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…
31 May 2012
Day 6: Economic Textbooks are the Blueprints for the Perfect Murder
30 May 2012
Day 5: Freedom of Choice?
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to have created and allowed a system where Freedom of Choice is treated as if it's the Holy Spirit that must be preserved and respected no matter what
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to have made Freedom of Choice one of the Commandments of the religion of Economics
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not promote and provide policies which are Best for all Life as this would impinge on people’s Freedom of Choice to Abuse
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not create and promote policies which clearly describe what is acceptable and what is not within the consideration of what is Best for allLife as this would impinge on people’s Freedom of Choice which I have placed above the value of Life
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to stay away from educating people and clearly writing out policies which define what is acceptable and what is not as I believe that the education process will take too long and not be direct within policies as to not impinge on people’s Freedom of Choice
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to instead of clearly stipulating what would be the best course of action to take within the Best interest of All – to write out policies and implement rules and regulations which provide “incentive” for people to act the way I want them to act – steering them into the direction and choice that I want them to make without actually taking their choice away
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to set out policies, rules and regulations in such a way that if people do not choose what I want them to choose – then they will suffer
I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that within creating this scenario/condition – there is no Freedom of Choice at all
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to for instance promote policies and regulation to address population growth in developing countries in a way that increases the hardship of mother by making things more expensive for them and removing benefits such as days of leave and overall making their life harder if they have (more) children
I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that hardship as poverty is the very reason why people have more children in the hope that they will live to see another day and provide for the parents when they no longer can – as there is no system in place which ensures life-long support from Birth till Death
I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that this hardship can be put to an end by Giving to all Equally
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to play a game of pulling strings where I try to get the right combination of what strings to pull, how hard and in what direction in order to get the result I want
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to have created an intricate and complex system like a tapestry – where I want a particular string to move on the one side of the tapestry and then try to achieve this through pulling lots of strings on the opposite siding—hoping that all the various ripple effects will lead to the desired effect
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not want to give up our current Economic System of Grandeur as we’ve worked so hard and so long to create it and “get it right” that I will do whatever it takes, manipulate the current system and create additional systems on top of the already existent one for the sake of keeping it alive and still getting what I want
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to want to consider any other perspective other than what my system dictates as I’ve already devoted my life to this one and I do not want to go through the trouble of admitting that I as the system was wrong and starting from scratch
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to have made it so difficult for myself within the current system that all I can do is pull strings and hope I hit the right one in order to get the desired result
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not consider the consequences and implications for other beings when pulling my strings
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to see the increasing of hardship on people as acceptable but not allowing Free Choice as unacceptable
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fight for the freedom to abuse
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fight for the freedom to have more and be better than others
I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that I am at the same time also fighting for people to be less and having less than others
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to only view Freedom of Choice from the side of being a ‘winner’ -- where I will defend freedom of choice because I want to be a winner and not care at all about whoever is the loser – as long as I can win and have more
I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to place myself in the shoes of the losers of the Freedom of Choice Game
I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that it is always the winners who make the rulers for the losers
I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that this is not Freedom AT ALL
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to have been brainwashed into believing that Freedom of Choice is something worth fighting for and that this is what life is all about
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to have been brainwashed into adopting and believing a definition of “freedom” which is so limited in that it only takes into consideration the freedom of making money – which I have translated as being equal to the freedom of living
I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that we were never equal from the start – and that we are thus in fact playing a game where some started to play already being a few steps away from the finish line, where some are already midway, where some are just starting – and where some have already been kicked out of the game before it even started – and within that I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that Freedom of Choice was and has never been real as none have ever been given equal opportunity
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to apparently fight for Freedom of Choice for everyone – while only a few are actually able to access “choice” through Money
I commit myself to the re-evaluation of our current economic system to identify all its flaws and provide alternative solutions so that we may break the chains of misery for over half the population of the world – so that they may actually live
I commit myself to exposing the Lie of Freedom of Choice – as freedom can only be real when all are free which has thus far never been the case
I commit myself to show to those who stand by Freedom of Choice that their very definition of Free Choice implies limitation as the concept of Freedom of Choice is only used to gain advantage over other people – and thus placing them in a disadvantaged position and limiting their freedom for the sake of expanding one’s own
I commit myself to promote rules, policies and regulations according to the principle of what is Best for All and not some policies which indirectly through a system of “ripple effects” and “incentives” ‘hopefully’ give me what I want
I commit myself to expose the lies and deceit behind the concept of Freedom of Choice in terms of how people’s Freedom of Choice gets manipulated to appear as if one has a choice while they don’t
I commit myself to put an end to the game of winners and losers and establish a world where all are Equals
I commit myself to expose the atrocities being committed where points such as “increasing people’s hardship” are deemed as valid economic policy approaches
I commit myself to the designing and creating of policies within the principle of Do to Another as You would Like to be Done unto – as for sure hardship will then not be considered
I commit myself to reject the definition of Freedom in terms of being able to be more and better than others as this implies allowing people to be less and have less
I commit myself to the redefining Freedom within the principle of what is Best for all
Day 4: The Logic of Political Corruption in Africa