Whilst you will probably need to be a financial anorak to have been watching this news unfold, the US SEC finally approved Bitcoin ETFs yesterday, leading to a range of wild claims about where the value of Bitcoin is now going. Some even suggesting that the financial establishment has now legitimised the previously decentralised digital currency after effectively opening the door to the market and letting the blockchain coin walk right on to the trading floor.

Like so many of the issues that we face today in this (deliberately) complex world of ours, the truth, or rather the truths about Bitcoin and what it will now mean for any digital currency to be traded as part of ETF financial packages can be viewed in many  different ways. However, the real story is set to be obscured by group think, the narratives that the establishment want us all to believe, and the  time that it will take for what will surely be, in the majority, a whole new tranche of lies to fall on their face and for the next new money myth to  come unstuck.

Identifying, understanding and yes, accepting the existence of the money myths is very important.

Money myths are at the very core of the problems that the world now faces, and why no matter which way any of us look, everything that we see now appears to be well and truly f***ed up.

Irrespective of whether you are in the ‘digital currency is financial freedom’ or ‘bitcoin was just created as another establishment ruse’ camp, the most compelling benefit of pre-January 10^th 2024 Bitcoin was its previously unchecked status of being a ‘finite’ currency or money source. Even though the base of its programming or the blockchain technology that its built upon would already have enabled each coin to have been divided an infinite number of times.

The ’fact’ that Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies like it) couldn’t be printed off at will, as has been the case with the US Dollar, the UK Pound, the EU Euro and all other FIAT currencies, has made it a very compelling option for traders of all kinds. Many of whom have bought into the belief that a fixed amount of anything will mean that the value – and therefore the profit to be made, can only ever go up.

Regrettably, the false floor or elephant trap in the pro current digital currency argument is that like the FIAT ‘cash’ that Bitcoin was intended to replace, the true or intrinsic value of the ‘coin’ is zero.

Like any other form of money that is and only ever has genuinely been a medium of exchange, the value of Bitcoin is based purely on belief, and no matter how many people, countries or whether it’s an entire world believe in its value, the reality is that Bitcoin’s value isn’t anything more than zero at any time, and any value held against it in any moment is little more than the equivalent of a bet that can and will be lost, the moment that the secret is either out, or events have enacted their own terminal care.

That the (financial) establishment has taken so long to make any move that can be argued to legitimise the existence and value of Bitcoin should itself be raising many red flags. Rather than leading to any feeling for traders that now is the time to feel overjoyed.

The establishment operates on the basis that nothing is real until it creates or endorses the narrative that says it will be so.

So, the financial marketplace has become very nervous of having so little control over a form of independent currency being seen to be able to offer a financial refuge for traders, when FIAT ‘cash’ is about to collapse and they had no legitimate way to seize the alternative digital form of FIAT that growing numbers have argued is about to take its place.

Regrettably, it takes a very open mind and many hours of viewing or better still, book-based research, to understand the basic principles and yes, the sanitized forms of criminality that underpin the way that the worlds financial and monetary systems currently work.

It is only after challenging and dispelling the many shibboleths that surround the way money works, that a genuine understanding of how ridiculously dishonest the system of money creation and tools such as leverage really are. And that financial products that may be labelled as being one thing such as ETFs cannot be trusted or taken at face value as an indication of what assets, products or the value that genuinely exists within.

The GFC or Great Financial Crisis in 2008 should have proved to be the cautionary tale for everyone about what happens when laws are twisted so that financial traders are legally allowed to play what are potentially world-threatening games. Simply so that they can create and make more and more money – at the expense and to the detriment of everyone else.

Regrettably, our very stupid politicians bought into the idea that it would be in everyone’s interests for the public to bail the crooked bankers out.

After the noise and the dust clouds had at least began to settle down, for the banks and financial sector it was back to business as usual, exploiting everything that they possibly can with money involved and treating everyone – including the glory-seeking political set, as if we and not they are the miscreant clowns.

