In the graph, the human pyramid of power of Capitalism, an ideology, today sold as a ‘science’, which considers that the language of social and economical power, money, must be re=produced by private bankers (fiat credit, speculative taxes, e-money derivatives, stock-paper, etc.), instead of the government chosen by the people (state deficit).
As such capitalism is in open contradiction with democracy (the government of the people). And to hide this, censorship of real economic science is absolute. We live ruled by money but not a single western ‘democracy’ teaches economics in the school. We have no rights to control the language of social power, but we are told to live in a ”Free Market’, a ‘newspeak’ that confuses the audience. Since a ‘Free market’ refers to the freedom of the ‘citizens’ of markets, corporations, not to the freedom of human citizens, who have no rights to jobs and credit, controlled by those corporations. Thus capitalism is essentially a dictatorship of banks and corporations and their owners on top of that pyramid – the stockrats, the true dictators of society in capitalist systems as they have null social responsibility (Anonymous Societies), monopoly in the invention of money in stocks and e-derivatives and use that money to bribe and control the other elements of societies.
In that regard, the previous pyramid fails to convey the non-human structure of capitalism, which essentially is the ‘religion’ or ‘ideology’ of power of ‘animetal=human animal+metal-meme‘ cultures and can be traced to the first Levantine cultures which made of go(l)d, not of weapons, the hypnotic substance that could make work for you, slaves and mercenary armies.
Accordingly what capitalism means is merely this: that we, humans, must evolve and re=produce memes of metal (money, weapons and machines), within the structure of corporations, because they give power to the ‘people-castes’ that control our ‘capitalist civilization’ (the military, bankers and industrial corporations), and sacrifice when needed the rights of human beings and nature, if they collide with the ‘progress’ of those metal-memes.
This absurd ideology of history and economics cannot be doubted as ultimately has a biblical religious origin. Capitalism is therefore the equivalent of ‘Intelligent Design’ in Biology – a religion of money, which ignores any scientific approach or attempt to define objectively those memes of metal and the collateral effects they have on mankind. ‘Money is Go(l)d‘ and its pursuit through greed the goal of humanity. Point.
That’s the entire meaning of the human species for a ‘Capitalist Theocracy’ – where money is the language of go(l)d: to work=reproduce and consume=vitalize memes of metal to provide ‘money’ to the 1% of ‘stockrats’, owners of those corporations. Nothing else matters, and all what we are told are rhetoric arguments to justify that bottom line. The complexity of a democratic system and the symbiosis of all its sub-systems makes of course all those facts opaque to the common, ‘memetic, human believer’. In this post we shall consider those self-evident truths, with the novel approach of system sciences and the concepts of societies as super-organisms, humans as believers in memetic imprinting, based in ‘anti-truths’ and money, weapons and machines as metal-memes.
How capitalist democracies work: buying the law.
A capitalist democracy is NOT a democracy (the government of the people through his language of power, the legal word) but a capitalist society (the government of anonymous societies through its language of power, money). In a capitalist society the Free citizens of the economic ecosystem – corporations – have unlimited rights to credit, which they use to cre(dit)ate the world to the image and likeness of its machines, giving orders to the other elements society with prices, salaries and bribes/lobbyism to politicians, which choose laws that favor their products.
Or consider another fundamental treat of capitalism: that a few dynasties of bankers control the language of power of society, money. This becomes again another anti-truth, another ‘freedom’. Yet people forget that if bankers and corporations invent money, since they are not elected and their goal is to reproduce and evolve their machines, they’ll get nothing. The real freedom is therefore the opposite: to control the language of power of society, through elected governments. Then the citizen gets a welfare state.
In a pure capitalist system, companies ‘buy’ politicos votes with that money they print exclusively under ‘deficit zero laws’. Since politicos need but cannot get money from salaries, for their campaigns. And so their ‘real job’ is pandering to corporations for money on exchange for las.
