The Wonder Springs Chronicle

Redux Rendezvous III

9 June 2010

Volume 12, Issue 23

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In our Monday response to the question “Is the world broke?” posed by Fox Business, the Wonder Springs conclusion was that the world economic system was basically broken. We believe the reason for this is that there has been various conscious efforts by increasingly enlightened governance, in the United States, following the rest of the world, to replace the Invisible Hand of capitalism created by Adam Smith, with the visible hand of various collective régimes. This collectivism contrived to replace essentially the hand of God, with simplistic human planning, empowered by wishful thinking.

This broken worldview has led to a series of schemes in which the ability of human enterprise to create wealth has been greatly limited by simple gross negligence. In order for the world to continue to function, money created almost exclusively through debt, has as been utilized as energetics behind economic growth.

What none of these self-righteous elitists seem to understand is that wealth and money are not synonyms for the same thing. Wealth is basically transcendent, and in our time space continuum it can be converted into money. Money is simply a convenient medium of exchange from one form of wealth into another or to exchange goods and services. Especially in our twenty-first century money is a commodity like a whole lot of other things.

This brings up an interesting question and that is why humans seem to hoard money when they don’t stockpile much of anything else, with perhaps the exception of property? Perhaps it is simply the illusionary mystic that money is wealth.

It is not rocket science, but basic common logic to understand if the Invisible Hand of God creates wealth, and if we make a conscious choice to deny the reality of God, then our ability to create true wealth will disappear. Perhaps that makes money, once in coins and paper, and now in electronic bytes, a simple easy to understand idol of something that was once a true reality, and that was real wealth.

In order to create wealth we need to understand that once we again redux the Godly component into our enterprise processes, wealth will again be created. On Monday we explained using a small section of a forest as a model, most of the productivity is not present in the big trees, but in the bushes, flowers, grasses, animals, bugs, germs, and fungi. This of course presents a different worldview where symbiotic unity comes through diversity, contrasted with the world’s popular religion of progressive secularism; where unity is imposed from above by the more highly evolved among us.

Of course this form of Secular Darwinism has nothing to do with natural evolution proposed by Charles Darwin, except they both subscribe to the religion of atheism. In a world without Absolutes, this means everything must be composed on the fly, for everything is relative to the present, because a true understanding of the past and the future would surely show the whole process is a myth based upon a lie.

So to summarize the whole world is getting broker and broker, for we no longer need a wealth or even a stockbroker to allow us to try to scam a system based on the fraudulent scheme: “Just show me the money!” This means simply the personal peace and affluence we have so believed we deserved for a generation, we could hope was based upon a Ponzi Scheme, when in reality it is essentially random events that all our organizational brilliance can only slow the entropy of the process.

Since entropy is the last of all natural laws, it is just a matter of time until the randomness becomes universal chaos? Unless! Unless there is a design that focuses upon the unity in diversity of the natural order found in creation. What really upsets the self-appointed more highly evolved among us is essentially that they cannot compete and prosper in that unity in diversity system. The reason for that is that their solutions are just too dastardly simple to work in this world. Put simply, the survival of the fittest is an Absolute natural law, and the more inbred your intellectual specialty, the less capable you will be when faced with the true complexity of life’s challenges.

So what part in the natural order can we find in our broker and broker world. First of all you must realize as an individual that the days of your free lunch, meaning receiving much for which you contributed little, are over. Within that paradigm the security that we all took for granted for a long time has become part of our history. These are the days that try our souls, and we have been blessed to be alive at this time. In a few short months we have made the slogan, “Change we can believe in,” a historical anomaly. Stupendous change is now the order of the day. This is the time of the Redux Rendezvous.

Last week we purchased the Internet domain for Redux Rendezvous and are in the process of designing a new educational and informational website. The slogan for the site is: History leads as the future follows… So the design is basically to take the applications from history that contributed towards the concept of human cultural unity through the diversity of the individual and build a rendezvous. At the same time we must not ignore and understanding of the human desire for security in this world.

We have been indoctrinated into believing that others can do that more harmoniously and more efficiently than the individual can do it for him or herself. The major reason that is true is almost all the resources needed to make you a successful individual within a stupendously changing world are no longer are available. So they will need to be recreated and those new creations will be the intellectual seeds of the new wealth that is yet to be realized.

One truth has emerged from a century of increasingly progressive rubbish and that is it has produced a great deal of compostible material. Take that material, mix it into dry sand of an economic desert, and with just a little bit of residual liquidity, we will soon have good topsoil. That process is well underway, because the Great Recession created even more detritus to provide the organic material. The world’s bailout attempts really didn’t bail out anything, but it did give some liquidity to make the composting process work. The Great Recession was the tiller provision of God to mix up the whole mess and provide the planting bed.

Individual human ingenuity to create positive change will become the information of a unique seed of wealth production. So far so good, if this was a true free market economy a little rain from heaven, or some buckets of wealth transfer, or even a couple of buckets of commodity money, and the wealth producing garden would be up and providing a better future not only for our families but for others as well.

