The present crisis is not a recession but a depression, caused by the overproduction of electronic machines and its derivatives, similar to the 1929 crash, caused by the overproduction of electro-mechanical machines, which printed too much money (ticker speculation), electro-mechanical production systems (taylorism, automated assembly lines) that threw millions out of work and the overproduction of cars and radios, whose companies, lobbies and politicians reconverted into armored cars (tanks) and hate-radio speeches (Hitler), embarking us into World War II.
After the war, the Kondratieff wave of electro-mechanical machines was exhausted and so we started a new dual wave of ‘electronic machines‘,which evolved and reproduced in increasing numbers till saturating the global market.
And so we suffer again a crisis of overproduction and exhaustion of machines, now of electronic nature, with 4 sides, similar to those of the 29 crisis, as each Kondratieff wave of evolution of memes of metal applies to money, machines, weapons and mass-media: There is a crisis of overproduction of electronic money (financial crisis, caused by the massive reproduction of electronic derivatives and other forms of electronic money, which have lost value), of electronic machines (overproduction of computers that act as white collar workers and robots that act as blue collar workers, expelling the middle classes out of work, except low-paid ‘human robots’ in China and IT workers in India that still can compete with them), of electronic weapons (overproduction of ‘vigilante’ cameras and robot-terminators – drones – which have started a new arm race of enormous profits for the military-industrial complex) and electronic mass-media outlets, which have also switched to hate-speeches as Hitler did with radio, to increase sales and work hand in hand with the profits of electronic industries and war; and are regressing human culture into a visual, violent, selfish age in culture and politics – that we call the ‘neo-paleolithic’ culture and the ‘neo-fascist’ age in politics.
Thus the crisis is one of overproduction of electronic machines of 4 types, e-money, weapons, robotic workers and mass-media outlets, whose influence in society, politics, economics and culture have ended the american dream of an equalitarian society with opportunities for all men:
- The most talked about crisis is the financial crisis, caused by the reproduction and evolution of ‘bloomberg’ type of speculative platforms, which give massive credit to investors to speculate with currencies (FOREX) commodities and stocks (similar to the margin buys of the 20s speculative wave). Today those electronic platforms create ‘virtual money’, which the speculator does not need to hold for more than a few hours, recently a few minutes and amounts to tenfold even one hundred fold the credit of the speculator, which he uses to jack up prices of commodities and stocks - a taxation that then all the population pays in higher prices of food, oil, etc.
- An age of perpetual war and police states to help the reproduction and sale of robotic weapons (drones now, soon armed cameras, police cars, etc.)
This arms race now has started in earnest, and by middle of the century A.I. will probably be created first in millions of robots designed to kill mankind. Since the weapon, the top predator version of the machine that consumes human beings has always been the most advanced, expensive, profitable mechanism at any age of the Industrial Revolution. Thus in the previous age, the car became the tank and Hitler implemented Keynesian militarism as Bush has done in this crisis.
- A labor crisis, as white collar pcs and blue collar robots substitute the middle class except in low salary nations – Chinese cheap human robots in sweat shops and IT Indian human pcs. The crisis will continue moved by ‘productivity’ = capital in machines/ labor, which obviously grows, P=C/L when we diminish labor. Yet since machines give higher profits, censored economics ‘praises’ productivity without ever mention to the public its equation, and politicians with astounding ignorance or cynicism tell us that ‘rising productivity will create jobs’, when its definition is precisely the opposite.
Unfortunately the present global crisis of overproduction of electronic machines means also a ‘molting’ of the economic ecosystem from the age of America and ‘heads of metal’, to the global age of ‘robotics’, automated company-mothers and Internet, which mimic 4 self-similar crisis at the end of the age of bodies of metal (1929), means the increasing obsolescence of humanity. Because the industrial evolution ends with robotics that no longer need men. So there will not be as in the previous crisis a new age of economical growth (due in the 40s to the invention of heads of metal that put us back to work). Let us explain this essential ‘new future’ of this crisis, that differentiates it from the 29 crisis for the worst.
Thus the war and labor crisis can only be solved by forbidding robotics as we forbid AIDs viruses that can kill us, according to a simple biological “Law of the Jungle’: ‘kill the child before he becomes a tiger hunter’.
