What is the
single thing we can do to improve the nation now and for the long run?
What really
determines the direction of the nation?
What controls the progress a nation makes toward that more perfect union? What
brings a sense of fairness and justice to all people simultaneously? What
divides us most fiercely? What is the blocking mechanism for funding even
approved legislation? What allows for the biggest and most influence on
government policy? The answer to all is money. If that is true then why haven't we at least re-examined
the systems it functions under and what it is influenced by? We must use the tools of advanced understanding
to focus on education about, and
creating a public mandate for money system rebuilding so strong the political
class cannot ignore it.
This
examination is a basic tenant of problem solving. The concept and discipline of
problem solving has been around for decades and the tools available to
determine the root cause of problems have increased in number, functionality
and sophistication . Why isn't it mandated that politicians use these tools to
solve problems and determine solutions free of ideology and aligned with
justice for all? A mechanism to institute such proper use of complex problem
solving is necessary to move from the politics of ideology to the politics of
expanding freedom and integrating justice into everyday life is missing.
The constitution
set up a structure for problem solving in a democratic fashion but we now need
to move to a, constitutionally mandated if necessary, method of ensuring the
use of the latest well tested methodologies and processes for problem solving.
Maximum freedom, maximum justice, maximum citizen education, maximum citizen
input should always be included in the methodology as regulating mechanisms of
the problem solving methods used and determining which one(s) to use and update
and to ensure there alignment with the freedom and justice or all paradigm.
This may be the only way to break away from the current politics of destruction
and obstruction dominating the 2 party system of government. But since all
things like this must go through that same system and that there is no national
referendum mechanism available to citizens it is a stretch to suggest any thing
can get done from now on. There is one path forward for citizens -- FOCUS on the
single most important problem now to force politicians to pay attention. Avoid
all measures of opposition and never quit demanding direct action designed by
us the citizens on this single most important problem. The problem is what is
the single most important problem that if corrected has the most far reaching
effects possible. This one argument making the case for what that single most
thing is - money.
Economic
Justice is primary justice. It is only primary because it controls and is superior
to all other justice - today. It is superior to all other justice because it is
the most powerful driver of behavior and its resultant activity in the world -
today. Money is ubiquitous -- in our monetized/ financialized world it now
affects every single person around the globe. Its methods of creation and by
whom it is created, its valuation and its method of circulation are the bedrock
components of a money system. It is how
they are done that is important. The creation is currently done as debt -- no
new money comes in to existence without someone going into debt. No country
would have an economy without government debt despite the crusade against more
spending etc. by government. It's an oxymoron to say we must quit spending when
in fact spending by borrowing is the fundamental tenant allowing this structure of an economy to
function at all. This oxymoron should be a huge red blinking sign telling us
our politicians do not understand monetary systems or are completely complicit
in the malfeasance the system is producing.
Economics is
rooted in the administration, valuing and circulation of a means of exchange.
This means of exchange is the foundation and the most basic of all
communication. Money has the potential for good and bad activity in and of
itself but its real and most powerful force is in how it is created, valued and
circulated into the economy.
In the final
analysis who controls this administration and its valuing processes of money is
who literally directs the course of the world over time. It is difficult to
imagine how there is justice when there is not equal access into all aspects of
the primary driver of all civilization.
Eventually
maybe we need to move away from money and its derivatives and all its forms to
accomplish a pure justice for all humanity. Moving away from money as the
primary driver of justice is likely to take quite a while barring a spontaneous
evolutionary event. It would likely take the enlightenment of a big majority of
citizens to internalize and institutionalize value in some way that allowed all
of us to intuitively recognize and be
able to communicate among ourselves, that understanding of value across all aspects
of humanity including and not limited to spiritual needs, physical needs, intellectual
needs, academic needs, work, desire, rights, freedoms, politics, democracy and
justice.
But until
then there are a myriad of ways to dramatically extend justice and freedom
using money organized and administered differently. Todays' incessant demand
for unsustainable growth is driven by exponentially increasing debt just to pay
the financial community. They create new money, dysfunctionally, from nothing.
They charge and accrue interest to be paid back to them - on money that never
existed mind you while NEVER creating the money to pay the interest. This
creates accelerating money creation, and inflation as well as exponentially
increasing debt from nothing just to pay the interest on that same debt and
accumulating interest. Debt creation has been purposely made part of the money
system as a positive (for the bankers -- not for us.) feedback loop which
guarantees debt growth exponentially. Many others designs would stop this and
provide us with an amazing powerful money that could fund accelerated progress
across all worthwhile endeavors of humanity, and create expanded freedom and
justice we've never experienced. Some feel we are 2000 years behind where we
could/ should be had money been correctly designed.
If a nation
truly believed in complete justice then nations, their leaders and its citizens
would be fully educated on the matter of monetary systems. When this was done
and fully understood, vast majorities would ask questions like why is "this or that
necessary', "why is this or that done and why"? The answers to these questions
would almost immediately change the course of national monetary policy and
dramatically alter the course of the nation toward sustainability and equality
without authoritarian mechanisms.
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