Change you can believe in?
- From: dev carter <devcarter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:34:20 +1000
Change you can believe in?
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If you seriously want CHANGE you need to know where the hell you are
and how the hell you got there in the first place.
American capitalism before its transformation into an internationally
loathed waywardness had its roots in what was essentially a 'free'
market.
What a natural generic free market 'IS', given a minimal rule to
protect all participants, is a market for the 'free' trade in goods
and services. Whatever one seeks, for which there is a supplier, may
be traded for a price, given a sufficient supply to meet the existing
demand. The minimalist rule is the proviso that all participants
mitigate harm to others. Competing self interest will naturally create
winners and losers and as a consequence both positive and negative
outcomes. This minimalist rule establishes a level playing field for
all participants and militates against slavery, physical assault, and
the theft of property- these being clearly unilateral acts of harm.
The road to economic ruin is paved with the good intentions of both
the left and the right.
Empires are lost, and the richest countries on Earth become basket
cases when sectional interests convolute this generic free market with
protectionism of one kind or another.
The minimalist rule to mitigate harm is never enough for the zealots
pushing purist agendas under the motivation of political ideology or
religion.
Why stop at minimalist rules proscribing unilateral harm the purists
argue, what about MORAL harm or PSYCHOLOGICAL harm or ECOLOGICAL harm?
Why stop with humanity, when the rules may be extended to cover other
animal species, from domestic cats and dogs, to blue whales or the
whole ecosphere? Why stop with objective reality when a myriad of
threats are evident in the minds of spiritualists who commune with GOD
on a daily basis or have the keys to NEW AGE WISDOM through
crystalography, and thus feel qualified to safeguard the world from
SPIRITUAL harm.
Without preserving the secular minimalist nature of the rule
structure, free markets are convoluted and destroyed in short order by
taxation and the financial burden of a burgeoning bureaucracy chasing
impossible dreams.
The danger to free markets from the peddlers of good intentions was
succinctly put by the Spanish philosopher Baltasar Gracian
(1601-1658)-
"Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his
intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and
unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be
forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your
own fingers."
Naturally, after a century of agenda creep in the USA by the
protagonists of both left and right, as the chickens come home to
roost, many want urgent CHANGE to avert the looming economic calamity.
The main question though - is it change you can believe in? Or will it
be more of the same under a different banner?
Natural markets are self correcting but markets convoluted by
pretender "good" intentions are deceptive. Wrong decisions in a free
market may result in financial failure and bankruptcy. Wrong decisions
in convoluted markets, using taxpayer borrowings - other people's
money, take decades or centuries to become evident.
When you pull their chestnuts out of the fire, the cunning have a
whole cosmology to explain why their policies never seem to result is
a desired or prophesized outcome. Thus our past experience is an
endless stream of diversions from free market priorities to yet
another WAR AGAINST THIS OR THAT INTRACTABLE EVIL simply because we
never followed Cicero's guide--"Advice is judged by results, not by
intentions".
Instead of a free market we now have the NANNY STATE OF MICRO-MANAGERS
with everyone wanting to qualify for victim-hood and their own optimal
personalized BAILOUT FREE LUNCH - of course at someone else's expense!
Handing the tab to succeeding generations -building an unsustainable
debt mountain - hardly inspires economic confidence in the remnants of
the natural free market.
Secretary Paulson epitomizes the parlous state of micro-management in
the real world as everyone believes their need is more urgent than the
next! When everyone raises their hands in unison the bailout trillions
runs out before anyone is through their breakfast toast- let alone
morning tea or the BAILOUT FREE LUNCH.
To change the existing economy to a sustainable one - look no further
than a free market as defined above - with the proviso that all
players mitigate harm to others.
Lets look at a practical example were the current 'war on drugs' be
replaced by a secular free market alternative.