The lessons haven’t been learned. As FIAT ‘cash’ and its value heads quickly towards the scrap heap, it would appear that the SEC have now provided the opportunity for big money to legally capture and control the digital currency marketplace. Giving them the potential for them to sell – and therefore profit – many times over and exponentially so, from any perceived value that exists from the Bitcoin that any unwitting buyer has been told exists within each and every ETF that they may buy or obtain a part thereof.

Even gold and other precious metals have fallen foul of the dishonesty that exists within financial and market trades. The reality that each and every owner of these – like Bitcoin from now onwards face, is that unless you physically possess the asset or the product that you believe you own, the real value of whatever you think you have bought isn’t worth the paper that its written on, and yes, that will probably mean that it doesn’t even exist.

Amazing solutions to the problems that people are experiencing today have been suggested and put on the table by some equally amazing minds.

However, the reason that none of the solutions that would make life better for people are working, they work only temporarily or on a very limited scale, is because the solutions being given are about people when the world, system or paradigm that we live, and experience today doesn’t work that way.

Everything in life today either revolves around or is focused upon the value of money. So, money is and only ever will be the solution to any problem, even when as far as the people in that equation are concerned, the money-based solution will never work.

To solve all the problems that society and the World has, we have no choice but to refocus and reprioritise all the things that are important in life.

These are the values, relationships, community, our environment and everything that exists locally to us, rather than being orientated around material wealth and the things that we could have.

Let’s quickly recap on where we are, and where we need to be:

The Money-Centric Paradigm =

Money, Profit, Material Wealth or Possessions and the Influence and Power that we believe it brings.

The People-Centric Paradigm =

Values, Humanity, Value of the Person, Rejection of Difference, Happiness just to be.

Ideally, enough people needed to create a critical mass will adopt the change voluntarily that will enable The Paradigm Switch.

However, because of the hold that the Money-Centric-Paradigm has on almost everyone, the chances are that it is only seismic change in the form of an event that changes everything, that would in itself precipitate The Paradigm Shift that is necessary to make this level of change possible, where The System will then work for us all.

The Pivot Point Rule

All well and good you might think. Or you might question ‘What does this have to do with changing the way the world works when we know it’s the politicians that we have, or how expensive everything is, or because of someone else’s prejudices?’, and so on.

The point is that one of the biggest problems that we have within the Money Centric Paradigm today and the way that we experience the world around us, is because somebody somewhere has already or is in the process of trying to create a law or regulation of some kind that basically removes the freedom for people in life and within the jobs they do, to think for themselves.

What the well-meaning fearful control freaks that create add law to laws for laws-sake don’t appreciate or value, is nobody alive today could possibly possess the understanding of every circumstance or situation that everyone else could experience. Because they would have had to share exactly the same experiences, feelings and emotions as that person, throughout their entire life (and every second of it) to be able to understand the though processes and reactions that make them think and then react in a certain way.

And if anyone did have this level of understanding, you can be sure that they would be comfortable enough in themselves not to feel the need to let anyone else know they were that enlightened, let alone feel the need to legislate and therefore take control of the decision-making processes for others, in any way at all.

The most important, yet challenging factor or requirement in the creation, implementation and maintenance of a New or People-Centric Paradigm, is trusting people to be able to make as many decisions about life as they can for themselves, with only a genuine, minimum-touch, but nonetheless powerful pivot rule or anchor for morality and ethics as a guide.

It would be a pivot or anchor rule, as by using it as the unbroachable guide to life and everything that people, businesses and organisations do, the decisions, rules and where necessary laws that then follow, would in turn fall in to place to ensure that People-Centric thinking and therefore living, would become the priority for and within all that everyone does.

The Domino Effect of the Pivot Point Rule

The simple way to visualise how The Pivot Point Rule will work is to think of it as being like a domino representing every conceivable law, rule or regulation being already stood up in a giant interlinking pattern with every other public-policy-representing domino.

The first domino will be the one that sets off the tumbling effect that brings contact between all and is therefore the most important.

This excerpt is taken from One Rule Changes Everything, published on Amazon for Kindle on 23rd December 2023.

