Jim Casey
03-16-2011, 06:00 AM
This 45 minute speech is very informative. I've never before typed up such a long summary of a speech.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13308057
He skillfully cites historical examples of monetary system establishments obstructing the development of technological advances and obscuring the innovators who brought about these revolutionary developments, such as FM radio and wireless energy.
Revolutionary ideas are also resisted by these establishments, such as transfinite mathematics and hand washing prior to engaging in clinical medical work. Non-toxic cancer treatments not owned by pharmaceutical companies are also resisted.
Technological developments are always resisted by monetary establishments when such innovations cut into the profits of those establishments. The market selects against restructuring according to advancements whenever it stands in the way of profit maximization.
Innovation is the enemy of established institutions. Selling bottled water is more profitable than building desalination plants, so folks go without fresh water when they lack the purchasing power to acquire bottled water.
A monetary system discourages long-term thinking because it encourages short-term behavior. The market selects the short term profit maximizers and ostracizes the long-term innovators.
Regardless of how beneficial or efficient these innovations would be for society, market lock prevents their emergence and adoption. Folks identify their society's dominant ideas as normality, and incongruent ideas as abnormalities which are met with enmity.
Societal self-analysis is not built into our psyche. Folks don't even like having their football teams criticized, much less their social system. This mind lock is the major barrier to overcome in transitioning from a monetary market system to a resource based economy.
What is normal or mundane is only considered that way because of repetition. Culture shock is what inspires an Amish man's fear of elevators.
It is generally considered being paranoid or antisocial to question whether or not dominant social mechanics are predatory or in some way not in the best interests of the society. These values are established by a need to not be constantly worried.
Fear of ostracism and the unknown is encouraged so that new innovations, ideas, and opinions don't prevent the short-term profit maximizers from doing what they're used to doing. These new ideas are not only met with fear, but also anger. This market lock blinds the societies to its underlying values.
Folks become unable to understand the dynamics of this market system and how our views are shaped by it. Methods of distributing information, which is the core of education, is shaped by monetary market establishments.
Education is often considered to be somehow separate from culture, rather than a product of the culture. Established education institutions will always by hindered by market lock.
Well-adjusted citizens are well-adjusted to the flaws and presuppositions of their culture. It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
No matter what our opinions are regarding what the best might be, we are governed by our need for maximally sustained employability and thus our behavior is adjusted. If innovations come along that threaten that sustained employability, they are rejected by necessity.
In order to defeat this mind lock, we must be careful not to fall prey to it. There must be a bedrock free of hearsay and mindless tradition. Self-checking and self-regarding must be build into the culture. Otherwise the path won't be corrected, as it hasn't been.
Self-analysis must integrate physical proof and the ability to revise. Values are to be reassessed and unsustainable practices eliminated. Negative retroactions within a society must not be at the forefront of that society.
An open society is needed to progress these systems. Restricted access to assessments must be overthrown. There is no real way to maximize cooperations when the concept of ownership exists. Ownership presupposes noncooperation.
The scientific method is not the same as the modern scientific establishment. Social processes are to be tested and selected based upon conclusions drawn. This cannot happen within a monetary market system ruled by tradition.
We apply the scientific method everyday when we open doors to walk through them. Money is not scientific, it's made up. If you're only doing something for the money, it's probably not worth doing in the first place.
We will evolve beyond money and the inefficiencies and tendencies for manipulation its use creates. The present system's flawed self-analysis of human nature and tradition won't prevent the scientific method being applied to evolve beyond the use of money in the long term.
The massive automation of so many processes that once involved the exchange of money for labor is evidence that our society is already well under way in evolving beyond the use of money.
In the RBE, the opinions of politicians and businessmen won't prevent what works scientifically from happening. Folks will learn that they don't have any freedom other than the laws of nature. Any society that offers new freedoms does so because of the architecture of that society.
Cooperative assessments will replace competitive achievements. We will fight the common enemy of all mankind, and that enemy is the culture that sets the stage for our own destruction.
The Resource Based Economy is the application of the scientific method to resource management and social concern. The only alternative is market lock, and it's key features of mind lock and education spell our destruction. With the mind lock, the forces of profit and competition locks out the ability for self-assessments. With the education, information distribution involves promoting advertising propaganda to maximize short term profits.
