Let’s be serious…just for a moment
26 Nov 2011 4 Comments
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Seriously now, it’s already hard enough having to sit and watch us bullshit ourselves to the point of idiocy, but I just finished a tag surfing session and in addition to the usual endless droning about GOLD this and GOLD that, I just saw (for the first time) an article regarding a country that was “repatriating” its gold from the vaults in London and New York where the countries of the world have kept their gold since WWII. The article stated that the decision to repatriate the gold had been made by the leader of the country “in view of the volatile nature of the world’s economy’. That was just a bit much. Up until now, the math more or less indicated that everyone knows that the whole GOLD thing is bullshit, but all of a sudden I’m not sure if I should doubt that math. Is it possible that people actually BELIEVE this shit and are not just playing along because that’s what we think we must do? I don’t know, but it’s scary. Scary enough to motivate me to post this message:
Just in case anyone actually believes that GOLD has any actual value that makes it immune to anything that might happen to the economy or to human civilization, it should be noted that GOLD is actually worthless. It is a fairly unremarkable metal that we selected to use as the stuff that we would manufacture MONEY from back when we decided that WEALTH (which has always been FOOD) should have a standardized measure of exchange to facilitate commerce. We picked GOLD to be the “material” used to manufacture money because it was PLIABLE and we could shape it into coins more easily than other metals. In other words, GOLD became the manufacturing material for money because it was SOFT, period. That’s about all there is to GOLD, the rest we made up and believed. In summary; if the U.S., European or global economy should collapse (they actually already have, but I won’t go against the “grain”, I’ll play like it hasn’t happened yet) then what in the world is that country I mentioned earlier going to do with all of their repatriated GOLD? It’s time for everyone to begin to digest the truth because it is the truth, regardless of how we feel or what we believe and the truth is that there IS no more money. We spent all the money that there was, that there is and that there will be in the next 500 years and there is nothing left to substantiate any math that supports the concept of money. The machinery that moves civilization is running today (albeit poorly) only because we BELIEVE that those little pieces of paper and GOLD are actually worth something, but this hallucination is quickly fading and sooner than we can imagine, MOST of us will have no choice but to face this truth and deal with it. So I ask you: when the MACHINERY that runs the “world”; the one that runs on “money” finally peters out and shuts down, ending commerce and production globally, what can anyone do with GOLD? With no infrastructure in place, there will be no system in place to grow and distribute FOOD OR WATER and in 3 months there will be mayhem. What good will 10 or 11 billion dollars worth of GOLD do when everyone is STARVING? Who in their right mind would trade a can of beans that they found in the back of some forgotten cabinet somewhere for a mountain of GOLD at that point? You can’t EAT the stuff! It’s a freaking METAL, no different than tin, bronze or iron and no more or less valuable than whatever WE decide. It was hard for me to digest, but I did. This means that you can too, because we’re all the same. I know that it’s hard to let go of the world as we know it, but WE BROKE IT and we need to build a new one, so we need to grow up, quickly, or in the simplest of terms, we’re fucked. YOU know this, I know this and we ALL know this. I refuse to believe that we are all idiots, but we are dangerously close to proving that to be true – and that applies to me as well, if we end up screwing ourselves because of idiocy, then that makes me an idiot too. I don’t want to be an idiot.
We CAN do better.
The righteousness parable
26 Nov 2011 1 Comment
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Recently, I applied the final touches to my latest book and decided that there was nothing more that I could change, improve, fix or be paranoid about, which meant that it was good enough. It’s called “The Sixty-seven Rules: A promise kept.” I gave it that title because I was keeping a promise (to you; cool beans!). This post is not about my book however, it is best example of rule #2 that exists, and rule #2 is very, very important right now. Just to recap; rule #2 says: “Never confuse shit with shinola.”
