Hi Tereza! Love everything you're sharing. Always giving me good food for thought, but I'm way behind on keeping up with it all. I started your book a while back, and but I didn't finish. I'll say again that I love the idea of a book group.
In reading your comments here, I see the important point that your concept of Carets and community owned mortgages can continue alongside the current economy. Perhaps you've said that before, but that felt like a sigh of relief! Don't have to dismantle EVERYTHING to try this new idea!
Are you familiar with Sarah McCrum? She's a mentor of mine, and I've learned loads about the principles of energy from her. She is passionate about the energy of money and for the last few years has been building a business that's another path to healthy money and healthy economies. Love To has created a crytpo currency (Bright Greens) that will pay farmers for regenerative farming. One can invest in Bright Greens, or apply to receive them, and they hope to expand beyond farming. Valuing and supporting efforts that are healthy for earth and healthy for communities.
I'd be happy to introduce you too, or you can just reach out to her yourself if her ideas speak to you.
Yes I'm glad you picked up on that and got the significance of it. But the one thing that my plan can't exist with simultaneously is letting the bankers create the money for mortgages. That's why there isn't a way for communities to 'pilot' my system or people to start it without system change. It would take someone like Kennedy or Rand Paul to champion this.
I'm not familiar with Sarah but I'll check out her links. Very interesting! There are two questions to be answered--what would we do if we could change the system, and what do we do in the meantime? They're both worthy.
Before reading the full article and watching the video I feel the manly need to point out some facts about how idiotic men can be:
1) We are in the middle of what appears to be the greatest crisis in all History. It started officially with the fraud of the virus and covid. Most male economists still to this day believe or pretend to believe that the virus was real, or that there ever was a new contagious disease. Male economists have so much intellectual pride that they can never accept the simple truth in the moment no matter how many times Mother Nature yells at them right in their faces. Mainstream Economics is pure conceit and self-deception, which is the bane of men, and other economics (such as behavioral economics) are not far behind from that huge error. The only economists that make some sense of the present are the some of the Austrians, and that's because the tradition of the school demands to reject conceit and self-deception.
Any person who wants to be up-to-date needs to consider the possibility that all medical advances are a fraud or are used as part of a a fraud. Which should not be surprising because the technical advances of medicine are no different that advances in any other profession. For example, radio an tv could have been used to promote civility and good information since they started. Instead, they have been used by power to promote stupidity, violence and frauds of all kinds. This pattern of degradation can be seen everywhere. Why not in science, why not in medicine, you bunch of scumbags (addressing male economists with their head up their asses)?
2) A social scientist must unify the masculine and feminine in everything. It has been observed many times by men studying the natural sciences that females of all species have a different time than males. The differences in time use explain differences in economics wants. Females who study the natural sciences are not surprised by this difference in time use, rather they seem surprised by the fact that males of many species often become overprotective of females, and this is a clear contradiction of some postulates of feminist theory, which attribute this behavior to culture. Then the natural scientists timidly go to inform themselves about what the social scientists have studied, only to find that the field is mostly unbalanced and describes social phenomena from a masculine standpoint. Many problems of today's world are caused by scientists playing Dr. Frankenstein with their subject, which is a symbol of hubris.
3) GDP is bullshit, and everything derived from that is fake as a vaccine, and no one can polish a turd. Let's get real. Wealth and poverty are not the product of a mathematical equation. That should be obvious to everyone by now. Totalitarianism appears as motherly in the beginning, and then becomes fatherly, and then a manly war starts and everything is FUBAR and then it's time for Kali and the Mothers of Destruction. Some economic theories have enabled the installation of the new totalitarianism, that has murdered a number of people already. Real economic growth depends on saying unpopular things, like the truth about frauds: a scientific fraud will be used by Power to steal from everyone and destroy productive businesses. Power prefers to expand over the ashes of people. It's easier. People need to hear the truth, which is in contradiction to psychological conditioning from basic education and even superior education, in order to perform the inner change that is necessary to survive the carnage and restart economic growth. This is one level of the integration of the abstract concepts of the masculine and the feminine.
4) To the women who are still dumb: economic growth is good for babies. It keeps them alive. It's that simple. Now, become less dumb and integrate the abstract masculine in your worldview, you cannot be intellectually lazy.
5) In my opinion, most people don't need to occupy themselves with the complexities of abstract thought. They have enough with the complexities of action. The abstract thinkers give a solution: decentralization. Useful for many practical problems (education) and also abstract problems (cultural erosion.) Decentralization means many things: nullification of positive legislation, isolationism, scientific work driven by humility instead of marketing, families living in self-regulated communities that are safe, not living in ghettos which are the byproduct of practical communism. If you want to see more misery and mental illness in the world, just give more power to the socialdemocrats to bomb foreign countries.
6) END THE FED!
7) Sound money, depoliticized money, free banking in communities and ending the socialist legal tender laws are all decentralizing practical measures that will help with real economic growth.
8) Communities need realistic doctors, but most people with a MD or ND degree know nothing about being realistic. They think in terms of pseudoscience and marketing. They are not qualified and they are also victims of educational malpractice. Ending professional licensing is necessary to decentralization. Also that parents understand that kids don't need drugs. Most diseases are not diseases but simply part of the process of growing up. This means that people had it right already generations ago, and bad science has helped to destroy real knowledge. Their job as parents is also to protect the children from the harms of drugs and tests. If they fail, do not make the problem bigger and accept reality. Other families do not need to repeat your mistake.
Roger, you've written a whole dissertation on revamping the economy! So many great ideas in here. I agree with you about this being the greatest crisis / opportunity in global history. There's never been the ability to control the whole world before through one system of currency, technology, communications, medi-mafia.
It's interesting that you cite the Austrians. I'm planning an episode on Matt Ehret vs. James Corbett, and Ehret complains that Corbett, Catherine Austin Fitts and their ilk are listening to the Austrians and have their heads up their arses.
I quote Bobby Kennedy Sr. in my book on the GDP being a scam.
END the FED or defund it, which my plan effectively does.
Thanks for that giant squid of a response, many-tentacled!
I tend to go over the top. I most often keep the intensity under wraps.
Sowell is a great writer beloved by everyone, but no one is perfect and no one knows everything. I think von Mises and Bastiat are better than Sowell, but the three have many arguments that are specific for their respective epochs. This is important because the future is not the past exactly. Learning from the past is not about traveling to the past mentally and solve the problems there.
In particular, Mises wrote a lot about the economics and politics of the creation of the German Empire in the late 19th century, a part of history that most of the public ignores because WWII and its consequences grab all the attention. That's the true origin of the Police State, and even of the Therapeutic State. This is not new!
One idea that is common these days that I agree with is that America should be strong and self-reliant as much as possible.
That's a good idea for every country. First production, then consumption. Commerce is downstream of production.
There is no reason right now that anyone in the world should die of hunger or diseases related to malnutrition. Yet, economists and journos insist in the marketing of anti-human politics. And it seems they are true believers, unmovable with evidence.
And even those who believe in vaccines concede that most infections happen because of malnutrition. The body wants to be healthy and self-repair, give it the tools and materials. A quote by Albert Schweitzer, Musician and a Medical Doctor in Africa: "It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help and encourage the doctor within."
Great Schweitzer quote. And, btw, you're welcome to mansplain economics anytime. It's exactly the kind of exchange I hope for, that clarifies the difference in economists and what they're useful for. I don't start with the 'known science' of economics at all in my book. After going through the invention of money and its relationship to the expansion of slavery and colonialism, petrodollars and geopolitics, and death by derivatives, I use system change techniques to reimagine money in chapters like "What if Money Was No Object?"
I'm very interested in the economics of the German Empire in the late 19th century. And then particularly how they recovered from the debt genocide of the Weimar so-called hyperinflation. I'll look forward to your thoughts when I get to those episodes.
Great perspective--first production, then consumption. Whew, we've got a long way to go.
Mises was writing from the Habsburg empire (Austria-Hungary) point of view, so he was probably a little biased against the Germans. There was a rivalry between these two monstrosities that the Napoleonic wars gave to the world, for those who don't know.
But Mises also writes a about how the Schleswig region, how the people there hated the German rule and wanted to be independent or join Denmark. The idea of decentralization as a means for peace and therefore for sane economic growth is central in Mises work.
The open-borders views of Mises in the 1920s seem to be have been aimed at preventing the big war that was being prepared. After the war, he changed his opinion, but then he was living in America and rebuilding his work. The world was different. His personal library and notes were left in Vienna if I remember correctly, and after the war the Soviets took them and I think they ended up in Berlin or Moscow or some other well armed place, along with the documents of many other intellectuals.
Ah, Ehret definitely sees Mises as a Hapsburg product and anyone influenced by him as tainted by that. Interesting about the Schleswig region. I think that the right of secession is like the right of divorce in marriage--whenever union is forced, someone's getting raped.
I've been immersed in the Steiner book and he talks about the Balkans. I'd been wondering how Balkanization came to be a slur against decentralization. And, in fact, I'm finding that's another psyops and the ruler who was creating a truly federal structure was murdered and his intent discredited with him. Yes, there's something key we need to understand from that era.
Well-said overall, though I would counter that Austrian economics is a Trojan horse that only creates artificial scarcity. I used to be a fan of it until I discovered Ellen Brown's work many years ago.
Also, another important nuance is that growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell, which eventually kills its host. Growth should always be a MEANS to an end, never an end in itself that we need to sacrifice everything else on the altar of (like late-stage capitalism currently does). That is true whether we are talking about economic growth, population growth, or both.
I'm not sold on your idea but there's some interesting things addressed in it.
I have a feeling that "the revolution will not be televised" because humanity seems to have reached a point where they know that leadership was just a sneaky scammer.
No one should be sold on my idea, nor should they buy into it ;-)
What I didn't really go into is that it's a supplemental economy. The usual one continues without interruption. The only difference is that, instead of going to bankers, the mortgages go into a system where the community decides how to distribute them. So nothing that's now working gets changed in the least, other than what's working for the bankers to usurp ownership of all the houses.
"The true solution will happen naturally, like it's been evolving for all time."
I've come to that conclusion independently as well. Otherwise, I have no answers and, I suspect, neither does anyone else. Thank goodness for potato beetles and groundhogs; dealing with the them and the likes of them keeps my hands and mind busy enough! : )
If you're not already there, you should check out William Hunter Duncan's stack. I think you'd find common manly ground (literally): https://williamhunterduncan.substack.com/.
Hahaha! Young pup. I'll pass that on to William next time I'm there. Yes, his contribution to the Tonic Masculinity conversation was that Real Men have skills. He's welcome to use my term anytime he likes.
Thanks for the tip. WIll check it out. Very busy outdoors this time of year, so my substack time is near zero!
Here's a sample of why I'm quite occupied: I just discovered some oyster mushrooms growing on an old maple stump, nettles are ready for gathering, sweet potato slips need planting, and so on, so I'm as tickled as pig in muck!
PS: Late last night I reread a translation of Plutarch's, "Concerning the Tranquility of Mind," which is a fairly quick read and reading it will explain why I think it's worthwhile for people in today's world. Spoiler alert...The concerns of today are very similar to the ones he was dealing with.
Well-said overall, Tereza. Thank you for your insights. I am certainly no fan of Thomas Sowell myself, and you are certainly correct about the mansplaining.
That said, I believe that the ideal is a happy medium somewhere between small-scale autarky and large-scale imperialism. And even if you believe that small-scale autarky is the ideal, that is quite a long way away for practical purposes, and IMHO we need to meet people where they are currently at.
Actually, I think I need more 'splaining to quite get it. Love the byline of that site, btw, "FOR THOSE WHO WEREN'T BORN REPUBLICAN, DEMOCRAT, OR YESTERDAY." And I like the "Open Letter to Women in Politics." I wouldn't call UBI 'crowd-sourced slavery' but I would say that it distributes the products of slavery, from those who get nothing in return, without producing anything new. My argument is first make UBI universal, true to its name, and equal throughout the world. Then see whether it works. If producers also have UBI, what does that buy them from your labor?
In a sense, what my caret system does is distribute UBI as dividends from local mortgages that have to be spent on specific goods and services. Once earned by someone else, they can be used in any way (like UBI). So it makes sure there's at least one round of productivity before it returns to Big Corporations or China, and I have ways that give incentives for it to go around again. Here's one of my episodes on it: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-caret-system. Yet it doesn't replace the existing system, only supplements it.
A UBI simply sets a "social floor" below which no one can fall, without creating perverse incentives or discrimination like means-tested welfare programs currently do. When producers and consumers alike both receive UBI, the already- nebulous distinction between producer and consumer is rendered largely irrelevant as a result.
Whatever incentives for producers to produce that existed before will still exist after receiving UBI, EXCEPT for desperation. The oligarchs of course consider desperation a feature rather than a bug.
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell, for example, calls it "Social Security for all". Ethically, I don't see much if any real difference between a person receiving UBI and a person receiving Social Security, as most people who currently receive Social Security get back far more than what they put in (unless they die early, of course).
During the pandemic, the feds experimented with a temporary mini-version of quasi-UBI for children (the expanded Child Tax Credit). It cut child poverty in HALF, at least while it lasted. So even from a purely utilitarian perspective, it should be a no-brainer.
Ideally it would be global, of course, and eventually roughly equal in terms of "purchasing power parity" (as cost of living varies widely), but realistically it would in all likelihood have to start at the national or subnational level. If even the most ardent degrowth and anti-imperialist advocates like Jason Hickel don't see anything wrong with it, than it really can't be any worse than the status quo to have a UBI on the national level. While it arguably removes some "friction" from the system, which can be seen as both good and bad, it also gives the broader working class much more bargaining power at the same time. So let's not put the cart before the horse and make the perfect the enemy of the good.
(We also need a global debt jubilee as well, but that is a topic for another discussion.)
