by Catherine Fitts of Solari.com

For those who don’t yet know about Catherine Fitts, it’s time! She’s a tour de force and super-positive change agent.

Catherine is the publisher of The Solari Report, and managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC and Sea Lane Advisory, LLC. Catherine served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration.

You can click on the link above to get to the Coming Clean PDF or read some of it below.

“As we manage increasing levels of complexity in our lives due to new technology and globalization, we are also dealing with rising levels of political and economic uncertainty and an ongoing effort to build a digital control grid with digital IDs, digital money that can be programmed with a social credit system, and an expensive AI, data center, and telecommunications infrastructure. In this environment, thinking strategically about what we need to know, how to access and acquire that knowledge, and how to build collaborative networks to help us do so can provide a steady flow of new energy. There is a reason why nations have intelligence agencies and why companies have lifelong learning programs and investigative firms. When we look back through history, how did our ancestors deal with periods of high spiritual and financial stress? What worked? Surely, nothing that we are dealing with today is tougher than what Native Americans, slaves, or immigrants and settlers dealt with during the past 300 years. Some cultures have evolved a high degree of knowledge as well as protocols for surviving great levels of stress. We can identify and learn from those who have this knowledge.”

“Build a high-integrity network of trusted people who are willing to “conspire” and watch each other’s back.”

A NEW UNITY IS PERCOLATING by Catherine Fitts

In her 2002 article “Solari and the Rise of the Rule of Law” (solari.com/hibt), Catherine told the story of one of her partners, an entrepreneur who grew up on a small island. He once explained why small islands produce a much higher percentage of people who are good at starting and building successful businesses. Someone who grows up on a small island sees how everything is connected, so it is much easier for that person to learn how to take responsibility for the whole — to see how all time and energy is precious and to never waste anything. People who grow up on small islands, he said, understand that “a penny saved is a penny earned.”

He had been taught from the time he was a small child to connect the behavior of individual people with how everything worked around him. He said that he had learned to adjust his behavior so that it contributed to the system working in the way he hoped it would. His family, his school, and his church all encouraged him to take responsibility for the whole in practical, concrete ways. People who grow up on small islands understand that “what goes around comes around.” He said that America is just a very big island, but most Americans do not know this — nor do they understand that the planet is also just an even bigger island. They cannot connect how the system works — particularly the aspects of the system they do not like — with their own choices and actions. They do not have even simple maps of how things connect. They do not understand their own power to vote with their prayers, their thoughts, their choice of friends and spouse, their actions, and how they spend their money every day. In contrast, people who grow up on small islands “see the world whole.”

The point of this story is that many of us look at our situation only from our own point of view. From every degree of the circle, there is a different definition of what ails us, of why our system isn’t working, and what the solutions are. Often, what we perceive as our own individual problems are really just the symptoms that each person experiences of the deeper problems that we all share. Many times, we think that the solution is to blame or attack someone, or to propose that more government or private capital be spent in a (futile) attempt to keep the wolf from the door. 

Without a simple map of where we are, of the tapeworm that we are feeding, and of how to withdraw and shift our energy, we forget that what we do counts and that, at the simplest level, you simply can’t eat what you don’t grow. Our society has encouraged and participated in tremendous speculative financial activity at the expense of the concrete productive sector of our economy. The impact on our economic productivity has been predictable. The deterioration of our living equity — our neighborhoods, infrastructure, and environmental resources — can be seen in every place — north, south, east, west — and it touches everyone, rich and poor alike. The dumbing down of the workforce grows as daily television and social media consumption reach frightening levels and teach counterproductive behavior. What is happening in our neighborhoods parallels what is happening around the world. 

The people who feel that their biggest problem is their financial equity — falling yields on their investment portfolios — have yet to see that they cannot enjoy capital gains unless they preserve their living equity. That is, our neighborhoods and children need to be kept safe, and we need to understand that the very things that will contribute to their safety — an increase in real human productivity, honest feedback systems, and a restoration of personal accountability — will also lead to huge increases in collective investment capital in the economy. The people who feel that their greatest problem is living equity — that they and their children are not safe and that our environment is being destroyed, or that we are committing genocide in other parts of the world (or down the block) — also have yet to see what the real issue is. We cannot achieve personal safety when yields for both retail and institutional investors are dependent on profits from organized crime, trickery of the investing public, and government guarantees that promote unproductive investment and personal behavior. Only when we achieve real economic growth based on concrete increases in productivity, accounted for and disclosed on an honest basis, can we be both safe and wealthy.

Coming clean is about reconciling these different points of view and creating a new energizing unity of people, places, and money. Coming clean begins one person at a time. As the lotus blossom opens out of the mud, coming clean begins with you and me — from the inside out. As we come clean, we find that we can live more joyously and profitably, even amid spiritual and economic warfare. As we withdraw the energy that we give each day to the people and organizations destroying our world, we discover that we have new energy to give to each other and to the people and organizations leading the creation of the new world that is percolating. As each of us comes clean, the world we envision emerges.

Our existing leadership believes that the only way to change is to institute a digital control grid — in essence, a 21st-century slavery system. We reject this vision of total central control by the few. It is a hypermaterialist vision and contradictory to how life and intelligence work in the universe. We are confident that an economic model is possible that aligns with life as it is; such a model can bring explosive wealth-building capacity while also addressing necessary risk management. A free world is possible — indeed, it is the only world we wish to create and live in.

Coming clean — we invite you to join us on a journey in support of a world committed to freedom and a human future.