For as long as anyone can remember, people have confused, substituted or treated as synonyms; the words Truthfulness and Righteousness. It is not very difficult to understand how this occurred, given our track record for using heaping portions of convenience and hypocrisy in the building of our social structures and languages. The fact that the origins of the phenomenon are easily understandable does not make it any less unacceptable.
A simple application of the basic scientific process yields some very enlightening answers. We have a fascinating love/hate relationship with truth, we always have, ever since whenever it was that we understood what it was; because we all understand what truth is. For the sake of clarity, truth is an intransigent absolute in the universe, which means that it just is. It can’t be changed, modified, corralled, manipulated or swayed, in fact as far as we humans are concerned, when it comes to truth; there are only two ways that we can interact with it: we can accept it or ignore it, but that’s about it. That is what has always fascinated us about truth: its unquestioned validity. A truth simply is, above all else and in spite of anything else. That particular quality is irresistibly desirable to us: to be unquestionable, indisputable and publicly acknowledged as right above all else. The mere thought of a person possessing the intransigent qualities of truth is so powerful that it overpowers and overshadows all human emotions, even lust. We simply had to incorporate it into the human condition, so we came up with truthfulness; a human trait also referred to as honesty. In reality, both terms are misnomers; what is claimed by the use of the words truthfulness and honesty is far from what we actually do when we’re being truthful and honest because we lie, continuously. We can’t help but lie, it’s so easy to get away with. The only problem is rule #1: “Do not lie.” This rule is not “optional”, it is not something that one can casually decide to acquire or to partake of, it is a requirement for happiness. Hold on… wasn’t I writing about truth just a moment ago? How did I end up here? Do you see how easily we confuse things? Regardless of this, neither word has anything to do with truth, they are just one way that we have attempted to “humanize” one of the absolute qualities of the universe.
It turns out that truthfulness and honesty simply did not provide the same amount of pleasure to the ego as truth. They were good qualities, but while they leaned towards aspects of actual truth, they became synonymous with humility and as anyone can tell you, humility is a WEAKNESS. It’s what a person should claim to be, when in fact they desire to be and are expected to be ruthless and imposing and above all else: right. Yes, that is what makes human flesh tremble with desire and makes the knees weak: to be right – and for everyone else to know that I’m right. Oh yes! That’s good, that’s very good! All it needed was a little math to establish the parallel and all of a sudden; there it was: To be right one had to possess truth, otherwise they were wrong. Being right became the membership ID card that was shown when we wanted to be treated by others with the same unyielding and unquestionable validity as truth, and it worked! All one had to be was right and BAM! – the same endorphins and pheromones that are set off when we imagine what it must be like for a person to be as omnipotent as truth itself coursed through the body. We humans have always been so resourceful.
In this manner, we created righteousness and immediately upon doing so, we did something to ourselves that will haunt us to until we reconcile the truth; we created and set loose a construct capable of giving the human ego an orgasm, as it were.
[Note: Keep in mind that a human ego having an orgasm is probably the most horrific thing that can be imagined. Without our egos, we’re not human, but when you take into account that the ego is such a ferocious and inconsiderate beast that the only way that a person can remain human is to keep their ego on a very short leash and feed it a very low calorie diet to keep it weak, lest it consume everything in its path, the thought of that same thing having an orgasm is overwhelmingly addictive.]
Following is the definition that we assigned to the word; righteous, and just in case it pops into your mind: it’s no joke:
right·eous
[rahy-chuhs]
adjective
- Characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- morally right or justifiable: righteous indignation.
- acting in an upright, moral way; virtuous: a righteous and godly person.
- Slang . absolutely genuine or wonderful: some righteous playing by a jazz great.
- noun
- the righteous, ( used with a plural verb ) righteous persons collectively.
