For Markus Grahn (was Re: The Buck)
gerry armstrong
wrote:
>The Buck is the 9th dynamic according to Hubbard. What did he mean?
He was cynical, and he was wrong. There is no 9th Dynamic. $cientology
doesn't, except by its leeching off the wog world, get beyond the
first dynamic. It is utterly self-centered. It says it's
group-centered, but it's only the self's group. The self in
$cientology is always right. The self outside of $cientology is always
wrong. They're wrong because their selves are not in $cientology.
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> The
>Almighty Dollar is superior to the Supreme Being, the 8th dynamic, the
>God dynamic?
Did you not see my post to you re OUR solution? It is the unveiling of
the naked powerlessness of the 9th dynamic. We can stop the buck here.
>
>The 9th dynamic is also the aesthetics dynamic,
Oh that's just beautiful.
>while the 10th dynamic
>would be the ethics dynamic.
What a mortal Hubbard was. After all that, no better than a wog.
(c) Gerry Armstrong
>
>(Ref: the HCL lectures, 1952, the PDC lectures, 1952.)
>
>Markus
Markus Grahn
> $cientology doesn't, except by its leeching off the wog world, get beyond the
> first dynamic. It is utterly self-centered.
That's right. The thetan is the same as the ego. IMHO, becoming an OT is
the ultimate dream for egoists, the dream of immortality of self,
unlimited powers of self, ability to control the environment and so on.
Markus Grahn:
> >The Almighty Dollar is superior to the Supreme Being, the 8th dynamic, the
> >God dynamic?
Gerry Armstrong:
> Did you not see my post to you re OUR solution? It is the unveiling of
> the naked powerlessness of the 9th dynamic. We can stop the buck here.
No, I've missed it. How do we carry out this solution?
Markus
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gerry armstrong
wrote:
>gerry armstrong wrote:
Glad you asked. I posted this to ars July 17, but it may not have
propagated, whatever that means, because I saw no responses. Given the
subject and forum, I did for a while think someone would say
something.
I wasn't being an alarmist about Chinese neutron bombs; just
commenting on what my mind was on at that instant. Since then, heat,
fire, drought and the latest Caucasian war pop up. I do see OUR
solution as the sanest way of dealing with and getting ready to deal
with cataclysms.
[Quote]
Subject: OUR Solution to the $cientology Problem, Inter Alia
This is OUR planet, ha, ha.
I am posting this to alt.religion.scientology because the ideas
herein, although not originally connected to $cientology, can now
be seen as a workable solution to the $cientology problem, and
because many of the ars participants know me, and I don't know
just about anybody else.
China threatening Taiwan, and me and everyone, with neutron bombs
(as if being threatened with some other kind of bombs is a better
deal) and the likelihood that for any other reason I might be
offed prematurely (as if there's an unpremature time for even the
off season) I figured I'd post this today.
I suppose, ironically, $cientology has rendered my otherwise off
topic communicable idea about money on topic by their own black
PR use of the idea including in posts to ars. The attacks
generally quote a November 11, 1992 article from the Marin (CA)
Independent Journal and many include a copy of the IJ's
classically classic photo of me in Zappadmasana with a big globe
in my lotus lap. The $cientology cult additionally sent one of their
buddies in the IRS, with whom they're on a first name basis, a
letter, which I'll try to dig up and post, black PRing my
monetary ideas.
I've also written about this subject and related events in my
life, in several declarations which have been filed in
$cientology litigations, and produced most of the documents which
follow here in discovery to the organization. But today it's
because it's about time. I hope it helps all of us, and I hope
anyone else who also thinks there's a hope, gets that with me and
he or she, there's more than a hope.
Let me be perfectly clear, I'm not asking for your money, and I
don't want you to do anything, or anything any different from the
what you're doing. I'm not running for political office; although
when I do my campaign slogan will be, "Vote for me is all you got
to do." (R) Obviously for this to work in a reasonable amount of
time I need help. Ha, ha, ha.
In 1989 I wrote the following short essay and sent it to, I
think, the Oakland (CA) Tribune:
[Quote]
A CRASH COURSE IN SPECULATION
The crash of '87 demonstrated at least one fact: money has
no value. In a breath of history a trillion dollars disappeared,
and nothing changed.