- A mental crisis provoked by the massive noise of meaningless electronic media and hate TVs, which are devolving human minds to a visual, neo-Paleolithic age of violent, simple thought. In what concerns the sciences of history and economics this ‘noise’ maintains the subconscious collective in pre-scientific times (tribal, nationalistic memes and go(l)d religions that pass as economic dogmas). Censorship here is vital to avoid any evolution of those sciences and solution to the crisis. The overwhelming control of mass-media communicators by big money means that ‘creationist economics’, (classic economics whose ‘hidden postulates’ derive from biblical beliefs in the ‘invisible hand of money’, which must guide societies without interferences) is the only ‘theory of reality’ which is heard. Those postulates, studied and proved false in the right, lower part of this web that deals with the ‘ideologies’ of the Financial-Military-Industrial Complex ecosystem we have created, are not even discussed in the present monolithic world of single-thought, repeated ad nauseam in infinite outlets, which all affirm the same ‘noise’.
The solutions are political and could be easily implemented if the will to change the world was there.
The solution to this 4th crisis is more complex and require legal measures against ‘visual fiction’ as a form of lying that prevents a real freedom of speech, covered by the noise of advertising and fiction thought. Yet the other 3 more important crisis could be easily solved with a G20 ban on robotics and the creation of a global single currency, ¥€$ money, with fixed parity 1 dollar = 1 euro = 100 yens = 5 Yuans, which would represent 3/4 of the global GDP, hence the only reference currency that could not be sunk by speculators. Such currency would then have rights to a 20% of annual deficit, invested in promoting a sustainable economy, a welfare state and jobs for human beings, which the robotic radiation has eliminated.
Further on, the war crisis could be eliminated with a single stroke, by accepting that ‘terrorism’ is not war and must be fought with police, intelligence and diplomacy as UK and Spain did to end their terrorism movements. But that means of course, the end of the ‘dictatorship of bankers’ over the American government, with its financial muscle and related lobbies in defense of apartheid Israel - in other words a balanced, diplomatic position of the US, the end of the drone war and the backing of International Institutions such as the UNO and the EU, as a blueprint for a future integration of all nations into a wor(l)d union with a single currency and the goal of fostering the survival and welfare, the WHealth of all mankind.
Since it all started precisely with the crisis of overreproduction of e-money – with the development of speculative platforms that parasite the physical economy – the creation of a fixed parity currency and the taxation of speculative trades is a must for the crisis to end. Nothing else will do, not even the printing of money by central bankers, for those very same institutions that cause the crisis. Indeed, the money central bankers have printed, never reaches the physical, productive economy but it is kept in the ‘casino’ of speculators, who use it as virtual credit to further speculate and worsen the crisis.
The mathematical, ternary structure of the long, medium and short waves of History and Economics.
For those with some knowledge of biology, the Kondratieff wave is a dual, complex wave of evolution, of the energies and hardware we use to power machines, which are the main product of the industrial economy, and add together for a wave of 72 years that defined an age of modern history: The age of steam and england, the age of engines and germany, the age of metal-minds and USA and now the last age of the industrial r=evolution, the age of robotics.
In detail, those dual ‘K’-waves of 54+54=108 years superpose each other, giving a mean periodicity of 72+-7 years. This was ignored by economists, who also ignored the ultimate cause of the waves (the evolution of machines and its main parts, bodies of metal in the first dual wave, engines in the 2nd dual wave and heads of metal in the 3rd wave, now all put together into robots). So the K-waves are still analyzed in mainstream economics as 54 years waves unconnected to the physical economy, which originates them.
The authenticity of that structure is such that when I discovered it two decades ago in my foundational books on evolutionary economics, they allowed me to forecast back in the 90s with all precision the ‘future’ dotcom and real state crashes of 2001 and 2008, 72+7 years after the 1929-crashes.
