Government as Facilitator… or Player

Posted on March 7, 2021 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the reason government must be severely limited, is because it has the ability to change the rules while the game is in play. Let’s start from first principles, that the role of government is to provide for the common defense, a system to adjudicate grievances and an ordered society. To do those things government is granted special abilities no other player is. The ability to tax (extort money), a monopoly on violence and it writes the laws. The most powerful of these is the ability to make laws. Or in other words, change the rules while the game is on. It is the only player with that ability. While those concessions are supposed to be used for the benefit of everyone, as in Aristotle’s’ “right” forms, they are most often used to enrich, empower and entrench.

The government is supposed to be like a dungeon master in an old board game of Dungeons and Dragons. A neutral player who facilitated the game. Government functions best when it takes this role. History shows that is, sadly, not the role it normally takes. Typically, government uses its dungeon master powers to rig the game for itself, and a few favored players. In that scenario, government and those players always win, and everyone else always loses. When that is the case, citizens, (the other players) lose interest in the game and withdraw. They recognize their stake in the game is gone, no matter how hard they fight, and the largest part of humanity turns off. They lose hope. Government that has taken its own side, will be blind to the suffering it causes, being too self absorbed to notice.

Those few times and places, where government took its legitimate role, that of disinterested facilitator, stand out in human history as times of prosperity, liberty and fraternity. Perhaps only within the citizenry, but even that is of historical significance. Confucius’ “Sage Emperors” created such times, as did Solon to Athens in ancient Greece, and Numa to Rome. In every instance, the governments created were facilitators, not players. Imagine a place, where most people are drowning and a few are kept above water, by holding down the flailing people below. Would such a system utilize its human capital effectively? Obviously not. Only where everyone has access to the air of liberty can utilize its human capital effectively. Only when government is a facilitator, not a player, can everyone breathe.

One way to tell if government is a player not a facilitator, is if it changes the rules to help favored players, creates a sense of hopelessness, needs to be protected from its citizens and is corrupt. Every government on the planet today meets that criteria. They are all players and none of them facilitators. From Imperial Communist China to the USA, every government is a player, with a stake in the game, which drives out the stakes of its citizens. Were there a government that elevated itself above the common lot of scum, dross and flotsam, then survived the slings and arrows aimed at it, for being a good example, would rapidly become prosperous, healthy and learned. That government doesn’t exist today, and at the rate we are going, maybe never will again. It is a goal worth striving for nonetheless.

That goal will always be impossible to reach due to human nature. Specifically, the human nature of those in power when hidden from oversight. As we have seen, they have thrown off the shackles our Founding Fathers forged for them, and have taken a seat at the table. The old limits no longer apply. Yet we are not powerless. We have a voice. Instead of despairing, speak up, demand government be utterly transparent, an end to the propaganda of national security requiring secret government, and that it return to it’s place, as facilitator, not player. Only then can we stop drowning so many in desperation, drugs and unemployment. If government became a facilitator, we could get back to using our human capital effectively, to create a prosperous human hearted civilization, for centuries to come.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Science As The Established State Religion

Posted on March 5, 2021 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, a lot of people want to be led, it saves them having to think for themselves. Historically, it was the societal religion, now it has evolved into “scientists.” In both examples, from witch doctor to physicist, the authority to make arbitrary decisions is granted, to save the people from having to weigh matters of great import themselves. Today, when someone assumes authority because, science, it is no different than another asserting authority based on Marduk. Our skeptical secular world has rejected that which is not temporal. With the arrogance to think scientists know all there is to know, or at least enough to assume so, so we turn to them to answer all our questions… most having nothing whatsoever to do with science. “Scientists” today have become like the Magi in ancient times.