Some say the crash is back, and some say it's a matter of
time. Some fear a crash will lead to panic, and some that panic
will lead to a crash. In truth there isn't even fear to be
feared.
But if the crash comes, or even if there's a panic, I have a
solution: give money its real value, nothing. Have nothing to do
with money. Accept no wages and pay no bills. Neither give nor
receive money, for it has no value.
I am not urging a cashless, credit-based economy, for
credit, based on money, is as worthless as cash. Nor am I
arguing that money is the root of all evil, because evil is, like
money, in reality, nothing. I am, however, suggesting that if
our society is looked at closely and with hope in mind and heart
it just might be observable that the elimination of money need
not have a downside; i.e., it does nothing. And the ideal time
for such a shift in perception to occur is when money can seem to
be all important, at the point of greatest financial crash and
panic.
I am not the first philosopher to note money's illusory
nature nor to propose its elimination. In earlier times,
however, money appeared to make more sense, society seemed to
need it, and those who had accumulated lots of it were somehow
successful in convincing those who had less that they were
poorer, less secure, and should do what those with the lots
wanted in order to get more. Now there is computerization,
robotization and instant communication. Now money can go and not
be missed.
It can still be collected, because collectors will, if they
wish, continue to collect. Car makers can make cars, builders
can build, truck drivers can drive, and farmers can farm, because
that's what they do. Police can still bring law and order and PG
& E can still provide power. Even the government can still
govern. Mark and Jose can bash baseballs and each other and
Rickey can still steal bases. (n1)
On the other hand thieves might not want to steal if there
isn't any money in it. The war on poverty can be declared won as
everyone's real wealth will become obvious. The war on drugs
would go the same way as there would be no one to sell to or buy
from. Who would backhaul deadly chemicals in food containers if
the illusion of economic advantage was removed? Traffic problems
disappear and environmental issues can be resolved. The homeless
can have the banks, brokerages and insurance companies; in fact
the whole financial district. Brokers, bankers, investors and
insurance agents can do whatever they want. No more deficit, no
more taxes, no more stock market, no more crashes.
I am not advocating anarchy, but believe it can easily be
avoided if, when the urge to panic arises, we do nothing;
including and especially doing nothing with money. Nor am I
promoting any political idea akin to communism. The communists
have not shown the courage or risibility needed to relinquish
their rubles. I am suggesting non-mutual exclusivity as a better
idea. Something does not mean something else.
No one need feel threatened by any idea herein. Ownership
and occupancy of property is not an unsolvable problem.
Equitable distribution of goods is not necessarily less easy than
the current inequitable system.
It is becoming clear that we are entering the Age of Wisdom,
because we can now understand what it is. No one has ever been
able to write on the Face of God that in money we trust, but
someone in his wisdom got it right the other way around.
[End Quote]
(n1) At this date Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco still bash their
share of long balls, but rarely if ever each other, having left
the A's and gone to separate teams and leagues. Rickey also moved
on, but what, is he back with the A's? where one would hope he
would end his Cooperstown career in crime.
In 1990 the Iraq-US War happened, and in 1991 I was back involved
with $cientology litigation as full time as full time could be,
and sometime during this period the thought came to me that it
might be possible to get enough people to see wisdom in the idea
that the economic system by general agreement could be changed
beneficially, to actually make beneficial change possible.
Something could be organized.
In 1992, while working for anti-cult attorney Ford Greene, I
wrote a few more short essays on the subject and put together a
package of my writings which I sent to several people, including
those on the recipients list which follows here.
[Quote]
October 23, 1992
Dear :
Greetings. I am the founder of the Organization of United
Renunciants (OUR), which the accompanying papers concern, and The
Gerald Armstrong Corporation,(n1) which owns some of the rights
to some of my works. I am by profession an artist, writer and
philosopher.
I believe that these papers contain a worthy idea and I ask
that you take them seriously.
I have had, even to me, startling success in getting
signatures to OUR Pledge, and I do expect that in the not too
distant future we will reach OUR critical number. I urge the
recipients of these materials, therefore, to do what is in their
heart and power to ensure the peaceful transition of the
country's values.
