Can’t Believe
I can’t believe I did it again
I don’t want to believe it’s true
I can’t stand knowing it was I who hurt you
I want to go away
And leave you be
Perhaps that’s best; you without me
I never planned for this to happen
You were the sister I never had
I’ve hurt you again accidentally; I feel so bad
I never meant to hurt you
I only wanted to care
But I guess the real me isn’t meant to share
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Equality and Dignity: Housing, Education, and Healthcare
EQUALITY AND DIGNITY
For Equality and Dignity through Logic and Reason.
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Overview
ELECTIONS
Our electoral system does not work: with electoral colleges, and blue-states/red-states, the minority is underrepresented and the majority is powerless. Taxpayers’ money pays unjustifiably for parties’ internal nominations, the vote on Election Day is not secret, and, once elected, even corrupt politicians cannot be recalled.
The system simply does not work, and the country has gone down the tube: we need a system of nominated representatives who can be recalled at any time by the same body that nominates them.
ECONOMY
Regarding economic conditions, the new gods, namely “The Economy”, “The Banks”, and “The Market”, rule irrationally the irrational soul of a lost nation. Letting imaginary “market forces” and “the Dow” rule our lives only opens the door to speculative forces and to monopolies: we need a real plan for resources, trade, commerce, production, and distribution, in order to know where we are and what we have, so that we can know where we are going and what we can do.
We cannot let the Dow index and other idiotic stock market indicators be the measure of a reform: and most shares of most companies listed on the stock markets are worth zero anyway, so there is no point in trying to resurrect theses dead and stale economic bodies.
FREE HEALTHCARE
We actually could really afford free healthcare for all, free education for all, public safety, and free adequate housing for all: we just need the willingness to do so.
PRIORITIES
We can start giving a decent house to each citizen and family. Each individual would receive a housing value of $10,000 per year, which would amount to a value of $3 Trillion. A family of four, for instance, would receive $40,000. The housing industry, and related trades, would employ some 11.5 Million people, at a salary of $130,000 per person, at a total cost for the Treasury of $1.5 Trillion. Each housing employee would generate an output value of $260,000 (corresponding to a productivity equal to the salary times two). Everyone would have the dignity of an adequate home, which would lead to better health, better education, better public safety, and overall a better society
$8 Trillion have been wasted in 2008 and 2009 by the current system in bailouts of one sort or another, and little or nothing has been accomplished: instead, to completely restore health, education, housing, and public safety would actually have cost less, just $6.7 Trillion. Evidently something has to change in our choices and in our decision-making process.
LOGIC
In order to achieve our goals, we need to move away from subjective irrationality, from illusions, from delusion, and from self-delusion: through logic, we need to reach objective reason.
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Only what is socially relevant and socially needed, according to social logic and social necessity, is socially valid and socially acceptable.
Assumptions:
Total Population 300 Million people.
Workforce: ages 25 to 75 are 150 Million people.
Ages 0 to 25 are 100 Million people.
Ages over 75 are 50 Million people.
Ages 75 to 85 are 35 Million people.
Ages over 85 are 15 Million people.
Guaranteed salary to workforce is $130,000 per person per year.
Measured value of production output is $260,000 per person per year.
Political representation is guaranteed via nomination of representatives to caucuses and committees.
Caucuses and committees are established at all levels of society, e.g., neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, hospitals, courts, etc.
Any representative can be recalled at any time by the same body that nominated that same representative.
Local representatives in turn nominate delegates to regional caucuses and committees, and further to national representations.
Central caucuses and committees of representatives will regulate the centralized basic social industries (healthcare, education, housing, and public safety), and monitor all other industries, production, distribution, and planning.
For purposes of equality, all committees and caucuses will be composed of an equal number of men and women.
A system of a national identification document is implemented, providing each citizen with an ID linked to a national central register of identities (linked to taxation records, to property records, to court records, to public service records, to school records, to medical records, and to housing records).
Each person is assigned a public ombudsman (or ombudsperson) as advocate for all rights and social guarantees.
Particular social care is placed on protecting children from incest, molestation, bestiality, bed-sharing, and other abuses by monitoring their wellbeing via a children’s ombudsman (or ombudsperson), that will control parental activities.
Every citizen is guaranteed the right to work at full pay between ages 25 and 75.
Every citizen is guaranteed a salary of $130,000 between ages 25 and 75.
All systems and practices of tips, tipping, discretionary compensation, erratic remuneration, uncertain earnings, random salaries, and gratuities, instead of just and equal wages, are socially illogical and therefore abolished.
All socially illogical old privileges are abolished, as being in contravention of social equality.
All forms of exploitation are abolished, as being in contravention of social dignity.
The measured value of the production output of each worker cannot exceed $260,000, corresponding to twice the input salary.
Every citizen will serve a mandatory total of 5 years (not necessarily consecutively) in public service in the Public Forces between ages 25 and 75.
Every citizen is guaranteed full salary also during the public service years.
Every citizen is guaranteed free healthcare, preventive care, medicines, medical devices, dental care, hearing care (including hearing devices), vision care (including eyeglasses), etc., at an estimated average value of $10,000 per person per year.
