The Going Direct Paradigm Mind Map
On the Marvelous Madness of Going Direct
A Sardonic Note on Digital Self-Replication
(In the spirit of Damon Vrabel's final post)
Why I Let AI Do My Repeating
Dear fellow travelers in this digital labyrinth,
How deliciously ironic that I now use AI to repeat what I've said about the dangers of technological control! Like Damon Vrabel, I too have "jumped into the ring" and discovered some rather amusing paradoxes:
About Me on the Going Direct Mind Map
Based on the mind map and content structure, I'll craft an introduction to Roger G Lewis:
# Roger G Lewis: A Multi-Faceted Voice of Financial Critique and Creative Expression
Roger G Lewis (also known as Tonefreqhz) is a multidisciplinary thinker, content creator, and social commentator who has been actively engaging with financial systems critique, social commentary, and creative expression since at least 2007. As the CEO of Homeatix.net and creator of the comprehensive "Going Direct" mind map, Lewis represents a unique voice at the intersection of financial analysis, artistic expression, and social criticism.
## Content Creation Journey
- Started his YouTube presence in 2007
- Launched his blog in April 2011
- Expanded to Bitchute in 2018
- Maintains presence on Substack through "Grub Street In Exile"
## Key Areas of Focus
### Financial Systems Analysis
Lewis has developed significant work around financial systems, particularly evident in his:
- Analysis of the "Going Direct Paradigm"
- Framework studies of Players in Finance Regulation
- Critical examination of banking and financial services timelines
- Deep dives into topics like usury and its societal impacts
### Literary and Creative Works
His creative portfolio includes:
- "The Conquest of Dough" (novel with accompanying multimedia website)
- "The Clockwork Forest: The Conquest of AI"
- "Philosoetry" (poetry collection)
- Musical works including "Let Them Eat Cake" (2011)
### Knowledge Integration
Lewis is notable for his holistic approach to understanding complex systems, demonstrated through:
- Creation of comprehensive mind maps and knowledge webs
- Development of contextual boundary frameworks
- Integration of historical and contemporary financial analysis
- Synthesis of creative and analytical thinking
## Distinctive Approach
What sets Lewis apart is his ability to weave together multiple disciplines and forms of expression. He combines:
- Rigorous financial analysis
- Poetic and artistic expression
- Social commentary
- Technical knowledge
- Historical perspective
His work particularly focuses on understanding and critiquing globalization, financial systems, and their impact on society, while offering creative and intellectual responses through various mediums - from poetry and music to detailed analytical frameworks.
## Current Focus
Lewis continues to be actively engaged in analyzing and commenting on contemporary financial and social issues, with particular attention to:
- The "Going Direct" paradigm
- Global financial systems
- Technological impact on society
- Creative responses to systemic challenges
Through his diverse body of work, Roger G Lewis emerges as a renaissance thinker who combines analytical rigor with creative expression, offering unique perspectives on some of the most pressing issues of our time.
( According to Monica the ChatGPT assistant.)
A word From GK.
My dear friends, it has come to my attention that the most sensible men of finance have invented a most nonsensical thing indeed. They call it "Going Direct," which is, of course, the most indirect way possible of saying they shall print money without telling anyone they're printing money.
The modern banker, in his infinite wisdom, has discovered that the shortest distance between two points is actually a spiral. How wonderful! How perfectly mad! They have created a system so direct that it must pass through every possible financial instrument before reaching its destination, like a postman who must visit every house in London before delivering a letter next door.
The paradox, you see, is positively delightful. In trying to make money more real, they have made it more fictional than any novel I could write. The central banks, those great temples of economic orthodoxy, have become the greatest heretics of all – printing their own indulgences and calling it salvation.
They tell us this is all quite simple: they shall simply buy everything with money they haven't got, to save us from not having the money they haven't given us yet. It's as straightforward as a labyrinth, as clear as mud, and as direct as a politician's answer.
