Globalisation Un-Entangled: A Flux Capacitor of Truthiness

With Footnotes in the Manner of Will Cuppy

"Money is a public utility, not private property."
—Bernard Lietaer, architect of the Euro,
before the Court of Monetary Justice¹

I. Shadows and Whispers

Shadows cast from secret whispers, taps on streams of digital imprints—
What oppressor does not despise what oppression will not censor?²
Self-censored, fearing exile, GCHQ/NSA/KVD hack democracy’s façade.
What democracy? sings with the voice of explosions.³

II. Tripartite Accords and Golden Curses

Tripartite accords of old, a Gold Standard.
Piggs shit Brics, Lutheran shards proffer gaping anuses—
Calvinist certainties, divine providence, eminent domain.
Democracy perverted.⁴
Union now as then in ’38: Orwell’s niggers, not counting niggers,
Six hundred million disenfranchised—more today?⁵

III. The Russian Trap

Russia brazenly refuses EU lessons, walks into sovereign debt’s snare.
Banking union serves tributaries? Pigs don’t fly, nor water flow uphill.⁶
Real brothers curse, keep friends:
Britannia gives Columbia a piece of her mind—
Elysium, curiously afflicted, offers no teat for the Eastern bear.⁷

IV. The Ghost of Wells

*"Ages ago," Urthred continued, "we ceased speaking—
Now thoughts clothe themselves in your mind’s words."*⁸
Eliza with Rogerian inscrutability hears mal-contents’ confessions—
A mirror held before cosmetic application:
Globalisation and Internationalism, confused.⁹

V. Despotism’s Nature

Despotism annihilates all between boundless strength and total debility.¹⁰
Our education our government, our reason our judge:
Globalism’s authority, coercion, competition vs.
Nationalism’s international cooperation.¹¹
Free will or determined authority?
Parmenides or Heraclitus—navigators both.¹²

VI. Centuries as Epochs

19th: Innate goodness, nationalism.
20th: Fallen man, Calvinist rule, globalism.¹³
21st: Partisans for patronage—
Putin’s bear (nationalism), Trump’s eagle (internationalism),
Corbyn’s uncommon people, Farage’s common cry.¹⁴
May’s Atlanticism? Elysian bosom suckles globalism on the right,
Internationalism on the left—restricted by two tits.¹⁵

VII. Creative Destruction

From good men/bad society to bad men/good society—
Optimism to pessimism, secularism to religion.
Globalisation? Simpletons see war as football with cannons.¹⁶
Wise men look not in Nietzsche’s Will to Power,
But in the custom house, says Shaw.¹⁷

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Footnotes (Will Cuppy Style)

¹ Bernard Lietaer’s Revolution: The Euro architect argued complementary currencies (like Belgium’s garden-earning "Torekes") prove money can "serve life, not rule it." Banks disliked this—gardens lack compound interest.¹

² Digital Oppression: Modern censorship isn’t brute force but algorithmic whispers. GCHQ/NSA’s "hacking democracy" involves silencing dissent before it speaks. Orwell would yawn.²

³ Democracy’s Explosions: When institutions implode, the sound is a thousand tweets shrieking. The 2016 U.S. election proved misinformation is the real WMD.³

⁴ Golden Calamities: The gold standard was a relic; the BRICS alliance, a pyramid scheme. Calvinist "divine providence" justified extracting wealth like a dentist pulls teeth.⁴

⁵ Orwell’s Unpeople: His essay "Not Counting Niggers" exposed empire’s dirty secret: prosperity built on invisible labor. Today’s disenfranchised? 700 million and counting.⁵

⁶ Russia’s Sovereign Snare: Post-2014 sanctions, Russia used currency swaps to avoid default. The EU’s banking union trap? Avoided by walking straight into it—a Slavic specialty.⁶

⁷ Elysium’s Teatless Bear: Europe offers no nourishment for Eastern aspirations. Putin’s Russia, like a hungry bear, licks its wounds and eyes Finland.⁷

⁸ Wells’ Telepathic Utopia: In Men Like Gods (1923), humans transmit thoughts sans words. Modern social media achieves this—regrettably.⁸

⁹ ELIZA’s Mirror: The 1966 chatbot reflected users’ words back at them. Today’s algorithms do the same, with more ads. Progress?⁹

¹⁰ Despotism 101: Burke warned despotism crushes intermediate powers. Modern CEOs and politicians took notes—then shredded them.¹⁰

¹¹ The Great Schism: Globalism demands homogeneity; nationalism, sovereignty. The 21st century’s quarrel: Can a nation be a team player? Unlikely.¹¹

¹² Philosopher Navigators: Parmenides saw static unity; Heraclitus, eternal flux. Modern politics? A clumsy mix of both—like driving with two maps.¹²

¹³ Centuries as Moods: The 1800s were naively hopeful; 1900s, grimly pragmatic. The 2000s? Anxious nostalgia with Wi-Fi.¹³

¹⁴ Patronage Partisans: Putin hugs bears; Trump salutes eagles; Corbyn champions "uncommon people." Farage? Pints and populism. Only May balanced Atlanticism—briefly.¹⁴

¹⁵ Binary Mammaries: The EU’s left/right duality feeds no one. PIIGS nations have many teats, but elites suckle only the choicest two. Greedy piglets.¹⁵

¹⁶ War as Football: Shaw noted wars resemble "football with cannons." Modern conflicts? Drone strikes and hashtags—less sport, more PlayStation.¹⁶

¹⁷ Custom House Wisdom: Shaw advised checking the custom house, not Nietzsche, for power’s source. Today’s power? Tax havens and data farms.¹⁷

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Total word count: ~850. Format: Poetic stanzas with superscript references, followed by Cuppy-esque annotations.

"The conquest of dough is done. The age of abundance begins."
—Roger Lewis, exiting the labyrinth,
trailing strawberry runners.

Reasoning Process

We are going to structure the answer as follows:

1. The poem "Globalisation Un-Entangled" will be presented in its original form, but with the embedded references marked by superscript numbers (e.g., ¹, ², etc.).

2. After the poem, we will list the references in numerical order, each with a citation and a short annotation in the style of Will Cuppy.

Steps:

• Extract the poem from the user's input. The poem starts with "shadows cast from secret whispers..." and ends with "democracy perverted."

• Identify the key references and assign a number to each. We note that the user has already included many references in the text, so we will assign numbers to these as they appear in the poem.

• For the annotations, we will write in a witty, slightly sarcastic tone, typical of Will Cuppy.

Note: The user's text is very long and contains many references. We will focus on the main ones that are directly part of the poem.

Let's begin by extracting the poem:

Globalisation Un-Entangled.

shadows cast from secret whispers, taps on streams of digital Imprints what oppressor does not despise what oppression will not censor and misdirect Secretive cabals of liberal political correctness

Self-censored fearing the exile of dissent Gchq Nsa Kvd , hacking whos democracy What democracy, sings with the voice of explosions

Tripartate accords of old, a Gold Standard. As Piggs Shit Brics and Lutherean Shards profer Gaping anuses and Calvanist certainties Divine providence and eminent domain

Democracy perverted. Union now as then in ´38, current quarrels Mr Striets Union and Mr Orwells Niggers Not counting Niggers, the other´s not like us six hundred million disenfranchised, is it more today?

... [and so on]

We will now assign superscript numbers to the key references as they appear in the poem. We note the following references:

1. "Mr Orwells Niggers" refers to George Orwell's essay "Not Counting Niggers".

2. "six hundred million disenfranchised" - this is a reference to Orwell's essay, which mentions the disenfranchised masses in the British Empire.

3. "Russia is brazenly refusing to learn from the EU’s mistakes" - this refers to an article about Russian economic policy.

4. "Real brothers can curse each other, friends." - This is from H.G. Wells' "The New World Order".

5. "an exasperated Englishman: 'I pray to God they keep out of the end of this war anyhow...'" - Also from Wells.

6. The list of groups (Cabalists, Gnostics, etc.) is from Mrs. Nesta Webster's conspiracy theories.

7. "THREE FACTORS IN EVERYONE Sir Arthur Salter" - from Wells again.

8. The Kyoto Protocol and climate change debate, referencing Vaclav Klaus and others.

9. "And now for a world government" by Gideon Rachman in the FT.

10. The conversation between Wells and Stalin.

We will assign numbers in the order they appear in the poem. However, note that the poem is very long and we cannot cover every single reference. We will focus on the most prominent ones.

Given the complexity and length, we will provide a representative sample.

Let's restructure the poem with superscripts and then provide annotations for the references.

Globalisation Un-Entangled: A Flux Capacitor of Truthiness

With Footnotes in the Manner of Will Cuppy

"Money is a public utility, not private property."
—Bernard Lietaer, architect of the Euro,
before the Court of Monetary Justice¹

I. Shadows and Whispers

Shadows cast from secret whispers, taps on streams of digital imprints—
What oppressor does not despise what oppression will not censor?²
Self-censored, fearing exile, GCHQ/NSA/KVD hack democracy’s façade.
What democracy? sings with the voice of explosions.³

II. Tripartite Accords and Golden Curses

Tripartite accords of old, a Gold Standard.
Piggs shit Brics, Lutheran shards proffer gaping anuses—
Calvinist certainties, divine providence, eminent domain.
Democracy perverted.⁴
Union now as then in ’38: Orwell’s niggers, not counting niggers,
Six hundred million disenfranchised—more today?⁵

III. The Russian Trap

Russia brazenly refuses EU lessons, walks into sovereign debt’s snare.
Banking union serves tributaries? Pigs don’t fly, nor water flow uphill.⁶
Real brothers curse, keep friends:
Britannia gives Columbia a piece of her mind—
Elysium, curiously afflicted, offers no teat for the Eastern bear.⁷

IV. The Ghost of Wells

*"Ages ago," Urthred continued, "we ceased speaking—
Now thoughts clothe themselves in your mind’s words."*⁸
Eliza with Rogerian inscrutability hears mal-contents’ confessions—
A mirror held before cosmetic application:
Globalisation and Internationalism, confused.⁹

V. Despotism’s Nature

Despotism annihilates all between boundless strength and total debility.¹⁰
Our education our government, our reason our judge:
Globalism’s authority, coercion, competition vs.
Nationalism’s international cooperation.¹¹
Free will or determined authority?
Parmenides or Heraclitus—navigators both.¹²

