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Liberation Is Unprofitable
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,
12 examples of how liberation is not profitable and therefore it must be marginalized, outlawed, proscribed or ridiculed.
If we had to summarize the sickness of our economy and society, we could start by noting that liberation is unprofitable, and whatever is not profitable to vested interests is marginalized, outlawed, proscribed or ridiculed. Examples of this abound.
Liberation from digital communication servitude is not profitable. Don't have a smart phone on 18 hours a day, every day? Loser! Luddite! Liberation from digital communication servitude is not profitable, therefore it is ridiculed.
Liberation from debt is not profitable. Only the wealthy can afford to buy a vehicle without debt, a home without debt or a university education without debt. For everyone else, liberation from debt is not an option, because debt is highly profitable to our financial Overlords and the politicos they buy/own.
Liberation from political elites is not profitable. Dependence on the state for monthly payments binds the recipients to the political elites that control the money and payments, and to the financial elites who control the political elites.
Liberation from the staged, soap-opera political drama of elections is not profitable. Election advertising generates staggering profits for media companies, and the ceaseless nurturing of fear, resentment and indignation fuels acceptance of centralized power and control.
Liberation from the consumerist mindset is not profitable. Aspirational purchases in the pursuit of appearances are the most profitable of all spending; re-use, repair and informal peer-to-peer sharing are all intrinsically unprofitable.
Narcissistic Consumerism and Self-Destruction (October 20, 2012)
Liberation from the tyranny of central banks is not profitable. Our entire financial system is built on the simple dynamic that everyone is forced to use money issued by the central bank (Federal Reserve) to its member banks and their financier cronies.
Money that is decentralized and not issued by central banks is not profitable.
Common-sense, minimal regulations are not profitable. Regulations feed government fiefdoms and the revolving-door spoils system between the state and private industry, and erect formidable barriers to new competitors. As a result, over-regulation is immensely profitable.
The ability to think independently is not profitable. The control mechanisms that keep the various classes of serfs in permanent servitude all depend on a dumbed-down populace that has been stripped of the ability to think independently by propaganda, group-think, medications, the education industry and lifelong dependency on the state.
An economy/society without corruption is not profitable. Buying favors, cronyism and cartel control of pricing are the primary sources of corruption. Cartels and the auctioning of favors are highly profitable to politicos and the vested interests who control the tollways of finance, political influence and social mobility.
Degrowth is not profitable. Needing fewer, quality things that last for decades is not profitable. Reparing things for nearly-free is not profitable. Giving stuff away to others for free is not profitable. Making do with what you have is not profitable.
Degrowth, Anti-Consumerism and Peak Consumption (May 9, 2013)
A scarcity of stress and anxiety is not profitable. Stress, anxiety and financial insecurity are all highly profitable, as these drive profitably addictive behaviors such as going deep into debt, shopaholic binge buying, multiple anti-anxiety/anti-depression medications, costly therapy and various forms of self-medication.
The Silent Epidemic in a Broken, Deranged System: Stress (April 18, 2013)
Opting out is not profitable. Opting out of debt-serfdom and the burdens of being a tax donkey is not profitable to vested interests or the state. Adopting self-reliance and low-cost/low-impact living and opting out of the status quo culture of consumerism, debt and complicity with a parasitic, exploitive cartel-state Aristocracy/ Plutocracy/ Oligarchy/ Kleptocracy (take your pick--it's still the same rapacious Elite whatever name you choose)--is not profitable.
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The death throes of a republic are never pretty to witness. Rome got pretty ugly at the end of its hundred year death spiral.
<The lowest common denominator is always a despot.>
Health is not profitable for the healthcare industry.
Health is not profitable for the sick-care 'industry'.
The healthcare industry is a delusion of the mind and the result of mind control propaganda.
Right. I thought the irony was sufficiently obvious without quote marks around healthcare.
Let's see, liberation = unprofitable so, racket = profitable, right?
Someone please double-check my math.
As always 'profit' is in the eye of the beholder. And in this case we are speaking about the person in whose hand s/he be holding the profit.
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Didn't Startrek have a problem using that word Profit? Startrek, right?
Liberation from bad health is not profitable:
But the obesity epidemic hardly looks like a growth killer. Highly processed corn-based food products, with lots of chemical additives, are well known to be a major driver of weight gain, but, from a conventional growth-accounting perspective, they are great stuff. Big agriculture gets paid for growing the corn (often subsidized by the government), and the food processors get paid for adding tons of chemicals to create a habit-forming – and thus irresistible – product. Along the way, scientists get paid for finding just the right mix of salt, sugar, and chemicals to make the latest instant food maximally addictive; advertisers get paid for peddling it; and, in the end, the health-care industry makes a fortune treating the disease that inevitably results.
Coronary capitalism is fantastic for the stock market, which includes companies in all of these industries. Highly processed food is also good for jobs, including high-end employment in research, advertising, and health care.
So, who could complain?
Certainly not politicians, who get re-elected when jobs are plentiful and stock prices are up – and get donations from all of the industries that participate in the production of processed food. Indeed, in the US, politicians who dared to talk about the health, environmental, or sustainability implications of processed food would in many cases find themselves starved of campaign funds.
http://www.ipp.hit-u.ac.jp/tajika/lecture/material/141127_RogoffandLusti...
Repost.ald
Whenever there is a call here for revolutionary anarchy here, I have an urge to mention the French Revolution.
We are too close to the Romantic American Revolution to be any thing but proud of the action and the first hundred years of it's aftermath.
What puts me in this chirpy mood is the the article I am reading about the Battle of Waterloo.
The historic date of the battle is Sunday, June 18, 1815.
