A) Freedom is not something a government gives or takes. When you hinge freedom on a constitution, government policy etc. then you have bought into an ideology which is for them to change as they see fit, not freedom. Freedom is self-born. Real freedom cannot be given or taken. No form of government can monopolize freedom. Freedom is defined only by the limits one gives it. It is limited only by the definitions one gives it. Government is simply various trends in economic viability. A successful government is one that gets its subjects to equate it with all that is good. Predominately as a “provider”. A task manager.
If society is responsible for the less fortunate then government officially takes that role. This used to be a private initiative. If we feel responsible we can learn a capable method within our localized community, which is much more effective than a national organization administering on an individual basis. Perhaps providing services for a large percentage of society diminishes a competition factor which would provide blanket economic maturity. The economy enjoys its own elite company.
B) The faults of society are reflected on a macro-level in our government. The above equation is preposterous and ridiculous. Any program that challenges the status qua is necessary to new production. Communist states are run by the most ruthless capitalists. Apologists are consumer capitalists who don’t want to see a shift in the status qua. Terrorists are the most opportunistic capitalists. They use means of force to attack other economies in attempt to disrupt the playing field. Terrorist leaders are conversely millionaires. Using old style means of acquisition. Religious fundamentalism motivates and provides passion, using a higher cause incentive. All capitalists speak the same language. Incidentally , they use the same methods as well. There is no such thing as dispersal of wealth. A government creates the illusion of economic balance and reality by creating a deficit. While money is a concept which the government creates and controls, for it to be believable there must be a projected idiosyncrasy. Economic turmoil has always been used as a platelet for political power derisiveness. The economy must appear imperfect to be all powerful and “under the radar”.
It in fact is a symmetrically streamlined system, which controls all areas and facets of reality.
Government is its biggest and most powerful front. Consumerism is powerful to the point of its consumption. Necessary shifts are developed to propel the consumer onward. If everyone contemplated their servitude to economic growth, the economy would nevertheless emerge unscathed, due to the dependency which has become the very basis of living.
C) There is no uniform law that enables one to survive in decline. The survival of the fittest theory along with personal comfort retracts all obligations, which may have been perceived.
Underlying this condition is the economy. If there would be the attitude of sharing, that would spell the end for the economy. In practice, when such attitudes did spring up, the economy ruthlessly crushed it’s practitioners with the most aggressively minded economists.
There is no way to defeat the economy at this stage. From it’s humble beginnings it has become the end-all. Perhaps life would be about other things if people would have been satisfied with their own ability at growth. It has always been an unequal thing, as all things. Yet the possibility to possess more has been too fundamentally enchanting to deny. It is the mother of great innovations, the economy will lead you to believe. Indeed, the motivation for progress has been attributed to acquisition of wealth. Modern day economy has rooted out all of its detractors, or subjugated them. Art and Music, for example, have largely become economic enterprises. Any distraction from the economy is in fact sponsored by it, and beneficial. For it to be a healthy system, it must branch out to all sectors and encourage a healthy society of polarities. With each new trend, the economy grows on its self- perpetuating path. The only future is that of economic competition and reinvention.
a poor man's manifesto: the economy of us
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