As for distributing the proceeds from slavery, currently we are already practically all slaves AND slavers at the same time in varying degrees under the global kyriarchy. And UBI at any level will at least be a step in the right direction away from that paradigm.
Life does NOT have to be a zero-sum game, after all.
With today's technology, the idea that everybody must work for every crumb is inherently obsolete, as Buckminster Fuller famously noted. And it has been obsolete for quite a while now. And as we all already know on some level, it is entirely possible to contribute positively to society and community in ways that cannot be directly monetized as well, and UBI would act as a stealth subsidy for all of that. The "Protestant Work Ethic" is really just a glorified form of OCD, and we as a society really need to lose the whole "scarcity mindset".
And we can do it without reinventing the wheel IMHO.
UBI in many forms can in fact coexist at many levels independently as well: global, national, bioregional, local, and hyper-local. Then let the market sort it out. Alaska already has one in the form of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend, for example. I will continue to advocate for it at all levels myself.
(Which reminds me, Hillary Clinton later said she supported an "Alaska For America" type of UBI in 2016, but couldn't get the numbers to work out. Nevermind that the federal government could simply print the money, of course. Had she pushed for her UBI idea, as well as Bernie's idea of single-payer Medicare for all, she could have easily beaten Trump in a landslide. Instead, Trump falsely promised everyone the proverbial moon and thus successfully triangulated the voters against her like a narcissistic father does to his kids against the so-called "mean mom". Then again, Hillary was in the pocket of the oligarchy all along, so maybe that's not such a good example. I preferred Bernie anyway myself.)
I'm glad that your caret system at least contains something UBI-shaped. I am not sure how realistic your system is or which system will ultimately win out in practice, but thank you for sharing your ideas nonetheless. I will note that protectionism of any kind is a razor-sharp, double-edged sword.
Hi, RWBS. It seems to me that your mind is made up and your intent is to convince me to join you in championing UBI. I suspect this will happen, whether or not either of us champions it, because I think it's been part of the Reset program all along. And it will take the form of CBDCs. But just in case your mind isn't totally made up, let me explore some of the logistics--not the moral question of whether people should need to work. but the practicalities.
You say that the gov't can just create the money but that's not true. Look at your money that says Federal Reserve Note, not Treasury Bill. 96% of all dollars are issued by private banks for mortgages. The Constitution says that only the Federal Gov't can coin money and a corrupt Supreme Court has interpreted that literally as coins. Bankers create money out of thin air and the gov't borrows from them. My system ends the usurping of money creation and gives it to commonwealths of 200K people or less. So the credit issued is backed by housing, not debt.
Housing is priced at as much as the buyer or renter can pay, and by 2030 the hedge funds are on target to own 40% of all single family homes and the vast majority of rental units. So if you distribute more money, they can raise rents and insurances and food prices and tuitions and energy bills. You'll still be just as captive to a job because your living expenses will just go up.
It has been great discussing this topic with you. Indeed, my mind has been made up on this since roughly 2014. A couple of final points:
I oppose CBDC on principle, unless of course cash remains a fully equal alternative in every way (which the oligarchs obviously don't want). A cash UBI with NO strings attached, period, is the version I favor. If that is implemented, I believe it will checkmate the oligarchs into a corner.
Anything that chips away at the oligarchy and the greater kyriarchy is a step in the right direction IMHO. Chip away enough and the entire edifice eventually becomes so hollowed out that it will pancake upon itself spontaneously, from the shape of a pyramid to ultimately a circle.
The debate about who creates money out of thin air is an old one. Ellen Brown vs. Rodger Malcolm Mitchell, for example. Yet both are correct. The FERAL Reserve and the private banks create money out of thin air under the current system, but only because Congress has wittingly or unwittingly ceded its authority to create money in 1913. All Congress needs to do, is take that rightful power back. Also, nationalize the FERAL Reserve so it becomes truly FEDERAL. And failing that, the executive branch can, through a loophole, mint a trillion dollar coin (or many trillions even) and deposit it in the Treasury's New York Fed account.
Even currently, the federal government de facto creates money on an ad hoc basis every time they pay their bills. Tax dollars are simply destroyed upon receipt, as adding any amount to infinity does not change infinity.
That's the power of Monetary Sovereignty: the ability to issue one's own currency (to paraphrase Mitchell). For example, the federal government is Monetarily Sovereign. State and local governments are not, unless they were to issue their own currencies. The Euro nations are also not, though the EU via the ECB is.
So the logistics would be simple BUT FOR the arcane and archaic rules left over from the gold standard which ended in 1971. Simply repeal those rules and take the power back. It's what Dr. Joseph M. Firestone calls "Overt Congressional Financing" (OCF).
"Paging Dr. Firestone!"
So why don't our Congresscritters take the power back from the banksters? Google "United States Notes" and see one more eerie "coincidence" that Lincoln and JFK had in common. And Bernie Sanders would most likely have been next had he won the presidency as well. Also, too many Congresscritters are in bed with the oligarchs who grease their palms regularly.
All money is fiat money, as it is always de facto backed by all of the goods and services in an economy.
Finally, as a former anarchist myself, I can't say I fully agree or disagree with your economic ideas entirely. It certainly deserves a lot of thought, I will say that at least.
Thanks again for all of your insights :)
(Mic drop)
P.S. We certainly need to, at a minimum, reinstate that 1930s law that rhymes with "brass seagull": the Glass-Steagall Act.
I appreciate discussing it with you also. And I appreciate that you feel my economic ideas deserve a lot of thought.
Your statement about minting a trillion dollar coin is in my book, three of them to replace the $3T Social Security Trust Fund, which then gets used as the capital for commonwealth banks. On behalf of the members, they issue mortgages that become the dividends that are distributed proactively.
So maybe the only difference in creating the UBI is scale--333M people vs. 200K. But in yours, more money continues to be created but it's not collected back in mortgage payments or taxes, as it is in mine. Wouldn't that depreciate the value?
And in yours a dollar is a dollar is a free market dollar. So they would gravitate to the cheapest labor markets for importable goods and services, and to the biggest and most mechanized monopolies for things that can't be outsourced.
Taking back the power of money creation is Step One in my system. After that, commonwealths can do what they want as long as they don't exceed the money coming in as debt or tax, or the treasury reserves they have to back it (at a 1:1 ratio in your UBI). Taking back money creation is the hard part, after that you could run your experiment supporting consumers and I could run mine supporting producers. I think we agree on more points than we disagree on.
Indeed, we do seem to agree on more than we disagree on. The next question would be if Gresham's Law (i.e. "bad money drives out good", where "bad" is simply defined as "cheaper") would still remain true in the competition between dollars versus carets.
In my experiment, money would still be clawed back via very progressive taxes, especially the Universal Exchange Tax (a tiny tax of 0.1% or less on all electronic transactions), as Ellen Brown advocates as well. And when people use their UBI to pay down their own debts, that would double as a de facto jubilee as well as a means to remove excess liquidity from the system as well.
I would also note that in my experiment, I would include Bernie Sanders' Outsourcing Prevention Act, and perhaps also Rodger Mitchell's brand of "protectionism without tariffs" via positive reinforcement of domestic industries as well.
As for automation, that is kind of inevitable in the long run, and that would make UBI all the more essential in the future.
Oh and yes, Corbett talks about voluntaryism. It's a new term to me but I suspect it's the same thing I call small scale sovereignty or community anarchy or horizontal governance.
Hahaha! I've now had two people recommend Cities & the Wealth of Nations by Jane Jacobs, along with one by her on the secession of Quebec. So not all book recommendations are created equal ;-) Glad it didn't scare you off.
I look forward to that episode, Is that next? I see the usual war=$ & syphoning money, but this has been in the pipeline for sometime because of Maidan in 2014 and there was a planning stage before that. I saw a video of John McCain and Lindsey Graham inciting violence toward Russia in a speech or pep rally to the Ukrainian Military (2016-ish if my memory serves me correctly) I was very shocked at their candidness to violence. I also read the IMF loaned money to Ukraine directly (with land as collateral). Not sure if that is a normal thing. So the tale to be told (imo) is this war tells the resetters Russia's capabilities and willingness to fight them (nato), therefore they don't have global control!! I will also mention the unity of nations who want a multi polar world grew because of the war. I also think the resetters didn't see that once someone (Russia) stands up to the bully (US) all the other countries get brave and join in the pile on (Tackle). How could the bull dog US not see there was a rebellion stirring against it for the deeds it has done to others. Wasn't it crazy how quickly the ridiculous rhetoric was started in the West in a deliberately staged fashion. It certainly was not organic. Also the Nordstream was blown up during this war, so maybe the perpetrator thought it would give cover to help them get away with that operation. Russia can not supply fuel to Germany as it is beneficial to both countries (Russia and Germany must never be friends because it threatens the US). I think the resetters were also hoping for distractions from other things maybe covid vaccine issues, WHO treaty, Issues in Europe (15 minute cities) CBDC's, Food destruction, land theft etc.. It definitely succeeded in making our nation and other nations poorer & depopulation itself. You and Matt have given me so many reasons why they thought the time was right to instigate this war. They may have even thought it was possible to defeat Russia. So on that note I say they are ready to move on to weaker opponents. There is so much going on in the middle east now. I also heard the US backed candidate for PM won in Thailand, not good for relations with China. Anyway....
Yes, I'm thinking I better make it soon because I keep ratcheting up how many topics I want to talk about in it. I did see that clip of McCain and Graham and it was chilling. But in the meantime, I don't know if you've seen the other episodes I've done on Ukraine (since Substack doesn't have a way to categorize):
Now that I read about the C.S. Lewis debate, I guess you know about his debate with Anscombe.
G.E.M. Anscombe was a young woman philosopher in Oxford. Anscombe was a student of Wittgenstein, a philosopher from a super-wealthy family in Austria with a troubled psychology and a complicated philosophy about language.
[As a piece of gossip, it seems that Wittgenstein went to live to England and shared the same lover with famous Economist Keynes, and this lover happened to be a young man (For the movie: www.imdb.com/title/tt0108583/plotsummary/)]
The debate, which I have not read, was about apologetics, which is the philosophical defense of Christian theology. Lewis was an Anglican and Anscombe was a Catholic. She attacked a criticism of Lewis against Naturalism. I guess this debate was surprising perhaps because Anscombe was the underdog and everyone was betting on the expert Lewis.
I did not know this but I'll look at it further. Thanks for pointing me to it.
I suspect that, like economics, this might be a refining of assumptions that I challenge before they get so inbred. But it might be something useful for my What is Reality? series.
Where I feel it necessary to refute Lewis is in his assumption of the Christian right to rule. I had loved the Chronicles as a kid but when I took my daughters to the movie version, I was horrified. The racism, anti-Muslim characatures and divine backing of the Crusades was so blatant, I didn't know how I could've missed it, except for being steeped in it as a kid. I'm going to talk about that more in the Ehret video.
2000 documentary on William Gibson's musings on The Future: Title = No Maps for These Territories
Absent ground rules or community guidelines regarding profanity, triple entendres, religion, etc. , I will try to keep my brain's writing module in way back mode and compose this as though it were being graded by an Ivy League professor...Oh, hell no! Not one of today's types, but rather the ones that were scoring me back in 1968-72, when, with the right connections (aka dealers) and a dystopian outlook borne from reading certain sci/fi texts, you could see the future of today campus culture developing but could be optimistic that it wouldn't get as far as it has gotten due to enormous pushback from well-meaning classmates who presumably would have, such was a justice-oriented career-path fantasy of the era, worked their way up the ladders of power and taken steps to thwart what is in place, their success in the thwarting being, if not a slam dunk, at least a likely outcome, a safe bet that people like Fast Eddie down at the bookie joint would not have been afraid to bet his own money on.
(This was in the very earliest stages of the OTB setup, which, being a NY State system, did not make credit available to equine race enthusiasts, primarily due to the legal restrictions against having either irregular collection contractors or uniformed police entrusted with recouping moneys owed to the State under the authority of a bat or baton. Now the irregulars are overseas contractors making 5 to 10 times the salary of active duty US armed forces personnel for doing essentially the same jobs and, except for the momentary state of grace between the former and the coming period of emergency, the cops will smile and whack citizens (and non-temporary visitors) with pugil sticks up one side of the street for getting too close to one another or for not properly covering their faces. But it could have been worse, no? Without the semi-sterilizing effect of Vaccine-2A it might be worse, and we could be like NZ or AU, where the constabulary is not required to wait until you are on the street and they can make enforcement house calls, like doctors used to do in some areas. THX-1138 was prophecy.)
So, horse reference not too subtly slipped in, along with, while it's still legal, a reference to one of the remaining, for now, constitutional amendments not yet shredded by the Patriot Act. Maybe one and a half horse references, if mentioning NZ and it's former PM, whom, like so many prospective actresses paying for acting school lessons, the camera did not really love.
If you detect a penchant for parentheses & and their small, aggregatively powerful cousins, commas, ethical full disclosure requires me to identify them as homages to a popular musical icon of the time.
