What’s your faith?

What’s your faith?

Much of economic theory has devolved in respect of an imaginary world in which there was arms length competition among individual buyers and sellers. That world, if ever it existed, is become subservient to a different meme, in which oligarchs trade in the buying and selling of influence over masses, masses who have been neutered under a system that has reduced drones’ economic and political influences to pittances and delusions. Drones are becoming made to compete against the lowest common denominator of third world labor. Their currency is being manipulated that they might pay for their own neutering. Their cultural boundaries are being diversified to the point of diminishing relevance. Their mores are being made subservient to a greater good of the community, as imagined by elitists in the service of oligarchs.

In this faux “open society,” economists are bent to be apologists for masters of competing interests. Pscyho-historical analyses are made under pretense that the old economic model is still relevant. However, the world has phase-shifted, and reigning oligarchs have little interest in explaining to the common man how his trust is purposely being deluded and manipulated. No doubt, many see this, yet despair whether it would be good or possible to change it. Their dilemma becomes how to make themselves relevant or useful to the reigning paradigm.

The highest currency of the new order deals less in gold backed money than in acquiring means for the absolute manipulation of trust. Those means are to avail power: to control banking and fiat money; to entertain and manipulate psychological fashions, fads, and wants; to manipulate media dissemination of information; to “educate” the next generation; to diversify, divide, and rule the various populations and cultures; to glorify (and manipulate) social “science”; to discredit, anger, and divide traditional churches; to regulate small business people and the middle class into political and economic impotency; and to regulate the detailed behavior of every peon -- right down to his last ration for carbon credits.

What should we do? What does God want us to do? Does God desire that we should be instrumental to establish civilizations to record remembrances of decency, sustainability, purposefulness, challenge, pathos, and glory? Does God wish the sting of competition and battle, to wring out appreciation of the unexpected? Does God volunteer, through us, for lab rat duty?

I suspect evolution is considerably affected by an interpenetrating field of consciousness. I also suspect the goals of such field, while encompassing, may flux in respect of some hierarchy, sort of like Maslow’s. During the short span of recorded history, the default position of humanity seems to have been in subservience to ruling elites. Is America an aberration or a harbinger?

Is it possible to sustain a humane, challenging civilization that avails equal opportunity for freedom of expression and enterprise? Must every such society, to the extent it leads to power to utterly destroy (i.e., too much power in disparate hands of too wide a multitude), be efficiently pushed back down to a default position of mass servitude? Is the best that can be done for the masses that they be comforted in their delusions, like Temple Grandin’s cows? What’s your faith?