This self-evident truth is also denied. Politicos, whose only job in a pure capitalist system like America is to cheat the people on voting them, so people feel they ‘direct’ the system and then sell laws to the corporation that pay more, are still admired and respected and voters still ignore and get surprised that the politico NEVER delivers his promises. But that is NOT his job in capitalism. That would be the job in a democracy, and would require that the politico as the neuron of society can get a posteriori after he ends his tenure ‘judged’ by his voters, and punished as the brain gets punished with pain if it hurts the body. Without judging a posteriori politicos of course, they will never deliver. That is not their job. Their real job ends when the campaign ends and he must deal with the ‘agents of power’, bankers, corporations, groups of pressure, people who paid their campaigns…
Human citizens in such perfect systems of capitalism have no rights whenever those rights collide with the rights of the wealthiest corporations that pay more money to the politicos to buy their laws. This means basically that a capitalist democracy is perfectly ruled with the precission of a clock by the laws of evolution of machines and weapons: in each age of capitalism, the evolutionary laws of biology determine which machines dominate the system and hence the corporations that reproduce those machines will pay more for the laws and determine the future of the nation. The difference is determinant to understand how the future of our societies is created and what it caters for and to explain why this writer so succesfully has been able to forecast for 20 years the future of the world in its details (1)
For example, in America the XIX century was totally dominated by train corporations, and their politicos decided the future of the nation. Lincoln was a lobbyist for the Illinois railroad companies, and so when trains substituted gunboats and northerners southerners in power, as railroad companies reached higher capital than cotton slave traders, slavery was substituted by white slavery, gunboats by trains and the power moved from Virginian plantation owners such as Washington or Jefferson to railroad lawyers and lobbyists such as Lincoln or the presidents of the Guilded. Then when the car and the radio took over the yellow press and the train, people like Welles could defy Hearst and RCA and Ford came on top. So Ford could single-handed forbid alcohol because he didn’t drink and pay the law.
After the war, the TV and computer took over and so today the laws are paid and defined by mass-media and computers.
The robotic zeitgeist of XXI century capitalism.
Today as the robotic age comes into being, corporations dedicated to reproduce robotic workers and soldiers are becoming the darlings of capitalism. And so their financial muscle now pays the parties in power, as all great corporations become symbiotic in the task of reproducing those machines.
Thus, Obama is passing one after another laws in favor of the substitution of humans in labor and work fields. And the redistribution of wealth from people to robots starts in earnest.
Never though, except in brief revolutionary ages, America has created laws to favor their people over their machines and corporations. Moreover it has been able to imprint a massive ‘noise’ of false caring and false freedoms that have convinced the Americans, who enslave forever for those corporations, that the system ‘cares for them’.
The case of America is specially meaningful, since America is a ‘nation of nations’, with all races and cultures represented, and hence the battle for the mind of America between the ‘democratic dream’ of an equal humanity in control of his destiny that creates a world to its image and likeness, and the nightmare of a nation without limits to capitalism and the power of metal-memes, hence ruled by corporations who ‘buy’ the laws that favor their products and create a world to the image and likeness of their machines, has been determinant for the future of mankind. Now the battle seems over as laws under perhaps the most corrupted, cynical administration in the history of the US (not the Bush but the Obama administration), are routinely filled by lobbies of the leading industries of the day (health-care, drones, military keynesianism, robotic workers, etc.)
What this means basically that the future of America and mankind can be guessed as we have done for 20 years, merely following the money of corporations, which will adapt american laws to their goods. So as robots take over humans laws in favor of ‘productivity’ (expulsion of labor for capital=machines), and robotic wars and workers (drone laws) have become routine in America. Obama indeed will end up his legislature as the president who accelerated the extinction of life by robots in a higher measure than any other politician in history…
And this means that in the previous graph, ‘modern capitalism’ in the XXI century will be even harsher on the 99%, because the bottom of the pyramid, the workers and middle class manager, the blue and white collar human is obsolete substituted by the blue collar robot/chinese workers and white collar pc/Indian IT workers. So we, lower and middle class of western world are obsolete. And the system is moving, as it has been the case in the US to create the laws that will ensure robotic corporations can eliminate us and we can get into jail if we protest. Still the problem will remain and become stronger as the last age of capitalism reaches its zenith: 6 billion human beings are basically obsolete to the system. What to do with them?
Now, of course, this ‘harsh’ truth about ‘capitalist democracies’, where the word democracy is just a placebo related to the meaningless action of vote, is completely censored. So we need to do some ‘historic’ background to understand why in fact there is no real choice in capitalism between similar parties.
The anti-truths of capitalism: how an ‘slavish system’ became the embodiment of freedom.
