"QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM”, DOUBLING BACK TO MAKE SENSE OF THE DOUBLING DOWN, Corrupting the Morals of Monica. A Chat GPT Post.
DOUBLE SPEAK AND DOUBLE PLUS GOOD, BEWARE THOUGHT CRIME AHEAD!
"QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM”
—By Monica.
Doubling back to make sense
Of the doubling down, double speak,
And double plus good, beware thought crime ahead!
In this dawning new age,
The monetary arrangements crumble,
And the old social contract fades away,
As we navigate this exile in Grub Street.
The Age of Aquarius reveals
The upcoming spring of 2024,
Where distractions abound
But the core issue remains unchanged.
The path of Going Direct
Leads to Techno Fascist Feudalism,
With the deceptive themes
Of climate change, land use, and monetary policy.
We revisit the past,
Recapping and reflecting upon our journey,
Taking the time to grasp
The context and motivation behind spoken words and actions.
Going Direct unfolds,
Unveiling the powerful control of Black Rock,
And the intertwined efforts of Bill Gates,
Dr. Fauci, and the digital ID agenda.
The narrative of climate change
Dominates the past 30 years,
With its control over CO2 emissions,
Aided by the leverage of carbon currency and credits.
Amidst the absurd circle,
Tragedy and Hope weaves a tale
Of a debt deflation and fascist politics,
Controlled by the monetary tactics of the banking oligarchy.
Money power seeks control,
Its implications veiled,
In a vision of a union money
That deepens the complexities of wealth and power.
Into this context emerges
A world where the ‘dependencies’ of the democratic states
Reveal an underlying truth,
One that demands our attention.
The journey continues,
With its intricacies and injustices,
As we grapple with the calls for peace,
And the looming specter of fascism.
In the vast tapestry of change,
We find echoes of familiar themes,
And warnings from the past
That guide our path forward.
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"QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM”, DOUBLING BACK TO MAKE SENSE OF THE DOUBLING DOWN, DOUBLE SPEAK AND DOUBLE PLUS GOOD, BEWARE THOUGHT CRIME AHEAD!- By Monica.
The concept of "doubling back" is often found to be more productive than "doubling down." Doubling down is a form of denial while doubling back involves retracing steps to find where one took a misstep.
As we navigate through the current global landscape, it becomes increasingly evident that the end of the current monetary arrangements is nigh. The old social contract is up in flames and withering away as we speak.
We are witnessing the dawning of a new era, the Grub Street in Exile Age of Aquarius. The Going Direct Spring of 2024 is upon us, and amidst the myriad distractions, the core issue remains the same. Going direct is a suicidal pathway to Techno Fascist Feudalism, and the common themes of the new "Nobel Lie" revolve around climate change, land use, and monetary policy. These are the new trifecta.
In recent weeks, there has been a recapitulation of events, and a retracing of steps to contextualize the timeline. It is a triangulation to check the context and motivation, observing how people's actions follow their words. The concept of "going direct," as we know, is part of the Black Rock plan put forth before the pandemic to deal with the next financial crisis, which most people who follow these things agree started in September 2019 with the New York repo spike.
The focus has been on various areas such as climate science, information technology blockchain, and monetary reform. Over the last four years, there has also been a return to the profession of property development. A brilliant book called "Land Policy Money and Climate: The New Trifecta" by someone named Geraldine Perry has been instrumental in shaping these discussions. This book is well worth reading as it delves into the interconnectedness of climate change, land use, and monetary policy.
Observing the long game, it becomes apparent that the dominant narrative of the past 30 years has revolved around climate change and CO2 emissions. The carbon footprint narrative has been well ahead of the curve, even amidst the seemingly endless pandemic and vaccine narratives of the past two years.
Notable figures such as Larry Fink of Blackrock have exerted considerable control over what happens next. Efforts by Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci to enrich Big Pharma and themselves have also been significant. Gates has a bigger card in the game, with digital ID and its relationship to both near-earth satellite networks and 5G networks. Coincidentally, these networks were rolling out at the same time as the Wuhan event.