World English Dictionary
righteous (ˈraɪtʃəs)
-adj
- characterized by, proceeding from, or in accordance with accepted standards of morality, justice, or uprightness;
- virtuous: a righteous man(as collective noun ; preceded by the):
- the righteous morally justifiable or right, especially from one’s own point of view: righteous indignation
And so it is that right there, in the last definition of righteous, in the same line item where the concept of righteous indignation is established that the math unravels completely. We started out with truth; a universal constant that contains, among other things, the attribute of indisputable and absolute validity and veracity and attempted to define a human version which we called truthfulness or honesty, but they resulted in humility which we interpret as “weak”. We then embellished truthfulness by adding the premise of being right based on a “solid moral foundation” and gave birth to righteousness, which takes the entire concept straight down the toilet, where we reach righteous indignation, or “I’m right, you’re wrong, therefore I own the truth.”
So then, what have we accomplished? We are a world of 7 billion people who each believe that they are right. We attempted to emulate truth and came up with righteousness, which allows for everyone to be right and for everyone to also be wrong, depending on the desire for convenience. This is then further extrapolated into “I’m right, therefore I’m telling the truth and you are lying because you’re wrong.” Other than the clear errors in this psychotic math, it’s not even possible! Everyone can’t be right and wrong at the same time! That would be…impossible and paradoxical, right? Reality would shatter and all life on earth would immediately come to an end. I can clearly hear a voice, it sounds like the voice of an older woman, saying: “Well, I’m very sorry. I guess the world will just have to end then, because I’m RIGHT.” None of us are right or wrong, just human. Isn’t that right? Come on now, tell the truth!
”Being right serves no purpose, whatsoever.”
ctwfrank
That which has value
09 Nov 2011 7 Comments
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The whole of human existence has become blindly obsessed with the issue of having possession of, if not the right to possess (by virtue of debt) those things that have value, specifically; money. No thing has any more or less value than what we assign it and it is woeful to contemplate that we would, individually or collectively, assign a higher value to any thing than what we reserve for ourselves, yet we have.
In the universe, there are only two values, these being the same ones we should concern ourselves with, lest we lose all reason and rationality: There is that which is TRUE and that which is FALSE and to count them as two values is only insofar as there are two different words to count, for they are in essence, opposite views of the same value; its validation and its negation. The only actual and real value that exists is truth which is simultaneously the only thing of value, yet we have come to value money more we value ourselves and even more than truth, and because of these we are all but lost in our own lie.
The price of excellence
30 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
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In today’s world we try to teach our children to excel and to do their best and we believe this, therefore it is fair to say that this is true. At the same time, whenever anyone excels or does their best or does something that is considered valuable or important and is recognized for doing what we have instilled in them since childhood, what follows the recognition is a barrage of envy, resentment, exclusion, rejection and even mistreatment on a personal level; not by everyone, but by almost everyone. If each individual instance of this negative response was to be analyzed and dissected, one would see that the reason and cause for it boils down to the simple thought: “Why couldn’t it have been me? Why did it have to be him/her?”
So widespread has this phenomenon become, and so used to it have we become that it is not only expected, but has become that which is desired, for which one of us can stand in front of a mirror and deny that some, or all of the motivation or inspiration that we may have to accomplish anything is based on how much others will envy us for being recognized and financially compensated.
It is very possible that this very real aspect of humanity may be the reason why so many arrive at the conclusion that it is futile to excel or contribute for any reason other than the financial benefit, the latter having become the only motivation we may have left. It is also very possible and quite probable that many people have actually solved this equation and concluded that the only way to not experience this phenomenon is to be mediocre.
If we look around, we can see that what we actually teach ourselves to aspire to is mediocrity, for what greater accomplishment can there be than to “not attract too much attention?” Just ask any celebrity.
An exceptional thought, action or creation born of any one of us requires the good will, acceptance and simple courtesy of the rest of us; for what benefits one of us, benefits us all. We already know this.
Isn’t it time to forgive the past and build a future? We’ve made enough mistakes to learn from them instead of repeating them.
