On diagrammatic economics and social sciences, science and insanities.

THE SOLUTION FOR THE ECONOMIC CRISIS

© Wilfred Berendsen/W.T.M. Berendsen, September 2010

During the last couple of years, I have been developing my meta-semeiotical body of
understanding called Practicism. Meta-semeiotics being my notion and invention to solve
some shortfalls of both metaphysics and semiotics. As both metaphysics and semiotics are
based on the wrong fundaments, being a reductionist and limited perspective leading to
damages and even insanities in our society at large. Meta-semeiotics is able to solve all of this
problems, in both our (social) sciences and practises. But also the fundaments of meta-
semeiotics are not only important and worthwhile for social sciences and practises. As
actually the fundament of it, being expressed in my notion of holoplurality, is fundament for
EVERYTHING in our universes. EVERYTHING. Meaning that also physics, formerly
called natural philosophy (like in the work “the theory of natural philosophy” by Roger
Joseph Boscovich”), can and should profit for the insights reflected in my notion of
holoplurality.. The interesting issues about Boscovich’s work are 1) that indeed at that times
they seemed to have understood that also physics should be grounded on the fundaments of
nature and the structure and nature of our universes and 2) that actually it seems to be the case
that also here Boscovich did grasp at least parts of this while mainstream current physics still
does not even to his extends. But, 3) also Boscovich did only understand parts and still not
enough. Just like people like Peirce and Nietzsche.

The shortfalls of semiotics but also the damages and many problems in our current society are
the results of a limited, reductionist way of thinking and sensemaking currently present in
about all of social sciences and realities. Meaning that about all of actions in our social
realities are being based on reductionist sensemaking leading to a lot of harms in our society
at large. A better, more complete kind of sensemaking can and will solve A LOT of problems
and damages in our current society. It can and will drastically improve our society at large and
improve ALL of social sciences and practises. But also physics and all other sciences can and
will improve if only the understandings of the sole true fundament being holoplurality are
fully grasped and become mainstream also in this sciences.
Sane sensemaking., as opposed to insane sensemaking prevailing in our current society, is the
key to move on to a new ecosocial society. It is the key for most sane and great change
management throughout the whole of our society and practises. I am change manager by
profession, but to become the greatest change master I had to first understand this and develop
my phronitical meta-semeiotic body of understanding called practicism being based on this
understanding and a lot of insights based on phronesis. But, the most important insight I got is
the understanding of the fundament for ALL of our universes and the fact that the language of
semeiotics is best way to express this. The relatively new developments in physics called
nano-management are, in some ways, actually another way of using the language and
understandings of semeiotics. The way signs are connected but also the fact that and how they
can be disassembled and reassembled in other, better ways. But also there a meta-semeiotical
stance and understanding would improve the nanoscience and therefore also there create
better potentials for our realities in our universes at large.

The meta-semeiotical perspective is simply the best and also enough because of the following
reasons. First of all, solely the understanding about our universes as such is not enough. As of
course, we also need to understand ourselves. And the influences and links between ourselves
and our universes at large. And other living creatures within. The link between us and the
other people within is made with sensemaking and language. Sensemaking is here much
broader than the general notion of it. As it is MY notion of sensemaking, which involves
much more than the general notion of it.
To me, sensemaking is composed of language and mindmaking, and both are influencing each
other. Language, again, is much broader than the general notion of it. To me we also talk with
objects indeed, and there I partly agree with I think Bruno Latour. I did not really read any of
his discourses till now, but think to understand that indeed he agrees that we communicate
with objects and objects are part of communication. But also there, I think to understand that
my perspective is different in the sense that also this part of language (the way we
communicate with and through objects) is much broader and different than the way
understood by Bruno Latour and whoever is off same opinions. Simply and mostly because
they still lack to understand the sole true underlying structure of our universes but also the
interconnectednesses and structure and nature of plurisigns themselves. And, again, the
connections with our languages and sensemakings.

