This is cultural parenting, from 2 years ago.
Weepin' Buddha on a decline! That was then. Has anything changed?Starbucks workers in Washington will write “Come Together” on cups this week to encourage U.S. politicians to reach a compromise to reduce the national debt.
National debt? For a fiat currency issuer? Someone should ask them how we can have a deficit in fiat. What does that even mean?
Listening to most of the press corp try to talk about fiscal policy is like listening to a troop of ballerinas trying to discuss ballistics.
Try as they might, everything they say is just totally out of context, and out of paradigm.
Marriner Eccles must be turning over in his grave - in despair at how ignorant of fiat currency operations his country has become.
Beardsley Ruml must have died from embarrassment!
Managing a fiat currency supply is always and only about inflation, deflation and enough liquidity to explore existing, highly distributed, options available to a citizenry.
Managing a fiat currency supply is always and only about inflation, deflation and enough liquidity to explore existing, highly distributed, options available to a citizenry.
At this time, we have a gross lack of liquidity for well over 80% of our - mostly idle & severely underutilized - electorate, NOT an excess of liquidity. There are things to be done & people eager to do those things.
Yet they're being told that their coordination can't be denominated. Why? We're out of denomination units. ?? Come again?
The talent available in this country could be accomplishing insanely great and unimaginable things. Instead, we're arguing about balancing fiat!!??? Is this a cruel joke, or just plain ignorance and lazy thinking? Comedy Central, or a nightmare of NeoLiberalism?
The talent available in this country could be accomplishing insanely great and unimaginable things. Instead, we're arguing about balancing fiat!!??? Is this a cruel joke, or just plain ignorance and lazy thinking? Comedy Central, or a nightmare of NeoLiberalism?
The Principle of Prior Plausibility is just a principle, it's not a NeoLiberal law. With some cognitive effort, we can wake up and change ANY maladaptive cultural-habit, not just personal thinking habits. Most people will do anything within their power to avoid thinking - so will entire Middle Classes - but not ALL people or all electorates, ALL of the time. Maybe 2% or less of humans constitute "Stem Thinkers," rather like stem cells.
The culture of the USA used to be a unique, thinking "Stem Culture," but now we've largely decomposed back to a collection of NeoLiberal dimwits.
The rest of you? How can one serve your country without at least taking the time to know at least a bit about the actual operations for the topic one is trying to talk about? Bloomberg's level of reporting is making an absolute joke of every aspect of our national security and domestic policy. Nearly the entire media coverage of fiscal policy is irresponsible & far past the point of Innocent Fraud. More like Irrelevant Insanity.
Arbitrarily insisting upon "balancing fiat," whatever that means - especially while disregarding any connection to REAL national context - is by itself only a superficial and out-of-paradigm way to insist upon national suicide. That's a cultural-habit that will break itself, the hard way, if YOU yourself don't help break it, sooner.
The culture of the USA used to be a unique, thinking "Stem Culture," but now we've largely decomposed back to a collection of NeoLiberal dimwits.
The rest of you? How can one serve your country without at least taking the time to know at least a bit about the actual operations for the topic one is trying to talk about? Bloomberg's level of reporting is making an absolute joke of every aspect of our national security and domestic policy. Nearly the entire media coverage of fiscal policy is irresponsible & far past the point of Innocent Fraud. More like Irrelevant Insanity.
Arbitrarily insisting upon "balancing fiat," whatever that means - especially while disregarding any connection to REAL national context - is by itself only a superficial and out-of-paradigm way to insist upon national suicide. That's a cultural-habit that will break itself, the hard way, if YOU yourself don't help break it, sooner.
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On the other hand ... there ARE signs of hope, no matter how meager. :)
Brutal verdict from Generation Z. "Facebook is just for old people posting pictures of their kids and grand-kids."
Ok, enough of the good news (that scalable methods for public discourse ARE rapidly diversifying - maybe they'll reach a new, unpredictable critical mass). Meanwhile, back on the funny farm ... .
The parasite's NeoLiberal trick is in keeping 'em 99% fleeced, not 100%.
To re-shape this situation, maybe ask a 10yr old what insanely cool thing they'd most like to do, when they grow up. Maybe something like (but not restricted to):
1) live on the moon;
2) travel to Mars, or
3) reinvent another Golden Age here on planet earth.
If they say "that isn't possible," ask them "Why Not?"
If they're looking to us (or NeoLiberals) for options, that's OUR problem. If they wonder why we are constraining THEIR options ... then it's THEIR problem.
(Kudos to J. Paul Getty for triggering this generalizable concept.)
