No Skin In The Game XIII
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Great empires and little minds go ill together. — Edmund Burke
NEWS FLASH: The New World Order is dead, long live the New World Disorder; or put in a more user-friendly fashion, the continuing economic prosperity offered by evolving collective material economics met its demise because it failed to recognize and adapt to the real world opportunities that its technology created. In down home country terms, the dinosaurs ate all the grass and then starved to death. Now they are in the process of being replaced with cows and horses, sheep and alpacas, gardens and orchards, vineyards and breweries.
NEWS FLASH: Investors in the New World Order, by the Industrial Age definition, are not going to save this country or the world economy. They were really just specialized financial liquidity conduits, or irrigation canals, to crony capitalist dinosaurs, maintained through bureaucratic government intervention and regulations. Investors, as individuals, will have the opportunity to do good things in the New World Disorder, by the Individual Age definition, as they create true wealth through the exegesis of natural law, rather than the collective eisegesis of the twentieth century.
What in the world is he writing about?
Simply a new age in which the focus of human activity will be toward creating individual wealth, essentially within the economic definition of consumer services, not with flipping burger wages, but with the development and capitalization of frontier niches, of individual self sufficiency and the desire to live simply and make the world a better place for those who come after. That, was after all, the true American Dream that made the United States the most prosperous and freedom loving nation in all history.
Interestingly, since this above definition of the American Dream is common to all humanity, as the twentieth century dinosaurs disappear, this provides further opportunities for developing natural markets in the rest of the world.
Furthermore, many, if not most of the educational institutions in foreign countries, especially in the third or developing world, are based upon a multifaceted European educational model and not the atheistic elitist specialization model of pseudo-science psychologists John Dewey and B. F. Skinner. Consequently it is not as difficult for these foreigners to think for themselves, or to use an over processed metaphor “outside the box.”
Human personalities, by their inherited nature received from God, must be educated to not think creatively. Creative thinking is required to survive on any frontier, especially a physical frontier. In order to be a good worker in a factory or bureaucracy, that spirit must be suppressed by propaganda and by incentives, normally financial, in the way of pay and benefits.
When I was in the Army, the graduates of the Military Academy were by far the smartest people in the officer corps. However they were so indoctrinated into the teamwork and need to accomplish the mission, as it came down the chain of command, many times, truly accomplishing the mission, got lost in the orders given, received and applied to in real world.
What does this all mean?
Probably it has not been since the Great Depression, or the Civil War, or perhaps even the American Revolution, has the question been asked openly at this common level of discourse: “Can man’s efforts of self governance succeed on a continuing basis?”
The answer to that question, in a context you may not read anywhere else, and you may not want to hear at all is: “Only by the grace of God Almighty!”
Chances of you hearing this is slim to none in churches in the United States, 235 years after the celebration of the American Declaration of Independence. Therein is truly the cause and effect of the natural decay of the United States. For the church has become a voice of moral law, and the true gospel of grace of the finished work of Jesus Christ is absent, or hidden under evolving efforts to achieve worldly homage.
This is further expressed in all the childish, juvenile and petty; debt limit, budget, deficit reduction, taxation and games being played in Washington DC, which center exclusively on everything but—God! But God, and his grace was the sovereign force behind the formation of the United States of America, so this, as Ben Franklin so succinctly stated: “It’s a republic if you can keep it.” is really up to the grace of God alone, it is His gig, so to speak, He will pull it off.
Whether it was ancient Babylon attempting to build a tower to become gods, or the medieval king as sovereign over all his lands and goods, to crony capitalists and progressive elitists politicians attempting to manufacture something out of nothing, they all seek to remove the ability of individuals to rule themselves, to control their own destiny.
That leads us to a bimodal model, that seems to be all we twentieth century and twenty-first humans can comprehend; a downside of atheistic materialism and an upside of something totally new, in which human institutions and enterprises will be tremendously altered, reformed, solidified, and invented.
To make this happen we need to foster entrepreneurship on a scale not seen since the closing of the American Frontier, and worldwide since the Reformation and the Age of Discovery.