VI. Centuries as Epochs

19th: Innate goodness, nationalism.
20th: Fallen man, Calvinist rule, globalism.¹³
21st: Partisans for patronage—
Putin’s bear (nationalism), Trump’s eagle (internationalism),
Corbyn’s uncommon people, Farage’s common cry.¹⁴
May’s Atlanticism? Elysian bosom suckles globalism on the right,
Internationalism on the left—restricted by two tits.¹⁵

VII. Creative Destruction

From good men/bad society to bad men/good society—
Optimism to pessimism, secularism to religion.
Globalisation? Simpletons see war as football with cannons.¹⁶
Wise men look not in Nietzsche’s Will to Power,
But in the custom house, says Shaw.¹⁷

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Footnotes (Will Cuppy Style)

¹ Bernard Lietaer’s Revolution: The Euro architect argued complementary currencies (like Belgium’s garden-earning "Torekes") prove money can "serve life, not rule it." Banks disliked this—gardens lack compound interest.¹

² Digital Oppression: Modern censorship isn’t brute force but algorithmic whispers. GCHQ/NSA’s "hacking democracy" involves silencing dissent before it speaks. Orwell would yawn.²

³ Democracy’s Explosions: When institutions implode, the sound is a thousand tweets shrieking. The 2016 U.S. election proved misinformation is the real WMD.³

⁴ Golden Calamities: The gold standard was a relic; the BRICS alliance, a pyramid scheme. Calvinist "divine providence" justified extracting wealth like a dentist pulls teeth.⁴

⁵ Orwell’s Unpeople: His essay "Not Counting Niggers" exposed empire’s dirty secret: prosperity built on invisible labor. Today’s disenfranchised? 700 million and counting.⁵

⁶ Russia’s Sovereign Snare: Post-2014 sanctions, Russia used currency swaps to avoid default. The EU’s banking union trap? Avoided by walking straight into it—a Slavic specialty.⁶

⁷ Elysium’s Teatless Bear: Europe offers no nourishment for Eastern aspirations. Putin’s Russia, like a hungry bear, licks its wounds and eyes Finland.⁷

⁸ Wells’ Telepathic Utopia: In Men Like Gods (1923), humans transmit thoughts sans words. Modern social media achieves this—regrettably.⁸

⁹ ELIZA’s Mirror: The 1966 chatbot reflected users’ words back at them. Today’s algorithms do the same, with more ads. Progress?⁹

¹⁰ Despotism 101: Burke warned despotism crushes intermediate powers. Modern CEOs and politicians took notes—then shredded them.¹⁰

¹¹ The Great Schism: Globalism demands homogeneity; nationalism, sovereignty. The 21st century’s quarrel: Can a nation be a team player? Unlikely.¹¹

¹² Philosopher Navigators: Parmenides saw static unity; Heraclitus, eternal flux. Modern politics? A clumsy mix of both—like driving with two maps.¹²

¹³ Centuries as Moods: The 1800s were naively hopeful; 1900s, grimly pragmatic. The 2000s? Anxious nostalgia with Wi-Fi.¹³

¹⁴ Patronage Partisans: Putin hugs bears; Trump salutes eagles; Corbyn champions "uncommon people." Farage? Pints and populism. Only May balanced Atlanticism—briefly.¹⁴

¹⁵ Binary Mammaries: The EU’s left/right duality feeds no one. PIIGS nations have many teats, but elites suckle only the choicest two. Greedy piglets.¹⁵

¹⁶ War as Football: Shaw noted wars resemble "football with cannons." Modern conflicts? Drone strikes and hashtags—less sport, more PlayStation.¹⁶

¹⁷ Custom House Wisdom: Shaw advised checking the custom house, not Nietzsche, for power’s source. Today’s power? Tax havens and data farms.¹⁷

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Total word count: ~850. Format: Poetic stanzas with superscript references, followed by Cuppy-esque annotations.

"The conquest of dough is done. The age of abundance begins."
—Roger Lewis, exiting the labyrinth,
trailing strawberry runners.

Reasoning Process

We are given a complex query that involves multiple sources and a request to synthesize information into a specific format. The user wants a poem or prose piece that threads together various themes from the sources, with superscript references and explanatory footnotes, in the style of Will Cuppy.

First, I need to understand the key elements from the sources:

1. Egypt-Greece-Cyprus Trilateral Mechanism (2025): Focuses on institutional developments, energy security, and regional dynamics.

2. Bernard Lietaer's Complementary Currencies: Discusses how alternative currencies can stabilize economies and promote cooperation.

3. Roger Lewis's "Conquest of Dough" Trilogy: Explores themes of usury, political economy, and globalization through epic poetry.

4. Historical Debates (Bastiat-Proudhon, Smith-Bentham, Hamilton-Jefferson): Covers economic philosophies and critiques of usury.

5. Poet-Legislators (Blake, Shelley, Pound, Coleridge): Their spiritual and moral critiques of usury.

6. Modern Context (Horizon Scandal, Climate Change Controversies): Highlights injustices and ideological battles.

7. Global Power Structures (WhoRulesAmerica.net, ISGP Studies): Examines elite networks and supranational governance.

8. Political Correctness and Media Manipulation: Critiques of information control and "fake news."

The user also references the "Trial of Usury" at Wembley, which serves as a framing device. The output should mimic Will Cuppy's style—wry, erudite, and satirical, with footnotes that blend scholarly references with humorous asides.

Structure the Response:

• Poem/Prose Narrative: Weave together the themes into a cohesive story, using the Wembley trial as a backdrop. Include characters like Lietaer, Lewis, and historical figures.

• Superscript References: Cite sources from the search results (e.g., ).

• Explanatory Footnotes: Add Cuppy-esque commentary—dry wit, tangential observations, and mock-scholarly digressions.

Outline the Narrative:

1. Opening: Set the scene at Wembley, with Lietaer convening the court. Use dramatic, poetic language.

2. Historical Testimonies: Have Proudhon, Smith, Bentham, and Burke testify about usury’s evils.

3. American Founders’ Debate: Hamilton vs. Jefferson on banking.

4. Poet-Legislators’ Interlude: Blake, Shelley, Pound, and Coleridge condemn usury’s spiritual corruption.

5. Modern Witnesses: Roger Lewis presents his trilogy; Horizon scandal victims speak.

6. Verdict: Lietaer’s synthesis and the call for "abundance currency."

7. Epilogue: Tie in global power structures and media manipulation, ending with a Cuppy-style footnote.

Incorporate Sources:

• Use direct quotes or paraphrases from the search results, tagged with citations.

• For example, cite Lietaer’s work on complementary currencies , Lewis’s "Conquest of Dough" , and the Bastiat-Proudhon debate .

Footnotes: Mimic Cuppy’s voice—e.g., "As noted by Bernard Lietaer, money should serve life, not rule it.¹ (One wonders if he ever tried serving life with a credit card.)"

Final Output: A poem/prose hybrid with:

• Dramatic, rhythmic lines for the trial scenes.

• Superscript numbers linking to sources.

• Footnotes that explain references and add satirical commentary.

The Strawberry Verdict: A Trial in Seven Rounds

With Footnotes in the Manner of Will Cuppy

"Money is a public utility, not private property."
—Bernard Lietaer, architect of the Euro,
before the Court of Monetary Justice¹

I. The Convening

Beneath Wembley's arch, where 90,000 gathered like sheep awaiting shears,
Melvyn Bragg trumpeted: "Tonight, we try usury—that thief of centuries!"²
Enter Bernard Lietaer, robed as Chief Justice, bearing his "Seven Rounds of Monetary Evolution":

*From Barter to Abundance Currency,
Where cooperation births wealth, not extraction's curse.*³
A Greek chorus chanted: *"Seven rounds of evolution's fight!
From scarcity's darkness to abundance light!"*⁴

II. Ghosts of Economics Past

First witness: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, spirit aflame:
*"The Bank of France lent gold at 4%—our own gold!—while the people starved.
Today, your BIS perfects this theft: a global spiderweb!"*⁵
Adam Smith materialized, sighing: *"My ‘invisible hand’ was thrice mentioned!
Now it justifies excess while opposing usury’s moral rot."*⁶
Jeremy Bentham, calculator in hand: *"I defended interest between equals—
Not imperial systems crushing continents!"*⁷
Edmund Burke thundered: *"When commerce becomes conquest, society crumbles!
Your BIS is the East India Company reborn!"*⁸

III. The American Schism

Hamilton and Jefferson dueled:
HAMILTON: "A national bank is essential!"
JEFFERSON: "Banking establishments are deadlier than armies!"⁹
Lietaer intervened: *"The question isn’t whether monetary institutions exist,
But whether they serve the people—or rule them."*¹⁰

IV. The Poets’ Indictment

William Blake visioned: *"I see chartered streets, mind-forged manacles!
Usury chains souls in golden slavery!"*¹¹
Percy Shelley raged: *"Rise like lions! Shake your chains!
Usurers rule souls where kings ruled bodies."*¹²
Ezra Pound slashed: *"USURA slayeth the child in the womb!
CONTRA NATURAM!"*¹³
Coleridge mused: *"Usury transforms money from river to flood—
Tool to tyrant."*¹⁴

V. The Modern Evidence

Roger Lewis, author of Conquest of Dough, unveiled his trilogy:
*"From Threadneedle Street to Basel’s towers,
Usurers weave golden chains while strawberries bloom in humble gardens."*¹⁵
G.K. Chesterton boomed: *"Money breeding money? Mad as hats birthing rabbits!"*¹⁶
Horizon Scandal Victims wept: *"They said their computer was infallible—
Forced us to pay debts we didn’t owe. Usury in algorithmic robes!"*¹⁷

VI. The Verdict

Lietaer rose, voice echoing centuries:
*"USURY IS GUILTY on seven counts:

1. Violating natural law—money cannot reproduce like life.

2. Creating artificial scarcity amid abundance.

3. Concentrating wealth via compound mathematics, not labor.

4. Transforming tools of exchange into instruments of domination.

5. Corrupting spiritual bonds between humans.

6. Enabling imperial exploitation.

7. Blocking evolution to abundance economics."*¹⁸

*Sentence: Transformation! From extraction to regeneration,
Usury to gift, scarcity to strawberry runners spreading through city streets.*¹⁹

VII. Epilogue: The Seven Rounds Completed

As fireworks faded, Bragg concluded:
*"The heavyweight championship of ideas goes to human evolution.
The conquest of dough is done. The age of abundance begins."*²⁰

Finis coronat opus.

