America's Antiquated Social Structure - PART I
| PART I | PART II |
My derision of Petty Capitalists should not insinuate that amongst them there are none contributing to the progress of Humanity. What you read is perhaps an over emphasis over looking exceptions, but I doubt it will disenfranchise the well situated just the same, so it stands. And an occasional slap is a very good reminder of where we are and what Time it is.
Class As An Economic Base (top)
Finance made it possible for mankind to use ingenuity to rise above the status of peasants and help. Those who utilized finance as a structure and guide to rise above peasantry are called the capitalists. As the capitalists rose out of the annals of history they took with them the only philosophical foundation they knew; which was that of the Kings. So we have the present day longing after class, which is an extension, distortion, of the philosophy of medieval Kings. It just happens that in the present day every single citizen thinks they are capable of having class and so they blindly follow in the footsteps of the capitalists pursuing it. In reality class was an attribute of Royalty and Royalty held socio - economic - political governance and as such were a far cry from the modern commoner who is attempting to climb the caste ladder.
It was known early in the game that capitalism would eventually reach a limit because freely exploitable resources on the Earth are limited. Thus Karl Marx wrote: "What will become of capitalism once the historical conditions which gave rise to it no longer exist?" The economic system proposed by Karl Marx was by no means some conspiracy against the people of the Earth, but rather a realistic observation of historical process and it's inevitable results. The most brilliant economist I have read, I can find no point of diversion from the verity of his prognosis.
What resulted from the free expansion of capital, given the foundation of finance, was what we see around us today. Some capitalists became rich early in the new structure of finance, some became rich only recently. Unanimously they have sought after the one thing: class. Consequently, a close look at modern society will show something very similar to a multitude of dynasties centering around the various capitalists. The earliest capitalists having the largest and most concrete dynasty and so on until we arrive at the most recent recruits to the capitalists who will have no dynasty at all, but will be, almost without question, in the process of building a new dynasty of their own. These literally millions of miniature dynasties are the realms of the Petty Capitalists. And as an astute observer might hypothesize these dynasties function with a certain amount of lawlessness as the Petty Capitalists who control them are in possession of financial resources sufficient to "cover things up".
So it is that what is called democracy and speaks of consensus is in truth a multitude of Petty Kings or as I call them "Petty Capitalists" or PCs each having just enough financial power to drag the laws of the land and the destiny of the nations in hundreds of chaotic directions all at the same time resulting in very little progress for themselves and retrogression for Humanity. Humanity exists within a state of retrogression with the Petty Capitalists - PCs, because multitudes of the PCs support their opulence by pillaging the public with ad hoc legislation and creative marketing, not to mention blatant fraud.
The freely exploitable resources are long gone, just as Marx predicted, but the PCs exist in the tens of millions and expanding everyday by child birth and other means. These new recruits to the PC ranks have little hope of bringing in the millions that their predecessors brought in with simple trick advertising. They are more and more inclined to bilk the citizenry by distributing new diseases - (1974. "Ceremonial Chemistry." Thomas Szasz), new legislation, manufacturing markets for useless products, etc. which force the citizenry to "give them money" to cure the problems that the PC's created for them. As a result of this piracy the PCs and their progeny have become a very real threat to the existence and progress of Humanity. The PC longing after class has wasted billions of Human lives to vain ineptitude for lack of resources that were stolen and hoarded by PCs who had no greater purpose for the monies than to build resorts and pleasure palaces for themselves. From their pompous houses to their pompous lifestyles PCs have become the greatest check on the further development of Humanity that has ever existed on this Earth in all of previous history.
The Class Continuum (top)
Obviously class is a real issue in the current day, after all the current day is based on the individual pursuit of it. Even so to be completely lost in the affected manifestations of class is indeed a fools path as in truth class is an attribute of Kings and the citizenry pursues it in vain.
The entire longing after class is really foolish and arises from antiquated philosophies. It is an accumulative approach to social living. I call it "Separate but Together" and it must now yield to a fully United citizenry in a cooperative resource share political scenario. If it did not do so Human evolution would stop right here, which would be impossible.
Petty Capitalists Society (top)
Who is a Petty Capitalist - (PC)? I'm classifying every citizen owning wealth exceeding 500,000 dollars as a Petty Capitalist. I consider anything in excess of that quantity to be in excess of needs. Every Petty Capitalist is surrounded by an entourage of helpers - (his companions). The entire society is functioning, via the patrimony of Petty Capitalists, for the enjoyment and enrichment of Petty Capitalists. The Petty Capitalists have fashioned for themselves an impenetrable caste in the modern world and by this suffocated all social progress except as it suits them. They have walled themselves into a pseudo reality of bliss and are becoming progressively insane; deluded by their own valuations of their own antics with no or little comprehension of the overall World on which Humanity exists or why it exists. See also PC Economy.