We live 400 years after capitalist democracies were invented in Holland by the first corporation, VOC, whose shareholders became the rulers of the country and its single orange party. Those corporations ever since dedicated the resources of capitalist systems to reproduce, evolve and sell the 4 main memes of metal: money (stock-paper in holland), weapons (guns), machines (boats) and metal-communicators (yellow press). And then control societies with those 4 symbotic systems. Today when those memes are electronic the system has become so complex that the ‘memetic imprinting’ of the ‘natural, Aristotelian slave’, the human believer makes the task of revealing that ‘slavery’ and ‘lack of freedom’ of humans in a capitalist system , daunting.
People simply believe memetically imprinted and are blind to the nature of the system. Because people as any other system in the Universe can adapt perfectly to any conditions where they will act with no doubts. So people love their dictators till they die and their imprinting ends. And when Stalin, who killed the Russian Revolution and Franco who killed the Spanish one, died, millions mourned. So today we shall not be surprised that the immense majority of mankind believe in capitalist democracies – the system that will kill them. And this, though obvious for an external observer is not for an internal human, who truly believe the fundamental anti-truth of capitalism: to confuse ‘freedom’ with ‘slavery’.
Consider the silly trick of dividing the ‘same capitalist’ single-party-system (born in Holland, where there was only a party, the orange party, ruled by stockrats and aristocrats, the only people that voted till the XX century in most ‘democratic nations’, which required a minimal capital to vote) which obviously doesn’t cheat people into a bipartisan, single-system. The same party in fact, as both defend all other anti-democratic rules of capitalism. Bipartisan democracy were in fact born when the orange party exported its system to Britain (1688, conquer of Britain by the Dutch king that bought the parlament). Then a party summoned up the people who produced weapons and wanted war and the other, those who produced machines and wanted peace.
The 99% was only defended much latter by labor/socialist parties, against which the ‘capitalist systems’ have always fought and finally corrupted. And that was not even the case in America, where believe it or not, the Republican party was till the 1930s the ‘liberal party’, as the Democrats represented the South and its slave-owners. Then when the north invented the white slave and created big corporations Lincoln, an illinois railroad lobbyist founded the GOP. And till the 1960s both parties were extreme right, one represented northern corporations and the other white supremacist s from the south. Only for a decade, the democrats represented the people. And of course, their reformist leaders, King and the Kennedy brothers were liquidated by ‘capitalism’ – King within days of asking no longer only placebo voting rights but social/economical rights. So now the Democrats represent the same; the line merely is one between GOP voters, who represent mainly military corporations and add to their belief in the doctrines of capitalism their religious belief in the musings of a goatkeeper of the Bronze Age who saw a Bush burning and called him God… and the democrats who believe also in techno-utopians and are paid mainly by silicon valley companies that produce the new white collar pcs and blue collar robots that are throwing us from job.
The GOP politicos have the task to cheat the white, racist ‘biblical’ mass and have of lately also taken on the Southerners who were the field of the democrats. And so briefly the democrats added to the groups they cheat to get elected, the black and hispanic minorities. But of course, this was a short period of ‘democracy’, caused by the Kennedy brothers and Johnson’s civil rights act. Soon the party was again corrupted by corporations and so passed to the GOP a new majority that still stands, based in the fact that 80% of Americans confess to believe in the go(l)d and racist memes of the Bible.
The symbiosis of those memes – the bible, capitalism, money, racism and technoutopia – have been analyzed in other posts. The outcome though is obvious: America is again a monocracy with a 4-years cycle of voting circus to choose between different individuals who will then enter the automaton routine of getting bribes and sell laws to the biggest bidder, regardless of what it manufactures in each age.
Of course, the system sells the infantile idea that people ‘vote and choose’ the policies of capitalism, as workers and consumers with rights; but as long as politicos do not become voted/judged a posteriori after their tenure this will not be truth. The politico risks nothing cheating the people in his promises and will have on the other hand a lot of troubles if he doesn’t sell the laws to those who paid his campaigns…
So to undersand where capitalism lead us the ‘democratic vote’ is no longer relevant. What matters is to understand where the language of money lead us. And again this only can be understood with the laws of affinity of complementary systems, which in the Universe bring things that are similar in substance together. Or in other words, money values more other forms of metal than life and a society ruled by money not by the law, will be biased to create memes of metal not memes of life.
The values of money as a language of power, opposite to the verbal values of ethic, democratic laws.
