[GJM] Monotheistic communications

Mon Jul 3 00:08:32 MDT 2006

Dear Wes,

  I wish you could make your formulation inclusive..as per the communications of Allah/God in Qur'an..The communications of all the messenger referred in Gospels, Torah are Islamic..We need to get this central undestanding to dawn on all. Muslim is just an Arabic word and Islam is an Arabic word..an abstract noun..for intellectual and politcal state of submission to the will of Allah/God/parmatma..the Creator of all universes. Qur'an has verses suggesting the communications of Allah in all languages and to all people in their language..

  Thus Judeo-Christian communication related to the communication of the messenger is Islamic.So are the monotheistic communications in other languages that are mixed with polytheistic narrations..

wesburt at juno.com wrote:
      Hello United Diversity,

  Last week on John Watkins' Alliance for Human Empowerment 
  forum was a satisfying week.  I visited Ron Roland's 
  Constitution web site and read Bastiat's 1950 book, The Law, 
  for the nth time.  On list Worldcit, Sabzali Khan, Raj Shekhar 
  Chandola, Kenneth Kostyo, and Lucy Webster moved toward 
  substancial agreement on the subject: "Common Grounds for 
  World Religion and Decentralized Creativity."  As a member of 
  no particular church, it is reassuring to keep in mind that both 
  sides of the Judeo-Christian principle of Subsidiarity (TWP and 
  TOP) have been disclosed to the public since 1891.  The 2981 
  year old Wrong Policy (TWP) still prevails, but the 3019 year 
  old optimum policy (TOP), resurrected in 1789 for an agrarian 
  society, is gaining ground among today's industrial societies, 
  but not yet in the USA.   

  While searching the web for information on Kenneth Kostyo,
  I happened on a three year old 4th of July message on the 
  same subject, which is appended below.  John Watkins is 
  right, a good editor would have got me where I am, sooner, 
  but not without the charts and graphs.

  Kind regards,

  Wes Burt!

  ~~~~~~~~~~ Forwarded three year old message ~~~~~~~~~~
To: TOP at xxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: What is "The Optimum Policy?" 
From: wesburt at xxxxxxxx 
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 11:15:13 -0400 
Cc: Wesburt at xxxxxxxx 

  To: A few friends and Numerous Defenders of the Status 
Quo (NDotSQs) on my copy list.

  Good day folks,

  I think that the five paragraph excerpt from the post 
below is enough explanation of TOP to satisfy most ten 
year old sixth grade students in our public school system, 
provided that the explanation is supported visually by 
the graphical illustrations at the URL in my signature below.  

  ~~~~~~~~~~~ Begin excerpt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: wesburt at juno.com
To: ami at taconic.net
Cc: wesburt at juno.com
Date: Tue, 1 July 2003 15:43:50 -0400
Subject: Fw: Re: What is Production, Money, & 
Wealth On Fig. 4?

  The United States, has pretty well corrected the two 
faults that Bastiat assigned to it in 1850, the tariff 
and slavery.  The third fault, which became visible to 
many economists in Richard T. Ely's "New School" 
after the Civil War, may be seen with 20-20 hind sight 
in the profile of the US CPI (Consumer Price Index) 
shown in FIG10b and Fig10d on URL 
<http://www.epie.org/cyber-soc/default.htm>.  

  This third fault is a systemic defect of omission in 
public policy.  It is THE moral disgrace of the English 
speaking people who have pretty much ruled the 
world since King Henry VIII separated England from 
the Church Of Rome which taught the principle of 
"Subsidiarity" to the Western world.  This systemic 
defect consists of shifting the fixed and unavoidable 
burden of sustaining the population from the high end 
of the earned income distribution toward the low end 
of the earned income distribution.  

  In other words, England has not had a free market 
since the enclosures of the commons in the 1500s.  
While the US enjoyed a free market from Colonial 
times until the 1890s, as marked by a steady rise 
in the value of the Dollar except during war time, but 
then contracted the "English disease" which continues 
to date.  TOP cures the "English Disease," if the wealthy, 
  healthy, intelligent, and powerful folks (our WHIPs) will 
  allow their SOP to be shared with the unwashed public. 

  Western Europe and Japan cured their "English 
Disease" after World War II and now are enjoying 
the moral high ground of the global social order, and 
seizing each opportunity to poke sharp sticks at the 
UK and the US.  Obviously, having the "English 
Disease" does not prevent a vigorous nation from 
becoming a hated super power.

