[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
Nominal Prospect wrote:
I believe the only way to get rid of the current system will be through an [inevitably violent] well-financed revolution.
Actually, it doesn’t have to be a violent revolution. If government keeps fucking up the reserve currency and people get fed up enough it may be enough of a motivator to have competing currencies spontaneously emerge to fully subvert fiat. That alone would put government out of business. In fact it could be done with the technology we have today as long as there were enough people that would support it immediately.
The trick is to get as many consumer’s goods providers on board all at once. As soon as the elite at the top realize their paper money is no good to buy the things they need for everyday survival they will acquiesce. Their military and police would not even have the ability to buy bullets.[/quote]
Competing currencies are illegal. Anything of intrinsic value which can be used as commodity money can and will be confiscated, should the need arise.
If the government can’t buy bullets, then the citizens won’t be able to, either. And who starts out with more guns and bullets, the army or the citizenry?
The possibility of currency collapse doesn’t change the game at all. It is a totally planned for contingency of the current system. The dollar will be replaced with a new currency and the system will go on.
If there is social upheaval, it will be put down with martial law. If people refuse to work, they will be assigned to work camps or deported. If vital industries fold, they will be nationalized, one-by-one, until there is no semblance of a free market anywhere.
The politicians and media will blame the economic downfall on “unbridled capitalism” and the idiot masses will believe them. Ultimately, socialism will come about by the same mechanism as every other bad institution in this country: popular demand.
The public will cry out for the final stake be driven into the coffin of free enterprise, and the elites will be only too happy to oblige them.
There will no longer be any opportunity to realize a profit or loss. While retaining the outward appearance of private ownership, businesses will be completely subsidized and heavily regulated. They will be shielded from all market forces.
Class mobility will cease to exist, even as a pipe dream. The class into which a person born is where they will stay. People won’t complain because they won’t be made aware of any alternatives. They will not know the identities of their true rulers. They will be slaves without knowing it.
Empirical nominalism, the ontological theory which best describes reality, holds that universals have no independent existence outside of the mind. It is subjectivism and relativism taken to their absolute extremes. Reality cannot be conceptualized without language and language exists nowhere outside the minds of human beings. Therefore, words can be redefined infinitely. Slavery really can be proclaimed to be freedom and no one will be the wiser. It has been proven that most peoples’ perceptions of reality are influenced by their linguistic biases.
The influential socialist thinkers of the 20th century were neither “wrong” nor “dumb”. They were brilliant - Keynes and all the rest. 1984 was written in 1949 by the socialist George Orwell.
If socialist tenets appear to be flawed it can only be due to a misunderstanding of their true purpose. The goal of socialism is not to provide prosperity to the masses but precisely the opposite. Dispense with that illusion and suddenly the entire system begins to make sense.
The major realization of 20th century economics was that, while capitalism could make a nation wealthy, socialism could be used to keep it perpetually poor. The latter is of far more interest and use to members of the ruling class.
It sounds cliche, but yes, it is highly likely that the hatred and vitriol of the masses will eventually be channeled by the state into violent sports and perpetual warfare, an ever-present state of national emergency. Presently, the masses are allowed to express hatred towards their elected officials, a privilege which they take advantage of regularly. This will not be permitted in the future, so new outlets for aggression will have to be found.
G. Edward Griffin’s The Creature From Jekyll Island is the companion guide to the new era. No one should be without a copy. So far, events are unfolding almost exactly as stated in the book.
Allow me to conclude by quoting a passage from page 552 which directly addresses the scenario of a currency collapse due to hyper-inflation:
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And so we find that, in the New World Order, inflation has been institutionalized at a “modest” rate of five per cent. Once in every five or six generations-as prices climb higher and higher-a new monetary unit can be issued to replace the old in order to eliminate some of the zeroes. But no one will live long enough to experience more than one devaluation. Each generation is unconcerned about the loss of the previous one. Young people come into the process without realizing it is circular instead of linear. They cannot comprehend the total because they were not alive at the beginning and will not be alive at the end. In fact, there need not even be an end. The process can be continued forever.
By this mechanism-and with the output of work battalions-government can operate entirely without taxes. The lifetime output of every human being is at its disposal. Workers are allowed a color TV, state-subsidized alcohol and recreational drugs, and violent sports to amuse them, but they have no other options. They cannot escape their class. Society is divided into the rulers and the ruled with an administrative bureaucracy in between. Privilege is now largely a right of birth. The worker class and even most of the administrators serve masters whom they do not know by name. But serve they do. Their new lords are the monetary and political scientists who created and who now control The New World Order. All mankind is in a condition of high-tech feudalism.[/quote]
This is my bible, and should be yours.