Meta-semeiotics is about plurisigns being connected or not. Assemblages of signs that can
and will be disassembled and re-assembled at about any moment and time . The source and
tool for doing so being our sensemaking and languages. A semiotical perspective is not
enough and even wrong, as semiotics is based on the wrong perspective and wrong contents
still. Meta-semeiotics is not only different because of the meta-, but also because of the
semeiotics. This semeiotics is different from Peircean semiotics, exactly because of the
different nature and contents of the meta-perspective of meta-semeiotics. Meta-semeiotics is
grounded, again, on the sole true structure and nature of all of our universes. But, besides that,
also the intentions and (types of) values and virtues are VERY important there. Every content
needs a framework, and every universes of plurisigns involving living creatures will need
values and virtues to survive. The loss and lack of values and virtues in some parts of our
society can be sensed and experienced while reading the newspapers. People being attacked
on the streets and killed for nothing actually. Increase of violence. Governments giving up a
lot of their virtues and values or not even having them at all. We live in an era of ever
decreasing values and virtues, while exactly these are a VERY important part of our society
and universes at large! WE LOOSE OUR VIRTUES AND VALUES, at least some people
and persons do to ever increasing extends, AND BY THAT WE LOOSE OURSELVES AND
OUR INNER NATURE. IMPORTANT PARTS OF NATURE ITSELF. And a lot more. The
reasons of this are, like always, plural. But, all because of and being based upon our
sensemaking. In this case a kind of sensemaking being diagrammatic and REDUCTIONIST
and (therefore) INSANE, DESTRUCTIVE, WRONG and EVIL by nature.
Evilnesses are ALWAYS based on badness, either of the persons committing the evilnesses or
other persons or living creatures in our societies at large. And although the great Friedrich
Nietzsche DID understand that evilness is often actually badness, I doubt whether he
understood this. Being the realizations that evilness actually ALWAYS is based on badness.
And that evilnesses will COMPLETELY disappear once badnesses do. The interesting thing
here is that badness is maybe easier to fight than evilness is, but also it matters a lot whether
persons are evil or bad. As, of course, we can not really blame persons for being bad, while
we can blame them for being evil. Evilness is about intentionalities of living creatures to do
something wrong, while badness is about living creatures doing something wrong while not
really purposefully intending to do so. At the moment they do something wrong, it might be
with an intention yes. But, this intention is maybe based on either the contexts they are in at
that certain moment of time, and/or the badness of their own sensemakings. Incomplete,
reductionist sensemakings can lead to evilness and injustice, but also badness of other people
can. IN the end, this is ALL about wrong, incomplete sensemaking!

Sensemaking, human sensemaking, has actually always been at least partly insane and bad till
this moment of time in our human histories. Because of the nature and structure of it, but also
because of the levels of values and virtues in our sensemakings. This fact of our sensemaking
being partially insane will probably continue for long still, but it will help A LOT if at least
our economics and money system will be based on SANE sensemaking and the resulting
understandings and possibilities for a whole new kind of economics and money system. As at
current even a lot of sane sensemaking IS there but just can not be fully expressed and
explored because of the oppressing nature of the limits of our current INSANE economics and
money system. We all face numerous occasions in our lives where we would want to act in
ways more according to our understandings and also feelings, feelings of our own and
feelings for other people, but fail to be able to do so because of limits of money or limits in
our structures and universes causing us to loose too much money or possibilities to earn
money if we follow the (more) sane roads.
But, solving the current problems with our economic system and the money system is NOT
enough. Although the meta-semeiotical perspective and understandings can and will solve
them, and a lot more. Like I said before, my meta-semeiotical body of understanding called
practicism can and will not only solve the current crisis but also a lot of other problems in
society at large. It should and will become the fundament for ALL of sciences and practises,
but for problems to be solved and our society and people within to grow and flourish like
never before, this should be better sooner than later. As insane sensemaking is currently
prevailing in about all of our (social) sciences and therefore also practises. My meta-
semeiotical body of understanding called practicism, and also my methodology of phronesis
antenarrating, is not just another alternative. It is the ONLY RIGHT and SANE one. It is the
fundament and key for moving on to a much saner, greater society. For ALL of us.
To translate this seemingly general discussion towards more practical occurrences in our
society at large, I want to make some little side-step towards social judgements. This kind of
judgements are possibly the hardest issue for human and non-human living creatures. But
mostly for us humans. Also because of the insanities of mainstream sensemaking, social
judgements are not only the hardest to make but also we make a lot of errors there most of the
times. Leading to more or less harms to PEOPLE. Even judges in courts make A LOT of
mistakes there, sometimes but I fear in a lot of cases even leading to innocent people being
prosecuted. Convicted of a crime or any other criminal offense. While actually having done
nothing really wrong really. I am sure this happens much more often than people realize. Also
because police officers, most of them, are actually not capable enough to execute good sound
judgements based on the right and sufficient time and efforts of great sensemakings and
research.

