Wealth Logjam

The current economic recovery plan does not address the problem and will not cure it. The problem is wealth concentration at the top logjamming economic movement. A massive transfer of wealth is necessary. The log jam is deadlocked. The wealthy will not part with their money to help others, save the nation or even to save their own children. They will cling to their wealth more tenaciosly than to their own lives. Wealth will need to be pried from their cold, dead fingers.

The American people are the most brainwashed people in the world and incapable of grasping reality. They subscribe to the group fantasies and will not consider alternatives. Their nation is the dominant nation, therefore it must be doing something right, they reason.

The US is not likely to recover it's former dominance. That is best for civilization, the world and the US.

Supreme punishment

Since the punishment for destroying the United States is a tongue lashing from members of Congress, shouldn't that be the maximum punishment for all major crimes? I doubt that any financial sector executive ever will mismanage the nation's finances again after that horrible experience. The threat of similar punishment will deter all future murders, grand larceny and other major crimes.

Socialism in the U.S.?

As the United States struggles under another economic collapse, many citizens weigh the possibility of trying Socialism. The latest attempt at Capitalism modified this time by Milton Friedman’s “monetarism” failed disastrously. Taxpayers will pay trillions of dollars to save the primitive and self-destructive system.

Is Socialism an option? Capitalists would argue that Socialism is a failed economic system, and that it leads to dictatorship as it did in the former Soviet Union. Both responses are wrong, illogical and reflect ignorance of Socialism. The biggest question is: “Are Americans evolved enough to live under Socialism?”

Socialism requires a humanitarian and altruism level far above that of most Americans. Americans today function as Social Darwinists driven by the laws of the jungle. U.S. citizens would need several centuries of evolution before they could function successfully as socialists. That higher level could be accelerated if the U.S. suffered some monumental catastrophe and suffering like the two world wars that Europe experienced. Those wars jolted most European nations out of their goon and thug personalities and rendered them more humane. The United Kingdom, formerly Great Britain, missed the brunt of the war and lags in evolution, but is far ahead of the United States that had no attacks on its soil during those wars.

European nations were able to conquer and colonize most of the world because Europeans were more brutal than anyone else. Coming from the Caucuses Mountains in the Middle East and surviving in the cold, cruel, demanding environment of Europe eliminated all but the most brutish souls. Only the meanest of those savages survived and reproduced. When they discovered something new such as Chinese fireworks, their first reaction was “Can I weaponize this and use it to kill more people?” That the U.S. was the only nation sick and twisted enough to use nuclear weapons to incinerate and radiate women, children and babies was in character with Europeans and their descendents. It’s also not surprising that, during the Cold War, the U.S. was prepared to annihilate life on earth. Only a white male who could convince the American public that he was willing to annihilate life on earth could get elected president. In other words, only an insane person could become president of the U.S. from 1945 to 1991. The only reason there is life on earth today is that the Soviet Union never allowed a Ronald Reagan type person to become leader of the Communist Party.

The U.S. finds itself in a state of limbo drawn irresistibly to the animal world of soulless Capitalism with its selfishness, brutality and bloodthirstiness but needing some degree of Socialism and mass cooperation to survive. In addition, Capitalism can survive only if it has a huge army of brutal, bloodthirsty soldiers to invade nations, kill their people and take their valuable resources. The U.S. produces plenty of mindless young men who are willing to give their lives for corporations such as Halliburton, Bechtel and United Fruit Company just for an opportunity to murder someone. Capitalism produces monsters and monsters need a system like Capitalism as an outlet for their animal urges, rages and behaviors.

Jungle brain

People entered this world one of two ways: they evolved from the jungle, or they escaped from the jungle. Unfortunately, the escapees far outnumber those who evolved. The ratio is about nine to one.

The brain of the escapee is controlled by the amygdala. This “jungle brain,” the small almond-sized growth on top of the brain stem, is the first to receive information from the five senses. It is the gatekeeper that controls information flow into the analytical or cognitive sector of the brain.

Jungle instincts, including what we call “gut feelings,” are the result of 600 million years of evolution. They are deeply ingrained and not easily changed. They are the same instincts animals from ants to antelopes have. They generate a powerful urge to form into colonies or herds. They want an alpha leader they can follow obediently and without question. They want a distinct hierarchy and accept their place in it.

Any challenge to the order is considered to be a threat to herd cohesion and the survival of the herd, colony or tribe. Challenges are dealt with harshly. At the human level, these rebels are given labels such as subversives, fifth-columnists or traitors and are deeply reviled. Punishing or even killing them is widely accepted.

Cognitive sector usurpation of the jungle brain information flow function is extremely difficult and rare. Only when that happens can a person have a soul or conscience.

Lessons unlearned in childhood

As young children, most of us learn that doing something wrong or stupid and trying to excuse it by claiming little Mikey or little Ralphy told us to do it does not work with normal parents. Normal parents would challenge that excuse with a question such as “If Mikey told you to jump off a cliff, would you do that?”

George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the rest of that gang would have us believe that their parents accepted the “blame Mikey” excuse. Little Georgy and Dicky claim they tortured people because attorneys told them to do it. What would they have done if the attorneys told them to nuke France?

We badly need a maturity test for our top government executives. Government officials learning childhood moral lessons on the job can be very costly to a nation.