Islamic Marxism

So. government is the political wing of big business.

We are now watching Karl Marx being proved right. the dispute between labor and management covers the globe. management runs big business, which in turn runs government, which in turn exploits labor.

Who is now taking to the streets in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Yemen, Israel, Greece, Spain... nobody guessed that the proletarian revolution would be led by Muslims, right?

Look at the Tea Party, who is rightfully furious and consequently rebelling against management. The great irony is that their ignorance has been carefully cultivated by upper management so that the Tea Party places all blame on middle management. See? the Tea Party is a labor movement rebelling agaist management, without comprehending that government is simply middle management, taking orders from upper management, who is big business. So the Tea party revolts against middle management, which gets thrown out or replaced, and the Tea party celebrates, even as upper management, which is big business, continues to dictate policies dedicated to the accumulation of capital at the expense of labor. But as long as middle management takes the rap, upper management stays invisible and finances the Tea Party.

Its a good trick. The Muslims are actually way ahead of the Christians on this one. they see clearly that organized religion is a tool used by government, which in turn is a tool used by big business.

There's a word in the Bible for big business: Mammon. Don't be surpised how this one turns out...

Crowdsourcing

The Asylum Project is a nonprofit business. We are a traveling soup kitchen, and a permaculture school. And something of a music festival, and even something of an interfaith worship caravan.  We film and broadcast our traveling permaculture adventures online - virtual ecotourism.

What I mean is - we will someday.  Soon as we get some funding, that is. 

Interested?

The Debtor's Union

The debtor's union is a nonprofit business corporation dedicated to the unconditional forgiveness of debt. This is in accordance with the mandate given us by Jesus Christ in the New Testament, who taught us to pray, "forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors"(Matthew Ch.6 v.12). This occasion is not without precedent, referred to historically as a Jubilee year, a year in which all debts, great and small, are forgiven. The debtor's union sees a Jubilee year on the horizon...

Through the power of collective bargaining, the debtor's union renegotiates debt payments made by debtors to moneylenders and moneylending institutions - in this case, a Biblically mandated cancellation of all debt. This has profound implications.



The forgiveness of debt carries with it far-reaching repercussions for the world. Even without hint of a union strike, the mere prospect of a debtor's union will compel banks to radically tighten credit due to the increased fear of making bad loans. And with virtually all car payments, mortgage payments, credit card payments, and college tuition payments in the hands of debtors organizing, willing to strike, and enthusiastically refusing to take it anymore, practically all loans in America will be recognized for what they are: odious debt. Debt that will never be paid back. Banks will find themselves without a revenue stream, and the only way to dump their debt will be to... join the union. Of course, then they would stop being banks... hyperinflation will annihiliate almost all global currencies, especially fiat currencies such as the U.S. dollar. the global export market will shriek to a halt as freshly moneyless countries deal with the realization that capitalism is ruthless and unloving while human beings are cooperative and loving. Capitalism and poverty go hand in hand, and we cannot get rid of one without getting rid of both. As Buckminster Fuller said, its all of us or none of us. Debt forgiveness is a basic prerequisite for the eradication of poverty, and this spells the end of the era of global competition, guiding us into an era of global cooperation...

The debtor's union feels it necessary to shut down the global economy as we know it, due to one self-evident truth and its two corollaries:

all economic wealth originates from natural resources (ecological wealth)

ecological investment leads to economic dividends

ecological depletion leads to economic collapse

the present corporate global economy runs on ecological depletion, converting ecological wealth into economic wealth which is then hoarded by the ruling class, leading to ecological exhaustion and consequent economic collapse. This is an existential threat to our planet and all life on it, and must be stopped. The debtor's union is uniquely poised to stop this existential threat to the survival of our species (and most others) by pulling the plug on the corporate global economy as we know it. however severe the consequences of shutting down the global economy may be, they are significantly less severe than allowing it to continue operating. The debtor's union represents the kill switch for an ecology-depleting economy, and we must use this kill switch, because if we don't, the global ecology will be destroyed, and human civilization with it.



