The Republic Of The Social Soul Of Mankind

“The object is not the gratification of fellow-slaves, but the gratification of masters who are supremely good.”

This is a quote from an ancient text whose name need not be a concern of ours here and now.

The meaning of it however, does concern us here.

The meaning is that in the usual course of things, humans are more or less slaves to material existence, with its obvious and simple 'cause-and-effect' style of persuasion onto uncritical minds. Our fellow men and women are also very good at being insistent for the gratifications that come from having those demands fulfilled, that pertain to immediate material causes and their putative effects.

Roman 'Hall of the Philosophers'

This piece cannot speak to a very large percentage of ordinary people because such individual's consciousness is too strongly positioned already within its existing and pre-committed belief systems concerning material causes-and-effects.

“A particular sort of speech inevitably produces conviction in a particular sort of person, and fails to do so in another...” (A quote from the same ancient text).

The ultimate in personal gratification and pleasure comes therefore from a self-indulgence not of purely one-sided feelings in and of themselves alone, but in mutual indulgence of shared pleasures equivalently invested with value among people of equivalent conceptual and emotional standing.

The human social nature is not organised along the lines of a Democracy, nor is it even a Constitutional organisation - it is purely a Republic; there are only a very few elite members who act in harmony with each other, fundamentally because they are all cut from the same silk.

Everyone else flounders along, wondering what 'rule' to obey to make themselves happy within the circle of other individuals they find themselves, largely accidentally in, and with whom they assume happiness and satisfaction is in fact to be found.

Because these assumptions are not correct, humans have invented 'money' as a solvent between all of their conflicting purposes and mechanisms and practical material frictions and inertia. But money itself is simply the fraudulent theft of real satisfaction away from someone else, and from some future or past smooth process of 'Cosmic' or Universal Nature, in order that those who are themselves not in the Universal ruling elite, can have what they are not entitled nor properly used, to having.

And this is of course not an idea which will find root in the minds of idiots. In fact it's not an idea that you will encounter a lot, in the broader world of men and their ideas.

But the practicality of what I am saying is this - you know perfectly well, that in the world today, where any good idea can suddenly be spread like a wildfire around the globe very quickly, it is impossible for anyone who knows where money is or how to get it, to 'tell' too many people, even if they are 'sworn to secrecy(!)' about it. One will tell their best friend, another will try to do some poor unfortunate a favour and yet another will simply hold the secret like a hot potato.

And the next thing you know, in almost no time at all, the whole thing is altered by the fact of too many people knowing about it.

The media resorts to phrases like 'sharp data...' But they don't have anything. Not anything worth knowing.

Please follow in the car of your mind, or else come with me
in mine...

There is no data at all that means anything to someone who wants to make money, or to find quick and easy money, or to even leverage that which they have in order to create more value.

There is only me.

And I am the grey seal. I will teach, but you have to be able to follow.

'Fool!' Said God to the Rich Man

'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman.' The title of a one-point, though nonetheless important dystopian novel by the legendary Harlan Ellison. I say 'legendary' because I could never much get into his actual writing - although he has avid followers. And so I only know him from 'legend' and from the fact that pretty much every reference to his name all across the internet says that he is 'the legendary Harlan Ellison...' Fair enough.

Oh, and from the covers of his books, which belonged to someone in the house but not me, and were pretty amazing I always thought.

"Repent, Harlequin!"
Some of the early published books
had Mondrian-influenced cover art

Ellison tried to have a Hollywood film called 'In Time' injuncted because his suit claimed it stole from his original work - and I agree with him. Not sure what happened to the suit but the movie was released and has some decent visual aspects.

The problem with the basic premise as a skeleton for a story is that it is pathetic: in some proposed dystopian world, it is a crime to be late. As well it should be too.

(I just thought I'd add that because it kind of fitted here, as droll humour). Actually I'm not all that pedantic when it comes to being on time although I suppose we all like others to make our schedule! 

