Blind Sided Economics & Politics

The economic model of mind that created nature as we know it is pure genius at work. A tree, say an orange tree [since I spent part of my childhood living in a house surrounded by orange groves] produces fruit. Lots of it. A single tree will produce between 400 and 550 fruits per year.This is astounding in and of itself, however, the real genius is in the fact that each fruit produces seeds, in the case of the orange, sometimes as many as a dozen seed, dependent on any of a number of environmental conditions. Which means, one tree will produce a conservative average of 35,000 seeds per year which the have the potential of producing 15 to 20 million fruit from 35,000 trees.

In other words the economic model of the mind that created nature is designed toward outrageous abundance. This model is found everywhere in nature in varying degrees. When I contemplated this [it literally followed me around and nipped at my heels until I stopped my usual mental chatter and pondered it] I compared it to what I know to be the dominant economic model in the world, Capitalism. My commiserations about capitalism led, of course, to an examination of both socialism and communism all of which struggle to become the sole system for the planet; a struggle which has cost billions of lives to date from causes easy to discover; War, Famine [Naturally enough, you can't grow corn in a war zone. This rule applies to nations, it applies to families, it applies even to individuals. A person at war with himself will soon become unproductive of income or anything positive.] disease & grief. This is the continuing legacy of the struggle between these forces. Some like to describe this as the struggle between good and evil but I think the words of Jesus "You can tell the tree by it's fruit" will always apply and all three of these systems, with capitalism and communism topping the list are responsible for untold death and suffering.

Capitalism manifest is a miles wide scar on the surface of the Earth where any mineral you care to name has been gouged out and carried off with no regard to the natural beauty marred by such activity. This is nearly always the legacy of untrammeled capitalism and is the source of global ecological imbalances that are costing even more lives as well as the war, famine, disease and grief. It doesn't have to be that way but despite some recent efforts to modify the course, this march toward global self annihilation is still our first concern. [I often wonder whether the increase in tectonic plate turbulence-earthquakes-may have as its secret cause the billions of gallons of oil we removed from deep with the planet.] At the core of
the blind side of capitalism is greed, power lust, and the insatiable appetite to have infinitely far more than any human being needs to live comfortably, along with an amazing propensity for trashing the environment in which it operates and refusing to take responsibility for cleaning up their messes. These are the obvious psychoses of the the multinational corporations, leaders of the free world. There are other more subtle such but you might not want to know.

Communism manifest is a nation of people living in fear of each other. This is typically because the war between capitalism and communism creates leadership afraid of being undermined by the always aggressive and determined efforts of capitalists, who must have resources and manpower to maintain its life. Communist rule by suppression of the forces within it which would destroy it. It creates a certain darkness of life while failing miserably to deliver the promises of the revolutions which bring it to power. Sadly enough, communism's tenets are not all bad.

Socialism, the shining hope that man will get over trying to be God and focus on mastering humanity and deal equitably with his neighbors in all cases, is producing the most successful 'fruits' so far but is weighed down by the necessity for very high taxation to accomplish what it must. It also has not the will nor the resources to significantly modify its powerful antagonists. In the interim the friction between these paradoxically competing systems costs lives and puts our planet in peril.

Capitalism is the core resource of both communism and socialism. Without it both would experience significant loss of energy. Yet, capitalism must ultimately yield to reason. The current "fruit" of the many years of elitist power, money and natural resource grabbing is a nearly global economic meltdown. What we've witnessed so far is only the beginning. It is the warning that unless we grasp and implement a paradigm where these three systems function in a global synergy, empowering and protecting all levels of humanity, "no flesh will be saved."

Capitalism, socialism and kibbutz style 'communal' systems functioning in every country [with limited cultural adaptations] like a three strand rope, along with the re-education of blind Side capitalists and their political operatives of every description, would create a new and dynamic environment for resource management, population development and management and would create wealth at levels no mean-spirited, exploitive system has yet produced, while protecting our fragile ecosystems. Kibbutz styled production systems take the load off capitalist infrastructures, who manage poorly when it comes to handling the human waste products of its ventures, the poor. The poor, [who have little to offer capitalists if they are destitute because they can't buy products] benefit from the first and most important productivity requisite; dignity, rewarding work and well maintained family structures. There is absolutely no reason any child should die of malnutrition on a planet that so easily produces far more than we can ever use. [For that reason alone, poverty- in any country-is a terrible indictment of the government of that country.] This also takes the load off the middle class, whose taxes pay for inept institutions heavy on bureaucrats but short on results. How is it possible that supposedly well educated business, political, religious and economic minds haven't done the math to discover how infinitely much more profitable a healthy, relatively well off population is compared to what we face now-globally? With numerous "bubbles" bursting around them-real estate, stocks, bonds, and credit, who is sounding the warning that business as usual is about to force a lot of formerly wealthy people to the glass outer walls of crystal towers worldwide, unless an epidemic of humility, connectedness with their common humanity and honesty about the "fruits" they've produced so far sweeps across the landscape of the world's elite business, political and spiritual leadership.

Where once capital found it desirable, if not necessary to keep a segment of the population in darkness, the policy has cost more money that it ever earned and has now created an underclass with one tenth of the potential to buy the products and services they would had the promises of the American Dream in particular had been more than smoke and mirrors. The policy has backfired. Like Rome herself, the nations of the free world are being overrun by the modern barbarians. Like their ancient counterparts the modern barbarian has nothing to lose by creating chaos. Like their ancient counterparts, they will be unable to create a revolution that does something other than revisit the past. At a cost of $40,000 annual to incarcerate one human being, and the additional costs of maintaining a court system long overdue for a comprehensive restructuring, it would seem that the cost of keeping people poor, unproductive and prone to violence because of it, would inspire these brilliant economist, psychologists, politicians, bureaucrats, attorneys, judges and others to come up with a solution that makes sense. The blind, however, continue to lead the blind to the detriment of us all.