Grizzly Economics
23/April/2008 07:01 Filed in: Weekly Column
Volume 10, Issue 17
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By Brute D. Grizzly
Exclusive, Non-syndicated Columnist
The news recently has been horrible. It seems if there were no bad news, especially on the economy, there would be no news at all. In case you didn’t know, grizzly bears are no stranger to horrible news, we have been living with that kind of discrimination since western civilization came to these shores and gave us the scientific name of: “Ursus arctos horribilis.” Can you believe anyone, especially a jolly, plump guy like me being called “horribillis”? That’s more than enough to make my ancestors really, really, angry. To think that politicians and sport stars only figuratively bite off people’s heads, is a literal understatement.
But I’m not here today to harp on past mistakes of all the human immigrants to this land. I’m here to write about the present and the future, especially in what will make this continent work better, for more Americans and Canadians. I do have a lot of relatives who also live in Canada. The rest of you people might want to read this also, you are all members of what God and we critters call the human kind.
The biggest problem in North America seems to be oil prices. They say gasoline will be at four dollars per gallon by summer and Canadians relatively paying more. So is, or will, anyone in, or who would like to be in the political power structure, be willing to do anything about it? No. Why not? Because oil price increases really don’t effect those people, they are paid either directly or indirectly to let the markets do their thing. The facts however, are that energy runs the world, not money, and when the “hidden energy tax” on basically all goods and services kill economic growth, these big monopolies and cartels will have all the money and no place to spend it.
What these corporations and speculators are doing is basically Liquidity Mining what little true capital that exists within the postmodern national governments. This comes directly on the heels of a similar adventure in the subprime housing market. The effects of this mortgage meltdown will be rippling through the economy for at least a couple more years. Yes, the economic future of western society looks rather grizzly.
The problem is that in the 1980s, under the presidency of Ronald Reagan, Americans only adopted half of the solution to government owned monopolies, and instead substituted regulations that allowed for private takeovers of these cartels. Like this was going to change everything with greater market efficiencies? Government’s were even trying to sell the Brooklyn Bridge.
So now instead of the people of sovereign countries owning their coalmines, oil wells, electrical generations systems, and other public utilities, they are now owned by international corporations, whose sole legal existence in law and reality is to make money. Sure they are supposed to make money for the stockholders, but all they really do is provide a very handsome lifestyle for the corporate elite, very distant and removed from where they do their profiteering thing.
So what do we the people need to do? Make the climate Grizzly, both politically and economically for the whole energy sector. Drastically ration your own consumption, harass every politician who doesn’t get out front on this issue, and send the other bums back to the private sector this November, making it clear to all lobbying firms that former politicians are not welcome within their ranks either.
Some people believe that Teddy Roosevelt saved America from big monopoly industries, others think he did little of substance. However, throughout the United States and Canada, if flag pins, bumper stickers, and T-shirts were supplemented or supplanted with the images of the great Rough Rider as a symbol of human rage (Canadians probably know more about Roughriders than we Yanks), on the energy front things could change rapidly for the better. The Spanish-American War Rough Riders were formally members of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. With a history of those roots the angst of the energy industry would realize that people mean business, not just profits.
Finally if all else fails, bust up the monopolies, just as Margaret Thatcher did in Great Britain with the government owned utilities, and Ronald Reagan was doing as a half-vast job here in the United States. Market principles have to be free, or they are by definition not markets at all. They are really just another spin on socialism, or communism, but instead of putting government in from of these elitist institutions, put corporate, or globalist.
For reference material, just read F.A. Hayek’s, “The Road to Serfdom”, and where it speaks of just government monopolies, insert corporate where needed, or appropriate.
The “Grizzly Truth” however, is that there is no leadership on the current horizon, with true leadership potential and support from the people to make this revolutionary whole world changing shebang work. To begin this process will take Grizzly determination, and those with these elitist holdings surely are not going to give up without a strenuous fight. But what really are they going to do, retire to some off shore tax dodging haven and count their money?
In the mean time, you the human factors in the world are going to pay the price, at the pump, in your home values, in your take home pay, and your other investments. This in Grizzly terms is called Natural Judgment. As for Grizzly Bears and all other kinds of bears, the creator God of the universe takes care of us. Sure, we don’t have big homes, flat screen TVs, and cell phones, but does all that technology and stuff really make life any better?
This brings me to ask a Grizzly Truth question, actually two questions. What are you willing to die for? And what are you willing to live for? It is going to take a commitment from everyone to die to something and to live for something. We are not talking here about life and death in the natural sense; we are speaking only in the metaphysical. Most people are no longer even able to understand the psychological aspects of this, so how can they begin to understand the literal and natural.