Of course, if this was all the debtor's union did, it would be sad, because stopping a bad economy falls far short of starting a good economy. To start a healthy economy, we need ecological investment, which reaps economic dividends. Consequently, the Debtor's Union is committed to ecological investment.



a sinking ship may present a very real problem for folks on board, but they are not likely to jump into water unless a seaworthy vessel is nearby, ready to pick people up. Paradigm shift takes place the same way - an old paradigm, or an old economy, may be failing badly, but won't be abandoned until a new paradigm, or a new economy, arrives to fill the void. The debtor's union sinks the unsustainable economy and sails the sustainable economy - the economy of ecological optimization, or intelligent design.



What is ecological investment, and what are the economic dividends that will make the abandonment of our contemporary corporate global economy worthwhile? If we are to reap economic dividends that allow us to abandon the corporate global economy, we will need clean water, food, shelter, safety, a sense of community, a sense of purpose and belonging, opportunities for leisure, creativity, and art directly from our natural environment - and curiously enough, our natural environments were designed to provide all these things for us!  Humans investing in their environments lead to gardens and food, natural materials for shelter, communities for safety, a sense of belonging, purpose, and celebration... everything we need to lead happy and productive lives. Ecological investment can be understood as human investment in the ecological production of material needs for human and nonhuman use.


We have run out of jobs, just as Marx predicted. This is a good thing - jobs are detrimental to our planet and interfere with our work, which consists primarily of creating enough food and shelter for everyone. Jobs pay money, and money is printed by the federal reserve, which is run by a ruling class dependent upon ecological depletion for its survival. In other words, our global dependence on the U.S. fiat currency props up a ruling class dependent on ecological depletion. This is not in anyone's best interest - certainly not the interests of the ruling class, whose children need clean air and water just like the rest of us. And so, through the conscientious annihilation of the U.S. fiat currency, we annihilate the ruling class, ecological depletion, and economic scarcity. This is the function of the Debtor's Union.

At the same time that jobs have gone for good, we find ourselves (at long last) aware of the enormous amount of work we have to do: investing in the health and well-being of our planet, which takes care of us. We won't get paid in fiat money, thank God. We'll get paid in ecological dividends.

there is an old adage:

give a man a fish, feed him for a day. teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime. teach a man to get a job and buy fish, make a slave out of him, and his children, and his children's children...

we have all become employees, buyers of fish who do not know how to fish for ourselves. We have becomes slaves of an economic engine that depletes our planet of the resources our great-great-grandchildren desperately need. We must learn to fish. We must abandon our earth-killing jobs and begin our earth-healing work.


We have not inherited this world from our ancestors - we are borrowing it from our descendants. If we are to live as responsible stewards, we have a lot to accomplish...

permaculture through ecotourism

The Asylum Project is dedicated to teaching permaculture through ecotourism.

What is permaculture?

Permanent culture. Sustainable culture. Culture without an end date. In these times, it makes good business sense to identify consumer demand in a market without any recognized, reliable supply. Through strategic marketing we present ourselves as a reliable supplier of permaculture education, anticipating huge demand while ushering in a return to a very ancient way of living.

Educating the general public regarding permaculture requires applying permaculture principles to the technique of teaching, creating a new pedagogy that applies market principles to the demand for people's attention. In a world with many demands for people's attention, why learn about permaculture? What is the attraction; where is the incentive to learn? In order to teach permaculture we must reach out to people, sharing with them not merely what they need to know but what they truly want to know, and sharing it with them in a manner they truly enjoy.

A real permaculture education needs to be entertaining if it is to be sustainable.

Identify the attractiveness of it and market its attraction in an attractive way - teaching must be fun in order for learning to take place. Education needs to be entertaining to keep people's attention and stay relevant. A real permaculture education is required to answer the fundamental questions of both what we want to learn and how we want to learn it.

What do we want to learn? There's an old maxim:

give a man a fish, feed him for a day. teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.

teach a man to get a job and buy fish, you've made a slave out of him, and his children, and his children's children.

What we want to learn is how to fish. How to provide food, shelter, safety, a sense of community, a sense of sacred purpose, and a sense of belonging. We can no longer pretend that 'fixing' the economy and creating more 'jobs' is any solution. A society in which a man is compelled to have a job if he wants to survive is a society which fails not only to teach men how to fish but also deprives man of his freedom to learn how to fish on his own. A world in which man cannot afford to learn to fish because he must spend his days working for ecologically destructive purposes in order to buy fish is a world with a termination date. Ecologically destructive jobs - and the very nature of our resource-consuming economy means that jobs perpetuate gratuitous resource consumption - serve an unsustainable paradigm inexorably destroying our planet's life support systems. The great task which lies before us is to put down our jobs and pick up our work.