  The inevitable consequent of enforcing this third fault 
on any population of human beings can be demonstrated 
in the laboratory with the help of a colony of laboratory 
rats.  The Biologist, Mayor, Governor, President, WHIP, 
King, or Emperor imposes a slight restriction on the food 
supply and living space of the rat colony, and soon all 
kinds of pathological behavior are demonstrated by the 
rats, who cannot figure out why they are behaving in 
such a counter productive manor.  Young, small, and 
weaker rats suffer most from the pathologies that 
become characteristic of the colony; while the wealthy, 
healthy, intelligent, and powerful (WHIP rats) are scarcely 
aware of the restrictions but notice with apprehension 
the depraved conduct of the lower class rats and take 
firm steps to maintain law and order.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ End excerpt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  The Republicans, the Democrats, the NGOs, the Media, and 
the Internet are all agreed that the Anglo/American version 
of a free market economy exhibits a shortage of jobs, a 
shortage of growth, a shortage of investment opportunities, 
a shortage of purchasing power among parenting households, 
and a shortage of technically valid proposals for correcting 
these several shortages.  If we base our analysis on the 
fundamental characteristics of human nature and restrict our 
analysis to comply with "the laws of nature and of Nature's 
God," as the founding fathers put it more than two hundred 
years ago, then nine out of every ten of us will converge on 
a shared understanding of "The Optimum Policy" for correcting 
these several shortages.  

  Those who lack confidence in their own analytical ability, and 
want their conclusions confirmed by some higher authority, are 
"Free To Choose," as Milton Friedman put it, between the KJV 
of the Old Testament, the Torah, the Koran, the US private sector, 
or the three decade post World War II "Economic Miracle" of 
Japan and Europe for their higher authority.   Or, as a second 
best approach, those seekers of authority can attempt to reason 
from the published writings of Adam Smith, Thomas Paine, Karl 
Marx, Bertrand Russell, J. M. Keynes, Major C. H. Douglas, or 
Henry George.  From my reading, all of these worthy authors 
were highly intelligent word smiths and their lengthy writings 
yielded only one or two paragraphs worth quoting.  For example: 
Smith's "First Maxim Of Taxation," and Marx's quoted phrase in 
his Critique Of The Gotha Program "From each according to his 
ability - To each according to his need."  Who else but children 
have "needs" that society is obliged to supply?  Who else but 
society's current work force can supply those needs?

  Since the US economy is the largest and the most influential 
member of the global economy, it is literally and technically 
impossible to correct defects in the smaller national economies 
while allowing those same defects to exist in the US economy.  
In my nine years on the Internet I have yet to meet a person 
who would lift his little finger in support of a technically sound 
corrective proposal, if that proposal would make the US 
wealthier and more powerful than it is already.  We hear 
nothing but wishful thinking and pious exhortation; never 
sound analysis from the Internet, the Government, and the 
Media.

  For this discussion to go forward, at least two people must 
agree to frame the discussion in terms of a macro model 
such as Fig. 4 and a micro model such as Fig. 7 (the human 
life cycle) and Fig. 8 (the distribution of human ability).  
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Insert Fig7e.gif ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~End Fig7e.gif ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  In my travels on this topic I have found only one book by 
a prominent New York investment banker, co authored with 
an engineer, which made a serious effort to use visual-aids 
to explain the US economy.  That book was: IN DEFENSE 
OF CAPITALISM, 1937, "written for business men," by James 
H. R. Cromwell and Hugo E. Czerwonky.  Cromwell was FDR's 
ambassador to Canada for a while and written up in Who's 
Who.  Czerwonky was an engineer.  The book was based on 
seven circular flow diagrams, each much like the top view of 
Fig. 4, on seven fold out pages.  Each diagram added a 
particular feature of Capitalism to the basic GDP flow 
through the capital plant, the labor market, the people, the 
world market, and back to the capital plant.  Their analysis, 
like those of the other authors mentioned above, did not 
quite reach to the root cause of the systemic defect of 
omission in Anglo-American capitalism.

  If we wait long enough the Europeans or the Chinese will 
explain these figures to us, with the point of a bayonet.

  Kind regards,

  Wes Burt

  To further explore "The Optimum Policy" illustrated 
at URL <http://www.epie.org/cyber-soc/default.htm> 
please join me at list <TOP-subscribe at topica.com>.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ End three year old message ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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