The American Insurgency Humint (HUMan INTelligence)

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BRIEF: In his contact with the press this past week Texas governor Rick Perry seemed to deny any aspirations to run for president, rather he said that his desire was to work with other governors to decrease the role of the federal government in the individual states and in the lives of the American people. In other words, “Don’t mess with Texas and other states for the good of the people!”

The main media emphasis this past week seems to deal with the intrusiveness of TSA airport screening. To paraphrase the governor’s Texas slogan, “Don’t mess with my junk.” Of course the specific “junk” referenced signifies the touching of a person’s genitalia, but if left at that level misses the point. The underlying force behind all the uproar however truly stems from the increasing federal government interference in individual rights of material reproduction. In other words don’t mess with my literal junk, or perhaps more appropriate, quit messing with my lifestyle.

Some in the media have stated that this whole thing just points to a spoiled immaturity in the American people, inferring we need these measures to keep the flying public safe. However in the context of the insurgency humint, the real problem lies with the government itself and its efforts to focus only on the material and homogenous political correctness; rather than the hearts, minds, and realities of the people the government is called to serve.

ANALYSIS: Where do we begin this attempt discuss the rise of this insurgency clash of traditional American values with a century of increasing intellectual progressive government interference in their lives?

It is important to understand that we are dealing with two radically divergent streams of thought. These divergences work their way out into the real world in the form of totally irreconcilable worldviews, where through governance, we have two nations at odds trying to form and control a nation state. As stated in the opening Brief, one reality states, “Don’t mess with my junk!” The other reality states simply that, “We need to mess with your junk to provide for the common good.”

These realities really lie at the heart of physical warfare, so to dismiss these concepts to just the junk, overly simplifies the human element. The American Revolution was an example of the success of one reality. The rapidly following French Revolution was an example of the other. As we pointed out in last week’s “elusive world” this current American insurgency thus far has been focused upon “votes, ideas, and organization and achieving the moral high ground.” This is the means of a successful and lasting insurgency, but also its greatest weakness for it focuses upon individual rights and over time has the tendency to deny the common individual responsibility.

Many times the common good insurgency, resorts to violence to achieve its purpose. The previously mentioned French revolution being a prime example, to which you could add the Russian, Chinese, and more recently the Cuban. However only in the United States did a somewhat related progressive revolution take power without firing a shot, because it was built politically upon the votes, ideas, and organization, of the denying of common responsibility. A century ago, in the United States the successful progressive revolution was framed within the concepts of the robber barons contrasted with the individual folks.

This current insurgency seems to show the same ideas at the heart of the concept, only this time the robber barons are Wall Street, crony capitalism, and big government that think they serve the common good of the people.

What this really shows is that human nations states once established are somewhat self-renewing with a redux lifespan to between half to a full century. In the United States you have from the Constitution to the Civil War about eighty years. From the Civil War to the beginning of the progressive era was about fifty years. Because progressivism, especially in the totality of the whole world, could be seen as contributing significantly to WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII, it has taken about a century to run its course.

For purposes of this analysis, we have determined that the success of the progressive insurgency was codified in the United States with the creation of the Federal Reserve (FED) system of central banking that passed Congress on December 23, 1913, pretty much on today’s political partisan lines. There is an oft circulated statement by president Woodrow Wilson that states: “I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.” This link takes you to a long wikiquote that provides a fascinating summary of the development of current American monetary policy, but never verifies that quotation.

The FED creation was supposed to supply the nation with a sound currency, based somewhat on precious metals and a centralized banking system of an independent tensioned national monetary policy. That tension was to provide money free from governmental influence, private banking, and other special interests. What was not envisioned was the tremendous rise in economic growth in the United States and in the world. In that growth, except perhaps for present day China, a world system of debt-based fiat money has been created.

Simply based upon the human desire to seek security at the expense of stress, what we have created is a global enterprise cartel of business, government, and banking. In this structure where bigger is always better and there is money, money everywhere, none of it provides enough natural energetics to feed this cancerous behemoth dinosaur. As new wealth is created through the application of human enterprise, it is more rapidly converted to debt money and we have no mechanism by which to transform it back into wealth producing infrastructure.

Wealth creation is the energetic application of capital. Global exchange rates can only provide a market of mutually assured economic destruction, but cannot provide capital to create risk based wealth creation. In other words, we have created a highly structured and regulated economic world, which cannot produce the free market entrepreneurs required to generate new wealth. All our present system can do is enhance the movement of capital, but it cannot enhance the creation of wealth production. Therefore, a world based solely upon the ever increasing consumption of “junk,” has no mechanism to get money back into the hands of junk consumers, other than the tried and failed process of trickle down.

So how do we energize money to create new wealth, or is that even possible?

