Intermediate conclusion
Over hundred years have passed in analyzing Capitalism as a bastard foster child of religious concepts grafted on society.
Nobody noticed it, especially the ones who fake the opposition. In the meantime, Capitalism was morphing.
Almost Nobody noticed it. It is now over a hundred years that Capitalism has left his religious anchor behind, having no use for it. True, they myth of religious taxonomy still endures in some ordoliberal cohorts, but this is a spin for the masses, which, in fact, always lag behind the current situation and like to think in yesterdays categories, to be on the safe side of history, i.e, to be always losers.
To sum it up. The Onanist capitalism of goods as fetish production and overall market/consumption idolatry has only one goal. To produce goods which produce goods and to make money which makes money.It has to expand endlessly.That is the DOGMA.
As you know, it will stop in 2060, but for other reasons than its inner will for power.
The motto of Onanist Capitalism is simple; buy and buy, work to buy. Do for the sake of Doing. If you do not buy you are guilty of recession, of people loosing jobs , you will loose your job and your pension downgrades in the future.
So, Santa Claus and St Valentine, love for spare change, all saints and gods with some red hearts attached, are there for the goods fetish and Idolatry, buy some love with st valentine, too.
The religion moved from parasiting the capitalism into capitalism turning itself into religion, then into a cult and, then into a cargo cult and finally morphed into spending idolatry because of spending/income/growth, working for work sake of spending and buying. The sake for the sake of it. The last remnants of the morphing are Santa Claus or St. Valentine or similar,Black days of bargains, the forgotten symbols, of whose the past meaning is lost, of the past stages of Onanist Impostor Cockoo Capitalism.
The liberation into Nothing is complete. And Nothing was liberated.
The INFERNAL MACHINE is born.It is diabolical and cunning. Again, the hell is back on earth. With the helping, invisible hand of the masters.
THE HUMAN PROBLEM OF FOUNDATION OF MEANING
This traveling into nothing, from transposing or establishing the meaning of the self and society , first into Gods, then inwards into cult,then into goods fetish/Idolatry and finally into onanist masturbating cult work/spend /tax/debt/ accumulate/ grow endlessly Infernal Machine, ends always in the same place – you will be finished and destitute, if you do not support the organized rat race.
Philosophically this is the quest of foundation of Being.
The foundation and meaning of life.What is Being and how it is denominated or defined. By the Other, by non being, by difference, and still, the true reason , at the end of the day, of the Self is missing. Resolving it into a transcendent outward image projection or projecting it inwards in searching for a foundation, a founding father/mother, a cornerstone, a scientific definition, or whatever.
Well, in budhist approach the Self is like the onion, you peel the slices, cry, and end in nowhere, nothing, the core is missing. Or it is sprouting in the same moment, seemingly from nothing.There is no golden nugget hiding in the center of the onion to show your worth. So, one defines itself in relation to Other. The liberating into Nothing starts there.
It is always arbitrary.
The only solution in human sense of foundation of Being was given by the Slovenian philosopher, Tine Hribar.
The Sanctity of Life is the only possible foundation. There is no Other.
Other is defined by the Sanctity of Being.
And this is, well, in complete contrast with, for ex, the handling of the pandemic. The Onanist Capitalism of risk/benefit foundation of being is a deadly foundation, the risk/ benefit calculus is not a thing to be avoided by the highest degree as would be logical,since you do not normally risk for the risk sake for the risky benefit outcome, in the Onanist capitalism it is mandatory to live according to the various rates of risk/benefit. It is the cost of liberation into nothing. the cornerstone of the Infernal Machine.
if you start with the sanctity of life, you end with completely different risk/benefit situation than if you start with calculating the risk, Risk/ benefit is the calculus of WAR, not Peace. See you in the next war.
We are deep into a last stage of Onanist Capitalism where the system by default has no possible or viable explanation of why it is concocted in this way. The Nihilist system replaced all other excuses why it is such as it is. So, the EXCUSE of a foundation is impossible, and the liberation into nothing is complete.
NOBODY NOTICED, except for a few. Nobody noticed that the Onanist Capitalism has no inherent ground of ANY sort of legitimacy, even when it is as legal as it can be. The system discarded even the metaphysical sources of legitimacy, such as religion, human rights, equality, or whatever common ground, except the fetishizing goods for the sake of goods for which you work to pay your debt.. When turning all concepts into sale as sellable , merchantable, trafficable goods and relaying on construction of the goods as fetish and Idolatry, the system, because of urgent need of making new and new fetishes and adjusting Idolatry ad hoc, relativizing even the liberation into nothing into a merchandise, went puff! PUFF in smoke!
Dear reader, take a pause and have a smoke.
