I participated in a conversation about rights of Nature and decolonizing American law with other lawyers from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.
Decolonizing the Law: Panel Conversation with CELDF
I participated in a conversation about rights of Nature and decolonizing American law with other lawyers from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.
One of the means by which to challenge the “authority” of the federal government is to point out their own illiteracy about the system they use to effectively recruit and pay soldiers to oppress and colonize Indian and non-Indian alike. Perhaps the soldiers will not themselves be disgusted by being thought to be illiterate fools…….but…how many so called ‘educated’ folk (including lawyers and judges and corporate heads and community and Tribal leaders) want to be called out on this basis?
And tribes can reject the “payments” within that silly system of money as the illiteracy they represent. And that illiteracy is easily proved within the context of western colonial ‘logic and math’!
If The People were fluent in abstract representation then they would know that there is no ‘National Treasury’ apart from themselves and their own abilities to initiate and keep records about their own activities; and the representation of all that is NOT stored up and guarded in some magical vault where the ‘Creator of The Abstract Unit of Representation’ works to create just the right amount of these units to keep ‘the economy’ going. So they would no more worry about the frat boys raiding ‘the treasury’ than they would be concerned that someone could hoard all the inches or that not enough had been created in the first place!!
It is our own illiteracy about abstract representation and measurement that we must fear when it gets to the point that we are afraid of frat boys stealing the discs off the abacus preventing us from being able to count!
https://bibocurrency.com/index.php/downloads-2/19-english-root/learn/300-you-have-been-served
What if most all that we wring our hands about (with regard to claims of power by the state or other entities) can be attributed to the seemingly appropriate responses that people give to the imperatives of money as presently conceived? What if that very conception is wrong?
I am writing to ask if you can take a moment to use your systems analysis capabilities and, hopefully, find that our conceptual base for money itself needs to be corrected if we are going to stop all that it produces…..
I am hoping that this conversation between Marc Gauvin and the Perplexity AI will give some clarity to the subject:
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/please-evaluate-the-following-GUmV49ufS8S.8TxEXTJfgQ
The sovereign ‘authority’ to spend and then tax is a trap by which The People are ensnared into militarism they do not want. An ancient strategy called out by David Graeber in his book “Debt: The First 5000 Years.” Simple plan really – government declares its supreme authority to issue currency and first spends it into existence on the military. Then the self proclaimed authoritarian government (same self declared nonsense as the Divine Right Of Kings but disguised under the façade of ‘free and fair elections’) declares that The People must pay a tax with the ‘coin of the realm’ that the government first spent into existence with the military. (Yes, that very military industrial complex – the MIC – Eisenhower warned against.) And, wham, The People must do business with the MIC. The military needs to be fed, clothed, housed, outfitted, etc.
The soldiers are the ones at the head of the pay line of the asinine imperialist power structure. Without the soldiers the imperialist has no one to kick ass for them. From there it becomes an easy control mechanism to get the populace to support the military even if they do not want war. The feudal lord simply paid the soldiers and military folk in the coin of the realm, and the populace would then have to ‘do business’ with the ‘military complex’ (or get their asses kicked by them) in order to obtain the necessary coinage to pay taxes. There is nothing substantially different in our present system or the system in any other country.
It is precisely the framework of the operating system of authoritarian control over the creation of the economic unit of acCount that precludes democracy, ‘free’ enterprise, and peace.
But things are worse than that, because illiterate illegitimate governments handed off the ‘control of money’ to people who think that they now have this magical power of creation and that they can attach fees and interest to the use of this power and then lay claim to the resources of whole countries that were pledged as collateral to The Magical Money Creator People. They/We have been doing this for so long that even they and us are afraid of system collapse and are trying to hold countries and governments acCountable for their feared “losses”!! This is just one huge illiterate house of cards.
So, the first question is “What IS money?” You answer that wrong and you get what we have. We are not going to fix this with several more centuries of illiteracy.
https://bibocurrency.com/index.php/downloads-2/19-english-root/learn/283-a-tale-of-authoritative-undecidability