Our belief in science has become religious. Because of the great leaps our species has made in the physical sciences we believe science is a god. Why not, it has given us godlike powers. The elite can eat breakfast in Paris, Lunch in Milan and dinner in Palm Beach, all while decrying man made global climate change on their Youtube channels. Our homes are warmed or cooled at the turn of a thermostat, we have potable running water to shower, flush toilets and cook with, as well as electrically derived light, entertainment and communication all in our homes and at our fingertips. You nor I invented any of these luxuries but we take them for granted. Heck, most of us have no idea how they even work. That ignorance makes it a small step to worship “science” as a god like deity.

The easy way is to allow others to do your thinking. People are like water, we seek the easiest path to what we want. If the current will just carry us along, why not go with the flow? This is the mindset of many. They prefer to burn calories in their brains, on examining the stats of their football team, who will win The Masked Singer and keeping up with the Jones’. To worry about existential threats like censorship, thought laws and unlimited government, enforced by cancel culture, is both too great a burden and too ugly a truth to look at. Most will ride the current down the river until they have to get off. Of course, it may be too late then, there may be a waterfall at the end of some rapids. Which is to say, that letting others do your thinking may appear easy, it is in fact much harder in the long term.

We are all granted intellect for a reason… to use it. Natural law says you are sentient, worthy of life and an individual. Our intellect is what elevates us above the animals. While they feel pain, have emotions, and many understand in their own way, right from wrong, a dog for instance, and can even choose wrong instead of right, they don’t have the ability to moralize about their actions. Human beings alone have that capability. We can contextualize our actions in a moral and strategic sense. Examine our actions, from the past, or of others, then extrapolate what those actions will lead to. For example, would you do a play action pass on a fourth down, with twenty yards to a first down, when you are in field goal range? Of course not, yet we allow the elite unlimited power, rather than think it through.

Babies don’t want to learn to walk, leave the cradle or learn language… but they must, else they become infantilized. Many people are like this when it comes to thinking for themselves. They find it easier to go with the flow, and bow to the “scientists,” or anyone in authority who claims to speak for the “scientists.” Turning our scientists into witch doctors and our politicians into crazy eyed zealots, very progressive. We waste our God given intellect on games when humanity itself hangs in the balance. Being easily distracted, from Cuomo’s killing thousands of people, to his sexual harassment. Pointing us from an ugly truth to a political expedient. Perhaps it is time for us to grow up, discard our modern witch doctors, the scientists and their oracles, politicians… open our eyes and think for ourselves?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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We Can Only Lose… When They Make The Rules

Posted on March 3, 2021 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, rules are most beneficial, to those who make them. That shouldn’t be a great insight, it should be common sense… but I think it is a profound understanding, because most people don’t see it. When the too big to fail banks make the rules, regulating the banking industry, is it shocking those rules benefit the too big to fail banks, while harming the interests of their customers, employees and shareholders? Which brings us to another point, that the bigger an entity becomes, the closer it gets to those who make the rules, until it itself makes them. Which creates a feedback loop. Like a Pareto distribution of rule making power, that fosters and then accelerates the creation of monopolies. Explaining why the distribution of wealth and privilege in our system is so skewed to the powerful.

If you can make up the rules to a game as you go along, I think most people would be able to win that game. No matter how many times it is played. Find yourself in a trap, just change the rules to make it “more fair,” perhaps someone is getting too many good rolls, just change the rules to eliminate rolling a die, or maybe you are near bankruptcy, merely change the rules to refinance yourself. The options for those who make the rules to always win the game are diverse and myriad. To claim the elite are too virtuous to do such a thing is to claim they are not human beings. Such an assertion is too Pollyannish to argue against… only to laugh at. Those who make the rules will always win the game. That is why in our republic, the rules were supposed to be limited, pass political muster and be transparent.

That those who make the rules always win, applies to every walk of life… especially business. For example, the banking industry was granted the ability to make its own rules by the Woodrow Wilson administration, when they granted the Federal Reserve the franchise. They made it sound like it was a governmental agency but that was a manipulation. It exists to insure the stability of the banking system. As a result, we have too big to fail, (TBTF) banks. Banks that are called too important to fail, because they have grown so enormous, powerful and have so much political favor, their failure would pose a “systemic risk” to the entire economy. So the government will do anything to keep them financially secure, but never break them up… no matter how corrupt. Proving the point in spades.