Our work is ecological work. Learning and teaching how to grow food in all conditions and environments, whether they be urban, suburban, or rural. Learning and teaching how to build shelter out of local materials, whatever these materials may be. Learning and teaching how to collect rainwater, how to compost and fertilize, how to live together and pray together and share with one another. It is a great irony that our jobs and our economy is the single greatest inhibitor of our work. And while no one expects people to leave their jobs in order to pursue their work, the sad fact is that our overconsumption of natural resources has left our economy with nowhere to go but down, taking jobs with it. Raw materials are the fuel that runs the nation's economy, and we have used them up to such a degree, converting them to landfill matter, that our economic engine has nothing left to burn. Investing in ecological health is the only way to reinvigorate our natural resources. We will continue to run out of jobs. The only way to heal the economy is to heal the ecology.

What is ecotourism? Ecological tourism. Visit ecologies; invest your attention in the source of your own survival and the survival of your species and your world. Of course, virtual ecotourism may play a vital role in the propagation of a permaculture worldview. Virtual ecotourism is nothing more than a website that documents ecological tourism for the armchair ecotourist. Virtual ecotourism may actually begin to play a larger and larger role in the greater economy, as it were.

The first step of the ecological tourist - or the virtual ecotourist - is to look around at one's environment, and appreciate it. Look at the self appreciating the environment, and appreciate the self who appreciates. As we learn to appreciate our circumstances and our circumstantial selves, our evolving gratitude towards undifferentiated experience gives us the confidence to believe in a future which holds further circumstances for which to be grateful. We become confident of where we are going, even though we do not know where we are going. We become confident of where we are going because we don't care where we are going; we are simply grateful to be going.

This confidence, this gratefulness, keeps us healthy and humorous and thick skinned. Which is what its going to take to get through the next decade... and that's permaculture.

Private sector public service

the asylum project is a virtual manifesto which aspires to build a strategic alliance among key consumers of internet content and various noncollectives of nonofficial anyones for the purpose of providing a cogent philosophical framework and campaign strategy by which a critical mass successfully embarks on radical, apolitical, nonmaterialistic public service:  providing food, shelter, safety, community, genuine education, meaningful work, a sense of abundance, ecological health, and creative freedom.  The lever with which to move the world is a marketing strategy which promotes gardening as the focus of public education.

The asylum project proudly introduces private sector public service. Organizational entities with no materialistic profit motive compete with government to provide better customer service, ensure more tangible customer loyalty, satisfy public needs, and ensure the preservation of the commons.

Meaning Earth, in this case...

Jah Ministry business

a real church turns out to be a great business - the only business, in the end.

because God's business is the world's business, right? If anyone can run the world's business, its God.

i made a mistake, though. it's not the end, but the beginning.

Right?

the Asylum Project promotes permaculture through ecotourism.

unequivocally reciprocal dividends

the economy is just the management of the ecology.

if we mismanage the ecology, we end up with a damaged ecology and a damaged economy.

heal the ecology, heal the economy - while healing ourselves.

healing requires investment.

an investment in the ecology reaps unequivocally reciprocal dividends, i.e. what you put into your environment is what you get out of your environment.

This is ecological investing - a new paradigm for a new economy. Investing in ecological goods and services reaps ecological dividends which benefit both investors and ecology. This is known as a positive feedback loop.

By weaving together an online web of strategically placed nonprofit businesses with niche expertise, we create a not-for-profit social network dedicated to the alleviation of social ills and the promotion and maintenance of a sustainable culture while maintaining market-driven integrity of purpose and cost-effectiveness that far surpasses government's abysmal record.  Meanwhile, online communities capable of crisis mitigation, crisis prevention, education, and charity evolve and compete with the 'government's version of public service in the open marketplace. Consumers of public service are desperate to find a brand that restores their faith, and by redefining the very notion of customer service, this nonprofit umbrella hub meets public consumer needs (the needs of the global consumers' 'commons') in cost-effective fashion, running entirely on market driven revenues while providing ecological dividends in the form of food, shelter, a sense of community, a sense of purpose, and a sense of the sacred.