So, the topic today is mansplaining? Pirating the construction used by a Democrat inquisitioner of Mr. Taibbi just a few weeks ago, the "so-called economist" can be charitably described as having a definition mismatch wrt your conception of what constitutes "economics". In computer terms he might be thought of as championing hard or soft technology that does a very limited job, championing it irrespective of what the customer wants to achieve. He may be spot on in his assessment of how well he and his discrete tech (I want so much to use techne, mostly because Samuel Delaney likes to use it, but I had an instructor who had a bad vacation in Greece one year and went all red-pencil on a written assignment I turned in, so tech...at least on the audio book version it won't get confused with techie or Trekkie...audio book formats are valuable for people outside of Australia, too...my kid brother in Austin reads with difficulty but soaks up audio books con gusto.) his discrete tech (circling back like a white house spokesperson) perform in the narrow country lanes that are important to the organizations that provide the funds necessary for his personal maintenance, but big but, you're setting up architecture (not patri-architectural, though... I really don't need to explain that to you, but I have cultural dues to remit to el equipo de los hombres) for a world full of smaller cities, commonwealths, states, etc. that we might just get lucky enough to be forced to build as survivors of something as omnicidal as a nuclear war or as mobile resisters trying to stay one step ahead of UN "medical" teams. But wait, if Dr. Mihalcea is seeing reality the way it really is now, we're in the ending phase of the transhumanist production/evolution process due to the kajillions of tons of metals that have been raining down on us for decades to the point that there are small, but programmable non-human structures in our blood systems, vaxxed and unvaxxed alike, so maybe it's time to listen to a couple less perky tunes before switching over to upbeat and inspiring. I found this woman on YT years ago, maybe even before encountering young Molly...for some reason, probably for a constellation of reasons, I find her renditions of songs I have known since before she was born the source of a guarded but resolute optimism, although Fast Eddie is more dystopic, but then I suppose bookies are going to have a dismal outlook overall...if they win, chances are (to kick an overused bookie phrase like a dead, oops, almost went to the track, or the third rail, there) chances are they're going to have to go out and threaten some fraction of the losing public to collect their profits...maybe economists aren't quite that dismal...it's usually an office job 24/7/365 except for continuing education junkets...but it's not like you can just rattle off a handful of names of economists that are as cheerful as, say, Richard Simmons or Jack LaLanne...maybe economists would be more chipper if they were to transform the boundaries/scope of what they deal with...no need to go so far as a virtual version of surgical reduction or endocrine disruption, just gradually expand the envelope of what the profession envelops until it has grown large enough to perform a wider range of functions that are desired by a wider range of people. Just a thought, but here's Nori cat with the not so sunny weather:
Better not tag me with this as a theme song for my composition technique...I might not have stables full of unstable animals, but, you know...lawfare...nice AirBNB you got there...hate to sue you for it. :-)
This one has a lyric "Amos, he was a markin' time", but it also whispers to the question of jurisdiction on railways (city, commonwealth, state, federal?) which could be important, and also raises questions about "How do intrinsically good humans develop into sociopaths?" No answers, but...
Geez, they can't all be sad songs, Mr. Science, can they? Not on this channel, Billy, no they can't...
And sometimes when you plan to use the 1967 original, you find one with a gender switch vocal as well as a diverse horn section and back up singers...imagine Lucky Chops on this one?
Kill one, go to jail...but something's wrong when the math scales up: Memo from the Sure, they'll let you smoke cigars with the boys...as long as you're ready to smoke some kids too department.
Before we decided to get married in 1989, my wife told me she liked that I was well in touch with the feminine side/aspect of my nature...she died in 2012...I may have shifted back a few % points.
I have digital copies of Graeber's & Brown's books on Debt now. Should I get yours from Amazon, or do you have a digital copy available? I'm subscribed to your stack here, so if you ever want to communicate off-stack, feel free to use the email I used when I subscribed. Nice AirBNB, BTW!
Well I'm getting distracted from your distractions because Lucky Chops keeps coming up on my feed, so I've seen them in Central Park, doing High Line, on Venice Beach, and wearing short shorts and a 'stache (you guess which one's which.)
But I did catch up on some of your free association with Pygmalion Redux, Arcturus, trains, and Tedeschi Trucks! I have their Midnight in Harlem on my playlist and I could swear every time it's Bonnie Raitt: https://youtu.be/6GkdCiqsFUI. Anyhow, that's as far as I'll get tonight.
Hope you enjoyed the rambling text and tunes. Derek's intro to your Midnight in Harlem selection made me imagine what it might have sounded like if a sitar player had used Little Martha as a departure point. Best analogy/synthesis I came up with, and rather than use the original ABB version, since you play piano, here's Holly Bowling again.
I think the only 2 clips you didn't get to are one by Jefferson Starship and one with a famous war criminal apologist or actual war criminal depending on your POV.
Now, first things last department: Do you mean to say that you've seen Lucky Chops live in NYC's Central Park and on Venice Beach in Los Angeles? I tried "Lucky Chops High Line" and YT didn't have anything about High Line, so I'm blank on that for now...and hoping I have enough credit on my account to afford buying a vowel wrt those short shorts.
While patiently hoping for any sort of illustration on those shorts (and 'stache), I offer Camille with some short shorts, not of her own, but worn by part of her new-fangled percussion section...first the song acapella, then with the shorts. Darn it, the short shorts version of that song is missing from YT at the moment. Second clip will be a full crew version of 'Gospel' and I'll put a third clip of something with short shorts IF I find one.
Sorry it was such a long road to get to the shorts...hope it was worth it.
Years ago, Naked Lunch was the subject of an obscenity trial. In his testimony in support of the book's literary value, Norman Mailer stated that "William Burroughs is the only living American author of whom it may conceivably said that he is possessed by genius."
Whatever your opinion of Mailer, I am confident that he didn't mean 'of genius'.
I think the preposition for Camille is also 'by', not 'of'. I have at least one more 'by' that I think you will enjoy, but next time, if I remember to include her. Now, about those Lucky Chops short shorts & 'stache...and what/where the heck is High Line? G'night Gracie :-)
P,S, Has Substack's comment box's edit feature been wonky for you this past week or so?
I've had a devil of a time getting edited text to 'take' or Save, as have at least a couple people over at Sage Hana's place.
Wow, that's quite a 3-pack of a couple of fun-sounding sax players.
Clicked long enough to estimate the aggregate, non-trivial time commitment.
I'll be busy in my Spare Time...thanks for clarifying the shorts 'n' 'stache thing.
I'll keep this on the short side again like with the previous Bonnie & Carolyn.
Had occasion to send a link to a particular Blue Sky ABB performance today and said to note the intro's similarity to the opening of GD's Franklin's Tower.
Start about 0:50 to skip over the hokey "how's everybody doing tonight" bit.
Went to YT to find a nice version of FT in case they weren't familiar with it, and the drop down search box had FT ABB as an option...I've heard a lot of ABB and didn't know they'd ever played it (Old and Out of Date, but hopefully not Old and In The Way)...so I clicked that and this was on the top of what showed up.
Phone/camera operator may have been a newbie or stoner or both, but they caught Derek's solo...it's not a recent performance...scary good so young!
That's it for now...except...is it a meaningful synchronicity or just a vanilla coincidence that I signed off yesterday w/ G'night Gracie and the sax-playing possible relative of the sitar player goes by the name of Grace Kelly?
Swear on a stack of sheet music I had no idea she goes by Grace Kelly. Proxima
I just noticed that she was Grace Kelly myself. But I do now see the resemblance to the sitar player now that I've seen her without the sunglasses.
You're not going to convert me to be an ABB or GD fan. Unless they were covers by a female performer. But you are NOT allowed to post any more links to this episode, while I'm still catching up on the others. I will begin to think you're a wily bot send by the Bureau of Discombobulation. You have to at least get a fresh start on a new episode!
No problem...I'm swamped here. If you ever want to exchange music w/o cluttering up the comments, I'm game...otherwise, I'll keep distractions to a minimum, I am occasionally wily but not a bot & am eeenocent of intentional discombobulation. Ciao, Graciella
Oh, since you mentioned thinking you were hearing Bonnie Raitt on Midnight in Harlem and I was going to give you at least one more example of someone possessed 'by genius', I can do this quickly and give you a little bit of Bonnie Raitt and just one intro to Carolyn Wonderland.
Carolyn has been a fixture in Austin since moving from Houston quite some time ago, and in addition to playing with her own group, was John Mayall's lead guitarist until he quit touring relatively recently due to health concerns. If you like it, her music is well populated on YT.
I told YT "Nori cat" because I knew there was at least one more clip of hers where I very much enjoyed the song and was hoping to preview it for you (and enjoy it again for me) and maybe luck into finding the fluffy cat again (a bit like our boy cat used to bring gophers to the back patio for our girl cat) and just below her channel name and above one of her songs...this appeared...so in case the song that shows up in the next comment doesn't have the fluffy cat redux action I was hoping/prepared for you can at least enjoy this sign that the universe is looking at you...maybe even looking out for you.
Not a Comma in a carload there but you can red pencil the triple dots and I'll understand.
P.S. I have no idea what Overwatch League is about...never saw them before, so the coincidence must be based solely on the 'Nori' and not any algorithmic history YT has on what I have watched before.
Now to see if I win a fluffy cat lottery prize...next clip will tell the...tail?
I had to add here that you've set me on a nori cat kick. Have you seen her at 25, scarfless and with a nose ring if I'm not mistaken? Some beautiful renditions of Take Me to Your River, James and one other I really liked.
Well, no luck in the fluffy cat department with the Dylan tune.
1969 I saw the Grateful Dead do Baby Blue as a Fillmore East encore at dirge tempo, but no way YT will have that, so your consolation prize is this next one...still a very good rendition on my scorecard.
I used to live in the 'back country' outside of San Diego, but we left in 2009 for Costa Rica and I haven't been back except for stopping in to see some old friends near where we lived (Ramona) and in Lancaster while driving from Austin to Seattle to visit old friends from the 1977-87 era. The couple I visited twice in Seattle between 2009 and 2016 moved to NC almost exactly when I did in 2018 and now live about 30 miles away in Greenville...they used to live almost exactly a half mile down the street here in Kinston, but found a deal on the place in Greenville which works better for their live-in AirBNB operation.
OK, I'll put a little money back into the Seattle economy and use Amazon.
Curious as to your reaction to the Holly Bowling piano work, Spare Time permitting.
Ah I'm saving the other clips for dessert after I get the text written for my latest YT: https://youtu.be/9Rrfs3E2IMc. Although I did like the Saving Grace theme song and your concept that I'm setting up a new economic architecture. I'm going to expound on that in another episode (so many drafts, so little Spare Time!)
And as I reply in snatches inbetween my conditioning and dance class, here's one of my favorite dark, dark songs (92% cacao) The Sound of Silence by Disturbed: https://youtu.be/usN-pKfw6Q8
I've seen that clip a couple other times, but watched it again...Thanks, it helps develop a baseline or contour map of sorts re where you're from, at and going to.
Less dark, but still in the 180 proof zone of antioxidant sweets is/was Saving Grace with Holly Hunter as a humanly-complicated cop, Leon Rippy as the coolest angel you'd ever want to have assigned to your eternal life or death case, and a dynamite surrounding cast playing well thought out human characters. Second clip is a retrospective that goes into a bit of detail, which, if you never saw the show, might get you interested enough to try a few episodes.
I have it and a lot of other quality shows on a few hard drives and could make up a thumb drive if you're interested in expanding your envelope in, you know, your Spare Time.
(Capitals are easier for me, the non-touch-typist, compared to quote marks, so if you see them from me, they'll indicate something beyond simple one-dimensional text, maybe indicating humor, snark, disbelief, etc. If it's not clear what extra category I had in mind, and if it's important to you, just ask, as I'll almost surely be able to tell you what I had in mind.)
For the record...and the hamburger, DVD, action figure toy, T-shirt, or other merch item, I was raised Catholic (hence, RC unless, on rare occasions it's referring to RC Cola) a mixture of nuns & lay teachers from 3rd through 8th grades and one year at Gonzaga, an all-male Jesuit HS in verrrry downtown DC. Went to Mass with my folks through most of my high school years and without any big fuss on either of our parts, went less often and at some point just quit and never went back until going one time with my Dad when he visited us in CA from Austin.
So, when I tell you I didn't find the religious aspect of the show's 3-year run confining to the drama or in any way obtrusive wrt my prior life instruction in the lifestyle, hopefully that will make it a little more likely for you to give it a try in your, you know, Spare Time, in case you were reluctant for any reason of yours. On the 2nd clip, skip ahead 90 seconds won't hurt any and avoid the last part if you think you might ever watch it: ending spoiler.
Geez, you'd think from the preceding that I have some sort of commission arrangement or maybe a Holly Hunter shrine in my house, but neither is the case.
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Disturb-esque Canadian poet/singer/songwriter raw cacao marinated in something acerbic:
I will need to reply to the rest post-dance, but I have to send you to one of my favorite articles ever. It's by my YT subber, Lyndsey, who has gone silent so I'm hoping she's doing okay. Comments on the comma welcome (and you'll see mine there): https://transatlanticpearl.substack.com/p/be-your-own-hero.
That was a very amusing obituary. My two brothers are artistic in non-textual areas, so I was elected to write Mom's obituary. I might be able to locate a copy of it in the house that Greg lives in in Austin. [not a stutter...if I know you knew that and if you so much as smiled or even laughed, would a Grand Jury return a Bill of Mansplaining?][if he lived in Jamaica on a houseboat, I could have gone "boat he lives on on Boston Bay, not in Kingston"...if the powerball or mega millions numbers ever hit (true story maybe later based on my late stepdaughter's real & surreal notoriety in Vegas for hitting Keno maxima), maybe I'll buy a boat to live on on Boston Bay, Jamaica and invite him to come visit whenever he feels the urge to 'get his travel on' with his Bluetooth device loaded with that one LedZep song and this old chestnut he found roasting in a firepit down on the beach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N43sM0Xd3NQ].
Pretty good obit it was. I should ask him to do a quick scan of his ATX premises. I just did an experiment and the result/answer is that, "Yes, you can find out exactly how many times the two letter string "on" occurs on this page by invoking the C**trol-F command. Including 3 from you, we're up to 21 at this point, so I think Fast Eddie's advice is we should collect our winnings. Unreliable sources into the esoterica of Freemasonry tell me that if the count hits 33, a portal opens and a spectrum of good and bad things come out of it, not a single one of which bears even a passing resemblance to a winning lottery ticket. So, the Show Must Go Elsewhere...
I subscribed to The Transatlantic Pearl just in case transmission resumes. Looks like about a nine month and five day lacuna. Hope all is well with L. Macpherson, which I assume is not a nom de plume for the previously ubiquitous model from decades past.
