I have had an interesting new year and maybe its just me but patterns seem to emerge which I find interesting so I’m going to share these with anyone who cares.
I was about to embark on a great holiday around Asia until a doctor rang me and informed me that a CT scan I had just done showed I was about to die from heart failure. This was a bit of a surprise as I’m pretty fit and the only reason I did the scan was to try to find the reason for an arrhythmia I get after intense exercise.
So I stayed home in misery reading books and looking at heart problems on the internet hmmm.
Anyway the book I read was The Fate of Civilization by Michael Hudson and as I read it and read about heart health I saw a common theme
I have not delved to much into health just no smoking, fit, moderate diet but as I dived into the heart I found out about Nitic oxide. You might know about it but I didn’t. Nitric oxide is produced by the bacteria in the mouth and stomach as well as within the body by various processes and it is a key component in health from circulation to the immune system
When they discovered my heart condition I was prescribe aspirin and an anticoagulant, statins, beta blockers and a vascular dilation drug. Each one of these drugs either sapped my energy, ruined my sleep, upset my stomach, made me anxious or upset my heart rhythm. I actually felt terrible even though this was for my health.
To top it of each one of these drugs inhibited the formation of nitric oxide.
In The Fate of Civilization Michael Hudson showed that it was unearned income that is destroying our economy and society as well as our ability to save our environment. There are a lot of things around this such as debt and the belief that all debt must be paid but this all revolved around the belief that unearned income was a legitimate income and the ability to extract this must be protected.
The extraction of unearned income in the form of rents, interest, resource use and intellectual property is the major cause of our wealth disparity, it is the reason countries are kept in poverty and why our environment is degraded.
So what do nitric oxide and unearned income have in common?
I have heard no discussion of either of these topics outside of the alternative media. I go to my doctor, do a blood test and am offered statins which are an industrial solution to a problem caused by the industrial nature of our food. I will have a stent which is more industrial solutions and each one adds to GDP. My ill health creates economic benefit according to economists but it is the industrial system and those who own this system who benefit.
With unearned income in the form of rents or interest people are made poorer, demand declines and the countries debt expands, the solution we are told is austerity or a reduction in public services or privatization of our resources. These are the solutions proposed by those who have extracted the unearned income form our countries and their solutions will only benefit them again.
You might say I was told to eat my greens but to be honest I never realised why or the process involved from the greens to my health, I was never told about the role Nitic oxide played and maybe its because my doctor was never taught. This is the same as our economy, most of our economists have probably never heard of unearned income as they are taught all income is earned.
I then read this article about our duty to speak honestly. Now totalitarianism might be some distance from nitric oxide but it is closely linked to unearned income as this is the key that puts the one percent in the one percent.
So read or listen to Michael Hudson and learn about unearned income and talk about unearned income to anyone and everyone. We need to make it part of our language. Oh and don’t forget to eat your kale and beets you need a healthy heart to keep the conversation going.
cheers
here’s a link to Michaels site to
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