As we begin 2024, ‘Problems, Problems, everywhere’, might be the opening line for some mythical superhero sent to save us all by using their political superpowers.

The challenge for us, is that the multitude of problems we are facing across the UK are not only real, but the list is also growing too.

One thing we can all feel pretty sure about is that in terms of public representation, legislators or the people we could elect or re-elect to be our politicians, there certainly aren’t any superheroes amongst them.

In fact, none of our politicians understand what the responsibilities of their elected roles as public representatives are and what the power, they have been entrusted with is for. That much we can be certain of, simply because of the way that things already are.

To be fair to anyone who has knocked on doors and entered politics with best intentions when they first stepped forward, very few of them – whether in Parliament of within any of our local councils – have the ability or the time necessary to observe, consider and understand how government and the public sector in the UK actually works. That is, before they are either corrupted and become part of it, or the issues they raise that would genuinely help us just as quickly see them spat back out.

This part of how the British Political System works is important to understand. Because no matter what the problems are that we are personally experiencing with the world around us, or what the problems are that the people in our lives are experiencing with the wider world too, the reality is that it is, or was at some point, the result of what a politician did or didn’t do, when they had the opportunity to behave differently, that has ended up with every problem that we are now experiencing across society.

How government and governance work

The laws, regulations and the governance we have to control everything in life outside of ourselves or our homes, is ultimately the responsibility of the people (That’s us!).

In the democratic system that we currently have, that means that the decisions taken that have created all the problems the UK has are down to the choices made on our behalf by the people we have elected to represented us and in whom we have collectively placed our trust.

It doesn’t matter whether the politicians and decision makers were aware of the consequences of their actions or not.

No person should ever stand for election to a public office, if they lack the ability to take decisions on behalf of the constituency that they were elected to represent. Rather than putting their political party or themselves, first.

Regrettably, we are where we are today. And because the growing mess that we are being pulled into right now has been created over a period of decades in time, the reality is that the problems that poor, misguided and incorrect governance of  the UK has created are now too embedded to be easily fixed – No matter what any of the politicians that are currently lining up with the aim of getting elected in the next General Election have said already or are going to tell us as that time gets nearer.

We can no longer continue as spectators in our own story

The UK and the World itself enters the mid 2020’s in crisis. Whilst some of us may feel happy and contented with the lives that we have and might even feel insulated from the World outside of our daily lives or what some would call our ‘bubble’, very few of us can fail to acknowledge the problems facing people, communities, society and our country as a whole.

Whilst we all have the ability to look outwards and say quietly to ourselves, ‘none of this is my problem’, or ‘someone else will sort that out’, the truth we all have to face is that responsibility for the things that have happened, the things that will happen and the things that still need to happen, rests a lot closer to home.

Those of us who are able, must now enter into the process of looking at all of the problems that we have, and what we do to try and address them, in a very different, and very alternative way.

Surprising as it may sound, it is the complexity of the problems and the interconnected nature of all those problems that the UK has that sit in the areas of law, rules and governance that have not only allowed the creation of all those problems, but has also made finding a solution to them difficult to the degree that many believe the solutions that are now necessary, are impossible to implement, in no small part because we don’t believe that we have any control or relationship with them.

Even harder to fathom for anyone genuinely seeking solutions, is that despite the almost encyclopaedic spread of those problems, that we will later discuss in terms of degrees of separation, both the problem(s) and the solution(s) can be identified and recognised for the power and the reach that they have, in what are very simple terms.

It is the simple way of looking at solving the UKs problems that is most difficult to accept. Because the masses of problems and the complexity of all of them surely means that there must be masses of solutions that are themselves very complex by their nature, after all.

What I can tell you, with the life, education, commercial, volunteer, entrepreneurial, charity, government, not for profit, political and thinking experience that I have, is that we all have the same power, as individuals and as members of our communities, to play our part and to change things. And that change all comes down to the way that each and every one of us think.

Regrettably, we must genuinely want to change our minds before we will be prepared to change them. The resistance to that change is where the root to the solution to every problem genuinely lies.