When God created humanity, He created them in His image. As such eternal personalities, they were created to have “fellowship,” for lack of a better term, with God. When humanity rejected God, in that created perfect way, humanity became sick, not only to the totality of death, but also spiritually. All people long for that truly human purpose to be restored, but they lack within themselves the ability to cross the chasm to their eternal purpose. The void or gap creates in all human beings a Messiah Obsession.
A Messiah Obsession simply means, people live life with a void that can only be fulfilled by some Savior. Some try to fill that void with themselves, others try to fill it with what they call science, still others create mantras reciting that the void really does not exist at all, some search for other humans who seem to be more enlightened with some faux reality. Another Grizzly Truth is they all fail and fail miserably.
The easiest way in today’s world is to try to fill that void with consumer stuff. That is why the whole world economy is designed to produce that stuff. Do you have the latest, the biggest, the finest stuff? That is your reason, your best hope of filling the Messiah Obsession, get with the program or you will lose out.
What the subprime speculators and the oil monopolies do not understand, because they think they have filled their Messiah Obsession with their own abilities, is if you take away that stuff dream, that pursuit, from the ordinary person, they get, well like a Grizzly Bear, can you say “homo sapiens horribillis.”
Now this horrible human being is not how most people would like to live. They would rather be friendly and smile a lot, content to be their own Sacred Self, content that they think life is pretty good. But neither is it really that difficult to see that the Sacred Self really doesn’t fill the Messiah Obsession void. Whenever the Sacred Self is threatened externally, people naturally draw deeper into nihilistic suppression.
Now the typical Christian would say that what everyone needs is Jesus. The problem with that is from most people’s perspective, most of the Christians they know seem to know some Jesus that really doesn’t fill the Messiah Obsession either. Christians are busy telling other people how to live, but their lives do not seem all that much different from everyone else.
The Grizzly Truth is that only one Jesus will fill the Messiah Obsession and He is not all that popular in Post Christian culture. The Grizzly Truth states that this Jesus, was born of a virgin and died on a cross for the sins of all humanity 2000 years ago. Furthermore, he was raised from the dead as an example that He truly did fulfill the Messiah Obsession of humanity. The problem in the current world, and all past, present, and future worlds is that contradicts with the autonomy of the Sacred Self.
Therefore, there are only a few people willing to take the risk to venture outside their Sacred Self to become part of that ancient, present, and future community. This brings us to the true cure for Grizzly Economics and that is investing in Stewardship Investments, with Community Dues.
Most Christians with one foot in revivalism and the other foot in evolutionary society would call these Investments evangelism. This would be nothing but a Grizzly Lie, because Stewardship Investments don’t look for a return, they are free gifts of what were once called good works. They also take place in the common natural world, not in a religious cloister. As a result they signify to those who truly might be looking for a true solution to their Messiah Obsession, that this very old fashioned Jesus, might have a clue in how the world really works. After all, He did claim to be the Son of God, that must have been and is one Far Out Dude.
This brings us to my final rung of overcoming the current Grizzly Economic news and that is Community Dues. I borrowed this idea from something I read on the Internet about paying the government its dues rather than taxes. The problem is that taxes are way too simplistic and they lead to the government wanting to run your life. Furthermore, in Grizzly economic times, politicians forego taxes and just make up money as they go, with no thought or plan to ever pay it back.
But Community Dues are more than meeting your obligations to the government, or your investments, or tithes and offerings to your church, synagogue, or charity. Community Dues are most relevant where they will do the most good, where people really need help.
Now this is where it gets complicated, for that sounds like charity. But most people view charity as the inverse of Narnia in C.S. Lewis’, “The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.” In this case however, it is always Christmas and never winter.
Community Dues need to help people grow, people to people, with no intermediary. How simple is that. To be politically correct, person to person, but more so mano to mano, or womano to womano, family to family, community to community, small enterprise to wantabe enterprise, the possibilities are endless and eternal.
So this is a contribution of one Brute D. Grizzly esq., to the human dilemma of overcoming the consequences of Grizzly Economics. I may not be able to lead you successfully in the real world, for my home is in the woods of Nowhere. But just as you really can’t go to my Nowhere, chances are almost 100% you are smack dab in the middle of your own Nowhere right now. If you are relying on anyone other than that old fashioned Jesus, Creator of the universe, Messiah Obsession Savior, to get you to somewhere, you are going to be greatly disillusioned and sad, when all of your plans turn out to be nothing but “horribillis.”
