Dear Friends and Determined Defenders of The Old Order (DDoTOO),
The following three thought provoking replies to my last two posts were
received after my last post on 99-06-16, "Devious Defenders of The Old Order
(DDoTOO)."
1 of 3, On 99-06-17 03:53:01 EDT, <[log in to unmask]> (Gerhard Weissmann)
wrote to list <[log in to unmask]>, in part:
>> "Therefore "What works at the individual level..." DOES NOT generally work
at the community level without adjustment and limitations. Nor do the
community rules apply to nations. But certainly, nay, absolutely NOT can,
what works at the nation level, be applied at the global level." <<
(WSB: I did not propose that national financial rules be applied to the
global "problematique." I followed Adam Smith's First Maxim Of Taxation
(Page777 of his "Wealth of Nations") when I said that if we would apply to
our nations the financial rules developed over the last 200 years by our best
minds for our corporations, we could establish a world full of Switzerlands,
instead of a world full of third world nations. Recall that several American
colonies were corporations before they became States of the U.S. Recall also
that Ben Franklin and George Washington travelled at the same speed and
communicated over the same distances as Abraham, Jacob, and Moses. See
Figure 10 of the global model at URL
<http://www.freespeech.org/darves/bert.html> for the paradigm shift of
the1890s, and for the second paradigm shift that is now one hundred years
late. WSB)
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2 of 3, On 99-06-19 16:33:48 EDT, Yves Bajard <[log in to unmask]> (National
Centre for Sustainability), wrote to list [log in to unmask], in part:
>> "I have therefore proposed for a long time, a process of collaborative
reflection and conversation leading to action, along lines described in 3.1.
above. It apparently is starting for good now. It should lead to some definite
progress in the definition and understanding of the problematique and perhaps
in
its resolution.
All this may sound theoretical, but indeed, it is not. The problematique is
not simple. Rushing into repair work on parts of the system that may have to
go
entirely is not necessarily constructive.
Hope you will take this message and review it thoroughly. I spent a good week
composing it.
All the best," <<.
(WSB: Yves, you have covered every aspect of our global problematique except
for the most important possibility, that is, the possibility that you might
be mistaken. In the previously mentioned biology experiment, a systemic
reduction in the rat colony's food supply and living space produced a
different pathological response in each rat. Likewise, a systemic defect of
omission in the public policy of industrial nations has produced a different
pathological response in each member of each national workforce. Since the
beginning of the industrial revolution, public policy has lagged behind
corporate policy because the best minds were well paid to solve the
problematique for international corporations, and to blow smoke in the
public's face when any one (Thomas Paine 1792, Adam Smith 1776, Frederic
Bastiat 1850, Henry Carter Adams 1887, Bertrand Russell 1915, and many
others) proposed applying to the commonwealth, the same financial laws which
are Standard Operating Practice (SOP) for the corporation. I hope, Yves,
"you will take this message and review it thoroughly." I spent the last 46
years of my life composing it, after the principles were included in my 1953
on-the-job-training. WSB)
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3 of 3, In a reply of 99-06-21 23:24:18 EDT, <[log in to unmask]> (Herb
Wiseman) wrote to list <[log in to unmask]>, in part:
>> "I read carefully what you write although I find that time is a factor. At
this time I am struggling to understand the writings of John McMurtry -
namely The Cancer Stage of Capitalism and have completed Unequal Freedoms:
the global market as an ethical system. Since humans operate from mythical
thinking and belief systems, my interest at this time is in how to create a
new belief system quickly. McMurtry informs me on the dimensions of the
belief system now in place. Chomsky does similar things and his perspective
overlaps with McMurtry's.
Is your group addressing similar concerns? Do you issue progress reports?