Anyway, I think it's in one of the Epistles attributed to 'James' - which appears to be dedicated to a discussion on wealth and trade and the selfish tendencies of the rich ('it is the rich man who drags you into court, it is the rich who oppress you') - where you will find these rather poetic words: 'So will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.'

In the Gospel of Luke 12:20 it even has God saying to a rich man 'Fool! this night your soul is demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'

God is calling the rich man a fool.

Interesting.

What's in your bag?
aka - why should someone know you?
And, who should know you?

But you see you have to go a bit beyond the seemingly obvious, and realize that these old texts were composed by extraordinarily learned and schooled minds - this is not all as simple as 'oh, this was written by poor people jealous of the wealthy.'

You see the significant point that is continuously made in contrast above the negating ones (points), is itself a very pragmatic and even one might say a matter of actual material 'relational' construction and value: 'store up in a purse that will not decay.'

So the concept of 'the greater' compared with 'the lesser' still applies, and there is of course, something about why - that is, the motivation behind wealth-seeking behaviours - that is discussed. The case is made that there is a difference between those whose behaviour seeks wealth or is in pursuit of wealth, and those whose attitude creates wealth. And the conclusion is made that the attitude is categorically more significant than the calculation of or enumerating of someone's temporary material possessions.

And this is of immense importance, in fact.

Next article, we do the 'John' practical workshops for the modern intellectual wealthy mindset. Not for everyone, of course.



  

Understanding How Money Flows

The one thing that is obvious from the internet - the internet being a very broad reflection of what is going on in the mass mind, and in the mass consciousness, usually in 'present time' - is that people are not just susceptible to simple-minded slogans and labels, but they have a natural tendency to gravitate to such things.

I have found it impossible to shift - every now and then when I encounter such an individual - someone who is fully convinced that 'the Rothschilds' and 'the Zionists' are behind every single 'bad' thing, and more or less indeed, behind EVERYTHING.

A side street in Paris - where the real French
restaurants are

You simply cannot offer them factual evidence about the liquidity required to be 'behind' certain things that turn up in the media, and the enormous constant cash flows needed to 'conspire' to develop the events in question.

380 million people paying tax in one way or another, is categorically different from a group of people who own 380 - let's say - corporations, even banks for argument's sake, around the world.

380 million people buying petroleum continuously is in fact much larger a source of cash flow even than taxation. 

From around 1984 to the year he died (2007) Hasan Ozbekhan visited Saudi Arabia every year and met initially with Kamal Adham in his official capacity and following him, his successors.

So what? I hear you say... Who were these people?

Oh well, the other person they met together with was Adnan Khashoggi.

Who were these people, eh...

Carter Page...

Well you have the internet - you can find out yourself. It's much better that you find out yourself and that way you won't feel that I have walked you into some conclusion that you want to resist by force of some internal mechanism to believe bullshit; which is what is apparently normal with most people. Although I doubt whether you are a 'most people;' most people don't come here.

My next door neighbour in over-the-fence conversation the other day, raised this question of 'what is life about/what does it all mean?' He is a first-year, mature age Psychology student at a major local University. I wouldn't really know what other people think the answer is or the answers are, because to me they are asleep and do not wish to be awakened at all.  

'All Horses Go Through The Same Mud'

There's a saying in horse racing that 'all horses go through the same mud.'

What this means to racing people is that you shouldn't worry about making excuses for your failures nor for your victories either, and keep looking at what you think 'the other fella' is doing or that he has some imagined 'easy route' down the race track to the winning post - because he basically doesn't. He has to go through the same conditions as you do. And this might also mean he is going to trip up if he himself isn't watching what he is doing carefully - or he might be slowed down. Other riders might cheat all they like but whether they give him a clear way through doesn't alter the fact that he still must go through, and he must run fast enough to beat any competitor who is really trying against him.

And that's where you come in. Once you realize that there are circumstances in which you can prevail even against someone who 'has been given some unfair breaks.'