Another example of social judgements based on the wrong fundaments and therefore leading
to false judgements or accusations can be found everywhere in our society at large. In our
relationships with other living creatures like with animals and other people. About
everywhere in our society there is at least some aspect and level of badness based on
incomplete sensemaking. Fights and disagreements are often the result of incomplete
sensemaking. Either in thoughts or in our communications. Problems of humans are always
the result of incomplete sensemaking. Like stated before, also virtues and values are
important. But also, of course, we have our feelings and emotions. Which are often leading us
to the wrong directions if we do not let sane sensemaking prevail. And, there are many
occasions and even reasons for letting our feelings and emotions prevail. But, sane
sensemaking is COMPLETE sensemaking based on the RIGHT SANE FUNDAMENTS.
Being the fundaments of holoplurality. This sensemaking also takes into regards virtues and
values, but also emotions and feelings. If we let one of them prevail without taking enough
regards and notion of other important plurisigns, we might end up with insane reductionist
sensemaking leading to damages in our society at large. This will always be the case in our
universes to certain extends, but the issue here is that sensemaking itself should always be
based on SANE COMPLETE sensemaking. Then, we can make our choices, which will be
different for different people. And, this differences will lead to clashes still. But this is in the
end always because of insane sensemaking, as for whatever reason there is lack of insight
about motivations and reasons for the differences. Wisdom is about either understanding this
differences, or just respecting them. Or not respecting them because of the insight that these
differences are indeed insane and leading to damages of people. In that situations and
occasions, of course resistance is very well justified. Even fierce resistance. But always with
the attitude of being prepared to listen and not only to talk.

So, based on SANE sensemaking, we can and might decide in certain circumstances to not
follow the results of our sensemaking but choosing another road. But, this always results in
some reductionist factor in our sensemaking (as EVERYTHING in our human universes is
part of our sensemaking, whether it is our thoughts or our storytelling or other realities in our
universes as such). Our storytelling, but also our antenarrating is part of our sensemaking. But
, as our social sciences and practises are currently mostly based on INSANE incomplete
sensemaking, also our storytelling and (ante) narrating is. Phronesis Antenarrating is a tool
and methodology for transforming insane sensemaking into sane sensemaking. By also
transforming reductionist representia (the plural of representamens) in what I call Phronesis
representia.

David Boje, one of the greatest experts on storytelling, distinguishes between Vampire and
Lazurus antenarrative : “ I have been developing the idea that antenarrative is a bridge of transformation between living story (&
pre-story) and narrative. It occurs to me now since the 2001 book, that antenarratology is the study of two processes. One you might call
Vampire, sucking the blood out of living story, all that co-creation, and reducing it to a beginning, middle, end (linear) narrative. The other is
like Lazarus, being raised from dead narrative abstraction to live again, in living story.

Type 1 Antenarrative: It’s the Vampire handing spaces of living story over to formalized place.
Type 2 Antenarrative. It’s the Lazarus resurrection of living story space from places of dead narrative cadavers.

Storytelling, for me, is defined as the heterogeneous practices in the interplay of narrative, story, and the two antenarratives
forces. “ ( David Boje, 5th of April 2008, http://anarchlyst.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/the-friday-tea-time-blog-11/)

I myself just like Lazarus a lot. And, although a vampire antenarrative might not be bad at all,
it has to be grounded at least on lazarus mindmaking. As lazarus is not solely about
antenarratives, but about a lot more. This is just one of the understanding I wrote down in
some other piece I wrote about phronesis antenarrating, to be found in the references of this
writing. Phronesis antenarrating is a guidance for narrating and storytelling based on SANE
sensemaking, supplementing what is told with what is thought and BEYOND. Phronesis
antenarrating being guided by pluriflection, which is way different from other kinds of
reflection. And not only different, but way superior and more excellent than any type of
reflection and mindmaking. And antenarrating is just one of the parts of sensemaking, and the
other parts of sensemaking complement narratives.
Like David Boje stated in the quote of him I mention before, there are several types of
antenarrative, being the Vampire and the Lazarus ones. But, like he says, this are processes.
The one being the process of Vampire leading to BME (beginning, middle, and end
narratives) narratives (lineair narratives), the other one being Lazarus leading to what Boje
calls the living story.

I like this statements of him a lot, for several reasons. Some of them I mention in my main
writing on Phronesis Antenarrative (see the references), but some of them I just now realize
and understand more. So I will try to mention them here.

Fact is, that my Phronesis Antenarrative is actually an enchanting methodology that is

forming the bridge and key for turning Vampire narratives into Lazarus ones. It is a Lazarus
methodology. Simply because it is based on sane sensemaking, and sane sensemaking is about
completeness and living stories. This also requires taking into regards feelings, emotions,
virtues and values and also morality. At current times, a lot of virtues and values and
moralities are LOST. Not only in our society where quite some young persons are shot by or
harmed by other young persons , but also in business life where people are more and more
being treated as resources and treated as trash that organizations have to get rid off once they
can not be valuable for the organizations anymore. Let alone the people who can not be
“used” at all by organizations for reasons they have no real impact on themselves, or people
who can not be “used” anymore because of damages done to them by other so-called
professional people. We more and more live in a consumer society, where even people are
just part of production and consumption. Nothing more, nothing less. At least that is the main
underlying message and accepted way of doing for a lot of our education and our
organizational life. Our organizational life is disenchanted in almost extreme ways, based on
Devil antenarratives and also Devil (reductionist, INSANE) sensemaking. This might sound
just negative way of thinking and seeing, but it is just the way it is. It is our factual reality.
And it is now spreading also towards private lives. Morality lost, virtues lost, like a vampire
sucking the life out of our society at large.

