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Homo Economics SD TUCKER
They say the two things we can never escape are death and taxes – but the creator of Prior Choice Economics, Addison Brown, would have disagreed. Dare you become entangled within the world-wide web of his global financial Homo Net? SD TUCKER investigates. L ast issue, we met the would-be Space Age President Gabriel Green, champion of Prior Choice Economics, which, in Green’s words, rests upon the core principle that “Everything is… the sum total of all that has taken place before”. Applied to finance, this means that a person doesn’t actually have any less money in their bank account once they have spent it. Green, by his own admission, was not the originator of the theory on which he based his political and economic platform; this was Addison Brown (1922-2000), a one-time student of nuclear physics turned wandering mystic, a Jesus-like figure who “wore a beard and had long, wavy hair down to his shoulders”, went by the name of ‘John Believer’ and penned such works as
Talking with Clouds, Conquering Death and All Problems Solved. According to Green, Brown had come up with the idea of Prior Choice as early as 1947.
During the mid-1990s web-boom, a strange Prior Choice Economics website appeared online, maintained in the name of none other than ‘John Believer’ himself, the self-described “Prophet-Writer-Inventor” Addison Brown, the original Earthly father of the entire creed. Apparently maintained by a Canadian computer-programmer named Alan K Wu, perhaps Brown’s sole remaining follower, the site stood as something of a shrine to the wandering preacher and his words. Prior to suffering a debilitating stroke in 1996, followed by his death in 2000, it turns out Brown had hoped to set up a Foundation to continue his work, which had recently moved on from pure economic theory to a further, even more advanced stage of knowledge – raising the dead.
According to Wu’s account, Brown’s ambitiously-named ‘Human Reincarnation and Resurrecting the Dead Project’ grew directly from his work on economics and was brought to a successful conclusion during the late 1990s, when the two men had developed a very special piece of software named Miracle.zip. This amazing program – available for free download from Brown’s website until March 2017, when the pages were tragically taken offline – would reputedly allow PCusers to raise from the dead any person they so desired. I couldn’t get it to work myself, but it sounds as if Miracle.zip was some kind of astrology program which allowed you to work out “how best to time the birth of a child using computerised horoscopetiming so as to… duplicate the soul-shape and consciousness of a person previously alive but now ‘deceased’”. Initially, it seems hard to see what necromancy has to do with economics, but Brown and Wu did their best to explain.
OH MR WU, WHAT DID YOU DO?
The central thing to appreciate was that for Brown the entire physical basis of the Universe was reliant upon something called ‘resonation physics’. Consider how a bell, when struck, continues to vibrate, echoing the original sound, until finally it fades away. We say that the sound resonates, or repeats itself in a declining fashion, like ripples from a pebble thrown into a still pond. Brown claimed that Creation itself was modelled upon such a pattern of wave-like resonance, the Universe being nothing more than “a system of interacting resonations or repeating events”. If this was so, then repetition was an inherent quality of the cosmos (imagine the pond was infinite, so the ripples eventually circled back on themselves, like a ship circumnavigating the globe). Whilst the nature of many of the cosmic waves rippling throughout the Universe was as yet unknown to mankind, their fleeting manner of combination at the time of a baby’s birth determined the exact shape of its soul by virtue of their combined physical pressure upon it. Therefore, if you could work out the precise state of such cosmic waves at the time of Einstein’s birth, you could wait until such an arrangement of waves reccurred (which it inevitably would, these waves being perpetually resonant and repetitive in nature) and then “put Einstein back in a new body on purpose to let him continue his work”. Wu and Brown’s Miracle.zip allowed prospective parents to do such a thing intentionally with, it was said, a tempting one-in-three success rate – psychic IVF.
In a resonant Universe, every human being was to all intents and purposes “a radio-like broadcasting and receiving device”. Human bodies could be thought of as walking biological TV-sets, which could easily be replaced when broken down beyond repair. When your TV-set was knocked over, Brown pointed out, you did not mourn but went and bought a new one that you then tuned in to “the same wave-shape of repeating events phenomena [i.e. channel frequency] as the TV that fell off a table and died”, to begin watching exactly the same channels you did before; the absence of a receiver does not imply the absence of a broadcasting wave. In much the same way, when a person’s body died, the interactive TV show of their soul was still being broadcast somewhere in the Universe. All that needed to be done to resurrect the dead was to tune back in to the correct resonant frequency of a deceased person’s soul-shape by conceiving
HIS UTOPIAN AIM WAS TO CREATE “TEAM HUMANS ON THE EARTH”
a new infant at the precise astrologicallydetermined time for it to be influenced by the relevant cosmic waves in question. Then, the baby would automatically become the deceased figure of your choice as soon as it exited the womb, and began receiving resonant, soul-shaping, brain-squashing space-waves through its internal biological antennæ – that is to say, your new baby would be a reincarnated human being: Albert Einstein II or Bill Shakespeare Jr. “Turn on, tune in, drop out”, as midwives should now say.
