Proto Capitalism
Capital has three main characteristics. It is universal. It is a store of value. It has mobility. Various form of capital evolved over time based on improvement of these three characteristics. For example Slaves, Bronze. Bronze became first universal currency in the world.
What capital does is that it moves a society from Altruistic state to Utilitarian state. Altruistic system is static. They don’t want change. In the beginning it is good as there is rapid growth. But after it reaches point of maximum growth it becomes too Utilitarian. You cheat. You cause a lot of probrems..sorry problems. The leader will align with other leaders and they will form a cartel and they will together exploit people. Not only that they will expand and look for new areas to conquer.
But once you expand too much the leaders have all the capital and people are enslaved, exploited and want to destroy the system and the system collapses. This is how capital works. There is nothing you can do about it.
There is perfect storm of crisis at last phase.
Capital is a problem because it changes the fundamental nature of the brain. It makes it psychopathic.
Focus and Attention
Capital is a mechanism to extract Focus and Attention from You by giving.
- Illusion of Freedom.
- Equity.
- Abstraction of Capital (Money is God)
- Anxiety (Debt, Inequality and Poverty, Wealth Destruction(War))
Point of Capitalism is to focus the Energy of the Peasants not to make more Capital. That’s what makes society more energetic.
Society that’s wealthy is not necessarily good. It makes it lazy and Complacent.
Boom Bust cycle is not natural to capitalism. It is Artificially created. People incharge destroy economy to make prasant work harder.
Transnational Capitalism
The Elites are more loyal to capital than people. They move from one place to other where they don’t face social conflict from their policies, less taxes, find better investment opportunities.
The world is run by Secret Societies like Freemason. It is run by elites of the world. They bond by doing transgression together. The more the transgression the more is the unity.
Secret Societies is same as transnational Capitalism.
Peasant class has Simple Religion like Christianity.
The Secret Societies or land lord have very different Religion. They pray to Satan.
To be landlord you have to do terrible things to peasant class but it is hard normally. They have to do things against they are hard wired to do.
Hacks –
Avoid taking responsibility by praying to other God. You are controlled by Satan.
Social Conformity. Doing transgression together.
There is hierarchy. The top commit torture to the initiates. Those who are willing to become slaves are moved from lower to upper position and given capital and wealth for life.
Merchant Oligiarchy developed in world because of following.
1.)Banking- Extract energy from time and space. Abstraction of Capital.
2.) Controlling Trade.
3.) Spying. Diplomacy. Trick other people fight war for you.
It moved from Venice to Dutch Republic to England to America. In Venice to Dutch Republic we have Protestant Reformation. Change in relationship with God that makes transnational Capitalism much more powerful.
England to America we have enlightenment. Getting rid of God. Turn money to God making Transnational Capitalism much more powerful because it makes capital more Abstract.
Catholic
Orthodoxy(Distant with God), Hierarchy(Corruption), Justification by work(Hypocrisy).
Protestant
Direct Access (Holy Trinity, How to access)
Egalitarian (My own Religion 1000 of branches)
Justification by faith (Anxiety, Double Predestination)
Merchant Oligiarchy loved it because they can invest the money in Bank.
Enlightenment
Money is God. Religion of America.
Dutch to England
Make Dutch King, Private Bank guaranteed by parliament which meant If I make money I keep it. If I loose the people will pay it back.
Secret Societies.
In America the Bank became Federal reserve, Secret Societies became Freemason.
England still holds world’s most damaging Tax Havens.
America is run by Private Banks and Private interest.
Jews are tools of Empire(Transnational Capitalist). Empire get all the profit. Jews get all the blame.
Beaurocracy
There are now one admin General in US military over four soldiers. Every 4 star general has a luxurious plane by Goverment while the soldiers don’t even have enough to eat.
The medical prices are high not because of expenses in treatment but because of rise in administrative workers.
These bureaucrats themselves do not do any work but generate a lot of paper work for the actual workers.
This is called rent seeking behaviour. Getting money by doing nothing. All these upper management are friends so are in this transgression collectively. They don’t want to do anything. One of the reason of declining economy and society.
How Power Works
Power works by creating an illusion in the society that money is scarce. In reality you can print as much money as you want. The banking system is designed or evolved this way. But if everyone have money nobody will work. So the poverty has to be created. Poverty therefore is not something you do to yourself but is inflicted upon you. In order for people to want money an artificial misery have to be created.
