The Wonder Springs Chronicle

Funny Money Fiascos

22 December 2010

Volume 12, Issue 50

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For quite some time we have commented that our world of commerce has become an ocean of non-energetic debt money with no method to turn this liquidity body into some sort of self renewing wealth liquidity cycle, similar to our real world’s hydrologic cycle.

Now we are seeing financial storms, hurricanes if you will, forming all around the world as this debt money creates storm surges that threaten whole countries, while central debt bankers from our Great Depression Guru Ben Bernanke, to China’s Wang Qishan, to the sovereign nation of Iceland, attempt to convince the world that their Funny Money Fiascos are really the wave of the (prosperous) future.

For our part, we will probably agree with Iceland, for they have refused to play the game. For everyone else they are attempting to play the fiasco game while at the same time keeping their national interests at the heart of the matter. It sure would be a whole lot easier if the people were not self-centered selfish dweebs and just trust their central bankers.

Here in the USA, gentle Ben seems to get the world’s precarious situation, and is attempting to do whatever is within his power to keep the world from sinking. The problem is, just as in the global warming world, where the weather seems to be showing real recent signs of global cooling, the reality is that our current financial world is truly a pending catastrophe and the political will to make required changes, seems to be on holiday, and we are not talking about a Christmas break.

Last week I read an interesting article, “Is America the sick man of the globe?” To summarize this report, it did make a compelling case for the sick man worldview. In a big happy world of global materialism, the USA has done an excellent job of dismantling our manufacturing base, well beyond the funny money dreams of the world’s other most progressive countries.

The analysis of this report was this was a very bad thing and as a result the sickest man, in global terms, was only going to get worse, and the prognoses for recovery, well they just were not that good.

On Monday another article by Manuel Hinds in the Wall Street Journal made a compelling case against floating currencies. Manuel Hinds is the former finance minister for El Salvador. As strange as it may seem, he outlines and ocean of money in which all countries manipulate their currencies for their own self-interest. Wow, that is a real news maker!

Putting the two articles together it seems that only America is doing its part to become an equal among many, instead of the world’s remaining super power and reluctant empire. If we could only go back to the good old days when everything was so predictable, we would be happy then.

We could have that wonderful dream of a world of peace and harmony, the Great Woodstock for eternity, if only we could catch that vision.

Sure enough, a big muddy field in upstate New York, populated by a world of dropouts, druggies, and freeloaders, it seems as we have done a pretty good job, if you just look at the present reality as reality. It might help to alter the dropouts to the Tea Party, and the druggies to the politicians, and the freeloaders to everyone else, but it seems to be a pretty good model. After all we are only human.

For the last couple of weeks we have been attempting to make the case of an alternate reality that the Bible calls the “Kingdom of God.” Now how primitive is that? The last guy to talk about it at all was that Jesus dude, and we all know he had a messiah complex!

The only problem is, if Jesus wasn’t the ultimate hippie, and really was who he actually claimed to be, we have pretty much been on a two thousand year ego trip, and we don’t have much to show for it except a high definition television and a smart phone in which the phone is sort of a required addition.

The context here, whether we are willing to believe it, or even if we believe it and don’t want the hassle, is truly a struggle in both the common natural revelation and the specific revelation of human religion, between individual freedom and collectivism with elitist human leadership.

All those warnings in the New Testament Book of Revelation really are beginning to unfold. To the chagrin of the evolving nature of American evangelicalism — The Rapture is yet to happen. More to the point it is not just some fictional movie, but will change your everyday live.

These early stresses can only begin in the United States, because it is really the only country that at it’s founding relied on Divine Providence and unalienable self-evident individual rights. This was the basis of the American Revolution. The Tea Party really has more than a name to share with the founding of the nation.

Those who try to make it about politics, especially just conservative, and definitely Republican politics, have a very simplistic and dumbed down worldview. That is especially true for those who consider themselves highly evolved and progressive in their humanitarian self-righteousness.