Herb" <<
(WSB: Thanks, Herb, for inviting our attention to the question of "how to
create a new belief system quickly." My group certainly is addressing this
question, and we have found a short cut. Instead of establishing a new
belief system, which would be as difficult as making water run up-hill, our
research has disclosed that the belief system which is older than, and
incorporated in the literature of the four great western religions, is the
only technically valid solution to the Club Of Rome's "problematique." WSB)
The briefest way I know to give you a handle on the subject, Herb, is to
offer a formal reference to the source of this new/old belief system which is
supposed to be imbedded in our hearts along with the ten moral commandments
listed in Exodus. This new/old belief system may also provide some insight
into how Jews, Mormons, Quakers, and Episcopalians are reported to enjoy per
capita incomes about 10% higher than the national average. That tidbit of
information is what prompted me to begin reading our oldest history book
about ten years ago.
>From the Subject Index of the King James version of the Holy Bible, Scofield
Reference Edition:
"TITHES paid by Abraham to Melchizdek, Gen. 14.20; Heb. 7.6."
(WSB: King Melchizdek has a good press in the King James Bible and in the
PENTATEUCH AND HAFTORAHS by Dr. J. H. Hertz, C.H. late Chief Rabbi of the
British Empire. He lived long before the biblical thirteen tribes of Israel
were made a Commonwealth at Mt. Sinai. WSB)
I of III, "due to God, Gen. 28.22; Lev. 27.30; prov. 3.9; Mal. 3.8."
(WSB: Those who believe God enters the Temple through a trapdoor to consume
the first, The Lord's, Tithe will be disappointed to learn that Melchizdek
used the first tithe to operate "a school for the propagation of the
knowledge of God." WSB)
II of III, "to the Levites, Num. 18.21; 2 Chr. 31.5; Neh.10.37; Heb.7.5."
(WSB: It is worth noting that the Levites were required to pay the first
tithe (Num. 18.26-28 WSB) just like the other Twelve Tribes. The idea that
the ruling class must be tax exempt does not appear until the book of Ezra.
WSB)
III of III, "for the feasts and the poor, Deut. 14.23,28."
(WSB: Community building was not invented on the internet, but we do need to
do more of it. See URL <http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/> and many others.
WSB)
As Vivian Hutchinson put it, in a speech to the Community Governance
Forum, held at the Christchurch Convention Centre, 2-3 June 1999:
>> "Community-building is the soul work of governance. It is about
creating support and connection amidst a local and global
landscape which is increasingly insecure and fragmented. As we
"take our communities into the new millennium" -- the theme of this
forum -- the leadership task of ensuring connection and
participation, from all members of our community, will become an
important face of the local governance role." <<
Perhaps the following five year old letter will suggest how far we have
departed from the original purpose of our public revenue, three tithes in
biblical Israel, a Theocracy, or a 30% total tax rate in Switzerland, Japan,
and the United States.
Kind regards,
WesBurt
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Begin five year old letter <<<<<<<<<<<<<
January 28, 1994
Fred N. Reiner, Senior Rabbi, Temple Sinai.
3100 Military Road, N.W..
Washington, DC 20015
Subject:: #142 Our Judaic-Graeco-Roman-Catholic-Islamic-Protestant Culture.
Dear Rabbi Reiner:
When I read the obituary of Rabbi Eugene J. Lipman in THE WASHINGTON
POST on January 15, 1994, I felt as if I had lost a potential ally.
This passage from Page 58 of his YAMIM NORA'IM Sinai Sermons will
show why I presumed to think of him as an ally. This one passage, sounding
much like Malachi's (3:7-12) critical analysis of Ezra's domestic policy,
reads as follows:
"On that tender subject of annual dues, we have not learned much from the
living experiences of Jewish congregations over the centuries. Long before
the U.S. Constitution was adopted, Jewish communities used family income as
the equitable basis for determining the fiscal responsibilities of members to
their community. After several years of negotiation, this Kahal Kadosh
adopted a mild form of the same approach. Some of you got indignant at the
audacity of the congregation in making any differentiation among our
constituency. You called it undemocratic! Others of you ignored the
expressed will of the congregational meetings and told your leaders you'd
decide how much you were willing to pay and they could take it or leave it.