I do not believe that I have the system and nothing but the
system. I have thought about this subject a great deal more than
I have written about it, and my writing on the subject is neither
complete nor polished. I, therefore welcome your questions and
suggestions.
I am enclosing a list of references for your ease of
investigation.
God's blessing to all.
Gerald Armstrong
for the Organization of United Renunciants
P.O. Box 2711 (n2)
San Anselmo, CA 94979
(415)456-8450
[End Quote]
(n1) The Gerald Armstrong Corporation, or TGAC, pronounced
TeeGeeAck (R), is not operating in any form or location.
(n2) Address and numbers are no longer valid.
*****
Recipients of OUR October 23, 1992 letter and document package:
President George Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500
Bill Clinton
Clinton for President
P.O. Box 615
Little Rock, AR 77203
Ross Perot
6606 L.B.J. Freeway, No. 150
Dallas, TX 75240
Republican National Committee
310 1st Street SE
Washington, D.C. 20003
Rep. Barbara Boxer
3301 Kerner Blvd
San Rafael, CA 94901
Sen. John Seymour
Republican Headquarters
4340 Redwood Highway, Suite F219
San Rafael, CA 94903
Perot for President
P.O. Box 6869
San Rafael, CA 94903
Gov. Pete Wilson
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814
Norma Sosa
Legal Editor
New York Times
229 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
Richard Behar
Time Magazine
Time & Life Building
Rockefeller Center
New York, NY 10020-1393
Robert Welkos
Los Angeles Times
145 South Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
San Francisco Chronicle
901 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-2988
Marin Independent Journal
150 Alameda del Prado
Novato, CA 94949
Mary Ellen Butler
Oakland Tribune
P.O. Box 24424
Oakland, CA 94623
Pacific Sun
P.O. Box 5553
Mill Valley, CA 94942
Six people named on reference list
[Quote]
Gerald Armstrong references:
Michael Douglas
108 Oak Drive
San Rafael, CA 94901
Michael J. Flynn, Esquire
Flynn, Sheridan & Tabb
1 Boston Place, 26th Floor
Boston, MA 02108
Ford Greene, Esquire
711 Sir Francis Drake Blv
San Anselmo, CA 94960
Thomas McPherson, Esquire
Rankin, Mersereau & Shannon
1600 Benjamin Franklin Plaza
One S.W. Columbia Street
Portland, OR 97258
Michael L. Walton, Esquire
P.O. Box 751
San Anselmo, CA 94960
Joseph A. Yanny, Esquire
1925 Century Park East
Suite 1260
Los Angeles, CA 90067
[End Quote]
[Quote]
OUR DEADLINE
The resolution of all planetary economic problems, except
those generated by unnecessary resistance to the resolution, is
now with us. It arrived as a godsend.
Its implementation will be peaceful, kind, fair and safe. It
will not cost anything. It is so simple a child would understand
it.
Implementation is possible immediately except for two
obstacles: not enough people know of the plan; and significant
anticipated unnecessary resistance. This document will bring to
people word of the plan. The setting of OUR deadline, November
11, 1992 (n1), will confront all resistance.
The plan calls for a single act of courage on that date by
somewhere between one and eleven percent of the national
population. (n2) Because it will be done on that specific day by
courageous souls linked in purpose and faith, its effect will be
heroic and irreversible.
There is sufficient time before November 11 for somewhere
between one and eleven percent of the population to forge the
needed link. The Organization of United Renunciants is dedicated
to linking people for this plan, providing information and
understanding to all who ask, and protecting OUR participants.
I am the founder of the Organization and responsible for its
writings and decisions. (n3) I welcome communications and accept
help. I have no designs on the U.S. Presidency, which will never
be available to me because I was not born a citizen. I am,
however, eligible for the Prime Ministership, a job I have also
not sought, of Canada, an even bigger country. Regardless, I am
as American as Mahatma Gandhi.
My plan is based on the fact that money has no value. I
wrote about this in 1989 in an essay I called "A Crash Course In
Speculation." Between then (n4) and now various events and
realizations occurred which led to the plan and made it timely.
And everything has continued to convince me that money indeed has
no value.
