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The Manufactured 'Isms' of Elite Prevarications
America Has Already Lost Tuesday's Election ... Germans see the US election as a battle between the good Obama and the evil Romney. But this is a mistake. Regardless of who wins the election on Tuesday, total capitalism is America's true ruler, and it has the power to destroy the country. – Jakob Augstein/Der Spiegel
Dominant Social Theme: Capitalism is the US's naked, merciless driver.
Free-Market Analysis: In this article in Der Spiegel, written by columnist Jakob Augstein, we observe the meme that "isms" are different and powerful. Capitalism is different than communism, which is different than socialism, etc.
We have some difficulties with this argument. But first we'll review more of the perspective provided by this article – very revealing of the European media mindset – and then return to the above point in our conclusion.
The European view of the US (among what we could characterize as "liberals") is that US culture is a kind of cowboy cartoon, a Wild West shoot 'em up. This article provides us with one of the clearest examples of this particular subdominant theme.
The dominant theme, of course, is a well-known one ... that US power is vast and matched only by the youthful exuberance of its inequity. This meme was very popular in the 20th century when it was commonly held that US citizens would realize sooner or later that "old" Europe's socialist approach was a far superior paradigm.
Of course, today Europe's approach has entirely unraveled. The US's "older and wiser" cousin is bleeding out onto the streets, its youth unemployed, its monetary system in tatters. This is not commonly acknowledged by European intelligentsia. Here's some more from the article:
The United States Army is developing a weapon that can reach − and destroy − any location on Earth within an hour. At the same time, power lines held up by wooden poles dangle over the streets of Brooklyn, Queens and New Jersey. Hurricane Sandy ripped them apart there and in communities across the East Coast last week, and many places remain without electricity.
That's America, where high-tech options are available only to the elite, and the rest live under conditions comparable to those of a developing nation. No country has produced more Nobel Prize winners, yet in New York City hospitals had to be evacuated during the storm because their emergency generators didn't work properly.
Anyone who sees this as a contradiction has failed to grasp the fact that America is a country of total capitalism. Its functionaries have no need of public hospitals or of a reliable power supply to private homes. The elite have their own infrastructure. Total capitalism, however, has left American society in ruins and crippled the government. America's fate is not just an accident produced by the system. It is a consequence of that system.
Obama couldn't change this, and Romney wouldn't be able to either. Europe is mistaken if it views the election as a choice between the forces of good and evil. And it certainly doesn't amount to a potential change in political direction as some newspapers on the Continent would have us believe.
This excerpt is typical of the tonality of the article and the larger mindset behind it. What is most pernicious is the idea that an "ism" is behind the troubles of the US. When one studies directed history closely, one is struck by how the power elite funded the philosophy behind these "isms." The funding of Karl Marx is just one example.
In reality, a power elite must exist – we see too many traces of it – shoving the world steadily toward global governance and using what we call dominant social themes to do so. The larger middle class is terrorized by fear-based scarcity promotions and willingly gives up power and authority to internationalist solutions.
What we call "isms" aren't strictly fear based but have been used that way. "Communism" terrified generations of Western citizens. Of course, when one investigates what communism is and how it was really implemented, one soon begins to realize that one is merely looking at the modern face of a merciless authoritarianism.
There really are no "isms" ... not even capitalism. There are simply variations on an authoritarian theme. Can anyone say with assurance that Britain with all its oppression and government spying is so much freer than, say, 20th century (pre-war) Italy?
To say the US is "capitalist" is to miss the point. The US is increasingly controlled by a power elite clique from behind the scenes. Everything that happens in the US these days is aimed at the further establishment of one-world government.
US politics are not "cowboy" activities. And what is motivating the US's decline and fall surely involves a cold-blooded effort to tear down US exceptionalism in order to prepare US culture for a larger merger with other parts of the hemisphere and then the world.
Conclusion: What's going on has nothing to do with any "ism" except perhaps "globalism."
