A addendum to "Death within Capitalism"

This addendum is being included to the first part, titled "death within capitalism", because I feel certain things need to be clarified, specifically within the realm of vernacular and nomenclature.

Within the article, I use the phrase "capitalism" as the catchall phrase and descriptor for the US economy, and most first world countries economies as a whole. Using the term in such a manner actually takes away and diminishes the value and reason for this articles creation. The correct way I should have described capitalism, and all its inherent parts within the article should be as such:

(I will try to keep the descriptive as simple and short as possible to as not to confuse current and future readers with this addendum.)

In the article, at the beginning I compared a capitalist economy to a monarchy long past its prime. To clarify this statement, I would like to iterate that the capitalist economy I was speaking of is in direct reference to the state of the American economy as it has been through the current recession, the banking bubble, and the near implosion of several large scale, long-standing corporations in America. This version of the capitalist economy is what I like to call "Past the Thrones Prime" capitalism. (This is why I made the right comparison to the head of a monarchy, which has slipped past their prime in the throne, and refuses to abdicate and let their successor take their rightful place.)

One of the major problems in defining capitalism as a economic structure and the basis, is that just saying capitalism or using it as the definition of the economic system in use, is entirely too broad. In using the textbook definition in and of itself still falls to the same fate as the mistake I made earlier. To put it in very simplistic understanding and definition, capitalism has many different "flavors", or better yet, "personalities". With each flavor or personality being created from similar ingredients, but each having its own tastes or traits that make it just a bit different from the next version of "capitalism". This actually brings up a point I was amiss to include in the original writing of this article. Is that with the many different personalities of capitalism as a whole, and the belief that "a capitalist economy" should be allowed to run with minimal to no oversight, it turns those of many personalities into one entity that basically has multiple personal identity disorder, and the world's worst cases of bipolar disorder decided Napoleon or Caesar.

And it is this "disorder" within capitalism that creates not just the modern problems we have currently dealing with the economy, but also the recurring (and often not seen) cycles of rise and fall, birth and destruction of large-scale societies, or super societies, that have existed since the time of Rome and the Caesar's.

An author by the name of Peter Turchin, can better describe the rise and fall in cycles of destruction than I could ever give any justice to. Here is the link to a paper he penned on said subject: www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-20/blame-rich-overeducated-elites-as-our-society-frays.html?cmpid=hpbv. The only part where I would deviate from his standpoint is his description and implication of how the deep problems inherent in the system affect people. My understanding of the reading is more so his standpoint is on a sociological depth, where my study and observation, and subsequent being thrown in the deep end of it, understanding and point of view, drive deeply and directly to the human psyche in ways which, I will make clearer in the second part of this paper.

I hope this clears up some of the miscommunications that I might have caused in the first article of this paper. I hope you'll stick around and read the second and any other subsequent additions to my work.

Well, on to part two.

Part 2 of my series titled "The Rise, Fall, and Evolution of the Human Machine" will be posted this Saturday, after editing. Any questions or comments can be referred to here.
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Thanks for reading.

The Death within Capitolism

This is part One of several parts of a series.

Originally posted 10/17/2011

The Death within Capitalism, Why it must happen, And why its prevention has lead to our current state of Affairs.

I was pondering a while back as to why we have gotten ourselves as a country, into this mud stuck, no traction era of economics. And I see the problem. We live in a society now where we don’t let things that need to die, die. We fight with all of our selfish breath to sustain it past its expiration date, even when the world can smell the fetid, putrid gasses of its own decomposition. This is why we have a system that claims to be capitalist, yet it is more of a monarchy that has long since inbred itself into utter non-relevance. (Not a jab at England, so don’t even go there.)

Don’t believe me, then tell me this, and I will modify this question to include all aspects of the economy: In the past fifty years, name me something that has happened that is considered a revolution in a capitalist sense, that is not a reinvention, and upgrade, or redo of something we already have?

Go ahead and think, I will wait...............

There is lies the rub. We can’t. We have been indoctrinated to believe everything that is to be made that can sustain our society has been made, or reinvented to its fullest, when that is a out right lie. And why are we told these lies? Because the ones who make the money off of the status quo refuse to see, they have made their wealth and mark, and wish to hold onto the throne by any means necessary, to the detriment of the cause and goals they originally set out to attain.

Still don’t follow? Here, I will draw you the map of something that should have died and been reborn a long time ago, but it still lumbers on like the necrotic dead we like to call zombies. The zombie....The Chrysler Corporation.

This auto manufacturer at its beginning set a goal to be innovative, and inclusive in the innovations, to strive for the evolution of the auto industry, for it to become a leader in global innovation dealing in the auto industry. And to their word, they did become that. With multiple patents, and innovations that lead to an era of firsts and lasting things that are still around today. But to their discredit, what has their latest innovation been, that has rewritten the industry, broken walls and boundaries, and lead to an evolution........

Go ahead, I can wait.......