According to your letters and telephone calls, the primary criterion of
judgment was the amount of service you required from the institution. The
less you used the institution, the less you thought you should pay. As a
result, our finances are not stable. Many pay little and you don't want it
any other way, because that is what they can afford. But you who should
balance our accounts by paying more---where are you?"
Rabbi Lipman, Dan Smoot, and many other friends of humanity knew that
the Twelve Moral Commandments are easily erased from the public mind by a
steady stream of misinformation, but are firmly implanted in the public mind
only by the continuous instruction of children by their parents and their
schools. Mr. Smoot struck the right note in his 1962 book, THE INVISIBLE
GOVERNMENT, with this observation by Thomas Jefferson:
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people
themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their
control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them,
but to inform their discretion by education."
In a recent letter I asked the question: When in the course of human
events have the intelligent, energetic, ambitious, and powerful members of a
community (The Thirteenth Tribe) voluntarily subscribed the first 10% of
their income for the education and support of their black, brown, yellow, and
white potential future competitors? The answer is, they so subscribed when
commanded by Mosaic Law in B.C.1491 at Sinai, they so subscribed in A.D.1642
at Boston, Massachusetts, they so subscribed in A.D.1776 at Philadelphia, and
they so subscribed in A.D.1946 in Germany and Japan. They will so subscribe
again when commanded by the U.S. Supreme Court acting under the 14th
amendment to the U. S. Constitution as interpreted by A. A. Berle in THE
THREE FACES OF POWER, 1967, or when persuaded by an inspired leader of The
Thirteenth Tribe that their income will increase by 15% to the Japanese
level, or by 40% to the Swiss level, if they do so subscribe. Hopefully, Mr.
Peter G. Peterson will have time to prepare a follow up to FACING UP (on how
to raise the public revenue by 40% with no new taxes) now that he has excused
himself from the last two of Bill Buckley's four ZERO-SUM SOCIETY debates on
the U.S. budget deficit.
Messrs. Lyndon H. La Rouche, Jr., Ross Perot, Jack Kemp, Theodore
Thoren, Richard Warner, various members of Congress, and President Clinton
seem to be hoping to fix the budget deficit by FIGURING OUT THE FED. But I
believe American taxpayers and voters would rather take a simple step toward
expanding the public revenue by first expanding the market for American
labor. Then they could evaluate the results, before they perform PERESTROIKA
on the time tested public institutions that support The Thirteenth Tribe.
Given the valid conceptual model of the economy in Figure 5 as a frame of
reference, every taxpayer and voter will be able to render his own judgment
on the various plans for reinventing government by using only the COMMON
SENSE of human nature that has governed markets EVER SINCE SINAI and was
concisely described in A THEOLOGICO-POLITICAL TREATISE, 1670 by Benedict De
Spinoza:
"Now it is a universal law of human nature that no one ever neglects anything
which he judges to be good, except with the hope of gaining a greater good,
or from the fear of a greater evil; nor does anyone endure an evil except for
the sake of avoiding a greater evil, or gaining a greater good. That is,
everyone will, of two goods, choose that which he thinks the greatest; and,
of two evils, that which he thinks the least. I say advisedly that which he
thinks the greatest or the least, for it does not necessarily follow that he
judges right. This law is so deeply implanted in the human mind that it
ought to be counted among eternal truths and axioms."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> End quotation from Spinoza <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Attached Figure 5 rotates the conceptual model of previous letters by
180 degrees. This orientation will facilitate a debate on why Ezra's tax
code must be erased from our Judaic-Graeco-Roman-Catholic-Islamic-Protestant
culture, and Jacob's tax code: (11) FROM EACH PRODUCTIVE ASSET ACCORDING TO
ITS ABILITY, (12) TO EACH DEVELOPING ASSET ACCORDING TO ITS NEED, must be
applied as consistently to human assets at 270 degrees on the model as it
always has been applied to the capital assets of the Thirteenth Tribe at 90
degrees on the model. There are plenty of unemployed American economists and
engineers who would love to lead that debate, if they were paid to do it,
rather than having their employment terminated for doing it. Sorry, I'm
retired!
Sincerely,
WesBurt
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