Wednesday 12 May 2021

THE ROAD TO THE "MONO ECONOMY" : BE INDEPENDANT !

 Because in economical paradigm based on production, a disabled is not eligible to work, because less productive. Unemployment among disabled is massive. I lost my leg in France in 2001, before the end of my Ph.D and during a period where brainy disabled were not a precious assets. So, I have been downgraded to basic low level people without education because disabled. It destroyed my life momentum. But production needed only obedient workers ! And thinking by yourself in 2001 in France when you have only one leg, it was not a good bet ! 

 

But is this paradigm really valuable ? 

In 1848, famous writer Victor Hugo said this sentence : "The great mistake of our time has been to lean, I even say to bend the minds of men towards the search for material well-being. It is necessary to raise the spirit of man, to turn it towards the conscience, towards the beautiful, the just and the true, the disinterested and the great. It is there and only there that you will find the peace of man with himself and therefore with society.”


Why super wealthy exist ? Because these people have an impact on millions or billions people ….. How ? By the economy of production . To impact the life of the entire planete, production is the key and production hires a lot of people. 

 

So, The West created the credit and the financial deregulations for massive productions and consumers made credits to buy them …… Henry ford paid very well his own workers to support them buy a …Ford car. That s how the industry works. 

 

The Western countries used the strengths of their currencies to create a massive economic growth the last 50 years but , it was only a monetary illusion ! The Growth has been huge after the WWII, but only because everything has been destroyed ! In the early 70s, it stopped ! so, the changes of financial regulations have been made to create a lot of abundancy. 

 

In the last decades, we saw a transfer of tangible ressources from the developing countries to the western countries in exchange of …Cash. Why ? Only because after WWII, the USD has been the main monetary reference in the World, and for each national central bank as reserve.. … Euro, British pounds are also major reserve currencies

The West is developed mainly because of this monetary power , and slowly but clearly the biggest countries in the world , Russia, China and India do their best for emancipation. The next years will see a big change in the monetary system.

 

Etymologically, Economy means « ressource management » , not production … and during the pandemic , we have seen that when all production has to stop, poverty skyrocketed ! But it could not happen in an economy based on the value we can add. I wanna say « stop create needs ! But Value » 

 

The financial industry is often under social critics. But, the financial industry work with the greed of most western families who want to protect their savings and make them grow and who want different financial benefits from the State. 

 

In fact, with the technological improvement , the ability of the economy to create valuable incomes decreases , because humans must add more value than the machines do ! And if abundancy could be everywhere in the world, there is also a massive economy of speculation that change the flows of the financial liquidity. We saw it with the differences for the supply of vaccins between the richest countries and the poorest countries. 

 

So, we think the human intelligence and the Earth can save, feed and protect, billions humans, but not all could have a real place in the economy in the next decades and it will create …. Some Frustrations ! 

 

Like the last 2 decades has been frustrating for me to be out the social life because of my amputation, but with Covid …. Billions humans are now « disabled » , useless, worthless, like the French society made for me ! 

 

Billions people are isolated with the only mandatory social  purpose in life to get money …. This is probably why we are still in an economy of production. With all the knowledge available nowadays, we should be worldwide in an economy of creation.


I lost my leg working for my Ph.D, but my family considered the huge need to adopt a « job for disabled » in 2001, … so far from my level, that nobody hired me.. and it broken my momentum in life..  I spent the last two decades struggling but educated myself to add value ! I made many different experiences as a football coach, a numismat, a gem grader and a film co producer …..


But adding value, when you are one legged, it 's not easy for the credibility ...... , so I adopted this vision : I never tell people, what they must do, I learned to TEACH them what they must do 


I think I made the right decision because the system cherished by my biological family is collapsing and will create so many social dramas ! 


Our actions should always have a meaning !





GONE WITH THE LEG / MY JOURNEY IN THE "UNCIVILIZED" MODERN SOCIETY

 My name is Michael J.P. LAURENT , French citizen,  45 years old and I am above the knee amputee since 2001. Becoming disabled has been really hard, but the hardest thing has been to stay without real support to recover from the cancer who made me disabled. The last 20 years , I have spent most of my time walking without artificial leg with crutches. My stump is short and I really needed a smart medical and family  support and  also a perfect training to learn well to walk again. In this covid period, I have found in the world the same kind of loneliness that led me in this situation. 

Why most of the European countries sucks with the crisis management ? Covid seems to become the new standard of the civilisation. 

But when the civilisation begins ? For famous anthropologist Margaret Mead, it begins with a healed broken femur. No animal lives enough longer to recover from the same injury ….. so, a civilization, it s helping others. But discovering this analogy has been heart breaking for me, because my leg has been cut, and ….. I never deserved protection and  ad hoc support. 

But it’s not exactly the truth ……. The solidarity between human beings has not the same source in the West. For decades, in most countries, the State became responsible from managing social support. When I lost my leg at 25 years old, my biological family gave up me , considering I was now under the tutelage of the State, as a disabled. I fought so hard for years to get out this social identity. But currently, many disabled people think assume disability is begging for Rights ! I have not experienced a civilized world, so, I have never begged from rights from this world

And in fact, disabled are not alone under the tutelage of the State …… Public spendings create the majority of the national GDP in most western countries. There are no more leaders in these countries, only …; administrators and the covid pandemic showed the need of real leaders to make smart decisions and show the way, in the good timing. 

