/or lighter truth is recognized.  A strong sense of humor also enables the mind to flow through and past the tears, pain, personal offenses to self and others and inevitable sufferings of Life. If we could all learn to be “the perfect fool” or “the jester” after allowing ourselves to suffer first we could walk through Life…in an utter state of Grace.