The global nature of humanity is the key to understanding how we will transition. An individual can change his values, and a group of individuals can change their values. Change the constituent parts, and the whole will change. Change the whole, and the constituent parts will change.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13308057
He skillfully cites historical examples of monetary system establishments obstructing the development of technological advances and obscuring the innovators who brought about these revolutionary developments, such as FM radio and wireless energy.
Revolutionary ideas are also resisted by these establishments, such as transfinite mathematics and hand washing prior to engaging in clinical medical work. Non-toxic cancer treatments not owned by pharmaceutical companies are also resisted.
Technological developments are always resisted by monetary establishments when such innovations cut into the profits of those establishments. The market selects against restructuring according to advancements whenever it stands in the way of profit maximization.
Innovation is the enemy of established institutions. Selling bottled water is more profitable than building desalination plants, so folks go without fresh water when they lack the purchasing power to acquire bottled water.
A monetary system discourages long-term thinking because it encourages short-term behavior. The market selects the short term profit maximizers and ostracizes the long-term innovators.
Regardless of how beneficial or efficient these innovations would be for society, market lock prevents their emergence and adoption. Folks identify their society's dominant ideas as normality, and incongruent ideas as abnormalities which are met with enmity.
Societal self-analysis is not built into our psyche. Folks don't even like having their football teams criticized, much less their social system. This mind lock is the major barrier to overcome in transitioning from a monetary market system to a resource based economy.
What is normal or mundane is only considered that way because of repetition. Culture shock is what inspires an Amish man's fear of elevators.
It is generally considered being paranoid or antisocial to question whether or not dominant social mechanics are predatory or in some way not in the best interests of the society. These values are established by a need to not be constantly worried.
Fear of ostracism and the unknown is encouraged so that new innovations, ideas, and opinions don't prevent the short-term profit maximizers from doing what they're used to doing. These new ideas are not only met with fear, but also anger. This market lock blinds the societies to its underlying values.
Folks become unable to understand the dynamics of this market system and how our views are shaped by it. Methods of distributing information, which is the core of education, is shaped by monetary market establishments.
Education is often considered to be somehow separate from culture, rather than a product of the culture. Established education institutions will always by hindered by market lock.
Well-adjusted citizens are well-adjusted to the flaws and presuppositions of their culture. It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
No matter what our opinions are regarding what the best might be, we are governed by our need for maximally sustained employability and thus our behavior is adjusted. If innovations come along that threaten that sustained employability, they are rejected by necessity.
In order to defeat this mind lock, we must be careful not to fall prey to it. There must be a bedrock free of hearsay and mindless tradition. Self-checking and self-regarding must be build into the culture. Otherwise the path won't be corrected, as it hasn't been.
Self-analysis must integrate physical proof and the ability to revise. Values are to be reassessed and unsustainable practices eliminated. Negative retroactions within a society must not be at the forefront of that society.
An open society is needed to progress these systems. Restricted access to assessments must be overthrown. There is no real way to maximize cooperations when the concept of ownership exists. Ownership presupposes noncooperation.
The scientific method is not the same as the modern scientific establishment. Social processes are to be tested and selected based upon conclusions drawn. This cannot happen within a monetary market system ruled by tradition.
We apply the scientific method everyday when we open doors to walk through them. Money is not scientific, it's made up. If you're only doing something for the money, it's probably not worth doing in the first place.
We will evolve beyond money and the inefficiencies and tendencies for manipulation its use creates. The present system's flawed self-analysis of human nature and tradition won't prevent the scientific method being applied to evolve beyond the use of money in the long term.
The massive automation of so many processes that once involved the exchange of money for labor is evidence that our society is already well under way in evolving beyond the use of money.
In the RBE, the opinions of politicians and businessmen won't prevent what works scientifically from happening. Folks will learn that they don't have any freedom other than the laws of nature. Any society that offers new freedoms does so because of the architecture of that society.
Cooperative assessments will replace competitive achievements. We will fight the common enemy of all mankind, and that enemy is the culture that sets the stage for our own destruction.
The Resource Based Economy is the application of the scientific method to resource management and social concern. The only alternative is market lock, and it's key features of mind lock and education spell our destruction. With the mind lock, the forces of profit and competition locks out the ability for self-assessments. With the education, information distribution involves promoting advertising propaganda to maximize short term profits.
The global nature of humanity is the key to understanding how we will transition. An individual can change his values, and a group of individuals can change their values. Change the constituent parts, and the whole will change. Change the whole, and the constituent parts will change.