We can do better.
ctwfrank
Playing the odds
20 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
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What we once mostly called the “economy” or at times the “financial infrastructure” at other times the “fiscal structure” and every once it a while we would call it the “banking structure” or the “commercial structure” of the world, or to be more general; the systematic functional management and administration of wealth and value – ended, or died, or disappeared or was replaced some time ago. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when, but it doesn’t really matter at this point. If anyone might ask the question: “If this is true, then what has existed in its place since?” The answer to that would be a casino, with the only exception being that there is no house.
How to talk like THEM.
14 Oct 2011 1 Comment
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Have you ever wondered how they do it? I’m referring to any of THEM (or “they”, you know; the same ones who “say” – ‘They say the economy will get better.’) who stand in front of large groups of people and give speeches. It doesn’t have to be any particular one of them; it could be any one of them; politicians, corporate tycoons, millionaires, dictators and the like. How is it that they are able to stand up there for such a long time and talk as much as they do and say NOTHING at all, yet leave us in awe and impressed with the superlative oratory that we were fortunate enough to witness. How is it that they do it? They’re not THAT charismatic or charming or spellbinding, so how can so few talk so much crap and have it result in our applause, admiration, donations or votes? I’m not implying that an impressive and impacting discourse is never genuine, there are those who have the presence, power and passion to communicate a message to a large group of people and succeed with an impeccable power; it’s just there are far too many of them that don’t have any of these talents who manage to get away appearing as if they did every time they open their yapper and I think it’s about time a cat or two is let out of a bag or two. Impressive, impacting, breathtaking and moving speeches can be made by anyone, with the assistance of a little math. In this case; linguistic math. Would you like to learn how you can easily and simply give a knock-out speech that says absolutely nothing of any significance yet leaves the audience impressed, applauding and vowing life-long loyalty? Let’s have some fun.
Below is what I call a ‘linguistic speech matrix’. It breaks down key sections of sentences that contain words to which we are programmed from birth to respond to. This is no joke, try it and you will be blown away. The matrix is in the form of a table, with rows and columns. There are four columns, numbered 1 through 4 which represent sentence segments. These segments are interchangeable with other sentence segments containing the same component key words. The matrix also has several rows and these are indexed by letter, alphabetically (A, B, C, etc). Here’s how you use it: Starting with column 1, pick any row you like for the first part of what will be a 4-part sentence and then pick a different row for columns 2, 3 and 4 to form a sentence. For example; you can start off with F1, D2, G3 and E4. This gives you the following sentence, in this example the content of each cell has a different color font to help identify them: “The burden of daily life proves that the present structure of the organization facilitates the creation of new propositions.” Afterwards, simply continue mixing and matching columns and rows, as long as they are in column sequence 1-2-3-4. The more sentences you form, the longer and more impressive the speech sounds.
The matrix also has a bonus: it is flexible and adaptable so that it can mimic relevance. It accomplishes this with column 4, which contains the wording which is the pivotal object of the sentence. All of the rows in column 4 contain key words that sound important but mean nothing, however you can replace the words in column 4 from the matrix with something current, as long as it can follow “of” in terms of sentence structure. Let’s use the same example as above but in this case, we’ll replace what is in E4 with something current and on the minds of many people, like the economy. You can modify it like this: “The burden of daily life proves that the present structure of the organization facilitates the creation of a new global economic infrastructure.” You can insert relevant topics into the column 4 segment here and there and voila! You’ve just made a top notch, expert level and knock-their’s-socks-off-speech. Just imagine how much fun we could have with this knowledge! Give it a try, it’s the real deal. Now you not only know how to put together a world-class speech, you also have a tool to help you differentiate between an talented speaker and someone who is using a matrix: content. Maybe this will level the playing field some, who knows? Enjoy!