It is high time that more and more people become to realize this and that we NEED to fight
the devil of reductionisms and incomplete, insane ways of doing. If we do not want to indeed
become a lost generation ourselves and have our future generations being lost (even more).
And, actually, also there I can use another quote of David Boje. I use quite a lot of him as I
value his work a lot and also he initiated/invented the notion of Antenarrating. While my
invention and notion of Phronesis Antenarrating is an extension of and specific type of
Antenarrating. Anyway, some other text written by Boje is the following:

Stories can be prisons. Once we are inscribed in stories, characterizations and live out its plot lines, we get enmeshed with other folks who
expect us to act, talk, and walk a certain way. In the family we have certain roles to play, certain scripts that get acted out over and over
again.”
“Michel Foucault defined the panoptic gaze as a bultiple, automatic, continuous, hierarchical, and anonymous power functioning in a
network of relations from top to bottom, from bottom to top, as well as laterally, to hold an enterprise together (Boje, 1995: 1027)”. (David
Boje, http://peaceaware.com/McD/papers/storytelling_survival_manual_boje_2005.htm)

Now, here Boje is (of course) right arguing that stories can be prisons. But, also structures and
processes in our society at large can and WILL be. Simply because Vampire antenarratives
but also Vampire structures and processes are the result of Lineair thinking and diagrammatic
thinking. This linair, BME, diagrammatic thinking is both insane and limiting and damaging
us. CS peirce, the past US philosopher who initiated semiotics and also pragmatism (he called
his version pragmaticism), said that our thinking was diagrammatic. And, actually, he was
right. But what he did not mention and probably did not understand to the fullest, is that by
that our sensemaking is too limited and also oppressing and damaging.
Apart from that, the issue that most of sensemaking in our current society and universes IS
insane and reductionist does require us sometimes to take SEEMINGLY bad or evil actions to
actually erase other badnesses and evilnesses out of our society at large. For instance, living
up to values and virtues can lead to conflicts because of badness of other actors grounded in
and based upon incomplete and/or even insane sensemaking of this other actors.. This
conflicts can escalate, but even if they do not and other actors involved issue a false
accusation against some actors living up to values based on SANE sensemaking, this can lead
to a lot of unjustified injustice being initiated by lawyers. Based on misunderstandings
because of lower level police officers not being really capable to judge and find out the real
truths.

Here, I want to use some Nietzsche quote

‘HOW COULD anything originate out of its opposite? For example, truth out of error? or the Will to Truth out of the will to
deception? or the generous deed out of selfishness? or the pure sun-bright vision of the wise man out of covetousness? Such
genesis is impossible; whoever dreams of it is a fool, nay, worse than a fool; things of the highest value must have a different
origin, an origin of THEIR own—in this transitory, seductive, illusory, paltry world, in this turmoil of delusion and cupidity, they
cannot have their source. But rather in the lap of Being, in the intransitory, in the concealed God, in the ‘Thing-in-itself— THERE
must be their source, and nowhere else!’—This mode of reasoning discloses the typical prejudice by which metaphysicians of all
times can be recognized, this mode of valuation is at the back of all their logical procedure; through this ‘belief’ of theirs, they
exert themselves for their ‘knowledge,’ for something that is in the end solemnly christened ‘the Truth.’ (Nietzsche, Beyond
Good and Evil, Page 7)

Although Nietzsche DID grasp that indeed not only good can evolve out of evil but even
some evilness or seemingly non-logic actions might be needed to erase other evilnesses or
illogics in our society at large, he probably lacked the fundamental and great understanding
that ALL evilnesses are based on badnesses caused by INSANE, incomplete sensemaking.
And that once you know and understand WHAT is wrong in this sensemaking (like I already
do for longer times) you can create or explain the sole great way of sensemaking (like I did in
my meta-semeiotical body of understanding called practicism and also explained a bit more in
my discourses on phronesis antenarrating) and by that fighting the devil (being grounded in
insane incomplete sensemakings).
Then based on this sane sensemaking and resulting understandings, of course you need to act.
But, as insane sensemaking is mainstream in our social sciences and practises, leading to
Vampire (ante) narrating and storytelling, more and more people even feel bothered or not
even dare to play Lazarus. Resistance to change is in general not much appreciated, even if it
could enchant the organization and the people living within a lot. But, like I mentioned,
sometimes we simply have to resist and maybe even forcefully and persistent to transform
BME and dualist reductionist understandings into LIVING stories again.