In this new secular deregulated market, a chemist or doctor might
dispense heroin to addicts or others who requested its supply but NOT
cause more harm by actively promoting its sale or supply. Self harm by
addiction leaves the addict with the personal responsibility of
mitigating harm to himself or herself through making more rational
choices, via making attempts at rehabilitation and a change of
lifestyle. A community that respects a person's right to make wrong
choices, also earns their respect in return and optimizes the
potential for an individual's recovery VIA PERSONAL CHOICE- the
personal decision to turn one's life around.
The pretender classes have burdened taxpayers with trillions of
dollars in economic upheaval- after almost a century, the war on drugs
shows no sign of ever ending, turning a molehill of a drug problem
into a mountain of disruption by creating vast drug empires and an
army of bureaucrats to micro-manage and unending supply of villains
and victims, and an unending proliferating of more potent illicit
variations into the bargain.
Where are tax dollars better spent, on a thousand schools and
universities to prepare individuals for a competitive global economy
in a free market OR on a thousand jails for drug users and peddlers
AND the cost of the vast bureaucratic infrastructure to support the
prohibitionist agenda? When prohibition ends, the price premium
disappears, so the pushers turn to more lucrative investments in other
areas.
In the heat of the fray, during the war on drugs-never for one minute
of any day did anyone consider the simple fact that THE NEGATIVE
EFFECTS OF ADDICTION WERE PUNISHMENT ENOUGH UPON THE ADDICT- AND
SUFFICENT INCENTIVE TO MOTIVATE CHANGE!
Millions quit smoking tobacco and alcohol for this very reason without
an ongoing war on them! Rational change would end the war on drugs for
the same reason that the post prohibitionist war on alcohol was also
ended. The consequences of prohibition were worse in economic terms
than the personal damage to individual health prohibition sought to
eradicate.
Under the existing system of prohibition, the pretender classes go
merrily on their holy crusade adding the burden of criminal conviction
to the drug addicts existing burden, thus further marginalizing the
already marginalized, and making sustainable change via rehabilitation
so much the harder.
Real effective change means creating the parameters for a self
correcting economic order by ignoring the chestnuts of the pretender
classes that seek to entrench themselves through elevating their
agendas to the national and global stage.
In a time of peace, a government's burden is naturally towards only
the poorest of the poor- those with insufficient means to survive
(within the terms of the social contract of mitigating harm to
others)- due to insufficient funds for food and accommodation and
basic necessities.
The idea that a government role is to protect the assets of the middle
classes or the corporations of the wealthy has got to be a sad joke.
Policies that have pandered to the militarist corporations and
delivered the lax financial regulation that built the housing market
asset bubble post 9/11 are the source of the current financial
meltdown. The war on terror is in effect a war by terror. Hundreds of
billions in arms sales to the Zionist dominated Middle East to satisfy
US militarists doesn't create peace but reprisals when they are
misused.
The 9/11 attack and its financial consequences demonstrates WHAT GOES
AROUND COMES AROUND! If a group of 20 radicalized Muslims can cause
this level of economic harm, just what amount of economic hardship
would be caused by the next radicalized band and the next after that
one. Britain lost its economic empire after 2 devastating world wars
within span of a mere 30 years.
The change you can believe in would not be rushing to expand any wars!
It would be winding them up on all fronts including the home front. It
would get the pretender classes back in their box, behind their own
pulpit where they can preach to their hearts content to the already
converted not running amok on the world stage or its local equivalent.
The change one can believe in perceives that the rules of a level
playing field apply to all.
Now perhaps white men just don't get it. The race that was once 95 %
of the US population will be according to recent reports less than 50
% by 2050.
Will the US white population implode down to 25% by 2100?
One person's agenda for this or that imperative may be another's
abortion or deferred pregnancy to help pay for it. Fertility rates
ultimately drop below replacement level and evolutionary attrition
mops up whatever is unsustainable, in the longer term, at the group
level.
Whites now have Obama otherwise known as Mr. Change to improve their
perception of reality and hopefully- GET IT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!
Will it be change you can believe in?
Dev Carter
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