Fantasy Free Advantage – Natural Law And Issues of LifeNatural Law And Issues of Life

You will find that from time to time, Bible scriptures are alluded to. This is because stories in the Old and New Testament, in addition to having spiritual interpretations, are models of natural law. The Fantasy – Free Advantage is a study of the secular world. That is the world we live in…. and that is what is explained.

Nature’s Gift To Creatures

Nature’s plan is that all which is alive seeks to remain alive and pass its genes forward into future generations. In order for this to occur , each living entity possesses a special tool of discernment that
immediately recognizes opportunities and threats.An animal in the wild responds to immediate threats and opportunities naturally.Human beings also have this immediate discernment tool. With humans
there is an issue, however. Humans can and do engage in fantasy as a means of coping with the harsh realities of survival. The natural sensibilities nature provides humans are replaced by artificial sensibilities….. which emerge as a proxy reality.

It is hard to be right about anything, when the way life is, gets replaced by the way we would like life to be. Remove fantasy and nature’s sensibilities come back in play. Suddenly, the first impression becomes the right impression. Further, an individual discovers that answers to life’s issues, both in the aggregate and individually , are largely given at first glance. It is like knowledge is in the air. That knowledge is only available with the absence of fantasy.

As much as one might like to have a genius – level IQ, anyone with a third grade education can understand and make good use of their mind. There are two questions: What does a person know? How well does a person use what they do know?

Those who understand Fantasy – Free Theory fall in the second camp. .A simple fantasy – free person easily has an advantage over an esteemed economist with a PHD and a national reputation – yet given to fantasy.

Mankind And Freedom

Freedom does not work the way it is assumed to work. Is every human a freedom -seeking creature? Humans are assumed to be. That is not the case. Freedom works out to be like collateral that is bargained away for comfort and security.

There is an ongoing power struggle – but most drop out of the competition as they discover they lack the skill and aptitude to dominate others. Their best option is to submit to others and get paid to assist someone who is more powerful than they.

When I lived in a small West Texas town I walked to the post office and back each day. One day a puppy followed me home. That puppy wanted to be my dog. She was free , but instinctively knew she needed to submit to a human. It was a smart thing for the puppy to do. She became my dog and I became her master. She lived to be fifteen years old. She ended up being the best dog I ever had.

Human beings deal with freedom the same way my dog did. Each day that a person goes to work, a piece of their freedom is surrendered for usually eight hours per day. During that period, the person who submits sets his/her own interests aside and helps their boss achieve their goals and aspirations. That is the way freedom really works.

The Means Determines The End

Most of life’s activities are based on the Marxist notion that the end justifies the means. That is not the way it works. In natural law the wrong means guarantees a negative outcome. So, the end that Marxists have taught is worth any means necessary…. is not really achievable unless there is a moral means of getting there.

The world is discovering that in building its business, Facebook has lied and cheated more than they have done anything else. So are Facebook’s glory days over? Natural law says they are.

No one knows why natural law works. But, it works flawlessly. A nation which uses the “end justifies the means” philosophy is guaranteed to lose ground. Our wars for profit all over the globe will eventually impact the entire United States population very negatively.

Reality Of Survival

Reality as it applies to Fantasy – Free Economic Theory, is not what would be deemed any ultimate reality. Folks like quantum physicists and astrophysicists explore the cause and nature of the entire

universe. The reality discussed here is only focused on what it takes to survive and flourish. There is no math because there is no meaningful way to use it. Any charts simply illustrate principles.

Every country, regardless of how peaceful it proclaims to be, gained its land , taking it by force from another population. Belligerence is still the dominant method for determining outcomes of agendas, especially those that involve entire nations. Within the world there are oases of peace and tranquility that we live in. On a larger scale, issues of life are settled by way of belligerence. Even those who live in peace are highly influenced in negative ways by the belligerent activities going on around the planet.

This is reality. We all have to find ways to cope with these things within our inner worlds. Yes, the world is filled with belligerence but we are much happier not thinking about it.

The harsh nature of the physical world is accepted without debate. We cannot go outside in the winter or summer without making adaptations. People work outside in the harshest cold weather. This cannot be done without wearing winter clothes. We alter the physical world by making our environment more palatable. There seems to be no limit to finding ways to flourish in the physical world despite its harsh nature. To cope with cold weather, we find warmth sitting by the fireplace while harsh weather outside is ongoing. To cope with the stress of our inner worlds, we seek out and find the comfort of fantasy. This comes down to avoiding reality.

Unlike dealing with elements in the physical world, there are many downsides to engaging in fantasy to escape thinking about the daunting aspects of our survival. Belligerence is not limited to physical violence. Belligerence is also the means by which laws that extract the essence out of the overall population and transfer it to those with the necessary power to get such laws passed…. come into being. At some point in every generation, belligerence raises its ugly head.

Those who have lived their whole lives within the comfort of fantasy are suddenly exposed to the harsh realities of what it really takes to flourish and stay alive in the world.

In the last hundred or so years, Americans have suddenly found themselves faced with world wars and economic depressions. When life is good and all in the country are indulging in fantasies that government is taking care of things…. experts are looking after us…. our leaders are good people just like regular folk…. all are subjected to a sudden awakening, just as they have been in other similar periods in history. We are on the eve of one of those occasions

Three Paths To Reality

The escape from reality begins at birth. In the beginning, fantasy leaves reality in the dust. Early on , the reality gap gets wider and wider. Normally, reality catches up with a person several times during a

lifetime. That occurs for a number of reasons. It can be a natural disaster, an act of war, divorce or any number of emotional upheavals. The propensity to fantasize is strong and relentless. In the end, reality catches us all. Since reality is the way it is, and fantasy is a false but appealing alternative, the motivation to escape is always with us. In the end ,reality catches up and we all face what nature has in store.