Just practically. We are constantly working a lot. But then, during our lives, somehow A LOT
of the values that we add to our society and lives get lost. WHY is that the case??? The
answer to that is actually quite simple. We loose the money and things we get from other
people like presents, help and even money we win or inherit during our lives. We loose the
great improvements of humankind. We loose the great actions of some people to play lazarus
and IMPROVE and rebuild well build in our society. Because of the other processes being
lazarus. Lazarus being the result of INCOMPLETE and INSANE sensemaking. At current,
the VAMPIRE is soaked up in our society at large. Even while some of our mindmaking is
quite full of lazarus, this will not help if our narratives and storytelling are Vampire. If our
structures, processes and value systems are mostly of a destructive, reductionist nature
instead of actually adding some great extra’s by means of LAZARUS processes.
I hope that most readers reading this discourse will by now understand that the meta-
semeiotical perspective is the most excellent, great one and the sole RIGHT one. Like stated
before in this short argument, sane sensemaking is ONE of the major fundaments for a sane
great and complete meta-semeiotic and phronetic body of understanding. My body of
understanding called practisism or practicism being the greatest body of understanding ever
developed in history. It is also the most excellent one that can EVER be developed in history,
as it is simply the most excellent fundament and perspective possible.

Practicism is ready for practice, and completely developed by me by now. But still I will need
to explain aspects of this body of understanding in more detail. And work towards getting it
into the mainstream. Into mainstream social sciences and into mainstream social practices.
This is costing me a lot of time and effort, a lot of trouble but also a lot of frustration.
Frustrations as I UNDERSTAND and know this is the sole right way to go for ALL of social
sciences, but also mainly because I UNDERSTAND that it can and will solve A LOT of
current damages to PEOPLE in our current society. While the same people are actually
making it hard and difficult for me to get them out of the matrixes and towards more sane and
great sensemaking. Simply because they are constantly judging my understandings based on
more reductionist, WRONG sensemaking leading to completely different but inferior
understandings.

It is like me having grown and climbed out of Plato’s cave and the ones being inside
constantly struggling against me wanting to help them to also get out and see the light. But
solely because they did not really see the light yet and therefore do not realize that it is
actually a much better situation for them.

Mainstream sensemaking is, like I constantly argue, based on INSANE and reductionist ways
of sensemaking. The reason being , that simply some important steps and pieces of sane
sensemaking are MISSING. But, to completely understand this, one HAS to move towards
sane sensemaking, Being based on another perspective. As most people either do not have the
time to read my pieces or simply do not understand because of not moving towards this saner
kinds of sensemaking, I keep struggling against much larger groups and forces into our
society at large. While understanding MY understandings are not only far more superior, but
also MUCH needed in society at large.
One of the biggest frustrations is the fact that I UNDERSTAND that not only the current
economic crisis in the US of America and beyond (current being now, the year of 2010) can
and will be solved if only governments can and will understand what I do and ACT on it, but
even that the acts and changes in economics resulting from my understandings would mean A
LOT of improvements in our society at large and A LOT less damage and problems for
PEOPLE.

I already understand for long, that the CAUSES of the financial crisis are LACKS of money.
There is simply TOO LESS MONEY given the GROWTH of people and our societies. We
are constantly growing, but also entities in our society like organizations are constantly
growing. Nicer buildings, better machines, better transportation means. All needing, of
course, MORE MONEY. I am actually quite lucky that just today, the 4th of September 2010
(the day I write this piece of this discourse), I actually saw a rather excellent piece about the
economic crisis. Excellent at least in the analysis of the causes of the crisis at least in the US.
What is still missing in that particular analysis, is the SOLUTION of the crisis and then not
being based on the closed money system but according to the solution I already offer and did
communicate for a while on my facebook account. Being the solution of creating more money
but without putting any debts against it. Something I will elaborate about a bit more in the
following parts of this discourse.

For now, I want to mention the article I talk about. Which is an article that appeared in the
“The New York times” on 2 september 2010. It is written by Robert Reich, who has been a
secretary of labor in the Clinton administration. Currently, he is a professor of public policy
at the University of California, Berkeley. This is an excellent great university in the US.

The article of 2 September 2010 in the New York Times by Robert Reich has the name “How
to end the great recession”, but actually the solutions proposed by him are not the right ones.
Something I will explain later on in this discourse of myself. Anyways, apart from that, the
analysis of the causes is quite good. I will mention some of the insights reflected in this article
by mentioning some quotes”
- “That’s because the real problem has to do with the structure of the economy, not the
business cycle. No booster rocket can work unless consumers are able, at some point,
to keep the economy moving on their own. But consumers no longer have the
purchasing power to buy the goods and services they produce as workers; for some
 time now, their means haven’t kept up with what the growing economy could and
should have been able to provide them.”
- “Eventually, of course, the debt bubble burst — and with it, the last coping
mechanism. Now we’re left to deal with the underlying problem that we’ve avoided
for decades. Even if nearly everyone was employed, the vast middle class still
wouldn’t have enough money to buy what the economy is capable of producing.”
- “This time around, policymakers had knowledge their counterparts didn’t have in
1929; they knew they could avoid immediate financial calamity by flooding the
economy with money.”

