http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Ring_Of_Periodic_Elements_(TROPE)

Strange news i heard today (Saturday 7 June 2014) in the Kensington market from an old friend of mine Yuri Kuchinsky, who is an academic scholar in Biblical archaeology and ancient history, infamous for translating and publishing the so-called Magdalene gospel from old to new English (http://theuniverse.name/wp/2009/03/the-magdalene-gospel/), who told me that some Russian-speaking guy came over his basement today with the video camera pointed at him asking him if he knows me, to which Yuri said yes, naturally asking him what's the deal with the camera, so the guy replied that he is going to "expose" his and mine supposed manipulations of global money markets and then when on about some incomprehensible rant about some commodities exchanges etc. 

i naturally had to explain to Yuri that the guy got confused, probably mistaking my educational game TROPE (the ring of periodic elements), something i have been designing for over a decade as a hobby and art project, and it is still in the beta version (http://trope.theuniverse.name/), however its an open source, so there is no rush, and here is the interface i have designed, the TROPE game is design for both online and table format, (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Ring_Of_Periodic_Elements_(TROPE).png) and the front-end online open source universe is at: http://theUniverse.name/

Naturally living in the attic on social assistance, after living in squats and on the streets, while making art, activism, writing philosophy, and doing big and small jobs is, apparently only a front for my, according to that lost soul, global domination and manipulation of international money markets, currencies, and exchanges. 8| Now, sure, my TROPE idea of rolling two dice to make virtual hydrogen atoms which in turn ccan be used to buy other elements or sold for that matter in whatever currency online and offline, or traded, or transferred, destroyed, auctioned, the point is that the Universal Element's Exchange (UEE) as i call it will serve as a bridge between online currencies, such as PayPal credits, Zinga points, Second Life, Bit Coins, etc, to the offline world currencies. such as dollars, euro, won, rubles, etc. with UEE (an open source point of exchange) getting paid from transaction fees, user accounts, advertising, sale of virtual real estate and commodity, premium accounts & services, and corporate shares with the IPO and TSX listing. 

That's the big picture i have dreamed up a while back, and naturally it has the potential of competing with the banks and current monetary system and perhaps even taking over it, the market exchange based on atomic values makes more sense to me, which can be translated into online and offline commodities and value holding entities, however, to propose that i am, an artist living on welfare, is somehow manipulating global money markets sounds, well, crazy and highly unlikely, at this stage of my TROPE anyway. That would take more effort than i was willing to commit to it, that's why it's open source, the world will make good use of it with or without me. I am an artist, i create art, new ideas, show the world my own reflections of it, etc. As an artist my job with the TROPE and the Universe is done. It's been done for over a decade now. The rest is history. 

All things considered, me being high priest and al, i should have, perhaps, expected that some conspiracy hungry lunatics would somehow think that i have so much affluence in the global economics, i mean, i am flattered, i wish it was true mind you, that would be cool. i could live with more money, that's for sure. Anyway, i rent a tiny room for $450 a month with just over $8,000 a year budget, which includes art supplies, server fees, food. coffee, smokes, laundry, and then some... my oh my, prudent management is a must, discipline, and being good piscaterian cook helps, and then meditation, exercise, etc etc, right, thus my trips to the food bank each week in the Church near me are, if i am manipulating the global money markets, are not to get some food but to set global gold prices! Jesus i wish that was true. I am so tired of... wait a sec. what if i actually do have some magic infl... hmmm 8/ i wonder...

strange blobs of uncultured bacteria. the only thing they have exposed so far is their ignorance. mene mene tekel upharsim on him and his expose, bloody Sherlock. man, people, love them -- hate them, can't live with them -- can't live without them. ah, never mind.


Some asked me, "why welfare?"

i wish to be rich with money, and gold and silver coins piled to the ceilings in special rooms of my fabulous castles and palaces. :P

however, welfare it is for now. My last corporate job as a webmaster was $53,000 a year and i paid $1,400 a month in taxes, and that's was absolutely fantastic until the dot com crash... then all hell broke loose the size of the moose... so welfare, my dear human kind being, that's how the system is, for many... and i was homeless before living on the streets, so i know how rough it is out there in the real world. then there are many social problems and individuals with problems, so one high priest for all of you is not going to be enough you see, too many of you and i have my limits too, this planet will need an army of high priests to get it on the right track.

with so much stupidity reigning evil and destruction, wasting efforts and resources, lost generations and souls, parasites and demons on the loose in the kingdom of spiritual decay, with all sorts of busy buddies doing hidden harm to everyone even themselves, turning plenty into scarcity, paradise into hell, diverse environment into monochromatic wasteland...

forcing the artificial human communities driven by the animallstic drive to survive through competition instead of living through collaboration, as human would do -- real humans not animal in human form only --  got to pay rent and make living somehow in this crazy monkey world, and being poor or rich is a full time job, as many can attest to the fact, however being human being -- the homo sapiens (Latin: "wise man") -- is the lifetime effort and objective. 

but back to the current imperfect human system, mortal animals in the human form who organize everything in a strange way, manly to derive value and power rather than use it to satisfy basic needs individually and collectively... the system where they spend $10,000 to figure out where $500 is going. Penny wise but pound foolish. And that's why instead of voting for solutions to the issues, the system is based on politicians and personality contests. 

i think shares based GAI, just like a corporation paying the dividends would be more efficient and in line with the UN Declaration of Human Rights, specifically article 25.

whatever, i have made enough art and wrote enough articles to last a lifetime or two. i am satisfied with my progress, i can't say that about many. this answer is free, i usually charge one year of service for every answer. however i also usually feel generous with my friends. happy trails.