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Medianomics is an interesting study.

It’s lacked a name so far, even though it’s principles are well known and practiced. No one has tried to put it all into one framework before – but it touches all of our lives.

It’s been known mostly by it’s results: the mundane, the average, the hum-drum, the mediocre. And as much as it’s been run down, it’s the way the vast majority of us live our lives.

But practically, it runs the planet, produces the majority of the goods, and consumes them in turn. The subject of Medianomics actually runs this humankind planet we live on.

A simple definition (and graphical) is found in the Bell Curve. It’s all that big hump in the middle which researchers found are in neither extreme.

Practically, it really looks like a 3D bump -like one you run over in your average car -  as there are all sorts of extremes out on the edge with that great common bump in the middle. Most of our academia (itself an extreme) only compares two different types of things, instead of studying a universe of them all at once. But that’s how we live our lives – the law of averages sur-plus in technicolor.

What does Medianomics cover?

Just about everything. Politics, Religion, Government, Celebrities, Economics, Media, you name it.

Because Medianomics studies involve the middle ground. It involves what is routinely popular and common sense. It comes from finding the “median” or the middle.

But it also includes the study of extremist edges, the fads, the oddball stuff that winds up in Freakonomics books.

It’s easiest to explain if we cover some examples.

What Wal-Mart, Dubya and Obama have in common

Sam Walton found the “sweet spot” of merchandizing by finding out how to offer and deliver most of what everyone wants for just a little bit less than anyone else. He started it out in the Middle West, where big store chains like J.C. Penney, Sears and Montgomery Ward had settled long ago and become complacent, fat, and lazy. They were also shrinking.

Walton apprenticed in Penney’s, got a business degree in University of Missouri, and set up his business operations in Arkansas. This was contrary to the “conventional wisdom” of all time. No one starts and expands a national (and now multinational) business out of Flyover Country (except the very Medianomic Warren Buffett).  But the business model was the one which made the success.

You won’t find specialty items in Wal-Mart – just the usual stuff you can find anywhere. Sure, they’ll stock some extremely popular items, but once they quit selling, they are off the shelves and sent back to be remaindered. Merchanizing is a very cut-throat, black-and-white business.

Because average people have average needs. While they will buy flatscreen TV’s, they also buy a whole lot more soap, tires, and dog food. So finding suppliers who can give decently priced goods and then have them set up their headquarters and warehouses next to yours in the middle of nowhere is actually a win-win all around. If you study Wal-Mart’s hub-and-spoke distribution in conjunction with his sales strategies, you’ll see exactly how brilliant this guy was.

The key point is that he’s selling to the middle, with prices that they can afford – and keeping it all under one roof as a convenience. Same way with expanding into groceries.

Bush and Obama were elected with pluralities (well, mostly) – so they knew how to tell the middle of the country what they wanted to hear. Both of them had decidedly different coalitions of middle-ground supporters, but nonetheless, they were popular when elected. But both were found to be polarizing extremists, who dropped in popularity rapidly. Subquently this made it hard to get anything done.  Both spent a lot (LOT) of our taxpayer money in order to get a lot of support from Washington cronies,  but this made them extremely unpopular outside the Beltway. (Because we voted them in to act like we do – and spending borrowed money we know isn’t very wise.)

But they both applied Wal-Mart marketing (Medianomically speaking) of telling the bulk of the people what they wanted to hear. But this talk of bipartisanship really gets annoying after awhile. Because it’s not possible. Both political parties are extremist – so they are unpopular, except within their hard-core middle.

What is popular (and always has been) is the independent middle. People who make up their own mind, regardless of what candidates say, and what party they are registered with. And they are usually “surprised” when some politician doesn’t own up or follow up on their many promises. Because they are being told by politicians every two years (or weekly in a special interview on TV) exactly what political analysts think they wanted to hear.

But a funny accident happened when Bush cut taxes – revenue went up. Which means that to find the real  sweet-spot of taxes, they have to keep cutting.  People don’t mind paying taxes as long as 1) they get something valuable back from it, and 2) it doesn’t make things too expensive to buy or costs them their job.  No one knows what the popular level of taxation actually is. Because our politicians quit being average once they live in Washington for a few years. They turn into elite extremists. (Voter-enforced term limits usually cures that addiction.) Since most elected officials buy into the notion that spending other-people’s money on your local pet-pork boondoggle is the way to get re-elected. Not.

(Continued in Part 2…)

Just to make this all official: I have a religion.

Of course it’s taken over 50 years to nail it down. And only through blogging and suffering through several scams, as well as writing books about them – only then have I recently had it all come clear.

Here’s the key points. I call them my Freedoms:

1. I believe what I believe. And my freedom to do so doesn’t depend on anyone or anything around me.

2. Governments are optional. My choice to participate in their programs and policies – or not – is my own freedom. And any government “body” or organization has no authority over me except what I grant them. This is my freedom.