Various religions, through faith , can provide hope and comfort for their believers. We are concerned here with the secular world system. Outside of faith, there is no way to protect oneself against the awful rigors of the secular world.

When dealing with reality, a person has three paths which are possible to follow. None of these choices are made consciously, at least not in the beginning. The institutional approach is the path of least resistance. It is the path that is most often followed. Public schools play a huge role in spreading fantasy through the population. In school , children learn that cooperation is the way of the world. That is fantasy. Children are taught that problems are solved through group cooperation and group effort. That is fantasy. Children are taught that patriotism is always good. That is fantasy. Children are praised for adopting arbitrary loyalties, like “my school”, “your school”, “my team” and “your team”. Students learn to perform for approval.

Self esteem matters out of proportion to everything else. Government is constantly alluded to as a benevolent institution filled with selfless servants to society. That notion is completely false. Public schools serve as a good example, but all institutions contribute to creating fantasy. When children go home, they learn more fantasy from their parents. This is the institutional approach to reality. Fantasy is learned through institutions and other people, mostly older people. Institutional fantasies are dangerous. When life is based on what is not true, life gets real comfortable. The natural forces of nature continue. Life’s institutions, especially government, become more fragile and everything starts failing.

In Germany during the thirties, institutions’ fantasy was that the Aryan race was superior to all others.The end result was the loss of millions of lives and the complete destruction of Germany. Over time,economic and political systems become unstable. When reality imposes itself, the consequences are sudden and brutal. This is what happened with the Great Depression and World War II. We are on the verge of a serious reckoning at this time.

The second approach is for the individual to create a personal reality. Perhaps you have heard someone say they choose to believe this that or the other. That is a personal way of avoiding the truth by replacing it with a comforting notion. Here are some examples: “I choose to believe in the goodness of mankind”. “I choose to believe that he or she is telling the truth”. “I choose to believe in the integrity of the Supreme Court”. There are countless ways a person can choose fantasy over reality. Whether spoken aloud or adopted as a belief – it is a fantasy.

The last method that can be adopted is the version of reality that nature provides. So, what does nature provide? To take this option we must accept what we see just by looking. All forms of life including humans are subject to laws of dominance and subservience. Nature provides only one universal incentive: self – interest. Those are the two big ones. Dominance and subservience, then self – interest. All human beings posses the false belief of being special. Feeling special causes us to believe others see us as special also. Perhaps we are special to a few who know us personally.

The feeling of being special leaves us vulnerable to others who believe they are special also. Reality is that others see us as a resource. This is especially true with respect to elected representatives. Anyone can know what reality is and make the choice to give up fantasy. When that choice is made, one is no longer looking at the world through the prism of fantasy. It is a great way to lose friends. You will be right and your friends will be wrong. They will resent you and defend their fantasies with a vengeance. Being fantasy – free doesn’t make you smarter.

A complete moron who has accepted reality will perform at a higher level than a genius who chooses to believe lies. How do you decide? Believe lies or go fantasy free. There are trade-offs. If understanding the world you live in is important to you, then reality is the way to go. If maximizing pleasure and avoiding conflict is all that matters, reality will only make you unhappy. It is a personal choice.

Law Of Power And Absolute Power

Power Corrupts And Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. Is the law of power and absolute power true? So far in my life time, I have never met a soul who disagrees. That means there is a continuum between no power at all ….and absolute power.

You may be aware, I don’t use quantitative analysis or economic models in studying economics. I do use charts and graphs to illustrate points and generate understanding. The chart to the left illustrates how corruption increases with levels of power.

Based on the law of power and absolute power, anyone we elect to public office is more corrupt than the voters who elected him. World leaders do not have absolute power but come mighty close. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, within his own country, is about as close to completely corrupt ….of any world leaders today.

Based on the power and absolute power principle – how corrupt on a scale from one to ten would the president of the United States be? The president is deemed to be the most powerful human on the planet. That implies that any president is pretty high on the corruption scale.

One night, I was having a conversation with a couple of Trump supporters. I asked them this. “On the day after the election in 2016, was Trump more corrupt than he was the day before…. when he was a candidate?” The response I got was : “No, not Donald Trump – he is a good guy”…. and on and on……………

Are elected leaders more corrupt than the voters who elect them? Do you believe that law of power and absolute power is true? If it is true, then any president is more corrupt upon being elected than he was prior to being elected. His level of power has gone parabolic. Every time we empower leaders,we increase the level of corruption correspondingly.

Accept Reality

Start by accepting and understanding reality. Then remove all biases and prejudices from your mind. In real life there are good people and bad people. There are good countries and bad countries. These evaluations must be removed. That does not mean you approve of the wickedness some are prone to do. This is for observational purposes only. All opinions, judgments and discernment can be added back in at any time.

Suppose there is a political situation or worldly phenomenon that you would like to explain. You have no reliable facts. You have no information other than what is revealed in the media. A fantasy – free investigation will yield a more accurate account of the situation than will all of the credentialed experts in the country combined.

Treatment Of Free Markets

When discussing free markets, I avoid using the term capitalism. Mostly, when folks use capitalism as a term, they do mean free market system. Capitalism literally means that the factors of production, land, labor and capital are owned privately. Given that, the economy in the United States, is capitalist.

There is more to a free market than the people…. not government, owning the factors of production. Free markets can only work in a system based on democratic principles. Capitalism can function in an authoritarian state. In the United States we do have a capitalist economy but not a free market system.

It is not always enough to know the definition of a word. The term conspiracy theorist, for example, brings up the mental image of a kook. Capitalist produces the image of a wild – eyed brutal psychopath mercilessly exploiting all others.

Government actually has an imperative role to play in a free market system. Government absolutely must guarantee a level playing field. In the United States, the government doesn’t do that. That is a huge and difficult task. Free market does not mean an absence of government.

