Returning to the issue of the personal quest for power, a smaller percentage of any population go well beyond what is only a tendency in the majority and have personalities totally consumed with the quest for power over others. If it were possible, and I believe it is both possible and vital, these people should be largely excluded from any position of authority or influence over others, in government and elsewhere.
Surely some type of revolution is called for, but of a type not seen in the past, at least not wholly. Historically, elements of what is needed have appeared here and there only to be defeated or subsumed. All revolutions of the past have failed, else we would not be in this dire situation today. Some have failed by being defeated by the status quo. The rest have failed by winning, gaining power and eventually becoming what they fought against.
I’ll not reiterate here to any degree the mass of evidence of criminality that characterize the workings of government, specifically the government of the united states [Dwight’s wink and nod for those of you who understand the true nature of the United States of America, Inc.] of America. The gathering of such evidence is an ongoing project, being carried out diligently by skillful, talented people of every political stripe. Briefly, we know that our government, like most others, is an ongoing fraud, designed to funnel wealth, property and the fruits of production from the many who make it to the few who collect it without regard to the barest, most minimal values that we espouse as making us different from predator beasts. Despite the superficial forms of government institutions, real power is wielded by those persons and entities who control the wealth of nations and who list among their various properties government itself.
So far we’ve arrived at two valuable and simple observations about the operation of our society. The two are so akin and interdependent that each is nearly a restatement of the other: 1) unless specifically forestalled, political power and wealth is obtained most often by those who desire it most. These individuals are the most likely to be of sociopathic and sadistic personality and are the least deserving of positions of influence and authority; 2) political power is directly proportional to the amount of wealth a person or institution owns or controls. Formal government tends to degenerate to nothing more than a functional mask for the operation of this real world power.
Volumes could be written, and have been, analyzing the core arguments just stated, pursuing numerous branches with much weighty, erudite opinion and analysis until the subject begins to sink under a mass of ambiguity and pure weight of words. Simplistic ideas are justifiably to be held in suspicion because we know the worlds of economics and human society to be generally complex and dynamic processes. Yet, here I contend that these specific simplisms are in fact true in the broadest application and that expanding on them overmuch will lead to less clarity rather than more.
The process of accumulation of wealth in fewer and fewer hands presents attributes of an accelerating addiction and a frenetic race between an ever-shrinking group of contenders. Describing the factions involved presents severe difficulties. They are not merely groups of corporations, alliances of countries, intelligence agencies or loosely affiliated financiers. Nor are they cabals of cigar-smoking, backroom, secret-society manipulators, or corrupt and compromised politicians. Some shifting combination of all of these is the closest we can come to a description of the powers-that-be. Short term gain and long term planning seem to alternate as goals in an unpredictable fashion. Alliances form and dissolve. Factions who war to the death in one arena cooperate in another simultaneously. I think there is limited value in too many people spending too many resources in trying to understand the day to day actions of the power elite. We should grant great kudos to those whose interest and expertise this is. Others of us should begin to think and plan on how to remove their tools of power.
The reader will have noticed by now that I’m assuming the audience for this effort is composed of people who have acquired enough knowledge to know that the ship is sinking. I see no point in attempting here an encyclopedic effort to persuade the uninformed or consciously blind. I’ve not yet mentioned freemasons, Zionists, Jesuits, Communists, Nazis, bankers, globalists or even 911. I have some points to make in the nature of reminders of things that the reader may have forgotten, so let me just state them as simply as I can.
The conscience of man resides in the majority. I’m not speaking of any metaphysically shared awareness, but of simple morality at its most prosaic level. The majority of men, despite being burdened with that culturally acquired, artificially heightened desire for power I spoke of earlier, genuinely wish for little more than to live out their lives as free men, to be able to care for their children and see them safely into adulthood, to work meaningfully, to keep the lion’s share of what they earn and not live in fear of want, to live in a generally sensible world where basic ideas and practices of human justice are the normal experience of everyday life. Such a world is possible. Such a life is possible.
It’s difficult to talk about the gross errors in our thinking about economics without using some terms of Marxist analysis. There is such a thing as class warfare. But the failure of our economy lies not within capitalism itself but with its distortions. Language can be used to such a destructive effect. One man confronts another with a knife and says “Give me your money or I’ll kill you.” This is the free market, the first binding custom, the first formal law that placed limits on what one may do in commerce ended the free market. What is meant today by this term is precisely this: we shall make man himself a commodity, squeeze from him his labor and his life, make him contest with the poorest of the earth for his pittance, and when we are done with him, sell his husk for hogfeed.
The basic mechanics of a workable and just economy can be laid out within one paragraph, albeit a lengthy one:
Property is good. Most everyone should have some. Too much property in too few hands means someone can buy the government and make law of their own choosing. We solve this by taxing net worth instead of wages and purchases. We repudiate debt that we did not agree to and no longer borrow fake money from private banks and enslave ourselves to them. We put the creation of currency in public hands and don’t allow it to degrade so that people may save for the things they want instead of borrow. We revamp most of the laws regarding corporations until they become sensibly sized, responsible, liable and mortal institutions. We don’t import more than we export. We stop sending our military around the world to suppress populist movements, kill people, and take control of resources. We promote a healthy competition among many suppliers of goods and services by not allowing any of them to grow large enough to stifle the rest. We stop using mind-control techniques to make people want things they do not need and did not want before. We draw a heavy economic line around the country, defining what is here and ours and what is over there and theirs. We wish the rest of the world peace and prosperity and protect our own. There is a set of methods that cartel capitalists use to create and maintain a chronic excess of laborers who must then compete with each other for subsistence wages. These methods can be reversed to create a chronic labor shortage. Before you shrink in horror from the idea, consider what that means. It means a job for most everyone who wants or needs one at wages that allow them to enjoy life. It means most of the crime committed because of unemployment and poverty will stop. It means that most prisons and entire departments of the government who deal with the unemployed, poor and disabled can be closed. Hundreds of thousands of state and federal bureaucrats can be released for useful, productive work, perhaps for the first time in their lives. It means being able to tell your employer what you think of him and go elsewhere if he doesn’t treat you well. The economic system will prove each day what has before only been an embattled notion. People have value. Their efforts have value. Such simple things are all workable and doable.
It will require a large and powerful nation to make such a transition. The transnational elements that increasingly rule the planet would cease their own internal competitions in an instant in order to destroy such a nation. We know this because the united states has been used as the main agent of that destruction many times. The class warfare that has been ongoing for thousands of years is only capitalist versus working class in its most current incarnation. It’s almost a minor detail that this is its most salient feature at present. Concentration of property into fewer and fewer hands cannot happen without a legal system that enshrines and protects that ownership along with the martial means to enforce such law. A most important point seems to have been missed about the last century. We have not been defeated by clever business practices but by simple raw force. That force is exercised in the main by basically good people believing they are doing a good thing. They can be taught. Their ability to connect the dots and to feel sympathy for their fellow man can be reawakened.
In any case, we are witnessing the climax of this demonic brand of capitalism along with its inevitable retirement. There are new and worse tools of control which will replace this system if we do not soon replace the current ruling elite with a real democratic government. The class warfare which has been the perennial sculptor of society and which we had best get familiar with is between the mass of men who have no overriding internal need to make others suffer and a minority who do have that need. The controllers of society rely on the debate never being framed in such a way. My suggestion is that we begin to speak of power and evil in simpler terms, always touching on those basic moral values most people hold in common. Those values lie passive but alive in the mass of men, inactive beneath an acquired veneer of illusion, ambiguity, hopelessness and nihilism. I think that people can be awakened and I think that in their secret hearts they want to be.