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Posted by Kriss Robin on 11/07/12 12:04 PM
At some point, be it Now of in a "future" Term of whomever is president there comes a point in every Individual when one says NO MORE. It is not a thought about process, it seems to just happen, after one is worn down.
Guns and fighting will not work, Ghandi exemplified this through Passive Resistance, this the State cannot deal with , it is alien to the mind set "they" seem to operate in.
They, those that operate with this kind of mind set do so through their own fear of lack (parasitical) feeding off of the populace through fear generated through forced control. Only through "No More" being one's sole Purpose is Passive Resistance the "force" that Ghandi Exemplified, one's Individual Sovereignty. When one has nothing to loose one has nothing that can be taken. Then all our Honest riches are safe. Life is a parodox, lol.
Then and only then does Common Sense See the light of day, lol.
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Posted by Lark In Texas on 11/06/12 09:24 PM
Maybe you should re-read my comment. Surely you jest - moi? Support statism?
Thank you for your sense of humor.
Actually, I CAN support something akin to anarcho-individualism. Which IS a form of libertarianism that ascribes to a "limited government" and the "rule of law". However, most libertarians do tend toward intellectual sloth and so often conlate their terms - preferring the omnibus words such as capitalist and libertarian instead... and then as somehow always being... synonymous... with virtue even.
Capitalism, as it's construed today, is really just organized crime... AND a kind of of Orwellian techno-slavery too... at least in present-day practice.
Hardly can it be "free enterprise" anymore either - the same can be said of that... which is ludicrously called... "money" ("Company script"). The "free market" is not free at all. Nor is access to it "unfettered". Just as "free trade" ("neo-colonialism"; "British mercantilism") is not "free association" ("syndicalism") either... just more criminal racketeering - now "legalized" by the same sorts of [indoctrinated] pirates and callous jerks who [by their indifference ("political correctness") and robotic (mis-) behavior patterns] set this "train wreck" ("economy") in motion.
I might suggest a re-examination of two other ~isms: How 'bout them ten-cent words, career~ism and credential~ism? Followed up with "free-marketeerin' in the Age of [Mis-] Information"?
As with that wishy-washy free pass you gave recently to UC-Berkely alumnus, Ms. Ellen Brown... ;)
Reply from The Daily Bell
Well, this is better. Some good points. However, if you speak to Ms Brown she would probably express to you that in our many articles on her perspectives we have not given her a "pass."
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Posted by seer on 11/06/12 06:45 PM
USA= Corporate Predatory Capitalism backed by a Military Elite.
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Posted by Lark In Texas on 11/06/12 05:50 PM
Yes indeed, globalism... but with a decidedly communitarian slant? Which in the end, of course... is another modern variant... of World Federalism [a la Walter Cronkite], The New World Order [a la Fabian socialist H.G. Wells]... or perhaps more simply... the Socialist Internationale (1871).
But I notice that your editorial stance often fails to equate "free market" capitalism with [Fascist-style] corporatism, or that capitalism + communism = communitarianism...
... At least often enough. Jewish Communism (monopoly capitalism)... will be the next logical extension so long as monopoly control... over the issuance of "currency" and credit... remains in predatory, parasitic [private] hands.
These ~isms are mere schools of thought, 'tis true. But have you any idea... the octopus-like reach and insidious influence... of cultural Marxist ideals in our pan-American P20 OBE curriculum? Of the vast numbers within academia that have enthusiastically signed on to Etzioni's Communitarian Network?
Would it be your view that Nation-States ought to be relegated to the trash bin of history? And that all discussion of ~isms be dismissed now as if just mere manifestations... of globalism?
I, for one, am just as disenchanted with libertarianism as I am with all the others. Let's settle on a meme that might finally "stick" in the public mind.
How 'bout this one? Socialism = Gangsterism! It is Parasitism combined with Human Trafficking. Scientism. Humanism. Transhumanism. Multiculturalism. And Militarism... combined with Arrested Development... ad nauseum.