In Fantasy – Free Economics, free markets constitutes an optimum level of production and well being for society as a whole. This is not an opinion. It is an observation. Free people working and producing according to their own inclinations…. free from government directives, accomplish much more than the same folks do by following the dictates of a plan.

From historical times until the mid 1700s there was no meaningful increase in per capita GDP. As soon as the free market system was adopted, the well – being of all income classes began going parabolic.

New technologies exploded.

Adam Smith put it this way.

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”

In today’s world, Adam Smith is alluded to constantly. His principles are treated as platitudes. This is what John Maynard Keynes thought of Adam Smith.

“Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis, and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.” It seems Keynes never looked at per capita GDP growth following the adoption of Smiths principles.

Free Markets Safety Net

It is only reasonable to expect any population to opt to assist society’s members who are unable to adequately help themselves. Doing this does reduce per capita GDP but not all that much. An economy can provide charity – but it must be just that. A system that turns into a life management system is quite damaging. A safety net can be implemented while free market attributes are changed very little. That is…. as long as assistance is all that is provided. To do otherwise is to create opportunities for those with the desire and means to exploit the problems of the disadvantaged for personal gain.

During the Great Depression, communism became popular. Life was tough in the United States. Few even noticed that at the very worst time in United States history the living standards of average Americans was higher than any other system had produced during the best of its times. In the old soviet union, a communist system, life of the average person never did reach the level achieved in the United States with its free market system during the worst time in its economic history.

A free market system, with a business cycle is not perfect is still the best possible system. There is a limit to how much certainty can be achieved in life. A close looks reveals that uncertainty is the way of the universe. It is an illusion that life’s uncertainties can be eliminated through central planning. They can’t even be reduced…. they are just redistributed.

Reality And The Right To Vote

We vote with the expectation that those we elect are bound to carry out the will of the people. Is that democracy in action? It is supposed to be.

This brings some questions to mind. Sometimes asking the most simple questions about any kind of system or procedure uncovers significant findings. Often, it identifies exactly what a problem is – or leads our thinking in the right direction.

Look at the outcome of a process and ask: Given the assumptions that are made about what inputs are assumed to generate a given outcome…. what if these inputs yield a different outcome than the one intended? Then ask, if what we are assuming is not getting the result we want – then what inputs actually would generate the outcome we expect?

Here are some questions about voting: What is the will of voters? Do Americans actually have a will when it comes to government? Are our representatives making an effort to know the will of the people? What about the president? Did any group within the population request the initiatives their leaders are carrying out?

The answers to the last three questions are definitely no’s. The will of the population is certainly ambiguous. I am not sure any lawmaker can figure out what it is.

Lets look at what We The People actually get…. by asking some more questions. I have looked back over my lifespan and don’t remember the public actually asking government for anything. How can it be that the U.S. government provides citizens with so much, when they have asked for nothing at all.

There are programs for the poor. The poor never asked for support….ever. We have global warming initiatives and state – run health care. Again, citizens never asked for these things. Bill after bill gets passed. None of these bills are a brainchild of the general population.

In a political campaign, each candidate, comes up with government initiatives that they believe the public will surely like. Lets suppose a family is sitting around a living room not necessarily needing or wanting a thing. A vacuum cleaner salesman shows up and convinces them that a new vacuum cleaner will improve their lives. The family end up with a new vacuum cleaner but the purchase of the machine was the salesman’s idea, not theirs.

Suppose the same family is in their living room watching a candidate speak. The politician, is offering, if elected, to bring to the floor a bill called, perhaps, the Wonderful Things For Children Act. Who is going to oppose a bill like that? Prior to the Affordable Care Act, how many Americans were wanting government to get into the healthcare business? Lets get back to the will of voters.Where is it?

Using Fantasy Free Principles

For purposes of analysis, people and institutions are studied according to how they function – not how they are defined. For example, the Supreme Court is defined as an unbiased court. Fantasy – Free Economic theory treats the Supreme Court as a political institution. All government agencies are political institutions. Studying them as they are defined is meaningless and generates a false understanding.

Always, for purposes of analysis, it is simply: this person does this and another person does not. Why are all people doing these evil things? Again, operate on the basis of that is just the way it is. The mob is neither bad nor good – nor or its members. Mobsters have an incentive to do what they do. The president and congress have incentives to do what they are doing. Treat the Supreme Court the same way. This is the way to investigate and analyze.

Start with the basic ingredients of the issue. You will find that if an idea, system or anything else is not flawed in the beginning, there may not be an issue. Many have debunked the efficacy Keynesian theory in thousands of words. I simply point out that the theory is flawed with respect to one or more of its basic ingredients.

Many economists have used thousands of words challenging Keynes’ General Economic theory. I do it in one sentence. I frequently add a little more but one sentence is enough. Here it is. Keynes insisted that complete objectivity must be used in implementing stimulus. Any stimulus program requires an economic decision. Government is not capable of economic decisions. Governments can only make political decisions. It is government which applies stimulus.

Recognize Common Thinking Errors

In order to get in touch with reality, it is helpful to examine some false beliefs or thinking errors which pervade all lives. These are common thinking errors that are highly relevant to economics and political science. Here are a few with which to start.

Self – Importance: The posture of self – importance is instinctive. The species would go extinct if its members did not routinely put themselves first. People are important to themselves, family and a few friends. As harmless as this may seem , it is the root of many false notions. An individual reasons: “As important as I am, certainly I am worthy of being served by those I help elect to public office.” Of a course, a person is of no importance at all to a politician. To a politician, a voter is a resource. A permanent disconnect is formed where the constituent expects to get representation from a representative who holds office first and foremost out of self interest. Human instinct is to exalt oneself.

