Letter to Paul Kugman

Dear Paul:

Thank you for your column in today's New York Times, "Ending Greece's Nightmare".  Your logical and detailed explanation, a repeat of the drum you have been beating for several years, once again allows you to say "I told you so."

But Paul, we already knew all of this stuff. We know it in out guts. It's not so much the nuts and bolts of good economics, it's the nuts and bolts of common sense. Money is blood. If you restrict the flow of blood to the body, something very bad is going to happen. Any high school freshman who has had Physiology 1, understands that, and it's not a big intellectual jump to see the "body politic" as a body.

However, as you undoubtedly realize, it is also a fact of reality that basic truths, even simple ones like this one, somehow are not registered by those whose heads are buried in the sand or, more honestly, in their personal comfort zones, and can't be bothered until they have a cardiac wake-up call, thus, the need for constant reiteration. So thank you for that.

And thank you very much for this, "So now that Mr. Tsipras has won, and won big, European officials would be well advised to skip the lectures calling on him to act responsibly and to go along with their program. The fact is they have no credibility; the program they imposed on Greece never made sense. It had no chance of working." This comment will bear repeating many times over, and in many languages.

My big question to you Paul is this. Do you think that the individuals in this Troika and in the almost countless other troika type collections around the planet do not realize exactly what they are proposing, are not furthering  their own agenda with complete awareness of the designed outcomes?

I can't think that you are that naive, and so I wonder what it is that prevents a forth right exposure of what is going on? The time to end academic protocols of "good Manners" and such which are used as a cover for blatant hypocrisy and sophistic manipulations is long past due.

We need a breath of fresh air and courage that "speaks truth to power." These "Troikas" are, at a minimum, not remotely interested in equality, or the Common Good!

Give us a break, Paul.

lots of love, brother,

-tom

    

Dear Mr. President:

Thank you for that encouraging talk you made on Tuesday night. That  you dealt mostly with Principles that matter like equality and the basic dignity and value of every individual woman, man and child was what made the presentation so effective. It was the heart speaking.

I do think that the vast majority of the 65,915,796  people who voted for you in 2012 were moved by the heart, rather than by the intellectual presentation of mostly boring data about what was "accomplished." I have watched individuals who are concerned and caring people go all glassy eyed when the "pols" start listing how many of this and that was done. It is when you speak about what you feel and what you believe and what you lived for that people are moved to action. When you talk about the deeply held principles of caring and sharing, and our ability to understand that all children are our children, you touch the hearts of the people. As was indicated by a Sage, "The measure of understanding is the degree of love. One can memorize lines word by word, yet one remains dead if the knowledge has not been warmed by love."

I understands the restrictions of present politics, the power of the forces arrayed against us and the crucial imperative of restoring the balance to our national and international life. Yet, "You may be sure that one would not leap across an abyss without absolute necessity. The more unavoidable the necessity, the nearer is the step of victory. Let the most dire necessity arise!"

The "tools" which the retrogressive forces use are those of fear, hate, greed.  Ours are different. "Just as a lever sets the wheels in motion, so does love inspire powerful responses. Compared with the radiance of love, hatred is only a hideous blot. For love is the true reality and treasure. I do not speak about love abstractly but as a physiologist. I consider that as necessity is the impetus, so love is the enlightener."

You have enormous support from the people, Mr. President. We will be victorious.

lots of love

-tom

Letter to Paul Krugman

Dear Paul.

The following statement was made by a reader, Baron95 Westport, CT, in response to your comments in yesterday's NYT article, “Twin Peaks Planet”.

“There is no possible economical justification to pay an unskilled worker at, say, an UAW plant $75/hr (including benefits) as was the case in 2007, when hundreds of millions of workers are willing and capable to do the same work for less than 1/10th that. None.”

This remark encapsulates the consciousness with which we are dealing. This individual is an ignoramus. He is what we would call intelligent, no doubt; however, he is so enmeshed in the delusory notions of competition, of the separation of individuals according to their ability to take what they want to demonstrate their own sense of what they believe makes them be worthy, or valuable, or someone, that he is simply incapable of seeing reality. He dearly believes, with all of his breath, the remarks he made above.

He is not to blame for his insanity, or delusions. He is living according to the very foundations of our the planet’s historical economic systems. These foundations are, as I think you know, based in the illusory concept of reality that posits a one dimensional dense physical plane reality where the fit, i.e. the ones with the most power, however power is manifested, survive and rightfully dominate and rule the planet for their personal benefit. This is God’s Rule. God meant it to be this way. Just ask anyone of them.

Science does not matter a wit with these folks. “If it is not broke, do not fix it”, and it is obviously working very well for them. Even while it destroys the planet.

I appreciate that  you are a professor, that you have any number of credentials and degrees, are a Nobel prize winner, highly respected in spite of not being heard by the ignoramuses. But, Paul, you spend your energy dealing with the effects of insanity rather than the causes of it.

The foundations, the idiotic assumptions regarding the way the world works that support these insane individuals, for the good of all of us, need to be confronted on the plane of common sense, of logic, of science. These problems can’t be fixed by some new “liberal” economic program. We desperately need NEW ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS based on scientific evidence of cause and effect.

We spend our time and energy talking about the effects of effects. The root cause is the conception of reality. This needs to be straightened out.

You have a voice. Please use it to bring some Light into the conversation.

Sincerest regards

A brother.

-tom