3. My faith and beliefs require me to pray/meditate constantly. Everywhere I am, everything I use around me, all that I create – these are all part of my own religious belief-system. Anything a government might claim I “own” is used to further my own personal salvation/redemption/enlightenment. The world is my church. I am free to pray and meditate as I want. This is my freedom.

4. I am free to act or say as I want. The effects I create with these actions are the mutual responsibility of myself and those who are on the effect-end of those actions or statements. I give no authority to anyone to tell me what I can or can’t say or do. This is my freedom.

5. My redemption/salvation/enlightenment is my own to choose. No one else is going to redeem me, save me, or enlighten me. Only I can do this and only for myself. How I choose to do this is my freedom.

6. And I have the freedom to alter these beliefs anytime I want to, for any “reason”. I don’t have to tell anyone about any personal change I make. I owe no one any of my freedoms, as they are created, maintained, and supported by me and me alone. I am free.

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Why I bring these to you at this time is my way of being polite. Thought you might be able to use something like this in your life. As we are all connected in some way, how I help you with your freedom helps me with mine.

These principles, these beliefs, are older than all the hills, mountains, and valleys on this planet. Older than this universe, in fact. You can find them in any philosophy on this planet that still exists in some format or another. If you doubt this, ask any real Master or Sage and see if they don’t tell you that these exist.

A real Master or Sage will ask you why you are even bringing this up. They are that obvious. Writing this is even redundant.

But I’m sure some dedicated soul can find someone with some “authority” somewhere who disagrees with what I say above. This is their choice. This is their freedom.

I’ve found personally that your freedoms are created by you as a natural occurrence. You can only limit or give away your freedoms yourself. Governments and other people have no authority except what you give them. Perhaps they have a purpose, perhaps not. Your choice, your freedom.

Can you affect someone else’s freedom? Only with their permission.

People can be as free as they want, however they decide to be. Some decide to live with incredible amounts of “money” in their lives. Others decide to live in “poverty”. Any person can have any amount of freedom or happiness or peace that they want. And while you can look for confirmation of this in our oldest philosophies (such as Huna, or newer Masters such as Alan Watts and Lester Levenson), you really only have to look within your Self to see what you choose to believe, and what “works” for you.

And in looking through these various older teachings, you might even get your Self free from the illusion of death. Maybe. Up to you.

To my understanding at this moment, this universe is just a sham, an illusion, a scam. And it still exists only to the exact degree we believe there is still a purpose for it.

So I invite you to laugh at everything around you. Realize, just perhaps, that all this is simply a very good (or very bad) joke you are playing on yourself – for whatever reason that comes to mind.

And even this essay is a joke you created – or a path to enlightenment, salvation, or redemption. Your choice.

Your freedom.

Go Thunk Yourself.

One last point.

Your path is entirely your own. There is only one Way for you – and that is the one you pick out and resolve for yourself.

This idea of using the releasing technique, my little joke of using “KISS BUTT” to get everything you really want in life – that doesn’t work for everyone.

There are exactly as “many paths up the mountain” as their are individuals in this Universe.  There can be no “one way and only one way” – because we are all connected, but completely different.

While all spiritual paths are correct in their basic data, many religions (and governments) go astray because they inherit the same problems their followers have. They think they are separate from everyone else and so they are right and everyone else is wrong.

Needless to say, this doesn’t work. Thinking someone else is wrong just comes back to you, doesn’t it?  Accepting people for what they are, giving them unconditional love – these actions will bring you acceptance and love in return, won’t they?

That old Golden Rule scene we’ve talked about over and over.

The other phrase I’m fond of quoting goes: “No one school has all the teachers.” That’s from the older Polynesian sayings, which are probably the oldest surviving philosophic system that this planet has. And those islands are amazingly peaceful these days.

While I tell people that releasing is probably the greatest discovery since Fire and the Wheel (right up there with sliced bread and spreadable margarine) – I also have to say that it’s not for everyone.

I tell you to throw away all that you’ve read here and prove it for yourself. That is really, really the only way to find Truth. Because truth is completely personal to you. No two people share the same exact truth.

Of course that explains why no government really works and dictators seldom end their career alive and in power.

The best approach is and always has been to let people work things out for themselves. Let communities solve situations as best they can, groups of communities decide what’s best on a broader basis, states to solve solutions based on a broad consensus (if at all) and the national government to simply keep its nose out – excepting only national concerns like defense and safeguarding trade lines.

And I’d love every single government employee at all levels to apply less kiss-butt and more KISS BUTT – they could release on having to control and approve anything for the rest of us, as well as only doing those things which would benefit others as they would like to be benefited.

But regardless of politics, just work out the optimal solution for yourself.

Whatever your path is – go at it until you achieve your own personal freedom and everlasting happiness. We all share one other, common thing – inside, we are all Masters. And we just need to let is shine out through all that we’ve stacked up on top of it. Do just that for yourself and we all win.

Thanks for listening to all I’ve said here. Now I’m done.

You can safely throw it all away and write your own blog now.

I wish you a great eternity.