My country, school, or any group I belong to is special: This again is instinctive. Survival is facilitated by being a member of a group with common interests. Instinct calls for exaltation and loyalty to all groups a person belongs to. Survival is facilitated by drawing support and benefits from any group for which an individual is a member. Most loyalties to groups are arbitrary……as in: “go team go” & “my school is better than yours”. Fans support their home team. I ask: Is there any long – term advantage to an individual who is loyal to a home team or a school?

The incentive to serve: Popular belief is that there are humans who go into public service on an ideological basis – with every intention of serving mankind. This incentive to serve is completely imaginary. People who do such things as run for office do so out of self – interest. Folks wonder why office holders never get around to promoting the causes that got them elected. This is the reason. People in government are motivated to exploit problems for personal gain – while appearing to work in the public interest.

People think independently: Most people go long periods of time without an original thought. The mind records words and images and a person believes those are his thoughts. This is easily seen in political discourse. All conversations morph down to non – sentient argument. All public political dialog morphs down to standardized, concise words and sentences put forth as a means of rapid persuasion.

The divinity of government: Much is expected out of government. It is reasoned that if the private sector is falling short in an activity, government can make it work right. Government is assumed to have complete prowess in terms of fixing life’s issues. Government is deemed fair while the private sector is seen as corrupt and filled with selfishness. Human nature does not change. Government consists of multitudes of self – serving individuals just as the private sector. Voters have a parent – child relationship with their government. If a problem gets big, voters see government as the ultimate source of wisdom and solutions. This kind of relationship is inborn. When a person leaves the private sector and joins government, that person does not change his basic orientation. Government does not have the means to solve problems.

What I see is all there is: Most of what is relevant is not part of what is apparent from a casual glance.

Government is benevolent: Government is a free – for – all , for folks who are all trying to gain advantage or make a profit.

Patriotism is good: Patriotism is actually the all time worldwide leading cause of unnecessary deaths. Patriotism may be necessary but that depends upon the activity a government is involved in. During World War Two, Nazi soldiers were as patriotic as is possible for humans to be.

Soldiers fight for freedom: A soldier is a citizen with a job. A soldier does not pick the fights he participates in. Freedom rarely has anything to do with U.S. military operations and interventions. Colin Powell once said he joined the military because he needed a job. Ordinary soldiers do so for the same reason.

Public officials are just like the rest of us: Public officials have political personalities. Political personality is similar to a that of a sociopath personality. The two terms could be used as synonyms.

A public servant sets aside self – interest: Self – interest is a constant in human behavior. Self – interest does not disappear if a person takes a certain job. In the private sector , self – interest is a cause of efficiency. Self – interest in the public sector causes inefficiency.

Credentials imply competence: Credentials actually contribute to incompetence. Credentials allow individuals to profit from the pretense of knowledge. Those with credentials – who are charged with solving problems ….charge the highest amount possible for their services. Simple solutions are dispensed with and replaced with solutions that command a price. When listening to others it is best to deal in pure arguments, independently of credentials ….in order to achieve an optimum outcome.

Work is a first choice: Work is actually only engaged in ….if there is absolutely no way to live off the efforts of others. Mainstream economics treats all humans as 100% industrious. This is not true at all and it is a main reason why they never get anything right.

Every person needs a college education: When the supply of educated people exceeds the demand, a college education can be of no value at all.

Communication only occurs with words: Communication without words is actually more precise and meaningful.

These are just a few thinking errors that are routinely made. False beliefs are comforting. They are just not true. There are many more but these are pretty basic.

The Role Of Lies

Telling lies has a bad reputation but the propensity to tell them is part of every person’s survival toolbox.

Years back, I coined a saying. “When a lie is told, there are generally two guilty parties. There is the liar, of course. Then, there is the one for whom the truth is not good enough.”

Some lies that are universally believed are so deeply and securely embedded in the human psyche that they are clearly instinctive in nature. We are told by evolutionary psychologists that the brain has us do

the things that optimize the chances that our genes will be passed to the next generation. When the larger thinking brains of a few humanoids come up with more efficient ways of looking at things, the animal brain which is governed by instinct, has us do the things that have promoted our survival for millions of years. Those things can be outdated.

A person has instinctive beliefs as well as intellectual beliefs. When aggregations of people interact, the animal brain takes over and pushes any brilliance aside. The animal brain is the better of the two brains at getting its way. The thinking of the larger intellectual brain is corrupted to the degree its owner views the world through a prism of fantasy.

Clearly, in the eons that have passed before the modern era, focusing on the goodness and prowess of the herd leadership promoted survival. Leadership of the herd or tribe was the place to go to solve a problem an individual person could not. Leadership had to be highly adept in order to gain that special position of group leader. Looking to herd or tribe leadership made good sense. It may still – within small enough groups.

From the natural awe and respect shown to herd leadership, the notion that government is benevolent is derived. There actually is no such thing as a benevolent government. The human race is instinctively still tethered to an animal – brained instinctive belief system that was useful when perhaps one thousand members operated as a group. Since the larger thinking brain is subject to believing fantasy as a means of escaping harsh reality, government today is almost universally treated as a kind and benevolent institution. Of course, it is anything but.

This basic misunderstanding makes it very difficult to continue improving living standards and the quality of life in general. Those elected to various offices are not actually working tirelessly to improve the lot of the constituents who put them in office. People keep expecting goodness out of government but they keep getting fleeced instead. A big part of the reason is the permanent lie that government is benevolent. That notion is rooted in instinct. The lie is further strengthened because believing government is benevolent as a fantasy is highly comforting.