The point of crisis like stock market crash is to destroy money. The wars are not over scarce resources. The wars are to destroy wealth.
Scarcity is a lie or illusion created by central bank. The real value is not money. The real value is the work that we do. We have food to feed everyone. Look at the amount of food we waste everyday. There doesn’t have to be hunger and starvation in the world.
The scarcity mindset comes because we think of individual or Egoistic happiness. Money, Power, Freedom, Love, Friends, video games, vacation etc.
But earlier people did not use to think in this way. They wanted community happiness. Infact they were much more emotionally intelligent than us even without any language. The speaking was primarily for signing. They could collectively, intuitively do things we can’t do with modern technology also like pyramids.
It were newer societies that were societies with powerlessness not the earlier one because now you are incapable of collective action. If you are unhappy don’t bother the community and go talk to psychiatrist and he would give you drugs when in reality a psychiatrist is more prone to having a mental illness according to a Psychology Today article.
What does school do ?
School are there to brainwash you. Only school that probably doesn’t is where parent and child can go together and learn. Child is seperated from parents and made insecure which makes him vulnerable to accept whatever teacher says. The public schooling in history were developed for military training like Spartans. That’s what schools are for. Idea of Individualism or Ego, Money and Nation State are ingrained in schools. It is just like Monotheism. Hinduism is not Monotheism but Ram Rajya is no different. A person in Tamilnadu may have nothing in common with person in Bengal but they are made to believe both are same Nation State. On the other hand a person in India may have a lot in common with person in China but they are two different Nation State. Earlier people from two different places could easily mingle. The local identity was not a barrier but enabler.
Elite Over Production
Capitalism transition from consumerist to financial or stocks to Monopoly. The fall of any society is because of Elite Over Production or too many people of power competing for too little position of power. Like Musk and Ambani.
Rat Utopia
An American scientist named Janes B Calhoen tried to make a Rat paradise with all the food water etc in abundance for them. He noticed no matter how abundantly he designed it, that rats eventually multiplied and ended up killing themselves. The answer he found was, limited number of females. They were not fighting for food or resources. They were fighting for status.
Similarly the elites when becomes too many for limited position of power they end up eliminating each other.
So at the core of societies there are these elite families. They control the three pillars of power. Finance, Intelligence or Spies and Religion. Overtime they produce too many children due to natural instict to pass on their wealth. They then fight and end the Society.
These families during production or Rise and stable phase control the other aspects of society like Government, Military, Schools, Media, Culture, Corporation, Crime etc which are the managers or bureaucrats who control or exploits the work force who generate wealth for society.
Eventually this top down system breaks into multiple silos or faction that brings different elements of the managers and working people together leading to civil wars, foreign invasion etc and end the society.
Three phases of society
Professor Jiang says every society has three phase. The Rise phase is steep in time line. This is when society is democratic. The decline phase is when it becomes bureaucratic. It doesn’t not appear declining because it is more streched in timeline. The last phase is very steep fall in timeline and is the collapse phase which the world is in right now. It collapses because all the action plan were for individual disaster but not for all at once. Like the great recession of 2008. The external shocks is a perfect storm of crisis.
The rise phase is open when you are encouraged to criticize the leaders irrespective of the system like communist China. This phase is therefore democratic. Then it becomes bureaucratic as company looses more and more money, the managers want to secure their job as the income starts declining. They have to prove their worth. So they create a lot of paper work. They make everyone follow the rules. Then in collapse phase it becomes straight right authoritarian or forced rules.
The rise phase is consent based. All are working together to improve the society. But when you reach decline there is deception. And in collapse there is coercion.
In rise there is unity and empathy to work together to make society better. In decline it is more about stability and maintaining the status quo. In collapse it is just survival.
The last phase will have following Political Consequences.
1.) Collapse of Democracy and Freedom.
2.) Economic collapse as less and less people are willing to work under Government they cannot criticize.
3.)So Government will try to replace the population and there will be immigration Problem.
4.)Which will lead to civil war.
5.)But Government will be afraid that they will eventually come after us so they will engage in pointless wars.
Bureaucracy and diseases
The decline phase is more about making things manageable with action plan. It avoids or eliminates diversity which is prerequisite for any natural system like forest.