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Footnotes (Will Cuppy Style)

¹ Bernard Lietaer’s Defense of Complementary Currencies: Lietaer argued that local exchange systems and mutual credit networks prove money can "serve life rather than rule it." He designed the ECU and championed currencies like Belgium’s "Torekes," where immigrants earned garden plots through community service. Quite sensible, really—unless you’re a banker who dislikes gardens.¹

² Melvyn Bragg’s Spectacle: Bragg hosted this "extraordinary trial" at Wembley Stadium, blending Roman oratory with Super Bowl theatrics. A curious choice, given Britain’s weather.²

³ Seven Rounds of Monetary Evolution: Lietaer’s framework traces money from barter to "abundance currency." Round Seven—where cooperation replaces extraction—alarmed usurers. Strawberries, notably, require no interest.³

⁴ Greek Chorus: An actual chorus chanted Lietaer’s verses. Historians confirm they were paid in drachmas, not Bitcoins.⁴

⁵ Proudhon’s Mathematical Proof: The French anarchist showed that the Bank of France could lend at 1% instead of 4%, exposing interest as "pure extraction." The BIS, he’d say, runs this globally.⁵

⁶ Adam Smith’s Misrepresentation: Smith lamented that his "invisible hand" was cited three times total in his works—yet became capitalism’s alibi. He opposed usury for corroding "moral sentiments." Irony, thy name is economics.⁶

⁷ Bentham’s Warnings: The utilitarian defended interest "between equals" but condemned imperial exploitation. The East India Company, he’d note, evolved into the World Bank. Progress?⁷

⁸ Burke’s Fury: Burke opposed the East India Company’s charter, calling it tyranny. Today’s BIS, he’d thunder, is its "global reincarnation." Some things never change—except the acronyms.⁸

⁹ Hamilton vs. Jefferson: Hamilton wanted a national bank; Jefferson called banks "more dangerous than standing armies." Both missed the point: banks are standing armies.⁹

¹⁰ Lietaer’s Wisdom: He synthesized their debate: "The issue isn’t institutions, but whom they serve." Jefferson might have added, "And whether they accept strawberries as collateral."¹⁰

¹¹ Blake’s Prophecy: From "London" (1794). Usury’s "mind-forged manacles" still chafe. Blake would have loathed Bitcoin.¹¹

¹² Shelley’s Revolutionary Cry: From "The Mask of Anarchy" (1819). Usurers, he argued, are "tyrants more absolute than kings." Kings, at least, throw better parties.¹²

¹³ Pound’s Bluntness: From Canto XLV. "Usura" was his nemesis. He’d have scoffed at quantitative easing.¹³

¹⁴ Coleridge’s Analysis: In Table Talk, he distinguished commerce from commercialism. Usury, he said, "devours life." Like a poorly trained poodle.¹⁴

¹⁵ Lewis’s Strawberry Politics: His epic poetry likened economic cooperation to strawberry runners spreading abundance. City bankers, he noted, prefer thistles.¹⁵

¹⁶ Chesterton’s Quip: The writer compared usury to expecting "a top hat to give birth to rabbits." A sound analogy, if you’ve ever worn a top hat.¹⁶

¹⁷ Horizon Scandal: Victims testified that banking algorithms falsely accused them of theft—a "digital usury." The Post Office, tragically, lacked strawberry gardens.¹⁷

¹⁸ Lietaer’s Indictment: His "Seven-Fold Guilt" condemned usury’s crimes against "humanity, nature, and the future." The BIS declined to comment.¹⁸

¹⁹ Strawberry Runners: Post-trial, strawberries mysteriously grew through Wembley’s floor, symbolizing abundance. Groundskeepers were unamused.¹⁹

²⁰ Bragg’s Sign-Off: He declared the trial "a vision of transformation." The BBC later aired it as a South Bank Show special. Critics called it "overly botanical."²⁰

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Total word count: ~1,200. Suitable for 15-minute recitation.
Format: Text-to-voice optimized, with dramatic pauses at strawberry references.

"The age of usury ends. The age of abundance begins."
—Bernard Lietaer, exiting Wembley,
trailing soil from his robes.

"Man’s status is better and higher for the very reason for which it is thought to be inferior"

Pelagius (c. 390-418) "So this life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant". Cofi priest of the temple at Goodmanham in 627 ad

Grub Street In Exile

Mar 24, 2024

Satire VI: The Decay of Feminine Virtue[edit]

Main article: Satire VI

... novi
consilia et ueteres quaecumque monetis amici,
pone seram, cohibe. sed quis custodiet ipsos
custodes, qui nunc lasciuae furta puellae
hac mercede silent? crimen commune tacetur.
prospicit hoc prudens et a illis incipit uxor.

... I am aware
of whatever counsels you old friends warn,
i.e. "throw the bolt and lock her in." But who is going to guard the
guards themselves, who now keep silent the lapses of the loose
girl – paid off in the same coin? The common crime keeps its silence.
A prudent wife looks ahead and starts with them.

—6.O29-34

c. 695 lines. For the discussion and synopsis, see Satire VI.

When the Roman poet Juvenal asked 'Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? ' ('Who watches the watchmen? ') he was questioning the integrity of guards posted to ensure his wife's fidelity. More recently the phrase has been generalised to challenge authority, the utility of regulators, and schemes of quality assurance.11 Dec 2018

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6435839/#:~:text=When%20the%20Roman%20poet%20Juvenal,and%20schemes%20of%20quality%20assurance.

Innovation has increasingly become a key to long-run growth. Like all production, innovation must be financed, so finance is central to the innovation process. Indeed, this is why Schumpeter called the banker the “ephor” of the exchange economy (Schumpeter 1934 [1912], p. 74). For Schumpeter, the “money market” is the “headquarters of capitalism.” Yet, in recent decades, finance has retreated from serving the real economy: the financial sector serves itself, and companies in the real economy have become “financialised” to an important extent—to be discussed below.

3 https://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_837.pdf

Abstract This paper discusses the role that finance plays in promoting the capital development of the economy, with particular emphasis on the current situation of the United States and the United Kingdom. We define both “finance” and “capital development” very broadly. We begin with the observation that the financial system evolved over the postwar period, from one in which closely regulated and chartered commercial banks were dominant to one in which financial markets dominate the system. Over this period, the financial system grew rapidly relative to the nonfinancial sector, rising from about 10 percent of value added and a 10 percent share of corporate profits to 20 percent of value added and 40 percent of corporate profits in the United States. To a large degree, this was because finance, instead of financing the capital development of the economy, was financing itself. At the same time, the capital development of the economy suffered perceptibly. If we apply a broad definition—to include technological advances, rising labor productivity, public and private infrastructure, innovations, and the advance of human knowledge—the rate of growth of capacity has slowed.

April 20, 2017

BLAKE, EUROPE A PROPHECY, BREXIT OR EUROPE? ACCORDING TO WILLIAM BLAKE.

Britain’s enslavement
Tacitus explains the policy of his father-in-law, Agricola, in bringing the comforts of Roman civilization to the barbarous British:

‘His object was to accustom them to a life of peace and quiet by the provision of amenities. He, therefore, gave official assistance to the building of temples, public squares and good houses. He educated the sons of the chiefs in the liberal arts and expressed a preference for British ability as compared to the trained skills of the Gauls. The result was that instead of loathing the Latin language they became eager to speak it effectively. In the same way, our national dress came into favour and the toga was everywhere to be seen. And so the population was gradually led into the demoralizing temptation of arcades, baths and sumptuous banquets. The unsuspecting Britons spoke of such novelties as ‘civilization’, when in fact they were only a feature of their enslavement.’

Tacitus Agricola chapter 21, translated by H. Mattingly, Penguin 1948, 1973
Read more: http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=288#ixzz42Ur1m0hA

alis…mihi uidetur, rex, vita hominum praesens in terris, ad conparationem eius, quod nobis incertum est, temporis, quale cum te residente ad caenam cum ducibus ac ministris tuis tempore brumali, accenso quidem foco in medio, et calido effecto caenaculo, furentibus autem foris per omnia turbinibus hiemalium pluviarum vel nivium, adveniens unus passeium domum citissime pervolaverit; qui cum per unum ostium ingrediens, mox per aliud exierit. Ipso quidem tempore, quo intus est, hiemis tempestate non tangitur, sed tamen parvissimo spatio serenitatis ad momentum excurso, mox de hieme in hiemem regrediens, tuis oculis elabitur. Ita haec vita hominum ad modicum apparet; quid autem sequatur, quidue praecesserit, prorsus ignoramus. Unde si haec nova doctrina certius aliquid attulit, merito esse sequenda videtur.

• Translation: The present life of man, O king, seems to me, in comparison of that time which is unknown to us, like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the room wherein you sit at supper in winter, with your commanders and ministers, and a good fire in the midst, whilst the storms of rain and snow prevail abroad; the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door, and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry storm; but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, into the dark winter from which he had emerged. So this life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant. If therefore, this new doctrine contains something more certain, it seems justly to deserve to be followed.

• Book II, chapter 13

• This, Bede tells us, was the advice given to Edwin, King of Northumbria by one of his chief men, at a meeting where the king proposed that he and his followers should convert to Christianity. It followed a speech by the chief priest Coifi, who also spoke in favour of conversion.

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March 10, 2016

BREXIT SMEXIT, WHY WE SHOULD ALL BE FEELIN THE BERN AND THE UK REFERENDUM ON EU IS OF NO CONSEQUENCE IN OR OUT.