The Human Herding Instinct

When folks explain human behavior, sometimes it is noted that humans are acting out of character and behaving like herd animals. No one is acting out of character. Human beings are indeed herd animals and they function as herd animals 24 hours per day,7 days per week. The brain is an amazing organ but it is not all that honest. Its primary function is driving survival and reproduction. Despite any thoughts the brain comes up with that lead us to believe otherwise, the brain tricks us into engaging in behaviors that optimize the chance of surviving and reproducing. Herd behavior is one of those behaviors.

Humans are not only herd animals, they have specialized roles to play within the herd. People have different personality characteristics. These characteristics are different in each human. Different personality characteristics go along with different roles people end up carrying out within a herd setting. Leaders have political personalities. A political personality is about the same as that of a sociopath.

Someone must be at the head of a herd. That person will have elevated manipulative skills, a sense of entitlement, and no conscience to speak of. There is an appearance of a consciousness but that is only an exaggerated concern of how the sociopath appears to others.

As part of various herds, people engage in group communication, although they are unaware that it is happening. Speech, reading and writing are generally accepted as the only kinds of communications that exist. There is much more. There are no words but people communicate through the air and are unaware that it is happening. Much of what psychologists describe as anxiety and depression are actually signals picked up from outside the head. It is very subtle but everyone broadcasts their state of mind and makes judgments about others, based on what is broadcasted. Most communication is outside of our awareness.

Why do doctors have so much trouble treating anxiety and depression? They believe it originates within the skull but it really comes from the outside.

Many years ago, humans found it to their advantage to dominate, keep and herd animals which were of use to them. Mankind, in the beginning made no distinction between capturing animals and capturing members of their own species. That is how slavery got its origin. As slavery became increasingly unprofitable, herding continued to be practiced. There have always been rich and poor. Throughout history, the rich have found ways to live off the efforts of others…. frequently by paying them – but really, by any means possible.

When the Internet began, it was not fathomed that it would morph into a gigantic herding tool where people’s thoughts, time and energy could be easily managed. Prior to the advent of corporate giants recognizing its potential as a herding tool, the Internet was like the open range was – prior to fences in the old west. When Google and all of the others entered the arena all of that changed. The activity that actually generates revenue in these giant companies is human herding. They manage people’s time,energy, opinions and everything else…. and do so profitably.

Of course, individuals deny engaging in herd behavior – but they do. One of the most pronounced herd behaviors is worshiping leaders. Notice that the mentality these days is to find a messiah for a leader who will do all of the things a conservative or a liberal wants done. Interest in the actual self – governing approach is completely missing.

Mainstream economists have no chance of being right except by accident. In mainstream economics, the individual is treated as autonomous and independent thinking. The actual individual is nothing of the kind.

Animals are controlled either by offering them a treat or by scaring them. In South Texas, ranchers blow their horn when they arrive with a truckload of hay. The cows associate the horn with being fed.

Humans are controlled by offering them a treat like a government handout. Social media controls humans by offering the free stuff like a Facebook page or a no – cost email address. If ranchers on horseback want to change the herd’s direction they might crack a bull whip on one side of the herd to get them to go the other way.

Government hypes up a crisis. The population is scared so they accept direct orders from authorities. Humans are moved in the direction the authority desires.

Ranchers get their reward by selling their cattle to slaughter houses. Corporations get their reward by using government as a means to force the human herd to buy their products and services. Ranchers like having a homogenized herd and keep the animals in the dark as to what their eventual destiny will be.

Government and affiliated corporations employ censorship as a means of insuring their humans are basically of one mind. Information is also horded and kept from the population’s eyes so that the human animals remain docile and content. While citizens are not sent to the slaughter house, their buying habits are managed.

With respect to sheep, a few stray from the herd and live on their own. Most sheep are kept for their wool. The strays are routinely shot and eaten by the family that owns the ranch.

Outliers of the human herd are routinely destroyed politically or in the media. Human herding is part of our lives. People as a whole feel more comfortable in a herding situation. Humans are also a multi – herd species. Most groups of people belong to take on herding characteristics.

It will be important to recognize human herding activities in coming days. Independent thinking is quite rare. As the political season gets underway, focusing on herd behavior will add a lot of clarity. Where efforts to persuade are made, you will notice the absence of sentient arguments.

Identify Five Branches Of Government

The U.S. government consists of 3 formal branches of government as noted in the U.S. constitution, but there are two others that are never recognized.

By definition we do indeed have three branches of government. Legislative, Executive and Judicial. The Fantasy – Free approach considers institutions in terms of how they function – and not according to how each is defined.

In terms of how government institutions function, there are two additional branches, one of which is more powerful than all of the others put together.

The most powerful – at the very top of the governmental power hierarchy, is organized crime. It is from a global crime syndicate that all important legislation originates. The lifeblood of ordinary crime families is the skimming operation. All bills passed today are skimming operations. Federal Reserve Policies are skimming operation. Stimulus packages consist of countless skimming operations.

Skimming operations are the only source of new laws in today’s world. Today’s Affordable Care Act is the most prolific skimming operation in history. Ethanol is certainly deserving of mention. The Full

Employment Act of 1978 facilitates the passing of skimming operations although it is not directly a skimming operation itself.

“We The People”…. or the voting public, constitute a second additional branch of government. “We The People” have enormous potential in terms of power and knowledge. As a branch of government, this group is almost completely impotent. Over the years, the right to vote has almost been completely diffused as a controlling political force. We the people do indeed vote, but do so based on what little superficial information is given to us. Our political activities consist of virtue signaling and tribal positioning.

Public opinion is easily managed. They respond to cute sound bites and terms that don’t mean anything. A few of these are: hate speech, conspiracy theory, Make America Great Again, racist, etc.

For any democratic system to survive, there must be constant tension and distrust between leaders and those who elect them. American citizens do nothing of the kind. For candidates to support, they go

messiah seeking and produce absolutely no tension with respect to the leaders they elect. Any power “We the People” have is strictly potential.

