thames_sider dude-
i'm not taking the blame, just offering my condolences. and now that that is done, i say we accept this climate as it is and go forth accordingly... i say we do like altair19... put on our fowl weather gear (baawwwK, baaaawwK) and go for a stroll on the beach, enjoy the wind and the rain. i say we take a good look at it and use it to our advantage. wind and rain has potential energy that we can tap. discomfort is a great motivator. necessity is the mother of invention.
we'll build a fire in the NNBM fireplace, gather round, and make plans.
the climate isn't going to change for four years - we're in conservative mode - we're going backwards. i used to be conservative until i found out that it doesn't work - no matter how much you try to conserve the present and the past, eventually your resources are depleted - you have to trust in the infinite abundance of the universe and in your ability and ingenuity to PRODUCE something new and better. we were ALL in that mode for the last few years. but we started to lose our trust and faith. some people came along, powerful people who were afraid of losing what they already had and they convinced many of us that we were being foolhardy. these people had their hands in the cookie jar... and their fists were around most of the cookies... and meanwhile, here WE WERE making more and better cookies outside of the jar... they were scared to death because they could see that they would have to relax their grip on the cookies to get their hands out if they were going to be able to compete and make and possess the new cookies.
so they set out on a campaign to change the climate. "you know," they said, "if you make too damn many cookies - it's called inflation and cookies won't be worth as much." meanwhile, thinking to themselves, "we make our living off of these cookies by renting the recipes and selling these cookies. the scarcer the cookies, the more they're worth. if everyone has all the cookies they need, better cookies than ours, we're screwed - we might have to go back to work making newer, better cookies. hell, if cookies get too easy to make, even ethiopians will be making cookies... those dudes are so hungry, they're liable to work sixteen hours a day making cookies - where would that leave us? - we ain't gonna work no sixteen hours a day - we don't have to - we've already got a fist full of cookies... so how do we change the climate?"
here's how it's done.
how to make it harder to make new cookies:
1)control the supply of ingredients. tighten up supplies of money to buy ingredients, tighten up supplies of energy and raise prices of oil, gas and electricity used to cook new cookies. create the fear of depletion, promote conservation in every aspect of life.
2)frighten the new cookie makers - explain the consequences of inflation (abundance) to them. tell them about the ethiopians. remind them of the dangers of enemies, get them fearful and have them start diverting their resources to defense of the cookie jars. remind them that freeloaders, and cheaters will inevitably be stealing and eating their "extra" cookies. make them see the world and human nature as unpredictable and downright dangerous. encourage fear and distrust, make it sound like distrust is prudent and necessary.
that's the climate. i'm sorry about the climate. but i'm not afraid of it. i've lived most my life in this climate (except for the last few years) i refuse to be controlled by powerful people who manipulate me by encouraging my fear and mistrust. i'm too old to be afraid. i've seen the promised land and i'm not going back to the old ways. i'm putting on my rain gear, and i'm gathering new ingredients. i'm making new cookies with starlight and stardust instead of flour and sugar - there's an infinite supply. i'm tapping infinite sources of energy - sun, wind, rain, waves and gravity to cook my cookies. i've seen the new recipe for making cookies. i'm sharing it with my children, my grandchildren, mexicans, asians and even the ethiopians, and we're going to make billions and billions of new cookies in a much more efficient way - soon the new cookies will almost make themselves. there will be too many cookies for the wealthy to remain wealthy by gripping cookies in a jar and holding on - they will have to let go and take their hands out of the jars. and as those hands come out of the jars i will be there to shake each one and welcome their owners to the land of abundance where cookies are free because they make themselves... and people are free because they never again have to fear someone else might want to take their cookies away from them. and they will discover that freedom from fear is the greatest wealth in the universe.
hmmmm... if it sparks this kind of thinking and resolve, i guess this is a wonderful climate after all.
-el polvo y la luz de la estrella (the new recipe for the new economy) |