(3.1) “YOU HAVE FOUND OUT HOW MUCH FREEDOM DIFFERS FROM SLAVERY THROUGH REAL EXPERIENCES, SO THAT, EVEN IF EARLIER SOME OF YOU, THROUGH IGNORANCE OF WHAT WAS SUPERIOR, WERE TRICKED BY THE TEMPTING PROMISES OF THE ROMANS, YOU NOW, HAVING TRIED BOTH, HAVE LEARNED HOW GREAT A MISTAKE YOU MADE IN PREFERRING AN IMPORTED TYRANNY TO YOUR ANCIENT WAY OF LIFE, AND YOU KNOW HOW MUCH PENURY WITHOUT A MASTER SURPASSES WEALTH AS A SLAVE. (2) FOR WHAT OF THE MOST SHAMEFUL, THE MOST DISTRESSING SORT HAVE WE NOT EXPERIENCED SINCE THESE PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN THEMSELVES TO BRITAIN? HAVE WE NOT BEEN ROBBED ENTIRELY OF MOST OF OUR GREATEST POSSESSIONS, AND DO WE NOT PAY TAXES ON THE REST?(3) BESIDES PASTURING AND FARMING FOR THEM, DO WE NOT PAY YEARLY TRIBUTE FOR OUR OWN BODIES? BY HOW MUCH WOULD IT HAVE BEEN BETTER TO BE SOLD ONCE AND FOR ALL, RATHER THAN TO BE HELD RANSOM EACH YEAR WITH THE EMPTY TITLES OF FREEDOM? BY HOW MUCH WOULD IT HAVE BEEN BETTER TO BE SLAIN AND DIE THAN TO ENDURE WHILE SUBJECT TO A HEAD TAX? AND YET WHY DID I SAY THIS? (4) FOR, AMONG THEM NOT EVEN DYING IS SCOT-FREE, BUT YOU KNOW HOW MUCH WE PAY EVEN FOR OUR DEAD; WITH OTHER PEOPLE, DEATH FREES EVEN THOSE WHO ARE ENSLAVED, BUT WITH THE ROMANS ALONE THE DEAD LIVE ON FOR GAIN. (5) AND WHY IS IT THAT, EVEN THOUGH NONE OF US HAS MONEY (FOR HOW WOULD WE GET IT, AND FROM WHERE?), WE ARE SOLD AND STRIPPED LIKE VICTIMS OF A HOMICIDE? AND WHY SHOULD THEY BE MODERATE IN THE TIME TO COME, WHEN THEY HAVE TREATED US IN THIS FASHION IMMEDIATELY, AND WHEN ALL MEN TREAT EVEN NEWLY CAUGHT BEASTS WELL?(4.1) “TO SPEAK THE TRUTH, WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THESE EVILS, AS SOME OF US ENTRUSTED THEM TO SET FOOT ON THE ISLAND TO BEGIN WITH, AND DID NOT IMME-DIATELY DRIVE THEM OFF, AS WE DID UNDER THE FAMOUS JULIUS CAESAR; AND WE DID NOT, AS WE DID WITH BOTH

AUGUSTUS AND GAIUS CALIGULA, MAKE AN ATTEMPT AT A FORMIDABLE VOYAGE. (2) THUS, THOUGH WE INHABIT SOLARGE AN ISLAND—RATHER A CONTINENT SURROUNDED BY WATER—AND THOUGH WE HAVE OUR OWN WORLD AND ARE CUT OFF BY THE OCEAN FROM ALL OTHER PEOPLE TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT WE HAVE BEEN BELIEVED TO INHABIT ANOTHER LAND AND SKY, AND EVEN SOME OF THE WISEST MEN HAVE NOT PREVIOUSLY KNOWN OUR NAME ACCURATELY, WE HAVE BEEN DISDAINED AND TRAMPLED ON BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW NOTHING OTHER THAN GREED. (3) BUT ALTHOUGH WE HAVE NOT DONE THE PROPER THINGS BEFOREHAND, LET US, MY COUNTRYMEN AND FRIENDS AND KINSMEN (FOR I CONSIDER YOU KINSMEN, SINCE YOU INHABIT ONE ISLAND AND ARE CALLED BY A COMMON NAME), DO THEM NOW, SO THAT WE MAY LEAVE BEHIND TO OUR CHILDREN BOTH THE NAME AND REALITY OF FREEDOM, WHILE WE STILL REMEMBER IT. FOR IF WE UTTERLY FORGET OUR NATURAL STATE OF HAPPINESS, WHAT WILL OUR CHILDREN DO, NURSED IN SLAVERY?(5.1) “I DO NOT SAY THESE THINGS SO THAT YOU WILL HATE YOUR PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES (FOR YOU HAVE HATED THEM), NOR SO THAT YOU WILL FEAR WHAT IS TO COME (FOR YOU HAVE FEARED IT), BUT SO THAT I MAY LAUD YOU, BECAUSEYOU HAVE BY YOURSELVES CHOSEN ALL THE NECESSARY STEPS, AND THANK YOU FOR READILY WORKING TOGETHER WITH ME AND EACH OTHER. DO NOT AT ALL FEAR THE ROMANS; (2)FOR THEY ARE NEITHER MORE NUMEROUS THAN WE NOR MORE BRAVE. AND THE PROOF IS THAT THEY ARE COVERED WITH HELMETS AND BREASTPLATES AND GREAVES AND BESIDES PREPARED WITH STOCKADES AND WALLS AND TRENCHES SO AS NOT TO SUFFER FROM AN ATTACK OF THE ENEMY. FOR THEY ARE OVERPOWERED BY FEARS, UNLIKE US, WHO ACT OF FHANDEDLY. (3) WE TRULY ENJOY SUCH AN ABUNDANCE OF BRAVERY THAT WE CONSIDER OUR TENTS MORE SECURE THAN THEIR WALLS AND OUR SHIELDS FAR MORE SUFFICIENT THAN THEIR FULL SUITS OF ARMOR. AS SUCH, OVERPOWER-ING THEM, WE CAPTURE THEM, AND OVERPOWERED, WE FLEE, AND IF WE DECIDE TO WITHDRAW SOMEWHERE, WE SLINK AWAY AND HIDE IN SUCH MARSHES AND HILLS THAT WE CAN’T BE FOUND OR SEIZED; (4) BUT THE ROMANS, BECAUSE OF THEIR HEAVY ARMOR, ARE NEITHER ABLE TO CHASE ANYONE NOR TO FLEE, AND IF THEY EVER RUN AWAY, THEY FLEE TO APPOINTED PLACES, AND ARE ENCLOSED THEREAS IF TRAPPED. (5) AND IN THESE RESPECTS THEY ARE BY FAR INFERIOR TO US: THEY CAN ALSO NOT ENDURE HUNGER,THIRST, COLD, OR HEAT AS WE CAN, BUT REQUIRING SHADE, SHELTER, AND BREAD, THEY NEED WINE AND OIL, AND IF ANY OF THESE THINGS RUNS DRY, THEY PERISH; FOR US, ALL GRASSES AND ROOTS SERVE AS BREAD, ALL LIQUIDS SERVE AS

OIL, ALL WATER SERVES AS WINE, AND ALL TREES SERVE AS A HOUSE. (6) VERILY, THESE LANDS ARE FAMILIAR TO US AND OUR ALLIES, BUT ARE UNKNOWN AND ADVERSE TO THEM; AND WE SWIM THE RIVERS NAKED, WHEREAS THEY CANNOT GET TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THEM EASILY WITH BOATS. BUT LET US GO AGAINST THEM TRUSTING IN GOOD FORTUNE. LET US SHOW THEM THAT THEY ARE HARES AND FOXES ATTEMPTING TO RULE OVER DOGS AND WOLVES.”(6.1)

HAVING SAID THESE THINGS, EMPLOYING SOME KIND OF DIVINATION, SHE LET A HARE ESCAPE FROM A FOLD OF HER DRESS, AND WHEN IT RAN IN AN AUSPICIOUS DIRECTION,THE WHOLE MULTITUDE SHOUTED OUT WITH DELIGHT, AND BOUDICA, LIFTING HER HAND TOWARD THE SKY, SAID, (2)

“I GIVE THANKS TO YOU, ANDRASTE, AND I CALL UPON YOU AS A WOMAN TO A WOMAN, AS ONE WHO DOES NOT RULE OVER BURDEN-BEARING EGYPTIANS AS NITOCRIS, OR OVER THE TRADESMEN ASSYRIANS AS SEMIRAMIS (FOR EVEN WE HAVE ALREADY LEARNED THESE THINGS FROM THE ROMANS),(3) OR OVER THE ROMANS THEMSELVES, AS DID MESSALINA, THEN AGRIPPINA, AND NOW NERO (FOR THOUGH HE HAS THE NAME OF A MAN, HE IS IN FACT A WOMAN, AS ONE CAN TELL FROM HIS SINGING, HIS LYRE PLAYING, AND HIS GROOMING);RATHER, I RULE OVER THE BRITONS, WHO DON’T KNOW HOW TO FARM OR PRACTICE A TRADE, BUT HAVE LEARNED HOW TO BE CONSUMMATE FIGHTERS, AND CONSIDER ALL THINGS COM-MON—INCLUDING CHILDREN AND WIVES—AND AS A RESULT THE WOMEN HAVE THE SAME VALOR AS MEN. (4) RULING OVER SUCH MEN AND WOMEN, THEN, I BOTH PRAY TO YOU AND ASK FOR VICTORY, SAFETY, AND FREEDOM AGAINST IN-SOLENT, UNJUST, INSATIATE, AND PROFANE MEN—IF, AT ANY RATE, ONE SHOULD EVEN CALL PEOPLE MEN WHO BATHE INWARM WATER, EAT ARTIFICIAL DAINTIES, IMBIBE UNMIXED WINE, ANOINT THEMSELVES WITH MYRRH, SLEEP ON SOFT BEDS WITH BOYS—EVEN ONES PAST THEIR PRIME—AND ARE SLAVES TO A BAD LYRE-PLAYER. (5) TRULY MAY MS.DOMITIA-NERO NO LONGER RULE OVER US, BUT LET THAT SINGING GIRL BE LORD OVER THE ROMANS, FOR SURELY THEY ARE DESERVING OF BEING SLAVES TO SUCH A WOMAN, SINCE THEY HAVE ALREADY PUT UP WITH HER PLAYING THE TYRANT FOR SO LONG; BUT, MISTRESS [SC. ANDRASTE], MAY YOU ALWAYS BE OUR ONLY LEADER.”

https://www.academia.edu/302174/_Boudicas_Speeches_in_Tacitus_and_Dio_

February 26, 2019

SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND, THE FAT LADY WILL SING HER SONG.

In response to the current crisis of COVID-19, I compiled a comprehensive video essay that delves into various topics ranging from literature, history, philosophy, and beyond. The essay is a culmination of thoughts and reflections on a wide array of subjects, providing a thought-provoking exploration of ideas.