Every citizen is guaranteed free childcare and preschool between ages 0 and 5, at an estimated value of $30,000 per year.
Every citizen is guaranteed free education (including textbooks), including college and graduate level, between ages 5 and 25, at an estimated value of $30,000 per year.
All parents are fully responsible for the subsistence and actions of their own children until the child reaches age 25.
Every citizen over age 85 is guaranteed free eldercare, valued of $30,000 per person per year, in addition to the universal healthcare estimated at an average value of $10,000 per person per year.
Every citizen is guaranteed adequate and free housing, at an estimated value of $10,000 per person per year. Households with multiple members will receive multiple housing values on the basis of the number of persons living in the same household (e. g., a family of four would receive an estimated value of housing of $40,000 per year).
Every citizen is guaranteed free public safety and justice, as provided by the public forces, at an estimated average value of $13,000 per person per year.
Pension begins at age 75.
Pensioners (ages over 75) will receive a tax-free variable stipend, the size of which depends on the available surplus of the Treasury.
Students (ages between 5 and 25) will receive a tax-free variable stipend, the size of which depends on the available surplus of the Treasury.
A flat tax of 40 percent on all income of all persons (except for Treasury surplus stipends available for student and pensioners) is implemented, to be paid to Treasury: all other taxes (state tax, property tax, sales tax, payroll tax, etc.) are abolished. Currently, a 25% federal income tax, a 7.5% payroll tax, and a 7.5% sales tax add up to a tax rate of some 40%, on top of which state taxes and property taxes need to be added for a proper comparison.
All healthcare services, including hospitals, clinics, HMOs, laboratories, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies, research institutes, health insurance providers, etc., are centralized and regulated.
All educational services, including schools, colleges, universities, textbook publishing companies, etc., are centralized and regulated.
All housing services, including development, construction, maintenance, furniture industries, appliance industries, utilities, etc., are centralized and regulated.
All public safety services, including police, courts, defense, military installations, diplomatic corps, security, surveillance, intelligence, postal service, delivery services, fire protection, etc., are centralized and regulated.
All insurance services are centralized and regulated, balancing equally premium and risk at no profit and no loss.
The death penalty is abolished.
Imprisonment is abolished and substituted by a system of personal individualized corrective assistance provided by the Public Forces.
In the name of logical equality, each person who causes in any manner another person’s death will automatically receive a lifelong sentence.
Violent and dangerous professional sports and leisure activities are prohibited.
Excessively expensive and frivolous leisure activities and equipment are banned as being social illogical.
Ownership of firearms and weapons is prohibited.
Fireworks and firecrackers are hazardous, wasteful, socially illogical, and therefore prohibited.
Sport hunting and sport fishing are prohibited.
All sports and leisure activities involving animals are prohibited.
Utilization of animals in all kinds of research, tests, wasteful use, and ridicule is prohibited.
In order to eliminate animal-transmitted diseases and allergies, reduce fecal pollution, curb child bestiality, and limit noise from, e.g., barking dogs, all ownership of pets and other domestic animals is restricted and controlled by health authorities.
In order to ensure the comfort of all travelers, all public transportation, including airplanes, will have special separated areas where parents traveling with children will find their own reserved spaces which meet their particular needs, and well separated from the ordinary travelers.
Motorcycle noise and motorcycle gangs are banned, in light of their socially negative intimidating effect.
Public gambling, like lottery, casino, bingo, poker, etc., is socially irrational and, as such, banned: private gambling as addiction will be dealt with within the frame of the universal healthcare system.
Using of foul language, pornography, applauding and hand clapping in public, yelling in public, intimidating coughing, insulting or threatening body-language, disturbing or whistling in public, chewing gum in public, and general lack of social courtesy and mutual respect are going to be considered antisocial behaviors and are not going to be tolerated: serious cases of non-compliance will be dealt with within the frame of the public forces system or general healthcare system.
Obesity is to be treated as a medical condition, and will be dealt with within the frame of the universal healthcare system.
Elective surgery is subjected to the control of health authorities.
Non-essential cosmetic surgery, tattoos, piercing, branding, and non-essential cosmetic dentistry is regulated within the frame of the universal healthcare system.
Any transplant of organs from living individuals, even with the organ donor’s consent, is prohibited.
Hand-shaking (and other forms of public contact) are threatening forms of germ transmittal in society, and should be avoided to the largest possible extent as a public health issue in the name of social responsibility.
False advertising and sales practices that mislead consumers are prohibited.
Only thoroughly informative advertisement, of a non-emotional character, for socially necessary and essential products and services will be allowed. Advertisements for pharmaceuticals, medicines, alcoholic beverages, and nicotine products are prohibited.
All schemes of copyrights, patents, royalties, and trademarks are abolished.
All schemes of debt, pawn, money lending, check cashing, usury, and interest payment are prohibited.
The system and practice of establishing companies, corporations, trust, foundations, nonprofits, etc., intended to limit personal liabilities and responsibilities is abolished.
The schemes of market trading in stock, shares, options, bonds, public offerings, etc., of fictitious businesses and corporations are abolished.
The schemes of mutual funds, hedge funds, swaps, derivatives, etc., often defined as “the economy”, are abolished.
