Monthly Archives: December 2011

Get up there and tidy your room~!

  By Mystic | December 31, 2011 - 07:51 | , ,
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Apparently it does not always work…….but, generally, if you bring children up in a certain way, there will be a good chance that they will keep their room tidy (or at least, will tidy it when asked).
This is a bit like where we are with the economy. It has not been brought up right; and now it is a devil of a job to get it to do what is required of it.
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Expo Collapso 4 (the morning after)

  By Mystic | December 29, 2011 - 09:57 |
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After making this video and starting to upload it, I read one article in the FT and listened to a radio-show whilst eating lunch.
The FT article was Grim lessons from the 30 years war by Wolfgang Munchau and the story on the radio was `A tale of two cities`.

After lunch I was going to make a video about `opinions` and how they cause most human movement (but I had a little nap instead).

The point would have been that most of the main events of history are based on opinions.
People just don’t get worked up about facts.

I think most people live their lives on opinion.
It seems that it is the human thing to do.

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Expo Collapso 3

  By Mystic | December 28, 2011 - 06:08 | ,
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What we had here (I thought) was something like – “The exponential `something` of the money system will lead to collapse…”………..and here we are stuck on the word `exponential`, before we get to the meaty bit.

I am prepared to come down from what I would think a definition of `exponential` should be…that would be something like, `doubling every year`.

I will settle for – a substantial increase in the increase each year…………………….something like – 1, 1.2, 1.5, 2.0, 2.7, 3.7 etc. (the increase is increasing, and that sounds out of control, dangerous stuff).

But no, sod-off, I will not go for an increase of 8% a year being exponential.
It may well be, `technically`, but I think it is a waste of a word~!
1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 etc. (an 8% increase) is NOT a good use of the word exponential~!
(The description – `increasing by approximately 8%` does the job nicely)

So, how is an increase of 8% something in the money system going to lead to a collapso~?
Answer – It isn’t.

Is it important~?
Yes, of course it is~!

Should we discuss it~?
Yes, of course we should~!

If we were going to design a money system for a `steady state world`, would we use a system that has a built in 8% annual rise in its somethings~?
No, we probably wouldn’t~!

Now, should we get to the meaty bit, where an annual 8% increase is going to lead to a collapso~!?
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