George Bush's deadly deadline to Saddam Hussein gave me the
idea of issuing our deadline. The fact that it was OUR deadline
resulted in the Organization of United Renunciants. Organizing
renunciants made sense because I had, in August 1990, as a result
of understanding the Persian Gulf crisis, and accepting the idea
of renunciation as guidance, given away all my money, real
estate, paper holdings and personal effects and forgiven all
debts owed me.
November 11, 1992, since it is a week after national
elections, since things don't take as long as they took, and
since it is to this country's leaders that the deadline is
issued, is the perfect day. And the ultimatum to the leaders is
simply this: come up with a better plan or we will, starting
November 11, have nothing to do with money.
If by November 11 we do not have enough renunciants to
effectuate OUR ultimatum we will set a new deadline; April 15,
1993, for example. (n5) We will not call for OUR members to have
nothing to do with money on any deadline date unless we are
certain that we have the number necessary to achieve OUR goal:
the peaceful transformation of the system of management of the
affairs of government and people.
The Organization of United Renunciants asks for no money.
Neither does it refuse money. All money received will be used,
until it is no longer currency, to inform and maintain
communication between OUR members. Neither I, nor any other of
OUR members, will receive any monetary remuneration for OUR work.
(n6) If the resources necessary to do the work are not provided,
it merely will not be done. Since resources are as far as the
eye can see, there's really not much space for failure.
[End Quote]
(n1) At this time, OUR Latest Deadline ("OLD") is November 11,
1999.
(n2) I have been told by someone who swore that studies indicate
that information diffusion in a human set occurs when in the
neighborhood of fifteen percent of the set have been exposed to
the information.
(n3) I meant by this that I was solely to blame for the idea and
the writing. I did not mean I held or sought any control over
anyone, or even over whatever flowed from any of this. I am
actually praying that the good computer folks will put their
heads together on this, and take it completely off my hands. Then
I can put my hands to what they're great for, picking up trash.
(n4) The first statement of OUR plan, along with OUR Pledge and
related writings, was mailed to fifteen political people or
organizations and newspapers on October 23, 1992. These
documents have been given to a number of other people since then.
Consider yourself one of OUR friends if you're getting this now.
(n5) Any future date, e.g., April 15, 2000, works fine. OUR
idea had been to stick to the eleven-eleven date, because it's a
remembrance of armistice, a perfect day with every good reason to
do nothing, but there are plenty of days to go around.
(n6) I've changed my mind about this. I don't think it makes any
difference if the good folks who might do this get paid, and if
they want to be paid to do it, then happily pay them as much as
it takes.
[Quote]
OUR PLEDGE
We, the Organization of United Renunciants ("OUR"), being of
sound mind and good intentions, and out of a love of our fellows,
our world and country, do hereby Pledge:
1. In recognition of its valuelessness, and unless someone
comes up with a better plan before November 11, 1999 ("OUR
Day") we will, from that date forward, have nothing to do
with money.
2. On November 11, 1999 we will forgive all debts owed to us.
3. From November 11, 1999 forward we will pay no taxes, buy no
insurance, deal with no banks and keep no financial records.
4. From November 11, 1999 forward we will work as called for
the peace and prosperity of all; but we will not work for
money.
5. From now on we will peacefully resist tyranny.
(Sign; Date; Print Name, Address and Phone Number)
[End Quote]
Revised & Reissued (R&R) 1998
[Quote]
WISDOM HAS NO DOWNSIDE
The resolution of problems is neither easy nor hard.
Government's primary function is to feed people. Because
this is so simple and takes so little time, and in fact people as
a rule want to feed themselves, government can do all sorts of
other things.
Elections in large part are the action of deciding which of
vying political groups can do in the best way the best set of
other things. If a political group does not even have the
determination to feed people it should not be considered as a
potential government. If a government can't feed people it not
only has no business being a government it isn't one. Since
every country, state, city or planetary space is owed a
legitimate government, a group, acting as a government but not
feeding its people, is standing in the way of the legitimate
government. All the illegitimate governments of the world fall
into this category.
The only answer to the national debt is to cancel it. At
the same time cancel all debts owed to this country. It's too
bad, perhaps, that the U.S. didn't cancel the debt owed to it
back when it was a global creditor, but it's no less timely now.
