Get ready citizens of the world. This meeting of the satraps, courtiers, panderers, crony capitalists, authoritarians and dictators is shaping up as a post first world war 1 economic collapse that visited like a plague and was sought only by the political elites pandering to the orthodox, conventional ‘wisdom’ of the economic ‘market’ of the time.
The austerity measures are to placate ‘the market’. After WW1 austerity was the supposed answer and we should all know were that led. The rise of fascism. The first wave of Corporatism. The second we are now living in. In case you haven’t noticed.
But our political elites including our Great Leader, who is an orthodox trained economist, advocates, and you just wait if he wins the next election, fiscal austerity. And what do you think that translates to: more tax breaks for financial services and more cuts to civil and social society.
The post WW1 descent into a world wide depression was caused by corporate pressure on politicians to provide no services to the populous. To have control of the government. And having got what they wanted they turned the world into the middle ages. Corporatism was a failure which is why democracy and regulation rose out of the ashes of the depression.
But here we are again. Our politicians are running scared of the boys who bought them even after having bailed them out. You’d think they would use their leverage for the common good. That these pigs of profit have no compunction at twisting the circumstances to our detriment is our own folly in the end.
After this meeting, not of the G 20, but of the representatives of corporatism and Silvio Berlusconi is the pinnacle of the trash heap, get ready for the collapse of even more civil and social institutions.
The world is in post WW1 mode ready to be pilloried by the economic determinism of the last 20 years that coersively implies, led by the mystical soothsayer economists, that we can’t do anything about this, we should only do what we’re told. Like cancer patients in the Pharma/Cancer industrial complex citizens there have only three options, chemical, surgical and radiation. All kill you and refuse to acknowledge other options. But the system fulfills, and perpetuates itself, at the cost of lives and other healthy options. Just as this meeting will self fulfill and perpetuate policies that visit hardship and death on populations around the world. All in the service of corporatism.
The shamans divining and disseminating the commandments from the gods of the market will give us the lowdown and orders this week.
Unfortunately this is not post WW1. This is the advanced sickness of corporatism. Is it terminal for the citizen and democracy? Don’t take the poison, and we don’t need surgery or nuclear radiation. But we could use some skepticism and common sense and ethics and humanity.
Is there a naturopath in the house?!
Well, yes there is. There are choices.
Take personhood away from the corporation. Make individuals in the corporation responsible for the corporation’s decisions. You kill people with a bad drug you go up on involuntary manslaughter.
Greece under Salon had the ‘Great Unburdening’ ware all debt was wiped clean. In our version that would be all personal and national debt. Greece survived for another 300 years.
All pricing of goods would take into account their total cost: not only manufacturing etc. but their environmental impact. To make a profit you have to produce something.
Unearned income would be taxed at 50%.
Just a few suggestions for the Great Leaders of the Corpocracy to consider.
Good Luck.