Indeed, if we go deeper into the ‘systemic’, objective, biological laws of the Universe we should abandon the concept that capitalist societies ruled by money not by the law cater better to the needs of people, because money, ‘the invisible language of god’ is positive for society and gives us value and no freedom, while laws oppress us. The opposite is truth.
Those myths forget the bias introduced by the values of money, which give minimal price to life beings, the biological needs of man, and the collateral effects of machines and weapons the objects of higher price:
The graph deals with that fundamental scientific theme of capitalism – what is money and why it produces anti-life values?, an informative meme of metal, whose digital languages value reality accordingly to its affinity with other metal-memes of maximal price (machines and weapons), hence giving null value to life. We humans merely ‘assembly’ pieces of metal, as enzymes do in the lower cellular scale, following the affinity and complementarity of those memes.
The consequence of those values are then determinant on our existence, because they become carried by the main economical equation of capitalism:
Man = Wage = Price = Object.
The equation means that humans with no value will get minimal price/wage and machines maximal price. So capitalism will reproduce and cater to machines for profit, not to human beings and its worthless survival goods.
it also means humans can be bought for money as objects are, and compare to them, hence obliged to compete with machines and weapons and fields of labor and war. This equation originated modern slavery handled by the first corporations in the first Dutch democracy. Of course those slaves were not ‘citizens’; but then when ‘slavery’ evolved into cheaper part-time slavery and humans were leased by corporations to save the money spent on housing and feeding slaves (white slaves), citizens became part-time slaves, and this provoked the socialist movement. And yet after the II world war and the fall of the wall, not even this self-evident truth of capitalist ‘democracies’ – that a worker has no rights and it is a slave while at work is forgotten.
Monetary orders substitute verbal information: credit creates reality
In the graph, the real structure of power that cre(dit)ates our future with money orders. 90% of our lives are spent either working in companies, consuming machines or following biological drives NOT following laws and goverment’s orders. Thus bankers and corporations Not politicians create,cre(dit)ate the world with monetary orders; and those orders value machines and weapons more than life:
The financial-military-industrial complex is a very complex system with 3 basic type of orders:
- Salaries, which select humans or machines in a competitive field of labor, under the equation man=price=machine; so if a machine is more productive than a human being, we fire the workers and increase the ‘productivity’ of the industry with new machines.
- Bonds, credits and campaign money and bribes, which control political systems, governments and politicians. All of them therefore protect the monopoly of power of bankers and corporations that print money in stocks and beg for that money. There are two type of politicos – those who are paid by industries that produce consumption goods and prefer the peaceful substitution and obsolescence of workers and humans to machines that atrophy us, and are generally termed as left wing or democratic parties, and those who prefer to run amok faster for profits, which are paid by war industries that have the highest profits as the values of metal-money give weapons the maximal price. Those are conservative, war parties. Today they dominate due to the increasing obsolescence and lack of credit of humans, the industrial panorama. Finally there are the intellectuals, ‘the experts’ that sanctify the system.
In the past they were military inquisitions that promoted religious war and go(l)d churches that told us money was the invisible hand of God. Now it is a bit more sophisticated. They use equations to the same end. On the bottom of the pyramid there are beings without price, nature, aliens, 3rd world. Those people are outside the economic ecosystem and live in the freedom of chaos, without money to give orders, get goods and survive. This bottom will increase constantly as a barrier of machines, robots and monetary orders separate the informative castes of societies – those who invent the language of power – from the bulk of human beings obeying those orders.
How money creates reality against the historic ecosystem, how money orders reality? Through a process that we will define with a new verb: cre[dit]ation. It means that you can create reality with credit. If you can invent money, that is if you have a credit, then you can give orders to people with that money, they desire, given its value which can be changed by anything else. In this manner to have credit implies the right to create reality: cre[dit]ation means that credit is creation, credit creates reality. So those who control credit, who can invent money invent reality. It happens that credit is today not in the hands of human beings, not even in the hands of governments, which have “laws of deficit zero”, that prevent them to create credit, but in the hands of company-mothers and banks. They cre[dit]ate reality inventing first money very easily with null-cost paper, in stocks and notes, which are by law money. They have an enormous privilege over society, since nobody else can invent money merely by going to a place called the stock-market and saying they have something of value. It does not matter if it is truth or not.