But even this went unnoticed. So, a tiny part of thinking humans are finding now the conclusions about the Capitalist system, which are obsolete more than hundred years ago,this being the case of progressives. Walter Benjamin insight is and was prophetic, but that situation is gone. It morphed.
Nobody noticed?
No, it is that nobody wanted to notice.Especially the “progressives”.
SO, what becomes of the system which is arbitrary? Well, take a trip to hundreds of countries around the globe and check. It is so arbitrary to the extent that you can not even walk safely.
The brain dead progressives, are you ready to walk on the wild side, since that is the place where you get paid for?*
What then is left when the liberation into nothing by default produces the arbitrary system? Murder, that is what is left. Sheer affirmation of power by violence or submission.Arbitrary change of rules, as we see in the pandemic, with the rules of nothing but they are binding your freedom without any result for the community. Social Darwinism and the new idolatry of social darwinism- the herd immunity. You have to be immune or you WILL die, if you do not DIE trying to be immune.
The strong guys win, but to be on the safe side, they win with arms and guns. The social technical darwinism. The fit survive, lets make some eugenetics or eugenics, if you prefer..
They win with the armed Code of Capital. Code of capital is always proprietary, privately owned transaction or a contract which in the Onanist Capitalism includes all spheres of the life on earth.
The prisoners of Zenda, or the catch 22.
The breaking of the global value chains because of the pandemic,showed that the cost of Onanist Nihilist Capitalism is made on the margins. The inflation is the way how to reduce- dissipate in thermodynamics- the spending on a given income, macro speaking. The margins work on a lowest cost margins while the profit moves and grows up while shifting along the value chain. Children work in the coltan mines, soybeans is the way how the Amazon forest is burned down and the profit lies in the hamburger.
Extraction is free, profit is private. The Code of Capital makes the transaction.If the Onanist Capitalism had to pay the full price for the cost of its extraction and production, it will be bankrupt. Ok, it will happen in 2060.
But in this chain, the value is not known, unless it is fetishized and Idolatrized.
Few weeks back, the Authoritarian populist govt of Slovenia made an interesting move in the Idolatry capitalism. It proposed the tax cut by expanding the no tax zone of the people income tax in three years, from 3000 eur no tax to over 6.000 euros of no tax income zone in next three years. Not much but a lot for Slovenia.
It was a sensible move in Fiat Money system, even if, we will see after , Slovenia is not any more a sovereign currency issuer, being hijacked by the Euro Central bank which has other idolatry plans than regulating the Slovenian economy on the Fiat basis.
The hard left, marxist, socialist, the nostalgic characters from the socialist times, the 18th century Capital readers, the obsolete party, together with the local liberal opposition,opposed this tax cuts.
Why this part is inside this metaphysical text? Read further, it is complicated, but real , and WD will try his best dialectic to fit it in.
It is, at the first glance, all about the arbitrary nature of the system. Tax is one.
The populist right has and will have always a logical lead against all which oppose the tax cuts, especially if they concern the no tax zone income tax . People do not want to be taxed so much. The right wing parties can de- tax and the missing money, the possible budget deficit this may provoke, will be “funded” by privatizing anything left to privatize in the Country, cashing in, filling with this sales the budget hole and so keeping on , kicking the can of debt..
Slovenia has already sold almost all to foreign corporations.
That is what all european countries do and it is called neoliberal, or liberal, or the new solution for the 21st century living. Sellout.
If the sales are not enough, they will cut welfare and privatize the pensions, health insurance or any welfare. Like the USA are, since in Europe, health and pensions are not private, they are public in most of the EU countries, funded from the budget where the taxes go in various state funds.
Strangely and this is the game of the neoliberal Onanist capitalism in the version of “ living within your household budget capacity”, for the so called “radical left” in ALL Europe, but especially in a mouse drop Sloveeneetinyia, the only solution in this system is to keep the taxes HIGH even for the poor or blue collar or lower middle class , since this is the broad tax base which keeps the Sate budget full and this money funds the not luxurious welfare, so, they had to say, NO, we do not want to lower the taxes!
Because, the States on the global margin, even if successful, have a tight margin for living, in this Global arbitrary game, propped up with gun on your head and financial debt sharks poking into your rear.
But, by saying no to lower taxes and thus to keep low the net living standard today, and who gives a shit for tomorrow in a Fiat Money system, but they are living in 18th century mindset, by saying no, they are the best keepers of the global obedience order one can find!
They agree to be exploited for less. In order to keep some welfare.
They have to be more productive for earning lower wages. This is the push of the system to the lowest denominator. Through the whole global chain. The profit is untouched and flows in the hands of foreign corporations and banks which control the market.the taxes stay.
But the price is set on the margins and so is the cost. The margins of this Onanist Capitalism is not Slovenia, the ladder of global chain goes more down, to other parts of the world and this lowest parts compete for lower wages and set the margin price even in Slovenia.