Further on, 72 years is the biological life-span of a human being and its 3 generational ages (youth, maturity and old age, or grand-son, son and grand-father). So there is a parallel 3 generational wave of ‘founding fathers’ of the new machines’ industries, reproductive sons that expand the machine worldwide and decadent grand-sons, which use its ‘evil twin’ machine, the weapon to keep owning the world. And so the dual K-waves also determine the ages of global power of the nations that developped them:
- The age of steam and trains, which was the age of the British Empire that discovered them.
- The age of cars and electrochemical engines, which was the age of Germany, which invented them.
- The age of heads of metal, chip-brains, camera-eyes and mobile-ears, or age of America that developed those industries.
Further on, the secondary cause – the human inventors of those machines – appeared naturally since in mathematical terms, the 72 y. dual waves of kondratieff are equal in duration to the 72 years biological generations of humans, from grand-father to grand-son – and so they must be caused by 3 generations of industrialists:
The next cycle: the robotic age ends the Industrial R=evolution
We could also consider those waves as waves of ‘new energies’, which renew the stocks of machines and evolve them. So the Age of Britain was determined by the steam energy; the age of Germany by the oil energy and the age of America by the electric energy that runs electronic systems. And now the age of robotics will be determined by solar energies, which as prices plummet and technology evolves will become the ‘solar skin’ that makes robotic weapons autonomous.
Thus we live now the end of the Age of America and the crash of overproduction of its electronic ‘heads’, a transitional age that has passed, as we enter in the global world rule by no nation, whose star machine, the robot puts together all the other components developed in the previous cycles, becoming the new ‘consumer’ of machines and the new ‘worker’ that makes most human beings obsolete. Thus this is not only the worst crisis of capitalism from the human perspective, but also its triumph from the point of evolutionary economics and the ‘goal’ of capitalism – to evolve memes of metal into a new organic species.
In that sense, the industrial take-off of military robotics means the end of the Industrial R=evolution and probably an existential crisis that must be connected with the so-called 6th extinction of life species taking place in this planet since the Industrial revolution kicked off. And yet none of those themes or even the real causes of the crisis are considered by economists, limited by the straight-jacket of ‘profits’ , which reduces their role to maintain the kind of growth that precisely has caused this crisis – the unrelentless evolution and reproduction of machines, money and weapons, a wrong concept of ‘wealth’ that now is becoming independent of man.
Indeed, it is easy to see the next steps of the crisis: humans will remain unemployed, connected to ever more degrading infotainment and maintained by the explosion of fiction mass-media in a lethargic state, as robots keep multiplying and the GDP statistics tell us that we are coming out of the crisis, because now robots will consume other machines and they will be sold to armed states, the wealthy and other corporations. So GDP will grow but the real wealth of mankind, what we call here WHealth, a healthy world with plenty of ‘human goods’, we need to survive, affordable housing, health care, food, clean environment and peace will be nowhere to be found. We will keep listening to the ups of the stock market, to the profits of bankers speculating and taxing our goods in e-money platforms, to the wonders of technology that is ‘rising’ the productivity or ratio capital/labor (and hence the unemployment) of our society.
The 4-folded sides of the crisis are thus related to the cycles of evolution and reproduction of ‘memes’ of metal of the electronic age and can be described perfectly with the tools of Biology and Evolution, as we have done for decades in our works and conferences on system sciences and evolutionary economics. Thus, an entire new point of view is needed to fully understand this crisis in the wider context of the cycles of evolution of machines that complete an even larger point of view – that of the evolution of metal, which changed the nature of history since the beginning of civilization. This is what this web provides – the point of view of evolution and objective science.
In these posts we shall consider the 4-folded crises in more detail, from the objective point of view of evolutionary economics and the human kind, the 99%. Hence we shall stress the less studied crisis – the crisis of labor and the war crisis, which affects most of the population at home and abroad (3rd world countries), increasingly displaced in war and labor fields by robotic weapons and blue collar robots.
The mismanagement of the world by lack of a real science of economics: Creationist economists, an ideology of power.
Now, what might seem astounding to the ‘naive’ citizen is that what we are saying here is nothing new.
In the Financial Times, perhaps the most serious ‘pro-system’ magazine of economics, hand in hand with The Economist, both owned by the Rothschild family – the essence of economical correctness, 4 economists, are recognized as the greatest of history, Smith, Marx, Schumpeter/Kondratieff and Keynes.
