Bcon 304 — Human Dualities
Organic & Inorganic
We The People are Organic and Inorganic in an economy.
Classical economics models the inorganic half. Burkeanomics models both.
We are organic beings.
We are God’s most highly evolved organic beings. As such, we are emotional, idiosyncratic and highly value control over our own lives. Godly people, especially, demand control over our own lives and the lives of our families, to include what we pass along to our heirs. Jesus said, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s", a statement about organic control.
Godly people have an organic sense of self-control based on the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule, the Torah, the Judges and the Prophets. No government can usurp those laws: They define our natural rights, as memorialized by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.
It also turns out that we the people are healthier & wealthier when we control our own lives and those of our families. It’s almost as if God intended it that way. That must be why he made our natural need for control a powerful impulse.
We respond to inorganic stimuli.
Prices go down, we buy more. Prices go up, we buy less.
Markets rise, we gain wealth. Markets fall, we tighten our belts.
We are both organic and inorganic.
Traditional economics views people as inorganic bots.
Burkeanomics views us holistically: organic beings alive to inorganic input.
Electrons & Nucleons
We are Electrons in our personal lives, Nucleons or employees in our work lives.
We are homebodies and hirelings.
We embody love and business.
We pay and we earn.
The Electron-Nucleon dual-role concept (home self and work self, consumer and producer) is foundational to Burkeanomics and the upcoming Burkeanomics Sim.