LETTER #3
From: Jordan MacLeod [mailto:jordanbmacleod@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 5:39 PM
To: spiraldynamicsintegral@yahoogroups.com
Q: How can we get people to realize their actions have consequence far beyond the original outcome?
A: By creating a new operating system based on production rather
than profit. This is achieved through the awareness that interest is
not an intrinsic part of a free market, but is in fact an obstacle.
Interest is derived from the human consciousness operating at the level
of pride (red). The natural emergence at this level is to inflate
self-importance vs. the natural world and everyone else. Thus, it is
not surprising that money, as an extension of humanity, was created
superior as a commodity to all others. Interest is a reflection of this
imbalance.
Profitability, which is presently the exclusive modus operandi of
corporations, is based on the need to recover and surpass expenses plus
interest rates. But as we have seen, interest is not an intrinsic part
of money. Interest is responsible for the concentration of wealth,
short term vision, the endless need for growth and consequently the
fragility of the economy. To point this out as a problem may in fact be
interpreted as an attack if one has chosen to identify with it. But if
it is true, as Hawkins has suggested, that humanity has now risen
beyond the critical point of integrity, this understanding will come to
be accepted if it is shown to be integrous.
By choosing to create money that is equally (no more, no less)
desirable as a commodity vis a vis all other commodities, we will
witness the eventual extinction of interest. At that moment, all money
flows into the markets, hoarding becomes undesirable, all usurious
aspects of the previous system are transcended and integrated within
the new OS. One may still seek profit, but there will be less
need/pressure to do so as we come to witness the saturation of capital
production, at which point, the return on investment will suffice
(rent=depreciation). The shackles previously placed on corporations
will be released.
We come to see that profitability was a human inflation over
ecology, where prices were set in disequilibrium. In the era of
production, profit no longer dictates and limits social organization.
Producer and consumer are seen as two sides of the same coin, and both
are equal and highly interactive partners in determining what is
created. Advertising and marketing are in balance with consumer
input/demand and as a result, far less energy and pressure is needed to
generate desirability for products. Creating ecologically compatible
and long lasting products is not only feasible but encouraged. It is
only here where we can get people to realize their actions have
consequence far beyond the original outcome. The end of compulsive,
inflationary, growth along with the accessibility of previously
unviable technologies allows a marked shift in foreign policy,
relieving capitalist economies of
the burden of controlling oil rich countries. GDP/GNP are seen as
obsolete terms allowing for the end of excessive/obsessive national
consciousness. The transnational defense of core market states (ala
Barnett) is seen as a necessary and viable enterprise as commonalities
now surpass differences. Hot spots can be more easily contained as this
economy exerts a strong pull towards integration because it rewards
individuals entirely for their own labor, is balanced and collectively
highly stable. It is probably these defensive/survival necessities that
will fuel this transition.
In the old system one might ask Which products brings more profit?
In the new system, one might ask, Which products brings more life?
Jordan
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