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27 July 2011

Volume 13, Issue 31

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Before you can get your physics right; you need to get your metaphysics in order.

— Anonymous apothegm

Since the closing of the physical frontier about a century ago, we have been attempting to create a new world order based upon faulty metaphysics. On the world stage we saw the communist Bolshevik revolution in Russia, with a simultaneous rise of progressive-socialism, lite and heavy brews, in the United States and Europe. To counter these collectivist philosophies we have seen a developing tension from libertarianism that can border on individual and collective anarchy.

If you look at what seems to be the current debt-limit — deficit-spending crisis in the United States, we see two different metaphysical systems trying to make the collapsing nation function again as it did, at least we thought it did, a generation ago.

Entropy is a stern master, because it sort of defeats you before you understand that anything is wrong. That makes a similar axiom, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” really a metaphor to “continue kicking the can down the road” one more time, until the road drops off a cliff. We are currently at the brink of that cliff and solving the debt-limit — deficit-spending debacle is really just a minor storm of a much more serious metaphysical conundrum.

So we look for solutions in what we thought worked in the past, hoping that trying these old things will change the present, and the future. In that illumination we still see the desire in the United States, in one camp to redo the New Deal, this time on steroids; in the other faction, to bring back the Reagan Revolution, this time replacing Star Wars, with faux-colonial nation building and-or libertarian latitudes.

“It’s all about jobs, stupid!”

Forrest Gump, pretty much summed it all up with that famous quotation: “Stupid is; as stupid does!”

There has been more than enough stupid to go around, for quite a while now. Jobs were the thing in the Industrial Age, when a job was really just a specialization cog in a material, money making machine; but once the metaphysics of materialism cease to function as they once did, all the attempting to game the old physics, is not going to change the new reality.

Let me insert a truly revolutionary thought, which has been around since the deep magic formed creation, but yet we do our best to ignore its metaphysical relevance, and was the major paradigm for the founding of the American experimental republic:

All human beings are endowed by their Creator to pursue the uniquely human dreams of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

In true natural law, metaphysical reality, that means, try as hard as you like, give material gifts for free, or for debt, do occult incantations until the cows come home, or flying pigs become a nuisance, but you are never going to change a human being into some hybrid consumption-production-specialization-machine, to truly fit within the Industrial Age model. Today that’s what we make robots to do.

We will always have the superior elites who think they know how those less selfishly endowed should act; but the truth of the matter is utopian plans and schemes always fail; it is just a matter of time.

This brings us to a fundamental question, “What should we do with human beings that just want to live their lives within the context of, “as humanly as possible?”

This is truly the metaphysical problem facing the world today.

This demands a broader concept of universal reality beyond: Gross Domestic Product = Consumption + Investments + Government + Net (Exports – Imports).

As we pointed out last week this is just a money equation that really has limited application in the world we have been trying to construct, especially since the 1970s and the universal nature of fiat money. Furthermore there is nothing within this concept that can account for the creation of true, open frontier, agricultural return, wealth.

This present economic system is really a compound interest banking framework, in which, if in someway you can industrially fabricate some sort of banking financial endeavor, as close to the source of fiat money creation as possible, you will be able to play monopoly within your industrial class, at the expense of all the rest of the world’s human population.

Now the Marxists, communists, true socialists, and other collective elitists will say that capitalism has failed, when in reality it is not an indicative capitalism failure, it is that our current definition and imperative for capital (money) that is floundering. More in the genre of Forrest Gump wisdom, “It is stupid to make money function only as money, when it could be used, by real humans, to create real sustainable wealth.”

The insertion of “real humans” is where the difficulty lies. Real humans cannot be herded like sheep, or cows. They don’t reproduce like rats, or rabbits. Heaven forbid; they are never satisfied with just, “three hots and a cot.”

So where do we go from here?

The political metaphysics of the whole process is rather simple, we need to bring the government closer to the people and we need to bring the people closer to the government.

That requires really putting true physical restraints on American Federalism as it has developed since the closing of the natural frontier. This means bluntly cutting federal spending in ways that neither the national Democrat nor Republican Party members will find satisfactory. However this really has nothing to do with political ideology, just the physical natural laws of efficiency.

For every dollar sent to Washington DC, a large certain percentage is going to be eaten up in the bureaucratic nature of national federalism and nothing else. We can debate, argue, pontificate, pout about the amounts, but natural law reality requires, the national contribution to GDP, the + G equation contribution, to decrease significantly; for a talking point, and to scare the hell out of all federal politicians, to less than fourteen percent, funded on present value receipts. That surely is a significant haircut to the twentieth century high teens and our current low twenties and climbing.

Since we are cutting inefficient things, while it is not yet truly a federal program, we need to figure out a way to control the costs of healthcare, wherever it may be found, or lost in the GDP numbers, to twelve percent, down significantly from the current sixteen percent, and approximately under fully instituted ObamaCare, twenty percent. That is going to require some leadership beyond implementation of solutions based upon crony capitalism or bureaucratic elitism, and under the fourteen percent spending limitation, surely eliminates bureaucratic federal implementation.