Tags: Grizzly Economics, Teddy Roosevelt, Rough Riders, Grizzly Truth, Liquidity Mining, Natural Judgment, Messiah Obsession, Sacred Self, Stewardship Investments, Community Dues
PDF Copy
By Brute D. Grizzly
Exclusive, Non-syndicated Columnist
The news recently has been horrible. It seems if there were no bad news, especially on the economy, there would be no news at all. In case you didn’t know, grizzly bears are no stranger to horrible news, we have been living with that kind of discrimination since western civilization came to these shores and gave us the scientific name of: “Ursus arctos horribilis.” Can you believe anyone, especially a jolly, plump guy like me being called “horribillis”? That’s more than enough to make my ancestors really, really, angry. To think that politicians and sport stars only figuratively bite off people’s heads, is a literal understatement.
But I’m not here today to harp on past mistakes of all the human immigrants to this land. I’m here to write about the present and the future, especially in what will make this continent work better, for more Americans and Canadians. I do have a lot of relatives who also live in Canada. The rest of you people might want to read this also, you are all members of what God and we critters call the human kind.
The biggest problem in North America seems to be oil prices. They say gasoline will be at four dollars per gallon by summer and Canadians relatively paying more. So is, or will, anyone in, or who would like to be in the political power structure, be willing to do anything about it? No. Why not? Because oil price increases really don’t effect those people, they are paid either directly or indirectly to let the markets do their thing. The facts however, are that energy runs the world, not money, and when the “hidden energy tax” on basically all goods and services kill economic growth, these big monopolies and cartels will have all the money and no place to spend it.
What these corporations and speculators are doing is basically Liquidity Mining what little true capital that exists within the postmodern national governments. This comes directly on the heels of a similar adventure in the subprime housing market. The effects of this mortgage meltdown will be rippling through the economy for at least a couple more years. Yes, the economic future of western society looks rather grizzly.
The problem is that in the 1980s, under the presidency of Ronald Reagan, Americans only adopted half of the solution to government owned monopolies, and instead substituted regulations that allowed for private takeovers of these cartels. Like this was going to change everything with greater market efficiencies? Government’s were even trying to sell the Brooklyn Bridge.
So now instead of the people of sovereign countries owning their coalmines, oil wells, electrical generations systems, and other public utilities, they are now owned by international corporations, whose sole legal existence in law and reality is to make money. Sure they are supposed to make money for the stockholders, but all they really do is provide a very handsome lifestyle for the corporate elite, very distant and removed from where they do their profiteering thing.
So what do we the people need to do? Make the climate Grizzly, both politically and economically for the whole energy sector. Drastically ration your own consumption, harass every politician who doesn’t get out front on this issue, and send the other bums back to the private sector this November, making it clear to all lobbying firms that former politicians are not welcome within their ranks either.
Some people believe that Teddy Roosevelt saved America from big monopoly industries, others think he did little of substance. However, throughout the United States and Canada, if flag pins, bumper stickers, and T-shirts were supplemented or supplanted with the images of the great Rough Rider as a symbol of human rage (Canadians probably know more about Roughriders than we Yanks), on the energy front things could change rapidly for the better. The Spanish-American War Rough Riders were formally members of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. With a history of those roots the angst of the energy industry would realize that people mean business, not just profits.
Finally if all else fails, bust up the monopolies, just as Margaret Thatcher did in Great Britain with the government owned utilities, and Ronald Reagan was doing as a half-vast job here in the United States. Market principles have to be free, or they are by definition not markets at all. They are really just another spin on socialism, or communism, but instead of putting government in from of these elitist institutions, put corporate, or globalist.
For reference material, just read F.A. Hayek’s, “The Road to Serfdom”, and where it speaks of just government monopolies, insert corporate where needed, or appropriate.
The “Grizzly Truth” however, is that there is no leadership on the current horizon, with true leadership potential and support from the people to make this revolutionary whole world changing shebang work. To begin this process will take Grizzly determination, and those with these elitist holdings surely are not going to give up without a strenuous fight. But what really are they going to do, retire to some off shore tax dodging haven and count their money?
In the mean time, you the human factors in the world are going to pay the price, at the pump, in your home values, in your take home pay, and your other investments. This in Grizzly terms is called Natural Judgment. As for Grizzly Bears and all other kinds of bears, the creator God of the universe takes care of us. Sure, we don’t have big homes, flat screen TVs, and cell phones, but does all that technology and stuff really make life any better?
This brings me to ask a Grizzly Truth question, actually two questions. What are you willing to die for? And what are you willing to live for? It is going to take a commitment from everyone to die to something and to live for something. We are not talking here about life and death in the natural sense; we are speaking only in the metaphysical. Most people are no longer even able to understand the psychological aspects of this, so how can they begin to understand the literal and natural.