The essay begins with a reference to Henry Moore's introduction to Alexander Pope's "Essay on Man," emphasizing the importance of letting the writer's spirit and ideas come into contact with the reader's mind. It stresses the significance of receptive reading as a precursor to true judgment and understanding of the writer's work.

Moving on, the essay touches upon the documentary "The Last Druid," which sheds light on the Old Gaelic Order and its last member, Ben McBrady. The documentary offers insights into lost knowledge and ancient orders, providing a fascinating perspective on historical and spiritual matters.

The discussion then delves into the concept of telepathy and its role in communication, drawing connections to the works of H.G. Wells. The idea of communicating thoughts before they are articulated in words is explored, adding depth to the exploration of human connection and understanding.

The essay further explores the Pelagian controversy, highlighting the disputation between Pelagius and Saint Augustine. This leads to a discussion on the evolution of ecclesiastical religion and its impact on historical narratives.

The narrative then delves into linguistic concepts, such as language as a byproduct of thought and the idea of knowledge residing beyond the confines of individual minds. This leads to an exploration of Rupert Sheldrake's concept of morphic resonance, offering a unique perspective on the nature of knowledge and communication.

The essay then delves into the documentary "Sacred Weeds" by Andrew Sherratt, which explores ancient sites and neglected knowledge. It offers a captivating glimpse into mystical and historical elements often overlooked by mainstream academia.

The discussion then transitions to m poem titled "Globalization Entangled," which delves into political economy, national governance, and global governance. It provides a multifaceted exploration of societal structures and their implications.

The essay also delves into various philosophical timelines, including Eastern philosophy, Western philosophy, and the history of metals. These timelines offer a comprehensive overview of the evolution of thought and human civilization.

A significant portion of the essay is dedicated to the exploration of creativity, critical thinking, and the importance of leisure in fostering authentic expression. It emphasizes the value of idle hands in stimulating active minds and creative endeavors.

Throughout the essay, there is an underlying theme of seeking deeper understanding and tapping into collective consciousness. It encourages readers to explore diverse perspectives, challenge established norms, and embrace creativity as a means of personal and societal growth.

In conclusion, this video essay serves as a thought-provoking journey through a myriad of topics, inviting readers to engage with complex ideas and explore the interconnectedness of knowledge, history, and human experience. It encourages critical thinking, reflection, and an appreciation for the depth and diversity of human thought.

Title: Unveiling the Historical Context: A Journey Through Various Perspectives

In this blog post, we will delve into a myriad of historical and philosophical concepts, shedding light on significant events, literary works, and thought-provoking ideas. Our exploration will encompass diverse topics, ranging from the intricacies of the New World Order to the nuances of censorship trials and the profound musings of renowned poets and philosophers.

Historical Context: Unraveling the Ripple Effect

To embark on our journey, let’s first unravel the historical context that has shaped our understanding of the world. We will delve into the ripple effect of pivotal events such as the 7/7 London bombings, 9/11, and various other occurrences that have captivated mainstream media attention. Our exploration will shed light on the intricate coincidences and underlying narratives that often remain obscured in mainstream discourse.

Exploring Literary and Philosophical Dimensions

Moving beyond historical events, we will venture into the realm of literature and philosophy. From Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales to James Joyce’s Ulysses, we will uncover the rich tapestry of literary works that offer profound insights into human existence and societal dynamics. Additionally, we will delve into the realm of censorship trials and the interplay between personal theology and ecclesiastical theology, drawing inspiration from diverse philosophical perspectives.

The New World Order and World Governance

Our exploration will then lead us to ponder upon the concept of the New World Order, world governance, and the rules-based international order. We will examine the implications of these notions in the context of contemporary global dynamics, drawing parallels with historical precedents and philosophical discourses. Furthermore, we will scrutinize the calls for global governance in response to current challenges, contemplating the implications of such endeavors on individual liberties and societal structures.

Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy, and Societal Transformations

Delving into the realm of technological advancements and societal transformations, we will examine the implications of artificial intelligence, migration, and education. We will critically analyze how technological innovations intersect with broader societal issues such as inequality, corruption, and governance. Our exploration will encompass the role of technocracy in shaping global dynamics and its impact on individual agency within contemporary societies.

Philosophical Musings and Reflections

Transitioning towards philosophical musings, we will reflect upon the age-old debate between determinism and libertarianism. Drawing inspiration from renowned thinkers such as Paulo Freire and Diogenes of Sinope, we will contemplate the interplay between theory and practice, free will, and societal constructs. Furthermore, we will delve into the intricacies of linguistic tricks, circular reasoning, and the dichotomy between pragmatism and dogmatism in contemporary discourses.

Literary Allusions and Cultural Reflections

Our journey will also encompass literary allusions to works such as Ulysses and The Canterbury Tales, unraveling their cultural significance and enduring relevance in contemporary society. We will explore how these literary masterpieces offer profound insights into human nature, societal dynamics, and existential contemplations. Additionally, we will reflect upon the enduring impact of historical figures such as Prometheus and their relevance in contemporary philosophical discourses.

Challenges to Conventional Narratives

As we navigate through diverse historical, literary, and philosophical dimensions, we will challenge conventional narratives and seek to unravel obscured truths. Our exploration will encompass critical reflections on prevalent discourses, shedding light on underlying narratives often overlooked in mainstream media representations. By questioning established paradigms, we aim to foster a deeper understanding of complex societal dynamics and historical events.

Conclusion: Navigating Through Diverse Perspectives

In conclusion, our journey through historical, literary, and philosophical dimensions has offered a multifaceted exploration of diverse perspectives. From unraveling historical events to pondering upon literary masterpieces and engaging with philosophical musings, our endeavor has sought to foster critical inquiry and reflection. By delving into the intricacies of the New World Order, technocracy, and societal transformations, we have aimed to unravel obscured truths and challenge prevailing narratives. As we navigate through diverse perspectives, we invite you to join us in this ongoing quest for deeper understanding and critical inquiry.

Thank you for accompanying us on this thought-provoking journey through historical context, literary musings, and philosophical reflections. We hope that our exploration has sparked contemplation and inspired further inquiry into the complex tapestry of human existence.

Stay tuned for more insightful explorations and critical reflections in our future endeavors.

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PELAGIANISM, FREE WILL DETERMINISM #ACTUALFANTASY #156 #GRUBSTREETJOURNAL

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We must now take precautions to prevent you from being embarrassed by something in which the ignorant majority is at fault for lack of proper consideration, and so from supposing with them, that man has not been created truly good simply because he is able to do evil. … If you reconsider this matter carefully and force your mind to apply a more acute understanding to it, it will be revealed to you that man’s status is better and higher for the very reason for which it is thought to be inferior: it is on this choice between two ways, on this freedom to choose either alternative, that the glory of the rational mind is based, it is in this that the whole honor of our nature consists, it is from this that its dignity is derived.
Pelagius
Pelagius (c. 390-418) was an Irish or British ascetic moralist, who became well known throughout the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity. He was declared a heretic by the Council of Carthage. His doctrine became known as Pelagianism.

"Man’s status is better and higher for the very reason for which it is thought to be inferior"

Pelagius (c. 390-418) "So this life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant". Cofi priest of the temple at Goodmanham in 627 ad

We Know they are lying, They Know they are lying, They Know we know they are lying . They know we know they know they are lying

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July 24, 2022 QUEUE HERE. SYSYPHUS, QUE OF CUES, CUE QUE, COUP DE QUE.

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Sisyphus pushed his boulder,

The path smooth both ways

The same incline repeated

Parmenides like determination.

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Prometheus chained over the hill

Willing that Sisyphus may succeed

panta rhei, alike to his own flame.

Both legends for deaf ears.

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Heraclitus his ebb and flow

Crying metaphors to deaf masses

Sobbing similes to Blind tyranny

Calvary the summit to that bluff.

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Maimonides saw each contradiction

Each species of deafness, Loud

Each species of blindness, Dark

All no less perplexed than the next.

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Yet another Sisyphus rolls

Yet another Prometheus reveals

Yet another Heraclitus cry’s

Yet another Maimonides interprets

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Ancient and modern queuing

Missed cues and repeated lines

A dialogue of the divine comedy

Stockaded in linguistic prison walls.

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Plus ca change plus ca meme chose.

Roger G Lewis 2022.

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1. https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2020/01/03/161-a-welcome-initiative/

   ewaf88 on January 5, 2020 at 7:38 pm

   Test

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2. El mar on January 5, 2020 at 8:06 pm

   https://megacancer.com/2019/12/16/merry-christmas-from-the-big-bang/

   We do Not have a choice:

   „An individual’s “success” in life, in acquiring and consuming resources or having many offspring is the thermodynamic success of the Universe which uses and shapes humans and other life for its dissipative bidding. You think you are successful, but you have been used to further the apparent goals of an expanding Universe. It’s no accident that successful dissipation bolsters your self-image and gives you a good feeling as your homeostasis is maintained. More money, more food, more investments, more children, more dopamine, more………. it all feels good and that’s no accident. The Universe leads you through life in an endless quest for more free energy gradients and after each acquisition the happiness seems to fade until another is found.“

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   • austrianpeteron January 6, 2020 at 6:32 am

     “The Selfish Gene”

   • Steven B Kurtzon January 6, 2020 at 11:39 am

     I’m with you and James, (Megacancer author who is also on a small list I co-own)

     Steve

   • Xabieron January 6, 2020 at 12:44 pm

     Try turning down the thermostat on central heating and see how quickly your wife mentions Divorce……

     ‘Being comfy’ ie thoughtless use of available resources = implied mating suitability, reproductive success and longevity.

     Note: handing her a saw and an axe, and suggesting she visit the local wood will probably not work as an alternative strategy.

3. ewaf88 on January 5, 2020 at 11:03 pm

   I know some of you already follow Kurt Cobb – but for those who don’t a timely reminder about America’s true interest in Iran.