Maybe a little more embarrassing. I submit, however, that the
nation (n1) can argue that not only did it not understand before
now that money had no value, but there also wasn't the computer
to zero things out.
We have ourselves to thank for the deficit, and we can thank
God He didn't create it. Therefore it is unarguably in our hands
to take care of it. The deficit's wonderful lesson is that the
more gargantuan and ghastly it became the easier it was to see it
really didn't exist and would disappear with the stroke of a pen.
While we're at it we should disappear all debt of any kind
anywhere. God, Who created us in His Image, is indebted to no
one.
Some rich soul may argue that as a debtor nation we must
honor the international commitments our debts imply. Thank God
this country really is a superpower; who's going to argue with
us? Of course it would become instantly clear to our global
neighbors that to survive in a sane world they would want to
cancel their debts as quickly as possible as well.
A better answer to the homeless problem is private
ownership. Right now we're headed, in the name of capitalism, on
a break neck tear toward total socialism. A few more
recessionary squeezes and all property everywhere will be owned
by the state and a few other faceless corporate fictions. It
makes ever so much more sense for everyone to own where they are.
Once that's taken care of, see who's out in the cold, and where
the empty homes are. A perfect task for a computer. Landlords
and ladies would be happy because they wouldn't be responsible
for all the homes they don't live in.
There is no evidence that the employed eat more than the
unemployed; in fact there is some evidence that the more employed
someone is the less he or she eats. It is the indolent who have
more time and space for eating. In any event, there is no reason
for people to not be employed. In fact, it is impossible that
anyone could be unemployed. Someone might not do his job, and
might not show up where he was needed, but he would never be out
of work.
The assignment of resources is local according to a
distribution program passed by elected legislators. "The program
is the platform."
Fortunately, by eliminating money the nation's consumption
of fuel will be manifestly reduced. So there won't be much of a
need for oil drilling or coal mining for a while. And by that
time there could be a prodigality of applicants for drilling or
mining adventures.
There are lots of incentives in the world, the most
valueless of which is money. But if money must be replaced with
other incentives, its best replacements so far thought of are
fame and vacations. Clean up your mess, see Paris in the
springtime. Because business class, and the poor salesmen's
economy class, will disappear, commercial airlines can retool to
handle the burgeoning holiday-bound.
Since money has no value, more is no greater than less. The
reason player salaries are embarrassing is that they render
fatuous otherwise perfectly fine athletes. Ask Joe Montana. (n2)
He threw way more touchdowns when he was getting way less money.
Because so many people can't find work right now so many
things don't get done.
Paint the house that needs painting. First.
[End Quote]
(n1) I am posting this from Canada, of course.
(n1) Joe has now retired, and his TD passing days are over, but
the same principle continues. Tripling Shaq's salary will not
mean one more bucket next season.
[Quote]
PRESENT CURRENCY
It goes without saying that it has been said that money is a
means of exchange. It has been that for a long time. It has at
least that purpose in every country of every political coloration
and to every reasonably rational individual including those who
have none and those who have renounced it.
Until recently money was arguably as good as any other
conceivable means of exchange and so it remained the predominant
currency; and in fact is defined almost universally as currency.
And currency is defined as a means of exchange. Now, unlike
before, there is the computer. It is a far better, and much
cheaper, means of exchange.
Even now money and the computer perform the same function:
they direct the movement of things. Money directs wheat into
flour, tomatoes into bottles, olives into oil and pizza into
ovens; cars into showrooms and thence up driveways; bodies into
bikinis and onto operating tables; cable into TVs; phone calls
along wires; gas into tanks; presidents into white houses. Money
directs much of what gets done all day and all night everywhere.
It just does a terrible job of it.
The computer directs planes onto flight decks; missiles into
targets, ink to printers. And it directs many of the things that
money too directs: cars into showrooms, calls along wires, even
grain into flour. The computer does, except for one glitch, a
great job. Poetically, replacing money with the computer as
currency repairs the glitch.
The glitch is a programming error, immediately correctable,
which arises from the assignment of value to money in
computations. Money has no value, and assigning it value, or the
inclusion of it at all in any computation skews the result. The
computer will always produce a wrong answer, just as man in his
pre-computer wisdom has, when money of any assigned value other
than zero, is entered into his computations. Remove money from
any computation, and, all other data being reasonably accurate,
the answer will be reasonably right.