I forget where you mentioned playing piano, but it was recently, so before I forget, here's a player I discovered about a year ago. Does other things, but mostly Grateful Dead & Phish. The Dead and I go back well over five decades, but although I've listened to some Phish's work and enjoy what I have heard, I won't link to any of Holly's non-Dead material. Hope you enjoy:
If you like the Beautiful Jam, you may enjoy this curated collection as well. If you're familiar with Quicksilver's Happy Trails and notice a similarity to Calvary from Side Two, you're not alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PISOrQ-B72k
Porch cats are growling, time to earn my keep. Soon
Wow, the snake song is fantastic. She does a great snake, and even has the snake move we do in my Haitian voodoo class. And Nori cat's worth another listen.
Look, if the Pennsylvania script worked, there is no reason why your caret system won't work. You are correct in assessing that criticism without putting forth an alternative rooster isn't worth your time investment. I would think you are on their radar, so that just might have been a goon. That guys comment sounded so ridiculously deliberate. Tereza, I can't recommend your book enough! Thks.
Helene! I mentioned you to my Australian YT viewer, Maria, who I just chatted with on Zoom. She has a group of women friends who are following my work. I told her how perceptive you were and how happy I was that you were reading my book. She's hoping I record it because she's dyslexic and reading takes forever! So I might do that.
Thinking that I'm on their radar is a very optimistic view ;-) But I agree that I couldn't have made up anything better to illustrate my point.
When available, I always use the listen app for an article. It allows multi-tasking unless of course the content or the task is difficult for me. But... I have to have a paper copy of books too! I have been traumatized in the past with losing contents upon computer failures (Before cloud stuff). So funny you mention dyslexia as I was thinking after the fact I should have said "deliberately ridiculous" instead. I have a mild degree of it I suppose. I am at the part of your book where they pull the rug out from under the municipalities. Wow, that's an eye opener. I love the details you provide. Here I thought it was just the individuals they targeted. I knew of the pensions in the market but I thought it was somehow optional. I am so naïve and didn't know the details. Thanks,
I know, I've been wanting to thank James Corbett for making me a better housewife (meaning married to my house). It's been much easier to get some projects done with his archive. But I don't like lugging my computer outside so I'm only doing what's on Luminary (Russell Brand's interviews, of which I still have plenty) and Corbett.
I think all lectures should be via earpods or radio (which has the advantage of community and scheduling my chores). I talk about that, I think, in Reinventing Education. Sitting still and listening is an unnatural 'activity.'
Thanks for the compliments! Is that the chapter on Detroit: It Takes a Pillage?
Yes, I just read Pennies from Kevyn. I absolutely love all your titles! So the substack app on my phone lets me listen to all the articles. That was a find. I dont have it on my computer, just my android phone. I listen to you on YT and then comment on substack on my computer. This is not related to anything but I just heard Patrick Lancaster on Fox's show Judge Napolitano. So my thought is they want to end the Ukraine thing and let some truth out, because we know a zebra doesn't change its strips. I follow the Special Military Operation very closely. Lets see what happens.
Very interesting on Ukraine. I'd really like to figure out what's going on with that via the Great Reset. I think I'll touch on it in the Ehret/ Corbett episode.
Since the critics are asking you to read their favorite books, it seems only fair that they should read yours. But apparently they are above that.
Plus, as you say on the back cover of your book, you don't have a fancy string of letters after your name to make you seem more authoritative. Perhaps you could add a randomized string of degree-sounding letters to help with this problem.
So happy that you're reading it, Mark. And as I mentioned to Helene, maybe I'll read chapters into my videos so we could get a proper study group going.
I applaud your willingness to go toe-to-toe with an academic economist. I once suggested to one that the household should be the basic unit of economic analysis. His scorn iced the air.
This was only a few years after Thomas Piketty's "Capital" which had given me some hope that economics was on the verge of a paradigm shift. Having since read David Graeber's "Debt", I think it is fair to say that economics is modernity's gift to empire, a grim science to match the grim realities that attend the pillage and plunder of the materially mighty.
I like your five feminine economies. It sounds like a plan to hack the current system by overwriting it with new code. I once would've been highly skeptical of a plan like that but have recently begun to think of the "public benefit" model of incorporation as a similar kind of hack that might actually work. Now, I say, hack away. 🌼
Yes. They stole the word and made it serve those who have no interest in the project of all of us dwelling together in the kinship of creation.
I did not know that your book springs from Graeber's. Today was my first contact with your work. I'm glad to know it as I'm also a big fan of both the Davids now that I'm reading Dawn of Everything.
This is so interesting. Someone (Guy, I think?) told me I should read this book in a recent comment. But clearly, my karma (and astute viewers) are leading me to it like a horse to water. Time to drink!
I love the idea of a book review competition. Since this is a book length book review, I'll peruse it in more depth but it does seem right up my alley with the secession one after it. My book uses lots of puns like "If at first you don't secede..." and "most likely to secede."
It is a fair observation that people in the work place can stink. Can it best be described as a Social-Status Hierarchy work in progress?
Your writing seems pretty thorough to me, I'd like to read your book, adding it to the huge pile of stuff I'm trying to read. However, I don't know squat about economics.
The less you know about economics, the less you have to unlearn in order to study my book. I undo 28 different paradigms, starting with money and democracy. I hope you do add it to your pile!
my wife is a glass ceiling pusher, and would agree there are Dolts Botching Shit, and ManSplaining in the workforce. I have so many stories. People suck in general, but there are the select few that are lights - that push our souls higher. Thank you!
C.S. Lewis (who I consider a moron about lots of things) was wrong about the capacities but not untrue about the effect.
Men and women do generally do better when they can maintain some private spaces from the opposite sex, and much of the idiocies we’re dealing with right now can be credited to them women who sued to get into the sex-segregated golf clubs and eating clubs on campuses. The women of Kappa Kappa Gamma at the University of Wyoming can thank them for their service.
I agree. The segregation of CS's day was based on power and a shared echo-chamber of superiority. Including all genders (sic) and colors into the echelons of those who service the uber-wealthy didn't change anything--other than women also spending their lives in jobs that make the rich richer. I also think that men and women need spaces where they can be with their own, without the pressure of sexual dynamics. But certainly not because women can't live in the world of ideas ;-)
This looks to me like a not awfully high IQ woman trying to make out she is 'right'. And when some higher IQ male says 'err, no, wrong', then she claims its a feminist issue. Rather than admitting its her own lack of intelligence that is the problem.
Well, derr, what else would a not awfully bright but entitled woman do but claim its a feminist issue?
Feminism in a nutshell: I'm a perfect. I'm a Princess. Its all men's fault. If you don't agree with me then you are the toxic patriarchy.
Hi Tereza, I accept your point that an economist should familiarize herself with the contents of your book before critiquing your economy theory. But I still maintain that as an economist you should demonstrate the advantages of your theory over any criticisms made of it in order to refute those criticisms. Reverting to claims of 'its cos I'm a grrl' only makes you appear like the females Lewis described.
Thanks for responding, Ashowa. First, I would never say someone should read my book before critiquing my economic ideas. What James said in his opening comment was that I should read Sowell's book before having economic ideas.
In my reply, I asked him to clarify the goal of an economy because there was no point in critiquing methods if we had different goals. I said my goal was to serve families and communities. He said his goal was to "use resources as effectively and efficiently as possible." How is that measured? In profit, of course.
The only recent link I've made to this episode has been in Vanessa Beeley's comments where she talks about female journalists. Is that where you saw the link? And do you also think she's just whining 'its cos I'm a grrl'?
I'd like to view your video on Nuland but can't find it. Can you help me?
Yes, I did find you on Beeley's substack. It was her complaining about a lack of female journalists - sources - being quoted by the men commenting on her article that I thought was her being just plain silly. Its not her readers' fault they don't know any women to quote. Nor are her readers sexists - they read her after all! Maybe there is a lack of females reporting on war? Or maybe she should provide links to her fellow female war reporters. Support the Sisterhood n' all that. If only she wrote about knitting then I'm sure her readers would find lots of females to quote. And she'd attract more female readers too, which would be good as she seems to write in such a way as to attract a predominantly male readership! So you caught some of that irritation.
" He said his goal was to "use resources as effectively and efficiently as possible." How is that measured? In profit, of course."
I know little of economics but.... Couldn't an effective and efficient use of resources result in them being utilized at a lower cost? And thus lead to cheaper end products? Profits may be maintained at the same level by reducing the end product's sale price to match the advantage of these lower input costs. With the drop in the sale price of product I'd expect increased consumption. This would be of a general benefit to everyone in the economy - not just women and communities but to the entire nation eg factories using such products would also reduce their input costs. I'd imagine the benefit could be measured by assessing the increased consumption or improved well being of the population eg reduction in poverty levels.
As you've written whole book on these sorts of issues I'm sure you will now tell me why I'm wrong. I look forward to understanding more of your approach to economics.
I'm glad we 'stayed with the trouble' Ashowa and got past the irritation. Here's the Nuland video, which I think is my cleverest but only cites male sources, I'm pretty sure: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/victoria-nuland-is-dolores-umbridge. Oh no, I did cite Caitlin Johnstone in it. It was the first I put on Substack so not much text.
Vanessa's statement did get me to upgrade to paid. At one point, I was going to alternate men/ women for paid subs but I couldn't find enough women. I have a YT playlist called Where Are the Women? because it's hard to find them. But I'm glad I found Vanessa, I really admire her work.
My principle is that things are working the way they were designed to work, otherwise they'd be changed. Have you found prices to be decreasing? Even my daughters are in shock at how fast they're rising, even in their lifetimes. So hypothetically, yes, an economy could be designed to be of general benefit and improve well being through efficiency. If that hasn't happened, there's only two options--they're too stupid to figure out how to do it or we're stupid for thinking that's what they want ;-)
I thought the Nuland video was excellent - detailed, accurate, comprehensive and well presented. You only missed out one element. The NeoCons had a direct link to the school of academic Sabatteanism based in the University @ Jerusalem. Understanding the implications of that link reveals the motive that drives them. For instance Sabatteanism was based in Western Poland, I think that is the area where Nuland's family was based.
Now it just so happens :-) that I've recently posted several comments that, together, provide an introduction to this topic.
hi, noosfera. What my system does is provide a framework by diverting the money going to bankers in mortgage payments and instead be distributed as dividends to residents of the commonwealth. What they're distributed for, how they're taxed, how they're exchanged for another currency (like those digital rubles being inflicted on you) is up to the commonwealth and can be changed. Should be changed. But the goal is to increase the local exchange of goods and services, so if someone comes up with a better plan, they should be able to take their carets (with whoever wants to join them) and secede.
Hi Tereza! Love everything you're sharing. Always giving me good food for thought, but I'm way behind on keeping up with it all. I started your book a while back, and but I didn't finish. I'll say again that I love the idea of a book group.
In reading your comments here, I see the important point that your concept of Carets and community owned mortgages can continue alongside the current economy. Perhaps you've said that before, but that felt like a sigh of relief! Don't have to dismantle EVERYTHING to try this new idea!
Are you familiar with Sarah McCrum? She's a mentor of mine, and I've learned loads about the principles of energy from her. She is passionate about the energy of money and for the last few years has been building a business that's another path to healthy money and healthy economies. Love To has created a crytpo currency (Bright Greens) that will pay farmers for regenerative farming. One can invest in Bright Greens, or apply to receive them, and they hope to expand beyond farming. Valuing and supporting efforts that are healthy for earth and healthy for communities.
I'd be happy to introduce you too, or you can just reach out to her yourself if her ideas speak to you.
https://www.loveto.group/
https://liberatehumanity.com/
Yes I'm glad you picked up on that and got the significance of it. But the one thing that my plan can't exist with simultaneously is letting the bankers create the money for mortgages. That's why there isn't a way for communities to 'pilot' my system or people to start it without system change. It would take someone like Kennedy or Rand Paul to champion this.
I'm not familiar with Sarah but I'll check out her links. Very interesting! There are two questions to be answered--what would we do if we could change the system, and what do we do in the meantime? They're both worthy.
Sounds good overall, thanks for sharing :)
Before reading the full article and watching the video I feel the manly need to point out some facts about how idiotic men can be:
1) We are in the middle of what appears to be the greatest crisis in all History. It started officially with the fraud of the virus and covid. Most male economists still to this day believe or pretend to believe that the virus was real, or that there ever was a new contagious disease. Male economists have so much intellectual pride that they can never accept the simple truth in the moment no matter how many times Mother Nature yells at them right in their faces. Mainstream Economics is pure conceit and self-deception, which is the bane of men, and other economics (such as behavioral economics) are not far behind from that huge error. The only economists that make some sense of the present are the some of the Austrians, and that's because the tradition of the school demands to reject conceit and self-deception.
Any person who wants to be up-to-date needs to consider the possibility that all medical advances are a fraud or are used as part of a a fraud. Which should not be surprising because the technical advances of medicine are no different that advances in any other profession. For example, radio an tv could have been used to promote civility and good information since they started. Instead, they have been used by power to promote stupidity, violence and frauds of all kinds. This pattern of degradation can be seen everywhere. Why not in science, why not in medicine, you bunch of scumbags (addressing male economists with their head up their asses)?
2) A social scientist must unify the masculine and feminine in everything. It has been observed many times by men studying the natural sciences that females of all species have a different time than males. The differences in time use explain differences in economics wants. Females who study the natural sciences are not surprised by this difference in time use, rather they seem surprised by the fact that males of many species often become overprotective of females, and this is a clear contradiction of some postulates of feminist theory, which attribute this behavior to culture. Then the natural scientists timidly go to inform themselves about what the social scientists have studied, only to find that the field is mostly unbalanced and describes social phenomena from a masculine standpoint. Many problems of today's world are caused by scientists playing Dr. Frankenstein with their subject, which is a symbol of hubris.
