Predator Capitalism/Socialism
Doug McIntosh
It's time someone put the record straight about the form of capitalism recently transformed into a mixture of fascism and socialism by the bailout bill in the United States of America. I volunteer. Capitalism didn't exist in the USA, anymore than Communism existed in the former Soviet Union. The economic terms used are theoretical concepts which are not in use anywhere on the planet. What we had, were modified forms of Capitalism, Communism and Socialism, depending upon the countries involved. Economics, like so much else on this planet offers no purity. In economics, as in much else, we are all mutts. Whatever you called the mixture of greed, corruption, arrogance, incompetence and government welfare and bailouts we labeled capitalism in these here United States, I called it predator capitalism. The capitalism extolled by the Republocrat hacks, downstream media whores and the lawyers was a fraud. Both a Teddy Bear and a Grizzly Bear are called bears, but which one would you give to a child?
Any resemblance between true capitalism and predator capitalism is unintentional and the government has finally eliminated it. True Capitalism is about risk and reward, freedom and the right to fail, wisdom, accountability, providing a service to customers and making a fair, reasonable and realistic profit. Predator Capitalism was about greed, obscene wealth and the arrogant pride posing as patriotism. United States predator capitalism was about lies, deceit, fraud and a business class which showed a deep contempt for basic honesty and morality. Predator capitalism had no ethics, respected no ethics and had a morality based upon no crime has been committed until you get caught. Woody Allen once joked the only sin in Judaism was paying retail price. The same idea is the norm in corporations. Now that we have the NWO bailout bill passed we have moved directly into open economic fascism. The USA has now moved beyond predator capitalism directly into predator socialism.
We have gotten the logical result of predator capitalism: open economic fascism combined with government social control.
If a culture reflects a people, then a countries corporations, business people, and commerce must also. The trans nationals complicate this somewhat, but they have even less of a moral code than the national commerce. US capitalism was fundamentally flawed, to oppose the usual fundamentally sound cliche. It was beyond political and economic reform and has been replaced by the NWO. It has withered. It has twitched and has now collapsed into death. My only question is whether there will be a rebirth. The elite have riden the bomb into the ground, just like Slim Pickens in "Dr. Strangelove." The flaw is a moral failure, a spiritual failure at the core of the United States political and economic system; the people who run them. The rot has spread further into our general culture and people now. Our form of predator socialism was a logical result of the lack of accountability in our private and civic affairs. The USA has collapsed, in its economy first, followed by its politics and finally its society. The USA popular culture has been in slow decay for a quarter century. The reason for this collapse is the widespread contempt for the concept of being held accountable. At all levels of society the arrogant assertion no one should be held responsible or accountable for their actions is sacrosanct. If at first you don't succeed, redefine success is our new national motto.
We should not confuse the many symptoms of decay evident at all levels of our society with this root cause: lack of accountability for anything we do, either individually or collectively. Above all else, the United States is loathed globally for this cultural arrogance we are blind to. It is this arrogant, preening pride of the USA in saying we are beyond judgment and can do anything we want, anyway we want to and anywhere on the planet we want to that has been our doom. The Spirit itself has had enough of the United States and its strutting. The Spirit itself will destroy any people who strut this way on the stage of history. We strut; we preen our feathers and proclaim our superiority. The Spirit sees and is not pleased with the descendants of Pilgrims. We ignore history at our peril. People and nations that think this way have been destroyed. We think this way: therefore, we have been destroyed.
Predator Capitalism was a mutant form, a cancer cell, on the body of economics. What passes for normal economics in the USA is in reality a form of economic disease. A cancer cell tricks the host cell and destroys it in the process of replicating. Predator Capitalism has repeated the process with the host United States, first by destroying the economy and second the larger culture and society. After all, paraphrasing Machavelli, if a city is full of wolves, where will they find sheep to eat? When an entire economic system is based upon a predator/prey philosophy and a screw you I win methodology, the prey will eventually either wise up or be destroyed. Predator Capitalism has fouled its nest here in the USA. As the globalists tighten their economic grip by concentrating all spheres of economic activity in at most three large corporations per sector, the rising tide of incompetence will destroy the USA: in the same way as incompetent Communism destroyed the USSR. The only real cardinal rule for any economic system is this: at some level things must get done. If not for government bailouts and restrictive legal protection, Predator Capitalism would have gone out of business years ago. In those economic sectors where the American predators face the Chinese predators, they have been eaten wholesale. The defining economic issue for the next decade will be what to do about the Red Chinese predators foolishly unleashed by the globalists in their urge to destroy the working classes. Nobody controls China anymore; not even the Red Chinese government. The only thing which might save Western economies is the fact Chinese products tend to kill people. A public relations issue according to the NWO.