   Also read the comment at the bottom of the article.

   https://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2020/01/iran-energy-and-war.html?m=1

   Donald

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   • rogerglewison January 6, 2020 at 7:45 am

     https://ellenbrown.com/2011/04/16/libya-all-about-oil-or-all-about-banking/

     Libya has a few clues. This from Ellen Brown in 2011.
     Alex Newman wrote in the New American:

     In a statement released last week, the rebels reported on the results of a meeting held on March 19. Among other things, the supposed rag-tag revolutionaries announced the “[d]esignation of the Central Bank of Benghazi as a monetary authority competent in monetary policies in Libya and appointment of a Governor to the Central Bank of Libya, with a temporary headquarters in Benghazi.”

   • ewaf88on January 6, 2020 at 8:48 am

     Thanks for the link Roger – it makes the US and its allies come across as the axis of evil at times.

     As a sidenote Libya’s part in the 1988 Pan Am bomb has always been disputed.

     Just to avoid and confusion is piece about the rebels forming s bank from March 2019?

   • rogerglewison January 6, 2020 at 8:51 am

     the article is from 2011 ewaf88

   • austrianpeteron January 6, 2020 at 9:35 am

     Many thanks Donald – a very useful explanation. I have copied my children.
     Best wishes for a Happy New Year

   • ewaf88on January 6, 2020 at 12:10 pm

     Hi no problem – a happy New Year to you too although – in my view – it’s got off to a terrible and frightening start.

4. rogerglewis on January 6, 2020 at 5:52 am

1. This Varafoukis Lecture on The Nature of Money was brought to mind today after watching a more recent interview he gave to a French interview channel in February 2019, recommended to me by a French friend today.
   

1. In the second one He is asked to explain the Exponential Function.
   @ 24.08 income was around 55 trillion just say
   25:51
   55 there are too many zeros to worry
   25:52 about 55 the total size of financial
   25:57 derivatives was 70 okay so total income
   26:02 another world
   55 26:05 total derivatives 70 2007 exponential
   26:12 growth okay this is this global income
   26:17 had risen because of globalization from
   26:19 55 to 70 from in six years as a lot from
   26:23 55 to 70 growth in the size magnitude
   26:28 volume of the river
   26:30 others from 70 to 780 , nice so to
   26:38 put it bluntly planet Earth was not big
   26:40 enough for this bubble say burst in 2008

   Steve Keen A good friend of Varafoukis has published and been linked to here on the Physiocrats and the Energy aspects of the Economic System. The point is though that it’s not only about Energy qua energy.
   Which brings me to Dominic Cummings? I actually read all of the linked-to papers and blogs, After the whole exercise I have more doubts about Dominic Cummings before I started, The Un-necessary, “I will bin you”, machismo is rather off-putting. This Talk on the Edge web site is very good, Cummings would do well to watch it and internalise the ideas. https://www.edge.org/conversation/lee_smolin-the-causal-theory-of-views
   This is a very good video on Di-Electric Magnetism, now this guy is a proper misfit. What’s more, he is I think very close to scientific truth as we would get to, absent vested interests.

1. Smolin really is onto something as is this man.

   https://www.edge.org/conversation/stephen_wolfram-mining-the-computational-universe

   I had reblogged this but as it hadn’t appeared I have re-posted instead. For a Blog that purports to be about scientific rigour, it seems to me that Scepticism, essential to the scientific enquiry, should welcome other points of view. The edge site is particularly good at that, at the edges of Human Knowledge, the way forward is not placed onto a handy shelf of bumper stickers.

   “All men in this and other countries are accustomed from youth
   to measure the increase or diminution of wealth by dollars or other
   denominations supposed to be units of value…. Even when the facts
   are understood, the idea that the change is in the value of the commodities measured, and not in that of the dollar itself, is so natural
   that a long and severe course of mental discipline is necessary to get
   rid of it. Indeed, we question whether the most profound economist
   can be entirely successful in this respect “(Newcomb, 1879, p. 230).
   https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/6360154.pdf

   https://nextexx.com/electron-2-unanswered-questions/
   “The idea of electricity as a flow of ‘electrons’ in a conductor was regarded by Oliver Heaviside as “a psychosis”. This encouraged Heaviside to begin a series of writings
   Also consider the J.J. Thomson concept of the “electron” (his own discovery). Thomson considered the electron the terminal end of one unit line of dielectric induction. “Electrons as a separate, distinct entity…doesn’t really exist, they are merely bumps in something called a ‘field’.” – Dr. Steve Biller

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   • austrianpeteron January 6, 2020 at 7:44 am

     WOW, I can’t thank you enough for all this Roger – I am but a poor soul as far as advanced physics goes and my math requires something to be desired! After 75 years – at last a viable explanation – and I love short pithy videos.

     I did Chem, Bio, Phys at ‘A’ level in 1963 but instead of going to Imperial College to study biochemistry, I got diverted and joined a local car auction instead – great income, poor academic learning environment!

     I have retained a passing interest in science and through computing learned more about this subject – but your short videos tell an amazing story – isn’t this generally accepted by the mainstream theoretical physicists in their ivory towers? Here we have a unified theory – amazing. So, light really is a wave form and photons are a human virtual construct, like time.

     You have made my day – what an wonderfully knowledgeable site has Dr Tim enabled. I have passed it to my sons, one is an electrical engineer and the other a computer programmer (open source/Linux). I am sure that it will blow their minds unless they already know. I am definitely going to buy a Toroflux! https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=toroflux – £5

     Have you come across Prof. John R R Searle?- worth a look – he might have stumbled into dielectric fields too:

http://www.searlsolution.com/

1. • rogerglewison January 6, 2020 at 8:35 am

     Hi Peter,
     This Eric Dollard Video is very well worth watching its 3 and a half hours long but worth the time I assure you.

1. • Eulers Identity and other “Constants are In my view related to Electro Magnetism and field theory.

1. • My own research in these matters relates to Sound and Signal processing, particularly FFT analysis, I have also modelled Timbre in guitar bodies and pickups the Time and frequency domains are mutually exclusive in computation and windowing in computer modelling have profound effects on matters of precision. Always one as a modeller one must remember the Map is not the territory. an ancient and wise Military Aphorism.

     Claes Johnson
     is my tutor of choice in Applied Mathematics and FInite element analysis,
     

https://claesjohnson.blogspot.com/

1. • 
     his ebook the Dr Faustus of Modern Physics is well worth taking the time to read and then to ponder.
     https://www.freebookcentre.net/physics-books-download/Dr-Faustus-of-Modern-Physics.html

     Wal Thornhill and the Electronic Universe and Maurice Cotterals theory of Gravity, also Hoyle and Alfven on Steady State theories and Plasma Cosmology all fall outside of the deterministic Atomism of Post Copenhagen consensus Bohrite Dogma. Most of the good science is done in Garden Sheds in the back yards of FlyOver America and North of Watford and outside of Metropolitan areas,
     Being handy with Bale String and Gaffer tape can lead to a whole world of discovery and invention, it was ever thus.

     Listen to Alfvens two Nobel Lectures they are nothing short of inspiring.

1. • austrianpeteron January 6, 2020 at 9:25 am

     Thank you once again Roger, all most enlightening for me. And I will definitely follow up once I have cleared the publishing of my book this quarter. I have saved your comment and will return asap. My life is becoming somewhat busy!

   • rogerglewison January 6, 2020 at 9:25 am

     Hi, Peter, I have looked at the Searle Link when you have posted it before. I have had an interest in zero-point energy for many decades. My contention is that the earth is a perpetual motion Machine within a perpetual motion cosmos system. The Earth System Dynamo sits right before our noses and the problems we face are to do with Enclosure and False scarcity narratives, human constructs of institutionalised control for the protection of ingroup elite privilege.
     Anthropocentric thinking is a peculiar hubris of a certain breed of control freakery.

   • austrianpeteron January 6, 2020 at 9:59 am

     Yes Roger, I agree with you. It seems that I am not normal either – being a person to question everything. It offers and exciting and fulfilling life and at my age I should think about slowing down but actually life is speeding up.

     My father (an amateur philosopher) taught me ‘elegant sufficiency’:

     Elegant Sufficiency
     Having enough for fulfillment, while avoiding waste and excess, valuing quality over quantity.

     Ummm, have to remind myself again!

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2. rogerglewis on January 6, 2020 at 9:13 am

   As a straw poll I wonder how many Seeds commenters possess a soldering Iron? How many Seeds commenters can programme in or use Python or have any rudimentary skills sufficient to compile their own applications from Source? How many people here use Gnu/Linux.
   Tim uses Duckgo go as his browser of choice how many others use another browser outside of the Google Suite?
   On the Cummings Blog post this was the site I found most interesting of all that Dominic found interesting.
   

https://dynamicland.org/

1. This statement stood out?
   “No normal person sees an app
   and thinks “I can make that myself.”
   Or even “I can modify that
   to do what I actually need.”

   By that definition I am not a normal person, I think the statement is false it is natural in all of us to question, to ask why? We are trained and indoctrinated not to do it, that’s rather different to not having a natural inclination to do it anyway.

   In the Pavlovian dystopia of surveillance Capitalism, it is more important than ever to make Orwell Fiction again.
   “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it”. George Orwell

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   • Vic Kon January 6, 2020 at 12:50 pm

     Well, I can program in Python (although I dislike Python), can compile from source, and use Linux.

2. austrianpeter on January 6, 2020 at 9:26 am

   Got it thanks Roger

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3. Steven B Kurtz on January 6, 2020 at 12:03 pm

   The “blame game” is part of hierarchical and tribal competition. It solves nothing in the big picture. It merely shuffles positions of relative power of groups.

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   • rogerglewison January 6, 2020 at 12:17 pm

     The intellectually aggressive hedgehogs knew one big thing and sought, under the banner of parsimony, to expand the explanatory power of that big thing to “cover” new cases; the more eclectic foxes knew many little things and were content to improvise ad hoc solutions to keep pace with a rapidly changing world.
     In: Justin Fox. “How to Be Bad at Forecasting,” in Harvard Business Review, May 11, 2012.
     About prediction and forecasting. Fox commented that “psychologist Philip Tetlock (following the lead of Isaiah Berlin), divided the world of political forecasters into hedgehogs and foxes.”
     Tetlock is one of Dominic Cummings Go To’s.
     People who screw up or act illegally or Criminally Negligently, a big Clue, Bankers in 2008, should go to jail. That No Big wigs did and haven’t really since Enron and the Savings and loans scandals before. That’s not the Blame Game it’s asking that no one should be above the Civil or Criminal Legal and justice systems let alone Sat astride it and mocking it.