The System or Paradigm that we experience and are living in now

Because life is so detailed, and we are continually drawn into that detail, it is very easy to miss the bigger picture that is at work around us. Not just within one or a few additional layers, but for some of us what might be described as being a multilayered or multifaceted way.

If you were to stand back and be able to look at, review, consider and think about the way that everything in the world beyond your own day to day experience and what you see every day in the world around you works, no matter how detached, how far away or how irrelevant it might feel, that entire picture, the moving parts, the people, the businesses, the communities, the countries and everything else are what is called a system or what some might refer to as The System.

The Solution isn’t in the detail. It’s about The System itself. If we change the way the system works, the details will take care of themselves

The way that The System works or the processes, patterns and behaviours that make The System work the way that it does is called a Paradigm.

Whilst the many solutions to society’s problems being suggested may have been very well thought out, they are usually idealistic and fail in some way, simply because they overlook the practical reality of the way that The System or the existing Paradigm works and affects everything.

The Paradigm that needs to be changed, or shifted, is based on, focused and is developing even now around Money and how everyone thinks about it.

The shift to a new Paradigm and the process that will bring solutions to all the problems that we have will require us to be values orientated and therefore People-Centric instead.

The question we all face, and that our future, the future of our communities, our country and probably the world too rests upon is ‘What will it actually take for enough of us to change our minds?’

Stepping back from the small stuff to embrace the bigger picture

The switch from subjectivity to objective thinking may sound easy when framed that way. But the reality is that if the ability to see everything objectively were as straightforward or automatic as looking at everything subjectively, the World would already function very differently and be a much happier and healthy place.

Chances are that you will have heard and understand the phrase ‘Can’t see the wood for the trees’.

This is a simple way to consider the relationship between detail (being in the trees) and the overview (the view of the whole wood) that is a key part of the journey that now follows in this book.

Although One Rule Changes Everything is about working with the bigger picture, to give the process and solution the meaning required to be both viable and for its longevity to be assured, it is necessary to appreciate how The System we live in today really works by having an understanding and appreciation of what the detail means or what it collectively adds up to first.

If you are ready, it’s time to begin:

This Introduction is taken from One Rule Changes Everything, published on Amazon on 23rd December 2023. To download your copy, please follow the link below:

As I write in December 2023, there is much talk in the news of the UK’s Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak being replaced by his Political Party, and of the next General Election which is generally considered most likely to be called for the early Summer or Autumn of 2024.

Politics in the UK today is regrettably very tribal. But within these tribes, two different ideologies dominate, even though for some people, they will not be recognised by name.

They are Socialism and Neoliberalism (Or what most believe to be Capitalism with a more modernised name).

Whilst Socialism and Capitalism (which has really been Neoliberalism since the removal of the Gold Standard in 1971) were clearly very different political ideas historically and were previously easily defined through analysis of the public policies that they espoused and implemented; such clear definition no longer exists.

The only discernible difference between the Political Parties that exist in the UK today is the language that they use to frame and promote the Neoliberalism that now drives and is common to them all.

Neoliberalism is a control-level obsession with money, overtly displayed as a fixation with the idea that the markets are much better stewards of everything than government could ever be.

The true purpose of Neoliberalism is also its greatest danger to Humanity.

To be successful, Neoliberalism requires constant growth of the volume of money in circulation. This in turn means that whilst newly created money is funneled towards those who are already rich, the value of everything owned by everyone else is constantly becoming less and this now means that the wealth divide is growing exponentially – which is why so many of us are now getting hurt.

The wealth divide is now so wide, that what we are now demonstrating to be the meaningless ideologies that the different Political Parties in the UK play around with can only dictate or influence the speed with which the lived experience of the masses continues to degenerate and get progressively worse.

