Give Yourself Permission to be Happy…
Recently I was invited to a dinner party by a close friend of mine. As it turns out, we, the guests and host, soon turned that dinner party into a week-end retreat.
Although all of us that were present lead very active lifestyles, and there are many demands for our time, we have learned to seize the moment at an opportune circumstance. My friend’s dinner party turned week-end retreat became one of those opportune circumstances.
We have known each other for quite a few years; therefore we have developed enough trust with each other to be quite candid. This trust enabled us to expose and present each others’ present anxieties and views as to the current macro-economic climate.
As the week-end progressed and after many conversations and discussions, something particular became evident to me; that is, all of us at the gathering had given ourselves permission to be happy.
Now, you may be asking, what does this have to do with the topic of the current macro-economic climate?
Well, for us, as it turns out, quite a lot.
Let me explain. For those of us present, we have spent a substantial part of our lives achieving wealth. We have all at some point discovered that wealth itself was not the end but only a means into something much more.
Now, at this gathering some very insightful perspective came to light, which I will share with you here.
“I want to be rich, in a rich country.” My friend, let’s call him Tanaka, said. He said this as we were discussing the policies of the major central bankers of the world. “As opposed to what, rich in a poor country?” My friend Gupta retorted. These views, as I will explain and you will understand, are fundamental perspectives and concepts that have enabled great wealth to be created.
It turns out, that all of us present at this gathering are what you may call Individualists, that is, ardent believers in Mankind’s individual sovereignty with its accompanying personal responsibility and defenders of Liberty and property rights.
What caused my friend Tanaka’s statement, was the discussion of the policies from central bankers that have enable the creation of massive amounts of fractional reserve bank credit, which in turn, have enable the creation of derivative instruments, hedge funds and irrational speculation that will cause a severe global depression.
As Mike Whitney puts it: “A healthy economy requires that money supply not exceed the growth of real GDP; otherwise inflation will ensue.”
Inflation is a mild side effect of the true purpose of the monetary creation process. When the control of the monetary creation process is placed in private hands, it becomes nothing more than a monumental transfer of wealth scheme in favor of those that control the money creation process. If unchecked, those private hands that have been given the privilege to create the Money Stock soon yield to the sense of greed that is engendered when placed in such a position of immense power.
The meaning of Tanaka’s statement was this: Those that create the Money Stock do not produce any wealth, yet they are the primary beneficiaries of society’s wealth and its attendant benefits.
By creating interest bearing and accruing Monetary Units, those in charge of the Monetary Stock and its creation process can manipulate human behavior and transfer society’s wealth to themselves.
They do not create any wealth; all they do is the proverbial “reaping where they have not sown.”
By stealing all the wealth of others through usurious interest, they create a nation of poor, where only a few are rich; therein creating an environment of violence, insecurity, tyranny and coerced servitude.
The genius Daniel Pouzzner describes them well in his The Architecture of Modern Political Power, he calls them Power brokers:
“Power brokers seek to prosper without creating the means of prosperity, often eroding it for others in order to gain relative advantage, producing a deficit in the process, which is injurious to others. Innovators seek to prosper by creating the means of prosperity for themselves, or protecting it, producing a surplus in the process, which is enjoyed by others.”
By knowing that those individuals exist and learning how they operate, you can get rid of the anxiety that they create in you. This in turn will allow you to concentrate in your true calling and wealth creating that may ensue; which eventually will require you to give yourself permission to be happy and seize the moment.
Life is good!
Cheers,
-Sapiens
Although all of us that were present lead very active lifestyles, and there are many demands for our time, we have learned to seize the moment at an opportune circumstance. My friend’s dinner party turned week-end retreat became one of those opportune circumstances.
We have known each other for quite a few years; therefore we have developed enough trust with each other to be quite candid. This trust enabled us to expose and present each others’ present anxieties and views as to the current macro-economic climate.
As the week-end progressed and after many conversations and discussions, something particular became evident to me; that is, all of us at the gathering had given ourselves permission to be happy.
Now, you may be asking, what does this have to do with the topic of the current macro-economic climate?
Well, for us, as it turns out, quite a lot.
Let me explain. For those of us present, we have spent a substantial part of our lives achieving wealth. We have all at some point discovered that wealth itself was not the end but only a means into something much more.
Now, at this gathering some very insightful perspective came to light, which I will share with you here.
“I want to be rich, in a rich country.” My friend, let’s call him Tanaka, said. He said this as we were discussing the policies of the major central bankers of the world. “As opposed to what, rich in a poor country?” My friend Gupta retorted. These views, as I will explain and you will understand, are fundamental perspectives and concepts that have enabled great wealth to be created.
It turns out, that all of us present at this gathering are what you may call Individualists, that is, ardent believers in Mankind’s individual sovereignty with its accompanying personal responsibility and defenders of Liberty and property rights.
What caused my friend Tanaka’s statement, was the discussion of the policies from central bankers that have enable the creation of massive amounts of fractional reserve bank credit, which in turn, have enable the creation of derivative instruments, hedge funds and irrational speculation that will cause a severe global depression.
As Mike Whitney puts it: “A healthy economy requires that money supply not exceed the growth of real GDP; otherwise inflation will ensue.”
Inflation is a mild side effect of the true purpose of the monetary creation process. When the control of the monetary creation process is placed in private hands, it becomes nothing more than a monumental transfer of wealth scheme in favor of those that control the money creation process. If unchecked, those private hands that have been given the privilege to create the Money Stock soon yield to the sense of greed that is engendered when placed in such a position of immense power.
The meaning of Tanaka’s statement was this: Those that create the Money Stock do not produce any wealth, yet they are the primary beneficiaries of society’s wealth and its attendant benefits.
By creating interest bearing and accruing Monetary Units, those in charge of the Monetary Stock and its creation process can manipulate human behavior and transfer society’s wealth to themselves.
They do not create any wealth; all they do is the proverbial “reaping where they have not sown.”
By stealing all the wealth of others through usurious interest, they create a nation of poor, where only a few are rich; therein creating an environment of violence, insecurity, tyranny and coerced servitude.
The genius Daniel Pouzzner describes them well in his The Architecture of Modern Political Power, he calls them Power brokers:
“Power brokers seek to prosper without creating the means of prosperity, often eroding it for others in order to gain relative advantage, producing a deficit in the process, which is injurious to others. Innovators seek to prosper by creating the means of prosperity for themselves, or protecting it, producing a surplus in the process, which is enjoyed by others.”
By knowing that those individuals exist and learning how they operate, you can get rid of the anxiety that they create in you. This in turn will allow you to concentrate in your true calling and wealth creating that may ensue; which eventually will require you to give yourself permission to be happy and seize the moment.
Life is good!
Cheers,
-Sapiens
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