The Kingdom Think Tank
As you know I'm very interested in value. What is the measure of a life, of an occupation, of a profession, of an achievement?... Anything we say has value is merely the projection of somebody. Could be a porcelain tea kettle made by a human, could be a blooming azalea made by God.
How does a thing -- a person -- have value, and what happens among us in and around all of that value assigning?
The latest System bastardizing of the value assigning activity today comes in a few items of note bopping about in our world.
Negative interest rates are being offered or are even finding their way into the financial system, which is really designed to discourage people from saving.
Since people can't save, retirement of large denominations and restrictions on what can be purchased with cash are happening, which are arranged to discourage people from hoarding.
Then there's this gem, being bantered about at the highest levels of academic bantering-about: universal basic income. This idea holds that every single individual in the nation should be handed a sum of money, say $10,000, each year. "Here ya go. Do with it what you want." We simply don't want anyone to suffer from lack in any way, now.
This, of course, would be implemented to make sure people with no value feel like they have value.
What in blazes is all this?
Lots of intellectually spasmodic blithering could be had with it all, but what's happening at its core is a vivid demonstration that the World System doesn't know about Value. All it is doing is laboring viciously to keep people gripped by the System. Promising really cool things to people suffering from economic illiteracy and Scriptural catatonia is a good way to do it.
And yeah, it seems more and more people are suffering from those things.
In my Los Angeles Times this Sunday there was a huge front page feature story about a guy named Nicolas Berggruen, some gazillionaire divorcing himself from his beloved wealth generating interests and devoting the rest of his life to building a think tank on prime western Los Angeles property, not too far from the Getty Museum. Yowza.
The story is mostly about his life as a rich guy, benefactor, cool LA dude, along with neat stuff about the plans for the building and all the rich smart people involved with the project. Yeah, there is a modest bit about his approach to the whole thing -- the thing his think tank will be all about:
Um, there's some philosophy and culture and some policy recommendations and just a lot of boffo meetings with lots of rich powerful people.
But there's just not a whole lot more than this bland mishmash of golly gosh hifalutin good things that'll help make things really good.
I thought, hmm. What would it be like if there was a real think tank for the Kingdom? Oh yeah, churches should be that, but so many are so tied to the System with their 501c3's that they just make for nifty God clubs.
But what if smart followers of Christ got together and did stuff to really introduce the Kingdom to people?
Yes, it would involve a good number of people, including a lot of rich lawyers and business people who authentically know Christ -- and yes, genuinely understand what the World System is about and how to share Christ with others from the Kingdom and not just another impotent subdivision of Rome merely spitting up the authorized mythology except with a more novel twist than the last time.
Oh, and the approach? A bit more substantive than most think tanks. Check out my webzine for more, but here's a page with a brief but robust prospectus.
Make no mistake. There is only one reason I write anything in my blog, webzine, anywhere...
It is to introduce people to Christ. With a lot of others -- from the Kingdom, everyone doing Kingdom things.
Wow. There are just so many people introducing people to the devil.
It'd be nice to see that change a bit.
I share this also to let you know about my latest home page piece, this one on paying attention to the rentier dominated world, getting more and more rentier dominated.
Are you paying attention?
How does a thing -- a person -- have value, and what happens among us in and around all of that value assigning?
The latest System bastardizing of the value assigning activity today comes in a few items of note bopping about in our world.
Negative interest rates are being offered or are even finding their way into the financial system, which is really designed to discourage people from saving.
Since people can't save, retirement of large denominations and restrictions on what can be purchased with cash are happening, which are arranged to discourage people from hoarding.
Then there's this gem, being bantered about at the highest levels of academic bantering-about: universal basic income. This idea holds that every single individual in the nation should be handed a sum of money, say $10,000, each year. "Here ya go. Do with it what you want." We simply don't want anyone to suffer from lack in any way, now.
This, of course, would be implemented to make sure people with no value feel like they have value.
What in blazes is all this?
Lots of intellectually spasmodic blithering could be had with it all, but what's happening at its core is a vivid demonstration that the World System doesn't know about Value. All it is doing is laboring viciously to keep people gripped by the System. Promising really cool things to people suffering from economic illiteracy and Scriptural catatonia is a good way to do it.
And yeah, it seems more and more people are suffering from those things.
In my Los Angeles Times this Sunday there was a huge front page feature story about a guy named Nicolas Berggruen, some gazillionaire divorcing himself from his beloved wealth generating interests and devoting the rest of his life to building a think tank on prime western Los Angeles property, not too far from the Getty Museum. Yowza.
The story is mostly about his life as a rich guy, benefactor, cool LA dude, along with neat stuff about the plans for the building and all the rich smart people involved with the project. Yeah, there is a modest bit about his approach to the whole thing -- the thing his think tank will be all about:
Um, there's some philosophy and culture and some policy recommendations and just a lot of boffo meetings with lots of rich powerful people.
But there's just not a whole lot more than this bland mishmash of golly gosh hifalutin good things that'll help make things really good.
I thought, hmm. What would it be like if there was a real think tank for the Kingdom? Oh yeah, churches should be that, but so many are so tied to the System with their 501c3's that they just make for nifty God clubs.
But what if smart followers of Christ got together and did stuff to really introduce the Kingdom to people?
Yes, it would involve a good number of people, including a lot of rich lawyers and business people who authentically know Christ -- and yes, genuinely understand what the World System is about and how to share Christ with others from the Kingdom and not just another impotent subdivision of Rome merely spitting up the authorized mythology except with a more novel twist than the last time.
Oh, and the approach? A bit more substantive than most think tanks. Check out my webzine for more, but here's a page with a brief but robust prospectus.
Make no mistake. There is only one reason I write anything in my blog, webzine, anywhere...
It is to introduce people to Christ. With a lot of others -- from the Kingdom, everyone doing Kingdom things.
Wow. There are just so many people introducing people to the devil.
It'd be nice to see that change a bit.
I share this also to let you know about my latest home page piece, this one on paying attention to the rentier dominated world, getting more and more rentier dominated.
Are you paying attention?
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