Big tech is another glaring example of entities that have grown in power, influence and value, mirroring the rise in their ability to make the rules. No regulation about big tech would ever happen without Google’s express consent. Even and especially when that rule making process is opaque to the people… but not to those who make the regulation. Let a moonshiner make the regulations on moonshining, and his competitors will constantly find themselves in trouble with the law, while that moonshiner who makes the rules, will always be in perfect compliance. That is just what has happened with Google, Facebook and Twitter. They make the rules, so they always win, as they win, they get more power to make the rules, so they win more. Just like a moonshiner who made the rules.

Those who make the rules have grown so powerful, our courts bend a knee, our legislatures delegate their constitutional authority and the President better be terrified of them. In short, our government and system serves them… not us. That they continue to win more and more is no surprise. What I do find surprising is, if you were playing cards with someone changing the rules as the game went along, you would get up and leave the table. Because they were cheating. Why don’t we stop playing their game then? They are obviously cheating. Stop using any Google product, withdraw from Facebook’s mind control experiments and cease allowing Twitter to censor your words and thoughts. Don’t use a TBTF bank… for anything. Get up and leave the table, we can only lose, when they make the rules.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Objective Versus Subjective Truth and Justice

Posted on February 28, 2021 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, where truth is subjective, those with guns wield it, and where truth is objective, anyone can wield it. The first is called tyranny while the second is called liberty. How can we tell if the truth is subjective or objective? It is subjective if there are truths we are not allowed to say aloud, it is objective if the truth is the truth, no matter how objectionable. By that measure, our society has abandoned objective truth, for subjective “truth.” Moreover, where truth is subjective, so also is justice subjective. Subjective justice is also called arbitrary rule. Arbitrary rule is a form of tyranny. How can we tell if we have justice or arbitrary rule? Is everyone held to the same standard, or an arbitrary one? If not, we have arbitrary rule. So what, how does that effect me? Here is why you should care.

Subjective truth is when what is considered truth changes depending on the observer. This is understandable when two people see a crime and describe it two ways. That is because crime is experienced subjectively. Even if the crime itself is objective. We all experience the world subjectively and so throughout human history mankind has seen truth as subjective. Greek Sophistry was a philosophy that embraced subjective truth and arbitrary justice. (Until Socrates discredited Sophistry). While subjectivity has its place, ideals must be objective. That is how subjective truth becomes problematic… when it is used to describe ideals. Subjective truths are those that change depending on point of view. Objective truths are something very different.

Objective truth is a truth that doesn’t vary. 1+1=2 is an objective truth. Your favorite color is subjective. Both have their place but when one is imposed on the other problems are created. If everyone’s favorite color must be vomit yellow, many would not be happy, and if math depends not on empirical evidence but people’s feelings, planes would fall from the sky. Objective truths are things like standards, science and justice. They are overarching truths that when viewed subjectively create chaos. If you jump off a cliff, no matter who you are, you will fall to the bottom. That is an objective fact. It was the recognition of objective truths that was the warp and woof of the Enlightenment. Abandoning objectivism for subjectivism, returns us to the days of the Rights of kings, appeal to authority and sophistry.

Justice is an ideal that has to be viewed objectively. While laws must be made with an eye to the human beings that will be burdened by them they must be enforced objectively. The most fundamental definition of justice being equal treatment. Even a dog understands objective justice. Give one of three dogs a treat, and not the other two, and they will mete out justice to each other. If a dog can understand justice as an objective truth, why don’t most people? Because people, “being like animals, each striving for his own self interests make justice impossible, because for a man to be truly just he would have to act against his own self interest.” said Carneades. That is why there is such a draw for people to view justice subjectively, nevertheless, it must be viewed objectively for civilization to function.

