Monday, December 10, 2012

More Money Meme Comment

My comment in the last post was published at New Economic Perspectives and the discussion there is ongoing and getting into the realm of Progressive philosophy.  I did a follow up comment in the context of what is being discussed.  It is here in that context.

My Comment:
That is the problem with false creators of money!  The only truth in their creation is that it serves them first and foremost and they are few.  The truth of true creators of money is that their creation  serves us all,  just like the world as a resource does, as equally and justly as we can make what has been created for us do that through money.  The ability to do that with money is progressive.  It is from our hands that it was created and in our hands to do good stuff.

There is a famous painting symbolizing the passing of something from hand to hand as a medium of exchange that answers where things come from.  It passes the power to create.  That is the gift of life.  To create concepts for ourselves applying to what was created for us out of eternity.  Use our heads!  That is progressive too.  That's the only way to get ahead in this world and the concept we created called  the Grand Experiment.



Sovereignty is a self evident truth.  You can bank on it! 

Another subsequent post to the discussion:

I think that the only thing we can truly create out of nothing are our own thoughts.  Beyond that they become something when expressed somehow.  We work with conceptual things.  To build our fundamental concepts on the very "absence of a thing" being the conceptual building block used to build a conceptual structure is, well, just funny.  Or pathetic.  Things real or conceptual are not built that way, at least for most of us in the broadest of terms.  At least at the present time but that is where we are at....and progressing.

We proclaim what "is" like a self evident right then build on it, not what exists by virtue of being absent.   That is what the debt money concept is founded on.  Absence creates presence.  Then it comes into "real" existence by virtue of a binary creation from nothingness of a counterpart existence of something that "is".  The thing that "is" goes back to nothing (not is) when its job is done.  That job is the work of its creator, the banking system.  The logic base is absence theory.

A different way of creating is with a thing that exists simply because we say it exists, maybe in abundance, and in conceptual truth it always existed.  Once brought into existence by revelation of a truth the strongest conceptual structures never go out of existence because they were founded on the existence of something like our rights and freedom not their absence nor born of an absence.  The absence of freedom was the building block of a prior system until we proclaimed that the absence of something is not a good thing to build upon.  A paradigm shift.

All we have to do is make a proclamation of what "is" to replace a concept built on non-existence.  We are good at doing that and building on it.  At least we used to have the courage to do that.  It took courage and conviction to face those that built on the absence concept that created the dominant power structure.  True then, true now. 

Money is the nothing.....etc.  That is the current money system foundation concept.  Slavery was also an implementation of philosophy based on the absence of something.  Freedom by proclamation replaced that idea.  The second great application of an earlier proclamation.  Is that a progress model?  Might it work again?  Is there some self evident answer? 

Courage, conviction, better thinking?  It is progressive!  The non-presence conceptual based side is defensive.  Defense to prevent the other side from scoring is a game strategy based on fear of losing something.  Defending freedom is a good strategy.  Defending the non-existence of something against the advance of progress is rather pointless unless it there is a very strong self interest on the side of the defenders that they can win by the illusion there is something there they are defending.  Conservative core thinking and the foot soldiers that carry the meme has worked so far to defend it.  Give the foot soldiers a new logic, a new meme and they will rally to the progressive side leaving few remaining. 

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