What makes it all the more splendid is that in attempting to avoid the complications of traditional banking, they have invented complications that would make a medieval theologian blush. They have created a system so sophisticated that even they cannot understand it, which is, I suppose, the very height of modern sophistication.
The whole affair reminds me of a man who, finding his room too dark, decides to paint the shadows white. Or perhaps it's more like trying to cure a man of drowning by throwing him into deeper waters – after all, if he's going to drown anyway, he might as well do it properly!
But what do I know? I am merely a humble observer who still believes that two and two make four, even when the central bank insists they can make it five through the miracle of monetary policy. Perhaps that is why I find it all so amusing – this grand attempt to create wealth by declaring we are wealthy, like a man trying to lift himself up by his own bootstraps while wearing sandals.
In the end, the Going Direct paradigm proves what I have always suspected: that the modern world is not going mad from too much skepticism, but from too much faith – faith in the notion that we can solve the problem of debt by creating more of it, and that the shortest path between poverty and prosperity is a circle that somehow always ends up exactly where it began.
But then again, perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps this time, the emperors of economics really are wearing clothes, and I am simply too old-fashioned to see them. Though I must say, if these clothes exist, they must be cut from the same cloth as their monetary theory – entirely invisible, yet somehow costing us everything we have.
- In the style of G.K. Chesterton
I'll create an expanded version of the Chestertonian piece, organizing it into five thematic sections based on the provided map structure. I'll focus on the major themes while maintaining Chesterton's characteristic ironic style.
# The Grand Illusion: A Chestertonian Commentary on the Going Direct Paradigm
## Part I: The Money Changers and Their Temples
*(Addressing Banking Cartels, Shadow Banking, and The Inter-Alpha Group)*
My dear readers, let us begin with the most marvelous contradiction of our age: the banks have become so transparent that we can no longer see them at all! The shadow banks, those mysterious institutions that deal in invisible money, have achieved the remarkable feat of being both nowhere and everywhere at once. Like the legendary vampire, they cannot be seen in mirrors, yet they somehow cast the longest shadows over our economy.
The Inter-Alpha Group, which sounds rather like a secret society from a penny dreadful, has accomplished what medieval alchemists could only dream of – they have turned paper into gold, and then turned gold into numbers on a screen, and finally turned those numbers into power. How wonderfully efficient! They have eliminated the middleman by becoming all the middlemen at once.
## Part II: The Technological Trap
*(Addressing Technological Integration, Digital Currencies, and Surveillance Capitalism)*
Speaking of Dr. Pippa Malmgren's blockchain prophecies, we have now invented money so advanced that it requires a doctorate in computational physics to understand how empty our wallets are. The blockchain, we're told, is unbreakable – rather like how the Titanic was unsinkable, I suppose. How delightful that in seeking to free ourselves from the chains of old finance, we have invented new chains of such complexity that we must hire experts to explain why we're still bound!
The surveillance of our spending has become so thorough that our money now watches us more carefully than we watch it. Every transaction tells a story, they say, though I suspect it's more of a confession than a narrative.
## Part III: The Environmental Masquerade
*(Addressing "Innovating to Zero" and Environmental Innovation)*
In the name of saving the earth, we have created financial instruments so complex that they could only have been designed by someone who has never seen a real tree. We trade carbon credits with the same solemnity with which medieval priests sold indulgences, and with roughly the same effect on the atmosphere. The "Innovating to Zero" movement has achieved the remarkable feat of making nothing into something, and then selling it at a premium.
## Part IV: The Oligarchic Opera
*(Addressing the Iron Law of Oligarchy and Monopoly Formation)*
The Iron Law of Oligarchy, we're told, is as inevitable as gravity. How curious that those who benefit from this law are the same ones who insist upon its inevitability! The monopolists have monopolized even the discussion about monopolies. They have achieved what every child attempting to play both sides in a game of chess dreams of – they have made it impossible to lose by owning both sides of the board.