A straitjacket placed upon all of us means the average politically corrected 'n' connected SOCIALIST will never, ever speak out against institutionalized corruption if it is just not profitable to do so.
Why? To be forced into Socialism of ANY kind is consistent with being forced into a lifetime of organized crime and criminal racketeering. It is forever licking the boot of one's captors, tantamount to being another victim of the Stockholm syndrome! To engage [criminally]... in dis-honorable contract!
Thus... to have been made a SLAVE... means living always in FEAR... and then to perceive the world... with self-doubt... as one of scarcity... instead of abundance.
Reply from The Daily Bell
"I notice that your editorial stance often fails to equate 'free market' capitalism with [Fascist-style] corporatism ... "
Because it's nonsense. When you speak of "free-market capitalism," you are actually referring to monopoly central-bank authoritarianism. Since you can't even get your terms right, there is little hope for a logical discussion.
You may be tired of libertarianism so please suggest an alternative. Is it government? How about this one: Government + Laws = Force.
Force may always be with us, but why do people like you find it necessary to endorse it.
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Posted by abdulHadiscott on 11/06/12 03:14 PM
D.H. Lawrence on Nobility. Very well put, I like it. The prophet said: "Acknowledge, give respect to the most noble among you."
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Posted by Joe on 11/06/12 01:59 PM
D.H. Lawrence on Nobility
The simple man, whose best self, his noble self, is nearly all the time puzzled, dumb and helpless, has still the power to recognise the man in whom the noble self is powerful and articulate. To this man he must pledge himself. That is the only way. To act according to the spark of nobility we have in us, not according to our greediness and our cowardice, our hard selves. The hereditary aristocratic class has fallen into disuse. And democracy means the electing of tools to serve the fears and the material desires of the masses. Noblesse n'oblige plus. This is really the worst that can happen to mankind, when Noblesse n'oblige plus. Goodness and badness there is bound to be. But a spark of nobility redeems everything. This is our job, then, our uncommon sense: to recognise the spark of nobleness inside us, and let it make us. To recognise the spark of noblesse in one another, and add our sparks together, to a flame. And to recognise the men who have stars, not mere specks of nobility in their souls, and to choose these for leaders. We can choose for noblesse and we can choose for basesse. Nations are slowly strangling one another in 'competition'. The cancer of finance spreads throught the body of mankind. Individuals are diseased with the same disease. To get money, and to spend money, nothing else remains. And with it goes all the strangling, and the bullying, and the degradation, the sense of humiliation and worthlessness of life, which is bitterest of all.
There is nothing to be done, en masse. But every youth, every girl can make the great historical change inside himself and herself, to care supremely for nothing but the spark of noblesse that is in him and in her, and to follow only the leader who is a star of the new, natural Noblesse.
Movements in European History - D.H. Lawrence
The one world state will be brought down by people of nobility.
Reply from The Daily Bell
Wow!
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Posted by steveg on 11/06/12 01:07 PM
Interesting article. Interesting words: "What we call "isms" aren't strictly fear based but have been used that way. "Communism" terrified generations of Western citizens. Of course, when one investigates what communism is and how it was really implemented, one soon begins to realize that one is merely looking at the modern face of a merciless authoritarianism."
I believe the 'isms' are all partners and ganged up against humanity.
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Posted by Abu Aardvark on 11/06/12 12:29 PM
@ victorbarney
When your sexist/racist nonsense is representative, we're all doomed.
Who GAVE birth to you, by the way?
Just asking ...
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Posted by victorbarney on 11/06/12 12:14 PM
Conclusion: What's going on has nothing to do with any "ism" except perhaps "globalism."
Question? Over 70% of our population is made up of "GATHERER'S," or by PEOPLE WHO JUST LOVE TO BE GIVEN THINGS FROM OTHERS: I'm talking about WOMEN & BLACKS! Looks like "globalism" WINS! Just saying...