Once a society has accepted subjective truth and justice, that society goes to war against itself, everyone against everyone else. Each seeking to grab enough power to make their point of view paramount. Since point of view determines what is truth and what is just. Clausewitz said, War, being an act of political violence, gives the most violent an advantage… Such a society then, would follow its leaders and become ever more violent, unjust, untruthful and pathological by the day, until it all crashes down… spectacularly. The answer then is to embrace objectivism instead of subjectivism. Because no matter how much the subjectivists agree with your point of view now, someday they will not, and even if they always do, the entire edifice of society will soon collapse because of it.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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This is Misinformation

Posted on February 26, 2021 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the term “misinformation,” is itself a lie and a manipulation. We know this because the people who are pushing the term most zealously, have been caught lying over and over, so they must not mean liars when they use it. Therefore misinformation does not mean lies. What does it mean then? It would appear that the term is subjective, in that there is no objective definition of it. To one person it means lies, to another it may mean something very different… perhaps truths that they would rather others not know? Maybe a mix of lies and ugly truths? Maybe anything that undermines a certain political platform? Whatever you think the term misinformation means, someone else thinks it means, something else. Making it a great word to manipulate people.

The elite have never called the Russian collusion hoax misinformation, despite it’s being proven a lie… at great expense. So misinformation cannot be another word for a hoax. That epic lie, propaganda, was perpetrated on us by the very people that use the term, misinformation, most often and to best effect. They even seek to shut down alternative news sources because, misinformation. What are we to think of people who push a lie, to destroy a man for four years, and when caught, never use the word misinformation to condemn it? Hypocrites? They pushed a hoax, a swindle on us for years, yet expect us to accede to their usurping the role of defining, what is information, and what is misinformation? Letting a known liar define for us, what is the truth, very progressive.

The elite did call the Biden hard drive misinformation, despite knowing it was an ugly truth. Proving again that the word misinformation, cannot be synonymous with a lie. They knew the Biden hard drive was a legitimate story, but our oligarchs suppressed the news, by calling it misinformation. Then tying it to the Russian collusion hoax. In this case, the truth was re-defined as a lie, by a lie, calling the truth misinformation, to protect the Biden candidacy. If the truth can be misinformation, and a lie is not misinformation, then what the heck does the term mean? Does it mean the truth then? It cannot mean the truth, because the manipulators that use the term also apply it to lies, like the Q Anon swindle. Meaning the term has no connection to truth or falsehood… but to something else.

The uniting factor in the use of the word misinformation, in both instances, is the political effect. Clearly, a lie is not misinformation if it promotes the progressive cause, and the truth is misinformation, if it undermines that cause. So. the only logical conclusion we can draw, is that the word misinformation means, to disagree with the progressive viewpoint. With that in mind we can examine the utility of the word. A word, such as misinformation, that means to disagree with a political viewpoint, but is perceived as a lie, is very useful to manipulators, swindlers and psychopaths. It is a ready made red herring they can drag across the path of anyone on their trail. Recent history shows how well they have used that device and how effective it has and continues to be.

I, for one, do not like being manipulated… especially into self harm. That is just me though. It would appear that many don’t mind it a bit. Most of us know in our hearts that the term misinformation, is a manipulation, but accept it anyway. If they meant a lie, they would say lie, and if they meant truth they would say truth, that they don’t, but pretend they do, is sure proof the term is a manipulation. Swindlers love subjective words, they are empty vessels. Like the Tao Te Ching says, the utility of a vessel is in it’s emptiness… it’s ability to be filled up. In the case of subjective words, like misinformation, that emptiness is why they use it. So we can fill it up with our definition. The answer then is to see the term for what it really is, a manipulation, and treat it appropriately.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Subjective Nature of the Word Patriot

Posted on February 24, 2021 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, we are being told, those who are violently trying to overthrow our Constitutional system, are patriots, while those seeking to preserve it are called traitors. Of course, one man’s traitor is another man’s patriot, and visa versa. A patriot to what and a traitor to what? Someone openly trying to overthrow our constitutional system, for an unlimited administrative world state, would call a person who favors constitutional rule, a traitor. While someone who favors constitutional rule, would call the person trying to overthrow our constitutional system, a traitor. It depends on one’s perspective, making the word “Patriot,” subjective, not objective. We can agree however, that the actions someone calls insurrection, traitorous or patriotic, are indicative of whether they favor our constitution… or not.