| row/column |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
A |
My fellow citizens, | In order to reach the goals of the program | We are obligated to perform a detailed analysis | of the existing financial and administrative conditions. |
|
B |
On the other hand and given the present circumstances | the complexity of analysis performed by management | plays an essential role in the structuring | of the development directives for the future. |
|
C |
Therefore. | the constant increase in the quality and quantity of our activities | demand exact precision and the complete support | of the main participating system. |
|
D |
Regardless, we can not forget that | the present structure of the organization | assists in the preparation and completion | of the member’s attitudes towards their unavoidable duties. |
|
E |
Similarly, | the new distribution of duties of the organization | guarantees the participation of an important group in the formation | of new propositions. |
|
F |
The burden of daily life proves that | the continuous development of different types of activities | complies with important obligations in the determination | of the learning curve, in terms of pogress. |
|
G |
It is not an absolute necessity to argue the complexity and the meaning of these problems, given that | our activity and progress in the areas of information and propaganda | facilitates the creation | of the structure of programs that relate to specific needs. |
|
H |
A diversified base of meaningful experiences teaches us that | the reinforcing and development of the structures | prevents the appreciation of the importance | of the conditions of the appropriate activities |
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I |
It is the eagerness of the organization and also that | the advice of of several militants | offers us an interesting opportunity to test the validity | of the development model. |
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J |
Superior ideological principles are what allow that | the beginnings of the process of forms the new attitudes which | implies the process of reconstruction and modernization | of the various types of action. |
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K |
Additionally, we could very well dare to suggest that | a specific re-launching of all the implied sectors | will have to indicate an authentic starting point | of the basic premises as adopted. |
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L |
It is obvious to point out that | that the overcoming of outmoded ways of thinking | will, in any case, specify the fundamental basis | of an actual wide-spectrum casuistry, |
|
M |
But we would commit the sin of insincerity if we were to avoid the fact that | an indiscriminate application of conclusive factors | assures us, in any case, of having a sensible investment process | of the resulting elements. |
|
N |
Finally, and as a definitive final statement, it is necessary to add that | the consensual process of various and other concurrent applications | is derived by overcoming the indirect occurrence | of a whole series of ideologically systematized criteria sharing a common front of regenerative acts. |
A most interesting modification to the solution of the global economic crisis…
11 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
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I most definitely hope to be able to say that I “spoke too soon” if I waxed a bit too critical in yesterday’s post: The solution to the global economic crisis. I don’t have all of the details yet, but I just now learned that there is a “Global Insolvency and Restructuring Conference”. From what I have seen so far, these conferences are occurring at regular intervals, given that the web page I just looked at was about the 17th Global Insolvency and Restructuring Conference. Perhaps some of us are looking at possible ways to restructure after the present insolvency bottoms out, and at a good pace too! They’ve already had 17 of them! They must have these conferences on a weekly basis, or possibly on a monthly basis; the last 17 months have been the hardest so far.
What confuses me a little is that the web page for this conference lists the last one in May of 2011. There should have been at least 3 more since May, if not 12. It must be a typo; I mean, come on; there’s no way that this could have been the 17th annual Global Insolvency and Restructuring Conference, could it? That would mean that they have known about the insolvent state of the world for at least 17 years, perhaps more. That couldn’t be possible, could it? 17 years ago; in 1994; there was no clue that the massive hammer punch we took in 2008 would happen or that any of these economic “bubbles” that exploded would exist; right? I mean; if this were the 17th annual Global Insolvency and Restructuring Conference, then. . . have we been insolvent since then or did we know that we would become insolvent? Since 1994?
Excuse me for a moment, I just got a headache; I’m going to take an analgesic.
A quick bit of reality.
10 Oct 2011 2 Comments
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Foreword
The constitution prohibits the establishing of laws based on a religious belief or religious law; it is the fundamental basis of the separation of church and state. The constitution makes no such prohibition, nor virtually any other of any kind, to the private sector. That is to say that a private company can base its policies and procedures and/or operating guidelines on religious law and/or religious belief. This is guaranteed by the bill of rights (freedom of religion/freedom of speech).
