I reflect on yet another slab and slough of ‘stocks & flows,’ social indicators and social determinants of #health – metrics, #Econometrics & taxation offsets for earnest #ABC & @SkyNews consumers – urgings to upper middle-income folk to ponder a social-conscience appeasing re-branding of Gross Domestic Product, without uttering a word about markets & overseas trade, budgetary goals & management or good governance let alone what humanity & ecology DEMAND that we IMMEDIATELY invest in and (by the same deliberative intelligent grown-up process) DEFUND.
Endless posture/ gesture/ announcement/ research-finding with strategically inserted tribal visceral clutch is what we are given by the broken neoliberal regime.
This IS @GretaThunberg blah-blah-blah about social – there is no environment in neoclassical discourse – outcomes from political class and academic siloised muppets.
Under the dead weight of neoclassical or so-called western civilisation’s cultural economic hegemony there’s only child development-retarding and adult depressive #mentalillness -inducing STORY: tales & narrative of exploration, adventure, discovery, military conquest, genocidal onslaught, heroism, villainy..
Villainy’s linguistic origin is with the feudal or mediaeval European robber-barons’ villein: serf, peasant, myrmidon, slave. Via sub-intelligent cognitively deranged old white men’s ‘reasoning’ villainy identifies THE POLITICAL LEFT – any political outsider who raises VOICE or even utters one word of complaint or sorrow over their violation, dispossession or oppression.
Here a climate war, there a culture war, a little farther away 10,000 are crushed and a $1m missile is deployed (again by those geriatric nutters to knock out a lost balloon) which invites new stories, from way back in 1785, no? How about China? What?? In the triumphalist post WWII Randite Hayekian Edward Bernays Lynton Crosby scheme of things we’ve rapidly progressed from 1) @Google searches to 2) #ArtificialIntelligence to 3) neofascist autocratic totalit-aryanism, and 4) Nutflux (kiwi pron.) will of course make a movie.
“The market is the market. You can’t argue with the market:” advisor to five USA Presidents John Kenneth Galbraith in “Unweaving the rainbow” (those rhetorician sub-editors again) a joint production of @Deakin-@RadioNational, Australia, on query-postcolonial impoverished countries’ #development.
Understanding & reforming economy is no more about replacing GDP with sociocultural & environmental outcomes econometrics than any so-called Green Left undergraduate cry for an END TO PROFIT or “degrowth,” let alone grass skirts AND AK47s. It’s about the UN #ESG goals: what we produce and how when where & why we do it, for life health longevity, the human love cooperation ethics and futures-vision – absolutely not any kind of monetary crypto-derivative values – this work requires for its success.. its real or human social value.. asking why of supply, demand and market price, recognising all three are human artificial constructs – concepts – driven by enterprisers and copy-writers not holy writ generated by invisible hand, mysterious spirit or wizard in the sky for goodness’ sake.. or in the plea of my newsletter ‘Community Economist’ at a moment when political thugs had erased my gardens, businesses, home and all family relationships for their fun and profit (though that last, personal, disaster did not hit me fully until I retirned from an exile in my own country to be greeted by these dogs thirteen years later):
To Price & Volume (Friedmanite neoliberalism’s ‘gold standard’ WE MUST ADD Quality & Honest Trading.
Or lose the lot. I did not know that then, in 1996. But as a global organic and regenerative agriculture pioneer and energy and weather systems writer I sure did by 2003 – and gave the world a carbon waste-pollution business-as-usual fit-for-human habitation use-by date, 2032, which I guess predictably made me even more the punitive target of political & public service crooks in Adelaide and their playthings the right-wing South Australian Police.
Two weeks ago we’re told Microsoft & Amazon are laying off thousands of postmodern post-fact post-truth vanity-narcissist-influencer Gordon Geckoe cult of individualism morally, culturally, spiritually & ecologically moribund consumer-society know-nothing flaneurs is it?