How the hell did he win from there?
Chautauqua is the grey horse that is clearly last on the turn.
The horses in the front never slowed up, they ran on strongly -
it's just that the grey was stunningly faster than all of them!

I'm posting this to just add another word from the last article on the horse Chautauqua: its win was all the more meritorious because the track conditions were listed as a 'heavy 8' and that is a very wet, muddy, difficult track indeed. It ought to have slowed up all horses and yet Chautauqua came from behind other horses still moving forward against the tiring ones - and it came up behind them very fast and went past them all like a shot out of a gun. Not only is this the sign of a horse that can handle the 'going' (the wet muddy surface), but the sign of a remarkable, and a quick animal; an animal that has application, determination or spirit, strength, of course, and real stamina.

The wonderful thing about most competitive sports is that you can find authentic ways to apply lessons from them into the real world - and especially in the world of business and finance.

Never make the mistake of thinking someone else has all the cards in the world of business or finance. It might be the you have all the cards given the particular conditions and circumstances.

And I have said this before here, and everyone should really take it 'on board:' the best time to bet against the bookies is when you observe they are confused. This usually means they are confused!

Ten of these classics are being made new, this year
by  Leyland Land Rover. New. With modern technology.

Look at what's going on today - the popular media is floundering about not having come to terms with the fact they 'got it wrong' with backing Hillary Clinton's plan to get to the Presidency. They are floundering around in a state of apparent confusion about their loyalties - on the surface, they are doing everything they possibly can, to throw their lot in with foreign interests and dangerous ideologies, and to back law-breakers as far as anyone can tell!

They want to claim they are part of some 'ruling elite' but they are not part of anything 'ruling' anywhere right now.

Now is the time for a clever educated risk-taker to 'place their bets' so to speak.

And we will talk more about this soon.

Those Riverboats

I mean how can I fail to comment on this: the race horse Chautauqua, won its third T.J. Smith Stakes in a row. And has as a consequence taken its earnings to higher than that of the greatest horse we have seen in modern times - Black Caviar. 

The T. J. Smith is named after one of the greatest, maybe three or four in fact legendary Australasian trainers of all time, Tommy Smith. The race itself has a total purse of $2.6 million with $1.5 million going to the winner, who now has amassed $8.36 million in career earnings overall.

Chautauqua after it won the Chairman's Sprint in Hong Kong

How can I fail to comment now when I told you about this horse, perhaps, what more than two years ago? Probably I'm exaggerating but It's a while ago anyway. 

So how can you tell a truly great horse right at that early stage... I will get onto that shortly, but let's face it, nothing's ever really easy - even for millionaires like the horse's owners who do nothing but pay the feed and vet bills and cut a bit off the top for the trainer and the jockey and the stable-hands and track-workers when the cheques clear.

Yesterday, this horse played an April Fool's Day joke on everyone and must have sent the owners into paroxysms as it went around the track perfectly last behind a big ruck of good horses. Two hundred meters out I gave the horse no chance of running a place, a hundred out some chance of maybe running fourth, and by fifty out I realized the thing had already won it on momentum and it was still three lengths behind the leaders.

It isn't an overly big horse, and it
has a large head from this profile and it dances, rather
than walks or runs

It was easily one of the most dramatic wins I have ever seen and one of the fastest finishing runs.

If you ever get to count your money on the plane (or riverboat) out, this is the way to do it. 

There is no thrill in life that comes even close to having your own race horse win big money. The feeling is inexplicable and one can only understand what others in that situation might feel if you've been there yourself and I have.

Great race horses are 'visible' early on as yearlings. They have a style of behaving when you place them together with other horses of their own age. And they are what's called 'good walkers.' Well, they don't walk and they don't run - they dance.

Great race horses have a dancing style of movement and it's very obvious to the schooled eye. And there's always 'something' about their face, and their eyes...

But from this angle, you can see it's head cuts the wind and it has a
naturally aggressive but confident look about it