Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Human civilization is being engineered in myriad ways by an unfathomably wealthy class who are so emotionally and psychologically stunted that they refuse to end world hunger despite having the ability to easily do so.
Any empathically balanced person possessed of multi-billions of dollars would likely at least give away enough to make a dent in hunger or homelessness; then would be able to die with a sense of having helped lessen the tremendous suffering implicit in predatory capitalism. It would be an act of paying back the society for that rapacious insatiable monster that generated their absurd riches. But billionaires who continue to accumulate wealth demonstrate that such concerns barely register on their radar. This is sociopathy of the first order. That mentally imbalanced freaks like Gates run the society is emblematic of the profound corruption at the core of market economics, essentially a casino for plutocrats.
That's the basic truth the ancient Greeks and other cultures accepted: those individuals who most desire power over others are the least qualified and suited for such a role. In a word - they are sociopaths. And we now see sociopathy being actively encouraged, from corporate board rooms to their toadies in the government and on down to the lives of everyday citizens.
Caitlin, are you nuts? If we forego this opportunity to INTENTIONALLY kill millions of people through starvation or with a mandated vaccine that many believe has already killed 300,000 in the US, and also forego the opportunity to secretly and deftly sterilize millions of young people through those same vaccine, then population MIGHT rise to levels unsustainable with projected resources. If that happens, then millions of people MIGHT die. That would be a catastrophe! You apparently do not agree?
The billionaire class are functioning like renegade nations and despots. They resemble feudal lords and robber barons, who now have the power of monarchs. Without massive decentralization, redistribution of wealth (whatever you might perceive that to be), and sane guidelines for for community self-reliance, there is no future.
I am now totally reminded of Jay Hanson's work that began in the mid 90s, may he RIP. Currently Jeff Gibbs and Derrick Jensen again remind us that the cost of industrialization around solar and wind and other so-called green energy solutions is overrated and too high as well.
We do not have time to build new towns and cities all over again. We need to figure out how to create more open space, repurpose, and convert what we have and not send it all to the landfill. Tough questions. I think it is too late for humans at the point as Capitalism in terminally malignant and is poised to destroy what is left. No turning back.
That does not mean we cannot still embrace and promote those values and goals necessary to create a new vision of local self-reliance and community and remind others how our current system does not measure-up and why.
I appreciate the effort I imagine it took compiling and presenting this dreadful information; I couldn't have done it. I would be too angry and disgusted and turned to pondering auto mechanics in order to calm down (realizing that my doing so doesn't feed anyone, either.
I've written this next paragraph about five times, every one different, but all saying pretty much the same thing: this sucks. So much of what is happening in America right now just plain sucks. I could be much more articulate about it, but not more honest.
I'm vaguely wondering if those strangers who popped out of nowhere last week as champions of capitalism will make a repeat appearance now that their poster boys are on parade? (I know, this isn't true capitalism, blah, blah, blah.)
You'd better just move on to the next reaction because I'm no fun this morning. No solutions either -- just piss and vinegar. Totally useless. Stuff you already know. Sorry. Someone else is going to have to supply the happier ending.
Agreed. I for myself did not allow these thugs to rule anything, me included. But I cannot prevent them to try to do it. It does not blur my capability to operate an independent judgement. But I can't do more, and I do not want to teach anybody anything. It is not my responsibility. Anyway, the 'consent' achieved in discourses is never stable but strategic, so 'solidarity' is always weak and prone to strategic attack, but for instance that somebody simply buys the opinion market and it's intellectuals, who, without any independent function in between the power formations, in the end are easily infected by opportunism to sell their scarce capabilities to anyone ready to buy them. After all most of them did never learn something else but talk.
Remember when we thought the number of stars in the sky were uncountable? Would you believe that Musk has $66 million for each and every star you can see?
According to Sky and Telescope there are " 9,096 stars visible across the entire sky. Both hemispheres. Since we can only see half the celestial sphere at any moment, we necessarily divide that number by two to arrive at 4,548 stars (give or take depending on the season). And that's from the darkest sky you can imagine"
Musk is worth about $300 billion. That means that if you go out at night and look at the stars Musk has $66,000,000 for each and every star you can see. Money is power.
But again...it's not that billionaires' immorality is the problem. As a class, they are incapable of putting forward the kind of solution required by capitalism. They cannot but posit capital as the solution to the problem of capital, which is why the world under their dictatorship is so irrational. It's the inefficiency, irrationality, and antiquated nature of their class position that renders them unable to rule, but not their morality. Once we stray into morality, we cease to see the problem for what it is. The dictatorship of the proletariat won't be moral, either, but it will be brutally rational, which will open up the possibility of becoming a moral society.
Interesting read. What's your take on a politician such as Jacinda Ardern? Is she also in the pocket of these powers and just a good PR stunt, or is she a genuine leader?
Thing is, you are right, but no one else is either. That's why individual freedom is the ultimate goal. Some will rise, some will fall - that is a feature, not a failure. Collectivists of any stripe are anathema to true human progress.