Here we enter into the reality of the still present reality. You have this great seed to produce wealth and you are really excited on what this might produce, so you just have to tell a good friend. Your friend responds with similar emotional glee, except their words are crushing because they say, “You can’t do that!” That will be followed, depending upon your friend, with one to a thousand reasons why your idea won’t work, all of those negative reasons coming forth from a personal aversion to really be human and based upon nothing but uncompostible hot air, a fear of insecurity, and personal shallowness.

Unafraid you head to your local banker, and he is much nicer, he doesn’t say you can’t do that, he says, “I think that is a really great idea, the problem is in order for me to loan you the money for your business, you need a history to show me that you don’t need the money, and then I will loan you all the money you don’t need anymore. Could I interest you in a car loan, or maybe a new mortgage?”

To the bankers benefit, bankers have no business lending to startup companies, and a few years down the road, when you really don’t need a loan, but that extra capital will smooth out some cash flow and inventory problems, your banker could be a very good friend to have.

Still believing in your wealth producing seed, in the State of Washington you go into a regulatory agency to see if you need a permit and the person who comes out to meet with you says, “You can’t do that!”

If for some reason there is some real work they would rather not be doing, they will enlarge upon the concept, “Here are some regulations, if you can make it work within those regulations, with an exemption you might be able to get a permit, but I would have to have it approved by a higher board of old time bureaucrats.”

Having honed your objections to, “You can’t do that!” homework, you tell your contact, “Those regulation are based on the state of the art twenty five years ago, what I propose to do is cutting edge and I can prove it!”

To which your agency contact responds, “I know that, what do you think I do here every day, sleep and surf the net for porn? The problem is the regulation are the regulations and nobody at any level of the department can override the regulations, because we might get sued and anyone who is in that bureaucratic chain will have to retire really early, and we might not get enough of a pension to live like we have become accustomed. We might have to get another job out in the real world. That is the reason I told you that you can’t do that upfront, it saves a lot of hassle in the long run.”

So since everyone you know is invested in the Wall Street stock market, because you know, your seed idea can’t ever work, there is not much hope today, other than to keep your day job and try to scrounge enough of everything to get your seed to grow and then keep it all for yourself. Now it only would make you feel good to point out that their wise “they can do” investments over the last decade have only broke even, even without inflation, but never fear, their financial advisor got paid for everything he sold to them, or sold for them, and they have no way of knowing whether the broker was really short or long, in the offerings at that particular time. Brokers are in the business of making money after all.

This is where the Redux and the Rendezvous come into synergism.

As the United States developed there were two types of meetings in which the self-sufficient individual family became part of larger community. One of those was religious and known as the camp meeting or the revival. The second was more economic and known as the rendezvous. At the rendezvous you sold the fruit of your year’s work, and hopefully received enough in return to provide the grubstake for the next year.

There are still camp meetings and revivals held in the United States. Today they are generally promoted as crusades or are in someway used to promote interest in getting enough people together to plant a church. They are the means by which American evangelicalism is planted in foreign countries. Revivals trace their ancestry back to before the revolution, through the work of George Whitefield and the Wesley’s, John and Charles. Most Americans have never heard of Reverend Whitefield for he was a traditional Calvinist, but in his time he was truly the Elvis of the American Revival scene.

I have been a participant in pretty much all of them, and even on the hosting side as it relates especially in the church planting efforts. Since churches are known as either frozen chosen sheep, or swinging from the rafters and dancing in the aisles sheep, the church planting meeting provides a positive means for God to renew his sheep and perhaps drag them slowly towards being redeemed humans for the first time.

There is quite a similarity between revivals and the rendezvous. The rendezvous focuses essentially on economic development, the revival on Jesus development. Both could be very boring affairs except for the music. Revivals are supposed to focus on piety; the piety of the rendezvous seems more related to gluttony. In the revival there is a preacher that is supposed to be the star, in the rendezvous the leadership is focused upon the participation of the individual, rather than being a listening and responding sheep.

Last Saturday I attended Mule Days in Reardan, the week before I attended the 4^thAnnual Western Arts show in Ritzville, where my cousin Jim Bauer had been commissioned to provide a metal art fountain representative of one of the community’s past leaders. Then on Memorial Day I attended a community church event in Sherman, not all that far from where my grandmother was raised. Last Saturday, with a little more time I could have attended Town and Country Days in Kettle Falls. The rendezvous season is just starting. Virtually every community that is large enough to be considered a community has at least one event. Wilbur has two, a Wild Goose Days in May and an Ag Appreciation Day in September. Then there are the rendezvouses that we call fairs that represent counties or larger areas.

The rendezvous is really also international, one of the most prominent is the Oktoberfest in Munich. In Bavaria any town large enough to have a brewery had a fest. In Augsburg they had two or three. A liter of bier, half of a broiled chicken, a circularly sliced white radish, and you had a good start on a week’s worth of gluttony, and really a taste of real humanity in true reality.

So the goal of Redux Rendezvous is really going to be three fold. First is to serve as a learning resource not only of history but also present opportunity. Second is to provide a mechanism and other resources for individual communities to promote their unique culture. Finally give artists, artisans, caterers, musicians, and anyone else who attempts and hopes to succeed in creating their own brand of the American Dream.

Next week we will develop the Redux Rendezvous brand a little more by providing resources beyond education to help people develop their own brand of the unique diversity required to take one individual out of many and use them to create one nation.