The Meat and Potatoes:
The concept of “Lending Money” is one so absurd and ridiculous that it belies all logic, yet it is just one more “impossible” scenario that we make a part of our daily lives. Our civilization, as it stands in 2011 could not function at all without the lending of money, after all it is how money is created; you deposit your money in a bank, let’s say $1000.00. The bank, under the pretense that you will not withdraw that money immediately, can take a portion of it; let’s say $500.00 and lends it to someone else as if it were theirs and charges them interest on it. By accepting the loan from the bank (of your money) the beneficiary of the loan now has $500.00 dollars of your money that they bank lent them, but you also have the same $500.00 in your account; you’re just not using it right now. By doing this, the bank created $500.00 dollars, or at least that’s what we believe. In this post, I will not write any math intended to demonstrate how or why money can’t be borrowed or lent, because even though it can’t; we do it every day. In this post, I’ll stick to our present reality – to the last detail.
The lending of money is based on an analysis of credit risk. The function of credit risk analysis is to establish a person or entity’s creditworthiness. Creditworthiness is established by companies like FICO who assign a score in relation to a person’s creditworthiness. In order to determine this score, FICO’s slated objective is to predict the likelihood that a consumer will go 90 days past due or worse in the subsequent 24 months after the score has been calculated. Barring the fact that it is not possible to predict the future, the commercialization of predicting the future is officially classified as fortune-telling. Fortune telling is recognized in many states as a legitimate business as evidenced by the ability to obtain an occupational or business tax license to operate a fortune telling establishment (with a disclaimer that it is for entertainment purposes only). The reason that fortune-telling is classified as a legitimate business category is that fortune-telling is considered an aspect of witchcraft and witchcraft is officially recognized as a RELIGION in the U.S.A. and is therefore protected by the constitution.
In conclusion, even though the lives of every person in the country and most of the world, even governments are determined by their creditworthiness, there is no law regulating creditworthiness, credit scoring or credit rating, if there were, the law would be invalid because it would be based on a religious premise (witchcraft). At the same time, determining a person or company’s creditworthiness is technically an attempt to predict the future, which technically; is an act of witchcraft. When this is applied to the general public, we are able to glimpse our reality: Every person who has a loan, mortgage or credit card or in any way has borrowed money has (whether they know it or now) technically practiced witchcraft. There, that should light a fire or two under someone’s butt; they can’t argue the facts, however. Banks lend money by trying to predict the future of a person’s creditworthiness. The lending of money is the principal financial mechanism of the world’s economy; it is also the active practice of witchcraft, in reality.
It doesn’t get much more real than this.
We can do better.
The solution to the global economic crisis.
10 Oct 2011 2 Comments
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I don’t understand what all of the fuss is about. The entire world feels like it’s on the verge of a mass nervous breakdown over this “global economic crisis”. So severe is this crisis that those few who actually know how bad it is will never divulge as much – and I am not one of those few; which may result my being asked how I can quantify “it” in any way. The answer to all of these questions is actually very simple: There is no financial “crisis” or a global “recession” or anything even remotely resembling the significant “slowing down” of the planet’s economy. According to the very authorities who define everything financial or economic; such as the IMF, the U.S. Federal Reserve, the World Bank and the rest of the endless list of “entities in charge” of everything related to monney; the present financial position of the human race stands as follows, using the basic, standardized, universal and official format called A BALANCE SHEET (expressed in US Dollars “US$”, as required, given that the official reserve currency of the world is the U.S. Dollar, as per the Breton-Woods Agreement, which is still being honored by recognizing gold as the official currency of the world):
Balance sheet for Homo-Sapiens as of October 10, 2011
Fiscal year-end: December 31, 2011
Total Assets: US$32 Trillion
Total Liabilities: US$84 Trillion
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Total Assets and
Liabilities: -US$52 Trillion
(The figures may not be exact, but they are close enough to be verifiable by any person through any number of official sources.)