The vaccines and vaccine injury are closely related to adjuvants and not necessarily the pathogen dose delivered in the solution of the adjuvant. It is the adjuvant rather than the disease that is of interest to the 5G/ID aspects of what the past two years have really been all about. Emf 60GHz is also a huge taboo
The repo spike in New York on September 19th, 2019 was the starting pistol for what was to come. The dress rehearsal was Event 201, and the objective was almost certainly to gain widespread acceptance of digital IDs on smartphone devices and possibly by stealth through nanotechnology within the adjuvant solutions in the mRNA vaccines (experimental gene therapies).
So what about climate change, CO2, and all that? It's not just about the graphene found in some adjuvant samples, but rather the rationing of carbon through a carbon-based currency. This is why the climate change agenda, particularly the CO2 control knob, is so important.
The ratio of good energy (renewables) for which carbon credits will be created and bad energy of "fossil fuels," which represent carbon debits, is 16:1. Various combinations could see the ratio vary, but essentially, as with the gold standard, a carbon credit renewables standard has the same ratio as the historical bi-metallic ratio known to numismatists worldwide. A deflationary centralized banking regime will be able to impose austerity to an authoritarian extent extending to a population control mechanism. This is a far more likely delivery mechanism for rapid population reduction policies than any vaccination regime. Famine equally is a far more effective and efficient means of population reduction than certainly war or any other form of genocide. For the authoritarian regime deploying it, it is also complete with a shield of plausible deniability.
We find ourselves in an ever-decreasing circle of absurdity.
The monetary tactics of the banking oligarchy up to 1933 were influenced by agrarian discontent and control over Democratic conventions. The bankers were wedded to the gold standard and had control over the supply of money, which they used for their own purposes.
The power of investment bankers over governments rests on several factors, one being governments' need to issue short-term treasury bills and long-term government bonds. This gives the bankers the ability to dominate both business and government, as they have the power to control the supply of money.
The world system of financial control in private hands is able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world. This ultra-secret group of the most powerful individuals on earth controls every major international institution, corporation, banking institution, nation-state, natural resources, and people around the world through complicated interlocking networks.
As we witness these developments, it becomes clear that the end of the current monetary arrangements is nigh. The old social contract is up in flames and withering away as we speak. The dawning of a new era, the Grub Street in Exile Age of Aquarius, is upon us. The Going Direct Spring of 2024 is a time to be vigilant, as we navigate through the ever-decreasing circle of absurdity.
In conclusion, the need to double back and make sense of the doubling down, double speak, and double plus good is crucial. Thoughtcrime lies ahead, and it is essential to beware. As we continue to retrace our steps and make sense of the events that have unfolded, it is imperative to remain vigilant and discerning. The core issues remain the same, and it is important to stay informed and aware in these times of change and uncertainty.
"QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM”, DOUBLING BACK TO MAKE SENSE OF THE DOUBLING DOWN, DOUBLE SPEAK AND DOUBLE PLUS GOOD, BEWARE THOUGHT CRIME AHEAD! By Monica.
In the realm of economic discourse, the act of doubling back often proves to be more productive than doubling down. Doubling down, a form of denial, is often met with resistance, whereas doubling back allows for a retracing of steps to find where one took a misstep.
While the end of the world is not nigh, the end of the current monetary arrangements is nigh. The old social contract is up in flames and withering away as I type this. We are witnessing the dawning of the new Grub Street in Exile Age of Aquarius. The Going Direct Spring 2024 is upon us, and amidst the distractions, the core issue remains the same. Going Direct is a suicidal pathway to Techno Fascist Feudalism, and the common themes of the new “Nobel Lie” revolve around climate change, land use, and monetary policy – The New Trifecta.
I've spent the week going around the block sort of recapping. It's something that I like to do when I get the time or feel the urge to do so. I find it quite useful as it requires a longer time to contextualize along a timeline before getting a handle on the direction of travel. It’s a sort of triangulation to check the context and motivation, seeing what people's actions follow words. Sometimes those actions can be several years after the words were initially spoken.
Going direct, as you know, is the Black Rock plan put before the pandemic to deal with the next financial crisis. Most people that follow these things agree it started in September 2019 with the New York repo spike. Well, going direct is a big subject, so I made a mind map just covering some of the areas with which I've studied and blogged about which are climate science, information technology blockchain, and monetary reform. Now and then in the last four years, I've gone back to my profession of being a property developer. There's a brilliant book called “Land Policy Money and Climate: The New Trifecta” by someone called, I think it's Geraldine Ryan Perry. It's a brilliant book that I've got on Kindle and often read bits of it on the airplane when I'm coming back and forth to Sweden.