For now, I want to comment on this quotes a bit but also I want to state that this is by far not
everything of the whole article of course. The whole article MIGHT still to be found here:
:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/opinion/03reich.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=opinio
n

For me personally only the first page is most interesting, as this handles about the causes of
the crisis and actually this is a very good great analysis as 1) it supports what I already
understand for long and 2) even gives great figures and some additional insights there.
The second page on the other hand, is not even less interesting but should in my view be
completely forget. Simply because it arguments to create more money, but in the WRONG
ways. Creating more money IS the solution for the economic crisis, but creating it WITHOUT
putting any debts against it. Meaning not based on a closed money system and the current
rules of the money game, but based on new rules for the money game. In fact, I will want to
change the money game but also a lot of other “games” in our society.

But on his remarks in the article mentioned above I just want to add the following. The first
quote perfectly reflects the core problem, being that middle and lower incomes did not
sufficiently team up with the growth of our economies. Or, in other words, the growing
amount of people and also the growth of products that are offered to them does of course
require MORE MONEY. A LOT more than has been offered to them the last couple of years.
The reason for it, is quite simply, our closed money system. Meaning that actually
government can not really create more money. Only the perception of it. More money for the
people will mean less money for the government for other needed services, or more money
for the middle incomes will mean taxing the higher incomes more, or the other solution being
creating more debts like the lower incomes have also done to partly increase the needed
amounts of money. But of course, creating debts is NOT the solution. And of course, creating
debts will in future cause the governments to collapse just like the inhabitants of their
countries did before them. EVENTUALLY THE DEBT BUBBLES OF GOVERNMENTS
BURST AND WITH IT THE LAST COPING MECHANISMS. And what then???? Actually
exactly THIS understanding is why the solutions offered in the article by mr. Reich are not
only not sufficient, but also the WRONG ones. Instead, what we need as solution, is what I
already preach for long (as it simply IS the sole right and great solution!) and what I will talk
about below (again) in more details. IF this solution is actually grasped at least in time,
nothing will be wrong at that time. But till that time, A LOT of harm is done for people still
not grasping and understanding. MY GREAT UNDERSTANDINGS FOR MOVING TO A
MUCH GREATER SOCIOECONOMIC ORDER AND GETTING THE PROBLEMS AND
CAUSES UNDERLYING THE FINANCIAL CRISIS REALLY SOLVED NOT
PERCEPTUALLY FIXED WITH THE UNDERLYING PROBLEMS NOT ONLY
STAYING INTO EXISTENCE BUT ACTUALLY WORSENING.

My main understanding is, that to solve the crisis in the US, simply A LOT more money just
HAS to be created. But not by means of the old, ineffective ways of creating money. The way
of creating being different because it has to be based on creating money based on the
perspectives and understandings of practicism. This resulting in the understanding of another
money system then the one currently practiced by mainstream economics and prevailing in
our society at large. From about every actor in our society I constantly get to hear that
creating money is NOT the solution, BUT this argument of them is based on reductionist
sensemaking and the wrong perspective and understanding of money. Based on a reductionist
money system (the one being mainstream now) and reductionst understandings of economics
and concepts like inflation and other DAMAGING and REDUCTIONIST economic
metaphorical religions
In our current, insane economic system, PEOPLE will have about same amounts of money
but mostly even LESS to spend if prices of goods and services rise. While the same people
will get LESS to spend if prices of goods and services decrease. As, in the end, less people
will be hired if turnover of companies decrease. While the average wages of people will not
increase when prices rise. This developments are all bad and damaging for society at large, for
PEOPLE into our societies. And actually this circumstances are the reasons for both inflation
and deflation to be bad developments. They really do not have to be, but in current closed
money system AND the way entities in our society respond to increasing and decreasing price
levels DOES lead to bad situations. The way to remove the bad results is quite easy and
straightforward and should be executed by the only parties being capable of doing so, being
governments. But, to reach this, they have to first understand that the mainstream economic
religions they are still believing in and where they are still basing their actions upon, are
actually insane and have led them and US into very bad situations in the first place. Then,
they should get to understand what practicism and my invention of Phronesis Antenarrating is
all about. By that, getting the sole true right and sane understandings. Not only about
economics, but basically about a lot more. Practicism and Phronesis antenarrating is key and
fundamental for ALL of social sciences and practises. It can and will solve the economic
crisis and A LOT more problems in society at large. And it can and will improve all of social
sciences , whether this are the sciences of psychology, law, economics, management and/or
any other social sciences. The only simple but difficult development needed for that, is that
my understandings and body of knowledge of practicism is getting to be studied and then
implemented in mainstream social sciences and practices.