What follows is a closer look at this phenomena.
No sooner had the first petty capitalist bumped into the first free resource which made them wealthy than they began securing that resource in an effort to monopolize it. After completely securing it's availability they set about securing the many aspects of the resource which put it into circulation: refinement, production, distribution. Soon after that they secured employment in those processes. Having children and companions in increasing numbers made it necessary to provide for them specifically and specially. Now the consumer who was forced by monopoly to consume only their products was forced by patrimony out of employment. This lead to the crippled consumer who could purchase goods but had no source of income other than state assistance, prostitution, theft, or the sale of illegal narcotics.
It is obvious from the nature of Humans and their enterprise that if there existed any way to make money the petty capitalists would collect it up for themselves and hire guards to protect it and probably create legislation to prevent competitors from entering into it. It follows from this that there is "no way" for the people to make money, yet they require money to survive. Only a damn fool could not see it's reality. Idealists speak of opportunity here and opportunity there but any child with a brain can ascertain from the quantity of existing PCs - (petty capitalists) that this could not possibly be the case.
Thus the petty capitalist was first a provider then a vampire and
then a genocidal machination against the public. Now not even public parks are available
to use as the citizenry deem necessary. Thus the phrase "public area" has been
virtually redefined as "petty capitalist and companion area". So blatant are
these redefinitions that "public areas" are patrolled by armed pigs who are on
the look out for inappropriate citizens utilizing them inappropriately and the hundreds of
homeless in the cities will be seen sleeping on streets, even side walks but not in
"public parks". So the free citizens have no area which can be used as a poor
class of citizens deem necessary. The citizenry was by this shut down; forced to both solitude and poverty .
One of perhaps millions of examples of this phenomena, world wide:
The Economist January 6th - 12th 2001 (pg 50 Britain - "Mean Streets") |
| Quote - "Balsall Heath was once the center for Birmingham's vice trade. Legions of prostitutes plied their trades on corners...Then in 1994 a group of residents formed the Balsall Heath Street Watch, and began patrolling the neighborhood to drive the vice away. ...These days, though, there is virtually no prostitution in Balsall Heath, and the streets are deserted at night...." |
| What happened there is the
same thing that happened globally and it can be summarized as follows: Now having reached the final days of capitalism, days wherein freely exploitable resources are almost non-existent, the people are finding it progressively difficult to drink, eat, and stay alive with little or no opportunity. The people's first response to their ill fate is to "take it to the streets" and engage the huge prostitution market which caters to the Petty Capitalists and their employed helpers. Although, the poor class of men who are behind the prostitutes are not a happy lot having to sell their women to survive. This progressively results in the streets becoming something of a battle ground of chaos and random expressions of discontent. Meanwhile the Petty Capitalists and their helpers are not hurting at all, so to them all these "street" people appear to be a mere nuisance and are titled "losers" as they set in place a "cover it up" campaign. All of these things have already taken place and the people, already having reached the poverty line, are now SHUT DOWN and LOCK OUT, with NO WAY to maintain survival. I'm guessing millions were "covered up", and will never be seen on Earth again, in this recent worldwide PC crack down on the poor for being ALIVE. (24 million and counting, were murdered with AIDS alone, in the name of hoarding resources [they even gave it to me]) - BUT WE WILL REMEMBER AND JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED - So Let It Be Said, So Let It Be Written, So Let It Be Done. O.K. |
The petty capitalists so fervently guard their advantages and properties passing them from generation to generation as the people become progressively impoverished that eventually only the strongest of the people remained roaming the streets in search of opportunity which did not exist. Frequently drunk and angry the Petty Capitalists found it necessary to restrict these few remaining free citizens by completely shutting down whole cities after hours and allowing nothing to take place which was not directly in the interests of and suitable for Petty Capitalist profits. With no opportunity for free expression or progress in the cities life as it was came to a halt. The bustling metropolises of old gave way to the stagnant, frequently empty, albeit fully beautified, modern suburbia, utilized in manners, conditions and times as suit the security and profits of the petty capitalists.
Civilization functions only for the wealth, prosperity, and security of the petty capitalist. Petty capitalist's control jobs to ensure status for their offspring cutting outsiders out of the economic process. Until at last with no opportunity for business or employment the people turn like a mass of lifeless sheep to state assistance for survival while the petty capitalists hold hands tightly and run modern civilization slowly and half heartedly for their own personal profit and enjoyment. Seeking through every channel a means of covertly eliminating "the people" as vile, unclean by products of their enjoyment, while the petty capitalists and their children having separated themselves into a caste whose only function and expertise is to maintain the caste, become progressively inept.