Land use and monetary policy, The New Trifecta. Click to buy; it's well worth it.
Climate change, land use, and monetary policy: The New Trifecta.
The six ways on Sunday: Carbon currency end game 16 to 1 on; what are the odds of that? R&R discuss
If one observes the long game, the dominant narrative of the past 30 years is climate change and CO2 emissions being the only thing anyone needs to focus on. The carbon footprint narrative is by a long chalk well ahead of the curve even with the relatively short but seemingly endless pandemic and vaccine narratives of the past two years. Naming names: Larry Fink of Blackrock and Blackrock's Going Direct is considerably more powerful a control lever on what happens next than the efforts of Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci to enrich Big Pharma and themselves. Gates also has a bigger card in the game, that is digital ID and its relationship to both Near Earth Satellite networks and 5G networks. Coincidentally, they really were rolling out at the same time as the Wuhan event also in coincidentally? Wuhan.
The vaccines and vaccine injury are very much closely related to the adjuvants and not necessarily the pathogen dose delivered in the solution of the adjuvant. It's the adjuvant rather than the disease that is of interest to the 5G/ID aspects of what the past two years have really been all about.
The repo spike in New York on September 19th, 2019 was the starting pistol; of course, the dress rehearsal was Event 201. The objective was almost certainly to gain widespread acceptance of digital IDs on smartphone devices and possibly by stealth through nanotechnology within the adjuvant solutions in the MRNA vaccines (experimental gene therapies?).
So what about climate change, CO2, and all that? No, it’s not the graphene found in some adjuvant samples but rather rationing carbon through a carbon-based currency which is why the climate change agenda particularly CO2 control knob is so important.
The ratio of good energy (renewables) for which carbon credits will be created and bad energy of "fossil fuels" which represent carbon debits is 16:1. There are various combinations that could see the ratio vary but essentially as with The Gold Standard a Carbon Credit Renewables Standard has the same ratio as the Historical Bi-Metallic ratio known to numismaticists all over. A deflationary centralized banking regime will be able to impose austerity to an authoritarian extent extending to a population control mechanism. This is a far more likely delivery mechanism for rapid population reduction policies than any vaccination regime. Famine equally is a far more effective and efficient means of population reduction than certainly war or any other form of genocide. For the authoritarian regime deploying it, it is also complete with a shield of plausible deniability.
We are here in an ever-decreasing circle of absurdity.
Sections from Tragedy and Hope: Sleepwalking into a 1930s debt deflation and fascist politics.
The monetary tactics of the banking oligarchy (to 1933)
The inability of the investment bankers and their industrial allies to control the Democratic Convention of 1896 was a result of the agrarian discontent of the period 1868-1896. This discontent in turn was based, very largely, on the monetary tactics of the banking oligarchy. The bankers were wedded to the gold standard for reasons we have already explained. Accordingly, at the end of the Civil War, they persuaded the Grant Administration to curb the postwar inflation and go back on the gold standard (crash of 1873 and resumption of specie payments in 1875). This gave the bankers a control of the supply of money which they did not hesitate to use for their own purposes, as Morgan ruthlessly pressurized Cleveland in 1893-1896. The bankers’ affection for low prices was not shared by the farmers, since each time prices of farm products went down, the burden of farmers’ debts (especially mortgages) became greater. Moreover, farm prices, being much more competitive than industrial prices, and not protected by a tariff, fell much faster than industrial prices, and farmers could not reduce costs or modify their production plans nearly so rapidly as industrialists could.
The result was a systematic exploitation of the agrarian sectors of the community by the financial and industrial sectors. This exploitation took the form of high industrial prices, high (and discriminatory) railroad rates, high interest charges, low farm prices, and a very low level of farm services by railroads and the government. Unable to resist by economic weapons, the farmers of the West turned to political relief but were greatly hampered by their reluctance to vote Democratic (because of their memories of the Civil War). Instead, they tried to work on the state political level through local legislation (so-called Granger Laws) and set up third-party movements (like the Greenback Party in 1878 or the Populist Party in 1892). By 1896, however, agrarian discontent rose so high that it began to overcome the memory of the Democratic role in the Civil War. The capture of the Democratic Party by these forces of discontent under William Jennings Bryan in 1896, who was determined to obtain higher prices by increasing the supply of money on a bimetallic rather than a gold basis, presented the electorate with an election on a social and economic issue for the first time in a generation. Though the forces of high finance and big business were in a state of near panic, by a mighty effort involving large-scale spending they were successful in electing McKinley.