Only sole proprietorships, general partnerships, and cooperatives of individuals, with personal, absolute, unlimited, and uninsurable responsibility and inalienable guarantees, will be allowed to conduct business, manufacturing, commerce, and trade of any kind.
Adequate professional and ethical standards are established for doctors, dentists, lawyers, accountants, journalists, engineers, architects, pilots, etc.
In order to reduce gang supremacy and idealistic sectarianism, all public use of uniforms, particular/ritual/symbolic clothing, distinguishing headdresses, and all prominent displays of symbols will be regulated and reserved for the public forces.
Public superstitious and irrational practices, prayers, rites, and rituals, etc., are discouraged or prohibited.
Socially irrelevant and irrational manipulation and indoctrination of underage, vulnerable, or disabled individuals are prohibited.
The waste of intellectual energy on socially irrelevant issues, like UFOs, alien abductions, existence of god, transcendentalism, creationism, reincarnation, religion, resurrection, intergalactic travel, time travel, telepathy, spiritualism, psychics, astrology, exorcism, etc., all primitive, crude, and irrational traits of mankind’s civilization, will be discouraged and prevented as being socially illogical, and extreme case will be handled within the frame of the general health care system.
So called “home-schooling” systems, fabrications, and schemes are abolished: each child has the right to receive real education.
Exclusive clubs, secret societies, mysterious associations, racketeering, cartels, orders, hierarchies, castes, gangs, fraternities/sororities, tribal separatism, clans, etc., are all prohibited in light of the fact that such organizations and groupings contravene social logic and principles of equality.
Participation and membership in all socially responsible clubs, groups, and associations is free and open to all citizens: all discriminatory practices are prohibited.
For purposes of equality, chest, breast, and nipple exposure will be equally permitted or prohibited to men and women alike, without any form of gender discrimination.
Monopolies, trusts, and cartels against social interests are prohibited.
Churches and other public buildings are to be utilized for representation meetings and political assemblies.
All nonprofit, religious, and voluntary associations and organizations operating in the areas of, e. g., schooling and education, health and welfare, housing and assistance, and public interest and justice, are brought under the control of the respective regulated industry, namely Health, Education, Housing, and Public Forces, all financed by the Treasury.
So as to ensure universal compatibility of the industrial production of the nation, the metric system (meter, kilogram, liter) is enforced in all industries.
So as to ensure universal compatibility of the industrial production of the nation, the Celsius temperature system (instead of Fahrenheit degree) is enforced in all industries.
The time differences within the country are suspended, with the Central Time being the only official national time for all states.
The English language is the only official language of the nation, and all citizens will be made sufficiently proficient in this language so as to understand their rights and their duties towards their family and their society.
Alcohol and tobacco are considered controlled substances, and are regulated and distributed within the frame of the universal health care system.
Narcotics and other drugs are regulated as controlled substances, and are therefore regulated and distributed within the frame of the universal health care system.
People who find themselves using controlled substances will be dealt with within the frame of the universal healthcare system.
All forms of intelligent quotient (IQ) testing, attitude tests, and personality tests can only be administered and provided within the frame of the universal health care system if required for psychiatric or psychological testing.
In order to ensure parental maturity and social responsibility, procreation is restricted, by mutual social agreement, to individuals over age 30.
In order to curb the current trend of overpopulation and to protect the global environment, procreation or adoption is limited, by mutual social agreement, to an assignment of a maximum of one child per person.
All individuals over age 30 are given a complete chart of their genetic and reproductive profile, so as to provide them with full information regarding their own parenting prospects, limitations, and risks, both from and individual and from a social perspective.
All real estate and property are recorded in a title register or cadastral system.
All occupations of foreign territories are prohibited.
No wars will be tolerated.
Assassination and plans thereof, whether domestic or international, are obviously prohibited.
Each state or part of the nation has the right to secede if its representative caucuses or committees so decide.
The Treasury collects taxes and distributes national wealth to centralized and regulated industries.
A dual currency system is introduced, one for debt and repayment of debt (dollars, $), and one for salaries and production output (utils, U).
The regulated healthcare industry will serve 300 Million people (all ages) for an average service value of $10,000 per person per year, and will employ 11.5 Million people at a salary of $130,000 per person, with a production output value of $260,000 per person, at a total cost for the Treasury of $1.5 Trillion (current annual expenses for healthcare in the USA approximate $2.3 Trillion).
The regulated childcare and education industries will serve 100 Million people (childcare ages 0 to 5 and education ages 5 to 25) for an average service value of $30,000 per person per year, and will employ 11.5 Million people at a salary of $130,000 per person, with a production output value of $260,000 per person, at a total cost for the Treasury of $1.5 Trillion.
The regulated housing industry will serve 300 Million people (all ages) for an average service value of $10,000 per person per year, and will employ 11.5 Million people at a salary of $130,000 per person, with a production output value of $260,000 per person, at a total cost for the Treasury of $1.5 Trillion.
The regulated eldercare industry will serve 15 Million people (ages over 85) for an average service value of $30,000 per person per year, and will employ 1.7 Million people at a salary of $130,000 per person, with a production output value of $260,000 per person, at a total cost for the Treasury of $220 Billion.
