[GJM] #36 What Now, For The Global Clerisy?

[wesburt at juno.com]

Dear Friends Of The Republic,

For the benefit of the Many like myself (the Vocabulary Handicapped), and
to encourage constructive 
comment from the Few; the following word, from "Word 
of the Day" for March 21, 2007, with my humble 
opinion in the format [[MHO]], is offered for your 
thoughtful consideration:
clerisy \KLER-uh-see\, noun: The well educated 
class; the intelligentsia.
The clerisy of a nation, that is, its learned men, 
whether poets, or philosophers, or scholars.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table-Talk
Our academic clerisy, I'm sure, could point 
out factual inadequacies, along with examples 
of cultural bias.
-- Robert D. Kaplan, "And Now for the News", 
The Atlantic, March 1997
Our clerisy contains journalists and pundits 
and think-tank experts and political historians.
-- Michael Lind, "Defrocking the Artist", 
New York Times, March 14, 1999
Clerisy is from German Klerisei, "clergy," 
from Medieval Latin clericia, from Late Latin 
clericus, "priest," from Late Greek klerikos, 
"belonging to the clergy," from Greek kleros, 
"inheritance, lot," in allusion to Deuteronomy 18:2 
("Therefore shall they [[the clerisy of that time]] 
have no inheritance [[in the land]] among their 
brethren: the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath 
said unto them").
The above should establish the continuity of the 
Clerisy from the Five Books Of Moses to this 
morning's WASHINGTON POST.  So we can 
safely assume that the Law, which the Son Of 
God promised to restore in Matthew 5.17-19 
and the loss of which was lamented in Hebrews 
5 and 6, was the same law that had been reduced 
to practice for local agrarian communities by King 
Melchizedek of Salem (Genesis 14.18-20) by B.C. 
1913.  The above should help the Jews, Catholics, 
Muslims, Protestants, as well as the Humanists 
 to open their minds to the 2982 year old systemic 
defect in the public policy of the Global Clerisy.  
The following three brief excerpts from previous 
messages, with only minor embellishments where 
needed, will serve as an introduction to my proposal 
below for correcting the one and only 2982 year 
old systemic defect in the public policy of the 
Global Clerisy. 

~~~~~~~~~~~ 1 of 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>From #33 to Doug Everingham and John Herman, 
with Figures 4 _8i.gif and 2-3e.gif attached:

"Of course, at anytime during the 20th century 
the NIR (natural inflation rate) could have been 
restored to its original rate of 1.2%/year deflation, 
which Americans enjoyed for a century prior to 
1898; by raising our 50% rate of investment in 
developing our human assets to the 100% rate 
of investment our corporations always make 
when developing the capital assets owned by 
the Clerisy.  Listen for some knee jerk conservative 
to yell: "that's Socialism!"  You bet it is!!!!  100% 
Capitalism for a Few of the Clerisy and Socialism 
or 50% Capitalism for Many of the Clerisy to drive 
them, and the common folk, into debt and poverty."

~~~~~~~~~~~ 2 of 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>From #34 to Dick Clifford, with no Figures attached:

"Tomorrow, I will have experienced the last 
eighty-three years of your 4.5 billion year 
earthly time line, so your presentation was 
a timely birthday present, a nice supplement 
to Doug Everingham's kindly request "to see 
a specific proposal from me for reform of the 
US and/or world financial system, such as an 
appraisal of the Robertson-Bunzl proposals."  
I agree with you, Dick Clifford, that economic 
reform, like religious reform, is best left on the 
back burner until someone defines the economic 
or financial defects of our modern industrial 
national economies.  I have not been able to 
define them from my personal experience, 
1947 to date.  My research in our oldest, 
and most widely distributed, history book only 
reaches back to the mirror year of the US 
Federal Reserve System, B.C. 1913, but 
since then, the structure of social policy to 
enable an optimum development of human 
potential has not changed.  It has simply been 
regarded by the Clerisy as too advantageous 
to be wasted on the Many.  Let them eat cake!  
Perhaps, I'll get lucky in my next few posts 
and make the single systemic defect of 
Western Civilization a politically correct topic 
in our public debate."

~~~~~~~~~~~ 3 of 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>From #35 Toward A Balance Between 
The Few And The Many:

"Since #34 on 13 March 2007, my favorite 
mail lists have over flowed with politically 
correct commentary addressing every 
aspect of our present condition, except the 
thirty centuries old structural defect which 
directed the evolution of our present condition.  
Consider how consistently the following FIVE 
politically correct comments evade the central 
question of our time. That question is: Why 
has this imbalance, between the Few and the 
Many, remained uncorrected, not even discussed, 
since Richard T. Ely, Henry Carter Adams, and 
the American Economic Association abandoned 
their founding principles at the 1898 annual meeting?"
Ely, Adams, and Samuelson were each "Free To 
Choose" between being unemployed economists or 
being true to their current position in the Clerisy.
~~~~~~~~~~~ End Three Excerpts ~~~~~~~~~~~~

There are several things that this slow witted inarticulate 
mechanical engineer is very sure of:

A, The vital part of any constitution is an enumeration 
of the absolute things that are never bought and sold, 
are never negotiated, and that apply universally to 
all members of the human family.  Without such an 
enumeration, Democratic Republics eventually fail.
Imperial Republics seem to endure longer, but at 
the expense of the Many and the benefit of the Few.

B, The Ten Commandments, as we received them; 
together with the US Constitution, and every draft 
Constitution I have heard about since, have all been 
deficient in their enumeration of item 1, above.

C, For our purposes, to move peacefully toward 
global sustain ability, it would be helpful to divide 
the Global Clerisy also into the Few and the Many.  
That would separate the Imperial Clerisy from the 
greater majority of the Clerisy who would be content 
with a Democratic Republic under a Constitution 
which included the whole Divine Law as illustrated 
thirteen years ago in attached Figure 7-9k.gif, 
The Whole Divine Law Or The Wrong Policy (TWP).

Notice that the first eight of the famous names 
presented above figure 7, Life Cycle Of A 
Productive Asset, all traveled at the same speed 
and communicated over the same distances.  They 
were all members of preindustrial agrarian societies, 
so their nation building focused primarily on land,
education, and the political process.  This Biblical 
approach created a new nation which became a 
world power in about a century.  The remaining 
eleven names, Bastiat to Samuelson, tried to extend 
the agrarian law to meet the requirements of an 
industrial society.  But they were unable to anchor 
the Whole Divine Law in the standard operating 
practices of the Clerisy's best works: diversified 
multinational manufacturing corporations such as 
the General Electric Company, and, fully automated 
simulations of a classical free market such as is 
used to schedule production on our electric power grids.
GE is a fair representation of a global economy, and 
is well managed compared to our governance of nations.
Our electric power grids follow the demand for electric 
power from 30% of capacity up to 90% of capacity and 
back down to 30% during every 24  hour period, with 
the same stability and degree of control coming down 
as they exhibited when demand was rising.  We need to 
make our public policies work as well as our private sectors 
if we ever expect to moderate the excessive waste and 
intensive competition of our defective global economy.

What has the Imperial Clerisy gained by stone walling 
this obvious and essential correction of our public 
policy since the 1890s?  Perhaps the illusion of a 3% 
reduction of their tax rate, and the certainty of losing 
their country.  None of the members of the Clerisy, 
that I have been fortunate enough to meet, would 
dare to step up to the podium and advocate the US 
public policy of the last 109 years.  Evil prevails when 
good people remain silent.  All it can cost, if you discuss 
the topic, is your day job.  I lost my first one at GE 
in 1955 before I knew what I was talking about. 

Kind regards, 

Wes Burt

               TOP and TWP are cognoscible on
                Dr. W. Curtiss Priest's web site at:
       <http://www.epie.org/cyber-soc/default.htm>
                 TOP is GOOD --- TWP is EVIL
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