Such system is prone to natural calamities like pandemic. In other words it has less immunity.
All bureaucracy is like a machine. It’s a top down Architecture. It’s not reality and when reality is ignored the only way the system sees progress is by movement or expansion. It is like any totalitarian society like Nazi Germany or Soviet Union.
On the other hand society is like a forest. It’s an ecosystem. For a state to exist it must turn forest into a machine. It destroys diversity, spontaneity, imagination. Your name, values, ideas are of least interest than how you can be categorised into utility of some interest.
An example is Germans pioneering in planting only one type of trees by burning down the forest and planting only commercially exploitable trees like Lumber to make best use of space, failed because it makes the trees more susceptible to diseases and weather changes and vulnerable to stress.
Another example is when they tried to grow a single crop like coffee or weed in Tanzania because growing multiple crops were inefficient. But it failed because in case of natural disasters the whole crop fails and there is no other crop.
The result of over Bureaucratisation is that while the prices of consumer goods like cars, cell phones, clothing are going down, what’s going up are the Hospitalization, the Housing, the Schooling.
It’s almost impossible for middle class to have a good life now.
Similarly going to University in today’s world is a complete rip off. You are not paying the professor. You are paying the administration.
Today students could easily disrespect and challenge their professors because the administration creates more problems than it solves.
There are many theories for example Today’s student are spoiled generation because of privileged and protective parenting, or students believe in neo liberalism and have consumerist mentality and customer is always right. Also it may be ideological like white supremacy or caste system like in India and that the professors are biased.
But there is another much more compelling explanation than any of this, that the institution have become more and more bureaucratic.
Earlier the teacher job was to do cutting edge research and help you learn and help you grow which meant openness and debate and pain. But now it’s all to feel at home, to not be challenged or move out of safe space. The people in power take advantage of their power to give jobs to their friends who do nothing every day so are more likely to cause problems for others specially the professors and students who do real work.
Above is another interesting chart. The black is the prices of stocks in money. That is if you use money to buy stocks it has increased manifold but if you use Gold(blue) it is actually declining. It means that we are living in a lie as I also said somewhere.
Experts agree that the USA democracy is declining which means the amount of say that people can have in Government policy is declining.
The managers cannot just be removed because they have the power and they protect each other. They become parasites and feed off the host. When one host dies they switch to another host. For example if this university or organisation goes bankrupt may be there is another university or organisation I can go to and exploit. What matters to them is the patronage and the political networks.
For this to reverse or for them to be removed the society has to collapse before it can regenerate. But they have many tricks up their sleeves before that. They could start a civil war where the Left and Right fight and they are left alone.
Or they can use AI to control you by saying AI is God and listen to AI. Or they can fake an Alien invasion. Or they can send you to pointless war.
The only good point is that because of things becoming so corrupt, people’s are forced to question the authority. Before they could just accept the teacher. But today’s people’s minds are opening. You need darkness to shine Right !! And one person illuminating illuminate the others as well.
Indra in his Kingdom has these pearls. If one pearl shines the other also shines from its light.
So let’s map it to what’s happening around the world.
Ok so countries like England were able to draw wealth from their colonies like India and China by coping to their Elites. They were able to sell their industrial products to India by making India an agricultural country and forced opium trade in China. The Elites helped them as they now had assurance of their wealth in foreign Bank. The England could invest all that wealth in America. Railway, Steel, Oil and Finance required not more than one person to monopolize the whole industry. Corneus Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, J P Morgan etc.
Same is the situation today. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Google it’s all just a scam.
The Elites of different countries keep their money in foreign banks because it’s safe and tax free.
Internet was built by US military. Why would they give it to us for free. But if we believe there is a secret society that want more Surveillance it makes more sense. If Military came and said to buy a computer because we want to surveil you nobody would have agreed. But if they say Facebook or Search Engine or Chatgpt we have no problem. And where do all these companies get funding from ? It’s the elites money in their country. That’s why Starting Google or Microsoft in India is not as easy as if you are born in America.
Now we have reached a stre when you have too much wealth. People have become lazy and complacent.
What they are going to do now is destroy the economy again like in 1929 and start world war 3.
Disclaimer – I am not saying all this is true. I am just saying it is a compelling way to look at the world.