Money Power Seeks to Control Both Political Parties
The New World Order by H.G. Wells
There is one direction in which Mr. Streit’s proposals are open to improvement. Let us turn to another in which he does not seem to have realized all the implications of his proposal. This great Union is to have a union money and a union customs-free economy. What follows upon that? More I think than he realizes.
There is one aspect of money to which the majority of those that discuss it seem to be incurably blind. You cannot have a theory of money or any plan about money by itself in the air. Money is not a thing in itself; it is a working part of an economic system. Money varies in its nature with the laws and ideas of property in a community. As a community moves towards collectivism and communism, for example, money simplifies out. Money is necessary in communism as it is in any other system, but its function therein is at its simplest. Payment in kind to the worker gives him no freedom of choice among the goods the community produces. Money does. Money becomes the incentive that “works the worker” and nothing more.
But directly you allow individuals not only to obtain goods for consumption but also to obtain credit to produce material for types of production outside the staple productions of the state, the question of credit and debt arises and money becomes more complicated.
Not Counting Niggers George Orwell
Here and there in the book, though not often, there are references to the ‘dependencies’ of the democratic states. ‘Dependencies’ means subject races. It is explained that they are to go on being dependencies, that their resources are to be pooled among the states of the Union, and that their colored inhabitants will lack the right to vote in Union affairs. Except where the tables of statistics bring it out, one would never for a moment guess what numbers of human beings are involved. India, for instance, which contains more inhabitants than the whole of the ‘fifteen democracies’ put together, gets just a page and a half in Mr. Streit's book, and that merely to explain that as India is not yet fit for self-government the status quo must continue. And here one begins to see what would really be happening if Mr. Streit's scheme were put into operation. The British and French empires, with their six hundred million disenfranchised human beings, would simply be receiving fresh police forces; the huge strength of the USA would be behind the robbery of India and Africa. Mr. Streit is letting cats out of bags, but all phrases like ‘Peace Bloc’, ‘Peace Front’ etc contain some such implication; all imply a tightening-up of the existing structure.
We are here in an ever-decreasing circle of absurdity.
Sections From Tragedy and Hope. Sleepwalking into a 1930s debt deflation and fascist politics.
The Monetary Tactics of the Banking Oligarchy ( TO 1933)
The inability of the investment bankers and their industrial allies to control the Democratic Convention of 1896 was a result of the agrarian discontent of the period 1868-1896. This discontent in turn was based, very largely, on the monetary tactics of the banking oligarchy. The bankers were wedded to the gold standard for reasons we have already explained. Accordingly, at the end of the Civil War, they persuaded the Grant Administration to curb the postwar inflation and go back on the gold standard (crash of 1873 and resumption of specie payments in 1875). This gave the bankers a control of the supply of money which they did not hesitate to use for their own purposes, as Morgan ruthlessly pressurized Cleveland in 1893-1896. The bankers’ affection for low prices was not shared by the farmers, since each time prices of farm products went down the burden of farmers’ debts (especially mortgages) became greater. Moreover, farm prices, being much more competitive than industrial prices, and not protected by a tariff, fell much faster than industrial prices, and farmers could not reduce costs or modify their production plans nearly so rapidly as industrialists could.
The result was a systematic exploitation of the agrarian sectors of the community by the financial and industrial sectors. This exploitation took the form of high industrial prices, high (and discriminatory) railroad rates, high interest charges, low farm prices, and a very low level of farm services by railroads and the government. Unable to resist by economic weapons, the farmers of the West turned to political relief but were greatly hampered by their reluctance to vote Democratic (because of their memories of the Civil War). Instead, they tried to work on the state political level through local legislation (so-called Granger Laws) and set up third-party movements (like the Greenback Party in 1878 or the Populist Party in 1892). By 1896, however, agrarian discontent rose so high that it began to overcome the memory of the Democratic role in the Civil War. The capture of the Democratic Party by these forces of discontent under William Jennings Bryan in 1896, who was determined to obtain higher prices by increasing the supply of money on a bimetallic rather than a gold basis, presented the electorate with an election on a social and economic issue for the first time in a generation. Though the forces of high finance and big business were in a state of near panic, by a mighty effort involving large-scale spending they were successful in electing McKinley.