To the risk of being censored and get ‘again’ this web destroyed, it is necessary to understand why we humans commit self-suicide, to make a historic, ‘realpolitiks’ analysis of capitalism and its ‘selfish memes of metal’ that drive the world into extinction moved by greed and murder, the ‘real’ values of money and weapons, the most expensive goods of the market, that form together the bulk of the ‘wealth of nations’, MV=PT, if we accept its definition in classic economics.
There is in such analysis an objective point of view – the fact that money, originally made of gold, and weapons made of iron are made of the two atoms that impose their maximal energy and information to our weaker bodies, killing them and hypnotize our minds – creating in the past, cultures that made them symbol of God, and created capitalism and nationalism, the memes that direct our planet towards extinction. This objective point of view requires to understand the cycles of extinction of history aforementioned and see the industrial revolution of machines as the last phase of evolution of those memes of metal – just a new phase that has not changed much from the age in which aristocratic warriors and usury bankers exploited a mass of peasants.
There is also a need, since those memes of metal today are disguised with ideologies of ‘science’ and the masks of democratic rights, which people learn without historical knowledge, to go further into the analysis of the origins of those memes and how they are still on ‘top’ of human societies and are still corrupting democratic laws and institutions.
Unfortunately this which was known before the II world war is now erased by the fictional mask of political correctness and mass-media rhetoric and political propaganda in favor of the ‘system’. So most people just memorize those false truths and statistics, which tell them this is the best possible world and the future is always better, because technology is always progress and experts know what they are doing. Thus, when today an economist talks he knows nothing of his science as an ideology with false postulates – such as the postulate that money and weapons are the real wealth of nations imposed by capitalism just two centuries ago, as before that economists considered rightly the goods that make us happy and make us survive the real wealth of nations, food, housing etc. – nor that the essential postulate that money must be invented by bankers not by governments is just a postulate of tribal power, anti-democratic and irrational. Economists ‘learn’ as religious people do, their ‘truths’ as dogmas, and very few, like it was my case in the University, ‘wonder’ the rationale of it.
The postulate that productivity that fires workers and puts robots in its place, (as it is the ratio of capital invested in machines divided by labor) will not keep killing labor but create more of it, is again another postulate they ‘believe’ with messianic zeal, as they memorize it. So do politicians who know even less about the past history of capitalism, its meaning as a religion of memes of metal that does not cater to life.
The myths of capitalism treated in the right side of this web are essential to allow a group of generally speaking ‘good people’ perfectly programmed by the wrong memes of history to work for our extinction. And on top of all that mass of self-suicidal humans guided by historic and corporative memes seats the culture of bankers that create the market, which is not an anonymous, chaotic world but rather like an army, a disciplined group of foot soldiers that obey the orders of a very reduced, selected group of ‘market movers’ guided by profits – achieved always by extinguishing labor and putting machines on place and attacking welfare goods produced at lesser profits – and by the ideology of capitalism with all its myths and statistics that tell us ‘to extinguish life, labor and terraform the earth into a world of metal-memes is good’.
The first practical action, proved ad nauseam by the market – that machines perform better than us and have higher value in terms of metal-money – is in this manner reinforced by the memes of capitalism, which appease the natural goodness of all hearts that don’t want to commit suicide and kill life and mankind. And so the only solution to that straight-jacked is to make tabula rassa, nationalize the financial industry and impose a humanist, life-based view of economics, managing credit to create a sustainable world. Or else capitalism will extinguish life and substitute us by the robotic radiation in this century under the dogmas of the market-creators that use money to that end; and justify it all from the point of view of ‘creationist economics’: money is the invisible hand of go(l)d that must be obeyed, never questioned, never studied rationally, but reproduced without limits; and if in doing so we create weapons and robots that kill us and kill labor, that is good because it is ‘god’s will’. This is not said in those terms, but this is the subconscious discourse behind 200 years of evolution of ‘theories of capitalism’.
The market and the 1%.