As can be seen by our balance sheet, we have no economic crisis or recession; whenever ones’ liabilities are greater than one’s assets, especially to the degree seen in our collective balance sheet, it is called INSOLVENCY. It’s in the dictionary, you can look it up. It’s actually pretty clear; I don’t know how every “expert” in the world missed it. On an individual basis, if any one person should become insolvent, the pestilence that is rained upon them is truly harsh, to the point where they must file for bankruptcy, after all; isn’t not being able to pay one’s bills one of the most despicable and shameful of all social positions? This is why it’s called “insolvency” – without a solution. These days, most people are forced to deal with coercive threats and more if they are 3 days in paying a credit card statement and yet the entire human race is clearly and indisputably insolvent, and no one noticed? I don’t know, but doesn’t that seem a little odd? That’s beside the point, however; I don’t want to lose my place, where were we? Oh yes, the inhabitants of Planet Earth are summarily and collectively insolvent; a fact which needs no further supporting evidence. As such, what is required is that bankruptcy be filed, humanity’s existing assets and cash flow would probably be placed in receivership and eventually the court will discharge the debt by virtue of liquidation of assets, or something of the sort, right? Those are the RULES; right? That’s what any of us would be required to do individually, RIGHT? If it applies to any person individually, then it must also apply to all of us collectively, given the same circumstances, RIGHT???
Here are the problems with this situation:
- Which court has jurisdiction over the entire human race?
- Assuming an answer for #1, to which address should all legal paperwork be sent?
- Who (and this is most important) speaks for all of us? ALL of us; because it is all of us together who are bankrupt and insolvent. Those few who may still think they “have a few bucks” can’t weasel their way out of being human, so it’s ALL of us, just look at the numbers. Who could, or can, speak for all of us, should this impossible hearing ever take place? That’s simple: All of us did not make, or even participate in the decisions as to the handling our global economy that resulted in insolvency. It was only some of us who did so. The fact that they didn’t get permission from all of us is irrelevant at this point; we believe the figures as written, therefore we are insolvent. It would seem logical that it should be those same few who put all of us in this position who should stand up for the rest of us in this case – they did when they screwed up our books. Wouldn’t you say?
Okay, I think that’s enough. None of these things are actually going to happen. All of us don’t even know who those few who put us all in this position are, or were. It’s ridiculous to consider that the “human race” could file for bankruptcy, yet this doesn’t change the fact that we are bankrupt and insolvent. We can’t play by some of the rules and ignore the rest when it’s convenient. If humanity can’t file bankruptcy, then it can’t be insolvent either; why? Because we INVENTED both of those concepts, yet we believe them to be real and true individual “things” with their own will and presence.
What is truly comical to the point of being Machiavellian is how we have known this all along. Of course we have, just look in the dictionary. Look up the word “insolvent”. The entire definition deals with money and bankruptcy. From a linguistic point of view, however, the word insolvent is composed of two component morphemes; the prefix in-, which means NOT, and the word solvent, which of course, means everything that’s listed under the word insolvency, except for that one little detail that jumps out at you if you actually look up the word solvent: It also means “having the power to solve”. Of course, that makes sense, doesn’t it? Then why doesn’t the definition for insolvent include “The inability to solve?” Maybe because when it comes to solving this mess, we are unable to. Shit, we can’t even solve the right definition. The entire financial crisis, wealth, value, currency, money and everything else isn’t even real, we just think it is which makes it real to all of us. In the end, what this all means is that we are actually trying to run an insolvent civilization on a bankrupt planet and that somehow a solution will be found for making something out of nothing? Look at it this way; each day that we continue to live believing this enormous pile of shit that came out of us is like driving a car with 4 flat tires; fast and a long way. You know what happens eventually, right?
Okay, just don’t say I didn’t speak up.
We can do better.
Why?
09 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
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Q: Why are there many of us?
A: Because it is necessary, otherwise there would be only 1.