By law, obtained through political control companies have obtained from societies that privilege: to go to a place and obtain free money in the form of shares. Since “stocrats”, the people who rule companies, and rule stock-markets want to speculate, to invent money. So any excuse is good. In the beginning of stock-markets, they even used flower, tulips, and tea. You could go to Amsterdam with a tulip and say, it was worth millions of guilders, and people said it was. Today we do so with internet companies. You go to Wall Street with a diskette of binary instructions, as Netscape did, and you get 7 billions of dollars in a day. Then you can spend that money creating the product and the machines you want. So today everyone has a Netscape Browser in his computer. Yet any other person who wants to open a business not related to the main industries of the stock-market (technological and machine industries) cannot invent money, neither get credit. So we cannot invent reality as human beings. You cannot go to the stock-market with a project for hospitals, schools, farms, resorts for holidays, environmental care, and get 7 billion dollars. Even if those projects are far more important for the welfare of mankind. Only company-mothers of machines can do that. Why? Because stock-markets are controlled by people, “animetals”, who worship machines more than they care for mankind. So they credit a world for their machines of energy, and information.
We have given to company-mothers (or rather they have taken from mankind through acts of war and bribery) the right to invent money in stock-markets and banks. They have taken that right from our human governments that used to help the reproduction of Human Goods, with deficits (inventing money in notes).
The result is that we work for such companies. We give them our life-time, through work, which they monopolize because they have all that unlimited money they invent with shares and notes, to pay for our life, our time. We have given them rights to make laws that cater to the benefits of their machines, because we allow legally them to bribe our politicians, our human leaders. We have given them the right to be bad with humanity, and to destroy our energy and information, because we do not ask them any political, economical and legal responsibility, thanks to unjust laws such as the law of anonymous societies, that concedes anonymity and non-legal responsibility to the people that work in those company-mothers. We have given company-mothers and machines the rights to be our top predators, our masters, to be the owners of our times, our laws, and our goods.
At the same time we have denied our best human species, the best writers, and ethic men, the priests and lawyers that used to rule our societies with verbal mandates, the rights to construct our ecosystem. We have made all verbal institutions weak. Instead, we have decided that money, a bit of metallic information, should be controlled and reproduced by company-mothers in stocks, and banks, which undervalues human beings (since money values machines and weapons more than Human Goods) the right to invent reality.
The Myth Of Justice: metal Rights Against Human Rights
We talk of a dictatorship of companies who control the invention of the language of power; money and laws. “Creditation of money”, controls societies. A true democracy means that the control of those languages of power would be in the hands of citizens and governments. They would support laws related to human rights over property rights. However, this does not happen. We talk of the myth of “justice” and “democracy”, that company-mothers of information (mass-media), politicians and lobbies promote. The myth basically “ignores” monetary orders, and “concentrates” on the freedom that man achieves by “not obeying verbal orders”. Under such myths, we believe humanity is not ordered by wages and prices, but by “verbal mandates”. Economists do not explain properly how money is invented by companies in stocks. Companies, by creating stocks and bonds, create a new form of money. In this manner money constantly goes to “creditate” the future, and those human activities that are not valued in stock-markets (love, education, food, health), are “discredited”.
Let us then close this post with an analysis of what has changed in capitalism in the XXI century, which it can be observed in the next graph and the post dedicated to the ‘end of democracies and the American dream’ – namely the middle class and the lower classes of mankind are today obsolete to machines…and capitalism has no piety or empathy to them… Their dogmas prevent it. So Capitalism must eliminate mankind to continue its evolution. And this fact will be the engine of the damned lies and statistics of the XXI century.
The pyramid of capitalist social classes and its changes in the XXI century.