3) GDP is bullshit, and everything derived from that is fake as a vaccine, and no one can polish a turd. Let's get real. Wealth and poverty are not the product of a mathematical equation. That should be obvious to everyone by now. Totalitarianism appears as motherly in the beginning, and then becomes fatherly, and then a manly war starts and everything is FUBAR and then it's time for Kali and the Mothers of Destruction. Some economic theories have enabled the installation of the new totalitarianism, that has murdered a number of people already. Real economic growth depends on saying unpopular things, like the truth about frauds: a scientific fraud will be used by Power to steal from everyone and destroy productive businesses. Power prefers to expand over the ashes of people. It's easier. People need to hear the truth, which is in contradiction to psychological conditioning from basic education and even superior education, in order to perform the inner change that is necessary to survive the carnage and restart economic growth. This is one level of the integration of the abstract concepts of the masculine and the feminine.
4) To the women who are still dumb: economic growth is good for babies. It keeps them alive. It's that simple. Now, become less dumb and integrate the abstract masculine in your worldview, you cannot be intellectually lazy.
5) In my opinion, most people don't need to occupy themselves with the complexities of abstract thought. They have enough with the complexities of action. The abstract thinkers give a solution: decentralization. Useful for many practical problems (education) and also abstract problems (cultural erosion.) Decentralization means many things: nullification of positive legislation, isolationism, scientific work driven by humility instead of marketing, families living in self-regulated communities that are safe, not living in ghettos which are the byproduct of practical communism. If you want to see more misery and mental illness in the world, just give more power to the socialdemocrats to bomb foreign countries.
6) END THE FED!
7) Sound money, depoliticized money, free banking in communities and ending the socialist legal tender laws are all decentralizing practical measures that will help with real economic growth.
8) Communities need realistic doctors, but most people with a MD or ND degree know nothing about being realistic. They think in terms of pseudoscience and marketing. They are not qualified and they are also victims of educational malpractice. Ending professional licensing is necessary to decentralization. Also that parents understand that kids don't need drugs. Most diseases are not diseases but simply part of the process of growing up. This means that people had it right already generations ago, and bad science has helped to destroy real knowledge. Their job as parents is also to protect the children from the harms of drugs and tests. If they fail, do not make the problem bigger and accept reality. Other families do not need to repeat your mistake.
Roger, you've written a whole dissertation on revamping the economy! So many great ideas in here. I agree with you about this being the greatest crisis / opportunity in global history. There's never been the ability to control the whole world before through one system of currency, technology, communications, medi-mafia.
It's interesting that you cite the Austrians. I'm planning an episode on Matt Ehret vs. James Corbett, and Ehret complains that Corbett, Catherine Austin Fitts and their ilk are listening to the Austrians and have their heads up their arses.
I quote Bobby Kennedy Sr. in my book on the GDP being a scam.
END the FED or defund it, which my plan effectively does.
Thanks for that giant squid of a response, many-tentacled!
Thank you, Tereza.
I tend to go over the top. I most often keep the intensity under wraps.
Sowell is a great writer beloved by everyone, but no one is perfect and no one knows everything. I think von Mises and Bastiat are better than Sowell, but the three have many arguments that are specific for their respective epochs. This is important because the future is not the past exactly. Learning from the past is not about traveling to the past mentally and solve the problems there.
In particular, Mises wrote a lot about the economics and politics of the creation of the German Empire in the late 19th century, a part of history that most of the public ignores because WWII and its consequences grab all the attention. That's the true origin of the Police State, and even of the Therapeutic State. This is not new!
One idea that is common these days that I agree with is that America should be strong and self-reliant as much as possible.
That's a good idea for every country. First production, then consumption. Commerce is downstream of production.
There is no reason right now that anyone in the world should die of hunger or diseases related to malnutrition. Yet, economists and journos insist in the marketing of anti-human politics. And it seems they are true believers, unmovable with evidence.
And even those who believe in vaccines concede that most infections happen because of malnutrition. The body wants to be healthy and self-repair, give it the tools and materials. A quote by Albert Schweitzer, Musician and a Medical Doctor in Africa: "It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help and encourage the doctor within."
Great Schweitzer quote. And, btw, you're welcome to mansplain economics anytime. It's exactly the kind of exchange I hope for, that clarifies the difference in economists and what they're useful for. I don't start with the 'known science' of economics at all in my book. After going through the invention of money and its relationship to the expansion of slavery and colonialism, petrodollars and geopolitics, and death by derivatives, I use system change techniques to reimagine money in chapters like "What if Money Was No Object?"
I'm very interested in the economics of the German Empire in the late 19th century. And then particularly how they recovered from the debt genocide of the Weimar so-called hyperinflation. I'll look forward to your thoughts when I get to those episodes.
Great perspective--first production, then consumption. Whew, we've got a long way to go.
LOL!
Mises was writing from the Habsburg empire (Austria-Hungary) point of view, so he was probably a little biased against the Germans. There was a rivalry between these two monstrosities that the Napoleonic wars gave to the world, for those who don't know.
But Mises also writes a about how the Schleswig region, how the people there hated the German rule and wanted to be independent or join Denmark. The idea of decentralization as a means for peace and therefore for sane economic growth is central in Mises work.
The open-borders views of Mises in the 1920s seem to be have been aimed at preventing the big war that was being prepared. After the war, he changed his opinion, but then he was living in America and rebuilding his work. The world was different. His personal library and notes were left in Vienna if I remember correctly, and after the war the Soviets took them and I think they ended up in Berlin or Moscow or some other well armed place, along with the documents of many other intellectuals.
Ah, Ehret definitely sees Mises as a Hapsburg product and anyone influenced by him as tainted by that. Interesting about the Schleswig region. I think that the right of secession is like the right of divorce in marriage--whenever union is forced, someone's getting raped.
I've been immersed in the Steiner book and he talks about the Balkans. I'd been wondering how Balkanization came to be a slur against decentralization. And, in fact, I'm finding that's another psyops and the ruler who was creating a truly federal structure was murdered and his intent discredited with him. Yes, there's something key we need to understand from that era.
Well-said overall, though I would counter that Austrian economics is a Trojan horse that only creates artificial scarcity. I used to be a fan of it until I discovered Ellen Brown's work many years ago.
Also, another important nuance is that growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell, which eventually kills its host. Growth should always be a MEANS to an end, never an end in itself that we need to sacrifice everything else on the altar of (like late-stage capitalism currently does). That is true whether we are talking about economic growth, population growth, or both.
^ This is why you have the 🏆
I'm not sold on your idea but there's some interesting things addressed in it.
I have a feeling that "the revolution will not be televised" because humanity seems to have reached a point where they know that leadership was just a sneaky scammer.
Leadership is showing their horns more and more.
No one should be sold on my idea, nor should they buy into it ;-)
What I didn't really go into is that it's a supplemental economy. The usual one continues without interruption. The only difference is that, instead of going to bankers, the mortgages go into a system where the community decides how to distribute them. So nothing that's now working gets changed in the least, other than what's working for the bankers to usurp ownership of all the houses.
I'm just glad we are at the time where economic systems can be discussed.
History has been brutal. The red scare kept away talk of social economies.
Likewise, the Marxists are stubborn in their views.
The true solution will happen naturally, like it's been evolving for all time.
"The true solution will happen naturally, like it's been evolving for all time."
I've come to that conclusion independently as well. Otherwise, I have no answers and, I suspect, neither does anyone else. Thank goodness for potato beetles and groundhogs; dealing with the them and the likes of them keeps my hands and mind busy enough! : )
If you're not already there, you should check out William Hunter Duncan's stack. I think you'd find common manly ground (literally): https://williamhunterduncan.substack.com/.
I checked this out (below), and I can identify with the young pup, although I prefer a heavy, sharp, grubbing hoe!
A Crucible
Alchemical transformation by way of the spade
https://williamhunterduncan.substack.com/p/a-crucible
Transformation, indeed! : )
Hahaha! Young pup. I'll pass that on to William next time I'm there. Yes, his contribution to the Tonic Masculinity conversation was that Real Men have skills. He's welcome to use my term anytime he likes.
Thanks for the tip. WIll check it out. Very busy outdoors this time of year, so my substack time is near zero!
Here's a sample of why I'm quite occupied: I just discovered some oyster mushrooms growing on an old maple stump, nettles are ready for gathering, sweet potato slips need planting, and so on, so I'm as tickled as pig in muck!
PS: Late last night I reread a translation of Plutarch's, "Concerning the Tranquility of Mind," which is a fairly quick read and reading it will explain why I think it's worthwhile for people in today's world. Spoiler alert...The concerns of today are very similar to the ones he was dealing with.
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0267%3Asection%3Dintro
Enjoy, and peace be upon you, and thanks for all you do!
Well-said overall, Tereza. Thank you for your insights. I am certainly no fan of Thomas Sowell myself, and you are certainly correct about the mansplaining.
That said, I believe that the ideal is a happy medium somewhere between small-scale autarky and large-scale imperialism. And even if you believe that small-scale autarky is the ideal, that is quite a long way away for practical purposes, and IMHO we need to meet people where they are currently at.
http://truespiritofamericaparty.blogspot.com/2023/05/ubi-is-only-way-to-end-modern-slavery.html
I apologize in advance for any mansplaining on my part :)
Actually, I think I need more 'splaining to quite get it. Love the byline of that site, btw, "FOR THOSE WHO WEREN'T BORN REPUBLICAN, DEMOCRAT, OR YESTERDAY." And I like the "Open Letter to Women in Politics." I wouldn't call UBI 'crowd-sourced slavery' but I would say that it distributes the products of slavery, from those who get nothing in return, without producing anything new. My argument is first make UBI universal, true to its name, and equal throughout the world. Then see whether it works. If producers also have UBI, what does that buy them from your labor?
In a sense, what my caret system does is distribute UBI as dividends from local mortgages that have to be spent on specific goods and services. Once earned by someone else, they can be used in any way (like UBI). So it makes sure there's at least one round of productivity before it returns to Big Corporations or China, and I have ways that give incentives for it to go around again. Here's one of my episodes on it: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-caret-system. Yet it doesn't replace the existing system, only supplements it.
Thank you very much for the compliments :)
A UBI simply sets a "social floor" below which no one can fall, without creating perverse incentives or discrimination like means-tested welfare programs currently do. When producers and consumers alike both receive UBI, the already- nebulous distinction between producer and consumer is rendered largely irrelevant as a result.
Whatever incentives for producers to produce that existed before will still exist after receiving UBI, EXCEPT for desperation. The oligarchs of course consider desperation a feature rather than a bug.
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell, for example, calls it "Social Security for all". Ethically, I don't see much if any real difference between a person receiving UBI and a person receiving Social Security, as most people who currently receive Social Security get back far more than what they put in (unless they die early, of course).
During the pandemic, the feds experimented with a temporary mini-version of quasi-UBI for children (the expanded Child Tax Credit). It cut child poverty in HALF, at least while it lasted. So even from a purely utilitarian perspective, it should be a no-brainer.
Ideally it would be global, of course, and eventually roughly equal in terms of "purchasing power parity" (as cost of living varies widely), but realistically it would in all likelihood have to start at the national or subnational level. If even the most ardent degrowth and anti-imperialist advocates like Jason Hickel don't see anything wrong with it, than it really can't be any worse than the status quo to have a UBI on the national level. While it arguably removes some "friction" from the system, which can be seen as both good and bad, it also gives the broader working class much more bargaining power at the same time. So let's not put the cart before the horse and make the perfect the enemy of the good.
(We also need a global debt jubilee as well, but that is a topic for another discussion.)
As for distributing the proceeds from slavery, currently we are already practically all slaves AND slavers at the same time in varying degrees under the global kyriarchy. And UBI at any level will at least be a step in the right direction away from that paradigm.
Life does NOT have to be a zero-sum game, after all.
With today's technology, the idea that everybody must work for every crumb is inherently obsolete, as Buckminster Fuller famously noted. And it has been obsolete for quite a while now. And as we all already know on some level, it is entirely possible to contribute positively to society and community in ways that cannot be directly monetized as well, and UBI would act as a stealth subsidy for all of that. The "Protestant Work Ethic" is really just a glorified form of OCD, and we as a society really need to lose the whole "scarcity mindset".
And we can do it without reinventing the wheel IMHO.
UBI in many forms can in fact coexist at many levels independently as well: global, national, bioregional, local, and hyper-local. Then let the market sort it out. Alaska already has one in the form of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend, for example. I will continue to advocate for it at all levels myself.
(Which reminds me, Hillary Clinton later said she supported an "Alaska For America" type of UBI in 2016, but couldn't get the numbers to work out. Nevermind that the federal government could simply print the money, of course. Had she pushed for her UBI idea, as well as Bernie's idea of single-payer Medicare for all, she could have easily beaten Trump in a landslide. Instead, Trump falsely promised everyone the proverbial moon and thus successfully triangulated the voters against her like a narcissistic father does to his kids against the so-called "mean mom". Then again, Hillary was in the pocket of the oligarchy all along, so maybe that's not such a good example. I preferred Bernie anyway myself.)
I'm glad that your caret system at least contains something UBI-shaped. I am not sure how realistic your system is or which system will ultimately win out in practice, but thank you for sharing your ideas nonetheless. I will note that protectionism of any kind is a razor-sharp, double-edged sword.
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Hi, RWBS. It seems to me that your mind is made up and your intent is to convince me to join you in championing UBI. I suspect this will happen, whether or not either of us champions it, because I think it's been part of the Reset program all along. And it will take the form of CBDCs. But just in case your mind isn't totally made up, let me explore some of the logistics--not the moral question of whether people should need to work. but the practicalities.