(dMAC Digest Volume 4 No 6 by Duncan MacDonald.)
The world upheaval was a direct result of somewhat common people pushing against European Monarchy.
The end result was a long period of time of unprecedented terror and governance chaos, that really has not settled down in Europe to the present day.
Sheep and anarchists are capable of emotional thought and action , but not rational thought.
The only guarantee for a modern revolution will be that a more psychotic bunch will be whipping you to finance their visions of yet another perfect world.
parasitism is very profitable.........
trav7777.........
''The banks should not tell us that we have to give them our firstborn because they lent us money that the banker never had in the first place. Fuck that. There's no loss to him except in his expectation of RENT.
If I pulled the shit the banks do, I would get arrested and jailed for counterfeiting and fraud.
Nevermind the Fed or the other CBs. Look into the history of the BOE...they backed out whatever initial capital they put up in that bank within an instant. Why? Because they had "assets" in the form of sovereign loans, created by lending capital THEY NEVER HAD. So, they backed out their REAL capital and left the loans on the books as assets.
The banks are assetless; that is the big elephant in the room. The debt is backstopped by bullshit and smoke and mirrors. It must be rejected, along with the entire CB debtmoney FRN system. All of it.''
Common-sense, minimal regulations are not profitable.
True but it is Fraud, Waste, and Abuse of Federal Funds, and Consumer Wealth.
In fact all the list is waste.
Principals, Values & Ethics are not Profitable, that is why Private banks are no Longer Conservative.
Recommended reading:
‘Post-Intellectualism and the Decline of Democracy’
Donald N Wood
1996
Very good book. If interested you can probably find it used on Abebooks.com
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Faschism
The economy and the society as Hugh-Smith relates is awash with opportunists and crooks. But the problem is that the umpire (the Fed) is the super crook, neutralizing representative government (the Congress) and forcing a severe destruction on America. Economic collapse in America now is inevitable, but first it was necessary to destroy her from within:
“One of the first signs of a civilization in decay is the toleration of evil. Then, the moral desensitizing process engulfs society and evil is no longer perceived a evil—it becomes simply an alternative life style. As Bishop Fulton Sheen described the process, ‘the great masses without faith are unconscious of the destructive processes going on, because they have lost the vision of the heights from which they have fallen.’” – R.H. Goldsborough
U.S. District Judge W. Brevard Hand in his March 4, 1987 ruling in Smith v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile, Alabama, ruled that secular humanism is a religious belief system and found that 44 public school textbooks were written from the secular humanist point of view and thereby constituted an illegal establishment of religion. He ordered all 44 books removed.
On appeal, the 11th US Circuit Court reversed Judge Hand’s textbook ban but did not reverse his charge that secular humanism is a religion by First Amendment standards.
Here are the tenets of America’s state-sponsored, man-centered, anti-Christian religion in Humanist Manifesto I promulgated throughout the public school system, signed in 1933 by the father of modern education, John Dewey, and his comrades:
FIRST: Religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and not created.
SECOND: Humanism believes that man is a part of nature and that he has emerged as a result of a continuous process.
THIRD: Holding an organic view of life, humanists find that the traditional dualism of mind and body must be rejected.
FOURTH: Humanism recognizes that man's religious culture and civilization, as clearly…are the product of a gradual development due to his interaction with his natural environment and with his social heritage. The individual born into a particular culture is largely molded by that culture.
FIFTH: Humanism asserts that the nature of the universe depicted by modern science makes unacceptable any supernatural or cosmic guarantees of human values… the way to determine the existence and value of any and all realities is by means of intelligent inquiry…religion must formulate its hopes and plans in the light of the scientific spirit and method.
SIXTH: We are convinced that the time has passed for theism, deism, modernism, and the several varieties of "new thought".
SEVENTH: Religion consists of those actions, purposes, and experiences which are humanly significant…the distinction between the sacred and the secular can no longer be maintained.
EIGHTH: Religious Humanism considers the complete realization of human personality to be the end [purpose] of man's life and seeks its development and fulfillment in the here and now. This is… [our]social passion.
NINTH: In the place of the old attitudes involved in worship and prayer the humanist finds his religious emotions expressed in a heightened sense of personal life and in a cooperative effort to promote social well-being.
TENTH: It follows that there will be no uniquely religious emotions and attitudes of the kind hitherto associated with belief in the supernatural.
ELEVENTH: Man will learn to face the crises of life in terms of his knowledge…reasonable and manly attitudes will be fostered by education…humanism will take the path of social and mental hygiene and discourage sentimental and unreal hopes and wishful thinking.
TWELFTH: …religious humanists aim to foster the creative in man and to encourage achievements that add to the satisfactions of life.
THIRTEENTH: Religious humanism maintains that all associations and institutions exist for the fulfillment of human life…certainly religious institutions [i.e. the Christian Church], their ritualistic forms, ecclesiastical methods, and communal activities must be reconstituted as rapidly as experience allows…
FOURTEENTH: The humanists are firmly convinced that existing acquisitive and profit-motivated society has shown itself to be inadequate and that a radical change in methods, controls, and motives must be instituted. A socialized and cooperative economic order must be established…
FIFTEENTH AND LAST: We…endeavor to establish the conditions of a satisfactory life for all,…
http://americanhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_I
IOW, there is a blueprint for a communist hell in America until the Fed is removed.
You win. If only we followed your one true god or group thereof, everything would be just dandy.
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Charles Hugh Smith is sounding more and more like Kunstler every post. That's not a good thing.
I guess Timothy (6:10) had it right: ... For the LOVE of money is the root of all Evil ... and the PTB do loooove their money ... and even more the control it brings them.