The previous graph has 20 years. It was first part of an exhibit of ‘conceptual cubism’, in my earlier ages as a ‘silenced voice of the memes of life’, when I thought through art we could also explain the tragic future of mankind. It was done in NY in the earlier 90s, and published in the pioneer book of this model, which also forecasted the 2008 crisis with enormous detail (The extinction of man, Bookmasters, ohio, c.94) and somehow appeared years latter in an exhibit on conceptual art at Six Flags Brooklyn museum. And yet it reads quite as it was done today. There was not Star War system in 2000, but of course Missiles kept evolving and indeed they are becoming ‘terminator robots’. There is not yet a massive radiation of robotized, guneyes (guns+cameras), but we are very close to that radiation that will establish finally the automatic control of human life by a future ‘Matrix/Intranet/Metal-earth’ brain. The pigs of the center, and not they were not meant to be the PIGS of southern europe but the middle classes, on the other hand have been cut off their credit earlier that i expected (as I thought capitalism wouldn’t be so brutal and prefer a milder road to avoid social unrest; but essentially this future designed under the presumption that capitalism and its memes of greed and violence and the evolution of machines would continue unabated is the world we live now in. And the key to the graph is the obsolescence of the poor and middle classes substituted by computers and robots. So the question is what we are going to do with them? My take 20 years latter is that we will be on the ‘storm’ of this crisis with damned lies and statistics, its noises and 1% on top trying to appease the masses with ‘pan et circensis’ till one day, the process of evolution of machines reaches one of the 3 thresholds of extinction, the Singularity at cern (2014), the metal nano-bacteria (2030s) or the awakening of military A.I. (2050s). And then suddenly one day mankind will have a few hours to reflect and wake up to its extinction (cern singularity), or a few months (nano-bacteria) or a few years (war of the A.I. terminator machines). But then it will not have any longer the future on its hands. Who can avoid that future? Certainly we, the X generation, didn’t. The few of us who tried were silenced. I see no hope. At this point of my mental evolution, I think as Marx or Weber before me, this ‘iron jail’ is unbreakable, but in a world made of probabilities, there is always room for a miracle.
In the graph that opened the post, we observe the structure of capitalism in the beginning of the XX century, when humans were still needed to vitalize weapons, so they were consumed in I world war at the tune of 20 million young humans, consumed by gun-machines, to increase the profits of the Vicker’s, Krupp’ s, Nobel’s and Schneider’s factories.
In the graph above, we show the structure in the XXI century, when the bottom pyramid of capitalism, human soldiers, human workers and middle classes have ecome obsolete.
In the XIX century Capitalism still needed workers=reproducers of machines, which sustained all the ‘parasitic’ informative/neuronal classes of the economic ecosystem, whose function was merely to ‘invent’ complicated arguments, sophisms and ideologies that ‘cheated’ people, in believing the system makes them free. There were also middle classes (still eating, as managers of the companies) and on top the ‘stockrats’, owners of stocks, racketing the profits and enjoying the good life. Those were then, as always mostly belonging to the millenarian banking dynasties that invented money and invested it in corporations. Yet this type of capitalism imploded after two world wars.In the XX century, weapons industries could no longer ‘consume’ colored ‘inferior people’, as the world was ‘civilized/colonized’ already. So they had to use their own workers to consume weapons, after the 29 crash of excessive reproduction of credit money and electromechanical machines. And this brought a threshold of ‘evil=anti-life’ behavior, which Europeans could no longer tolerate – namely the extinction of their culture by the most aggressive capitalist nation of the age, at the head of the electromechanical wave – Germany. So a more just distribution, social-democracy, was installed in Europe, allowing the state to reproduce some money to provide the human goods that had no value in a capitalist system.
Today though this mixed system has been destroyed by a new crisis of overproduction of memes of metal, e-money, electronic pcs and robots that act as blue and white collar workers. So we enter in the final stages of capitalism, as human workers and consumers are substituted by white collar pcs and blue collar robots, except in the sweat shops of Chinese human robots and IT-Indian Pcs (the only economies that still growth). On the other hand, banks have invented electronic systems of speculative money (bloomberg platforms) that allow to invent money for free just jacking up the value of ‘future prices’ of stocks and commodities, or impose their policies to governments playing with their currencies.
So capitalism confronts today a new dilemma: the 3 final scales of the bottom of the previous pyramid, middle classes and workers are being substituted by mechanical workers and consumers (as robots will consume cameras, platforms, cars). What to do with them? Increasingly only the 1% on top of owners, ‘ideologists’ and ‘herders’ (politicians, priests of go(l)d churches, stockrats), have a ‘job’; albeit on the long term also expendable… The rest is bothersome, unneeded, a surplus, an added cost. In the previous crisis, this meant they were consumed in wars.
And this is again the solution which is implemented increasingly on 3rd world countries, its dictators and our armies, as we did in the XIX century colonial age. Now we use poor nations as targets of our robotic weapons, while in the 1st world, banks keep exploiting the system, workers are unemployed and must be controlled with future police robots. So basically the 99% of humans are becoming obsolete and are becoming ‘parasites’ of the system that must be eliminated. How the system will finish them up? As long as humans run the system this poises difficult problems. But as the system becomes an automated planet of machines, during this century, the end of capitalism after a century of social struggle, fascism or revolution, seems clear: memes of metal will substitute memes of life an mankind will be eliminated.