As the entire society shut down to the people creating a system by and for the petty capitalists with armed pigs (cops) combing the streets and fat pigs (petty capitalists) struggling with one another for class the people exist in deprivation not only economically but also emotionally as a result of their inability to bind with one another emotionally in their cities and would be public areas which have been shut down by the petty capitalists for security reasons and to keep them clean and proper. This emotional binding of the common people in congested public areas, market places, etc. was an essential part of their stability and growth. Thus the instinct to security of the petty capitalists which caused them to shut down society to avoid revolutionary impulse served as the source of a new type of revolutionary impulse. A "quiet", inconspicuous revolutionary impulse with much greater intensity. The petty capitalists rise each day to open their shops with the same blank optimism which has become the mandatory "good citizen" perspective completely unaware of the catastrophe which envelopes them. They are happy, full of last nights wine and the longing for a weekend at the yacht club.
The PCs never stop building fascinating structures for their further entertainment and enjoyment. They have Hilton hotels, Marriot hotels, fine (and fashionable) restaurants of every variety. They have property which in sum suffices to consume nearly all lake fronts, river sides, ocean views and fertile valleys. They have clothing, furniture and jewelry. Not to worry if the business cycle has slowed a bit more or less chiefly because worry is so utterly unfashionable and it even causes wrinkles. The homelessness and suffering that they see more and more around them they have their ways of "covering up". After all those types are so "mean", "where did they come from?" asks the PC child, the mother responds "They are bad people" and the conversation and the issue is terminated without further thought. After all doesn't the bible say that "all good things are gentle and clean" while those people are mean, and frequently dirty. Like the truth of their own nature (ISM) these "bad" homeless people are "covered up" by armed pigs and other social institutions to "remove them from view". Religion has taught the PCs that if it doesn't look, smell, and act "Nice and clean" it should be "covered up". The PCs thus cast away the by products of their exploits which are the least firmly situated citizens who fall out of the economic ecological cycle as a result of insufficient resources. Deluded in a fantasy altruistic religious purity and goodness they loll around half alive, half aware, even less concerned about truth, contemplating ways of increasing their profits and enjoyment.
Class is what the PCs want but they don't even consciously understand what that means they are caught up in yesterdays religious values trying to keep the dream alive another day in today's world. As weak and imbecile as they are they would fail in an instant except that they have property and a firm grip on at least some piece of the economic pie. With this and the cleverness of at least a cow they are able to maintain their holdings. Primarily by destroying potential competition in youth while they are still helpless and progressively shutting down social activity with fences, chains, locks and armed pigs. It's probably true that more than 30% of the profits of all the industry of the petty capitalists was and is spent on implementing security to prevent competitors. Another 20% spent on beautifying and maintaining good, clean, pure properties which is the only way of impressing other PCs. Meanwhile social innovation comes to a near stand still and what innovation exists is almost entirely flawed coming from the hands of antiquated PCs.
But the poor and the working citizens admire the PCs. In fact they follow the PCs every where because that is the only way of making a living in the current day, being a lackey for some PC. And so it goes that the working people are all in a fit to show their own attributes of class, not even knowing what that means - (a vain longing after an attribute of Kings). The working people are quick to buy a new car or a fashionable new clothing item just to keep pace with the PCs. Look in the house of the average working family these days and they don't have much more than a slaves pittance but in the driveway is the new car and the clothing is always designer fashion. Which leads us to the sad conclusion that the entire society is lost for want of better leadership than the petty capitalists, but better leadership is impossible because armed pigs have secured society for the PCs by disallowing everything from protests to real price competition let alone angry and potentially mean political innovators. Suffocating the potentiality of tomorrow, for want of sufficient resources to develop, to pay the bill for PCs to wine and dine in class for another day.
The PCs on yachts, their entourage waits patiently trying to be as "good and clean" as possible so they do not disturb the recreation of the PCs. While the poor cling to state assistance and hide "out of view" doing "appropriate things" which includes watching PCs make millions of dollars on television. The poor must remain "out of view" so armed pigs don't seize and imprison them as rebels who need to be "covered up" to protect society.
The PCs fancy themselves to create a "good, clean" society for themselves by eliminating the "bad and unclean" and dancing into tomorrow wearing their finest knit briefs having a constant party with class. The colleges are full of PC children, few others can gain admittance as a result of the cloud of paperwork the PCs have implemented as a means of "reducing competition". But tomorrow is for their children and of course "the help". But I'm afraid their children have scant more promise than they themselves as they are carrying the same antiquated philosophies and exist in numbers far exceeding them.