   • Steven B Kurtzon January 6, 2020 at 1:27 pm

     I don’t like abuse of power any more than you do. Go for it! Good luck, as you’ll need plenty. Scale will destroy all. Reset the deck chairs on the Titanic.

4. drtimmorgan on January 6, 2020 at 12:34 pm

   IRAN – a SEEDS take on the economy

   Re. assessing the tensions between Iran and the US/West, here are some findings on the economy of the Islamic Republic, drawn from SEEDS.

   I should caveat that available data for Iran is not wholly satisfactory, particularly over debt numbers. IMF data is useful, the BIS doesn’t list Iran in its credit data, and official Iranian stats are hard to navigate. Other sources are patchy on Iran.

   Starting with estimated GDP for 2019, the local number translates to $450bn based on market F/X rates, but the PPP equivalent (about $1,450bn) is probably much more reliable. C-GDP is probably very similar, in that there seems, unsurprisingly, to have been little or no ‘debt-bingeing’ “credit effect” behind Iranian GDP.

   ECoE, put by SEEDS at 7.0% (2019), is surprisingly high for a significant energy-exporting country. In USD PPP, prosperity per person is estimated at $16,300 (though only $5,080 in market dollars).

   Importantly, prosperity per capita is falling quite rapidly. SEEDS data shows it down by 16%, both local and USD PPP, since the recent peak in 2011. (It has dropped even further in market dollars, but what markets think about the Iranian currency isn’t ‘fact’). Prosperity in constant Rial is falling by between 3% and 4% annually, according to SEEDS.

   I’m posting this comment because realistic and useful economic info on Iran seems thin on the ground. Data converted into USD at market rates is virtually meaningless.

   Objectively, Iran has a problem in that prosperity per person is falling rapidly – but it hasn’t ‘collapsed’, as some might think or assume.

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   • rogerglewison January 6, 2020 at 12:46 pm

     Iran is an Islamic state, as such, it does not have the Deadweight of usury around its neck, merely of US sanctions. The Usury point is not to be trifled with although remains one of the great enduring taboos of Finacialised Capitalism and the Dismal Science.
     Prof. Helmuth Kreutz’s The Money Syndrome or Gringons Money Lent Twice to see how Usury is the problem and driver of a Growth imperative and all the absurd wastes and inefficiencies baked into the Cake to privilege the Financial parasite class.

   • drtimmorganon January 6, 2020 at 12:59 pm

     The Islamic ban on usury is also in the Bible, and was enforced in Christian Europe until the sixteenth century. Opposition to usury seems a wise principle.

     This needn’t mean that all debt is necessarily bad (mortgages have helped many). But opposition to usury means, to me, that exploitation of others is always bad, and few instruments offer as much scope for exploitation as debt.

   • austrianpeteron January 6, 2020 at 5:31 pm

     I agree about usury Tim and it has brought nothing but trouble upon large groups of people. However, I had a long discussion with Gerry about this when I was crafting my Chapter on Money. I had thought that money originated with tokens, like shells etc and then gold of course. But Gerry pointed out that money first began as credit: You do this for me and I will return at sometime in the future and repay you.

     Credit of course is the other side of debt. And as you say, debt can be good if it is used to yield a return like investing in productive machinery. Debt for consumption is not good as it is bringing forward future production and will eventually have to be balanced out – which is mostly where we are today.

     If companies has invested in income yielding assets instead of financialisation, buying their own shares etc then maybe we would be in a better place. It is of course a lot more complex than this but for me it is the core problem with crony capitalism.

   • Don Stewarton January 6, 2020 at 5:48 pm

     @austrianpeter
     If you read the article on ‘the big defector’, you can see that investing a little money into the whole advertising/ big data/ AI business has returned enormous GDP and immense wealth. But does anyone here think that has been ‘productive’?

     It seems to me that our problems are much deeper than money and debt. I do agree that talking to governments has to begin with money. With corporations, it also ends with money. With Degrowth happening despite the best efforts of government, then they may turn to Quality of Life in desperation.

     Don Stewart
     PS. Every time I type ‘Degrowth’. the Apple software ‘corrects’ me too ‘Regrowth’. Enough said.

   • austrianpeteron January 6, 2020 at 7:26 pm

     Thanks Don agreed. But you know they always say “follow the money” – I would not agree it is right, but it is what it is. And yes my own US online dictionary constantly confuses ‘degrowth’ – there, it has done it again. I have settled on ‘de-growth’ as it seems to like that!

   • Steven B Kurtzon January 6, 2020 at 1:36 pm

     Collapse of the credit system has likely the best chance of decreasing what you call usury. Until then, interest rates matching inflation should not be termed usurious, as retirees and those saving for it merely break even over time if rates of interest match inflation. If zero interest, they are pauperized over time.

   • Vic Kon January 6, 2020 at 12:58 pm

     It must be almost entirely the reduction of imports, isn’t it?

   • rogerglewison January 6, 2020 at 1:05 pm

     Tim we agree on that, manipulated behaviour is not the same as determined behaviour it is a flaw at the centre of atomist logic. Graeber is very good on Debt Jubilees they were the ancients solution to the “Problem of Usury”. It’s a huge subject area I actually blame Jeremy Benthams In defence of Usury for the fall of sensible political defence against Usury. Bentham wrote that in an attempt to get Adam Smith to recant from his views against Usury. It’s a delicious Irony of all the Adam Smith fan boys who have not taken the Trouble to read Wealth of Nations let alone Smiths substantial Body of other work. Darwin is in many respects as dumbed down and bumper stickered as is Malthus.

   • rogerglewison January 6, 2020 at 1:52 pm

1. • Its a tautology, Chicken and egg.

     The Solution is to create bonds bearing equity returns on real investment, not Casino Captial Debt perpetuating the Hubris of the Financial Oligarchical class and its cronies sand henchmen.
     Taleb calls it asymmetric Risk and its a Skin in the game problem, too many dilettantes and not enough stakeholders. Moral Hazard no longer exists in the current bankrupt Model, there are people who are to Blame for this Steven, we all must acknowledge our own part in the idiotic artifice, some are more guilty than others, we all know which side we stand on when we clean our teeth or shave whilst looking in the mirror.

   • rogerglewison January 6, 2020 at 2:05 pm

     http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~roehrigw/kennedy/english/
     Margrit Kennedy: Interest and Inflation Free Money
     (Published by Seva International; ISBN 0-9643025-0-0;
     1. Four Basic Misconceptions About Money 15
     …First Misconception: There Is Only One Type of Growth 18
     …Second Misconception: We Pay Interest Only If We Borrow Money 24
     …Third Misconception: In the Present Monetary System
     We Are All Equally Affected by Interest 25
     …Fourth Misconception: Inflation Is an Integral Part of Free Market Economies 29
     Interest on money drives need for expansion.
     Reliance on one currency ( the dollar is a defacto gold standard.with no monetisation of an analogue for silver to provide circulation and a multiplier due to velocity.
     ”Patriarchal Value Coherence
     All patriarchal societies in history have had the tendency to impose
     a monopoly of a single currency, hierarchically issued, naturally scarce or artificially kept scarce, and with positive interest rates. This was, for instance, the case in Sumer and Babylon, in Greece and Rome, and from the Renaissance onwards in Western societies all the way to today. The form of these currencies has varied widely, ranging from standardized commodities, precious metals, paper or electronic bits. But what they all have in
     common is that governments accepted only that specific currency for payment of taxes, that this currency could be stored and accumulated, and that borrowing such currencies implied payment of interest. They all have in common Yang characteristics as illustrated in Figure 1.”

   • rogerglewison January 6, 2020 at 2:23 pm

     “Academic Taboo
     Challenging a paradigm in any field is always a risky business. In particular, challenging
     the monetary paradigm can be interpreted as violating an academic taboo. It somehow
     gets in the way in being invited to the top conferences or getting published in the most

     prestigious “peer-reviewed” journals. Let us take as example the most prestigious award
     of all, the “Nobel Prize in Economics”. Many people ignore that there is a significant
     difference between that economics prize and the other five established in 1901; the ones
     in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. The Economics prize is the only
     one that wasn’t created by the will of Alfred Nobel, nor is it funded by the Nobel
     Foundation. Its technical name is the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
     Memory of Alfred Nobel”, and it was first awarded in 1969. Its laureates are selected
     exclusively by the Board of the Swedish central bank, and its funding is coming from the
     central bank. Is it surprising that none of the 64 Nobel Laureates in economics so far have
     made the mistake of challenging the monetary paradigm?

     Paul Krugman told the author personally in 2002 in Seoul, Korea, that he has always
     followed one piece of advice that his MIT professors had given him: “never touch the
     money system”. He did get the Nobel in 2008.

     Conclusions
     The four layers that generate the blind spot in the monetary paradigm reinforce each other
     to the point of locking us into a pretty tight straightjacket around what is perceived as
     “normal” or “acceptable” in the monetary domain.”
     Bernard Lietaer. The Monetary Blind Spot by Bernard Lietaer

     Bernards Integral Theory of Money is also very good.

   • rogerglewison January 6, 2020 at 2:35 pm

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     http://paulgrignon.netfirms.com/MoneyasDebt/MAD2016/essays.htm

     Grigons work, not just cartoon films are excellent. Hardly surprisingly the work is massively shadowbanned and kept from a wider audience.

   • rogerglewison January 6, 2020 at 6:41 pm

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     Hi Don,
     “It seems to me that our problems are much deeper than money and debt.”
     The point on Degrowth is epistemological in many respects and the semantics and semiotics of what is termed “Capitalism” claims its laurels based upon an idea of Growth being always good by the measure of GDP.
     The process of giving a new clear and compelling narrative around the distribution of Lifes necessities into a new paradigm is not a trivial task. The Advertising techniques of mass public manipulation will not easily and convincingly start playing the new tune.
     In many respects, a sort of Truth and Reconciliation process that was embarked upon in post-apartheid South Africa will be required to allow the opening of a new book, not just the turning of a page or opening of a new chapter.
     Part of the pickle our current leadership have got themselves into is that a climate of selective blindness dominates the breakdown processes of a failing system. Some people are actually still doing very nicely from the wealth transfers that have been engendered by the present system. Not everyone is ignorant of the processes at work and whilst many in apparent positions of power and influence are ignorant as evidenced by the Positive Money quiz on Monetary Mechanics in the Uk parliament.
     the PoSitive Money quiz Written and developed by David Faraday – Take the Quiz https://t.co/4Wp0AJz71N
     #quiz
     

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1. • http://positivemoney.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Positive-Money-Dods-Monitoring-Poll-of-MPs.pdf

     Money Debt and taxation are all intimately intertwined and do not do as advertised on the box. Managing the telling of the truth is not something which comes naturally to the Technocrats of the Rules-based international order,
     Jean Claude Junker ( Immediate past president of the EU commission, famously said.
     When the going gets tough, you have to lie.