In the meantime it is to be expected that the parasitic classes will keep producing more damned lies and statistics. Politicians will talk of new forms to create unemployment, liberalizing the market of workers so companies can speed up firing workers and putting robots on place. Mechanist scientists will keep receiving the bulk of the money of the system to reproduce and evolve the robots that will eliminate mankind. Stockrats will keep receiving all the rents for not working, and affirm with their legendary cynicism that unemployed are lazy people that do not want to work. Experts will receive prizes for never talking about reality, and so the surrealist nature of capitalism, as the essential suicidal ideology of the human kind will be covered.
And of course, for distractions we shall still have go(l)d churches and other forms of inquisition of thought, ‘pan et circensis’, and 3-dimensional TVs, so humans can be kept cheap with trash food and virtual realities in the ignorance of their future on the slaughterhouse of war.
Of course, if the ‘science of history and economics’ instead of capitalism and nationalism, was taught in schools, learned by politicians and managers, and an evolutionary understanding of machines in biological terms had not been censored for so long, humans could control capital and machines for their benefit selecting them for their real use to mankind. Robotics would be forbidden and the workers and consumers at the bottom of the pyramid would have a future. What truly provokes a sense of surrealist angst in the humanist thinker today is the fact that our extinction and the destruction of our world is completely unnecessary, carried about by a small group of humans on top of that pyramid and perfectly soluble. And yet, as Orwell already noticed of the processes that brought the I Industrial R=evolution and its climax in both world wars, it is happening with an astounding determinism, caused by the ‘beliefs’ and myths of economists and technocrats.
(1) The extensive record of accurate predictions in news and tendencies by merely following the procedure of observing each cycle which corporations will come on top of profits, according to biological evolution, and hence which laws will be passed by them, with utter disregard of the needs of mankind, is there, laying on the archives of the Library of Congress since 94.
Capitalism though has never been imposed with reason. It is totally necessary for man to commit suicide at the astounding speed it is doing it, to have the mind perfectly imprinted by the ideological viruses of ‘techno-utopians’, ‘nationalists’, ‘self-preachers’, and ‘go(l)d believers’. Without a perfectly imprinted, manufactured brain filled with the emotional values of our ‘civilization’ of ‘dont worry be happy smileys’, humans wouldn’t proceed like a mass of lemmings towards the cliff of robotics and obsolescence with such a zeal. Of more philosophical/scientific interest is of course ‘memetics’ and brain-studies which increasingly show the mind is basically a ‘computer’ system, programmed at earlier age, with imprinted ‘sofware’ beliefs – neuronal networks that are no longer broken and so allowed the ridiculous type of beliefs ‘religious fundamentalist’, capitalist fundamentalists and people who call themselves before understanding their ‘human nature’, things like Homo Americanus, or Homo Britanicus, have as dogmas… In objective terms, 99% of what humans call ‘culture’ and ‘identity’ is just basic me(n)tal imprinting to foster their self-suicidal behavior. So humans go on doing ‘their thing’ – to reproduce, evolve and consume machines that degrade them – which for an alien observer would be so pathetic as to deserve not pity but sarcasm (suicide is always pathetic – the Universe certainly doesn’t approve or ‘resurrect’ those terminal cases as humans are becoming).
Indeed, the problem of mankind is collective. It would be nice to think the problem is only the 1% on top of the pyramid, but it is not. The problem are the ideologies and memetic structure of the brain, which reason has never been able to mold. Because a scientist only uses reason and abhors the ‘rhetoric’, violent, emotional imprinting the memes of metal use to manufacture human brains, the battle of mankind has ultimately been a lost battle since its inception, because the human brain is NOT free in its overwhelming mass. It prefers to believe the damned lies and statistics, the fantasies of anthropomorphic ideologies, to the hard facts of evolution. It prefers to live with a placebo brain, in a neoteny state as ‘animals’ do in a farm that take power and his own destiny and toil for it as a single species. So there is not ‘critical mass’ to change our future but sheeple guided by the laws of systems as an undifferentiated blind mass of believers, guided by those impersonal darwinian laws of ‘capitalism’ – of the economic ecosystem in which we are becoming obsolete, compared by ‘prices’ with machines and deemed less ‘productive’, and hence discharged…