The riots of 2020 by BLM and ANTIFA, were barely reported by the main stream media, and when they were, they were called “fiery but mostly peaceful.” The flaunting of the progressives boogey man, the Wuhan Flu, by BLM and Antifa protesters, was applauded by progressives. Progressive mayors, governors and professionals refused to stop those riots, or call them anything but “patriots” speaking truth to power. Those small business owners who were destroyed didn’t have power, and those who have power were spared, but it is the thought that counts, in politics… I guess. BLM and antifa openly call, in their founding documents and on their websites, for the overthrow of the US constitutional system. Traitors to our constitution but patriots to the revolution. Shows what side the media is on.

The “riot” on November 6, 2020 however received dramatically different treatment. Progressives have long held that if one standard is good, a double standard must be twice as good. Hypocrisy being their primary sacrament. Despite Biden himself bragging he occupied the House when he was young, today, occupying a government building is the height of insurrection. It wasn’t when Biden, AOC or any other progressive has done it, but it is if constitutionalists do it. Re-labeling those who favor constitutional rule, as “white supremacists,” is genius marketing but exposes intentions. As evidence piles up it was planned as a false flag by antifa and BLM, to stop Ted Cruz from contesting the election, elected leaders calling for all “white supremacists” heads on a pike, grows ever more absurd… and shrill.

Even as progressive brown shirts continue to riot their violence is white washed. They rioted, excuse me, they “protested” in DC a few weeks ago, to a cacophony of crickets from the media. Chanting threats to burn it down… made disturbingly menacing by their earlier iconoclasm, vandalism and violence. Iconoclasm, destroying landmarks to American greatness, is clearly the acts of patriots… to the new world order, but traitors to the US Constitution. That our corporations backed them, paid for them and provided signage, shows our corporate leaders are true patriots to the cause… of the destruction of America, making them traitors to our Constitutional Republic though. It all depends on your point of view. One man’s traitor is another mans patriot.

When someone dedicated to the overthrow of democracy, individualism, capitalism, Christianity and objectivism, calls someone a traitor, that person so labeled is a patriot to our Constitution and a traitor to our would be overlords… an unlimited administrative state. Words can be used to clarify an idea… or muddy it up. We must be careful of putting our own definition, based on our perspective, on a subjective word. When we think someone called a “patriot,” is a person who favors government limited by a constitutional system, when they really mean, someone who favors a one world administrative totalitarian despotic state, we are confused, misdirected and manipulated. So, before you project your meaning on the media’s words, consider the perspective of the source.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Getting Back To Normal

Posted on February 21, 2021 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, while the elite tell us we need to allow ourselves to be guinea pigs, so our lives can, “get back to normal…” I would offer, all we need for the world to “get back to normal,” is for the elite to lift the jack boot from our necks. Had they not shut down the economy, for two weeks, then all year, the Wuhan flu would not have effected the economy at all, had the news not led with and filled itself with all CCPandemic all the time, we would not have even noticed it, and had the elite not printed trillions of dollars to “stimulate” the economy they shut down, we would not have to dread the inflation that is coming. All due to the incompetence, or malevolence, of the elite. Now they tell us, we need to have an untested biological agent injected into us, for a chance to, “get back to normal.”

The empirical evidence is in… in places that did not shut down, the Kung Flu was no more deadly than where the shutdowns were draconian. Many states in the US never shut down at all and have experienced much less sickness and death than New York. (NY was ruled by psycho killer Cuomo, who, by executive order, forced covid-19 positive patients into nursing homes). Nevertheless, even in shut down states that didn’t wage biological warfare against the elderly, like Massachusetts, the death rates still exceed that of Florida. Moreover, nations that didn’t shut down in Europe fared better than those with draconian shutdowns. Sweden versus England for example. So, if shut downs don’t protect against the Wuhan flu, why are we still doing them? Unless it is to keep us from getting back to normal.

The elite are endeavoring mightily to insure everyone everywhere wears their political iconography, to insure there are no examples like the ones above, for their dehumanizing political symbols. Again however, it would appear from the empirical evidence that masks have a minor effect, if any, on the CCPandemic. They do host a variety of potentially deadly infections if not cleaned or replaced regularly though. Like the shut downs, their effectiveness is not why we wear them, we wear them to show we take the Wuhan flu seriously. In other words, we wear them to show our solidarity with the administrative state. Nothing says things are not normal more than everyone wearing a face mask. Normality, the thing the elite hold over our heads, will never be achieved as long as we wear them.

The US is buffered from inflation to some extent, due to its being the World Reserve Currency, but that buffering cannot stand a tsunami of printing and monetizing the debt. Stimulating an economy by printing money, ala the Wiemar republic, is never a good idea, especially when the elite are stimulating an economy they have shut down. Isn’t that like giving someone heroine and cocaine… at the same time? Didn’t John Belushi die of such a drug cocktail? What about our economy? The elite’s reaction to the Kung Flu has been a total catastrophe. Everything they have done has been wrong, yet we must listen to them, do just as we are told, and be good little children. Else we can never get back to normal. I would argue, their actions insure we can never get back to normal ever again, intentionally.

So…. how do we, “get back to normal?” We could start by stopping doing those things that are abnormal. Is it normal for everyone to inject an experimental DNA altering biological agent to fight a disease, that is little worse than the common flu, especially one that is much less deadly to children? Is it normal for everyone to wear a mask? Is it normal to shut down an economy you are stimulating? By ruining the currency? None of these things are normal. The elite would have us chasing that carrot of “normalcy,” dangling from a stick, tied to our hat, just out of our reach… forever. Until we remove the hat, then pluck it from the stick, normality will be a thing ever out of reach. Not because of a crisis, like a disease, but because of our psychopathic elite’s orders… and our mindless compliance.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Two Competing Visions of the Future

Posted on February 19, 2021 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, our vision for humanity is vastly different than that of the progressive elite. Judging by their actions, policies and rhetoric, the establishment wants to create a dystopia, as in the science fiction movies… to make way for a one world utopia, like in Star Trek. Mad Max to the Wrath of Khan. While our vision is one where government is absolutely transparent, very limited and politics are not the center of most people’s lives. The progressive ideal is the world as a corporation, while ours is the world as a cooperative of small businesses. Theirs of thought control, ours of thought expansion. The two views for the future could not be more diametrically opposed. Let’s behold the difference in more detail, in order to make an assessment, which is better in the long term.

The progressive religion is atheism. Establishing atheism as the State religion of the US, by clever political and legal machinations… was very progressive. Increasingly we see that, like the Chinese Communist Party, that has atheism as their State religion, other religions, especially the most disfavored, are oppressed. In the US, Christian Churches, Synagogues and Mosques have been selectively closed by the State… because, the Kung Flu. State religion is the hallmark of a totalitarian system. Freedom of both religion and of conscience on the other hand, are the goal of an enlightened civilization. We agree with the US founding fathers and believe establishing a state religion, even and especially anti religion as the State religion… is a bad idea.

Progressive utopianists believe in a one world government like Buddhists believe in Buddha. It is a major tenet of their atheistic temporal sophist philosophy. They see a world government as a place where there would be no war, because there is only one government, duh… and that is one of their primary driving factors. To make a logical argument before diving into rhetoric, the farther the seat of government is, from the people it governs, the less responsible, transparent and accountable it becomes. A world government then, would be the most unaccountable, irresponsible and opaque government possible. Perhaps a better way would be to keep the nation state model, and tweak it by making government absolutely transparent, accountable and responsible for its results.

