[GJM] #833, The Mechanism for Genocide Done Slowly

[wesburt at juno.com]

Dear Urban, and friends,

Please let me know what the L. signifies.  Perhaps 
I can use it effectively when a more formal tone 
of voice is appropriate in an e-mail.

Thanks for the description of your world view.  
I'll try to define the missing 3%????? below 
your message. 

~~~~~~~ Urban's second reply to #832 ~~~~~~~~
From: lurban kohler lurbankohler at yahoo.com
To: FixGov at yahoogroups.com
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:03:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [FixGov] #832, Zero to 50% Of TOP = 
Genocide Done Slowly
Wes wrote about: 

" . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . the tsunami of articles 
> predicting, facilitating, and encouraging a 
> second "great depression" of the US 
> economy. The thing about this flood of 
> articles that leaves me disappointed is: 
> that they are completely true, no one lies 
> to us, but all leave out that 3% of the
> subject which contains the solution . . . ."

Boy Wes, I know 3% of infinity is still 
pretty big, but could you save me some 
time in my quest for what the solution 
might look like? I'm pretty sure all it 
would take is everybody using their 
ingenuity to help each other rather 
than help themselves, and do it without 
having to consume and destroy in ways 
that are not renewable sustainable and 
inclusive of the great diversity of life & 
beauty on the planet.

It is the world of our dreams. Is the map 
to get there described in your 3%????? 
--Urban
~~~~~~~ End L. Urban Kohler ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It is, indeed, the world of our dreams, the dream 
of every NGO and grass root organization that 
incorporates the word "Justice" in its statement 
of purpose.  The map to get there is incorporated 
in each one of my 833 messages, to the best 
of my ability.  But there's the rub!  As you know, 
I am not a credentialed member of the clerisy and 
am obliged to rely too much on visual-aids when 
my words fail to communicate with my academic 
and intellectual superiors who already hold all the 
money and power.  They see no need for change 
nor for communication from the unlettered.

In your previous note of 13 August, you mentioned 
"the pall of ignorance that makes us the dupes of 
our hidden masters!"  That pall of ignorance has 
been accumulating in the Old World since "The 
Folly Of Rehoboam" in B.C. 975 and in the US 
since 1898, when the American Economic 
Association abandoned its founder's principles 
and became the voice of the hidden masters who 
no longer bother to hide.  There is no alternative 
to their plans and policies, as long as they can divide 
the public into factions; religious, political, ethnic, 
nationality, level of income, and parenting vs non-
parenting households.  We have about a half dozen 
factions which claim they were chosen by God to 
rule the earth, and as many more who are firmly 
of the opinion that none of the chosen ones should 
be allowed to achieve their goal.  Most of us are of 
this latter opinion, I believe.  But we lack a common 
cause that can rise above our differences and enable 
our natural inclination to cooperate more, and compete 
less, while we reduce our consumption to a level 
sustainable for all future generations.

Human nature and the human life cycle have not 
changed significantly over the last ten thousand 
years, so I have been told.  Messrs. Paine, Franklin, 
Jefferson, et al lived in an agrarian society much 
like that of Abraham and King Melchizedek of Salem 
who operated a school to teach the knowledge 
of God (According to the Jewish tradition).  

No one should expect that the structure of a 
"good society" would change much between 
B.C. 1913 and A.C. 1797, when Paine wrote 
"Agrarian Justice."  So for more than a century, 
until industrialization altered the condition of the 
work force in the 1890s, the production of wealth 
(value added, $/year) in the US economy 
exceeded the circulation of money ($ circulated/year) 
by 1.2%.  As Ken Freeland said of John Booker's 
8/7/07 analysis of Biblical history on Dick 
Eastman's CHDouglas list: 

        "Therefore, the "survival" of its modern ersatz 
        counterpart (Israel) is actually antagonistic to this 
        classical understanding, which did not change 
        significantly until the introduction of the Scofield 
        Bible in the late 19th century.  It was all downhill 
        from there."

True enough, the introduction of the Scofield Bible coincides with "The
Great Transformation" which 
author Karl Polanyi described in his 1944 book of 
that title, and it has truly been all downhill from there. 
But all of these distinguished members of the clerisy 
failed to explain the sudden 1895 shift from a 
+1.2%/year increase in the value of the dollar to a 
-2.3%/year decline in the value of the dollar.  When 
the American work force left the farm, and became 
corporate employees without property, they faced 
a labor market in which 4% or more of them are 
not competitive because they are burdened by the 
expense of debt service on about half of the fixed 
cost of human development. 

People everywhere, Urban, are resisting the domination 
of your "hidden masters," and are striving to achieve 
the degree of liberty and justice that Americans 
had become accustomed to, but are now slowly 
losing because their libraries are full of books 
and articles which describe the universe but 
omit that 3% of truth which would keep them free.  

The Mechanism for Genocide Done Slowly is a 
defective performance of the labor market which 
results from our failure to fully capitalize, for all 
members of society, the expense of human 
development.  I may have confused the subject 
by calling it The Wrong Policy (TWP), but what is 
done, is done. The expense of capital development, 
on the other hand, has been perfectly capitalized 
in the USA, at least since K. Polanyi's "T.G.T."  and 
the introduction of the Scofield Bible.  This I 
have called The Optimum Policy (TOP), and may 
have again added unnecessary language.  In 
the old world; the cathedrals, castles, water works, 
and pyramids suggest that capital development 
was not invented in the USA.,  But we made it a 
science in the US private sector while allowing 
our public sector policy to become "structurally 
deficient," like our bridges.

Figure 12n.gif tried to summarize this conflict between 
the 97% of truth discussed on the Internet and in the 
media, and, the whole truth; by pointing to the need 
for equality between private fiscal policy and public 
fiscal policy.  I use the term "fiscal" in the same sense 
that Adam Smith used "expense" of governments or 
corporations in his First Maxim Of Taxation. 
(Page 777 in T.W.O.N.)

The US private sector developed normally and 
perfected the practice of industrial management 
to enable the wealth and power of the American 
Empire, which still gives Europeans a knot in 
their knickers.  So they send us Ayn Rand, 
Austrian Economics, Basic Income Grants, 
and several other 97% notions to make sure 
American taxpayers never restore the equal 
sign on attached Figure 12n.gif.

Urban, your third reply to #832 arrived last night 
and provides a most welcome introduction to 
the work of Wendell Berry and his focus on the 
decentralized local solution as opposed to the 
centralized global solution.  I'll send this post, 
for what it is worth, and work on #834 to show 
that global problems become manageable after 
we stabilize local labor markets to optimize the 
life support system for all of us, rather than 
optimize just for the clerisy. 

Thanks again L. Urban Kohler, for helping the US copy 
what Europe and Japan accomplished in their 1946 to 
1970 economic miracles.

Kind regards,

Wes Burt

  TOP and TWP are cognoscible by sixth graders from
        Fig. 7-9.gif on Dr. W. Curtiss Priest's web site:
         <http://www.epie.org/cyber-soc/default.htm>
 TOP = 100% Capitalism --- TWP = 0 to  50% Capitalism
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