Now let me stop you right there. Some are going to say "what about the 7-8 speed transmissions they are now putting out, that save on fuel economy and such?" The technology and innovation and knowledge about these transmissions have been around for decades. Don’t believe me, look at any big rig truck, and ask the drivers, "how many gears are in your transmission?", and that will answer your question. "But the technology is now only becoming viable for smaller vehicles, you should be overjoyed?!" Look to the past and see how many companies tried to release a car with more than 5-6 speeds and see the problem I speak of. The where devoured by the likes of Chrysler, and her brethren , the technology hidden away, to be used as a sustaining lifeline to keep the monolith from dying and being reborn in the flames. Most people don’t know there are 3 U.S. patents that have been taken from people, to hide a truth from the population. The means of super cheap vehicle power, to the tune of cents per mile, not dollars, has been around for over 20 years. But where are they? Hidden in vaults kept by old money, who’s only wish is in their deathbeds, not to relinquish the reins to the new breed, but keep those reins held fast to where people will have to pry them away from their greed encrusted fingers.

And in the doing of such to keep those reins held fast long past the time of being able to use those reins to drive towards anything, they have corrupted our nation from the top down. Our elected officials, who have become accustomed to sucking from flesh dead teat’s long past the giving age, are now addicted to the few drops they receive, and will, bend, manipulate, and right out destroy anything that threatens the death of their poisoned milk. Even to the point of killing the things that will break free of their addiction to poison. Our media, which once stood for truth beyond all, now twisted on one poison or the other, does not matter which poison, because they are both from the same diseased, long past its prime bosom. To the unions, once for the sake of the people to not getting squashed, have now become the feet that does the squashing. All the way down to the individual, who is no longer a person, but a dollar sign, a commodity to be used in the ever long feeding of an entity, that should have been dead long ago, but refuses to perish?

Still questioning, good, that’s what needs to happen. Here is one to think of, When the Bailout of Chrysler happened, what good has come from it? There are thousands who have not returned to work, thousands more whose job no longer exist in the U.S., millions of dollars unused, yet C.E.O's still racking in millions, from where? Sales have not exploded to explain it, so from where? Take a guess? Cause there is only one place. And if you see that place, then you know what is needed.

And this goes beyond Chrysler. This goes to the banks of America who have ridden the new wave of make the dollar work for us, to the detriment of the man who invested the dollar. To the corporations who claim to be true American corporations, who send our jobs overseas, despite thousands of willing Americans are willing to do those jobs. To the union leaders, who now act like Mafioso’s with steel hands ready to crush people, not because they are a threat, but because they don’t like your rules, and don’t want to join your gang. To the media, who are so in bed with every corporation for advertising dollars, they will sell their soul and all things like integrity and unbiased truth to make a few more dollars. Down to the individual, who has become so happy to get a flat screen TV for cheap, we are willing to abandon, destroy, and forget one unifying factor that founded this country, and its economic system.

That is to let which is dying die in an honored manner. And if it refuses to die when the time comes, to destroy it, for it is what needs to be done for us to continue to grow as a people, an economy, as a nation. We chose as a nation to fight and destroy the bounds to a monarchy that kept us in repression. We chose to fight and kill the demons of slavery and segregation. We choose to fight and destroy those things that would see us back under rules and regulations that would stop us from being free men. So why now.......of all times, do we choose not to fight, to just accept it like the excessive fees we pay at the ATM. Because we have been poisoned. And I pray that my words can be the antidote.

We don’t have to take it, we no longer need to be poisoned, or be seen as a dollar sign. It is our Duty as people of the U.S., to fight for and destroy the things that keep us from moving forward as a people. If our system of economics has been poisoned and used against us, we must fight and destroy the ones and ways that lead it and feed the poison to our government, our unions, and our people. If there is one thing we should unify on, it is this: WE ARE NOT DOLLAR SIGNS, WE ARE NOT COMMODITIES, WE ARE NOT STOCKS TO BE TRADED AND SOLD LIKE CATTLE OF OLD. WE ARE PEOPLE, WE ARE HUMAN, AND WE ARE NO LONGER TO BE POISONED, AND WE WILL FIGHT TO DESTROY THE POISON, FOR WE NO LONGER NEED IT.

If you understand this and believe it to be true, don't just read it, copy and send it to others. pass it on to Occupy Everywhere, Move-It, and more. Spread it to the dens and homes of everyone. For this is the first shot of many......

Next in the series...."How to destroy the undead monoliths, and free the phoenix that resides inside."

so in conclusion part two

So i think i need to clarify so of my thoughts for people, so they get what i mean.

cause to some people i seem like a cynic, just seeing shit at every turn i take.

but that's not it in the least (even sometimes that turn of phrase makes no sense, but any who)

what i mean is, well to put it in words some people could get is, i can see the curvature of the earth, while still standing on the ground.

i can see the stream of time, for i exist outside of said stream.

and when i try to enter said stream, i am either rejected, or aloud in only for small dips, never to bath for extended periods of time in its warm eddies, or to feel its cold waves wash upon my body.

only catching the spray and mist she creates as she soldiers on upon her ceaseless march towards eternity.

and what makes it worse, is no one else can see the plight i am in due to they exist in the stream. they are part of her whiles and whims and turns and dips. and they think i exaggerate my place, yet i can see theirs clearly. the answers to the problems of life, but no one ever hears me due to the fact is, i have no place in the stream.