The progressive ideal government is the Administrative state. A totalitarian inescapable world wide bureaucracy, of by and for, bureaucrats. To that glorious future they are willing, for us, to endure some suffering. Their vision is one where most people are dependent on the government, only educated enough to participate in an idiocracy and hopped up on drugs. They see humanity as a herd of cattle to be corralled, sent to a feedlot and slaughtered. A different possibility would be to unleash the volcano of innovation trapped within the human soul. Eliminate the smothering bureaucracy, cut taxes and the overall burden of government. Allow people to concentrate on their own business, instead of forcing us to stare at government, because our fates hang in the balance of it’s arbitrary whims.

Our vision is one where everything government does is immediately transmitted to the internet and cached for the future… for anyone to see. If people saw what their government actually did, I think we would be horrified. Our culture would embrace Enlightenment values tempered with Christian morality. Especially the Golden Rule. A future where there is so much opportunity, there is no time for crime, bigotry or fraud. Transparent government would force our leaders to be virtuous, and like Confucius said, people follow their leaders. Instead of the path we are on today… where we are surveilled from behind a black curtain, by an unaccountable totalitarian government, our courts practice arbitrary rule, stripping us of our Rights as our standard of living is eroded.

Which vision do you prefer?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Price Curve and Historic Turning Points

Posted on February 17, 2021 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, when Rome needed a Solon, it got Marius and Sulla, today we in the West are at that moment in time, so what do you think, will we get a Marius and Sulla… or a Solon? These two stories are commonly known, or would be, were children educated rather than indoctrinated. All the problems we face as a people, have been faced before, and solved. We could look at their solutions and perhaps, if they don’t perfectly fit our situation, we can at least use them as templates that have worked in the past. All right economic systems seek to minimize the effect of the Price Curve/ Pareto Distribution. Driving everything into the hands of a very few. Capitalism makes everyone a “farmer,” capable of feeding oneself with his own labor instead of land. Before Capitalism, farming was the only way…

Ancient Athens was still under the laws of Draco who said, death should be the punishment for all infractions, but since death is the ultimate punishment, it shall have to do for the big infractions as well. The system of governance under those principles, couldn’t control the Price curve, and so all the land ended up in the hands of a few rich landowners… the rest of the Athenian population impoverished, since land was the only source of income, slaves did all the labor. The Pareto distribution became so pronounced societal upheaval became certain. In a city state, where all the people are known, like ancient Athens, a man of exceptional virtue has notoriety, as was Solon. He was democratically elected to solve the problems and he did.

Solon redistributed the land back to their traditional owners, and made the farmers who’s land was returned work, as slaves, for a month a year for whatever time, to get their land back. Neither was happy, but they at least didn’t have a civil war, along with the churn that brings. Athens was saved. Solon then set himself to writing a more just set of laws that would lower the impact of the Price curve/ Pareto distribution. One of his acts was to institute the Ostracism. Which he then called upon himself and was ostracized as a threat to democratic rule. Solon had several characteristics of problem solvers. He did not consider himself above his own laws, he was moral, sought to actually solve the problem rather than profit from it and put the interests of the people ahead of his own.

Ancient Rome had come to a similar situation, the economic Pareto distribution had made all the wealth gravitate into the hands of a few. Since slaves did the labor, there was no means of sustenance for the soldiers once they returned from fighting the psychopathic elite’s wars. Their wives had to sell their family land to the patricians. War heroes returned to slums. Anger got out of control and Sulla rode the wave into the Senate as a people’s tribune. The bulldozer Sulla was met by the rock Marius, who’s ego was only matched by his arrogance, bolstered by the certainty that while the situation may be dire for the plebeians, they had no right to complain… they were plebeians for goodness sake! The two factions came to a head and the patricians slaughtered each other with gusto. Very progressive!