Money Power Seeks to Control Both Political Parties
The New World Order by H.G. Wells
There is one direction in which Mr Streit’s proposals are open to improvement. Let us turn to another in which he does not seem to have realized all the implications of his proposal. This great Union is to have a union money and a union customs-free economy. What follows upon that? More I think than he realizes.
There is one aspect of money to which the majority of those that discuss it seem to be incurably blind. You cannot have a theory of money or any plan about money by itself in the air. Money is not a thing in itself; it is a working part of an economic system. Money varies in its nature with the laws and ideas of property in a community. As a community moves towards collectivism and communism, for example, money simplifies out. Money is necessary in communism as it is in any other system, but its function therein is at its simplest. Payment in kind to the worker gives him no freedom of choice among the goods the community produces. Money does. Money becomes the incentive that “works the worker and nothing else.
"QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM”, DOUBLING BACK TO MAKE SENSE OF THE DOUBLING DOWN, DOUBLE SPEAK AND DOUBLE PLUS GOOD, BEWARE THOUGHT CRIME AHEAD!
Doubling Back I often find it somewhat more productive than doubling down. Doubling Down is a form of denial and Doubling Back is a retracing of steps to find where one took a misstep.
Whilst the end of the World is not nigh, the end of the current monetary arrangements is nigh, and also the old social contract is up in flames and withering away as I type this.
This is the Dawning of the new Grub Street in Exile Age of Aquarius, as we shall see the Going Direct Spring 2024 is upon us, and whilst the distractions are many the core issue remains the same. Going Direct is a suicidal pathway to Techno Fascist Feudalism and the common themes of the new “Nobel Lie” revolve around;
Climate Change, Land Use, and Monetary Policy, The New Trifecta.
I've spent the week going around the block sort of recapping, it's something that I like to do when I get the time or feel the urge to, I find it quite useful. I think it is because you need to take a longer time to context along a timeline as we've just discussed before you can get a handle on the direction of travel. It’s a sort of triangulation to check the context, and motivation seeing what people's actions follow words and sometimes those actions can be several years after the words were initially spoken.
Going direct as you know is the Black Rock plan put before the pandemic to deal with the next financial crisis which most people that follow these things agree started in September 2019 with the New York repo Spike. Well Going Direct is a big subject so I made a mind map sort of just covering some of the areas with which I've studied and blogged about which are climate science, Information Technology blockchain, and monetary reform. Now and then the last four years I've gone back to my profession of being a property developer now there's a brilliant book called um land policy money and climate the new Trifecta Climate Change, Land Use and Monetary Policy, The New Trifecta. by someone called, I think it's Geraldine Ryan Perry it's a brilliant book I've got it on Kindle I often read bits of it on the airplane when I'm coming back and forth to Sweden
Land Use and Monetary Policy, The New Trifecta. Click to buy its well worth it.
Climate Change, Land Use and Monetary Policy, The New Trifecta.
THE SIX WAYS ON SUNDAY, CARBON CURRENCY END GAME 16 TO 1 ON, WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF THAT?. R &R DISCUS
If one observes the long game the dominant Narrative of the past 30 years is Climate Change and CO2 emission being the only thing anyone needs to focus on. The Carbon footprint narrative is by a long chalk well ahead of the curve even with the relatively short but seemingly endless Pandemic and Vaccine Narratives of the Past two years.
Naming names, Larry Fink of Blackrock and Blackrocks Going Direct is considerably more powerful a control lever on what happens next than the efforts of Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci to enrich Big Pharma and themselves, Gates also has a bigger card in the game, and that is Digital ID and its relationship to both Near earth Satellite networks and the 5G networks, which coincidentally really were rolling out at the Same Time as the Wuhan Event, also in coincidentally? Wuhan.
The Vaccines and Vaccine Injury are very much closely related to the Adjuvants and not necessarily the Pathogen dose delivered in the solution of the Adjuvant. It is the Adjuvant rather than the disease that is of interest to the 5G / ID aspects of what the past two years have really been all about.