There are meter maids and men who drive around our city
streets in little gas vehicles chalking the tires of larger gas
vehicles parked in these streets for no other reason than to make
money. The men and maids grow nothing, feed no one, heal not a
wound. Nor do they even bend over to pick up one scrap of the
national tonnage of trash they drive by and wade through on their
daily rounds. Their products are chalk dust, deadly gases,
sebaceous glutei, wasted paper, wasted fuel and wasted lives.
Every day, using computers, a few men and women who have
never missed a meal, buy zillions of tons of corn, beans and
chickens, for no other reason than to make money. The same few
sell the same commodities for the same reason - to make money.
The commodities didn't move from their warehouses and the brokers
didn't move from their glutei. While millions of men, women and
children, who spend a lifetime missing meals, can't buy an ear of
corn, a handful of beans or a chicken because they have no money.
Every day countless millions of people drive to work and
spend untold unhappy hours doing it for what is completely
valueless - to make money. We clog our highways, pollute our
planet, squander our resources, lie, cheat and steal for the same
valueless purpose. We say we need jobs to make money to buy corn
and chickens lest we starve. But all the money in the world, no
matter how well watered and fertilized, can't grow a stalk of
corn, and chickens won't eat the stuff. God grows all life and
makes all things. Man can direct where some of the lifeforms and
things go; the computer can be a better currency in that task.
Take doctors for example. They know that having more money
thrust at them to perform better operations is stupid. They'd
have to take off their gloves, lift their gown, pocket the cash,
or even a check, wash their hands of lucre's filth, and call for
a new pair of gloves. The patient expires. The doctor has to
get more money to pay his escalating malpractice insurance.
Money's only function in medicine is to slow productivity, and
guarantee malpractice.
Eliminate money as currency and with it go malpractice
awards and any need for an insurance industry. Doctors would
still regulate their industry, and in a kinder, gentler fashion
than its present governance. But the operations that got done
would be those that are needed. And stupidities in the name of
insurance would be not only not de rigueur but absurd.
There is the undeniable risk that perhaps unhappily for some
the elimination of money might annihilate the advertising
industry. After all, who would advertise if there wasn't money
to be made in it? It is true that sectors of the ad industry
would disappear. Who in his right mind, for example, would run
an ad to sell a table, even his second one, when he could just
give it to somebody who didn't have one? And would somebody who
had just one table, if he were in his right mind, advertise to
sell it because he didn't have enough money?
Truly, however, the ad industry can become the education
industry; Madison Avenue populated by ed men. "The best message
wins." (R) They can have real clients for a change, doing "real
things for real reasons." (R) "Each word can be memorable in its
own right." (R) And the ed men can stay at home more, lie less,
live longer, love a lot, and stop sucking up to Phillip Morris.
Law is a worthy subject. Right now there are lawsuits being
filed for no other reason than they make "economic sense." Good
people are not defended because they can't pay, and bad people
are because they can. Remove money from judgments and legal
consideration and American jurisprudence becomes rational and
fair. Include money in justice's deliberations and its decisions
will always be skewed and therefore unjust.
There is the question, of course, if people don't take money
in payment, who will do the work. The immediate answer is, the
same person who has been doing it. Bankers, brokers, insurance
blokes and bookies obviously wouldn't have to show up. They can
get real jobs of any kind they want and have all the time in the
world to learn a useful trade. There will be lots of people to
take care of all the needed work. Bridges still need painting,
but they don't need toll booths nor people to occupy them.
Anyone can figure out what jobs really need to be covered
and what ones should be eliminated. For the most part people
will be able to do ergonomically what they want to do; which is a
bunch better than the way it is now with most people doing what
they don't want to do because they need money, and unable to do
what they're called to do or love to do because no one will pay
them to do it.
The general rule regarding priorities is that they don't
matter. Rules are always qualified by safety, courtesy and
wisdom. Stupidity has no effect so it's silly to engage in it.
Time is here as far as the eye can see, so don't be concerned
about losing it. Except in matters of safety, courtesy and
wisdom, where there's no time to be lost.
