Our economic system is a religion masquerading as a science, just as much as our religion is war masquerading as peace.
In the same way economics turns every religious virtue into a vice, it also turns every religious vice into a profit maximizing virtue. And for its lies, which it sells to us through our politicians and apologizes for with our religions, it promises to make us all rich, if we will but love it with all of our hearts, our minds, and our souls.
It is a religion that turns human survival into a gladiatorial blood sport, using cities as the coliseums, and all for the amusement of the "intelligent designers."
In a system built exclusively on "survival of the fittest," where the very ethos is that people must compete for the money to purchase their comforts and even their very survival, violence is a kind of worship of those "gods" who "intelligently designed" this system, and based it exclusively on competition, while denouncing any attempts by people to work cooperatively, as the "evil" of Communism and Socialism.
The commonality of the Communism of Lenin and Stalin, and of Mao, and the Socialism of Hitler, and the Fascism of Franco and Mussolini, was the division of labor and hierarchical management systems that Fredrick Taylor introduced to the world in the early 1900s, after he simply rejected Adam Smith's warning that doing so would only result in making people "as stupid as it was possible to be." And today, this seems to have clearly been intentional.
And the commonality among all forms of power is a desire to crush and eradicate all attempts of people to work together.
That's why all those despots ran their countries with the same kind of hierarchical despotism found inside the companies and corporations in America. All power systems work in this same way, after all, ruling from above through divide and conquer. In fact, Marx drew his entire understanding of the kind of horrors capitalism could produce, by simply imagining what it would be like to run a country in the same way Big Tobacco runs its industry.
And the commonality among all forms of power is a desire to crush and eradicate all attempts of people to work together.
That's why all those despots ran their countries with the same kind of hierarchical despotism found inside the companies and corporations in America. All power systems work in this same way, after all, ruling from above through divide and conquer. In fact, Marx drew his entire understanding of the kind of horrors capitalism could produce, by simply imagining what it would be like to run a country in the same way Big Tobacco runs its industry.
Violence is our business, and our vocation, which is why America was founded on it, and baptized in it, and celebrates it every Sunday.
Nor is it our "nature" to be violent, which we are "nurtured" to be by attending church at least once a week. In fact, all of Western history stands as evidence that humanity has ever only been nurtured to violence, mutually by church and state. Nations are violent by "nature," in contrast, which is why those nations seek everywhere to "nurture" violence in all those within their loving embrace.
And the God of such a system is always the god of War, and we can only worship such a god through violence.
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