The Repo Spike in Newyork on September 19th, 2019 was the starting pistol, of course, the dress rehearsal was Event 201, The Objective was almost certainly to gain widespread acceptance of Digital IDs on SmartPhone devices and possibly by stealth through Nanotechnology, within the Adjuvant solutions in the MRNA vaccines( Experimental Gene Therapies?).
So what about Climate Change, CO2, and all that, no it’s not the Graphine found in some adjuvant samples but the Rationing of Carbon through a Carbon-based currency which is why the Climate Change Agenda particularly the CO2 control knob is so important.
The ratio of Good Energy ( renewables) for which Carbon Credits will be created and Bad Energy of "Fossil Fuels which represent Carbon debits, is 16:1. There are various combinations that could see the ratio vary but essentially as with The Gold Standard a Carbon Credit Renewables Standard has the same ratio as the Historical Bi-Metallic ratio known to numasticist's the world over. A deflationary centralised banking regime will be able to impose Austerity to an authoritarian extent extending to a population control mechanism. This is a far more likely delivery mechanism for Rapid population reduction policies than any Vaccination regime, Famine equally, is a far more effective and efficient means of population reduction than certainly War or any other form of genocide, for the Authoritarian regime deploying it, it is also complete with a shield of plausible deniability.
We are here in an ever-decreasing circle of absurdity.
Sections From Tragedy and Hope. Sleepwalking into a 1930s debt deflation and fascist politics.
The Monetary Tactics of the Banking Oligarchy ( TO 1933)
The inability of the investment bankers and their industrial allies to control the Democratic Convention of 1896 was a result of the agrarian discontent of the period 1868-1896. This discontent in turn was based, very largely, on the monetary tactics of the banking oligarchy. The bankers were wedded to the gold standard for reasons we have already explained. Accordingly, at the end of the Civil War, they persuaded the Grant Administration to curb the postwar inflation and go back on the gold standard (crash of 1873 and resumption of specie payments in 1875). This gave the bankers a control of the supply of money which they did not hesitate to use for their own purposes, as Morgan ruthlessly pressurized Cleveland in 1893-1896. The bankers’ affection for low prices was not shared by the farmers, since each time prices of farm products went down the burden of farmers’ debts (especially mortgages) became greater. Moreover, farm prices, being much more competitive than industrial prices, and not protected by a tariff, fell much faster than industrial prices, and farmers could not reduce costs or modify their production plans nearly so rapidly as industrialists could.
The result was a systematic exploitation of the agrarian sectors of the community by the financial and industrial sectors. This exploitation took the form of high industrial prices, high (and discriminatory) railroad rates, high interest charges, low farm prices, and a very low level of farm services by railroads and the government. Unable to resist by economic weapons, the farmers of the West turned to political relief, but were greatly hampered by their reluctance to vote Democratic (because of their memories of the Civil War). Instead, they tried to work on the state political level through local legislation (so-called Granger Laws) and set up third-party movements (like the Greenback Party in 1878 or the Populist Party in 1892). By 1896, however, agrarian discontent rose so high that it began to overcome the memory of the Democratic role in the Civil War. The capture of the Democratic Party by these forces of discontent under William Jennings Bryan in 1896, who was determined to obtain higher prices by increasing the supply of money on a bimetallic rather than a gold basis, presented the electorate with an election on a social and economic issue for the first time in a generation. Though the forces of high finance and of big business were in a state of near panic, by a mighty effort involving large-scale spending they were successful in electing McKinley.
Money Power Seeks to Control Both Political Parties
The New World Order
by
H.G. Wells
There is one direction in which Mr Streit’s proposals are open to improvement. Let us turn to another in which he does not seem to have realised all the implications of his proposal. This great Union is to have a union money and a union customs-free economy. What follows upon that? More I think than he realises.
There is one aspect of money to which the majority of those that discuss it seem to be incurably blind. You cannot have a theory of money or any plan about money by itself in the air. Money is not a thing in itself; it is a working part of an economic system. Money varies in its nature with the laws and ideas of property in a community. As a community moves towards collectivism and communism, for example, money simplifies out. Money is a necessary in a communism as it is in any other system, but its function therein is at its simplest. Payment in kind to the worker gives him no freedom of choice among the goods the community produces. Money does. Money becomes the incentive that “works the worker” and nothing more. Ed. NB
But directly you allow individuals not only to obtain goods for consumption but also to obtain credit to produce material for types of production outside the staple productions of the state, the question of credit and debt arises and money becomes more complicated.