Some people complain about the vaccine passport, and the powerful rules by the state , but …… this very individualist western society HAS CREATED THIS dependancy. We ask from the State , the media, the social network, the love and the recognition we don t received anymore from our lineage and our community. Why did we let the virus spread too much time in the West ? , instead to crush the curve. Only a bad attempt to protect … the individual freedom.

So, in the West, there is a major split between the vast majority of people who wait everything from the State and the owners who considers money is the guarantee for their safety. The human rights become the rights of the individual and the individual is very often a consumer.. It means the human rights are now mainly a right for consumption. The best proof is that social claims are most often related with …. Money. I want to defend the right to be happy in life, but not the right for consumption. And be happy is only related with our connections with others. This research program in Harvard showed it : https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/

 

The spread of plot theories in the West, especially during this Covid period,  show how we are emotionally insecure and socially vulnerable. The cancel culture is another proof of this uncivilized world moved only by fears. And we try to use the rationality to justify it … Even, if we live better and with more knowledge available than any others generation in the human history, The current  world is dominated by fears and loneliness, because we lost connections with ourselves and in the same way, with others.


When we are self confident, we create easily relationships with others, and when we don t feel vulnerable , we accept others … The only way I moved my only leg the last 20 years , alone, has been to follow the quote  « know yourself » that Socrates said and cherish people with whom I share values. We live in a world, where informations and knowledge have never been so easily available, so we could change the world so easily ….., and create peace , happiness and sustainability for Billons people. The ancient Jewish laws are .. laws and show God had a focus on the quality of the human relationships. Like in my own life experience, the community is less and less interested in the solidarity. So, the only way remaining to reach happiness is , without a doubt, changing your life style. 


We are not self confident because we need money. Money is the standard of our existence……. For super Wealthy, money means freedom and projects, for billons people, money means survival. But Knowledge and will should mean freedom and projects and community ‘ solidarity should mean survival …. This world is really a mess, and Margaret mead is right, it s not Civilized. 

The economy of attention is the most powerful current manifestation of individualism ... , using social network. People create contents to get followers and "sell them", by making money with their attractivity. It s a rare event in economy where the product created , the content, can be worthless.. There is a quote which say "When it s free , you are the product", that's the case ! My vision is that money is an energy and nowadays money is only bits on a computer ... and this energy manifest when creativity happens ... and creativity needs partnership, exchange and collaboration. 

 

But can we know how the current mess started ?

 

I believe it started with the industrial revolution …. When peasants left rural areas to find a job in the cities, in the factories or in the public services. At the beginning of history, we had 3 kind of people : peasants (production), warriors (leadership) and priests (education). And it was only possible when peasants has been able to produce enough to feed the others. When peasants goes in the cities, they begin to live in dependency … in a new triangle, salarymen - bourgeois - banker. The greed make some salarymen becoming bourgeois and the Elit among the bourgeois control the money supply and the money flow, working for the State, but so much distress and hard competition among salarymen at the bottom. Bourgeois use money to change the first triangle , so how to restore it … 

 

1) We consider each person who product something have to find a person for advices and another for education to enhance his skills

 

2) A person who can lead must find a person to help and a person to enhance his skills

 

3) A person who can educate people has to meet a leader to know the educational needs in the society and a person who need his knowledge 

So a civilisation , it s also sharing value and codes ! and from my view, the most beautiful thing to share is Happiness. Wealth is a part of happiness, we must feel in safety and with the minimum confort. Why we can t ? because the worldwide greed is focused on profit , not on wealth. Profit is based on speculation and monetary manipulation, wealth is based on the ability to get an impact on others. 


But most people are no more responsible of their own actions, they react only ………Destroyed by the disease and the amputation , I as not allowed to be supported to react by myself ! I should accept the event only. Bad lucky, Will from God or anything else, The human being want to control the world with his rationality, but we make the connections in the world with our emotions.


In the antiquity , the disabled people could be socially included, if they were socially useful ….. But « socially usefull » has no more sense currently.

 

Unable to find care for my body in this World, I found toughness and some peace strengthen my mind, with Vajrayana buddhism and Tibetan medicine ….. I am a proud Root Tantra Instructor. 

Monday 10 May 2021

THE HEALED FEMUR

 

“A student once asked anthropologist Margaret Mead, “What is the earliest sign of civilization?” The student expected her to say a clay pot, a grinding stone, or maybe a weapon.

Margaret Mead thought for a moment, then she said, “A healed femur.”

A femur is the longest bone in the body, linking hip to knee. In societies without the benefits of modern medicine, it takes about six weeks of rest for a fractured femur to heal. A healed femur shows that someone cared for the injured person, did their hunting and gathering, stayed with them, and offered physical protection and human companionship until the injury could mend.

Mead explained that where the law of the jungle—the survival of the fittest—rules, no healed femurs are found. The first sign of civilization is compassion, seen in a healed femur.”


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