At current, deflation is already happening. Maybe not that much yet into the official business
sphere and prices, but it IS happening and HAS been happening for quite a while in the
private sphere. Being the sphere of private selling and buying. And the offering of services of
people to other people. The so-called inoffical, black circuits become less and less. While it is
not being realized that also this circuits or even mainly this circuits and activities are very
important for some parts of our economies and especially the people within. While in the past
a lot of people could work in “free” time and earn some additional, NEEDED money with
that, the number of people who can not is growing and growing. For several reasons.
But also, is it actually true that in the official business sphere’s we did not have inflation that
much??? According to the figures of governments, yes. But according to reality based on
valid figures and facts…by far no! The biggest inflation that happened at least in the
Netherlands I think is the inflation of really effectively to be earned wages (the real wages
earned) compared to house prices for the lower incomes (the parties that are actually most
important to take into regards regarding inflation). At least in the Netherlands, factory
workers now mostly being able to work less than in former times but also of course the
influences of flex working and the fact less will be earned in the private selling and buying,
has lead to the fact that most factory workers especially in younger years will not be able to
get a mortgage to buy a house. It is not only the lower incomes, but also the fact that more and
more young people have debts from studying. As of course our current society requires them
to study a lot, without the required returns for all of them. I guess on average quite a lot do
not earn it back especially in the first couple of years. It would be very valuable and even
needed although to have figures there to proof my estimations there.

But it is certain that overall, especially the lower incomes can and are earning less and less
additional income. Meaning that they have less and less additional., NEEDED money to
spend. So of course, the spending of money is lacking. And this will only grow given both the
developments in our society but also mainly the misunderstandings and resulting lack of great
actions of governments. Governments have to compensate for the decrease of money
available for entities in our society to spend. These entities being not only the citizens, but
also organizations in our society and also governments themselves. In the past years, we all
have tried and actually did compensate for the LACK OF MONEY by increasing our debts.
But of course, that is not a long term solution and it even got us into the problems and the
economic crisis. The economic crisis of current times is NOT a result of wrong actions of
bankers and banking. It is the result of lack of understandings of governments of what is
going on in our society at large. Being the downfall of our society because of a LACK OF
MONEY. IF only more money is created but also given to the right entities in the right ways,
economies and our society and PEOPLE will grow and flourish LIKE NEVER BEFORE.
The general message of the great Jacques Derrida has been, in my opinion, the most important
message of getting a sense for and putting stress on differences. By getting a perspective
concentrating on and getting aware of this differences, instead of being concentrated on
similarities. Also with deflation and inflation, it has to be understood WHY they happen. But
also it has to be understood that there are MANY different types of deflation and inflation,
depending on a lot of differences that can prevail or being absent in the so-called contexts of
inflation and deflation. Although I am of the opinion that contexts actually do not exist, the
notion is useful. But actually this contexts are about plurisigns not being taken into
consideration or taken into considerations. If they are, it leads mostly to a much more
complete and great situation. (LAZARUS). If they are not, problems will arise (DEVIL)…like
the problems resulting from the insane reductionist ways of understanding and thinking of
mainstream economists and governments.
As far as inflation and deflation are concerned, there are not only differences in the way
plurisigns are assembled or understood/taken into regards (which is another, better way to talk
about the rather pre-historic and inferior notion of context), but also there are differences in
the contents of inflation and the causes of inflation and the differences in the WHY and HOW
of changes in prices. But also it matters a lot whether this inflation or deflation takes place in
the public or private sphere and for what actors in our society at large.

As far as the contents of inflation are concerned, there are of course numerous circumstances
and situations that can lead to inflation or deflation to happen. And, of course, each situation
will be DIFFERENT. If prices rise while people already have less to spend and also this price
rise will not be balanced with an at least same level of rise of wages, of course the economy in
general will go down. But, if on the other hand prices rise but wages increase even more
because of that (something which should be perfectly possible while at same time increasing
the profit for the organizations concerned), the general economies and societies at large will
just improve because of this measures being taken. So, in general, that is just the great way to
go for all of us. If only economists get to understand that and governments get to listen, we
will ALL profit from that. In numerous ways.