And another one I have repeated for decades, "capitalism in no way is any guarantee of democracy."
Any empathically balanced person possessed of multi-billions of dollars would likely at least give away enough to make a dent in hunger or homelessness; then would be able to die with a sense of having helped lessen the tremendous suffering implicit in predatory capitalism. It would be an act of paying back the society for that rapacious insatiable monster that generated their absurd riches. But billionaires who continue to accumulate wealth demonstrate that such concerns barely register on their radar. This is sociopathy of the first order. That mentally imbalanced freaks like Gates run the society is emblematic of the profound corruption at the core of market economics, essentially a casino for plutocrats.
That's the basic truth the ancient Greeks and other cultures accepted: those individuals who most desire power over others are the least qualified and suited for such a role. In a word - they are sociopaths. And we now see sociopathy being actively encouraged, from corporate board rooms to their toadies in the government and on down to the lives of everyday citizens.
Caitlin, are you nuts? If we forego this opportunity to INTENTIONALLY kill millions of people through starvation or with a mandated vaccine that many believe has already killed 300,000 in the US, and also forego the opportunity to secretly and deftly sterilize millions of young people through those same vaccine, then population MIGHT rise to levels unsustainable with projected resources. If that happens, then millions of people MIGHT die. That would be a catastrophe! You apparently do not agree?
The billionaire class are functioning like renegade nations and despots. They resemble feudal lords and robber barons, who now have the power of monarchs. Without massive decentralization, redistribution of wealth (whatever you might perceive that to be), and sane guidelines for for community self-reliance, there is no future.
I am now totally reminded of Jay Hanson's work that began in the mid 90s, may he RIP. Currently Jeff Gibbs and Derrick Jensen again remind us that the cost of industrialization around solar and wind and other so-called green energy solutions is overrated and too high as well.
We do not have time to build new towns and cities all over again. We need to figure out how to create more open space, repurpose, and convert what we have and not send it all to the landfill. Tough questions. I think it is too late for humans at the point as Capitalism in terminally malignant and is poised to destroy what is left. No turning back.
That does not mean we cannot still embrace and promote those values and goals necessary to create a new vision of local self-reliance and community and remind others how our current system does not measure-up and why.
I appreciate the effort I imagine it took compiling and presenting this dreadful information; I couldn't have done it. I would be too angry and disgusted and turned to pondering auto mechanics in order to calm down (realizing that my doing so doesn't feed anyone, either.
I've written this next paragraph about five times, every one different, but all saying pretty much the same thing: this sucks. So much of what is happening in America right now just plain sucks. I could be much more articulate about it, but not more honest.
I'm vaguely wondering if those strangers who popped out of nowhere last week as champions of capitalism will make a repeat appearance now that their poster boys are on parade? (I know, this isn't true capitalism, blah, blah, blah.)
You'd better just move on to the next reaction because I'm no fun this morning. No solutions either -- just piss and vinegar. Totally useless. Stuff you already know. Sorry. Someone else is going to have to supply the happier ending.
Agreed. I for myself did not allow these thugs to rule anything, me included. But I cannot prevent them to try to do it. It does not blur my capability to operate an independent judgement. But I can't do more, and I do not want to teach anybody anything. It is not my responsibility. Anyway, the 'consent' achieved in discourses is never stable but strategic, so 'solidarity' is always weak and prone to strategic attack, but for instance that somebody simply buys the opinion market and it's intellectuals, who, without any independent function in between the power formations, in the end are easily infected by opportunism to sell their scarce capabilities to anyone ready to buy them. After all most of them did never learn something else but talk.
The fact that this even needs to be said is a testament to the power of PR.
Remember when we thought the number of stars in the sky were uncountable? Would you believe that Musk has $66 million for each and every star you can see?
According to Sky and Telescope there are " 9,096 stars visible across the entire sky. Both hemispheres. Since we can only see half the celestial sphere at any moment, we necessarily divide that number by two to arrive at 4,548 stars (give or take depending on the season). And that's from the darkest sky you can imagine"
Musk is worth about $300 billion. That means that if you go out at night and look at the stars Musk has $66,000,000 for each and every star you can see. Money is power.
But again...it's not that billionaires' immorality is the problem. As a class, they are incapable of putting forward the kind of solution required by capitalism. They cannot but posit capital as the solution to the problem of capital, which is why the world under their dictatorship is so irrational. It's the inefficiency, irrationality, and antiquated nature of their class position that renders them unable to rule, but not their morality. Once we stray into morality, we cease to see the problem for what it is. The dictatorship of the proletariat won't be moral, either, but it will be brutally rational, which will open up the possibility of becoming a moral society.
Interesting read. What's your take on a politician such as Jacinda Ardern? Is she also in the pocket of these powers and just a good PR stunt, or is she a genuine leader?
How?
Thing is, you are right, but no one else is either. That's why individual freedom is the ultimate goal. Some will rise, some will fall - that is a feature, not a failure. Collectivists of any stripe are anathema to true human progress.