Have you Ever been Swept Off Your Feet?

In both cases – whether the bubble was inflated with positive or negative energy – the participants in the bubble are being swept away further and further away from actual physical reality and start to see everything either ‘extremely negatively’ or ‘extremely positively’ – neither experience is grounded in reality – because the physical is neither positive or negative – it just is what it is.

And Then You Crash – Meconomics

In this little series, we’ve been investigating the phenomenon of inflation, how we in our daily lives participate in ‘inflating our reality’ and so, how we are on a personal level participating in the same principles/dynamics that we see playing out on a bigger scale when it comes to inflation, speculative bubbles and financial market crashes.

Welcoming New Life with Living Income Guaranteed

Comfort, security and nurturing are all things we wish are present when a baby comes into this world. Yet, these conditions are not a reality for many babies, as parents themselves like these things in their lives. In Pietermaritzburg, the capital of KwaZulu Natal province in South Africa, 3 to 5 babies are…

Humanity Washed Ashore

This was an excerpt of just one of the stories about the boy. Over the last few days, dozens have been written and published on various major news sites. What is more striking than the content of the posts, is the comments that are left on these articles. What is humanity’s response to such images, to such news?

Voting Fun – What does it Feel Like to Have a Say?

Now – before such increased direct political participation is a reality – let’s do a little test to see what it feels like. So – here are some mock-questions where you’re asked to give your input. Imagine that this relates to your direct reality (eg. your town) – and your answer has a weight that influences the outcome of the decision. Of course, in reality…

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11 December 2012

Day 155: Constitutional Equality as the Rule of Law

Jury of One’s Peers?

A system of justice from the perspective of having to evaluate and assess what must happen when a person is in a mental disorder, and therefore disrupting society, through a Jury of One’s Peers, is not an effective procedure. The effectiveness of peer-review lies within the expertise and level of skill of those reviewing. A procedure through a Jury of One’s Peers based on a selection of citizens from a broad spectrum of backgrounds (race, nationality, gender, education) in no way whatsoever ensures the effective evaluation and assessment of a person’s disorder and decision of specific correctional facilitation. The only point such a jury of peers serves, is to provide a broad spectrum of bias through which a person’s behaviour resulting from mental disorder is assessed.

The assessment of a person’s behaviour ought to be based on a very simple pattern: is the pattern that one is living that which is Best for All Life or is it Not? As such, the legal system won’t be as much a system that is governing or regulating according to the laws that exist – as most of the laws will cease to exist in an Equal Money Justice System. The justice system will operate very simplistically. You will have your primary constitutional law and you will have your management regulations – which together form your guidelines according to how man co-exists in harmony.

At any time when behaviour deviates from the principles and guidelines to sustain harmony in society, one will go through a process of origin identification and correctional facilitation by experts.

The Less Laws, the Less Crime

“The more laws are written, the more criminals are produced” – Lao Tzu

The focus of Justice within an Equal Money System will not be that of criminalization, it will be a matter of harmony or disharmony. A harmonious society cannot create criminals, because crime as such does not exist, and can only be the result of the laws in place creating it. Laws dictate what is legal and what is illegal. In a society where regulations are formulated according to the principle of what is Best for All, there will be no reason to step ‘outside’ of the law. If ‘illegal’ behaviour does take place, it is not sufficient to merely label the behaviour as ‘criminal’ and attempt to ‘force’ the individual to comply with the law, or simply remove them from society. Instead, it requires to be re-assessed whether the regulations in place are indeed Best for All. If the disharmony is not a result of the existent regulations, the disharmony requires to be corrected on an individual level.

Therefore, there will be no criminals – criminals only exist as the result of a disharmonious society, where instead of looking at what is in the Best interest of All and assessing people’s behaviour within the principles of harmony or disharmony , laws are designed to protect certain interest groups and thus by implication excluding others

There will thus be only One Law, as the Rule of Law as the Constitution based on Equality and what is Best for All Life. All other guidelines will be in the form of policy and regulation, which will be required to be laid out within the utmost specificity. Within adhering to specificity and clarity to the utmost level, no space is left for the interpretation of law or policy. If at any stage it turns out that a door for interpretation was left open, this would indicate that the law or policy is not good enough and will have to be specified to close the gap. As such, there will no longer be a need for lawyers as ‘experts’ on law or courts for the purpose of interpreting the law. Education within the Equal Money System will provide everyone with the necessary reading skills to be able to effectively read and assess laws and policies for one self – at the level that it should be assessed, so all can be on an equal ground of understanding and clarity.

