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, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Gerhard Weissmann) wrote to list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2 of 3, On 99-06-19 16:33:48 EDT, Yves Bajard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (National Centre for Sustainability), wrote to list [EMAIL PROTECTED], 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) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3 of 3, In a reply of 99-06-21 23:24:18 EDT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Herb Wiseman) wrote to list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> End five year old letter <<<<<<<<<<<<<