You say that the gov't can just create the money but that's not true. Look at your money that says Federal Reserve Note, not Treasury Bill. 96% of all dollars are issued by private banks for mortgages. The Constitution says that only the Federal Gov't can coin money and a corrupt Supreme Court has interpreted that literally as coins. Bankers create money out of thin air and the gov't borrows from them. My system ends the usurping of money creation and gives it to commonwealths of 200K people or less. So the credit issued is backed by housing, not debt.
Housing is priced at as much as the buyer or renter can pay, and by 2030 the hedge funds are on target to own 40% of all single family homes and the vast majority of rental units. So if you distribute more money, they can raise rents and insurances and food prices and tuitions and energy bills. You'll still be just as captive to a job because your living expenses will just go up.
I talk about this more in this episode: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-economics-of-anarchy and about my system in this one: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/what-is-the-greater-reset.
It has been great discussing this topic with you. Indeed, my mind has been made up on this since roughly 2014. A couple of final points:
I oppose CBDC on principle, unless of course cash remains a fully equal alternative in every way (which the oligarchs obviously don't want). A cash UBI with NO strings attached, period, is the version I favor. If that is implemented, I believe it will checkmate the oligarchs into a corner.
Anything that chips away at the oligarchy and the greater kyriarchy is a step in the right direction IMHO. Chip away enough and the entire edifice eventually becomes so hollowed out that it will pancake upon itself spontaneously, from the shape of a pyramid to ultimately a circle.
The debate about who creates money out of thin air is an old one. Ellen Brown vs. Rodger Malcolm Mitchell, for example. Yet both are correct. The FERAL Reserve and the private banks create money out of thin air under the current system, but only because Congress has wittingly or unwittingly ceded its authority to create money in 1913. All Congress needs to do, is take that rightful power back. Also, nationalize the FERAL Reserve so it becomes truly FEDERAL. And failing that, the executive branch can, through a loophole, mint a trillion dollar coin (or many trillions even) and deposit it in the Treasury's New York Fed account.
Even currently, the federal government de facto creates money on an ad hoc basis every time they pay their bills. Tax dollars are simply destroyed upon receipt, as adding any amount to infinity does not change infinity.
That's the power of Monetary Sovereignty: the ability to issue one's own currency (to paraphrase Mitchell). For example, the federal government is Monetarily Sovereign. State and local governments are not, unless they were to issue their own currencies. The Euro nations are also not, though the EU via the ECB is.
So the logistics would be simple BUT FOR the arcane and archaic rules left over from the gold standard which ended in 1971. Simply repeal those rules and take the power back. It's what Dr. Joseph M. Firestone calls "Overt Congressional Financing" (OCF).
"Paging Dr. Firestone!"
So why don't our Congresscritters take the power back from the banksters? Google "United States Notes" and see one more eerie "coincidence" that Lincoln and JFK had in common. And Bernie Sanders would most likely have been next had he won the presidency as well. Also, too many Congresscritters are in bed with the oligarchs who grease their palms regularly.
All money is fiat money, as it is always de facto backed by all of the goods and services in an economy.
Finally, as a former anarchist myself, I can't say I fully agree or disagree with your economic ideas entirely. It certainly deserves a lot of thought, I will say that at least.
Thanks again for all of your insights :)
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P.S. We certainly need to, at a minimum, reinstate that 1930s law that rhymes with "brass seagull": the Glass-Steagall Act.
I appreciate discussing it with you also. And I appreciate that you feel my economic ideas deserve a lot of thought.
Your statement about minting a trillion dollar coin is in my book, three of them to replace the $3T Social Security Trust Fund, which then gets used as the capital for commonwealth banks. On behalf of the members, they issue mortgages that become the dividends that are distributed proactively.
So maybe the only difference in creating the UBI is scale--333M people vs. 200K. But in yours, more money continues to be created but it's not collected back in mortgage payments or taxes, as it is in mine. Wouldn't that depreciate the value?
And in yours a dollar is a dollar is a free market dollar. So they would gravitate to the cheapest labor markets for importable goods and services, and to the biggest and most mechanized monopolies for things that can't be outsourced.
Taking back the power of money creation is Step One in my system. After that, commonwealths can do what they want as long as they don't exceed the money coming in as debt or tax, or the treasury reserves they have to back it (at a 1:1 ratio in your UBI). Taking back money creation is the hard part, after that you could run your experiment supporting consumers and I could run mine supporting producers. I think we agree on more points than we disagree on.
Indeed, we do seem to agree on more than we disagree on. The next question would be if Gresham's Law (i.e. "bad money drives out good", where "bad" is simply defined as "cheaper") would still remain true in the competition between dollars versus carets.
In my experiment, money would still be clawed back via very progressive taxes, especially the Universal Exchange Tax (a tiny tax of 0.1% or less on all electronic transactions), as Ellen Brown advocates as well. And when people use their UBI to pay down their own debts, that would double as a de facto jubilee as well as a means to remove excess liquidity from the system as well.
I would also note that in my experiment, I would include Bernie Sanders' Outsourcing Prevention Act, and perhaps also Rodger Mitchell's brand of "protectionism without tariffs" via positive reinforcement of domestic industries as well.
As for automation, that is kind of inevitable in the long run, and that would make UBI all the more essential in the future.
Thanks again :)
So your man splaining did not make me flee. So far, I think you espouse what many call Voluntaryism.
I am of that camp... But you should read a book by... JUST KIDDING! I will catch up on some of your other vid/articles as time permits.
Oh and yes, Corbett talks about voluntaryism. It's a new term to me but I suspect it's the same thing I call small scale sovereignty or community anarchy or horizontal governance.
Hahaha! I've now had two people recommend Cities & the Wealth of Nations by Jane Jacobs, along with one by her on the secession of Quebec. So not all book recommendations are created equal ;-) Glad it didn't scare you off.
Oh wow, thks, no I haven't seen any. I'll get to work!
I look forward to that episode, Is that next? I see the usual war=$ & syphoning money, but this has been in the pipeline for sometime because of Maidan in 2014 and there was a planning stage before that. I saw a video of John McCain and Lindsey Graham inciting violence toward Russia in a speech or pep rally to the Ukrainian Military (2016-ish if my memory serves me correctly) I was very shocked at their candidness to violence. I also read the IMF loaned money to Ukraine directly (with land as collateral). Not sure if that is a normal thing. So the tale to be told (imo) is this war tells the resetters Russia's capabilities and willingness to fight them (nato), therefore they don't have global control!! I will also mention the unity of nations who want a multi polar world grew because of the war. I also think the resetters didn't see that once someone (Russia) stands up to the bully (US) all the other countries get brave and join in the pile on (Tackle). How could the bull dog US not see there was a rebellion stirring against it for the deeds it has done to others. Wasn't it crazy how quickly the ridiculous rhetoric was started in the West in a deliberately staged fashion. It certainly was not organic. Also the Nordstream was blown up during this war, so maybe the perpetrator thought it would give cover to help them get away with that operation. Russia can not supply fuel to Germany as it is beneficial to both countries (Russia and Germany must never be friends because it threatens the US). I think the resetters were also hoping for distractions from other things maybe covid vaccine issues, WHO treaty, Issues in Europe (15 minute cities) CBDC's, Food destruction, land theft etc.. It definitely succeeded in making our nation and other nations poorer & depopulation itself. You and Matt have given me so many reasons why they thought the time was right to instigate this war. They may have even thought it was possible to defeat Russia. So on that note I say they are ready to move on to weaker opponents. There is so much going on in the middle east now. I also heard the US backed candidate for PM won in Thailand, not good for relations with China. Anyway....
Yes, I'm thinking I better make it soon because I keep ratcheting up how many topics I want to talk about in it. I did see that clip of McCain and Graham and it was chilling. But in the meantime, I don't know if you've seen the other episodes I've done on Ukraine (since Substack doesn't have a way to categorize):
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/nord-streams-and-the-bagel-of-doom
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-reset-and-ukraine-same-or-different
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/russia-a-wrench-in-the-reset-gears
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/ukraine-the-hegemons-last-stand
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-west-vs-the-rest
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/what-zelensky-should-keep
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/putin-peace-petrodollar-pain
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/yanis-varoufakis-is-naive-on-ukraine
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/ukranian-peace-and-us-petropocalypse
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/victoria-nuland-is-dolores-umbridge
and the one that's oddly gotten the most views on YT, pre-SS: Theodicy, Hegemony and Michael Hudson on Ukraine: https://youtu.be/taJfTNOGy5U
Now that I read about the C.S. Lewis debate, I guess you know about his debate with Anscombe.
G.E.M. Anscombe was a young woman philosopher in Oxford. Anscombe was a student of Wittgenstein, a philosopher from a super-wealthy family in Austria with a troubled psychology and a complicated philosophy about language.
[As a piece of gossip, it seems that Wittgenstein went to live to England and shared the same lover with famous Economist Keynes, and this lover happened to be a young man (For the movie: www.imdb.com/title/tt0108583/plotsummary/)]
The debate, which I have not read, was about apologetics, which is the philosophical defense of Christian theology. Lewis was an Anglican and Anscombe was a Catholic. She attacked a criticism of Lewis against Naturalism. I guess this debate was surprising perhaps because Anscombe was the underdog and everyone was betting on the expert Lewis.
thecslewis-studygroup.org/the-c-s-lewis-study-group/lewis-genre/theology/miracles-2/the-lewisanscombe-debate/
Women like Anscombe and other intellectuals never needed feminism in their time to have a career in the academic world and a family life.
I did not know this but I'll look at it further. Thanks for pointing me to it.
I suspect that, like economics, this might be a refining of assumptions that I challenge before they get so inbred. But it might be something useful for my What is Reality? series.
Where I feel it necessary to refute Lewis is in his assumption of the Christian right to rule. I had loved the Chronicles as a kid but when I took my daughters to the movie version, I was horrified. The racism, anti-Muslim characatures and divine backing of the Crusades was so blatant, I didn't know how I could've missed it, except for being steeped in it as a kid. I'm going to talk about that more in the Ehret video.
2000 documentary on William Gibson's musings on The Future: Title = No Maps for These Territories
Absent ground rules or community guidelines regarding profanity, triple entendres, religion, etc. , I will try to keep my brain's writing module in way back mode and compose this as though it were being graded by an Ivy League professor...Oh, hell no! Not one of today's types, but rather the ones that were scoring me back in 1968-72, when, with the right connections (aka dealers) and a dystopian outlook borne from reading certain sci/fi texts, you could see the future of today campus culture developing but could be optimistic that it wouldn't get as far as it has gotten due to enormous pushback from well-meaning classmates who presumably would have, such was a justice-oriented career-path fantasy of the era, worked their way up the ladders of power and taken steps to thwart what is in place, their success in the thwarting being, if not a slam dunk, at least a likely outcome, a safe bet that people like Fast Eddie down at the bookie joint would not have been afraid to bet his own money on.
(This was in the very earliest stages of the OTB setup, which, being a NY State system, did not make credit available to equine race enthusiasts, primarily due to the legal restrictions against having either irregular collection contractors or uniformed police entrusted with recouping moneys owed to the State under the authority of a bat or baton. Now the irregulars are overseas contractors making 5 to 10 times the salary of active duty US armed forces personnel for doing essentially the same jobs and, except for the momentary state of grace between the former and the coming period of emergency, the cops will smile and whack citizens (and non-temporary visitors) with pugil sticks up one side of the street for getting too close to one another or for not properly covering their faces. But it could have been worse, no? Without the semi-sterilizing effect of Vaccine-2A it might be worse, and we could be like NZ or AU, where the constabulary is not required to wait until you are on the street and they can make enforcement house calls, like doctors used to do in some areas. THX-1138 was prophecy.)
So, horse reference not too subtly slipped in, along with, while it's still legal, a reference to one of the remaining, for now, constitutional amendments not yet shredded by the Patriot Act. Maybe one and a half horse references, if mentioning NZ and it's former PM, whom, like so many prospective actresses paying for acting school lessons, the camera did not really love.
If you detect a penchant for parentheses & and their small, aggregatively powerful cousins, commas, ethical full disclosure requires me to identify them as homages to a popular musical icon of the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbad22CKlB4&t=54s
No false advertising department: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jZS-X78Cqc
So, the topic today is mansplaining? Pirating the construction used by a Democrat inquisitioner of Mr. Taibbi just a few weeks ago, the "so-called economist" can be charitably described as having a definition mismatch wrt your conception of what constitutes "economics". In computer terms he might be thought of as championing hard or soft technology that does a very limited job, championing it irrespective of what the customer wants to achieve. He may be spot on in his assessment of how well he and his discrete tech (I want so much to use techne, mostly because Samuel Delaney likes to use it, but I had an instructor who had a bad vacation in Greece one year and went all red-pencil on a written assignment I turned in, so tech...at least on the audio book version it won't get confused with techie or Trekkie...audio book formats are valuable for people outside of Australia, too...my kid brother in Austin reads with difficulty but soaks up audio books con gusto.) his discrete tech (circling back like a white house spokesperson) perform in the narrow country lanes that are important to the organizations that provide the funds necessary for his personal maintenance, but big but, you're setting up architecture (not patri-architectural, though... I really don't need to explain that to you, but I have cultural dues to remit to el equipo de los hombres) for a world full of smaller cities, commonwealths, states, etc. that we might just get lucky enough to be forced to build as survivors of something as omnicidal as a nuclear war or as mobile resisters trying to stay one step ahead of UN "medical" teams. But wait, if Dr. Mihalcea is seeing reality the way it really is now, we're in the ending phase of the transhumanist production/evolution process due to the kajillions of tons of metals that have been raining down on us for decades to the point that there are small, but programmable non-human structures in our blood systems, vaxxed and unvaxxed alike, so maybe it's time to listen to a couple less perky tunes before switching over to upbeat and inspiring. I found this woman on YT years ago, maybe even before encountering young Molly...for some reason, probably for a constellation of reasons, I find her renditions of songs I have known since before she was born the source of a guarded but resolute optimism, although Fast Eddie is more dystopic, but then I suppose bookies are going to have a dismal outlook overall...if they win, chances are (to kick an overused bookie phrase like a dead, oops, almost went to the track, or the third rail, there) chances are they're going to have to go out and threaten some fraction of the losing public to collect their profits...maybe economists aren't quite that dismal...it's usually an office job 24/7/365 except for continuing education junkets...but it's not like you can just rattle off a handful of names of economists that are as cheerful as, say, Richard Simmons or Jack LaLanne...maybe economists would be more chipper if they were to transform the boundaries/scope of what they deal with...no need to go so far as a virtual version of surgical reduction or endocrine disruption, just gradually expand the envelope of what the profession envelops until it has grown large enough to perform a wider range of functions that are desired by a wider range of people. Just a thought, but here's Nori cat with the not so sunny weather:
Better not tag me with this as a theme song for my composition technique...I might not have stables full of unstable animals, but, you know...lawfare...nice AirBNB you got there...hate to sue you for it. :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHlqRYiio14
An exemplar of melancholy, not depression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjebnq0FYlg
Definitional or format mismatch: sorry but this is incomplete...if I find a clip that has the bit about:
She'll as for you advice
Your reply will be concise
She'll thank you very nicely and
Then go out and do precisely...what she wants
I'll send it along...until then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doz5w2W-jAY
Left and right ends of the horseshoe could unite against a common enemy, someday in the Future:
Cartoon world pro tip #54: Keep Prince Acturus' image in mind when you see Klaus Schwab's pic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4C5VIxbqhw
This one has a lyric "Amos, he was a markin' time", but it also whispers to the question of jurisdiction on railways (city, commonwealth, state, federal?) which could be important, and also raises questions about "How do intrinsically good humans develop into sociopaths?" No answers, but...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOk71pHqCu8
Geez, they can't all be sad songs, Mr. Science, can they? Not on this channel, Billy, no they can't...