[End Quote]
The only journalist to follow up on OUR first mailing was Richard
Polito at the Marin IJ. The paper had done a story on my
$cientology litigation earlier that year and Polito talked about
me to the reporters involved with that story before we met.
During our meeting he asked some good questions, which I
answered, and then followed up with this letter.
[Quote]
November 3, 1992
Rick Polito
Marin Independent Journal
150 Alameda del Prado
Novato, CA 94949
By Telecopier (415)382-0549
Re: OUR PROGRAM
Dear Rick:
I've given some more thought to your questions regarding who
would do the work, who would clean the sewers, who would bother
to show up and so forth if what needed to be done was not done
for money.
Initially it is predicted that everyone would experience
both some relief and some enthusiasm. To not only not have to
worry about money while working in the sewer but to not have to
work in the sewer at all could not help but be a relief to any
sewer worker who enjoyed neither the worrying nor the work. If
someone did not enjoy the worrying but enjoyed the work he too
would experience relief. In that no one hereafter need worry any
longer it might turn out that sewer work could be as enjoyable as
any other profession. If someone enjoyed worrying about money,
then whether he enjoyed working in the sewer or not, clearly, as
Ross Perot might say, money's elimination is not for him.
Initially as well, working for something different from
money would be such a departure from the way things were that the
present pervasive job boredom would have to give way to
excitement. Since the elimination of money would occur on one
day across the country, the population would be educated in
advance of that day in the reasoning behind the elimination, and
what to expect and how to function on their non-money-motivated
jobs and in a moneyless society. The education process can
itself produce a new enthusiasm for our jobs and lives.
If sewer work really was so distasteful or dangerous, the
men and women who perform it should be the most adulated of our
servants. If they are not paid money for what they do they will
be seen for the heroes they are. Hence give them great vacations
and make their faces household words.
It is far more important to give whomever is asked to do the
job the materials with which to do it than to pay him or her
money. That's the task of management, who can still manage
without money, and undoubtedly more efficiently, and hence
sanely, than present management, which pays homage to the false
god, Bottomline.
Finally, regarding the American people's morality, and
therefor ability to work for a higher reason, I remain convinced
that in truth the real work done even now is done for that higher
reason. And I remain convinced that we are moving into the Age
of Wisdom when nationally and globally that higher reason will be
understood, and will be strived for far more passionately than
money ever was.
Please feel free to call at any time if you have any
questions, or for any reason.
Yours sincerely,
Gerry Armstrong
Organization of United Renunciants
address
telephone
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And the only politician to respond to OUR mailing was President
Clinton who sent me this very cool handwritten card.
[Quote]
BILL CLINTON
P.O. Box 615
Little Rock, AR 72203
Gerald Armstrong
The Organization of United Renuciants (sic)
P.O. Box 2711
San Anselmo, CA 94979
Paid for by the Clinton/Gore '92
[End Quote]
And then there's a little printer's bug which I can't read, and
on the action side the President writes:
[Quote]
Thanks so much for your letter. I welcome your ideas. They will
be carefully considered. I'm grateful you took the time to write.
Bill
[End Quote]
I haven't again heard directly from Mr. Clinton, so I don't know
the result of his careful consideration, but there's still plenty
of time to hear from him before he leaves office. I was thinking
he'd try to hire me as an easily underpaid economic advisor on
one of his many teams.
Every morning when I read the paper, every night when I watch TV,
and in between every time I look anywhere on the internet, I see
big problems that I also see as resolvable if money is not
thought of as the solution. Just think what the world might be
like if the silliness that the economy has become during money's
reign could be replaced, and peacefully, with something smarter,
better and cheaper by money's disappearance.
On the $cientology problem, no court or government anywhere would
let them get away with what they're getting away with if the
money they use to get away with it was recognized as being
worthless. Without money, courts and governments would be much
harder to buy. All the money in the world has only bought global
injustice.
For quite a while I worried that gamblers would raise the devil
if there wasn't money to be gambled away. But now I believe that
even this can be remedied in many ways. The non-gamblers, for
example, could simply give the gamblers all the money. They can
gamble all they want until just one gambler with all the money is
left. That guy is the most unlucky, since he spent the most time
winning all that stuff of no value. The luckiest gamblers are
those who lose all their money the quickest.