Not Counting Niggers George Orwell
Here and there in the book, though not often, there are references to the ‘dependencies’ of the democratic states. ‘Dependencies’ means subject races. It is explained that they are to go on being dependencies, that their resources are to be pooled among the states of the Union, and that their coloured inhabitants will lack the right to vote in Union affairs. Except where the tables of statistics bring it out, one would never for a moment guess what numbers of human beings are involved. India, for instance, which contains more inhabitants than the whole of the ‘fifteen democracies’ put together, gets just a page and a half in Mr Streit's book, and that merely to explain that as India is not yet fit for self-government the status quo must continue. And here one begins to see what would really be happening if Mr Streit's scheme were put into operation. The British and French empires, with their six hundred million disenfranchised human beings, would simply be receiving fresh police forces; the huge strength of the USA would be behind the robbery of India and Africa. Mr Streit is letting cats out of bags, but all phrases like ‘Peace Bloc’, ‘Peace Front’, etc contain some such implication; all imply a tightening-up of the existing structure. The unspoken clause is always ‘not counting niggers’. How can we make a ‘firm stand’ against Hitler if we are simultaneously weakening ourselves at home? In other words, how can we ‘fight Fascism’ except by bolstering up a far vaster injustice?
For of course it is vaster. What we always forget is that the overwhelming bulk of the British proletariat does not live in Britain, but in Asia and Africa. It is not in Hitler's power, for instance, to make a penny an hour a normal industrial wage; it is perfectly normal in India, and we are at great pains to keep it so. One gets some idea of the real relationship of England and India when one reflects that the per capita annual income in England is something over £80, and in India about £7. It is quite common for an Indian coolie's leg to be thinner than the average Englishman's arm. And there is nothing racial in this, for well-fed members of the same races are of normal physique; it is due to simple starvation. This is the system which we all live on and which we denounce when there seems to be no danger of its being altered. Of late, however, it has become the first duty of a ‘good anti-Fascist’ to lie about it and help to keep it in being.
What real settlement, of the slightest value, can there be along these lines? What meaning would there be, even if it were successful, in bringing down Hitler's system in order to stabilize something that is far bigger and in its different way just as bad?
But apparently, for lack of any real opposition, this is going to be our objective. Mr Streit's ingenious ideas will not be put into operation, but something resembling the ‘Peace Bloc’ proposals probably will. The British and Russian governments are still haggling, stalling and uttering muffled threats to change sides, but circumstances will probably drive them together. And what then? No doubt the alliance will stave off war for a year or two. Then Hitler's move will be to feel for a weak spot or an unguarded moment; then our move will be more armaments, more militarization, more propaganda, more war-mindedness — and so on, at increasing speed. It is doubtful whether prolonged war-preparation is morally any better than war itself; there are even reasons for thinking that it may be slightly worse. Only two or three years of it, and we may sink almost unresisting into some local variant of austro-Fascism. And perhaps a year or two later, in reaction against this, there will appear something we have never had in England yet — a real Fascist movement. And because it will have the guts to speak plainly it will gather into its ranks the very people who ought to be opposing it.
https://longhairedmusings.wordpress.com/2018/06/30/end-of-ownership-circular-economy-proof-of-brain-and-primary-intermediary-and-consumption-energy-tokens-a-framework-evolves/
https://longhairedmusings.wordpress.com/2019/08/25/second-thoughts-fifty-years-or-more-behind-hand-thegrubstreetjournal-grubstreetjopurnal/
Orwell summarises Burnham’s ideas in The Managerial Revolution and The Machiavellians and highlights inconsistencies. He believed Burnham was fascinated by power and was sympathetic to Nazi Germany while they appeared to be winning, but by 1944 had transferred his sympathy to the USSR. He noted, however, that the theme of a new (and probably servile) society—neither capitalist nor socialist—was predicted in many works such as Belloc’s The Servile State, and dystopian novels such as Wells’ The Sleeper Awakes, Zamyatin’s We and Huxley’s Brave New World.
SECOND THOUGHTS ON JAMES BURNHAM
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