And sometimes when you plan to use the 1967 original, you find one with a gender switch vocal as well as a diverse horn section and back up singers...imagine Lucky Chops on this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG1_LAAL4w0
2000 years of your goddamned glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa5yFYyZuSg
Kill one, go to jail...but something's wrong when the math scales up: Memo from the Sure, they'll let you smoke cigars with the boys...as long as you're ready to smoke some kids too department.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP1OAD9jSaI
Before we decided to get married in 1989, my wife told me she liked that I was well in touch with the feminine side/aspect of my nature...she died in 2012...I may have shifted back a few % points.
I have digital copies of Graeber's & Brown's books on Debt now. Should I get yours from Amazon, or do you have a digital copy available? I'm subscribed to your stack here, so if you ever want to communicate off-stack, feel free to use the email I used when I subscribed. Nice AirBNB, BTW!
Well I'm getting distracted from your distractions because Lucky Chops keeps coming up on my feed, so I've seen them in Central Park, doing High Line, on Venice Beach, and wearing short shorts and a 'stache (you guess which one's which.)
But I did catch up on some of your free association with Pygmalion Redux, Arcturus, trains, and Tedeschi Trucks! I have their Midnight in Harlem on my playlist and I could swear every time it's Bonnie Raitt: https://youtu.be/6GkdCiqsFUI. Anyhow, that's as far as I'll get tonight.
Hope you enjoyed the rambling text and tunes. Derek's intro to your Midnight in Harlem selection made me imagine what it might have sounded like if a sitar player had used Little Martha as a departure point. Best analogy/synthesis I came up with, and rather than use the original ABB version, since you play piano, here's Holly Bowling again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDdKbmlS_ik
I think the only 2 clips you didn't get to are one by Jefferson Starship and one with a famous war criminal apologist or actual war criminal depending on your POV.
Now, first things last department: Do you mean to say that you've seen Lucky Chops live in NYC's Central Park and on Venice Beach in Los Angeles? I tried "Lucky Chops High Line" and YT didn't have anything about High Line, so I'm blank on that for now...and hoping I have enough credit on my account to afford buying a vowel wrt those short shorts.
While patiently hoping for any sort of illustration on those shorts (and 'stache), I offer Camille with some short shorts, not of her own, but worn by part of her new-fangled percussion section...first the song acapella, then with the shorts. Darn it, the short shorts version of that song is missing from YT at the moment. Second clip will be a full crew version of 'Gospel' and I'll put a third clip of something with short shorts IF I find one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nAq6r-MJcs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SptO6HnXrCQ
OK, we got short shorts...lyrics may be helpful as the mix isn't perfect, tho the shorts are.
https://genius.com/Camille-money-note-lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp304RD15H8
Sorry it was such a long road to get to the shorts...hope it was worth it.
Years ago, Naked Lunch was the subject of an obscenity trial. In his testimony in support of the book's literary value, Norman Mailer stated that "William Burroughs is the only living American author of whom it may conceivably said that he is possessed by genius."
Whatever your opinion of Mailer, I am confident that he didn't mean 'of genius'.
I think the preposition for Camille is also 'by', not 'of'. I have at least one more 'by' that I think you will enjoy, but next time, if I remember to include her. Now, about those Lucky Chops short shorts & 'stache...and what/where the heck is High Line? G'night Gracie :-)
P,S, Has Substack's comment box's edit feature been wonky for you this past week or so?
I've had a devil of a time getting edited text to 'take' or Save, as have at least a couple people over at Sage Hana's place.
Just so there can be some equality in this distraction, here's the 2Saxy High Line in leopard fur: https://youtu.be/cTpAJlTCoP0. The Venice Beach one has shorts but no 'stache: https://youtu.be/SeUGoi34SxM. Oh, it was the Court Square with the very short shorts and the 'stache: https://youtu.be/GXPSQvzbugs.
Wow, that's quite a 3-pack of a couple of fun-sounding sax players.
Clicked long enough to estimate the aggregate, non-trivial time commitment.
I'll be busy in my Spare Time...thanks for clarifying the shorts 'n' 'stache thing.
I'll keep this on the short side again like with the previous Bonnie & Carolyn.
Had occasion to send a link to a particular Blue Sky ABB performance today and said to note the intro's similarity to the opening of GD's Franklin's Tower.
Start about 0:50 to skip over the hokey "how's everybody doing tonight" bit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHcgmiQwEts
Went to YT to find a nice version of FT in case they weren't familiar with it, and the drop down search box had FT ABB as an option...I've heard a lot of ABB and didn't know they'd ever played it (Old and Out of Date, but hopefully not Old and In The Way)...so I clicked that and this was on the top of what showed up.
Phone/camera operator may have been a newbie or stoner or both, but they caught Derek's solo...it's not a recent performance...scary good so young!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfynBhGGZY8
That's it for now...except...is it a meaningful synchronicity or just a vanilla coincidence that I signed off yesterday w/ G'night Gracie and the sax-playing possible relative of the sitar player goes by the name of Grace Kelly?
Swear on a stack of sheet music I had no idea she goes by Grace Kelly. Proxima
I just noticed that she was Grace Kelly myself. But I do now see the resemblance to the sitar player now that I've seen her without the sunglasses.
You're not going to convert me to be an ABB or GD fan. Unless they were covers by a female performer. But you are NOT allowed to post any more links to this episode, while I'm still catching up on the others. I will begin to think you're a wily bot send by the Bureau of Discombobulation. You have to at least get a fresh start on a new episode!
No problem...I'm swamped here. If you ever want to exchange music w/o cluttering up the comments, I'm game...otherwise, I'll keep distractions to a minimum, I am occasionally wily but not a bot & am eeenocent of intentional discombobulation. Ciao, Graciella
Oh, since you mentioned thinking you were hearing Bonnie Raitt on Midnight in Harlem and I was going to give you at least one more example of someone possessed 'by genius', I can do this quickly and give you a little bit of Bonnie Raitt and just one intro to Carolyn Wonderland.
Carolyn has been a fixture in Austin since moving from Houston quite some time ago, and in addition to playing with her own group, was John Mayall's lead guitarist until he quit touring relatively recently due to health concerns. If you like it, her music is well populated on YT.
2-4-1 coupon deal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rngXIW7P6MI
Carolyn Wonderland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odmgJAiUCHE
I *can* keep it short sometimes.
Nice guest appearance by the fluffy cat in the Nori clip.
I told YT "Nori cat" because I knew there was at least one more clip of hers where I very much enjoyed the song and was hoping to preview it for you (and enjoy it again for me) and maybe luck into finding the fluffy cat again (a bit like our boy cat used to bring gophers to the back patio for our girl cat) and just below her channel name and above one of her songs...this appeared...so in case the song that shows up in the next comment doesn't have the fluffy cat redux action I was hoping/prepared for you can at least enjoy this sign that the universe is looking at you...maybe even looking out for you.
Not a Comma in a carload there but you can red pencil the triple dots and I'll understand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MasQhdMnHCw
P.S. I have no idea what Overwatch League is about...never saw them before, so the coincidence must be based solely on the 'Nori' and not any algorithmic history YT has on what I have watched before.
Now to see if I win a fluffy cat lottery prize...next clip will tell the...tail?
I had to add here that you've set me on a nori cat kick. Have you seen her at 25, scarfless and with a nose ring if I'm not mistaken? Some beautiful renditions of Take Me to Your River, James and one other I really liked.
Very funny, masters of feline deadpan.
Well, no luck in the fluffy cat department with the Dylan tune.
1969 I saw the Grateful Dead do Baby Blue as a Fillmore East encore at dirge tempo, but no way YT will have that, so your consolation prize is this next one...still a very good rendition on my scorecard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpI-taR5hKI
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repeat question: Do you recommend Amazon as the place to buy your book?
I'm having as bad a day at properly nesting comments as the guy at the end of Fight Club...sorry about the 'comment deleted' rubble strewn around
Baby Blue as a dirge does sound interesting but this is a good one too.
I'm afraid Amazon is the only place to buy my book unless your CA address is California, not Canada, in the vague vicinity of Santa Cruz.
I used to live in the 'back country' outside of San Diego, but we left in 2009 for Costa Rica and I haven't been back except for stopping in to see some old friends near where we lived (Ramona) and in Lancaster while driving from Austin to Seattle to visit old friends from the 1977-87 era. The couple I visited twice in Seattle between 2009 and 2016 moved to NC almost exactly when I did in 2018 and now live about 30 miles away in Greenville...they used to live almost exactly a half mile down the street here in Kinston, but found a deal on the place in Greenville which works better for their live-in AirBNB operation.
OK, I'll put a little money back into the Seattle economy and use Amazon.
Curious as to your reaction to the Holly Bowling piano work, Spare Time permitting.
Ah I'm saving the other clips for dessert after I get the text written for my latest YT: https://youtu.be/9Rrfs3E2IMc. Although I did like the Saving Grace theme song and your concept that I'm setting up a new economic architecture. I'm going to expound on that in another episode (so many drafts, so little Spare Time!)
And as I reply in snatches inbetween my conditioning and dance class, here's one of my favorite dark, dark songs (92% cacao) The Sound of Silence by Disturbed: https://youtu.be/usN-pKfw6Q8
I've seen that clip a couple other times, but watched it again...Thanks, it helps develop a baseline or contour map of sorts re where you're from, at and going to.
Less dark, but still in the 180 proof zone of antioxidant sweets is/was Saving Grace with Holly Hunter as a humanly-complicated cop, Leon Rippy as the coolest angel you'd ever want to have assigned to your eternal life or death case, and a dynamite surrounding cast playing well thought out human characters. Second clip is a retrospective that goes into a bit of detail, which, if you never saw the show, might get you interested enough to try a few episodes.
I have it and a lot of other quality shows on a few hard drives and could make up a thumb drive if you're interested in expanding your envelope in, you know, your Spare Time.
(Capitals are easier for me, the non-touch-typist, compared to quote marks, so if you see them from me, they'll indicate something beyond simple one-dimensional text, maybe indicating humor, snark, disbelief, etc. If it's not clear what extra category I had in mind, and if it's important to you, just ask, as I'll almost surely be able to tell you what I had in mind.)
For the record...and the hamburger, DVD, action figure toy, T-shirt, or other merch item, I was raised Catholic (hence, RC unless, on rare occasions it's referring to RC Cola) a mixture of nuns & lay teachers from 3rd through 8th grades and one year at Gonzaga, an all-male Jesuit HS in verrrry downtown DC. Went to Mass with my folks through most of my high school years and without any big fuss on either of our parts, went less often and at some point just quit and never went back until going one time with my Dad when he visited us in CA from Austin.
So, when I tell you I didn't find the religious aspect of the show's 3-year run confining to the drama or in any way obtrusive wrt my prior life instruction in the lifestyle, hopefully that will make it a little more likely for you to give it a try in your, you know, Spare Time, in case you were reluctant for any reason of yours. On the 2nd clip, skip ahead 90 seconds won't hurt any and avoid the last part if you think you might ever watch it: ending spoiler.
Lead with the theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxu21fYnKMw
Follow with the retrospective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vNKOUspJec
Geez, you'd think from the preceding that I have some sort of commission arrangement or maybe a Holly Hunter shrine in my house, but neither is the case.
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Disturb-esque Canadian poet/singer/songwriter raw cacao marinated in something acerbic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQOpeJ8YHrE
From a chair, so not standup, but funny in parts, deep in others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RciOCn_Nmh0&t=422s
OK, now it's time to read & Maybe Respond to your other reply. Just practicing.
I will need to reply to the rest post-dance, but I have to send you to one of my favorite articles ever. It's by my YT subber, Lyndsey, who has gone silent so I'm hoping she's doing okay. Comments on the comma welcome (and you'll see mine there): https://transatlanticpearl.substack.com/p/be-your-own-hero.
