Zeitgeist: Addendum Page #8

needed to continue an institutions profitability.

This makes it inherently difficult for

profit-based institutions to change,

for it puts in jeopardy not only the

survival of large groups of people,

but also the coveted materialistic lifestyle

associated with affluence and power.

Therefore, the paralyzing necessity

to preserve an institution regardless

of its social relevance is largely

rooted in the need for money, or profit.

Whats in it for me?, is why people think.

And so if a man makes money selling a certain product,

thats where hes going to fight the existence of

another product that may threaten his institution.

Therefore, people cannot be fair.

And people do not trust each other.

A guy will come over to you and say Ive got

just the house youre looking for hes a salesman.

When a doctor says I think

your kidney has to come out,

I dont know if hes trying to pay off a

yacht or that my kidney has to come out.

Its hard in a monetary system to trust people.

If you came into my store and I said

This lamp that Ive got is pretty good,

but the lamp next door is much better,

I wouldnt be in business very long.

It wouldnt work. If I were ethical, it wouldnt work.

So when you say industry cares for people

thats not true.

They cant afford to be ethical.

So your system is not designed

to serve the well-being of people.

If you still dont understand that there would be

no outsourcing of jobs if they cared about people.

Industry does not care.

They only hire people because

it hasnt been automated yet.

So dont talk about decency and ethics,

we cannot afford it and remain in business.

It is important to point out that

regardless of the social system;

whether fascist, socialist, capitalist, or communist; the

underlying mechanism is still money, labor, and competition.

Communist China is no less

capitalistic than the United States.

The only difference is the degree by

which the state intervenes in enterprise.

The Reality is that "Monetary-ism",

so to speak, is the true mechanism,

that guides the interests of all the countries on the planet.

The most agressive and hence

dominant variation of this monetary-ism

is the free enterprise system.

The fundamental Perspective as put

forth by early free market economists,

like Adam Smith,

is that self interest and competition leads to social prosperity,

as the act of competition creates incentive,

which motivates people to persevere

However, what isn't talked about,

is how a competition based economy

invariably leads to strategic corruption,

power an wealth consolidation,

social stratification, technological

paralisis, labor abuse

and ultimately a covert form

of government dictatorship

by the rich elite

The word "Corruption" is often

defined as - moral perversion -

If a Company dumps toxic waste

into the ocean, to save money

Both people recognize this as "Corrupt-behavior"

On a more subtle level, when Walmart moves into a small town

and forces small businesses to shut down for

they are unable to compete, a grey area emerges.

For what exactly is Walmart doing wrong? Why should they

care about the Mom and Pop organizations they destroy?

Yet even more subtly,

When a person get's fired from their job,

because a new machine has been created,

witch can do the work for less money.

People tend to just accept that as...

"The way it is!"

Not seen the inherent

-Corrupt inhumanity- of such an action.

Because the fact is:

Wether it is dumping toxic waste. Having a

monopoly enterprise or downsizing the workforce,

the motiv is the same!

Profit!

They are all different degrees of

the same self-preserving machinism,

which always put's the well-being

of people second to monetary gain.

Therefor, corruption is not

some "Byproduct" of Monetaryism.

It is the very Foundation!

And while most people acknowledge

this tendency on one level or another,

majority remains naive as to the broad ramifications of

having such a selfish mechanism as the guiding mentality in society.

"Internal documents show that

after this company positively absolutely

knew they had a medication

that was infected with the AIDS virus,

they took the product off the market in the US,

and then they dumped it in France,

Europe, Asia and Latin America.

The US government allowed it to happen.

The FDA allowed this to happen, and now the

government is completely looking the other way.

Thousands of innocent hemophiliacs

have died from the AIDS virus.

This company knew absolutely

that it was infected with AIDS,

they dumped it because they wanted

to turn this disaster into a profit."

So you see, you have built-in corruption.

Were all chiseling off each other, and you

cant expect decency in that sort of thing.

a feeling that they dont know who to elect.

They think in terms of a democracy, which

is not possible in a monetary based economy.

If you have more money to advertise your position,

the position you desire in government,

that isnt a democracy.

It serves those in positions of differential advantage.

So its always a dictatorship of the

elitist, the financially wealthy.

We can either have democracy in this country or we

can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few,

but we cant have both.

Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice

It is an interesting observation to note

how seemingly unknown personalities

magically appear on the scene as presidential candidates.

Then before you know it, somehow you are

left to choose from a small group of

extremely wealthy people who suspiciously

have the same broad social view.

Obviously its a joke.

The people placed on the ballot are done so

because they have been pre-decided to be acceptable by

the established financial powers who actually run the show.

Yet many who understand this illusion of democracy,

often think If only we could just get

our honest, ethical politicians in power,

then we would be okay. Well, while this idea of course

seems reasonable in our established oriented world view,

it is unfortunately another fallacy.

For when it really comes down

to what is actually important,

the institution of politics and thus politicians themselves,

have absolutely no true relevance as to

what makes our world and society function.

Its not politicians that can solve problems.

They have no technical capabilities.

They dont know how to solve problems.

Even if they were sincere,

they dont know how to solve problems.

Its the technicians that

produce the desalinization plants.

Its the technicians that give you electricity.

That give you motor vehicles.

That heat your house,

and cool it in the summer time. Its

technology that solves problems, not politics.

Politics cannot solve problems

cause they are not trained to do so.

Very few people today stop and consider

what it is that actually improves their lives.

Is it money?

Obviously not. One cannot eat money,

or stuff money into their car to get it to run.

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