When God created humanity, He created them in His image. As such eternal personalities, they were created to have “fellowship,” for lack of a better term, with God. When humanity rejected God, in that created perfect way, humanity became sick, not only to the totality of death, but also spiritually. All people long for that truly human purpose to be restored, but they lack within themselves the ability to cross the chasm to their eternal purpose. The void or gap creates in all human beings a Messiah Obsession.
A Messiah Obsession simply means, people live life with a void that can only be fulfilled by some Savior. Some try to fill that void with themselves, others try to fill it with what they call science, still others create mantras reciting that the void really does not exist at all, some search for other humans who seem to be more enlightened with some faux reality. Another Grizzly Truth is they all fail and fail miserably.
The easiest way in today’s world is to try to fill that void with consumer stuff. That is why the whole world economy is designed to produce that stuff. Do you have the latest, the biggest, the finest stuff? That is your reason, your best hope of filling the Messiah Obsession, get with the program or you will lose out.
What the subprime speculators and the oil monopolies do not understand, because they think they have filled their Messiah Obsession with their own abilities, is if you take away that stuff dream, that pursuit, from the ordinary person, they get, well like a Grizzly Bear, can you say “homo sapiens horribillis.”
Now this horrible human being is not how most people would like to live. They would rather be friendly and smile a lot, content to be their own Sacred Self, content that they think life is pretty good. But neither is it really that difficult to see that the Sacred Self really doesn’t fill the Messiah Obsession void. Whenever the Sacred Self is threatened externally, people naturally draw deeper into nihilistic suppression.
Now the typical Christian would say that what everyone needs is Jesus. The problem with that is from most people’s perspective, most of the Christians they know seem to know some Jesus that really doesn’t fill the Messiah Obsession either. Christians are busy telling other people how to live, but their lives do not seem all that much different from everyone else.
The Grizzly Truth is that only one Jesus will fill the Messiah Obsession and He is not all that popular in Post Christian culture. The Grizzly Truth states that this Jesus, was born of a virgin and died on a cross for the sins of all humanity 2000 years ago. Furthermore, he was raised from the dead as an example that He truly did fulfill the Messiah Obsession of humanity. The problem in the current world, and all past, present, and future worlds is that contradicts with the autonomy of the Sacred Self.
Therefore, there are only a few people willing to take the risk to venture outside their Sacred Self to become part of that ancient, present, and future community. This brings us to the true cure for Grizzly Economics and that is investing in Stewardship Investments, with Community Dues.
Most Christians with one foot in revivalism and the other foot in evolutionary society would call these Investments evangelism. This would be nothing but a Grizzly Lie, because Stewardship Investments don’t look for a return, they are free gifts of what were once called good works. They also take place in the common natural world, not in a religious cloister. As a result they signify to those who truly might be looking for a true solution to their Messiah Obsession, that this very old fashioned Jesus, might have a clue in how the world really works. After all, He did claim to be the Son of God, that must have been and is one Far Out Dude.
This brings us to my final rung of overcoming the current Grizzly Economic news and that is Community Dues. I borrowed this idea from something I read on the Internet about paying the government its dues rather than taxes. The problem is that taxes are way too simplistic and they lead to the government wanting to run your life. Furthermore, in Grizzly economic times, politicians forego taxes and just make up money as they go, with no thought or plan to ever pay it back.
But Community Dues are more than meeting your obligations to the government, or your investments, or tithes and offerings to your church, synagogue, or charity. Community Dues are most relevant where they will do the most good, where people really need help.
Now this is where it gets complicated, for that sounds like charity. But most people view charity as the inverse of Narnia in C.S. Lewis’, “The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.” In this case however, it is always Christmas and never winter.
Community Dues need to help people grow, people to people, with no intermediary. How simple is that. To be politically correct, person to person, but more so mano to mano, or womano to womano, family to family, community to community, small enterprise to wantabe enterprise, the possibilities are endless and eternal.
So this is a contribution of one Brute D. Grizzly esq., to the human dilemma of overcoming the consequences of Grizzly Economics. I may not be able to lead you successfully in the real world, for my home is in the woods of Nowhere. But just as you really can’t go to my Nowhere, chances are almost 100% you are smack dab in the middle of your own Nowhere right now. If you are relying on anyone other than that old fashioned Jesus, Creator of the universe, Messiah Obsession Savior, to get you to somewhere, you are going to be greatly disillusioned and sad, when all of your plans turn out to be nothing but “horribillis.”
Tags: Grizzly Economics, Teddy Roosevelt, Rough Riders, Grizzly Truth, Liquidity Mining, Natural Judgment, Messiah Obsession, Sacred Self, Stewardship Investments, Community Dues