So, by taxing the engineers too much and too high , doctors or nurses or many skilled professionals or small enterprises or self employed, or the many IT software ,algo freaks, young and schooled people in startup firms, they make them flee to the places more on top of the global value chain ladder or make them sell their startups to corporations at the very first opportunity, corporations do not pay taxes in Slovenia!
They can not escape the system if they think in the boundaries of the system! The populist can, they privatize and who cares, the system changes and they will find some other way to win the hearts and minds with any bollocks of fetish or idolatry.
The left is de facto worthless in this scheme of things. They are working for the Global Onanist Capitalism. So is Piketty.
They, by tax egalitarianism make people flee or make the Slovenian industry, as it is, the place of cheap not very or medium skilled labor place on the ladder value chain, which is medium productive in order to export a lot, and high taxed. It is the choice of intensive labor manufacture which is always in danger of being eaten by some third world manufacture, any time.
But the top ladder Germany loves this hard working people personally tax burdened ,as they make good exports and good sacrifice, And so they spin the living within your means spin of Nihilist Capitalism, the sake for the sake fetish factory of the brain dead.
They, the masters have a inward proof of what is life. It is taxes and living within your means, If not, privatize, and live even more poorly.
The profit moves up the ladder, the debt down.
on February 3rd, at 22.20 minutes into the evening news, the Leader of the Levica hard left hardliners was confronting himself with a right wing christian democrat. Dear reader, the definition of the opposed parties, like hard left and right wing are purely arbitrary, as will follow:
The Luka Mesec, the leader of the “left” of whom the biggest fan and supporter of the stalinist communism or whatever goes ,is the famous Slo philosopher Slavoj Zizek, who is busy networking in the global left think whatever. This left leader vehemently at the 22.20h in the evening news declared that never never, the money never grows on trees! There is no magic money tree , there is no FIAT MONEY. Both politicians were vigorously ( with force and energy- Merriam Webster dictionary) nodding their heads after this “historic discovery“ of the local cult .
As we, the stupid, all know, after the Bank of England, the Bundesbank officially declared the opposite, that the money comes out of thin air, so in the central banking as in the private banking, which Richard Werner proved even by a meticolous ( marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details- Merriam Webster) experiment of follow the money through the bank bookkeeping and double bookkeeping . The fiat origin of money in Idolatry Capitalism was proved by Steeve Keen, Marco Saba- forensic accountant, Bill Mitchell, Ellen Brown, and many many others in the last decades.
So they denied themselves an exit from the Dogma, when this Dogma was proved false by the big shots and even the local virus knows how it works.. Ergo, they are followers of the Cult Dogma by denying the black heart of the dogma and by doing this, are liberated into Nothing.
Witchdoctor personally has a pity of the “christian” politician, who seems from his talking to have never read thoroughly the gospels, and GOD FORBID, the best author in researching the grafting of religion onto capitalism and the betrayal, hijacking and acting as the impostor of Not only the spirit, but the words of Gospel, the economist Luigino Bruni.
AND what about crypto currencies? The hard left and the mirror right vigorously nod their heads, money does not grow on trees, but, hmm, Bitcoin and other fiat crypto, where they come from? Strange, they are even quoted and can be exchanged for some slovenian politician, definitely. Witchlady says they grow on internet, that is why they do not grow on a tree. Sounds logical, they usually grow out from electricity. The progressives have not yet noticed it , as they have not noticed Nothing, even not the Fiat Elephant Money Making on the top of the Dogma.
They, by denying even the foundation of Dogma- the Fiat Money-the magic money tree- are not able to propose even a solid escape route,a change of operating system,or even the adjustment of the cult idolatry, as Witchdoctor writes here for x+ years, like, for start,the Certificates of Fiscal Credit as the new legal fiat source of income. Or to turn the subsidizing of the private markets and manufacturers by establishing through a public bank a virtual share in the private property instead of subsidy (which is paid by budget deficit- debt and debt bonds issuance which burden even more the economy) with no decision right but in doing so, make public assets grow and build the Public capital with which they can fund the TAX CUTS, WELFARE AND PENSIONS without using the constant debt and growth catastrophe.
BUT, NO! The peripheral , semi peripheral States on the middle of the capital chain of value ladder and its “revolutionaries “, the marx (fortunately not the Marx brothers) followers of whatever, together with their brothers in arms of all sides, still claim that the money is not growing on trees and that taxes come before spending and not the opposite. They have not noted yet that spending is made by the definition of what budget plans are and according to this the amount of taxes are collected, excluding or calculating on top the debt issuance! They even want to sit in the next govt majority after April elections!
What about the Greens? Who knows, they are silent, the best tactics for the end of the world, and also for joining the rulers.
