THEY DONT GET IT

I DONT THINK THE GENERAL PUBLIC — CERTAINLY NOT THE RIGHTWING REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE UNITED STATES — GETS IT. I DONT THNK THEY REALIZE THAT, AS WE SAW IN 1989 WITH THE MORE OR LESS DISSOLUTION OF COMMUNIST STATES, WE ARE SEEING THE END OF A PERIOD IN HUMAN HISTORY WHEN FREEMARKET CAPITALISM, WHICH DEVOLVED INTO CORPORATE RULE, IS ENDING.  


SOMETHING ELSE IS GOING TO HAVE TO COME ALONG TO REPLACE IT. THE OBVIOUS CANDIDATE IS NOT A RETURN TO COMMUNISM. I THINK COMMUNISM DIED FOR REASONS, JUST AS CAPITALISM AS A CENTRAL TENET OF SOCALLED DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES IS DYING FOR REASONS. BUT SOCIAL DEMOCRACY, WHERE GOVERNMENTS DO NOT TAKE CARE OF THE NEEDS OF BUSINESS, WHERE GOVERNMENTS ARE ALMOST ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE FOR TAKING CARE OF CITIZENS — INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE — IS THE LIKELY OUTCOME. IT WOULD CERTAINLY BE A BETTER SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF FOSTERING A JUST AND EQUITABLE HUMAN SOCIETY ON EARTH THAN WHAT WE HAVE HAD FOR THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS — AND ESPECIALLY THE LAST THIRTY YEARS.


DONT EXPECT THIS PERIOD OF FINANCIAL AND SOCIAL CRISIS TO EASE ANYTIME SOON — AT LEAST NOT UNTIL THE COMBAT HAS MOVED AWAY FROM PROTECTING PRIVILEGE TOWARD A GENUINE RESTRUCTURING OF EXPECTATIONS THAT FOSTERS A MORE EQUITABLE AND BENEVOLENT SOCIAL ORDER. THE ONLY FORCE AVAILABLE IN THE WORLD TODAY THAT CAN MOVE TO EASE HUMAN POPULATION EXPANSION AND THE CORRUPTION OF THE PHYSICAL PLANET IN TIME TO SAVE HUMANITY IS A STRONGER AND MORE CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT. AS DANGEROUS AS THAT MAY PROVE TO BE, WE ARE JUST COLLECTIVELY NOT YET KIND ENOUGH AND EMPATHETIC ENOUGH TO VOLUNTARILY SAVE OUR SPECIES AND OUR HOST WITHOUT AN ELEMENT OF COMPULSION. SO SORRY.