Unity is the solution but before unity can be implemented the separatist attributes of society must be broken down. Which implies essentially all the moral and value associations, organizations, of the past being destroyed.
The rise of Petty Capitalist Economy was such a stage in the evolution of human civilization. The prevailing philosophy which enabled the rise of the Petty Capitalist Economy (bourgeoisie epoch) in Human evolution was religion. Religion provided Human's with a means of comprehending the simple fact that "we are all the same" - (the ten commandments, etc.). This allowed Humans to collaborate in achieving common goals in a more cooperative manner than was previously possible. It of course did not and does not provide detailed definitions or guidance as pertains to the particularities -(Instinctual behavior, ISM) of each individual Human. This information was not necessary to achieve the rise of Petty Capitalist Economy. All that was necessary was that Humans understand that we are all indeed Humans with similarities. On this simple basis all that we see in the modern world of economic production did rise into existence. It is immediately obvious everywhere a person looks: Investigate the ideologies of any of the current corporate heads (CEOs) in the modern world and you will find that nearly all of them are partisan to one or another religious faction. Thus we establish that what exists around us in the modern world today, that which is obsolete and that which is not, is all based on the religions of the past - (simplistic definitions of the Human condition).
Religions being an incomplete, simplistic, definition of the Human condition obviously could not foretell the inevitable consequences of various modes of political existence, thus we again find ourselves in a political bottleneck. What has happened is that the freely available resources have again been taken under control by the few (the successful PCs) and they have saw themselves fit to implement yet another hereditary caste system. This entire process began and reached completion two or more hundred years ago. Since that time modern civilization has been confounded with perhaps six or more generations of the inheritor's children.
As we all know from the examples in Rome and other ancient civilizations under normal conditions - (conceptions provided by religion) inheritors tend to become progressively less sane as successive generations pass. As I stated we are approximately two hundred years into this Petty Capitalist epoch and long before the current date the sanity of the upper castes (CEOs, etc.) came into question without resolution.
The people of a civilization follow their leadership. It is the mechanism of any organized structure to function in conjunction with the part preceding yourself. Thus the citizenry of the modern world have followed, some more closely than others, the progressive insanity of the Petty Capitalist inheritors. As a consequence of this all the eschelons of modern civilization have diverged into chaos, or insanity. From the lowest ranking to the highest the pledge to insanity can be seen in their activities none of which are sychronized with either the current mode of production - (Mass production) or political needs of the population (Distributive ideologies).
With this knowledge in hand you can see the truth in the following and the predicament of the modern world:
Miserable incompetents congratulating themselves inordinately for having jobs when the only reason they have jobs is because they are strangling all the real competency out of the system. They have reduced the criteria whilst camouflaging it's lack of complexity within a facade of rhetoric aimed at maintaining status at the cost of a complete forfeiture of social progress.
This is the result of the people having spent too much time in the service of the obsolete inheritors and having their values inverted to the point that they are exhalting amongst themselves those who are similar to the obsolete inheritors - (the opposite of competency). Which itself results in the people rejecting those the inheritors reject - "the truly competent".
Thus the people have joined the downward spiral of insanity of the obsolete PC caste - (the inheritors) extracting the truly competent of their own offspring from the social equation leaving themselves without guidance.
How does one revalue an entire population of
adults in possession of excessive resources?
It Can't Be Done!
Unfortunately for us all it has gotten to be just a bit more ugly than this brief explanation can attest. It appears that the PC caste somewhere along the line realized that they were "misleading the public into insanity" and they decided to covertly manipulate several generations of the people's children to avoid having to step down from their thrones. At this very moment probably thousands of citizens, precisely our finest in many cases, are sitting in prison cells and jails, some doing life sentences, for crimes that would never have happened under regular circumstances. The circumstances were fiticiously generated to eliminate "hostile competitors".
And worse than this is the fact the the highest achievers of the current day, such as myself, are resigned to feeling guilty for being alive while real murderous criminals amidst the PC caste are rejoicing in applause for being cunning manipulators of innocent people's lives.
Where Are The PCs (top)
I have provided a map of the USA below. Take note of the rivers, lakes, ocean fronts throughout the country and you will find the PCs laughing, partying, enjoying themselves, in the most pleasant of moods but always in hiding. And be weary if entering a PC neighborhood because most PCs live in a certain amount of fear and would probably shoot first and ask questions if their police arrive. I believe the rules are: anybody is out of bounds in a PC neighborhood if they are neither "a resident " or "the help".
PC housing lines the shores every where there is blue, generally. (above)