The state of Predator Capitalism/Socialism in the USA is one of severe constipation. The powers that be are desperately seeking to prevent either debt failure or the Red Chinese from unleashing, you know, an economic bowel movement of tidal wave proportions. What our elite seeks to prevent in the economic sphere is really just the natural flow, pun intended, of life. The status quo means nothing to me. People like me will make it; if not, the Spirit has a better phase of existence for me to exist in. It is now dawning on the brain dead American workers there really are no jobs. They are all in the process of going to India or China. That one fact is why we now have fascism in the USA. The NWO will just tighten the screws more and more.
One way to look at what is going on across Planet Earth is to think we are having the mother of all constipation scenarios. In economics, politics, spiritual, military and culture people and their systems are just constipated. The Spirit is worried. It has sent me. I'm on a mission from the great doctor in the sky. Yep, I'm going to keep writing my essays, the equivalent of 100 proof prune juice. And I'm going to get my ideas across, even if I need to use a baseball bat and a funnel- just like the mental institutions in the 1700's did. I don't mess around with the predator classes. So, if by chance, any of you ignorant, arrogant predators are reading this essay, understand one thing. I'm Lassie with an attitude. I'm the meanest sheep dog you will ever see.
I've got a baseball bat. I've got a funnel. I've got the biggest bottle of laxative you elite scum will ever see. I'm coming for you my Imperial Lords and your schemes of death and decay. To the sheep my words are life, but to wolves like you they are death. Be very afraid of both me and my ideas. See you predators in your nightmares, you shameful, shameful fools.
True capitalism is a branch of morality, ethics and the Spirit in my opinion. Jesus talked more about money than anything else. The lust for money is truly the root of all evil. Predator Capitalism has smothered the Spirit better than crabgrass here in the USA. It is Predator Capitalism/Socialism, sneering at all things spiritual; lusting after filthy lucre which rules the USA now. Nearly everybody and everything is for sale. We are truly a crass society with no class, no style and most of all no sense of personal ethics or honor. Much of the sleaze, the squalor, the endless pushing of the moral boundaries and the constant barrage of selling by advertising, is rooted in the obscene greed that is the American character. We are not so much an evil people; we are a greedy and grasping people. We are corrupt and decadent in the truest sense of the word. The problem is corruption, decadence and laziness are merely a pit stop on the way to vile and evil.
Predator Capitalism/Socialism mocks the Spirit, loots and pillages the weak and the naive without mercy. The USA is like one of those shrinking pools of water in the Amazon Basin full of Piranha. Having run out of fools, both domestically and internationally, our elite predator class, is turning on itself. Take a look at how Wells Fargo and Citibank fought over the scraps of Wachovia like a pair of vultures. The predator class screeches out, "My kingdom for a trusting fool to screw over in business." Alas, naive, trusting people are few and far between in the USA today. Even our children have been turned into adults by age 6. After the economic chaos of the last 30 days, nobody believes the shills anymore. Decades of lies have come home to roost. In a few decades we may be able to use the economic guano as fertilizer, but for now the foundation of all economic activity, trust, has failed. This is Predator Capitalism's true legacy: it destroyed the foundation upon which it was built by merely doing that which it did best, deceive and lie.
A nation of corporate and political classes which are predators will themselves become prey. The eater will always run into some predator bigger, meaner and hungrier than it is. Always. The unique form of Capitalism practiced in America has now been merged into the worst of both: predator capitalism and incompetent government socialism. It won't take long for the results to be plainly seen by everyone. The American Republic was both a political and economic experiment. It is certainly fitting both have ended together in October 2008. You see, politics and economics are linked together. Now that political freedom has been voted away by the politicians, economic freedom will also fade away as a result. This also will be plain to see shortly.