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06 August 2012

Day 59: How Far can We Stretch our Customers? - Part 2

For context, please read: Day 58: How Far can We Stretch our Customers? - Part 1

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to try to milk my customers as much as I can so that I can earn as much profit as I can - and to be able to do this use the concept of elasticity and if I see that the product I am selling has low price elasticity of demand - I will make the price unnecessarily high, because I know that my customers will pay the higher price anyways.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to think 'Suckers!!!!!!' as I raise my price in seeing that the product I am providing has a low price elasticity of demand - because I know that I am fucking over my customers but there is nothing they can do about it, because I am simply following the rules of the free market economy - and thus, I know that I am abusing my fellow human, but can get away with it and within that I feel all powerful and smart because I have got the long end of the straw.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to believe that just because I am operating my business in a legal way, that my behaviour is acceptable - instead of seeing, realising and facing the actuality of my actions for what they are: that I am taking advantage of people and what people need.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise the disgrace and absurdity of an economic system that allows individuals to literally play with the lives of others by raising prices as long as there is enough people that are willing and able to pay the higher price - without considering that there are simply things that HAVE TO be available to everyone, such as housing, food, clean and drinkable water, electricity, education, etc. - just to be able to survive in this world - and thus any economic system where people are left out is unacceptable and must be stopped.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that in teaching students of economics what the concept of elasticity means and implies, we are educating the next generation in how to fuck over our fellow human beings, making sure that our legacy of nastiness and spitefulness continues - where we will fuck someone over and then smile and say "hey, it's just business".

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to abdicate all responsibility for my actions within the economic system to the rules of the game - because: hey, this is how it's done, it's nothing personal, I gotta do what I gotta do - as though the game and its rules can ever exist without its players - not realising that it is the players who play the game that create and sustain the game - and therefore, each and every one is responsible on a personal level for all the atrocities that are accepted and allowed as consequences of playing the game of free trade.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to believe that my behaviour of nastiness and spitefulness is acceptable in economics, because everyone's nastiness and spitefulness will 'balance each other out' so that, in the end - the consequences of this spitefulness and nastiness remain limited and contained - without realising and seeing the ridiculousness of such a statement and belief.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that our economic system is simply showing us how we have limited ourselves into believing that we'll never be anything else than lying and cheating bastards who will smile in each others' face and then stab each other in the back - and as long as we keep training new generations in the way of Nasty Economics, we ensure that this is all humanity will ever be - instead of just stopping the insanity and commit ourselves to stopping any form of abuse, inequality, atrocity, nastiness, spitefulness, backchatting and backstabbing - and create a world that is a home, rather than a minefield.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that we've created our world to be one big minefield where we are living in continuous fear of being fucked over by other people, because we know that's what they do - because we know that's what we do - yet on the surface we will be friendly and cheerful and say 'I love you so much' - because admitting to the reality of the situation and actually facing our fears seems like too daunting a task, not realising that what we're currently saying is: 'let me rather just try and avoid the invisible mines and try to not get blown to pieces' - as though that's such an easy task.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that because we suppress our fears of each other every moment of the day, doesn't mean that they are not existent within us and that it is not how we truly experience ourselves - but we rather pretend to be and feel different than who we really are by playing a character of joy and peace and love, continuously suppressing the FEAR that lingers within, until one day we get a burn-out and become depressed and we don't understand why - not realising that how you experience yourself in those moments is how you actually always experience and have experienced yourself inside - as a creature that does not feel, nor know, nor understand joy, peace or love.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that I have never really seen or experienced myself as everything that I have suppressed within myself, yet keeps lurking in the darkness - but only ever experienced myself as the various characters that I have designed for myself to be able to cope with my environment and my inner reality for those moments where 'dark thoughts and emotions' creep up to the surface - in the same way that I have never really seen or experienced the world we live in as all the pain, agony and atrocities that happen every day - but only focus on those parts of the world that make me feel better about myself and make me feel like I am living a good life, a happy life - blinded by fear of what I have created and continue creating every moment of the day that I ignore who I am.