In these United States of America, there is absolutely no reason to even think seriously about becoming and entrepreneur under the current economic environmental conditions, and the prospect of those changing in the short term is also slim to none. We will get into those changes shortly.
Last week we included our Business Ecology Sin-Cosmos Natural Lifestyle Curve. This week we will look a little deeper to the Phylogenesis required to offset the half-life, exponential decline of Industrial Age globalism.
The first of our listed Natural Lifestyle Curves is what we call the Bug Curve, which is really just a representation of the reproductive rates of bacteria present in a disease or similar environment. The bugs increase exponentially and then die off rapidly as natural law limits control the population.
Moving to more advanced created life forms, sometimes insect populations ravage crops and it is reported that lemmings run off cliffs, committing mass suicide to keep their breeding populations within natural ecological limits.
More common rodents, familiar to modern humanity, we have mice, rats, and wild and domestic rabbits. For our illustration we will turn to rabbits as our illustrative model of a creature we need to reproduce, to create the wealth for the emerging Individual Age.
Back in my corporate days I had the opportunity to share a row of seats, on a flight from somewhere in California to Seattle, with a Washington State rabbit breeder, who had been in California, looking for funding for a rabbit slaughtering facility in Washington. Her major problem, was the chicken lobby in Washington State had successfully proposed regulations to effectively keep out, especially small cooperative rabbit breeder competition.
Rabbit meat is better for you, they produce a valuable coat as a bi-product, and as mammals their digestive system should be more efficient than birds. However genetic engineering of chickens and their growing habits have made chicken meat cheaper than the cute furry bunnies. “What’s up doc?”
Not to belabor the point, if this country is going to change directions we need to find a way to produce entrepreneurs at an exponential rate and bring them into commercial production, to remove bureaucratic regulations, and to overcome the decline in jobs and wealth, as economic dinosaurs eat themselves into extinction, something modern chickens would surely do, if they were not slaughtered as they reach maturity.
Furthermore globalization doesn’t fix a bordered world. Borders will always exist between nation states as well as borders between urban and rural areas. In simple bimodal terms, the dinosaurs need to look seriously at their national status and find opportunities within their home countries before wasting resources in international colonial adventures. When you look at economic comparative trade advantages and disadvantages, the natural law of the mediocre; are always at their best—still applies.
Now for those of you who think I might just be making up all this age changing time context, I would like to point you to “Juggernaut: Why the System Crushes the Only People Who Can Save It” by Eric Robert Morse. I have just begun to read this book, but it provides a much broader context into the times in which we live, the juggernaut in the way, of the changes that will eventually take place in America and the rest of the world. We simply are being forced to adapt to a world beyond our current closed frontier of Industrial Age specialization.
So just what do we need to do to bring about the exponential growth of a new species of entrepreneurs?
Advance clear personal incentives to take the entrepreneurial risk.
Secure sources of adventure equity liquidity as a bridge toward more traditional venture finance.
Impart team building leadership training for wealth builders.
Draw entrepreneurial personnel from the experienced, but a too expensive traditional workforce.
Provide a stable economic environment of limited stable taxation and monetary supply—decreasing debt and leveraging.
Create a natural marketplace; freed from bureaucratic regulations and crony capitalism tax incentives.
Educate an understanding within the general populace reality that the eisegesis of the status quo is totally unsustainable; the future rests in a exegesis of a natural law new age of human discovery; a frontier of human opportunity.
Personal Incentives: There is absolutely no reason under the current state of affairs in the United States of America that any human with reasonable common sense would desire to create a new startup enterprise; to create wealth and accompanying job creation, when all national, little mind, leadership, is totally focused on important, but irrelevant to the task at hand—gamesmanship.
Adventure Equity: Over the last generation, American specialization has taught that if you did your job well, you could retire and find your true humanity, hopefully before you were too old and decrepit to comprehend the real you. Because of the nature of entrepreneurship to create new wealth, far in excess of compound interest and standard rates of return, these specialists were indoctrinated through propaganda, that other specialists, who knew what they were doing, were handling your life’s risks.