In both historical cases, the economic Pareto distribution, or price curve, became so exacerbated that societal cohesion broke down. In the case of Athens, someone came to the rescue and solved the problem in a way that would work for another century. In Rome, that moment, the Marius and Sulla moment, was the start of the true downfall of the Roman system. Like a landslide still has momentum after it has all broken free, Rome continued to expand and feast, but at that moment, Rome as an idea ceased to exist in the minds of the Roman people. Their societal myth was gone. We are at that point. The economic price curve has empowered some to think themselves gods, as did Caesar, Crassus and Pompei. Will we get a Solon, be a group of Solons… else get our Marius and Sulla?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Disincentive to Saving, Independence and Retiring

Posted on February 14, 2021 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the little guy is on the hook for everything, yet we are not even allowed to eat the bait. We work our entire lives to save a few dollars, and while we do, that money is stolen from us in a myriad of ways by a plethora of entities… then we are chastised if we complain, as greedy. By the biggest hogs on the planet. Many large investment firms, at this time, don’t allow customers to make their shares “unloanable.” If questioned, they blow smoke up our derrieres claiming it drives weak companies out of business. As if that is any benefit to the share holders of those companies, the customers or the employees. The only ones that benefit are the billionaire hedge funds. Parasites by every definition. I urge every reader to call their brokerage and verify if your stocks are loanable.

Hedge funds get to “borrow” your property, ie, your stocks in various firms, drive down the value by trash talking them, creating negative pressure simply by the volume of the short sale and the sales themselves drive down demand for them. All of which diminishes the value of your property. Imagine if you went to some billionaire hedge fund owner, took his Bentley and pounded it through a deep woods trail, utterly ruining the undercarriage, denting every fender and ripping off the rear bumper… then returned it where you found it? Do you suppose the police would be as cool with that, as the SEC is, with that same billionaire utterly ruining your retirement? That little inconvenience to the rich man would generate a violent legal backlash while ruining a little guy is legal and “just.”

Brokerages make money from screwing their customers, when they lend our stocks to hedge funds, front running our trades and selling our personal information. They make money on the front end, when you buy, they make money on the back end, when you sell, and they make money by fees, selling our trading info, charges… and loaning out your “Bentley” to rich people to hammer through the woods. Then we wonder why our stocks are always beat up while theirs hum like a swarm of bees. I have no problem with someone making an honest buck from me, if they provide a service, I do have a serious problem with theft, fraud and market manipulation, all of which those who are supposed to serve us… do to us. Nevertheless, screwing the customer, retiree and little guy… very progressive.

I recently discovered that we can make our stocks unloanable, in some circumstances. Some types of accounts, (cash accounts) are unloanable. There is also a way to get them to pay you for loaning out your shares. You get the brokerage to loan out the shares in your name and thus get the interest for it… instead of the brokerage. If you can pull that one off, you can “call back” your shares of heavily shorted stocks, driving up the price of your property. Good luck though. The whole thing is a game, where heads they win, tails we lose, making us tax donkeys, marks and investment fodder. Hedge funds bestow zero added value to our economy, brokerages are parasites and government regulators are their enablers. Since that is the case, we should engage in their shenanigans… until they are illegal.

They are stealing our hard earned money. While the boots on the ground investment banker is held to the highest standard, (and many of them are still so crooked they will have to be screwed into the ground when they die) the large brokerages, too big to fail banks and hedge funds, are held to no standard whatsoever. If caught in illegal activities, and they often are, their whipping boys the investors are fined, and the game goes on. No executive goes to jail for breaking the law, the guy who drove a bus for forty years going without meat on his sandwich most days to save that money… is fined instead. That is what passes as justice today. Now they are printing our savings into oblivion. It just goes to show, there is no filling up a hog, they are a black hole that warps even the Pareto distribution.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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