In that sense, the ‘market’ is not an anonymous entity but a system that cre(dit)ates reality according to the ideological values of ‘capitalism’, a religion of money with clear historic roots in the Biblical culture. Hence not a science but the ideology of power of a culture in which instead of weapons, gold, with its hypnotic values, as the most informative atom of the Universe, provoked ‘greed’ and make people obey and enslave for those who accumulated it (banker priests of earlier Middle East religions of go(l)d. Thus first the accumulation of gold and now its multiplication with parallel fiat money, derivatives and stock-paper to exercise that power became the ‘ideology of capitalism’ that caters for the 0.1% that command with money a 1% of managers, for whom billions work in corporations. Capitalism also manufactured weapons, the main produce of the first corporations of ‘gunboats’ and created global empires based in the power of those gunboats, and the banking industry that invested on those corporations. And in this manner ‘capitalism’ and the banking and multinational industries of ‘selfish memes of metal’, money, weapons and machines became a supranational entity that controlled and masterminded with its monopoly of credit, the actions of nations, which commanded the life of their people. And if this hierarchical organization is not an absolute government is only because humans have r=evolved from time to time and acquired some minimal ‘democratic’ rights, constantly in jeopardy, as money multiplied its numbers and valued more entities.
Yet for the 1% in power, thanks to money, its multiplication is a goal that must be fulfilled at all costs, without ‘caring’ for a wider view of its meaning, as it is both their tool of worldly power and symbol of religious salvation.
So ultimately this crisis is just another cycle of the fight for power between those who use the selfish memes of metal, money, weapons and machines to impose their will to the 99% of ‘sheeple’ to which the mask of ‘democracies’ caters with some basic rights, constantly eroded. This explains why for example rating agencies attack the southern european nations with deficits in some cases inferior to those of US or its allies – Japan. The ultimate goal is to destroy a model of civilization based in the use of monetary credit to pay for a welfare state that all envied – and the mass of tourism that goes to those nations proves; and substituted it for one in which all credit goes to corporations to evolve new machines – now robots and weapons – that give higher profits, because by the law of affinity their value in informative metal-money is higher, and give power to the culture on top. Capitalism as always is part of tribal history (left side of the web), and unfortunately it defends the wrong culture – one in which man is slave of the selfish memes of metal and extinguishes life and terraforms the earth to the image and likeness of those memes. And it does so bullying with money, ratings, credit, laws anti-government deficit, tv-propanda, think tanks and weapons, the cultures that show a minimal caring for humanity and our natural goals of eusocial evolution and the recreation of a paradise of life goods on Earth.
The mask of mathematical data and praxis in the exersize of that goal should not hide the ideological character of capitalism, whose memes, studied in the down/right side in this web, are globally imposed through all kind of think-tanks, biased scholarship, corporative grants and universities – even a Nobel prize, which cannot be given to evolutionists by ‘decree’, as the founder, the biggest arm dealer of the XIX c. was a pious biblical believer…
Understanding classic, creationist economics as an ideology of power of a certain culture is indeed a necessary step to rationalize it and get rid of its dogmas. Indeed, today the Market is created by the ‘first movers’ in The City and Wall Street, and then the rest of the wave of speculators (small investors with electronic platforms, Asian capital that follows with ‘Japanese discipline’ the voice of their masters) follow their trend. As markets are a form of ‘betting’ in which the biggest capital always wins, as it determines the direction of the speculative wave. So when Mr. Gross puts his 2 trillions to work, only if a central bank or another player can put more money, his ‘will’ will be challenged. And so he acts as a commander-in-chief, whose orders are followed by the rest of the regiment of global speculators, who watch his moves. Mr. Cohen in stocks also determines with his maximal global capital those moves; as Soros did in the 90s in the currency game. And of course, because their credit is multiplied by the Bloomberg platform with a leverage between 10 and 100, central bankers can do nothing with ‘real’ money to defy the ‘virtual bets’ of those electronic platforms, which must be forbidden by law if democracies and central bankers pretend to have any saying in the future cre(dit)ation of this world. At present the future is designed according to the ideology of ‘Creationist economics’ sponsored by the Go(l)d culture: Money is the invisible hand of God that must multiply without limit, and substitute the values of life by its metal-values. But we shall not even study objectively how money creates reality, because we must ‘belief’ and ‘trust’ as the dollar motto says ‘the will of God’. Beyond the scaffolding of equations and complicated arguments, macro-economics is still based in those beliefs of its founding fathers from the go(l)d biblical culture – Adam Smith, Malthus, Ricardo and Say. There is nothing different between those ‘beliefs’ and those of creationists in biology, except that classic economics is the dominant belief on social sciences, which obviously makes impossible to manage rationally and for the betterment of mankind the economic ecosystem, which will be managed by the Laws of Evolution that rule all ‘free ecosystems’ and imply our obsolescence to robotics and weapons.