By the way. The Cult Religion of Debt is condensed in one sentence: WE CAN NOT AFFORD IT. So, last news Germany is cutting its green program of insulating the houses, new solar panels on roofs, etc, and making them more energy saving, by 20 billion euros. THEY CAN NOT AFFORD IT!
When a ruling class says we can not afford it, they mean you can not.
But there is the underlying cult concept under the “we can not afford it”. It is called Sacrifice. Like, i sacrificed my life plan, I could not afford it.
So, a Sacrifice is mandatory, but on the other hand one needs to Grow.
Growing by Sacrifice. Sacrifice now, to Grow later ans by doing this, pay your Debt to the Cult.
Do you believe in greenwashing? You do not need to, there isn´t any.
If you think that putting electric batteries in your car you are green washing, forget it. You are not, you are only putting batteries in your car, so what? To use green washing as a concept you need to wash something first but, do you see the Cult underwear laundry drying on wires?
Green new deal? Where have you heard such an idiocy, look at the liberal- left- green German govt. They can not afford it!
As you may know, one of the Gatekeepers of the Onanist Capitalism dogma and faith (into nothing worth keeping in mind), the OECD, is warning the club of onanists that many welfare policies are unsustainable.THEY CAN NOT AFFORD IT. They have to make Sacrifices! So, a warning for Slovenia was issued and the local Gatekeepers of the faith already bowed their pensive butts.The pension retirement public fund is going into default according to the Dogma keepers.. The pensions have to be postponed- work till you drop dead- and we have to work much longer- drop dead.
Now, in this Dogma of taxing no one tried to make a simple math.The blindly follow the Cult. As you know in this Dogma onanist Capitalism you have to grow more than the interest on debt, forever and ever,more than inflation and interest together, you have to grow in demographics, too, if you want the whole Growth DOGMA CULT to be fulfilled.
In Slovenia, very roughly but one does not need more for this simple math, there are 1 million working and 1 million not working or retired, This is a bad ratio, if you want to cover all this population with taxation and pay the welfare and pensions.. So, imagine;
IN the NEXT 20 years there has to be a working part of the population bigger than 2 millions to support the next 1,5 million retired or not working, even if they are on the lowest welfare possible. So from 20 to 40 years from now, Slovenia has to have 3,5 million of people , now it is 2 million. But the story gets even more hilarious, To sustain this pretty lousy ratio forced upon Slovenia, after 40 years the population HAS TO DOUBLE! 6 millions minimum, on 20.000 square km, all Slovanian today famous woods chopped down. From 1 current to 6 new nuclear energy plants. Why 6 Nuke enrgy plants? Shut up you know you need to grow up more. Not enough water for all. No place to grow food for such a number of population,. No self sufficiency at all in food, water,enrgy, protein. The forming of the first Slovenian mega slums…
Huge consumption of soil in cities and infrastructure. Hundreds of thousand of migrants from the climate crash pressing to enter on the borders. Tornadoes, torrential rains and months of drought, one nuclear plant meltdown and radiation very likely….
That is the OECD plan. In forcing taxation which is unsustainable, the DOGMA onanist capitalism is forcing the current economic model which results in population boom, depletion of resources and overall famine and poverty.
Fortunately the pandemic is speedily eliminating the old folks and so, maybe the number of population needed for the OECD growth may be lower!
This is the math result if you want to “live within your means ” in the Sacrifice in Debt driven Dogma Capitalism. Because all is included,in the Idolatry, the goods as fetish and the core Dogma of Growth and Debt and Taxation.
Isn¨t it strange how this cult dogma is leading to the worst possible scenario? Nahh ,It is not, that is “the liberation into nothing” of frenzy.
Fortunately in 2060 this INFERNAL MACHINE will end in a garbage trash.
A nihilist will of power and profit with its dogma and the cult of debt money and constant growth to pay the unpayable.The Onanist Capitalism.
Nothing else.
They are all in it. WD told you so, years ago. They are broken mirrors facing broken mirrors in a game of shadows. Impostors in space and time.
Oh Merciful God, tell Witchdoctor : from where this people who claim this things pop out continuously, please explain him only this mystery, nothing else.Where is the core possibility or a foundation of this bollocks in their heads?
Hm, God said; they do not think,son.
What then they do, asked WD, they sound logical in strange way even when what they say is completely mad?
They, said God, , sorry, I have no clue, too.
To be continued? Like, what the f..ck is work, really = Mining Bitcoins under the Coconut or digging the holes?
Do Robots dream of paying the Taxes?
Will the AI waterboard us or will it work for us and pay Witchdoctor taxes?
When this people will leave with one way ticket to Mars and preach the Cult to the local Virus population? Shall we crowd fund their tickets?
To be continued….