The constitutional branches of government – Executive, Judicial and Legislative ….are controlled by the crime syndicate which is the source of laws and governmental policies.

Political parties serve functions similar to those of the old style crime families still operating in the Northeast. The three formal branches of government have the role of funneling profits to the global crime syndicate that controls them.

Folks expect their chosen messiahs to make their lives better and carry out their will. Everyone is always confounded by outcomes. Judges make decisions that make no sense based on their normal judicial posture. Despite who they vote for as president or anything else, they discover nothing ever changes for the better.

I have just explained why political outcomes always work against the general population. That is possible because I use the fantasy – free approach to decipher what goes on in economics and politics.

Notice The Propensity To Worship

We define the United States as a Republic based on democratic principles. In a democratic system, the role of voters is to guide their representatives. A republic is more authoritarian than a democracy. That does not mean voters, never under any circumstances assume authority over their representatives. Once a law maker is elected, it is hard to unseat an incumbent. Once a law is on the books, odds are it will never be repealed.

In any activity that involves more than one person acting, participants submit to one another. Some assume authority and others follow. This is a wordless transaction. It happens automatically. With respect to representation, it is expected that representatives would submit to voters. In actual practice voters submit to their representatives. Once a campaign is ongoing, candidates appeal to the sensibilities of voters. This is also called telling them what they want to hear.

Seeking Safety

Mankind is preconditioned to expect benefits from any authority he submits to. It makes sense. Leadership throughout thousands of years has been the most powerful animal in the group. This animal has had the ability to protect any group member from any other animal. A close look at human society reveals that people have a parent child relation with government. Instead of operating as free agents, people are prone to being obedient in front of their government. This is all instinct. Because behaviors like this are innate, getting folks to function otherwise is close to impossible – because those behaviors seem normal and to behave otherwise seems impossible

What is interesting about safety and and security is that human beings will pay almost any amount to avoid living in fear and feeling vulnerable. They will pay as high a price for the perception of safety and security as the real thing. The difference is not easily discernible.

Here is the way it works with humans. Humans pay money but with every increment of more safety and security, they have to give up part of their freedom. For armed forces, they give up some – but it is worth it? Every time more safety and security are opted for – more freedom is given up. A guaranteed income

takes away even more freedom. All of this comes at a high monetary cost. Eventually folks want the guarantee that others won’t call them names. That is the case today.

The price of safety and security is so high, it is very profitable to provide these things – or just their perception. Government agencies grow in size. As the agencies get large, those which sell goods and services to them lobby government for more, more and more. This is so profitable that techniques of scaring people into believing they are vulnerable emerge. Folks get out their checkbooks.

Then, the private sector gets involved. New services evolve to protect people from everything from identity theft to home security. All kinds of ads that scare you start appearing.

Feeling warm and cozy – whether you are actually safe or not…. comes at a very high price. One thing people are happy to give up, is freedom. After all, what is freedom good for other than achieving safety and security? That is how the animal mind functions….so you feel warm and cozy. Who needs freedom? After all, isn’t feeling warm and cozy the goal anyway? Who needs freedom any more, after receiving a big dose of feeling safe and secure?

Notice The Propensity To Worship

Seeking Safety

Does government provide safety and security? It can and does sometimes, but it is more likely to provide the perception only. Who knows the difference? It is the feeling that counts. Where do they look to get it? They look in the same place all animals look. That, is the herd’s leadership. It may be the head male in a pride of lions – or the most powerful male water buffalo. With human beings, it is their government. In any case, to the ordinary herd members, the cost is staggering. Here is the way it works with humans. Humans pay money but with every increment of more safety and security, they have to give up part of their freedom. For armed forces, they give up some – but it is worth it? Every time more safety and security are opted for – more freedom is given up. A guaranteed income

takes away even more freedom. All of this comes at a high monetary cost. Eventually folks want the guarantee that others won’t call them names. That is the case today.

Then, the private sector gets involved. New services evolve to protect people from everything from identity theft to home security. All kinds of ads that scare you start appearing.

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Why People Really Do What They Do

Among family and friends, there can be love and compassion. Love and compassion can flourish

alongside of self – interest. One the local level, folks make sacrifices for one another. Self – interest is tempered.

Local life is what all are accustomed to. It can be mighty comforting to project the norms of local and family life to life in groups. That is routinely done. It is almost universally done. The fact is though, as groups get larger and larger, self – interest becomes the only relevant incentive. Politicians run for office out of self -interest. This is despite the public thinking otherwise.

A focus on incentives is imperative when studying group behavior. Incentives are all that matter. When a word is spoken in the media, what is said, is said because of an incentive. When an action is taken in public by a leader, it is because of an incentive. At an aggregate level, anyone’s actions are rooted in self

– interest.

Understanding the role of incentives creates opportunities for understanding. When a person or

institution changes dialog that is not in keeping with their historical posture, there is an incentive for doing so. When a number of entities suddenly change behaviors, there is a good chance their efforts are coordinated.

Serious censorship began emerging as 2019 was coming to a close. Was there a reason for that? There had to be a reason even if none were apparent. The general media has no natural incentive to protect the public from being exposed to wrong information. This is with the exception of being certain their own content is accurate. They also, these days, have an incentive to produce content that is agenda driven.

But why would the media be agenda driven?

During the early days of the U.S. Covid response, Facebook began censoring content that even raised simple questions about the efficacy of anointed cures being implemented. Facebook even deleted posts that even suggested that vitamin c might be of value. Reputable highly – credentialed doctors were silenced, ostracized for speaking up. Any doctor with a doubt about official policy risked being fired.

The pharmaceutical industry started pumping out vaccines. These were as much as forced on the public. All speaking against have been and still are being squelched.