The global solution is really to bring money back into the real world. The real world is where wealth creators work, it is where people live and raise their families, and just because of the nature of the species, they acquire junk, either in the form of tangibles but also true human intangibles. The real world is also a world of natural law and common grace, a world in which limits of all sorts of natural unintended consequences can eliminate you (including all forms of enterprise) from the gene pool.

Just before the recent G20 Summit, World Bank Chief Robert Zoellick mentioned in an op-ed in the Financial Times that it is time to look at more stable ways to regulate the world’s currency markets. Among those options he outlined was some method that used gold as some sort of currency benchmark. After the summit, we see that such an enlightened view didn’t get much traction, especially from China and the United States, where attempts to keep low or lower exchange rates, now seems to be the operational paradigm.

We are learning from empirical evidence that fiat money, especially highly leveraged money, can only slow the descent to ruin. Furthermore as long as the two prime goals of the FED are both stable money and job creation the descent is only exacerbated. As some have stated if we have a stable monetary supply where money has some real meaning new jobs will eventually be created in ways unknown to our current desire for global order and governance. In other words, in the totality of this week’s Insurgency Humint Brief: Don’t mess with Texas or people’s junk!

To give the benefit of the doubt, which I seriously doubt, we can give former FED chairman Alan Greenspan at least an “attaboy” for an attempt to base this real money on real estate. The problem was that the financial leverage eventually became cancerous and killed the golden goose. However because the goose is dead, we now also have lost the golden goose egg that will continue the species. That does not keep those destined to walk forward by looking backwards from attempting to manipulate the current progressive infrastructure. This only enhances the inevitability of the success of this traditional American Insurgency, based on votes, ideas, and organization.

The solution is quite simple, but under this progressive bureaucracy — difficult to implement. That is simply let the walking dead die. In the last three years because of TARP, 2 Big 2 Fail, and a billion dollars in centrally planned Keynesian progressive stimulus, we have made the difficult, almost impossible.

In contrast to the other revolutions mentioned earlier in the piece, the American Revolution was based primarily, and in contrast to the others, on Divine Providence. The rise of American progressivism has been based upon either atheistic collective elitism — laissez faire capitalism, or Christian Preterism combined with social justice. None of the above are truly historic Christianity and hence cannot receive anything directly from the Divine Provider.

For this American insurgency to prevail and to succeed, it again will become a movement of God’s grace and not human will. That reality should scare the hell out of all of the above — provided they believed in God, hell, and heaven. Heaven is defined as an eternal destination in the process of being created on earth through time; unfolding the reality of ordained events.

In Acts 20:35 the Apostle Paul states that Jesus, spoke the words, “It is better to give than receive.” While I did not do an exhaustive Internet search, I did not find any exposition of this passage that put this parable in proper context.

First of all these words of Jesus are not found in any of the Biblical gospels directly related to the life of Jesus’ teaching. Hence they either have had to be somewhat common knowledge in the first century church or Paul received these words through Divine revelation. The first century knowledge is the best choice because of the context.

This is where the broader application must be understood in order to apply it to our common world. This part of the Acts chapter, Paul is speaking to the Ephesian elders. Therefore it is not an indicative statement to either the church or common culture, but rather an imperative to Christian’s and church leaders. Any Christian who has ever practiced this principle understands its truth, even though the blessings are generally not in kind, because that truly limits the blessedness.

Outside Christianity, other than as some moral admonition, everyone knows it is much better to receive than to give. This reception paradigm is the foundational action item of progressivism. Bluntly, “We will give you junk, protect you from others who want to take your junk, and all we ask in return is to believe this as a relative moral absolute (sic).”

This is the root of the old progressive insurgency’s success. In order to maintain their hold on political and economic power, progressives are making their moral absolute, absolutely relative by messing with the people’s junk. This is true at the TSA, taxes, ObamaCare, pensions, and a whole host of other entitlements — giving them to government bureaucrats, union workers, crony capitalists, Wall Street and bankers of most persuasions.

Any counterinsurgency to be offered by progressives to this Divine insurgency will fall short. Progressive enlightenment is limited to only the material realm and in that realm the offered junk must abide by the natural laws of the universe.

The true problem progressives have with Divine Providence, and the essential paradigm of the Christian gospel, is that they are a supernatural gift that is transcendent of our natural world and therefore must be received by Divine grace. In other words, the Christians’ saving faith is a gift that mankind cannot give, and must be received in the eternal context of becoming; instead of is presently.

In the process of the success of this common traditional insurgency, the most difficult lesson the new Divine Providence redux will need to learn is how to receive the gifts of grace that greatly supersede our understanding of reality. We then must move forward, for in the words of the country song, “The only way to keep it is to give it away.”

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