True entrepreneurships, those who seek to create new wealth and grow the required new human enterprises, need to have access to two to five million dollars to give their adventures some sort of realistic opportunity of success. Then more traditional forms of venture and investment capital will be able to provide additional financial resources. Just like with personal incentives, there is nothing being proposed within government, at any level, to shift the investment focus from feeding the dinosaurs—to growing an entrepreneurial enterprise future.
Team Building: True human successes are built upon teamwork. Humans were created to form successful teams. The similarities between all athletic teams, military organizations, all the way down to primitive native people groups are all organized along similar numerologies and diversity of skills, rather than manufacturing specialization.
As a significant part of obtaining Adventure Equity must be an understanding that the success of the entrepreneurial enterprise will come from the team building, coaching and leadership as much as, perhaps more than, the actual financial commitments.
Team Players: Perhaps the greatest asset currently available to securing the new entrepreneurial success stories will come from the previously successful, now either unemployed or underemployed cast offs of the Industrial Age. That specialized skill that provided for advancement within the corporate structure can be the bridge to replacing lost financial security with true and lasting entrepreneurial wealth. All that is needed is a little cross training in how to play other team positions.
This is as much a management plight as it is a human resource problem, because, without proper management and leadership training, entrepreneurs as their corporate compatriots, tend to hire, people in their own image, rather than required complementary expertise. Hence salesmen recruit and promote other sales comfortable personnel, engineers to engineers, etc.; which might be fine in crony capitalism, but creates a deadly inbreeding within entrepreneurial organizations.
Stable Environment: We can all hope that something lasting and positive comes out of the mess that is now called the United States Federal Government. Just like with incentives and equity, there seems to be nothing happening in the other Washington that will change anything for the better, until the reality of a real exponential decline, awakens the reality of the little minds. This begs the question, “Can little minds be expanded, or will they need to be totally replaced?”
Since the evolution of the elite is just a fiction of human faux desires, the reality is probably some and some.
Under the current tax code one way to provide for entrepreneurial enterprises would be to make the two to five million dollar initial equity totally free of capital gains taxes forever. A more productive and longer lasting method would be to eliminate the progressive income tax and initiate a flat tax providing a true natural market for all goods and services and a level playing field for all enterprise participants. This would allow entrepreneurial adventure investors to perform truly meaningful return on investment and consistent, over time, investment risk analysis.
Natural Marketplace: The term “free markets” is totally oxymoronic. It has never existed in the history of the United States, perhaps in the history of the world. The same is true for the concept of laissez faire capitalism, especially in recent history. The FED under Alan Greenspan maintained a faux prosperity, by providing a global real estate bubble that was a major cause of this current mess, along with deficit spending and excess leverage.
To save the world from pending total financial collapse, another set of economic solutions were enacted to keep the dinosaur house of cards from falling down, and provide the breathing room for politicians to continue to kick the can down the road.
Natural Markets really just allow natural law to govern the universe of human enterprise. This means putting an end to the bubble and burst vain attempts to micromanage national and international finance. In other words stop all the dinking, dithering and deception in the world economy and work to reduce the interference of those who attempt to exploit this natural reality for short-term business and personal gain.
Public Education: The entitlement era is over. It has been for probably a generation. So for at least fifty years, all of society has been kicking the prosperity can down the road, under the blind illusion that we were masters of our future, evolving to a higher level of human enlightenment, gods of eternal prosperity.
Natural law is part and parcel of a Sin-Cosmos in which all of our wild schemes and best-laid plans eventually get kicked off the cliff of half-life decay, of exponential decline.
We began this week with the question can man produce a lasting system of self-governance?
As long as we continue in atheistic material beliefs alone, it is a long hard fall to the bottom and we have a history of long extinct cultures to show that reality. To think we have evolved to some higher enlightened destiny just points to the vanity of our demise.
The United States of America, was and is a noble experiment, where the God who created the universe, allowed a couple of million folks on a natural continental frontier, to create another frontier of human achievement. His grace is not through with us yet; governments, churches and the people need to realize this reality.
It is a great time to be alive, if you understand that source of true natural reality. If not, it will be not just a can—that falls off the Sin-Cosmos cliff.