Name the Next Biggest Weapons Platform Threat: What's A Catchier Name For Systemic Self Parasitism? Something As Flashy As "Cyber Crime" ?

   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)







Cyber Crime? Anything to keep the rubes distracted?

Wake me up when losses to cyber thieves reaches the $29Trillion which WE recently, and meekly, transferred to Democracy Thieves.

Why is it so much easier to scare aggregates with the threat of specific weapon platforms, regardless of the magnitude of systemic losses?

Let's be honest. The elements of fiat currency operations are rather simple, well described, and (compared to say, Quantum Physics) they are easily understood once honestly addressed. They are simply under marketed, and have been since the days of John Law!

More specifically, how do we recruit ourselves differently, if we're to adequately mobilize against systemic crime operating in broad daylight? Sunlight is the best antiseptic only if the parasite is recognized as such, so that we exclude it from our protection!

Take "cyber crime" as one example. That term has far more cache than "White Collar Crime" - or even Control Fraud.

Ditto for "terrorism" - now widely considered as essentially a Blue Collar or physical crime. :(

One lesson is that people are more easily alarmed by the threat of specific weapon platforms, than by the threat of underlying intent.

Of course an obsolete bias to favor all other forms of capital over labor capital also plays a part, but let's return to that obsolete habit another time.

So, to more effectively recruit people to combat financial crime, perhaps we should invite our entire population to name and publicize the key weapon platforms used against evolving cultures.

Some new marketing terms would help immensely.

Savings Theft?
Income Crime?
Credit Crime?
Policy Crime?

None of these terms are yet adequate. This campaign requires aggregate trial and error. Where do we start, and what do we use as a reference? Perhaps with a 200 year old, key statement.

"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation." John Adams

Wow! It's amazing to see how little principles have changed, even while class-war weapon platforms have changed to a degree which John Adams could scarcely have imagined. Pity Adams didn't spend more time exploring what to DO about that ignorance.

So what is it, exactly, that is still keeping most Americans ignorant about those dynamic variables describing the "nature" of coin, credit & circulation, and their systemic importance to the general welfare of our electorate?

To fix what's wrong, it seems - 200 years later - that we still need to recruit our own aggregate to discern that misunderstood "nature," so that they may decide for themselves how to mobilize preventive efforts for future generations.

Large scale recruiting requires contact and sensible communication terms. The bulk of voters get little practical experience thinking about the fundamental impact of abstract concepts like "nature" crime, so the recruiting terms need to be tailored to the recipients.

System Crime?
Indirect Hijacking?
Choke-point Crime?
Nature Crime?

This task is beyond any of us. Gentlepeople, start your cognitive engines.

Let the naming begin.

How to Fix "Counter-Neo-Liberalism?" Of Course "BLOING" Is Working! [Define "Working!"]

   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)

Paul Staniland on How to Fix Counterinsurgency

"In his new book, Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse, Paul Staniland discusses the importance of material resources in explaining how insurgent groups form and fight. In this interview, the University of Chicago professor addresses why COIN failed in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as recent criticisms of [International Relations] scholarship for not being policy-relevant enough."

Interesting! How about

"How to Fix Counter-Neo-Liberalism" too? :(

I'm struck by the parallels between:

a) what "we" think is going wrong among all the small groups we try to micro-manage around the world, and 

b) what many think is going wrong amongst ourselves, as we repeatedly watch too few Centrally Planning "elites" try to micro-manage the policies of 320 million US citizens - while exporting the model to even larger populations.

What keeps us ignoring our own, endless criticism of Neo-Liberal Human Relations "scholarshit?" We're actively reviewing maladaptive persistence of a failed COIN model, while ignoring the unfathomable institutional momentum of BLOING*? That's like the old parable of obsessing over a speck in the eyes of both our DoD as well as the social mosquitoes we breed worldwide for them to keep busy swatting, all the while ignoring the several logs in our Policy Apparatus Eye, not to mention the veritable swamp of Neo-Liberalism that all the logs float in. Do those sound like accurate analogies, and ones that are far more important for shrinking our own, existing Output Gap, and for ensuring our very survival? Of course BLOING is "working."  Control Frauds run it FOR themselves, with the willing help of an army of Innocent Frauds! How do we cut to draining the swamp, instead of remaining distracted, endlessly tied up swatting mosquitoes?

Seriously, how DO we successfully counter the Neo-Liberal social disease that keeps regularly re-infecting social aggregates? To eradicate Neo-Liberalism, like we eradicated smallpox, we need to find it's environmental reservoirs and disinfect them too. Otherwise, we'll just guarantee that some of our grandchildren once again try to shoot all our grandchildren in the aggregate foot. Do we really want Dumb-Ass Neo-Liberals to persist through the ages, unchecked? The Flat Earth Society is no longer anything but a joke, why are Neo-Liberals not seen as the butt end of another joke, still aimed at ourselves?

What would Smedley Butler think? Or George Patton?

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* Brain-Dead, Luddite, Obstructionist, Ignoramus Neo-Liberal Gasbags

beowulf — Will Congress (accidentally) double down on The Coin?

Trusty beowulf comes up with yet another gem.

Monetary Realism
Will Congress (accidentally) double down on The Coin?
beowulf

Tea Partiers want dollar coin and why it is a terrible idea

Over at TPM, Ryan Reilly has an intriguing post about the interest of some tea partiers for a new circulating dollar coin because it supposedly will save the federal government money. This follows a story in the Huffington Post from a week ago about how Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) introduced a bill that would eliminate the dollar bill and substitute dollar coins.

Here's some very personal and U.S. history about the dollar coin and why this is a terrible idea that is really nothing more than a corporate subsidy....

Read the whole post at CapitalGainsAndGames, Tea Partiers Want A New Dollar Coin And Refuse To Listen To The Free Market In The Process by Stan Collender