- Unfortunately the rationalist, golden age of Keynesian and socialist economics of the 70s died away when electronic money was created, the end of gold standard allowed its multiplication without limit. And in the 90s, when money had been multiplied by 100 in speculative platforms, bankers used it to corrupt political systems, pass laws in their favor and in Europe create the ECB, a bank that has no political control over it, follows strict capitalist policies and denies credit to states, does not allow public deficits and now is working in the self-destruction of Europe and its welfare culture to extract further speculative taxes paid to the International Banker.
That is, raw power has won science. With the added power of money, the ‘go(l)d culture‘ has been able to corrupt the political, democratic system and the rational goals pursued by politicians in the 70s (social democracies, welfare states, keynesianism) as bankers and speculators heavily lobbied institutions to keep their privileges (laws of deficit zero, so states cannot print money, only speculators; bail-out laws, which double profits as the speculator already has sold the toxic assets and multiplied fiat money with it). So now, the power of people like Mr. Gross or Cohen is higher than that of national presidents, as the European crisis in which the ‘market’ has imposed technocratic, capitalist governments in South Europe to the tune of those ‘Masters of the Universe’ and their creationist ideologies show. To them, humans are ‘numbers’, ‘costs’ that must be eliminated to increase profits of corporations and states ‘rivals’ to the rights of ‘free market citizens’ – those corporations, who ought to have unlimited credit to pay fat dividends to a 1% class of stockrats, owners of stocks with no responsibility (as aristocrats, owners of the language of power in the Middle Ages, weapons, were, judged by their own courts.)
This is all that matters to creationist economics and their practitioneers – to monopolize the invention of money, to credit the world of memes of metal, which by the ‘grace of god’, we are entitled to, and to punish nations, institutions or censored individuals that defy their goals.
But money has an added power over weapons – it is a language of information that gives invisible orders as all languages of information do (you do not see the words you talk, and we do not see the informative gravitational force that positions celestial bodies, but they exist and have power to inform and relocate our places and ideas). Thus it is essential to the power of money, the invisiblity of those who exercise it – Law of Anonymous societies, null responsiblity of stockrats, political correctness that prevent us from ‘naming them’ and explain the real history of capitalism and the banking industry, etc. This is now being imitated by the art of drone’s war, in which irresponsible children kill at distance from invisible posts in Nevada, people all over the world. Thus we always say ‘the markets’ and quote their action as unavoidable, scientific dogmas. We do not say Mr. Gross today has decided to sink the Euro because he doesn’t like our culture, and we humans are costs that must be eliminated; and he never let’s a chance to make another billion on the account of all the european pensionists with its e-money platforms. And everybody else has followed suit cause nobody has more money that Mr. Gross.
Ultimately to survive such dogmatic dictatorship of the ideologies of capitalism and those who practice it with impunity and invisiblity, only a nationalization of the financial industry, to credit a sustainable economy, based in the needs of human beings - in our WHealth - is the only solution to the crisis caused by the illness and corruption of ‘creationist economics’.
We are facing the pseudo-religious belief that money must cre(dit)ate reality with total freedom as the ‘invisible hand of god’, which cannot be doubted of; and further on, it must be re=produced in monopoly by a caste of private bankers with exclusion of elected governments, who – guided by the metal-values of money – will always in seek for profits reproduce memes of metal of higher price than human goods, needed for life to survive. And no amount of ‘damned lies and statistics’ will make such brutal, essentially self-suicidal doctrine that will kill life in this planet soon, more respectable.