The real poetry in the plan is that until there are sufficient
renunciants to make renunciation effortless and overwhelmingly
safe, you don't have to renounce or do anything. You can make as
much money as you can as fast as you can afford to, and you
should. You should make truckloads of the stuff, so that when OUR
Day comes you'll have plenty worth renouncing.
OUR idea will certainly take care of the money-based copyright
law stupidities we've all endured these past few years. But even
before OUR Day dawns, feel free to copy any or all of this and
pass it on, post it or publish it wherever you want.
© 1989, 1992, 1999 Gerald Armstrong
46109 Princess Avenue
Chilliwack, B.C., V2P 2A6
Canada
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© 1999 Gerald Armstrong
Michael Reuss
>> Markus Grahn <xx...@algonet.se> wrote:
>> The Buck is the 9th dynamic according to Hubbard. What did he mean?
> He was cynical, and he was wrong. There is no 9th Dynamic.
Nor is there necessarily a 1st through 8th Dynamic. Those
categorizations of concepts are purely arbitrary in any objective
sense, but do play an important, sometimes ominous, and destructive
role in turning Scientologists into brainwashed cultists.
For example, one of the things that helps a Scientologist justify
disconnecting from loved ones who are not Scientologists, is the false
idea that one's group (i.e. Scientology, Hubbard's 3rd Dynamic is more
important (because it is a "higher" Dynamic) than one's family (which
is Hubbard's 2nd Dynamic).
> $cientology
> doesn't, except by its leeching off the wog world, get beyond the
> first dynamic. It is utterly self-centered. It says it's
> group-centered, but it's only the self's group. The self in
> $cientology is always right. The self outside of $cientology is always
> wrong. They're wrong because their selves are not in $cientology.
I agree that Scientology is a greedy, self-centered group, full of
many people who seem to be seeking "selfish" ends.
I disagree that Hubbard's definition of the 1st Dynamic is a division
of any importance in understanding human behaviors.
> _________________________
> ! !
> ! $cientology !
> ! Generates !
> ! $tupidity !
> !_________________________!
> !!
> !!
> !!
> !!
Amen.
>> The Almighty Dollar is superior to the Supreme Being, the 8th
>> Dynamic, the God dynamic?
Well they look at it more like this. God (i.e. LRH) needs money to
spread "The Way To Happiness" to all us ignorant wogs, who apparently
only think we are happy, when they know perfectly well that wogs being
as happy as them is impossible, since we don't have the tech, and the
tech alone knows the one True way to Ponziness, er, I mean happiness.
So in this sense, because they really need the money for a good cause
(in their opinion, it is a good cause to spread Scientology), then
getting money to help to pay for people and infrastructure that can
try to crush sell us, so we can be brainwashed so we'll help crush
sell our grandmothers, so that we can one day all pay huge bucks to
learn secrets that we don't know, and don't even know that we need,
well, being money grubbing bastards in that sense is not a bad thing,
it's a good thing.
What we need to be happy is a little planetary dissem. Now, who's up
for a free personality test? (Geez, I'm starting to feel happier
already).
Michael Reuss
Honorary Kid
Markus Grahn
<snip>
Thank you Gerry! Your suggestions are worth considering. The elimination
of money will undoubtedly shake the CoS to its very foundations...
> On the $cientology problem, no court or government anywhere would
> let them get away with what they're getting away with if the
> money they use to get away with it was recognized as being
> worthless. Without money, courts and governments would be much
> harder to buy. All the money in the world has only bought global
> injustice.
<snip>
...But I think scientology - at least *the Church of Scientology* as we
know it today - will pass away long before money is recognized as being
worthless.
As I see it, the current financial system is far from beneficial to the
CoS. Many of the problems, which the "church" is suffering from, are
basically money-related: First we have the inflation, which Hubbard
thought could be met with continuously increasing prices. That the CoS
services are extremely expensive is crucial, only a rather small number
of people can afford them. The underpaid staff is another problem, and
so are the taxes (since it takes a fraud to avoid them).
Markus
--
"Money, in short, is a passionate subject"
-- L. Ron Hubbard