Time to Change Catchphrase (Again)
Sometimes, a word just doesn’t work.
SolarPunk.
What does that say to you?
For me, using it as my Bio Catchphrase was an interesting experiment.
It came about from some optimistic thoughts I was having around Xmas 2020.
2021, I thought, would be the year we finally plugged into the sun.
But at this moment, almost six months later, it seems further away than ever, as we seem to be sliding ever closer to war, an event which must not happen, and absolutely need not happen.
Another war, will absolutely end us as a species.
It seems to me that there are some forces at work, which wish us to believe it is inevitable.
Those forces are afraid of what will happen, otherwise.
(I hate this word, probably due to the bad reactions I’ve seen to it, but it is the only word that applies):
Utopia.
Those forces appear to be more afraid of Utopia, than all of humanity thrown into existential crisis.
WTF?
Free money from the sun, donated to all people, and all things that need money, is a difficult concept to get our heads around, I know.
But that is no excuse.
There is no excuse for not seeing the way nature really works, and that we can work the same.
There is no excuse for continuing to use our ingenuity to extend what is our dastardly animal instinct, to possess, territorialise, colonialise, and terrorise in a perpetual competition to the death between all people, with the vast majority always losing.
No excuse!
Profit, is the device I mean.
That, is the fundamental device underlying everything we do as a species, manifesting at the highest level as the Grand Energy Ponzi.
We are so driven by it, most of us are not even aware that it drives us, some even arguing fiercely to claim otherwise, whilst continuing to practice it in the very argument itself.
To that mindset, a SolarPunk can know nothing of any value, of course.
So, rather than continue to invite argument, I am going to take the easy way out, and use a historical event of huge significance, that no-one can argue happened.
Yes for sure, some will try to argue the reasons it happened.
But no-one can argue it happened. Half of the battle is already won there, I think.
There is only one logic which explains it along with everything else we saw at that time.
The event I am talking about is when the oil price went negative.
We’ve seen it only once in our history, and before it happened, most “Sane” people, including yours truly, would have claimed it was impossible, if asked.
But it happened.
Right there, we saw a flash of a different world.
A world in which all money could be “Traded” profit free, as donation.
I had already been writing about the need for, and the possibility of free solar powered money for years, so although oil going negative came as a massive surprise, it quickly fell into place for me. It didn’t take long to confirm by looking at some other curious market things that cross-corroborated the real meaning of what we were seeing.
The prices of Safe haven assets like Gold, and even Bitcoin, languished.
Stocks in Bankrupt companies still offering loved products soared. The law was even changed to allow that to continue.
Warren Buffet, and other “Expert” profit driven investors cried foul, and ran for the hills, leaving everyone else to have a free money fest in the markets with the Robin Hood app, and the dollar, which everyone was throwing around like confetti, fuelled by a stimulus equivalent to 10,000 dollars for every man, woman, and child in the US, in one month ($4Tn), also went up.
We were seeing solar powered money. It showed itself for just an instant, right there, and by that, the first ever glimpse of pure, fine grained democracy for all.
They voted oil out, and some products from bankrupt companies like ship cruises, and cars for hire, in.
A mechanism became apparent, Bitcoin, the gateway, converting solar energy directly to money by solar powered proof-of-work. I’ve been maintaining my featured article about that since it became apparent;
It started as a question, but there are too many pieces of the jigsaw which now obviously fit, I’ve changed it to a conclusion.
Of course the established system is doing what it can to suppress, claiming hypocritically Bitcoin to be a Ponzi, and declaring it an environmental hazard, but the truth is building up, in the form of free money, it continues to bulge at every seam of the system which previously worked to enforce scarcity, a vital component of profit.
Still, we count world wealth as a fixed quantity, when actually, it is now growing, massively, in a way which is physically provable, with even a mathematical proof of the energy relationship with Bitcoin.
All the while, Bitcoin tokens continue to be exchanged for massive amounts of money-as-debt, and the tokens comprise more and more solar energy, encoded as a new, unique kind of money as solar energy capacity, via physical proof-of-work.
The beauty of it is that the expansion into solar is being driven by profit, and it is irreversible, whilst profit still exists.
Profit, is literally working to end itself.
It wouldn’t be happening, without Bitcoin, which makes Bitcoin something very special indeed.
We just need to avoid doing something silly meantime like have a war, and we will see all things put right.
Utopia.
Hang in there, don’t forget we’ve seen it, if only for a brief instant, nonetheless, we saw it. That is what I keep telling myself.
So, although I am still, and will always be a SolarPunk, the incredibly important event of oil prices going negative will be my Bio catchphrase, as from today.
Well… update: I tried to change it and don’t seem to be able to. Que Sera, as I said, I am still a SolarPunk, and saying what I said here can never be said enough.