..life-wasters or in the neoclassical Engels mode social parasites basically stealing money from people’s bank accounts. Glove-puppets in Bill Gates’ World conducting concerted socially-engineered systematic assault on all humans with disposable income after living expenses or #savings – now also widely recognised as the billionaires’ assault on the middle class.
..I must renew* my Amazon Prime whoops I’ve never used it! As if.
..I must act on irregularities with my internet line whoops I don’t have one. As if.
..I must respond to earnest advices of another gangster-outfit calling itself the Telstra and Google Technical Services. Mother of Goodness.
..I must light candles, burn incense and slaughter fatted calves for all of those artificial consumer spender & voter programming algorithms we all so depend upon and cherish.. doing our own thinking for us. Intelligence. Seriously?
Enjoy this short note about the Davos haute bourgeois Thought Bomb, Klaus Schwab’s and so-o-o belatedly George Soros’s swansongs. Never forget to laugh at delusional nonsense of entrepreneurial spruiking. It’s NOT AT ALL unkind to sneer or even hit hard if these charlatans are making themselves the enemies of humanity. It’s essential. It’s exactly like proudly holding up your personal humanity licence for all to see in Elon’s public square.
..or the Milton Friedman orgiastic profiteering via regulatory exemption plan will plough slough and sludge itself literally to the death – yours and mine.
..as we all now realise our situation HAS NO CONNECT with the ‘rotten apples’ of @Nickelodeon, bad psychiatry, trash-culture cops & robbers or cowboys ‘n “injuns” – native North American people – but all of us.
John
Wednesday midday 08022023
So yeah, here it was the forerunner document to the above/ Friday evening in Southern Australia 20/1/2023 >>
Klaus Schwab’s 2-dimensional Analogue “Newtonian Mechanics”^^ Global Economy is Broken
On LinkedIn, Ian Kaplan, ‘bringing people together..’ with our thanks“$250,000 to attend Davos as a formal delegate at the annual World Economic Forum event??!! (link below)
“COP28 to be led by an oil company CEO??!!
“Is it any surprise when there are calls for an alternative framework to WEF, COP, etc. as the place to come together to discuss and take action on the climate change, biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation and social inequality caused by the flawed system we live in?
“It’s time to boycott these frameworks and make them irrelevant.
“NOW.
“There’s no time to wait and see what happens.
“Wheels are already in motion for an alternative framework for bringing people together based on bioregions, negating the ability of industry lobbies to torpedo efforts for change, negating the setting of a core global agenda by established institutions opposed to changing the existing political economy, and negating their ability to determine who can and who can’t participate and be heard. The alternative framework includes a mechanism for encouraging and facilitating continuous action and progress, including measuring progress towards clear goals. ALL with a positive message!
“Looking for partners who have had enough of the BS. Feel free to reach out.”
^^ the Push Me Pull You Marx-Engels-Thatcher-& yes, evidently -Merkel – stemmie sighin’-tests’ (to use the Australian baby-talk) NO society/ don’t worry about that left-wing stuff, those groups, those activists/ how dare they disrupt our nineteenth century neoclassical theory and methodology? – oowhh/ yuck/ atheists too – the monetarist-wonderland dialectical ‘Rand-span’ Objectivist Zero Sum Game = the global ecological meltdown-threatening SUPPLY SIDE gang-bang
* “I’m calling to tell you your Amazon Prime is being renewed for $99.00. If you don’t want this prescription Dial 1” – THIS is not fiction. It first came to my notice in February last year when despite my skills, knowledge and emotional maturity this huge and sophisticated organised crime outfit from “Mountain View” stole $2,500 from my bank account and the bank, Bendigo Bank declined to reimburse me despite the money being initially deposited into an Australian bank account. And NOW, a year later, I’ve had four calls this week. The Australian minister for Home Affairs Clare O’Neill claims to be angry about cyber-crime. I call bullshit.
JB
Billionaire-🙈🙊🙉🐒s with Olivettis 