The regulated public safety industry will serve 300 Million people (all ages) for an estimated average service value of $13,000 per person per year. The public service of all citizens in the Public Forces for 5 years between ages 25 and 75, totaling 15 Million people in service at any given time, will lead to a cost for the Treasury of some $2 Trillion (the cost of $130,000 in annual salary for each enrolled citizen) obtaining a value of services of $3.9 Trillion ($260,000 of measured value of output generated by each enrolled individual).
The Treasury will have revenues of $7.8 Trillion (40% of $130,000 each for 150 Million persons), and will also receive a value of public service by the Public Forces of $3.9 Trillion ($260,000 value of output per year by 15 Million persons in mandatory enrollment in the Public Force at any given time).
The Treasury will have costs of $1.5 Trillion for healthcare, $1.5 Trillion for childcare and education, $1.5 Trillion for housing, $2 Trillion for public service, and $220 Billion for Eldercare, totaling thus some $6.7 Trillion.
The variable surplus of some $1.1 Trillion will be distributed equally in the form of non-taxable stipends to students (ages 5 to 25) and pensioners (ages over 75), totaling some 150 Million people, corresponding to approximately $7,000 per year to each student and to each pensioner.
Industries like food, clothing, information, entertainment, communication, transportation, infrastructure, energy, import, export, etc., are monitored in accordance with social logic and social need.
All socially non-productive activities are regulated.
All socially non-essential activities are regulated.
All cultural, research, and artistic activities are monitored in accordance with social relevancy.
All production, distribution, and trade will be planned on the basis of existing and future resources in order to meet social needs in accordance with social logic.
Fresh potable water is the most valuable resource on the planet: therefore the usage of water will be regulated, and any waste or socially non-essential use of water will be restricted or prohibited.
Some 50 Million people will be employed in regulated industries, financed by the Treasury, for a budget of some $6 Trillion. (The current national budget in the USA is about $4 Trillion.)
Some 100 Million people will be employed in monitored industries, for a gross domestic income of some $13 Trillion. (The current national gross domestic product in the USA is about $15 Trillion, with a current rate of exploitation of 5 to 6 and even 10 times the worker’s salary, providing thus the private corporations and the private banks unjustifiably excessive profits.)
International awareness of social necessities will be constantly promoted.
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The above text is a preliminary draft of the political program for
EQUALITY AND DIGNITY
(for Equality and Dignity through Logic and Reason)
EQUALITY AND DIGNITY
A Philosophical Platform
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The text here below, “A Philosophical Platform”, summarizes in the most concise way the conceptual reality of humanity. This is neither a school of thought, nor propaganda for a certain belief, nor a concoction of superstitions. It is pure philosophy, “philos sophos”, love of knowledge, passion for wisdom, and therefore not a path that your learn or follow, but a conceptual structure that you arrive at by thinking rationally and reasoning logically.
A PHILOSOPHICAL PLATFORM
1 The human mind processes concepts.
2 Valid concepts are those that represent reality.
3 Reality is composed by matter, by mental processes, and by social phenomena.
4 Matter is composed by all tangible objects, simple and complex.
5 Mental processes are all the activities of the human mind.
6 Social phenomena are all the manifestations of all social relations.
7 All reality can be experienced, directly or indirectly.
8 All concepts of reality acquired through direct experience are valid.
9 All concepts of reality acquired through indirect experience need to be validated by each individual.
10 Validation is the process of relating the concept back to the reality that it represents, namely matter, mental processes, or social phenomena.
11 The individual is at the same time matter, repository of mental processes, and component of social phenomena.
The above text describes all reality, subjective and objective, narrow and broad, particular and general, small and big, tree and forest, personal and professional, individual and social, superfluous and essential, inconsistent and consistent, the symbol and the content, the form and the substance, the part and the whole.
We welcome your observations and suggestions, for the general enhancement of logic and reason for equality and dignity.
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EQUALITY AND DIGNITY
Worldview
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THE UNIVERSE
We exist because our planet is at a certain distance from the Sun: so the distance of our Earth from the Sun happens to allow the kind of life that we see on our planet.
Other stars, just like our Sun, have other planets, just like our Earth: there are one billion stars in our own galaxy (the Milky Way), stars just like our Sun, with planets similar to our Earth, and some of those planets have other forms of life. The various forms of life depend on the distances of certain planets from certain stars, which give different temperatures and different conditions for different types of life.
The universal space that contains our galaxy is uniform and infinite, and has always existed, and will always exist, eternal and endless in all directions. More than one billion of galaxies, with one billion stars in each of them, just like our Milky Way, travel through the dark vacuum of the universe. And so do dark matter, comets, asteroids, and meteorites, pushed and pulled by gravitational forces, electromagnetic fields, gamma rays, nuclear resultants, radioactive streams, and stellar winds.
From time to time stars, planets and galaxies collide, collapse, and re-emerge in a random long-term universal chaos that controls short-term patterns of cosmic trajectories and astronomic recurrences.
LIFE ON EARTH
On our planet, various electric and chemical forces, favored by heat and humidity, developed early forms of life in the form of bacteria, molds, and fungi, which over billions of years continuously transformed themselves into different manifestation of life.
