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

[Dan Parker]

The job as I see it is to spread clerisy.

Dan
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  Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 7:58 PM
  Subject: [GJM] #36 What Now, For The Global Clerisy?



  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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