I could go into more specifics, but when you blow away all the chaff from the wheat, the Federal government and healthcare costs are the biggest drags on the opportunities for all Americans to escape the Industrial Age, specialization, paycheck quagmire. Over the years I can’t even begin to count all the people with American Dreams, that can’t take the first step because they will lose their health insurance. Thankfully the company-government pension has recently pretty much evaporated.

On the other side of the equation, people are going to have to fund government at a level that an efficient government needs to function, that is everything in excess of the 14 percentage Federal rates, through state and local governments. This means the government bureaucracy, infrastructure programs, entitlements, public education and possibly healthcare will need to be funded nearer the local community’s implementation.

The best way to do this is to sunset all laws and regulations, everywhere, to say five or seven years, to get them outside the political election cycles of even year terms, and then they can be only reenlisted by duly elected representatives of the people. It is called the continuance of the experiment of a constitutional republic, lest we have forgotten. In that process we pretty much take care of the need for election term limits.

That ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, pundits and commentators, political dinkers and dithers, is a plan to get this country off the kicking the can down the road expressway. Since this comes from the “other” Washington, it is about as fundamentally simple as can be explained to those who seem to have lost their common sense.

To bring in some self-government context, if we look at what is happening in the Eurozone, we see the attempts to create essentially European Federalism within historic nation states; which isn’t working out all that well for the foreseeable future. More about that later.

On the other hand in the United States we shall see a number of ways that individual states will begin to become more sovereign in their dealings with their citizens.

What all this means is that in terms of natural law efficiencies of reality, and completely independent of the metaphysics of politics, eventually the European Union will be forced to dissolve, a bad idea stolen from a former time, and in a similar concept the U. S. A. central government, will become closer to a commonwealth or a federation, rather than the current Federal model; we have all learned simultaneously to love and to hate.

This brings us to the people themselves.

When you are taught that you evolved from random chaos over millions and billions of years, it is pretty near impossible to believe that when you grow up, if you ever do, you can make some contribution to the world beyond holding a specialized job in either a global corporation or in the security of some bureaucratic government institution.

The great thing about this belief, is try as hard as the amorphous they—would like to build your self-esteem to fit in the global role, it truly is just unnatural physics based upon a metaphysical lie. God created you for an eternal destiny; those who desire to die with the most toys forfeit anything good in that eternal reality.

I have long studied survivalists and survival situations; survivors universally have something to live for beyond the trying circumstance; most of the time, that in this stressful emotional reality, is an almost totally mysterious belief that Divine Providence has a hand in the challenge and will bring about something good, for some unknown future reason.

This is part of the residual common goodness natural law; imparted to humans at the creation, which should, in honest evaluation, terminate all the atheistic evolutionary material compost taught in your formal education.

Last week we stated that it seemed as politicians were attempting to make jerky from a dead horse. Staying with the horses’ metaphor, the waste products from live horses are composted with straw to create a medium to grow mushrooms. It seems that this mushroom growing concept is applicable to many of the metaphysics in today’s leadership world.

Before we meet again next week, the pending Debt Ceiling drop dead point will have been reached. I fully expect something to have been done, but my attempt to make the previous sentence as passive as possible, should be taken to mean that whatever takes place really ignores the underlying issues, or that the closed-frontier, zero-sum, debt-leverage cliff will not be moved closer, it is just the timeline of the can kicking that is in doubt.

If something is passed that takes the debt ceiling past the 2012 election; that will quickly shift the focus to Europe and their mastery of the fine art of can kicking. That should buy us some time to become serious about the underlying monetary closed system, and will give the president the opportunity to give more speeches, on how his totally out of touch metaphysical constructs, deserve further opportunities; to bring about the demise of what remains of twentieth century progressive prosperity.

True European mastery of this limited, but fine can kicking art, may also give us the opportunity to see just how futile is this current system; where, while unlikely, we could see here the Dow approach fifteen thousand and see reported unemployment rates climb to near fifteen percent.

A six-month, or a somewhat similar extension of the debt ceiling, will keep Congress at work, which probably is a good thing, but it will take a true miracle for something truly to occur before the next election, but it might set the political stage, for something beyond mushroom feeding metaphysics, within the presidential election cycle.

Since we used a C. S. Lewis illustration last week, the concept from, “The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe” where it is always winter but never Christmas, probably will be the common person’s plight wherever they may live in our global economy.

The Eurozone however, has fewer tools to deal with their present reality, than we in these United States. The most fundamental differences being here, we have our united states and over two hundred years of practice in attempting to make it work. This is contrasted with Europe, which has a little over a decade of Babylonian style wishful thinking to draw upon.

When you look at the broader historical picture, it was the Age of Discovery coupled with the Protestant Reformation that held the European continent’s political entities somewhat intact until the world frontier closed at the end of the nineteenth century. In the twentieth we see Europe as the battle ground for two World Wars, and looking at both the current physics and the underlying metaphysics, those totally closed historic values remain; so starkly illustrated in what happened last week in affluent, warm and fuzzy, Norway.

We have entered into such a time in the history of human civilization on the earth, where human resourcefulness, the ability to think outside the current boxes, and to design new boxes, as well as other types of containers—to create, develop and sustain wealth are going to be constructed. We will be forced to find resourceful solutions, where humans will again find their humanity and that will require new opportunities to find efficiency in places we have slovenly taken for granted for way too long.