Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix

Stumbled over this fascinating presentation while wandering the WWW this morning:

"Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix" by Stephen Kell 

The prior blog entry was about Economic Monetary Dogma laughing at Banana Monkeys.  

The basic system structure relationship is similar to Unix and Small Talk.  Two different languages built on two methodologies.  The similarity emerged the more I got into the presentation.

The debt based monetary system is the legacy established system.  In the later part of the presentation Stephen says:  It is all just code that has meta data.  I see the monetary system design as one built of positive money that has Object Oriented Class and Instance of a Class attributes, methods and communication messages.  Debt aspects of money should be a State of Condition as applicable to Positive Money.  Not the basis for the monetary system.  

We have "Unix" money but within that monetary system structure its meta data can be viewed as Object Oriented.  It is not a Problem Domain that must be either debt based or debt free based.  Either my way, the debt based way or the highway.  There is no alternative (TINA) to the balance sheet foundation.  That is an accounting thing.  If money is given top level abstract object treatment as in an Object Oriented System it can account for itself through block chain triple entry book keeping.

Randall Wray should be invited to bring his dogmatic legacy TINA thinking over to the side of more structured system design and implementation thinking of the Information Age that builds a better taller tree structure to get to the moon.

He won't.

His structure is nothing but meta data.  With serious internal faults depending on what it is intended to accomplish.  Faults that would be features to the designers.  Serious bugs to the user community.  However since it is meta data like Unix there are thing more appropriate to Small Talk type object orientation within its TINA meta data.

Digital currency is one of those.  The object foot in the door that only knows functional design and implementation.

It is a complex thing to see in the simple view of Unix/Small Talk, Object/Function. 

The link is an extremely interesting framing of a general information structure that seems to have significant relationship to the debt based monetary system and how new ideas and methodologies can be applied to legacy systems.

Note:  The link uses a figure 8 Mobius Strip logo!  At least it looks like one. With it are the words:  Strange Loop.  Money is a Mobius Strip.

http://2dollarjefferson.blogspot.com/2014/07/mobius-money.html

http://2dollarjefferson.blogspot.com/2014/06/money-is-mobius-strip.html

http://2dollarjefferson.blogspot.com/2014/07/mobius-strip-music.html
Cool!