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Blind faith in the beneficent workings of a non-existent "invisible hand" has no place in a rationally "Enlightened" society. We have to see with our eyes, apply our human intelligence, to address the ills that ail us. With individual intellectual liberty comes personal responsibility for the outcomes we contribute to producing. The outcomes are visible. We can see that "we did that", by our actions.

We are socially and economically embedded in industrial mass society. We live communally, not individualistically. But our minds and hearts and our free will remain our own. We retain individual liberty to choose what we will believe, value and do.

If we don't like the outcomes, the solution is not to bow down and pray to the invisible hand to save us. The solution is not to sell our countries and our souls to banksters believing that the magic of the free market will make everything better, once the whole world has become the "private property" of the money-men. Financial efficiency applied to the operation of corporate private property requires extracting the last breath of life out of us, followed by the death of the corporations themselves when the last dollar of profit has been extracted from the last living consumer.

There are a lot of very un-Enlightened beliefs rattling around inside the skulls of Earth's self-appointed owners and masters. Are we intelligent human beings, or are we mindless lemmings?

Bankers and corporate managers "govern" the property they and the other shareholders collectively own. Managers govern as owners and rulers on behalf of the corporate collective. The corporate organization structure is a military-style hierarchy, with orders coming down the chain of command. Information flows up from the technocracy to the managers; decisions are made; and orders flow back down to be implemented. This is militarized economic government performed by men, not individual free enterprise within a free market economy that is governed by an invisible hand.

Privatization does not rid the world of "government". Privatization merely transfers all governing power from democratic hands into bankster hands.

With political government there is at least the possibility that government will serve the human interests of the people. With bankster rule there is the virtual certainty that governance will serve only the implacable and austere demands of declining sum money arithmetic.

Governments could create their own money, and distribute the money "debt-free" in ways that do not motivate corporate industry to plunder and waste the world in pursuit of banker-created "money". But for all our Enlightened reason, this simple solution appears to be utterly beyond our grasp.

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I spent my working life as an independent small business owner/operator. My academic background is in philosophy and political economy. I began studying monetary systems and monetary history after the 1982 banking crash that was precipitated by (more...)
 

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