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The Virgin birth.
The Chosen people.
The Resurrection of the dead.
The Free Market.
Which of those is unsupported by material evidence but exists by
virtue of practice based on fervent , coerced, or simply uncritical
belief and is thus subject to failure at any moment when the belief is
shaken to its roots by experienced reality? All of them.
Of course farmers and flea markets are real, as are the corporate
malls where millions enter with credit desire and leave in debt
frustration. But the global financial market whose minority controllers
run the planet is a vast electronic church sustained by a congregation
of mentally and physically brutalized parishioners. A political clergy
of rabbis, priests and ministers operate its banking cathedrals as an
international casino whose minority profits accrue on the loss of
billions of people forced to gamble their existence on its success, and
their failure.
The ruling minority relies on its giant computers, mathematicians
and symbol manipulators to transform global wealth into weapons of war
for humanity’s forced use on itself, and luxury goods for lives of
wretched excess for them and their servants. All this is supported by
the majority whose struggles for survival increase in debt, pain, and
endless war.
Financial dictatorship is maintained by military power capable of
slaughtering thousands of people instantly and destroying governments
through domination of minds as well as bodies. It is more profitable to
manipulate worshippers through the consciousness control of political
media rather than by brute force. Propaganda is especially useful at
programming patriotism during wars, and civic duty during elections.
Voting rituals have servant clergy driven into the collective mind as
representing an abstraction called “the people” rather than the
financial elites who run the temples, banks and the election business.
Philosophers who once claimed that god was dead encountered little
resistance since no material evidence could oppose an immaterial charge.
But the time for secular and spiritual communities to unite and
proclaim that the financial market-god is dead may be at hand, before
fanatic faith in this deity of the dollar obliterates us all.
What many religious people site as indications of the downfall of
humanity sometimes offer a clearer view of reality than that of secular
types skeptical of mythological belief, while they help perpetuate the
most fantastic fable:
A political economic dementia that claims minority rule of the
planet by a tiny caste of master-race-self-chosen people is creating the
best life imaginable for their subject billions, while evidence
increases that the material world can no longer support this fanaticism
without ultimate destruction of much that passes for civilized reality.
Social critics who hold the spiritual in disdain can make seemingly
more credible scientific arguments to indicate that radical change is
needed in the political economic foundation of society in order for the
race to succeed. Whether one side or the other is right is a dualistic
argument and part of the problem. Both are correct to argue that we
can’t go on as we have or we will face possible failure for humanity
itself and not just the usual segments always sacrificed to the unjust
dogma that benefits some at the cost of all.
While severe problems increase, protectors of the status quo take a
more crazed and sadistic tone, screeching about peace and democracy
while they murder the first and make the second impossible. Public
programs are savaged by policies which lavish money on those who have
great wealth, steal money from those who create all wealth, and deny
money to those who have no wealth. The increased suffering inflicted on
western populations manipulated into accepting the irrational idea that
minority created financial collapse is the fault of majority need for
human service is countered by more savage brutality inflicted on
foreigners, especially in the middle east.
The plan to break up Arab nations that do not obey the west,
criticize Israel or relate to Iran as an ally, has taken a more brutal
turn. Viciously punishing any disobedience to the dogma of the great
white church of the west, first Libya and now Syria – with Iran still
pending – have been subjected to open warfare and the more covert murder
of embargoes and infiltration by illegitimate outsiders who pervert
insider’s legitimate struggles for change.
Libya has been shattered and the same fate is sought for Syria, but
the shaman shysters of global finance capital have learned no lessons
from their near destruction of Iraq. That nation is now an ally of Iran,
strengthening the supposed center of an “axis of evil”. The real evil,
known to be so by the overwhelming majority of global people, is the
dualist deity of Israel and the USA. An entity calling itself the
international community is actually a relative handful of toadies and
one massive military power, insisting that the world is its possession
to be regulated by a perversion of language, thought and practice that
it calls democracy.
All of this is motivated for the gathering of profits by minorities
at the expense of majorities, and the loss sustained by the earth and
its people has become so staggering that life itself may be scarred for
generations if we do not pierce the darkness of compulsory ignorance and
create a more enlightened future of hope. That means tearing out the
roots of superstition imposed by a few in order to enable the growth of
wisdom for the many.
We are all forced into worshipping this false god, no matter what
label we attach to ourselves, our nations or our faiths. Continued
belief in and support of the religious madness called global finance
capitalism will be the undoing of the ultimate identity group; deists,
atheists, agnostics and the rest of humanity. In short, all of us.
email:
fpscott@gmail.comFrank Scott writes political commentary and satire which appears online at the blog Legalienate
