The Money Slave: Exponential Growth: Multiply Safety:

My wise brother gave me a book on “The Richest Man in Babylon”. It contains the wise teachings of the ancients where saving 10% of your income followed by its subsequent wise investment most always should result in prosperity.

A couple of thousand years later wise men are ignored as we are now taught to borrow money for investing in unwise get rich quick schemes. In fact some-one said that the next bubble can be detected by monitoring where a number of MBA graduates are bunched together.

Perhaps one should include chartered accountants because they are/were not trained (or wisely counseled) as to the after effects of linear thinking – such as exponential growth – a trick the Chinese are now learning the hard way.

Its great when one can say – “what has the world come to” or even “the children of today etc”, but what about the future? Are we really going to leave this mess for our children? A world where the father leaves his son a slave to money? Maybe one should really mean the statement “what has the world come to” in our own addicted shifty and shaky handoff of bribed innocence.

In my own drunken stupor I once wrote a poem called the “The True Man”; the man that lifts himself out of this polluted environment – and I am not referring to global warming – pulled himself up with his own shoelaces as it were.  Not a hero – not a God, just a man.

He did not use religion, he did not ask his friends to help, he did not use money to get clear thoughts, he used his own trusty reliable shoelaces and trusted in his own predictable capability.

In fact he has found the new transcendental signifier – safeness.

What else could you possible want for your children, how else would you possibly explain the need to give to the poor, why on earth do you drink supplements and why would you care at all?

To be safe.

Why did you vote for a political representative, what is his primary and only sustainable objective?

A Safe State.

Is it possible you ask? Sure it is - if you can say it, you can have it.

[Note: Courtesy to Prof’s Dirk Kotze (Political Scientist) and Reingard Nethersole (Derridian Philosopher)]