The ludicrousness of politics today... as protesters feign opposition to fascism... while demanding more of it... should not escape the awareness of anyone who cares about the proper use of the language... or, you know, the real world impacts of getting it wrong.
Fascism... the origin taken from the fascia binding things together, like muscles... Brittanica: "Benito Mussolini ’s Fascist Party of Italy was named for the fasces, which the members adopted in 1919 as their emblem. The Winged Liberty dime, minted in the United States from 1916 to 1945, depicts the fasces on its reverse side."
It should not be lost on anyone... that the "face of liberty" presented to us in money... is backed by its opposite.
Nor is that aspect of the Janusian cult an issue unique to the thinking of two-faced bankers or politicians of various postured ideological stripes... who if you scratch them... will turn out to have a share in the same bloody backside... as the "globalists" are all "of a feather"... posing differences... but of the same cult and common purpose
The true variation is found in nationalists or populists of varying ideological stripe... who do vary in fact... as truth is, there being ideologues who are true believers, while still not altering any element in the outcome of the play being staged with their participation... it has their belief making them better actors... facilitating our suspension of disbelief.
But, the reality that we're governed by Nazi's now, one and all... in a world of competing Nazi regimes... which you'd think should be noticed... is lost in the misuse and abuse of the language, as the national socialists new crop of shock troops are active again, with only a change in the color or their wardrobe, now posing themselves as the most vociferous in opposing, as Nazi's, all of those who oppose national socialism... and demand individual liberty instead of a forced surrender to the power of the state.
China's CCP... is about as communist now as Hitler was... without there being any language police capable of requiring changing the monikers to keep up... as the focus of systems and management changes its stripes for spots... sustaining only the insistence that, since that's what we require... it is right by definition.
The language has adapted itself in Orwellian ways to avoid the inconvenience of becoming too obvious... so rather than admit to state control of industry, incestuously melded with industry control of politics... still leaving room for a local strong man... with the bankers behind all of it as always... we pretend its all natural in its origin... consensual and cooperative... objections to this "Nazism" being adopted is dismissed by having it simply re-labelled as a wonderful "public-private partnership".
The core element... is that in the misunderstanding of the role of money in the system... There is no real "competition" between capitalism and communism... Capitalism controls our world. But, capitalism, like communism, is an amoral system, that puts material things ahead of everything else... the only quibble between them being... who controls things, in fact. I say it as: "No difference between communists and kings, other than who gets to be king". Capitalists don't care about communism... or free markets... or any ideology... they only care about money... and it being money alone that has the power to make the rules in its own self interest.
"He who has the gold"... has suddenly become relevant again... whether in terms of bitcoin or physical... ? That being an admission made about an error that was embraced, in the limits of power to control... without having some modern magic to mystify, or some ancient talisman (barbarous relic/pet rock) to shake as a symbol of authority ?
In that interest, still, not above structuring a bit of theater to distract the masses from who keeps creating all these problems ? They're happy to foster the illusion of ideological competitions... without them having the potential of changing anything. Note, that is not the same thing as saying nothing ever changes... or that it doesn't matter... only that the more things change the more they stay the same. And that, only with the awareness that volatility and gamma have a relationship... the shifting of things over time being essential to profiting from the options trade... the value not able to be extracted by enabling a trade... and then having the value in the trade lost, or being obviated, by imposing stability within the system.
That interest being real... not a conspiracy theory... isn't an invitation to surrender to it ? The control imposed is real... but the power to impose it is tenuous... dependent both on sustained corruption, and on success in hiding the fact of the corruption... as well as winning its trades, without which corruption fails... in known patterns... and, of course, that necessarily means they have a shared need to avoid those influences being applied against others.
The only real and persistent challenge there has ever been (beyond the internal struggles familiar under monarchy) to the global system of an essentially tribal leadership asserting its span of control as far as it may... whether as kings overtly... or by proxy through vassals, including the expedient of (even unwitting) vassals professing to be communists... or those posing as bankers... is in the idea of free markets. That challenge has had its erstwhile fullest expression, first in the United States, as the true home of its ideological origin (among the indigenous tribes), and its adoption as not only an economic system, but as an ideology and system of government, imbued first with moral belief... and more recently in Hong Kong... at least as full in expression, if not belief.
Free markets are not an economic system... but a moral system, the economic impact of which is seen in enabling freedom in markets... as a consequence of fostering a system based on the virtues of freedom.
The bait and switch applied in the west, today... is to posture capitalism as "the same thing" as free markets... with the deviations from the moral systems enabling our freedoms being labelled as "crony capitalism" in the expectation the excursions will be considered as correctable errors in anomalies... and then still justify the expression of surprise when what the amoral capitalism delivers, in the interest of maximizing its profits, is not freedom, or free markets, but monopoly and control by robber barons, along with ideological conflicts with communists and "national socialists" demanding their freedom back... all of which has been sponsored for purpose...
It's about the gamma. Its about control. |