We humans represent just one phase of these manifestations of life. The current bio-diversity of our planet displays other manifestations of the same type of organic life, determined by the climatic conditions resulting from our distance from the Sun. All organic matter flourishes and decays in a constant transformation from specie to specie.
SOCIAL SYSTEMS
Humanity is just one of the social expressions present on out planet. Other forms of life present similar expressions: forests, anthills, schools of fish, flocks of birds.
Complex multiplicity requires social logic in order to coexist, and humans have developed over time such a capability. There is a constant need to implement social co-existence through social logic, by determining what is socially relevant, socially productive, and socially essential.
Without social logic, humanity plunges back into the darkness of ignorance and destruction. No human can exist alone on the planet. Humans are social animals.
SOCIAL LOGIC
Through social logic, humanity can determine what is good for the individual in light of what is good for society. If an action or event is not good for society, it would not be good for a particular individual either, unless that individual follows socially negative rules of oppression and exploitation, which contradict social logic.
Often socially illogical and socially irrelevant arguments, like superstition or religion, are used to prolong and protect the privileges of a certain individual or of a certain tribe or group of people.
Rules of social logic are also able to determine what is socially productive and socially essential: these are crucial considerations, necessary to be determined at the time of planning, of allocation of scarce resources, or at the time of distribution of limited goods.
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We are seeing the dawn of the new Chinese Empire.
And the sun is descending now over the last remains of the USA Empire, which lasted exactly thirty years, from 1975 to 2005.
Thirty years, which is also the duration of the prior Worldwide Empire, the Soviet Union, which had lasted from 1945 to 1975, the “evil empire” (as the “devil emperor” himself, Ronald Reagan, used to call the Soviets).
The previous empire, the German one, had also lasted thirty years, from 1915 to 1945. And the British Empire had dominated the world for thirty years before then, from 1885 to 1915.
Thirty years seems to be the logical duration of modern empires.
So, could the USA have averted the decline of their political, military and economic international power?
Not so. Historically determined processes make the decline unstoppable.
The world economy has been riddled by recurring economic recessions and depressions every tenth year, namely 2011, 2001, 1991, 1981, 1971, 1961, 1951, 1941, 1931, 1921, 1911, 1901, so 10 years seems to be the deadly anniversary for deep-recessions/depressions (and the next is obviously the Deep-Recession Depression of 2011, DRD 2011, culminating on November 11, 2011).
Could the USA have done something different to avoid the coming disaster of 2011? Probably, but nothing so significantly different to avoid the historical necessity of its own decline.
So, what where the accumulated factors, that, compounded and aggregated, sunk the USA.
The USA is a young nation; it was less than two hundred years old in 1975, and for a nation being two hundred years old, is like for a kid being two years old. No experience, no leadership structure, nothing to fall back on, an avant-garde without a back-office.
The USA disregarded the need to be part of a community of nations: this was evidenced by its refusal to adopt the metric system. Ounces, gallons, inches, all this obsolete terminology put the USA at the edge of the planet, and a little tilt would have been enough to topple it. And wars and disasters tilted that weak balance.
The USA disregarded its own people’s need for dignity. No health care system and no dental care, no pension system and no child care, this social vacuum forced people to fill the street with lunatics, without teeth, without education, and, fundamentally, without dignity.
The USA disregarded its own people’s need for equality. The disparity between wealthy and poor, the disregard for numerous families’ economic necessities in term of food and clothing, housing and energy, the neglect of children’s needs, led to a degree of inequality that became, if not politically, mentally intolerable.
The USA’s disregard for the validity of logic, drowned by religion, statistical lies, and media fraud, led to the gap between the establishment and the people. The people finally understood that the establishment had fooled them, and that the establishment was not on the people’s side.
The USA’s disregard for the power of reason, fed by the worship of ignorance, anti-intellectualism, and crass selfishness, caused reason and rationality to be left behind, succumbing under the pressure from superstition, cabala, astrology, and other pseudo-sciences.
In the USA, the domination of science over philosophy, of formulas over knowledge, controlled by the rocket scientist and by the atomic developers, who established a regime of cult of the authority. No one without a double Ph.D. in superior sciences had any relevance any more in the USA.
The USA’s worship of aggression over compassion, of violence over passion, fed by a cult of guns and wars, of armies and warriors, of misplaced pride and suffocated diplomacy, choked any artistic, poetic, or any form cultural opposition to imperialistic expansion and control.
The USA’s trick of creating and financing a thesis, and then creating and financing also an antithesis to that first thesis, followed by the same USA’s intervention as a synthesis of the thesis and the antithesis, this formula, that had worked so well during World War Two and during the Cold War, allowing the creation of the USA Empire, was a deficient technique once the Empire has been established. While creating an Empire requires form over substance, maintaining an Empire requires substance over form, real content, ethics, and not only esthetics.
The USA’s trite philosophy (the old formula of the Roman Empire) “bread and circuses” even in the USA led to more and more violent like sports, boxing, steroid football, meth baseball, race-car-crashes, where the gladiators, neo-Spartacuses, rebel, and the circuses remain empty, and the people start understanding that the fun is over.
