Everything in the economy is created by fossil energy, as the supply dwindles the demand to consume pushes up the price, of everything. The demand to consume is a part of the dominant paradigm, which feeds on the illusion that all natural resources are free and infinitely substitutable. This is patently nonsensical but it has… Continue reading Simples
Tag: economics
Illusion
The real trick is to maintain the illusion that there is a left or a right and that there is a democratic choice to be made between ideological standpoints. In truth whether one chooses to support a system bias based on social or individual primacy the system itself does not change. The problems with the… Continue reading Illusion
Asset inflation
Asset inflation has recently been repeated all over the world since the US Fed and other banks started printing money in 2008-9, nor is this a new problem but rather inherent to the private property paradigm. The simple truth within the paradigm is that policies with significant social or environmental value will not be supported… Continue reading Asset inflation
Does everybody know?
Everybody knows the scene is deadBut there's gonna be a meter on your bedThat will discloseWhat everybody knows We can see it coming, feel it working, approve our genius in harnessing it to do work, especially now as the cold northern winter or the (increasingly) warm southern summer approaches. In our general theory of evolution,… Continue reading Does everybody know?
Wealth Transfer
90% of the energy captured by organic life on the planet has been turned into money in the last 150 years. One wonders if money is all we will have left
Life
straight to the pointy end, life is planetary. The millennial aims to consume it, and replace the real with a digital representation, Which reality is within our grasp. We've talked about value, of the mercentalisation of everything. Use the biotope to create waste to destroy habitat and ecology, in the hope of more success. Discussions… Continue reading Life
Innspill
God dag Dette er et spennende tema og det kunne har vært enda mer spennende om utvalget tok opp temaer rundt hvordan et nullutslippsamfunn kommer til å se ut. Dette er et av hovedmålene for staten Norge men det er lite snakk om hva salgs omstillinger som må skje for å komme dit hen. Man… Continue reading Innspill
Value II
The valuation of goods is based on rarity, as perceived through an anthropomorphic veil. True value, can only be represented as the energetic costs of their production. The work required to extract and consume minerals is worthless unless repeatable. I will make reference to a greater wisdom than mine: Only when the last tree has… Continue reading Value II
Value
Just wait until they find out, the true value of Facebook and snapchat like things. All they have to sell is consumption, the goal of which seems to be the destruction of the natural world. What a ignominious goal for humanity, to worship growth until we run out. As Plato said, they see but the… Continue reading Value
Trying
I am trying to consume as speedily as possible I was told that my consumption, fuels the economy Which might otherwise run out I continue to believe Everything is infinitely fine Because if I stop the Economy dies taking everything else with it Sustainability becomes a belief that assuages all fault, Because, after all, if… Continue reading Trying
Ceteris Paribus 