There is no way anyone is allowed to speak in a way that is critical of any cure coming out of the pharmaceutical industry.

Do you see a pattern here? Can you connect any dots? What natural interest do these corporations have in silencing criticism? Somehow censorship makes sense to their business models. What would be the advantage to the largest corporation managing and manicuring information the public sees. Why standardize and homogenize all of a population?

Would giant corporations not be able to plan and manage more efficiently, if all of their customers were completely trusting and of the same mindset? Why did Henry Ford standardize parts for cars and production lines? Why only mechanize output? Why not mechanize customers as well?

Is there a chance here that social media…. the pharmaceutical industry and others, profit enormously by creating a market full of docile, trusting and homogenized consumers? Would it not benefit such corporations to limit the options of their customers, so that their products and services are all that is

available? Would it not be helpful also to inspire government to force folks to buy what they are selling? Censorship can create a wonderful world for those who know how to use it.

Of course, all related is deemed to be for the safety of the public.

The corporate structure has been around for centuries. Not once in history have corporations been obsessed with creating extreme safety for all Americans.. Corporations do have the same incentives they have always had. That is to make profits for their shareholders by any legal means possible.

This is how it breaks down. The parties doing so have no natural incentive to censor Americans. Neither do they have a natural incentive to keep them safe from things they neither produce or sell.

It is not hard to reason that modern censorship is a profit initiative. Generating profits is the only incentive corporations have.

This is how to reason using the fantasy – free approach. When an entity is doing things it has no natural

incentive to do, it is not hard to piece together a logical scenario as to why they are really doing it. All of

this can be done with no actual facts or information. These things are not done out of agape love for humanity.

Just know what incentives are really in play. Apply them where they belong and the work is done. Recognize when a party is doing something any real incentive would not lead them to do.

Human Broadcasting And Receiving

A second aspect of Fantasy – Free Economics is acknowledging how little we or anyone else actually knows. Mostly, experts are paid for the pretense of knowledge. Generally we are better off not taking speculations as the truth and just observing what we don’t understand in the light of reality. We may not understand it but we can know how to deal with it. With that, I will introduce the theory of human broadcasting and receiving.

Spoken and written language are mostly treated as the only means of communication the human species has. That is not possible. Speech evolved over a long period of time. Before that, human beings communicated in other ways. Language is not really that efficient in terms of transmitting accurate

information. Say the word chair in a group of people. Each person will have a different mental picture of a chair. There are deeper understandings and those understandings lie deeper within you than anywhere language can reach.

Every human being broadcasts a mental picture of his inner essence. I have no insight with respect of the physics involved in the process. All humans have some capacity to mentally receive mental broadcasts. The process is very subtle, and in general, neither broadcaster or receiver is aware that anything is happening. It is well established that what a person experiences at the conscious level is only a tiny

fraction of the communication that goes on within a person’s body. There are strong arguments to the effect that communication is ongoing at the spiritual level also.

It is more naive than not to believe communication takes place only when words are used. The possibilities to the contrary are unlimited. You have heard it said that one person or another has charisma. That charisma comes from what the individual broadcasts. Someone who is down and depressed broadcasts that. This is why a person who needs friends can’t find friends. This happens completely beneath the awareness of all who are involved.

What happens on an individual basis also occurs on a collective basis. Within a huge country like the United States, the the mental essence of like – minded people to sort of like – minded people combines into aggregate waves that actually effect behavior. On occasions like 911, people noticed they were responding in ways they never would have expected. I personally remember feeling this notion that I needed to completely trust my country’s leadership. Believe me, that is not a posture I would naturally be inclined to assume. Clearly there was something in the air. There is always something in the air. It is just not easy to notice.

Why is this theory of human broadcasting and receiving important right now? Some notice and some don’t, but the integrity of all of the world’s political and economic systems is extremely shaky these days. When will the prevailing social order break down? Lets hope for a miracle that it doesn’t. At times like this, the likelihood of a sudden massive shift in what is broadcast mentally by various factions is highly elevated. The reality gap in the United States may be higher than it was in Rome, close to the fall of the empire. When a reality gap closes it doesn’t do so gently. The reality gap slams shut. When the collective mindset of the public changes in this kind of situation, it is likely to happen suddenly and will likely result in chaos.

Why do Americans complain about corruption? Americans create their own corruption. Power does not magically appear. It must be created. A person who wants power must create it himself or have others give it to them. Anytime a government agency is established, power is created. Anytime a law is passed, power is created. Does power corrupt? Are there any exceptions? I don’t know of any exceptions….do you? Perhaps an exception can be found, but just one case would not be enough to qualify as a counter example.

So, what do we do collectively when we need to solve one of society’s problems? We empower people and organizations in an effort to solve the problem. We create power and the power we create becomes corrupt. The more power we create – the more corruption we create.

How much corruption we have in government really depends upon how much we wish to have. There is a huge difference between being anti – government and anti – corruption. It turns out that the only way to reduce corruption is to reduce power. The obvious way to do that is to have less of what creates corruption naturally. This is not easy to do.

Another point of natural law is that power is never relinquished voluntarily. Once power is established it can only be removed by force…. even if it is through a gentle force like voting. The powerful will never leave on their own.

Of course, mainstream economics disregards natural law. Mainstream economics would assume that a person such as a member of the Open Market Committee, or the Chairman of the Federal Reserve are no more corrupt after taking the position than they were before taking the job.

The fact is, that the more power a position has, the more corrupt the position holder will be. The longer an institution exists, the more corrupt it will become. The less concern the voting public shows in reining in authority the more corrupt the authority will be.

So, by deciding how much power we wish to create and let grow, we are deciding how much corruption we are going to have. The problem here is that there is a complete lack of awareness we are making a choice. Perhaps it would be helpful to create more awareness.