Both Socialism and Neoliberalism are presented to the public as being the champions or causes of freedom. Socialism through the freedom to be equal with all things, where that equality is inevitably designed or defined by someone else, so is never really about equality at all. Neoliberalism, where freedom is presented as being the removal of the state or government from every part of life and the public sector with the inherent suggestion that market freedom can only benefit everyone. Whereas what that freedom really becomes is freedom for big money from law and restrictions, meaning that those with lots of money can increasingly control everything and everyone using civil law and the courts as if they have become the government itself.

The Neoliberalism pursued by politicians is nothing more than a dictatorship by private proxy that just creates misery, harm and poverty for the masses. It facilitates a System that doesn’t either represent or resemble anything like freedom at all.

If you can understand and accept that this is how the reality of the narrative really works, the only suggestion that I will add is that it will serve neither your own nor anyone else’s interests to feel angry about what the people we have elected have really been doing all the way along.

Politicians, public servants and people in the public eye are human too. It is simply amazing just how many of them don’t really see how they have also been played and as such, they have no real understanding of the damage that they genuinely do.

This excerpt is taken from One Rule Changes Everything, Published on Amazon for Kindle, 23rd December 2023.

Please stop and think about this question for a moment, before you continue reading.

You may have just realised that we don’t think about money in any great depth at all. And the reason you don’t think very deeply about money is likely to be because of the myths that surround money.

The myths around money are paradoxical. Because the money myths are what make money work in the way that it does today. Yet at the same time, the money myths hide the way that money works in a way that stops the majority of us from even questioning things that ‘don’t add up’ about money.

But the truths about money are quite literally hiding in plain sight.

The simplicity of the money system is what makes it seem intelligent and intelligent people don’t question the money system because the way it works is literally too simple to believe

Understanding how money really works within the Money-Centric Paradigm is like going on a voyage of discovery, all of its own and in itself, and there is a risk that it will feel like going down a rabbit hole.

The simplicity of how the economic and financial system works around us is breathtaking in its simplicity. The principles which we all accept as being far more complicated than they really are.

This is what helps anyone who works within or who is benefitting from the way that money works to convince the rest of the world that money is not only real, but how it works is far too complicated for any normal person to understand, to question or get involved.

If you follow the news or current affairs, you will regularly hear newsreaders and commentators talking about National Debts in the Billions and Trillions of US Dollars and Pounds.

But this raises questions about where all that money came from first.

Most people think that the money we save is what banks then use to lend to other people and to businesses, when those people and businesses take out loans.

But where did the money come from that means Governments around the world can now be in Trillions of Dollars or Pounds in debt?

Did we all have that money in our hands or in our bank accounts to begin with?

Have big companies really earned all that money and then kept it in their bank accounts so that they have accumulated all that money so that it can be used to bail our governments out?

The answer – as you are probably beginning to realise, is that the money being used to accumulate all this debt, doesn’t actually exist.

The money we use, borrow and save, has been created by monetary and financial systems that are in private hands and not controlled by the government or the public they represent.

The fact that the money in the Money-Centric Paradigm is controlled by private, profit-making hands makes all the pain that is being inflicted on everyone because of money even worse.

So, yes, it is this same system that is used to ‘print’ or create the money that we all borrow and probably earn or maybe receive in benefits too.

Therefore, the money that runs everything is effectively being conjured out of thin air.

Money is nothing but a belief.

When we are led to believe in something that doesn’t exist and behave as if that thing is real, the reality is that we have been conned and are living a lie.

This Blog is an excerpt from my book One Rule Changes Everything, published on Amazon, for Kindle on 23rd December 2023.

If you want to understand the money lie better, some of the best information on how the world really works is available for you to watch, listen to and read at your fingertips. You just need to ask the right questions and make sure that you check the credibility of either the sources and speakers or repeat the same process over and over a few times until you have listened to a range of different sources and are able to conclude what you believe to be the truth.

If you can, please avoid using AI for any research if you want to really understand how anything works, as you will never be sure if you are reading the truth, or the truth that someone else wants you to believe, if you do!

Why not give the video linked below a try to begin with: It’s called The Four Horsemen by Renegade inc. It’s now a decade old, but it will guide you to further questions and to finding all the answers that you really should know.