Prospectus

Join me!

I am on an expedition of inquiry in the imagination to discover and explore insights and new learning about our uniquely human way of being in the world that can inform innovation for evolving prosperous adaptations to the changing circumstances of our changing times, in the 21st Century.

Our destination is the new art of money as sequencing the capital stack for authenticity and integrity in evolving prosperous adaptation to life’s constant changes, to be fit to purpose and right for the times, as times change from time to time and over time.

Why would you want to make an expedition to this destination?

Because so many of the challenges we are facing in our times are proving difficult to address, and so much of that difficulty is rooted in our persistent and pervasive inability to deal effectively with money, and to make it flow where it really needs to go.

This inability to flow money where it needs to go is rooted in an obsolete, incomplete and fundamentally flawed social narrative of social choosing that we inherited, without question, for the 20th Century.

It needs to be questioned.

Creating a space for going to the root

I am a lawyer by profession, and a philosopher by avocation.

I like the law because of the formality of its processes.

In the law, lawyers are given space to build their case, brick by brick, until all the pieces are in place, and the argument is complete.

Judge and jury both must listen, and learn, even if the meaning is not yet clear to them, and only after all that the lawyer argues is important is presented for consideration, in its entirety, can a verdict be reached and a judgement rendered.

It is a process of using text to build context before choices are made and a course of action is acted upon.

In the marketplace of ideas, there is no such formality of process. Rhetoric replaces logic. And emotion rules. If it is not entertaining, or directly and personally of interest to me, I will not listen, and will not learn.

This is a problem for the times in which we now live, because we are living in a time of change that is radical in the Latin sense of “going to the root” of what it means to be human in a world we make for ourselves in which to live, through out technologies, out of the world of Nature into which we each and all are born.

It is not easy to be radical in this way. It requires sifting through a lot of stuff that may or may not be relevant, but has to be attended to, until we do get down to the root, at which time we can then decide what is relevant and what is not.

The stuff that we must sift through in our inquiry is words, and the meanings that are expressed by, and the sometimes different meanings that are derived from, words. Because it is through words that we build – or fail to build – understanding and social cohesion, and a good world that is fit to our shared purposes and right for the times in which we now live.

Today, our words are failing us.

We need to go back to the text, and rebuild the context for talking about Money and Savings and Investment and Finance and Enterprise and Technology and the Economy and Society and our shared Future.

           “
 what kind of world 
             do we want 
      and how 
               can we make it happen?

Simon Mair, MEND Network

THIS is the world we want

THIS is how we can make it happen

allocating Fiduciary Money through Equity Paybacks from current cash flows through Enterprise, prioritized by contract for:

Suitability of the Technology to the circumstances prevailing at the time;
Duration of the social contract between Enterprise and popular choice over time; and
Dignity in how the business does business all the time, across all six vectors of cash flow through Enterprise, including:
- Fair Trade, with suppliers;
- Fair Engagement with communities, of place and of interest;
- Fair Reckoning with the consequences, on Nature, Society and the Future;
- Fair Working, in the workplace;
- Fair Dealing, in the marketplace;
- Fair Sharing, with savers whose savings are the “raw material” form which financiers fashion capital for business.