Classic economics simply denies and ignores the dual processes of symbiosis and competition between human beings and machines, and their social super-organisms, governments and markets, or the negative ‘collateral effects’ caused by the massive reproduction and evolution of ‘memes of metal’, becoming merely a pseudo-religion of technology, based in the dogma that humans must maximize the production of money and its financial measure of wealth or GDP, which curiously enough peaks in war times, as ‘top predator’ weapons are the most expensive goods of the market.
This example never considered by economists in their studies of wealth is crystal clear in America, where an inflated GDP is composed mainly of the goods of a massive financial-military-industrial complex that adds little to the wealth of most of its population; and shows the need of a more objective approach to understand this crisis, which takes into account all the different aspects of the physical economy of electronic machines and its effects on society.
Today Economists merely stress the financial crisis caused by the overproduction of electronic money, and within that crisis the human, legal aspects of financial manipulation – without noticing its physical, cyclical nature and parallelisms with the previous age of evolutionary exhaustion and overproduction of trains (1860s-70s) and electromechanical engines (1930s). The 3 crisis are parallel; their causes self-evident and their symbiosis in adapting the human civilization to the need of those machines and its corporations, a prove that this world is a darwinian, ‘free’ economic ecosystem, where its ‘free citizens’, corporations that re=produce those machines cre(dit)ate the future with them, to which we humans so far, unable to understand the process, merely adapt to it. In the wider crisis, the financial crisis is caused by one product, money. Electronic computers have overdeveloped a new way to print money and tax commodities with speculative, software platforms, and so the dual Kondratieff wave of hardware/software is the ultimate cause of this and the other 3 crisis of overproduction of electronic gadgets: the drone war, the labor obsolescence to white collar pcs and blue collar robots and the cultural extinction and equalization of all humans into a single ‘economical’, globalized culture dominated by those corporations for whom humans are just economical ‘prices’, consumers and workers with a cost.
We shall therefore consider the paradoxes, both mathematical and historical of guiding our societies by a myopic political and economical religion of selfish power that considers our goal as a species to reproduce memes of metal, weapons, money and machines, paradoxically the ultimate cause of the 4-folded crisis, we live in. And then after studying those 4 crisis, observe its main social consequence – the end of the American Dream of a democratic system, where the power of the people guided society for the common good, substituted today as corporations and their electronic machines influence further the decision-making of economists and politicians, by a dictatorship of markets, where its ‘legal citizens’, corporations and the machines they re=produce and sell for profits, become the central element of the globalized age.Yet between those ages there is always an age of crisis as the overproduction of the previous machine meets no demand and companies switch to parallel war products and find demand in corrupted politicians.
So history switches between an age of good machines and an age of lethal machines and war. What was first the egg of the chicken the good or the bad fruit of the tree of science? Companies do not distinguish between them; they sell both and society adapts to each product with astounding simplicity, paying with corpses the price of confronting ‘top predator weapons’ of each age.
In that sense, each of those waves is similar in behavior and effects over life to a biological radiation in evolution. Each new type of machine-weapons multiplies money, the language of power of the economic ecosystem, which prices both humans and machines, man=price=object and makes them compete by price and quality in labor and war fields.
Thus paradoxically each wave means an entire kind of humans and life beings loose their competition for jobs or/ and die in wars to machines, which improve the quality of weapons and so life and non-technological cultures are exterminated by ‘animetals’ – humans attached to machines and weapons or loose their jobs.
Those collateral effects of the wealth of nations, maximized in wars, are the taboo that the ‘ideology of capitalism’ and its economists dont allow to study. But a historian and politician should have always in mind.
Thus in financial economics, the kondratieff cycles are only considered for studies on the fluctuations of stock markets. And needless to say, for 20 years classic economists have ‘dismissed’ evolutionary economics and the models of this blog, which in fact I had to present in the millieu of System sciences (2), because they must ‘defend’ the profits of corporations and the dogmas of ‘a rosy capitalist future’ where we will always be happy because we have so much ‘technology’ and ‘monetary wealth’.
Yet in history they define the epochs of modern history adapted to the bodies of metal, engines of metal and metal-heads, and now about to suffer the radiation of robotic organisms, as any species must adapt to new forms of energy and information multiplied in its realm.