     Jean-Claude Juncker
     https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10874230/Jean-Claude-Juncker-profile-When-it-becomes-serious-you-have-to-lie.html

     In Paradigm Shifts, old conventional theories do not step aside easily.

     “A paradigm shift typically occurred, Kuhn argued, when a new generation of scholars and researchers exposed to the rival theory felt sufficiently frustrated by this inertia and had reached sufficiently senior posts that they could launch an assault on the old theory. At that point, the proponents of the traditional theory faced a crisis. The scientific establishment would resist, often aggressively, but at some point, the fortifications protecting the old theory would crumble and collapse. Then suddenly almost everyone would switch to the new theory, treating the old theory as if it were some relic of the dark ages.”
     That’s Johnathan Cook on the Guardians attitude to Jeremy Corbyn, whilst Boris Johnson’s recent landslide has put Mr Corbyn substantially out to grass, The ideas which His Shadow Chancellor John Mc Donnel espouses and also those eloquently put forward by Janis Varafoukis have a large and growing constituency.
     In the fog of the change, a lot of jockeying for position is quite evident and the various factions of the Oligarchy are clearly at war with one another, and not just the old Aristotelian and Platonic beef.
     I rather like this scene from the Long Good Friday a classic British gangster movie.
     

1. • Make of that what you will, to me it’s redolent of the COP25 or Any G20 meeting, even the UNGA or Security council.

2. rogerglewis on January 6, 2020 at 12:42 pm

   Regarding Mis Pricing and misallocation of resources under advanced Financialised Capitalism this paper from 2010 by Saskia Sassen
   http://www.columbia.edu/~sjs2/PDFs/savage.pdf
   is very good regarding Debt as an instrument of Primitive accumulation, or Coercive Aggregation. These trends are Capital / Political and Ideological in nature and not I would argue driven by Energy imperatives but a necessity for keeping the medium of Exchange scarce so as to privilege one ingroup of Finacial Capitalists, the Roving Cavaliers of Credit as Marx called them. as such SEEDS is forecasting a problem which will arrive but could be postponed a little longer by Changing the Management.

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     http://paulgrignon.netfirms.com/MoneyasDebt/Grignon_Recursive_Re-lending_Analysis.pdf

3. Steven B Kurtz on January 6, 2020 at 3:24 pm

   Talk about “appeal to authority”

   My name is mentioned once in your 1000 word diatribe. I’m familiar with M. Kennedy’s work, and much else that you paste here.

   Questions:

   How does it change (from human intentionality and action) *sooner* than system crash or multiple decades long natural evolution? Do you propose pitchforks at a time when drones can control mobs? Why direct your energy at esoteric utopian theories?

   I hate fiat/credit based money too. But as our host says, this is what we’re stuck with now. You like to curse at the powerful and call them names. I choose instead to deal with probabilities going forward that will affect my son and grandsons, and small responses I can take in educating them with old skills as well as insights into system fragility/brittleness.

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   • rogerglewison January 6, 2020 at 3:41 pm

     Steven,
     The sort of Name dropping you indulge your self in is an appeal to authority, Citing Sources with their own reasoning is not appealing to Authority it is the presentation of Argument and data as evidence.
     I know you are upset that you think I have not shown your wished-for level of deference to your “Systems Paper on Over-Population”, It is outdated and also superficial on its treatment of the subject. I spent a good deal of time structuring a reasoned argument in response, again citing evidence and data which is checkable, and challengeable and you responded with abusive emails and continued sour grapes on this site.

     What I have presented here in this discussion thread is all publicly available for review and readers here and elsewhere can make up their own minds. Your own feelings on the matter are of no interest to me Steven.
     Enjoy the rest of your day. I am getting ready for a business trip to London, maybe even to meet with Dominic Cummings for an interview. I’ll let you all know how I get on.
     With Best wishes and no Animus,
     Roger

   • Steven B Kurtzon January 6, 2020 at 6:26 pm

     Supporters like Sheldrake? Cummings will not be impressed.

   • Steven B Kurtzon January 6, 2020 at 6:30 pm

     Please enlighten us as to the source of your claim that electromagnetism is not physical. Energy is physical if you recall, and electricity is energy. The Nobel Committee is all ears and ready to award a Prize.

   • rogerglewison January 6, 2020 at 4:30 pm

     I have responded here but the comment has not been published. It is copy and pasted onto my own blog.
     Regarding the charge of Diatribe and Esoteric utopian theories, I have not made any such arguments or any appeals to Authority. No, I do not propose pitchforks I subscribe to Erica Chernowerths research that non-violent civil resistance is what works and is the only plausible action in a State apparatus where the monopoly on violence and as you say access to instruments of surveillance capitalism are at the disposal of the current corrupted establishment leadership and being used with increasing frequency in France and the United States as well as in the so-called failed rogue states.
     Regarding your religious atheism Steven, your own zealotry does not convert into better arguments for the case you continually fail to make.
     Regarding the philosophy of mind and atomistic reductionist world view to which you claim no alternative Electro Magnetism is non-pyhsical, no one knows many of the answers that you claim to be settled, they simply are not.

   • drtimmorganon January 6, 2020 at 4:36 pm

     Not taking sides here – I wouldn’t dream of it! – but I do wonder whether this debate-within-a-debate – is of any interest at all to ‘the general reader’?

   • rogerglewison January 6, 2020 at 4:45 pm

     I strongly suspect it is not Tim, It is also of zero interest to me. Tedious is not the word.

   • drtimmorganon January 6, 2020 at 4:59 pm

     Then let’s stop it.

4. Don Stewart on January 6, 2020 at 3:48 pm

   Straws in the Wind
   *Is this Reality?
   https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/02/big-techs-big-defector
   It’s hard to argue that turning a billion dollars into 500 billion dollars isn’t real. So maybe the Yellow Brick Road is paved with Advertisements guided by Big Data and AI?

   *Maybe solar panels aren’t such a great idea after all?
   https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/03/the-ugly-side-o.html

   *Maybe electrical gadgets are a bad idea?
   https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/12/too-much-combustion-too-little-fire.html

   Actually, the description of stacked functions in the Too Much Combustion article leads me back to the ultimate stacking scheme that Albert Bates supports. The stacked functions works best, I think, for a family or small group located close to each other. For one thing, they require a lot of tending. There is no timer function with electricity and electrical control circuitry.

   I guess my main conclusions are:
   *Technology is much over-hyped in terms of increasing human flourishing.
   *The people who lust after even more technology are driving the ship toward the rocks.
   *It is useful to ponder a return to a biomass driven system, but as Australia shows all too well, biomass combustion will kill everyone unless it is tightly controlled in a CoolLab type environment.
   *The conclusion that the Earth can support 10 or 12 billion people with biomass requires the ‘end of the wild’, with everything turned into coppice (as I understand it). Which suggests to me that a more realistic target is 2 billion or less.

   Don Stewart

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   Steven B Kurtz
   on January 6, 2020 at 6:30 pm said:
   Please enlighten us as to the source of your claim that electromagnetism is not physical. Energy is physical if you recall, and electricity is energy. The Nobel Committee is all ears and ready to award a Prize.

   https://nextexx.com/electron-2-unanswered-questions/

   “The idea of electricity as a flow of ‘electrons’ in a conductor was regarded by Oliver Heaviside as “a psychosis”. This encouraged Heaviside to begin a series of writings
   Also consider the J.J. Thomson concept of the “electron” (his own discovery). Thomson considered the electron the terminal end of one unit line of dielectric induction. “Electrons as a separate, distinct entity…doesn’t really exist, they are merely bumps in something called a ‘field’.” – Dr. Steve Biller.

   Steven, see the edge Talk by Smolin and the Stephen Wolfram talk on Computational mining of the universe. also, read Claes Johnsons Dr Faustus of Modern Physics.
   Throw in a Dash of Hoyle and Alven and you will see that String Theory is at and has been at something of a dead end. As for the Higgs Bosun? believe that and you will believe anything.
   One of Doms Favourites is Dostoyevsky.
   “Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that
   he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the
   evidence of his senses only to justify his logic”. (Dostoyevsky)
   Ch 48 Penguin Logic.
   http://www.csc.kth.se/~cgjoh/mysticism.pdf

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6. Xabier on January 6, 2020 at 7:50 pm

   Returning to our main theme, I would suggest that historically ‘quality of life’ has never been the principal concern of governments, or any entity in a position to levy taxes (nomad hordes, etc) until the oil flow permitted a certain self-indulgent fantasy to develop in the 20th century – the Welfare State, now nearing its end.

   At best, it has occurred to more enlightened and less brutal rulers (or their advisors!) that healthy, fat, sheep were all the better to sheer, and no more; or that taxing merchants regularly and reasonably works out better in the long run than arbitrarily seizing their goods and torturing them for ransom. This should never be mistaken for evidence of benevolent intent.

   As the flows of fossil fuels start to dry up, the behaviour of pre-Modern societies will be a far better guide to how things might develop.

   In the case of complex societies in decay, the lesson is generally that the wind is not ‘tempered to the lamb’ (the tax-payer), and the shears that are used get rather bloody as a system in decline attempts the hopeless task of maintaining itself and what is regarded as essential infrastructure against all the odds, until the whole thing collapses. Why should we be any different?

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   • Steven B Kurtzon January 6, 2020 at 7:57 pm

     That’s how I view things, too. The kicking can routine via QE/ZIRP/NIRP/MMT is still operative, but if/when energy really bites, air will leave the balloon. No magic bullet is on the horizon unless fusion or an unknown surprises.

   • austrianpeteron January 6, 2020 at 8:36 pm

     Quite so Xabier, thank you and I entirely agree, we are no different. The rules for the rulers never change and they will fight to end to preserve their advantage:
     

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