Compete or cooperate?

Greetings good citizen, today we learn the Pontiff has denounced capitalism as “terrorism against all of humanity.” Not much is heard about it these days back in the seventies, when companies were downsizing like mad and moving to more 'cost effective' nations, a 'meme' circulated throughout the nation's workplaces that was then attributed to the Japanese and it went 'Business is War!'

Were they wrong? Well, not if you look a today's 'unbridled capitalism' capturing huge sums for the advantaged and leaving destitution in its wake...I'd have to say the Japanese [and their American instructors] were pretty much 'spot on'.

You see, what isn't widely know is the first dozen or so times captalism was tried it failed miserably and along the lines one would expect. People chased whatever provided the best returns and you ended up with saturated markets in some goods accompanied by mad shortages of others and the cycle would begin again!

So it was that 'government' stepped in and started 'regulating' who could do what, when and a burdgeoning capitalism was born. [Ironically they started out issuing 'monopolys' on certain inputs in an attempt to limit the willy-nilly effects of investors chasing the highest returns but commodities wouldn't 'stay monopolized'. [Which is how we ended up with a global supply chain LONG BEFORE 'Globalization'.]

In case you are unaware, 'globalization' is a 'universal scam'...but that's what you get with 'unbridled capitalism' of the variety that was ushered in after 'Morning in America'.

Oh yes, good citizen, many of you are too young to remember and since the victors write history, are unable to find out facts about the, er, 'rapacious' deregulation that lead to the second stock market crash in less than a hundred years.

No irony at all should be lost on the fact that the 'frontrunner' in our current presidential race is the WIFE of the man who single-handedly signed into law the bill to repeal Glass-Stegal!

Which, to be clear, means he had the power to stop it but didn't. NAFTA, also commonly laid a his feet, was a done deal before he assumed office...but the corporate owned media doesn't want you to know that.

The thing to remember is those 'happy days' most Republicans pine for, aren't here today because of what the Republican party has done since [literally] seizing power in 1980.

Those 'Happy Days' are happening in China, sans the fifties music.

Again I am compelled to complete the circle for our younger readers, the ones whose heads are so full of nonsense they don't know which way is up!

Back in the seventies, after Europe had pretty much rebuilt its industrial base, our, er, problematic social model hit one of its most frequent hiccups. A phenomenon called 'market saturation'...notice they don't talk about 'market saturation' now? That's because 'Opening the doors to the Orient' was Western Capitalism's 'final frontier'.

How could they bring the Eastern third of the world's population into the 21st century?

Well, it was to be a 'win-win' [for the capitalists and the billions of, er, 'backwards' (by capitalist standards) Asians...not so much for the tens of millions of Western capitalists who would be forced to 'reinvent themselves' as the job market moved to its new home in the East.

You see, in order to, er, 'entice' the Asains into buying the 'Western Lifestyle' they had to have 'money' and in order to get money they needed jobs. Well, what were the Westerner's going to do? Wasn't the capitalist's problem, their market was already saturated.

They had 'seized' the governments of the Western world and installed meat puppets to preach their message of 'change' to a restive public. [Something that wouldn't have been possible before television...or captive governments/monopolistic global media, the true lynch pin of the whole fiasco!]

Now that the Eastern world has been brought into the 21st century they are no longer pointing to 'market saturation' as the cause for the slowing global economy but let's face it good citizen, the badly flawed capitalistic system is FUBAR.

There is NOTHING that will 'repair' the debt driven social model.

While most of you don't 'see' it, our civilization is tottering towards collapse...all so 'a few' can be rich (for a while longer...)

The Major Malfunction here is we have a social model that is built on 'competition' and a world that was meant to be 'shared'.

With the GLOBAL unemployment rate approaching fifty percent, the 'losers' in our little 'competition' have a different, er, 'value'...and our self-interested leaders know it...in fact, they're betting on it!

We might even call those capitalism can't exploit by their 'terrorist designation' of being 'enemy combatants'.

Ever wonder why politics the world over have taken on the appearance of a circus sideshow lately? It's to distract you from the looming collapse of civilization!

You never really cared about politics before this, did you? Now that the 'clown car' has taken over the center ring you can't tear your eyes away!

By the time you realize it was all a distraction it will be too late.

So join me in doing the only thing we can do in a last ditch effort to save our species, let's go 'on strike!'

The end will soon be upon us and if we don't head it off then what passes for civilization will devolve to square one, leaving your children/grandchildren at a decided disadvantage...

The choice, ironically, is yours and it's far preferable to the alternative you're NOT being offered.

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner