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"The Tragic Developments of the 20th Century"
Society and personal responsibility
Date: 6/15/2009 1:30:59 PM ( 15 y ) ... viewed 2042 times I feel I must post this one idea, perhaps just for safekeeping, to store this working idea here... please feel free to expand on it, or correct it.
June 15th 2009, Karlin
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The Hypothesis to Explain "The Tragic Developments of the 20th Century"
The Tragic Developments of the 20th Century that led to the current threats of global warming, economic imbalances, and a toxic world where even the oceans are affected in severely negative ways; we are still invading soveriegn nations and implementing our views on other peoples; millions of innocent people are in prison, and many people no longer know how to care for themselves because we have ended the idea of self-responsibility. How did this start? How can we fix it?
To Wit: Alcohol Prohibition [quoted} -
"Henry Ford originally made his cars to run on ethanol, so farmers could create their own fuel. (He saw farmers really as his customers originally, since nearly all of us were farmers).
"Along comes John D. Rockefeller, who wants people to use oil. He provides money to the anti-alcohol movement in order to make Prohibition a reality, and stop the ethanol fuel industry and promote the use of fossil fuels."
KK - drug prohibition was created along similar lines: Pharmaceutical corporations sponsored the women's sufferance league and under that guise they got to declare marijuana and opiates illegal - the two most usefull drugs that happen to be able to be grown by anyone easily so that we could supply our own medicines.
Overall, the scenario is that in the early 20th C. there was a philosophy of every person being almost entirely independent, self-sufficient. This was a way to make us all responsible for our own actions - for example we would avoid unnecessary [non-medical] addictions because that would interfere with our ability to provide for ourselves [and our families, which are thought of as being an extension of ourselves].
Along came the corporate culture bosses who saw an opportunity for everyone to pay into a single corporate entity for things we all use and need. Health care, food, education, electricity, energy, etc etc - we could produce all those things ourselves, or at least within small intimate communities, but the corporations got their foot in the door with the help of our own government.
We have given our powers over to government, and the corporations hijacked that power for themselves. It has happened all through history that when power is concentrated [usually as a way to help societies get organised and to be efficient], someone comes along and takes it over for their own benefit. Another factor in allowing concentrated powers is the financial system that uses a currency that can be used to buy any good or service, and which can be accumulated by individuals to a great degree.
At this late stage of human development, our powers have become so great, and so concentrated, that there are now global repercussions that we may perish because of. Using oil as our primary source of energy is antithetic to individual creativity and responsibility [we could easily produce our own energy with various gadgets like windmills].
The solution, albeit probably too late now, would be to discourage government's collusion with corporate interests, and to develop an alternate currency so that wealth cannot be concentrated to the degree it is now. From there, we could produce our own energy [at least within communities, and as owners] , our own medicinces [growing pot and opiates], and re-learn what it is to be responsible for our family groups.
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