MORAL CAPITAL
To Brown, the advent of the Internet meant mankind had literally evolved into a new species; from Homo sapiens, we had become
Homo net. Brown produced pamphlets with the phrase ‘HOMO NET’ written across them in capital letters, urging the open-minded to log onto his site and make personal contact with him, although I fear some young males who read them may have got the wrong idea. Nonetheless, Brown’s utopian aim of using humanity’s newly-networked existence to create “TEAM HUMANS ON THE EARTH” was couched by him largely in economic terms. Describing the problem of growing online piracy, Brown accurately anticipated such practices would have a disruptive economic impact for intellectual copyrightholders, greatly undermining the entire capitalist system. However, Brown declared that web piracy was truly no problem at all, but an opportunity. By trying to prosecute the pirates, corporate lawyers were ignoring the resonant basis of all Creation. What was really needed within our new Internet age were not lawsuits, but a complete re-ordering of capitalist society – to be achieved through the introduction of Prior Choice Economics.
Apart from much mention of using the new-fangled World Wide Web to administer the whole programme, Brown’s basic scheme had not altered in any significant way since Gabriel Green’s decades-old tilts at the presidency; it was just that the underlying rationale underpinning it had become more overtly mystical, rather than related to UFOs and ETs, subjects Brown nowhere mentioned. Prior Choice Economics was now billed as part of a wider cosmology, “a way to fit ALL the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle… together… not a solution only to business problems.” Brown asks us to consider the way that the ultimate sum total of mass in existence in the Universe always remains as a constant. Nothing is ever truly destroyed, only transformed – its existence resonates forever throughout the cosmos. Burn some wood, and the wood still exists, but in another form; as ash and smoke, as atoms of carbon, and so forth. If this simple physical law is applied economically, said Brown, then the value of any labour an individual worker has ever performed must still exist, too. Say you work for a single hour, at a rate of $5 per hour. A packet of cigarettes cost $5, so your one hour’s worth of labour will allow you to buy one packet, and then no more – forever. But where has that $5 gone? It still exists, in the shopkeeper’s till. You earned it, so why not keep it? Under Prior Choice, you can and do keep it, forever! That hour’s worth of expended labour, and the $5 you accumulated, resonates outwards from your bank account eternally, keeping you in $5 packets of cigarettes for life. Just as a Miracle.zip baby tunes into a dead person’s soul, still resonating outwards across the Universe, so a special Prior Choice creditcard, which links to the Internet with every till purchase, will tune in to the resonance of your accumulated ‘financial soul’, as it were. The way ahead is not to destroy the worker’s hard-won $5 via spending, but to rearrange the wider financial system upon resonant principles so that the money, just like the soul which earned it, becomes immortal.
The ultimate unspoken conclusion to be drawn is that one’s Prior Choice CreditScore could be maintained after death, when passing between material bodies, like permanent financial karma. When you turn a TV off one day and switch it back on tomorrow, that day’s episode of your favourite show follows on from the last one, rather than starting all over again at the beginning; and when a person’s soul-shape is reincarnated via tuning a baby into the correct resonance-waves, the child retains some of the memories of its previous life within its brain too, otherwise there would be no point in reincarnating as baby Einstein. You could read this as implying that, come the Day of Judgement, God will assess your Credit Score, accumulated over several lifetimes, and assign you a place within Heaven or Hell based upon it. The higher your cumulative Prior Choice Score, the cleaner your soul – an entire moral bookkeeping service. No need to spend tedious hours in Purgatory counting the black spots on your soul anymore; just go online and ask Experian for your own personal Prior Choice Credit-rating today
This article is extracted and condensed
from False Economies: The Strangest, Least Successful and Most Audacious Financial Follies, Plans and Crazes of All Time by SD Tucker, available from Amberley Publishing, £18.99, ISBN: 9781445672342.
SD TUCKER writes regularly for FT and is the author of such fortean books as Space Oddities, Forgotten Science, Great British Eccentrics, The Hidden Folk, Terror of the Tokoloshe and Paranormal Merseyside. His latest, False Economies, is out now.