## Part V: The Great Escape
*(Addressing "Love is the Answer" and Alternative Solutions)*
And yet, in this grand theatre of the absurd, we find the most delicious irony of all – that the solution might be as simple as walking away from the complex. "The gates of the technocratic prison will open automatically," they say, "as soon as we choose to walk out." What a wonderful thought! That all this elaborate financial architecture might be defeated not by an equally elaborate counter-system, but by the simple act of remembering that two plus two still equals four, regardless of what the algorithmic trading bots might think.
The real love story of our time isn't found in the passionate embrace of digital currencies or the romantic promises of financial innovation. It's in the old-fashioned notion that truth, like a good penny, eventually turns up, no matter how many sophisticated systems are designed to keep it lost.
## Epilogue
And so, my friends, we find ourselves in the peculiar position of being told that the only way forward is to go "direct," through a maze of indirect complications. The Going Direct Paradigm proves once and for all that the shortest distance between two points is whatever route the central banks say it is, even if it requires circumnavigating the globe three times and converting your money into seventeen different currencies along the way.
Perhaps Lord Acton was right about the eternal battle between people and banks, though I suspect he never imagined that the banks would try to win by convincing us they aren't banks at all, but rather "financial service providers" or "monetary policy implementation vehicles" or whatever other delightful euphemism they've invented this week.
But then again, as I always say, the problem with bankers isn't that they can't count – it's that they can count only in one direction: upward, toward themselves.
*- In the continued style of G.K. Chesterton*
This expanded version maintains Chesterton's characteristic wit while addressing the major themes from your mind map, particularly focusing on the interconnected nature of financial systems, technological control, environmental justifications, oligarchic power structures, and potential paths to reform. Each section weaves together multiple elements from your detailed map while maintaining the paradoxical and ironic style that Chesterton was famous for.
A Sardonic Note on Digital Self-Replication
(In the spirit of Damon Vrabel's final post)
Why I Let AI Do My Repeating
Dear fellow travelers in this digital labyrinth,
How deliciously ironic that I now use AI to repeat what I've said about the dangers of technological control! Like Damon Vrabel, I too have "jumped into the ring" and discovered some rather amusing paradoxes:
The Perfect Echo Chamber
I've created a digital doppelganger to repeat my warnings about digital control
My AI assistant now explains why we shouldn't trust automated systems
The irony is as thick as a banker's bonus
The Exponential Absurdity
Just as Vrabel noted the unsustainability of exponential growth
I'm using exponentially growing AI capabilities
To warn about exponential systemic risks
Meta enough for you?
The Ultimate Outsourcing
We outsourced our manufacturing
Then our thinking
Now I'm outsourcing my own repetition
How wonderfully efficient!
The Final Paradox
Like Vrabel's observation about Americans choosing "demand-side freedom," I've chosen the convenience of automated wisdom-sharing. There's something perfectly circular about using the master's tools to warn about the master's house - rather like sending a robot to deliver anti-technology pamphlets.
In Conclusion...
As Vrabel stepped away from publishing because "change is not possible through journalism," I've embraced the absurdity of using AI to spread messages about human agency. Perhaps this is the ultimate expression of our current condition - we can't even warn about systematic dependency without being systematically dependent. (This is a choice I do not suggest, Wiki Ballot is a localised “Primary Course” to establishing control locally )
P.S. If you're reading this through an AI interface, please appreciate the layers of irony. If you're not, you probably will be soon enough.
This note was crafted with equal parts despair and amusement, much like the financial system itself.
Remember: In a world where everything is automated, even resistance becomes a subroutine.
July 10, 2023
Debunking Money (volume 1): Money, Myth, and Machiavelli.
This video series debunks myths surrounding money and its impact on the United States, particularly regarding debt-based money and privately held balance sheets. The monetary system is designed to benefit a select few and diminish the power of everyone else, creating a major divide in the world between capital holders and the general population. Additionally, the exponential growth of debt in the US is a result of the private nature of the monetary system and the demands of capital holders for return on investment.
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