The USA’s reliance on religion, gods of any kind, obscurantism, voodoo, and home-schooling led to new and unexpected difficulties in reaching the masses in order to change direction when needed. Televangelists and preachers in the final years of the USA Empire had acquired more control of the masses than the politicians themselves.
The USA’s religious mistrust for planning the economy, under the belief that “planning the economy” is equal to “playing god”, gradually eroded USA’s ability to undertake major projects, like electromagnetic levitation or circular accelerators. Even the basic infrastructure, that required major planning and significant levels of National investments, was in disarray, including freeways, waterways, aqueducts and bridges.
The USA’s legislative system, where laws where passed without any chance of implementation, generated a nearly anarchic society, where any kind of enforcement was sporadic, erratic, and randomized. Endless and numerous laws could strike anybody at anytime, without equality and with uneven results of justice.
The USA’s judicial system, based on case law, made it possible for the wealthy upper class to always be able to find a law that protected from being punished from a certain action or decision. Often ad-hoc smaller cases were generated in the judicial system, in appearance insignificant, in order to be used for larger cases.
The USA’s tax laws and taxation systems were gigantic and abstruse, with endless sub-categories, exceptions, loopholes and inconsistencies. Not even the governmental taxation authorities believed any more in the system of laws, or had any trust in their own abilities.
The USA military establishment had become its own purpose, a leviathan too large to go anywhere, and too large to be fed. Towards the end of the Empire, it started eating itself in order to feed itself, in a frenzy of self-cannibalism doomed to failure.
The USA’s policy of favoring alcohol and alkaloids, whether legal or illegal, as a government policy, led to the creation of a nation inside a nation (the dark nation of those favoring tobacco, alcohol, heroin, and cocaine, versus the clear nation of those who felt that these substances should be placed under national governmental control).
The USA’s hypocritical waste of resources in dividing the nation between those who go in-and-out-of-jail, and those who derisively point the finger at those who go in-and-out-of-jail, as if being out of jail in itself would be an achievement. Such a situation definitely lowered the standard of what was to be considered an achievement: “you are good if you are out-of-jail”.
The USA’s corps of journalists had no standards, and refused standards, and had actually a true contempt for professional standards, where the need to have a journalistic career, equivalent to the need to feed one’s family trumped the value of professional standards. A pen-for-hire situation, in all spheres of media.
The USA economists constitute another profession without a profession, where anybody and everybody can proclaim himself an “economist” without any qualifications and without any conscience. Most “economists” became tools-for-hire in the hands of National, State, County, and City politicians where facts were set aside in favor of false ideas and perverted ideologies.
The USA’s sense of idealism, where the believe that if you profess an idea it actually turns into reality, was the culmination of a progress of superstitions that could never reach a status of real world or be passable under the scrutiny of even a simple worldview. The USA had lost its contact with matter and with reality.
The USA’s tendency of establishing and accepting principles without any form of validation, where allies were created and subsequently destroyed, where competition was generated and later annihilated, where monopolies where destroyed and then recreated, where collusion was favored and then condemned, where virtual irrationality finally triumphed.
The USA’s inability to cope with secret societies and sects, separatism and parochialism, where in the name of the most absurd mottoes and nearly insane frivolous tendencies, entire power-houses were allowed to thrive in visible contrast to the public interest, and often even subverting laws and regulations. Piracy clubs, motorcycle gangs, anti-medicine movements, gun worshipping, etc.
The USA’s obsession with dogs and other pets, which reached the astounding figure of one hundred millions in the whole country, led to the prioritization of services and welfare to dogs over humans, to the needs of pets over the needs of the USA’s own citizens, with dog hospitals and dog cemeteries.
The USA’s obsession with cosmetics and cosmetic surgery, where in particular the woman is subjected to a massive media bombardment in order to increase her consumption of cosmetic products and her utilization of cosmetic surgery facilities: more than fifty percent of medicine doctors in the USA prioritize cosmetic surgery over health related surgery.
The USA’s obstinate refusal to adopt a one-child-policy, the policy of limiting the size of families to one child per couple. The pediatric health-care system had collapsed under the pressure of too many children, and the pre-natal and child-care systems were practically non-existent in their chronic insufficiency. The educational systems was also grossly insufficient under the heavy population pressure of too many children, were some families had, irrationally, even three children per couple.
The USA’s glorification of food, part of the Roman imperial policy of “bread and circuses” adopted by the USA, as a way to reduce mental depression in particular in children and women, with the result of achieving exactly the opposite result, namely increased mental depression due to increased obesity and lowered self-esteem due to social dysadaptation.
The USA’s intellectual backwardness in its ability to deal with anything more complex than dualism. Black/white, win/lose, Blue team/Red team, anything more complex than a party of two, or a win/lose situation was well beyond the mental capacity of the average USA citizen, and the various USA governments favored that kind of mental atrophy.
The USA gun-ownership, gun-usage, and gun-protection laws generated a sense of fear in the population, which in turn created an atomization of society into its small components, and often even splitting the family in a downward spiral of abuse and domestic violence, triumphant under the aggressive family symbol of the gun.