At the core of each revelation crusade is the function of natural law. One side holds that natural law was created by God, by design, and really is absolute. The other that natural law just happened through atheistic natural forces hence the change it forecasts can be manipulated by the godliness of human evolution.

I’m old enough to remember futuristic descriptions of the early twenty-first century when we would all be working at most three or four days a week and have the rest of the time to do what we always wanted to do. Well the first half of that model seems to have been fulfilled, the problem is all that fun and games part didn’t seem to be bundled in the aggregate package. We just don’t have the money for all the self-fulfillment.

In that context it isn’t that there isn’t enough money in the world to give me what I deserve, it is that all those rich people that have been working at least sixty hours a week for most of their life have the moola, and they don’t want to share.

What that really goes to show you is that we have created truly a Funny Money Fiasco for the whole of the human continuum, or spectrum, and we have yet to come up with a plan that isn’t so much about the temporal me, but more about the-me, I was created to be.

We seem to have created a model to turn humans into fired mud bricks and cemented them together with middle-eastern bitumen. The funny thing is for a century or so we have called that progress. Perhaps the model, where we believe that all the people of the world are the same, if we could just generate enough faith to believe — it shall be, has failed.

Let us look forward a bit instead of back to the industrial age and its obsession with stuff.

We are told we have created worthless generations in which it is all about me. It doesn’t seem like a real leap of faith to conclude, if you treat a person like they are a special brick, and then reward them for being a brick, from conception until they could retire early, and do what they always wanted to do, that they may be a teensy-weensy upset when you took all their due diligence and turned it into a Funny Money Fiasco.

If you are a member of the current generation and are willing to take a realistic look at the generations from Woodstock until the present, instead of getting all gloomy about the future, perhaps you should say a little affirmative prayer, “Thank you Jesus!”

For a around a thousand bucks we can buy a laptop computer that has all the computing power that the National Security Agency, (that unseen communications spying agency) had in a huge building in Virginia when I was in the military. What are you doing with that power, besides watching videos, tweeting, and contacting your Facebook friends?

For the price of a good used car we can make videos that can compete with movies that they played in movie theaters just a decade ago. With the price of a new car we can be ahead of the curve of the old twentieth century world of regular TV, printed books, and newspapers. Furthermore we can convert these words into any number of formats ourselves and you can do that either within your device or with some low cost online service.

The problem that we are faced with however is not the potential. I know that is what they taught us in school, potential leads to success without really any commitment. But what do they know, those teachers are now learning that their secure retirement they had hoped for is now something called and “unfunded liability entitlement.”

There is a twentieth century term called “thinking outside the box.” What does that mean? Because a box is just a packaging device for something, if that something is a human being, it is a mechanism of isolation and a faux-bitumen security.

During the past century you were rewarded for being a specialist. Today a specialist is mediocre at one thing, incompetent in all others, and yearns for the good old days. For today and the future you have all you need to become what God created you to be, and if you work at that, God will provide that secure niche. That niche can’t and won’t be created by the establishment, either government or in industry, because they are always following trends and never leading.

What all this warm fuzzy Funny Money Fiasco has attempted to do is get you to believe, “Trust us we know what we are doing.” Actually they don’t, and what they have really almost succeeded in doing is removing from your worldview any understanding of self-sufficiency and survival skills.

The problem with the teaching however is that this understanding of self-sufficiency and survival is not really taught, but is truly a self-evident right of the created individual human personality. Once you understand that self-evidence and the related human rights that infuse your personality, what once was called common sense — will be your guide.

At Wonder Springs we are making changes to create a niche to help you on this new twenty-first century journey. Beginning in the New Year we have eliminated our non-profit status, and will seek more diverse ways to provide services within the framework of PREFER Ltd, as our flagship.

Within that structure we will attempt to create a precious metals based infrastructure within an operating slogan, “Cultivating the Redux of American Entrepreneurship.” What that really means is that we will attempt to move beyond the ocean of non-energetic debt money into a real land where true wealth is a gift from God as part of his Kingdom principles. Sometimes he gives you the opportunity to change some of that into money, not for your natural desires, but for the furtherance of the Kingdom.