That was a very amusing obituary. My two brothers are artistic in non-textual areas, so I was elected to write Mom's obituary. I might be able to locate a copy of it in the house that Greg lives in in Austin. [not a stutter...if I know you knew that and if you so much as smiled or even laughed, would a Grand Jury return a Bill of Mansplaining?][if he lived in Jamaica on a houseboat, I could have gone "boat he lives on on Boston Bay, not in Kingston"...if the powerball or mega millions numbers ever hit (true story maybe later based on my late stepdaughter's real & surreal notoriety in Vegas for hitting Keno maxima), maybe I'll buy a boat to live on on Boston Bay, Jamaica and invite him to come visit whenever he feels the urge to 'get his travel on' with his Bluetooth device loaded with that one LedZep song and this old chestnut he found roasting in a firepit down on the beach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N43sM0Xd3NQ].
Pretty good obit it was. I should ask him to do a quick scan of his ATX premises. I just did an experiment and the result/answer is that, "Yes, you can find out exactly how many times the two letter string "on" occurs on this page by invoking the C**trol-F command. Including 3 from you, we're up to 21 at this point, so I think Fast Eddie's advice is we should collect our winnings. Unreliable sources into the esoterica of Freemasonry tell me that if the count hits 33, a portal opens and a spectrum of good and bad things come out of it, not a single one of which bears even a passing resemblance to a winning lottery ticket. So, the Show Must Go Elsewhere...
I subscribed to The Transatlantic Pearl just in case transmission resumes. Looks like about a nine month and five day lacuna. Hope all is well with L. Macpherson, which I assume is not a nom de plume for the previously ubiquitous model from decades past.
I forget where you mentioned playing piano, but it was recently, so before I forget, here's a player I discovered about a year ago. Does other things, but mostly Grateful Dead & Phish. The Dead and I go back well over five decades, but although I've listened to some Phish's work and enjoy what I have heard, I won't link to any of Holly's non-Dead material. Hope you enjoy:
I think I was there at the original in 1971: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9UkmKiV8ds
Yes, this is the original recipe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1igVj3w8KE
She has a number of versions on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_kdrzPUBWE
Almost time to go, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBAc3qbjv8c&t=20s
If you like the Beautiful Jam, you may enjoy this curated collection as well. If you're familiar with Quicksilver's Happy Trails and notice a similarity to Calvary from Side Two, you're not alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PISOrQ-B72k
Porch cats are growling, time to earn my keep. Soon
Hey, I finally got some cooking time to watch Holly. Amazing piano! Glad to have this as a soundtrack. Thanks for recommending!
Wow, the snake song is fantastic. She does a great snake, and even has the snake move we do in my Haitian voodoo class. And Nori cat's worth another listen.
Look, if the Pennsylvania script worked, there is no reason why your caret system won't work. You are correct in assessing that criticism without putting forth an alternative rooster isn't worth your time investment. I would think you are on their radar, so that just might have been a goon. That guys comment sounded so ridiculously deliberate. Tereza, I can't recommend your book enough! Thks.
Helene! I mentioned you to my Australian YT viewer, Maria, who I just chatted with on Zoom. She has a group of women friends who are following my work. I told her how perceptive you were and how happy I was that you were reading my book. She's hoping I record it because she's dyslexic and reading takes forever! So I might do that.
Thinking that I'm on their radar is a very optimistic view ;-) But I agree that I couldn't have made up anything better to illustrate my point.
When available, I always use the listen app for an article. It allows multi-tasking unless of course the content or the task is difficult for me. But... I have to have a paper copy of books too! I have been traumatized in the past with losing contents upon computer failures (Before cloud stuff). So funny you mention dyslexia as I was thinking after the fact I should have said "deliberately ridiculous" instead. I have a mild degree of it I suppose. I am at the part of your book where they pull the rug out from under the municipalities. Wow, that's an eye opener. I love the details you provide. Here I thought it was just the individuals they targeted. I knew of the pensions in the market but I thought it was somehow optional. I am so naïve and didn't know the details. Thanks,
I know, I've been wanting to thank James Corbett for making me a better housewife (meaning married to my house). It's been much easier to get some projects done with his archive. But I don't like lugging my computer outside so I'm only doing what's on Luminary (Russell Brand's interviews, of which I still have plenty) and Corbett.
I think all lectures should be via earpods or radio (which has the advantage of community and scheduling my chores). I talk about that, I think, in Reinventing Education. Sitting still and listening is an unnatural 'activity.'
Thanks for the compliments! Is that the chapter on Detroit: It Takes a Pillage?
Yes, I just read Pennies from Kevyn. I absolutely love all your titles! So the substack app on my phone lets me listen to all the articles. That was a find. I dont have it on my computer, just my android phone. I listen to you on YT and then comment on substack on my computer. This is not related to anything but I just heard Patrick Lancaster on Fox's show Judge Napolitano. So my thought is they want to end the Ukraine thing and let some truth out, because we know a zebra doesn't change its strips. I follow the Special Military Operation very closely. Lets see what happens.
I do have fun with my titles ;-)
Very interesting on Ukraine. I'd really like to figure out what's going on with that via the Great Reset. I think I'll touch on it in the Ehret/ Corbett episode.
Since the critics are asking you to read their favorite books, it seems only fair that they should read yours. But apparently they are above that.
Plus, as you say on the back cover of your book, you don't have a fancy string of letters after your name to make you seem more authoritative. Perhaps you could add a randomized string of degree-sounding letters to help with this problem.
So happy that you're reading it, Mark. And as I mentioned to Helene, maybe I'll read chapters into my videos so we could get a proper study group going.
Tereza XyZ
Love the idea of a study group of your book!
I applaud your willingness to go toe-to-toe with an academic economist. I once suggested to one that the household should be the basic unit of economic analysis. His scorn iced the air.
This was only a few years after Thomas Piketty's "Capital" which had given me some hope that economics was on the verge of a paradigm shift. Having since read David Graeber's "Debt", I think it is fair to say that economics is modernity's gift to empire, a grim science to match the grim realities that attend the pillage and plunder of the materially mighty.
I like your five feminine economies. It sounds like a plan to hack the current system by overwriting it with new code. I once would've been highly skeptical of a plan like that but have recently begun to think of the "public benefit" model of incorporation as a similar kind of hack that might actually work. Now, I say, hack away. 🌼
Yes! The household is the building block of community. And, of course, the word economy comes from 'the management of the household.'
"His scorn iced the air." *!*!*!
I don't know if you know that Graeber's Debt is the foundation of my book, along with Ellen Brown's Web of Debt. Graeber was so brilliant. Sigh.
Yes. They stole the word and made it serve those who have no interest in the project of all of us dwelling together in the kinship of creation.
I did not know that your book springs from Graeber's. Today was my first contact with your work. I'm glad to know it as I'm also a big fan of both the Davids now that I'm reading Dawn of Everything.
I look forward to reading more of your work. ❄️
Oh well then I have to send you over to my two on The DoE:
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/when-mothers-ran-the-world
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/muskrat-love-and-anarchy
Enjoy! I love both Davids too.
Saw this and thought of you.
https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/your-book-review-cities-and-the-wealth?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android
This is so interesting. Someone (Guy, I think?) told me I should read this book in a recent comment. But clearly, my karma (and astute viewers) are leading me to it like a horse to water. Time to drink!
I love the idea of a book review competition. Since this is a book length book review, I'll peruse it in more depth but it does seem right up my alley with the secession one after it. My book uses lots of puns like "If at first you don't secede..." and "most likely to secede."
Thanks. If I called us Koinonia witches, I could say I've been one and have plans to continue by casting my work into the sacred civic. 🌼
I'm only through the 1st 1/4 of this and love how you start to dismantle him through questions. Socrates is smiling somewhere. (reading rest now).
It's quite clear James is smug & dismissive.
It is a fair observation that people in the work place can stink. Can it best be described as a Social-Status Hierarchy work in progress?
Your writing seems pretty thorough to me, I'd like to read your book, adding it to the huge pile of stuff I'm trying to read. However, I don't know squat about economics.
The less you know about economics, the less you have to unlearn in order to study my book. I undo 28 different paradigms, starting with money and democracy. I hope you do add it to your pile!
💯. You are fresh to me.
my wife is a glass ceiling pusher, and would agree there are Dolts Botching Shit, and ManSplaining in the workforce. I have so many stories. People suck in general, but there are the select few that are lights - that push our souls higher. Thank you!
What a very kind compliment, thank you Peter! And your wife sounds like a smart cookie ;-)
C.S. Lewis (who I consider a moron about lots of things) was wrong about the capacities but not untrue about the effect.
Men and women do generally do better when they can maintain some private spaces from the opposite sex, and much of the idiocies we’re dealing with right now can be credited to them women who sued to get into the sex-segregated golf clubs and eating clubs on campuses. The women of Kappa Kappa Gamma at the University of Wyoming can thank them for their service.
I agree. The segregation of CS's day was based on power and a shared echo-chamber of superiority. Including all genders (sic) and colors into the echelons of those who service the uber-wealthy didn't change anything--other than women also spending their lives in jobs that make the rich richer. I also think that men and women need spaces where they can be with their own, without the pressure of sexual dynamics. But certainly not because women can't live in the world of ideas ;-)
I never knew that women couldn't live in the world of ideas, but I have observed that men aren't anything special in that world either.
For me the subject is a big yawner!
This looks to me like a not awfully high IQ woman trying to make out she is 'right'. And when some higher IQ male says 'err, no, wrong', then she claims its a feminist issue. Rather than admitting its her own lack of intelligence that is the problem.
Well, derr, what else would a not awfully bright but entitled woman do but claim its a feminist issue?
Feminism in a nutshell: I'm a perfect. I'm a Princess. Its all men's fault. If you don't agree with me then you are the toxic patriarchy.
Sigh, no wonder men prefer porn to relationships.
I will certainly need to quote you on this. Thanks for the excellent example of my point, which is far better than anything I could make up.
Hi Tereza, I accept your point that an economist should familiarize herself with the contents of your book before critiquing your economy theory. But I still maintain that as an economist you should demonstrate the advantages of your theory over any criticisms made of it in order to refute those criticisms. Reverting to claims of 'its cos I'm a grrl' only makes you appear like the females Lewis described.
Thanks for responding, Ashowa. First, I would never say someone should read my book before critiquing my economic ideas. What James said in his opening comment was that I should read Sowell's book before having economic ideas.
In my reply, I asked him to clarify the goal of an economy because there was no point in critiquing methods if we had different goals. I said my goal was to serve families and communities. He said his goal was to "use resources as effectively and efficiently as possible." How is that measured? In profit, of course.
The only recent link I've made to this episode has been in Vanessa Beeley's comments where she talks about female journalists. Is that where you saw the link? And do you also think she's just whining 'its cos I'm a grrl'?
I'd like to view your video on Nuland but can't find it. Can you help me?
Yes, I did find you on Beeley's substack. It was her complaining about a lack of female journalists - sources - being quoted by the men commenting on her article that I thought was her being just plain silly. Its not her readers' fault they don't know any women to quote. Nor are her readers sexists - they read her after all! Maybe there is a lack of females reporting on war? Or maybe she should provide links to her fellow female war reporters. Support the Sisterhood n' all that. If only she wrote about knitting then I'm sure her readers would find lots of females to quote. And she'd attract more female readers too, which would be good as she seems to write in such a way as to attract a predominantly male readership! So you caught some of that irritation.
" He said his goal was to "use resources as effectively and efficiently as possible." How is that measured? In profit, of course."
I know little of economics but.... Couldn't an effective and efficient use of resources result in them being utilized at a lower cost? And thus lead to cheaper end products? Profits may be maintained at the same level by reducing the end product's sale price to match the advantage of these lower input costs. With the drop in the sale price of product I'd expect increased consumption. This would be of a general benefit to everyone in the economy - not just women and communities but to the entire nation eg factories using such products would also reduce their input costs. I'd imagine the benefit could be measured by assessing the increased consumption or improved well being of the population eg reduction in poverty levels.
As you've written whole book on these sorts of issues I'm sure you will now tell me why I'm wrong. I look forward to understanding more of your approach to economics.
I'm glad we 'stayed with the trouble' Ashowa and got past the irritation. Here's the Nuland video, which I think is my cleverest but only cites male sources, I'm pretty sure: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/victoria-nuland-is-dolores-umbridge. Oh no, I did cite Caitlin Johnstone in it. It was the first I put on Substack so not much text.
Vanessa's statement did get me to upgrade to paid. At one point, I was going to alternate men/ women for paid subs but I couldn't find enough women. I have a YT playlist called Where Are the Women? because it's hard to find them. But I'm glad I found Vanessa, I really admire her work.
My principle is that things are working the way they were designed to work, otherwise they'd be changed. Have you found prices to be decreasing? Even my daughters are in shock at how fast they're rising, even in their lifetimes. So hypothetically, yes, an economy could be designed to be of general benefit and improve well being through efficiency. If that hasn't happened, there's only two options--they're too stupid to figure out how to do it or we're stupid for thinking that's what they want ;-)
I thought the Nuland video was excellent - detailed, accurate, comprehensive and well presented. You only missed out one element. The NeoCons had a direct link to the school of academic Sabatteanism based in the University @ Jerusalem. Understanding the implications of that link reveals the motive that drives them. For instance Sabatteanism was based in Western Poland, I think that is the area where Nuland's family was based.
Now it just so happens :-) that I've recently posted several comments that, together, provide an introduction to this topic.
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/has-there-been-a-major-ww3-escalation/comments#comment-22261101
"there's only two options"
maybe the world is a little more complex than binary?
Could finding 'only two options' be a product of your limitations, not the economy's?
hi, noosfera. What my system does is provide a framework by diverting the money going to bankers in mortgage payments and instead be distributed as dividends to residents of the commonwealth. What they're distributed for, how they're taxed, how they're exchanged for another currency (like those digital rubles being inflicted on you) is up to the commonwealth and can be changed. Should be changed. But the goal is to increase the local exchange of goods and services, so if someone comes up with a better plan, they should be able to take their carets (with whoever wants to join them) and secede.