But what most governments do not understand, is that in general prices have increased a lot
while wages stayed lower. I am talking here mainly about prices of houses and the mortgages
we can get to buy a house. We all know that most people now do not like to marry or be with
a partner, but instead want to be single. And although even the wages might have been rising
more than prices of houses have, it matters a lot whether we have to pay for them solely or
with a partner. Also of course, it matters a lot whether we would also have the need or will to
buy a lot of other products, or not. If we do not, while organizations and people are capable of
producing a lot more products and at much faster rates, this organizations will just have less
money to spend on wages and other products even if the prices per product is a lot. In the end,
just some products being sold at a low price will of course matter more than less products or
even no products being sold at a much higher price. Or even both situations will not really
matter that much in case wages of people are lowered. But, if same wages of people decrease
while they are able to get a surplus on that wage by means of taxes or additional income, of
course the situation changes again. Just like our situations change considerably if we are
either not capable ourselves or the context being market does lead to us not being able to earn
as much money beside our normal jobs as we did in the past.
The problem is, that a lot of economists and governments but also most people still not grasp
what is going on, simply because of reductionist sensemaking. This could be also expressed
by means of the metaphor of a road. The things outside of the road that can have a huge
influence on what you are doing when for instance travelling to some holiday destination, can
be of HUGE importance for the travel. For instance, it would be good to know that actually
the place you go to will be hit by a huge hurricane about the time you will be there. Or that
you better return, either because your house will burn down if you do not or some hours later
an accident will happen because of whatever that is actually being also announced on the
radio which you did not turn on. But, if you do not know or just do not take regards of this
important anothernesses, you will just stay inside of diagrammatic or well just limited
thinking. This is not even only about limited thinking, but also thinking based on the wrong
underlying framework or fundaments.

As an expert in Phronesis Antenarrating and my high interests in storytelling and (ante)

narrating, I am of the opinion that storytelling and (ante) narrating is part of sensemaking. Just
like physical objects in our realities are. The universes of our thoughts and the universes of
our realities are not distinct universes, but interconnected and actually just part of the same
unified whole. But, the only way to understand that is by forgetting about the boundaries and
understanding that there is only one underlying structure and nature of all of our universes.
We as living creatures are often fooled by words and objects and also stories in our society at
large. As I remark in one of my other discourses, people are often concentrating on
firstnesses. Part of this concentration of firstnesses (plurisigns) is that we often only see the
objects, representamens or stories without realizing there is A LOT more connected with it.
But , more dangerously, people are often imprisoned by words and structures. And, even
wrong structures and words are often taken for granted (accritically indubitable beliefs and
insanities) leading to damage and insanities in our society at large. Also, of course, this issue
is largely limiting the possibilities of mankind.

But, as storytelling is also part of sensemaking, I will here give some story to hopefully
enable another perspective on money and economics and supporting my argument that a lot of
current mainstream economics and also the acts of governments is limited and also severely
limiting the possibilities for humans and the quality of our universes at large.
Just imagine the following. 1 falconer hunts 1 sick rabbit each 2 days in a large field. Like all
falconers do. There is just a bit too less for all the falconers and their birds to catch the mostly
sick rabbits. Then, at certain times, there is a major huge development. Falconers follow
another kind of sense making and grow in other ways. Instead of one they have more birds.
And hunt MUCH more rabbits. But, the rabbits do not grow as quick with them. While the
falconers hunt on there is some problem at certain times. OF COURSE. As the rabbits GREW
to LESS. Then, some farmer just gets some rabbits from another farmer on loan and just fills
the big field again a bit. So the falconers continue and just say everything is OK again. OF
COURSE, this is pure fiction. As the falconers still grow even more. Did the rabbits grow?
Do they?

Finance has to realize that money is a catalyst for growth. Money also actually not really truly
exist. It does, and it does not. But based on rules of the game we set up. This rules can
actually be changed quite simply, but only if we want to do so. This willingness to do so also
largely depends on the underlying sensemaking. Meaning that wrong, incomplete
sensemakings like the ones in current mainstream thinking, can and in this society DO lead to
resistence to changes in the money system while actually this changes will lead to the
GREATEST effects for ALL of parties involved. But, because of INSANE, incomplete
sensemaking, the parties that CAN effectuate the changes do PERCEIVE these changes to be
bad for them, and therefore they do not effectuate them. Like the elephants all way down, in
this case we have insanities all around, like plural butterfly effects leading to HUGE damages
to PEOPLE based on insane arguments and reasons

To conclude this long argument, once again. WE NEED MORE MONEY. And perceptually
“creating the money while actually just creating debts against them meanwhile keeping the
same amounts of money or about the same or at least (far) less than is needed given the
GROWTH of our society and people within is NOT the solution. In fact, it will eventually
lead to much bigger problems at same time, just moving the problems ahead to the future then
having all of them around about same times. Like we had and actually still have although it is
partly covered now by the PERCEPTIONS of short time measures. So what is needed is to
create money without putting any debts against that, then giving this money to the people.
Either just once or several times. But of course, one BIG large amount at once will solve the
problems much quicker then just trying this out and having it followed just a bit later on. A
BIG but foremost REAL adjustment is needed in our economies!
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