So to study those real effects each first age of the energy of the machine must be studied in conjunction with the next wave as a phase in the evolution of the ‘organic parts’ of a future organism, the robot. Consider the same process in viruses that make 3 dismembered parts, the lineal legs of energy, the information dna and the capsule. So we made with the 2 first kondragtieff waves the energy and bodies of metal of railroads and boats; in the age of England. Then the germans developed electro-chemical engines, in the next ‘generational wave’ of 72 years, which is both the generational life of a human being and the time each nation and machine requires to reach its height of evolution and reproduction. The next generational wave of minds of metal, chip-brains, mobile-ears and camera-eyes is now at its height of evolution and reproduction and that is paradoxically destroying the collective mind of mankind that is regressing to the neo-paleolithic, unable even to understand the complex process of ‘death’ of life those machines are causing.
The paradox of capitalism: a non-human system that triumphs, proving the inferiority of the human species…
In other words, the absolute paradox of capitalism, reflected in the paradoxical duality of this web is that its existence proves the Darwinian, biological nature of economics. Since capitalism has triumphed because indeed ‘memes of metal’, energetic iron and informative gold, and its organic combination in machines have destroyed all attempts of human beings and eusocial scientists to create a world to the image and likeness of man.
Capitalism has not triumphed because is the best system for mankind, as the optimist ‘children of thought’ that pass as experts pretends, but BECAUSE IT IS THE WORST. And so capitalism has proved that mankind is a ‘weakling’, a weak-link in the chain of evolutionary species, a slave of those memes of metal.
And this obviously is the paradox of this web and all the scientists of history and economics, as they come into a mature age, after a long life of fighting for the human cause and finding a wall of slaves of ‘metal-memes’ on top of societies, clinging to power by evolving and accumulating money, weapons and machines. If we accept the truth, in probabilistic terms there is little hope for the future. Capitalism, the religion of memes of metal, will keep marching towards our extinction with a cohort of puppets who think to be the masters of the Universe, politicians, bankers, generals, scientists… The very same optimism and lack of any serious attempt to reform the system shows to which degree not only our bodies have become dependent of machines but our brains, like in a viral infection have become fictional, leukemia cells re=producing the DNA of the viruses that will kill us.
If we still have some hope, we can preach reform, we can give rational arguments to prove the nature of capitalism as the religion of metal; we can bring new ideas… This web fluctuates between both states of mind, but leaning increasingly in the third rewriting and as I come into my 3rd age in the utter and naked truth of a species that is not going to make it because it didn’t have enough intelligence and ethics to make the cut of the Darwinian universe.
I wish with all my heart there was some more hope left in my body, as Darwin or Weber or Marx perhaps wished before becoming reclusive. But i find none beyond individuals. As Amschel Rothschild put it, The mass cannot understand the system and so it will not rebel, and those who understand it are bought by the system (economists, politicians, ‘experts’.) A third point of view though is that of the true scientist of history, which no longer can hope for a ‘r=evolution’ as Marx thought during his years of writing – but not in his last years of thinking; and yet finds in the naked truth a justification enough to keep thinking. This web responds to that state of mind, the naked truth, no longer any agenda. What for? I spent my youth at columbia university preaching to the Am segullah, my maturity acting up against the nuclear industry, which will bring us the first ‘singularity’ of extinction. Now perhaps the only position left is the search for Nirvana, the destruction of all individual and collective ego, to distance one-self from the angst of being human in a time of collective death of the organism of history.
There will be though other planets in which humanism will triumph. Silent planets that don’t emit radio-waves; where art and literature and ethics and human goods, and welfare and a single species and a single currency and multiple cultures co-exist. This dream of Asimov’s foundation, of Hesse’s Castalia, of Moro’s Utopia, of Marx’ r=evolution, of Sancho’s World Union, which we thought of at the heigh of our mental power never departed from our pages.
And so the long, medium and short wave of the nightmare of capitalism=mechanism=militarism, the ‘religions’ of the memes of metal keep happening with deterministic truth, as the puppets of power don’t know or pretend not to know where they lead us, blinded by those ideologies.