Fantasy – Free Economics is based on recognizing the very few absolutely true observations we can about the world we live in. Then we approach life. We never let others convince us that these basic things are untrue. Remember, the most profound observation we make is that life is governed and regulated by a system of dominance and subservience. On top of that, we make more simple

observations, give up fantasies and euphemisms, then look out our windows and see what is going on.

Without the handicap of viewing reality while looking through the self – made prism of fantasy, first impressions have a very high probability of being accurate in terms of what is good, bad…. useful….

truthful…. dangerous…. opportunities…. and so on. Only without fantasy can we accurately access thehonesty of public figures and tell their personal or secretive motives. Fantasy serves you in that it is often the source of happiness. Fantasy also enslaves you because anyone who supports and validates your fantasies is likely to become your master. Good salesmen motivate you by working your fantasies.

What is accomplished by using the principles of Fantasy – Free Economics? I immediately debunked every aggregate economic theory that is used in making economic policy. Every theory is based on flawed and erroneous assumptions about human behavior. All aggregate economic theories assume a Keynes’ – invented character – the straw man. Straw man means completely objective and totally unbiased. Such an entity does not exist in nature. In all of economics, it is assumed that human nature changes when a person leaves the private sector and becomes employed in the public sector. Nothing about a person’s personality changes when a government job is taken.

So, when aggregate economic policy is implemented, it is done in a way that is in the self – interest of of the highly – anointed, appointed “straw man.” Also influential is anyone and everyone with lots of political power. Decisions are made in keeping with the self – interest of those who implement the policies as well as the politically powerful who lobby for collective action. Benefit to the economy is the ostensible reason for public policies…. but there is no way the whole country benefits. Being fantasy free, we know that aggregate economic policy is going to benefit those at the top of the political structure. There is no chance Federal Reserve Policy will ever do anything other than transfer wealth from the bottom of the food chain to the top. A simple observation debunks all of the central planning theories which determine Federal Reserve policy and fiscal policy. The theories are based on erroneous assumptions. They have no way to work.

The Fantasy – Free Theory The Beginning Of Language

The Fantasy – Free theory of the origin of language is that oral communication evolved out of the need for deception. The lie turns out to be an important tool for survival.

While the debate of whether or not human beings can communicate through clairvoyance is ongoing, it has become clear that lower animals routinely communicate in this manner. Do not expect the scientific community to jump on this theory and run with it. The evidence is overwhelming. Mostly, they just choose not to look.

Rupert Sheldrake has published much in the way of convincing evidence concerning how animals communicate across space.

Language evolved as a means of disguising one’s intentions. If primitive man A was about to attack primitive man B and clairvoyance was the common form of communication between them, primitive man B would preempt the strike. Clearly, primitive man A would be better off if spoken language replaced mind to mind communication. It would be a better strategy to lie with speech and feign friendship.

In the evolutionary process, speech became more and clairvoyance became less. Today, folks have very limited means of transmitting and receiving information. The communication is ongoing but it is generally perceived as an irritation or a mental illness. Mental illnesses like depression may turn out to be incomplete clairvoyance occurrences as in information received but with no interpretation.

What is the significance of a theory? A theory is based on ideas and observations that seem plausible. It is commonplace to act on theories. Every decision the Federal Reserve makes is based on a theory that is less provable than the Fantasy – Free theory of the origin of language.

The nice thing about basing a theory on a fantasy – free observation is that there is a very high probability of being right. Nature provides all of its animals with a special gift. That gift is the ability to correctly grasp the gravity of situations and see the precise truth about what is going on around you.

There is one caveat. The gift is only present when the mind is free of fantasy.

Natural Law At Work

Mention the words natural law and what image does the mind conjure ? Say natural law, and the brain might create for you an image of airheads living in communes ….preaching agape love. As a teacher of natural law, I treat the subject quite differently. Make an observation of a principle that has worked over all of history’s long timeline. Then, even with all of the effort in the world…. folks can’t come up with a universally accepted, or even a good guess as to why it works. The cause is often unexplainable or elusive and not concrete at best.

Much of natural law is well – known. When that is the case, it is largely treated as a platitude. Reliable principles of natural law are modeled all over the scriptures of every religion. Even with all of the exposure, natural law is treated as mush within intellectual communities. Anyone who alludes to natural law is tuned out. That is a mistake. Natural law dominates man – made theories. Man – made theories often work perfectly until they conflict with a natural law.

A time – honored principle of natural law is that an action that begins with an immoral act will be one where the costs outweigh the benefits. There will be an eventual negative outcome. Is that true? It can’t be proven but we can see that historically it hasn’t failed.

When looking at modern monetary policy, the reasoning is ….if we steal on behalf of the rest of the country, the interest Granny should rightly earn on her savings…. and give it to the world’s financial sector, the country as a whole will prosper.

To do what is ostensibly right for the rest of the country, we must rob Granny. Because that is an immoral approach to public policy…. even though the logic sounds great…. the whole country will be compromised. The sum of the results of the practice will be very harmful.

Communism begins with the notion that the end justifies the means. Natural law understands that it is the means and nothing else that determines the end. A communist might say “You have to break eggs to make an omelet”. In every case, the suggestion is that an immoral act is going to end up doing good for society. Any type of economics by force is going to fare worse than those where free markets are the norm.

Another well – known point of natural law is that power corrupts. We elect a president, and his supporters act as if they have a messiah working for them. What they have done is increase the level of power of another human being by making him president. More corruption always comes with more power. The United States must have a president – but citizens must realize that it is their job to reign in

the leaders they elect. In all cases, the masses are more moral than their leaders even though the population may not see it that way. Even though democracy is far from perfect, it does provide ways for the more moral portion of humanity to control the less moral few who are elevated to powerful positions.