I'm not one of the fish who explore her hidden currents.

i am not one of the crustaceans who dwell upon her riverbed, feasting on the treasures of the deep within her.

nor am i one of the sharks who are privileged to eat of her full belly to their hearts content.

i am not either the fisherman who gets to net up and sell the bounty of her denizens,

or one of the ones who tries to stop the gluttony of said fishing men.

alone

i am the air the flats on high, never mixing with her

only pumped to her depths, to have her spit me out in small quantities over time. feeling her spray upon high, but never truly a part of her.

and this is what brings me to one of my many conclusions.

so ive come to the conclusion

ive come to the grand conclusion that, all of life's troubles, all of its vagaries, and bullshit, somehow all get lumped onto me. and i see no way out. I dont know how i got to this point in life. I try to be a good person. i try to help as many people as i can and all i get in return is hellfire.

and before you even go to that point of, oh everyone goes thru it, its life...,.walk in my shoes for a second.

i have a good job, not really hurting for money, i have decent friends, though sometimes i wonder..more on that in a minute. so why am i so down in the dumps?

i can pinpoint it to a tee......im the lowest common denominator.

"its not you its me" is the shit i am feed the most, and its my fault.

ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you thats all i get.

but thats not even the biggest issue..... the biggest is i think life has sucked the creative juice straight from me and i dont know how to get it back.

i spend most of my days trying not to cry from sheer lonliness.

and you know what makes it worse....i had someone say to me "but your already at the top, why the fuck do you need anyone?"

does anyone out there know what its like to be at the top?

and no i dont mean money wise, fuck riches, ivehad them and lost them, they dont mean shit to me.

i mean enlightenment, and no i dont mean the budist type lets reach nirvana enlightenment.

i mean real world i get it i can see all of it and all of its bullshit enlightenment.

most of the world only views the world in the way that suits them best for thier own little part of it.

well im cursed with the forsight to see all of it, and all of its shit....dont believe me, have a two minute convo with me and i can draw out your life with a few simple questions and show you how to get out of your shit.

and i can do that for me too except in one area.

and its all because i cant dumb down myself to exsist on this level of understanding companionship.

i thought i knew what it meant...but i guess i dont.

i thought love meant caring and giving your all to make the union better for all involved....but maybe im wrong. maybe it involves lies deciet and massive amounts of conflict to make it work, which i have no clue how to do.

i fix conflict not cause it.

so i guess what im saying is in conclusion, is i am destine to be a man ahead of his time, and never understand anything.

and i know my rantings makes no sense, cause no one will ever get it, so i dont even know why i am writing this.

lol life hate the ones who can see her for what she is, a shitty mistress with sociopathic tendencies who chews up anyone who dosent play by her rules.

well life, im chewed, can you spit me out now?

ok

i was sitting on the comp today and came by the most disturbing but awesome thing in the history of awesome.

its a screen shot of a page from a manga

well i will let you see for a second.....hold on......

AM I RIGHT

AWESOME

but it begs a question,

in this fictional world where the a super aryan

is there like a super human japanese person (god forbid if its kim jong )

and like would the super human black guy be Obama?!?!?!?!?!?!

i think i will try to get someone to draw them

will keep you in the loop.

OK
so its been a while since i wrote

i wasn't going to do this today, but after the third, fourth, fifth time it has happened today i have to say something.

(and i will say this in a loud enough voice so people can hear it.)

what the fuck is up with every black guy i know who comes downtown, rocking the hood uniform.

and why do all of them come into my store?

and why do all of them come in holding huge wads of cash like its supposed to make me react differently to them cause they have a miserly 231.25 out for show?

is it so the can show interest in buying a product, are they showing me they are a baller? (what ever the fuck that means)

or is it that they are so immature, and insecure they have to show some kind of masculine trait to the world (look i can buy shit with the money i earned, i am a man {beats chest})

why are people so dumb

second of all


can we get a new hood uniform?

like really
really????
white shirt
dark pants


what are you, in elementary school, where they have a dress code?

seriously
i have had 4 guys walk into my store. they all look older than 23, but they all are dressed like they attend Wilson middle school.

dudes seriously, get out the hood, away from the projects. get a real job, the kind you actually have to pay taxes with and everything. find a real woman, then have her dress you properly for fuck sakes. you look like you just stepped out of Silverman's back to school section.

Do i really have to get mad a this shit that makes no sense. i mean really, i understand the nature of the hood uniform (a bunch of people are doing dirty shit in the neighborhood, and it makes it easier for you to blend so the cops can pick up the wrong guy so you don't get popped, blah blah blah)

but do you have to dress like a 13 year old child?
really

the sad shit is the are now changing the colors of school uniforms so 12 year olds will stop getting picked up by cops, cause some 32 year old shithead wants to rob someone during school hours with the hood uniform on.
(true statement, but you will never see it on the news, EVER)

am i the only one who thinks this makes no sense?