The USA’s governments’ concerted policy geared toward minimizing the fear for real-risks, costly for the administration (like hurricanes), and maximizing the fear for non-existing risks, a non-cost for the administration (like bird-flu), led to severe errors in handling natural recurring calamities, and consequential social disruption.
The USA always accepted the concept of poor, poverty, and the poor, as if it were a conditions dictated by the gods, or a real social necessity. In the logic of the USA administrations, in order to have “rich” people you have to have a compensating amount of “poor” people, so the concept became accepted and fostered, we no efforts made to mitigate, equalize, or eradicate poverty.
The USA governments were unperturbed by the reports of the national media that there actually was real “hunger” in the country, as that concept was traditionally linked with the third world countries of Africa. The presence of soup-kitchens and food-banks (where even military families received assistance) left politicians and economist completely indifferent.
In the USA gradually the concept of “homeless” became accepted and well tolerated, with very little consideration for the negative effect that homelessness has on the individuals and families affected by it, and on society as a whole in terms of dignity and respect. The international credibility of the USA kept declining with the increase of the statistics related to homelessness.
The USA children receive very little respect and very little protection. They are left abandoned to the whimsical desires of their owners, in a status of slave-owner, where all abuses are tolerated and encouraged. Autism, dyslexia, attention deficit disorders, schizophrenia and other social maladies erupted in pandemic fashion in the USA as a result of the neglect or home-schooling of children.
The USA fostered the social aberration of home-schooling, in order to save on public expenditures and reduce taxation, in a misplaced effort to keep the population happy with no services and low taxes. Children became isolated, family relations became strained, dissolution and divorces became endemic, and the traditional social cohesion of the family disintegrated under the pressure from various forms of incest and bestiality.
The USA revealed an obsession with ceremonial irrationality, in the form of public prayers, baptism, funerals, religious weddings, military and civil service burials, etc. The “In god we trust, so help me god, god save the USA” mentality became the escape from all forms of realism, in an official frenzy of demonizing, exorcism, and deliverance from evil.
The USA official accepted philosophy was manichaeism, the constant conflict between good and evil, between heaven and hell, between gods and devils, where the USA was always placed in heaven on the side of the good next to the gods, and everyone else was seen as always being a threat to that illusory privileged position.
The nearly sacred preservation of existing privileges in the USA took precedence over any other issue, even when in visible contrast with democratic principles and egalitarian laws. The concept of entitlement, precedence, and legitimacy was socially divisive and fundamentally unjust, generating and feeding resentment and dissent.
The reliance on the banking system in the USA, as expected to resolve even social conflicts and to solve all problems, was evidenced by the pomp of bank building, resembling churches and cathedrals, with high ceiling and sophisticated bureaucracy. Form over substance, covering up the hollowness of cross-transactions and mutual-investments, was only a time-bomb in a general climate of social disarray.
The USA lacked a system of representation for the working class. Over ninety percent of the people declared themselves as middle-class (republicans or democrats), because the working class did not have a representation neither in congress nor in the senate. The existing political parties in reality only represented the interests of the top twenty percent of the population.
The USA has an infatuation with principles, principle here, principle there, in principle, because of principle, our principles, etc etc, only to hypocritically break any principle as soon as opportunities so suggested. This breaking-principles behavior became actually the national policy, were principles were equally revered and despised, and that policy spread all the way down even to level of the family and of the individual.
The USA had a fundamental inability for dialog. In its primitive Manichaeism, the philosophy of dualism, the two cannot be reconciled, but one of the two has to prevail, win-lose, me-in-you-out, your-death-my-life, and no form of dialog was ever undertaken or understood.
The USA preached within the country and internationally the importance of “the-USA-way-of-life”, which was in essence a life based on exploitation, deceit, and fraudulent behavior. You give, I take. Just me. You do not really need it. Let me do it, I know better. The USA way of life was just purported to give a few USA citizens a better standard life than any other individual, at the expense of everybody else on the planet.
The irrational principle in the USA of trusting the gurus and executives of the financial systems to fix the problems that they themselves had caused or helped to cause. The USA Empire was based on the action of a few financial emperors (banking, oil, insurance) who always maintained the royal principle “After me, the flood”.
Nobody in the USA was ever forced to resign, does not matter how serious or insane their mistakes had been. This tragic fact holds true both for public and private service, for directors, managers, chiefs, bosses, pilots. Of course, the phrase “To the best of my abilities” means very little in terms of competence or qualifications.
USA’s infatuation with beer, pushed by the large alcohol conglomerates, led to its demise. Beer everywhere, in public, in private, a cult, a social necessity, similar to the vodka of the old soviet empire, beer to kids, to pregnant women, to diabetics, to morbidly obese characters. An Empire that was running on beer.
The USA has failed in caring for its colonies, like Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Guam, and similar. Maintaining disintegrated colonies fosters secession and stagnant economies, non-productivity and poverty, that, in the case of the USA, has tainted even mainland USA.
In the USA a more recent massive popular frenzy surrounding tattoos has taken the nation by storm. Tattoos, previously confined to sailors and inmates, has now reached colleges and banks, with consequential visible consequences over the psyche of the population, who lacks self-respect and an even basic sense of dignity.
The USA, in addition to pop soda and childish cartoons, is known for chewing-gum. Everywhere one can see people chewing gum, in offices, in restaurants, in schools, a nation of ruminants, where bodily functions receive more attention than intellectual values.
The general infatuation of the USA with the rite of golf, at all levels of society, reveal the narrow mental ability of the USA nation, where lawyers and bankers, next to truck-drivers and car-mechanics, waste water and time on the silly accomplishment of following a ball into a tin can. Some empires failed even without golfing, but golf definitely contributes to a fast deterioration of any empire.
Gradually mathematics and algebra left the USA. Retaining culture and education is a hard task, and the USA Empire definitely failed on the front of geometry and trigonometry. USA youth has no idea what you talk about when you mention a second-degree equation, or a parable.
Like the collapse of the Boer Empire, the USA’s Bantu-States of American Indians created a formula of internal disintegration, separatism, and racism, which no Empire can survive. The USA Empire could not be an exception to this, as the government fostered the Bantu-State mentality by favoring Indian reservations and vicious gambling.
The failure of the USA to understand the need for a unifying equal national ID, an identification document issued to all persons within the nation so as to ensure transparency and trust, lead to the proliferation of infiltration, sabotage, and secrecy, all Rasputinian factors that swiftly topple empires.
The democratic elections in the USA were a farce, with poor representation, poor participation, and, worst, no secrecy. Having to declare your affiliation in advance of the election is in reality an imperial public poll, and not a popular secret scrutiny.
The total failure of USA military space programs, culminating in tragedies like the Challenger, 1986, and the Columbia, in 2003, just before the end of the Empire, leave irreversible bleeding wounds in the side of an empire, where trust is lost and credibility becomes negative. Megalithic economic, political, and military failures doom an empire.
The USA, like every other imperial power, in trying to tackle an impossible enemy, that actually was no even an enemy, failed militarily and diplomatically, and the protracted war against Afghanistan made it impossible for the USA to survive as an Empire. Only invading and occupying Switzerland would have been more deleterious for the USA.
The USA Empire was led, and misled, by secret societies, without social responsibility and without public conscience: Rotary, Lions, Odd Fellows, Elks, Moose, Free Masons, Skull and Bones, Chebols, Fraternities, Templars, Knights, Friars, Torah, Golden Dragons, Hells Angels, Trusts, Cartels, Monopolies, everything dirty, everything secret, market manipulations and insider deals.
The clownish USA presidential electoral process and the farcical election, often riddled with irregularities, lead often to the nomination of a joker-like executive, that gains very little international respect. Most empires have indeed been led by jokers or eunuchs, with consequential logically expected predictable outcomes.
There is a false belief in the USA of having a separation of powers, while in reality the judicial power is nominated by the executive power and is financed by the legislative power. The judicial is an irrelevant body, rubber-stamping electoral fraud and wrongful warmongering.
In the USA, repeated transfers of wealth from the Government to the banking system caused a contemporaneous transfer of political and decisional power to private financial institutions, weakening the political structure, and making it often ineffective. In Nazi Germany similar transfers of wealth to the private industry complex helped to finance the brutal invasion of neighboring countries.
What does it mean when one says “the USA”? It is the few against the many, the unresolved silent passion for fascism, still present in the USA since the Nineteen-Thirties, the USA nobility-without-nobility, the opportunism and expediency of sacrificing what one believes is true for what one believes is profitable.
The USA chose the individual over society, and even in doing so, it destroyed the individual, without even favoring society. Nothing led to nothing. And now silence will fall once more over the Great Plains, with the buffalo once more slaughtered. And soon the plains will see new life, in the form of red-and-gold dragons vomiting fire and tactical anti-matter weapons, anti-matter weapons that the war-mongering USA itself failed to develop during its own Empire.
The USA Empire is not going to resurrect. The USA will have to undergo a process of reconstruction, starting from the basic social needs of public health, public education, basic housing, and public safety, where public means will have to be raised through sufficient and equalizing taxation to enable the government to meet those public needs.
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We get free childcare and preschool until age 5, we get free education until age 25, we all get free healthcare and free housing, we all agree as a nation not to have children before age 30 (and then only two children per couple), we retire at age 75, and we get free eldercare after age 85.
While working we all get $130,000 per year, and we all pay a flat 40% in income tax: no other taxes apply. And during the course of our work-life, we all commit ourselves to serve 5 years in public service, at full pay, administering and planning together the people’s resources.
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80% have kids, so we have to help them
80% say they believe in a “god”, so we have to help them
80% have pets, so we have to help them
80% drink alcohol, so we have to help them
80% smoke, so we have to help them
80% are under some form of medication, so we have to help them
80% have tattoos, so we have to help them
80% chew chewing gum, so we have to help them
80% wear make-up, so we have to help them
80% watch sports, so we have to help them
80% color their hair, so we have to help them
80% say they have not read a book in the last 12 months, so we have to help them
80% lack the ability to think (they can perceive, and they can recall, but they cannot think independently), so we have to help them
80% have never been abroad and lack therefore any form of worldview, so we have to help them
Well, what’s left is us, “The 20%”, who will take responsibility for the other socially incompetent 80% of the population.
Those 80% need help, and we will help them.
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