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I Found My Reading of The Metamorphosis of the World In Near Total Diagreement With The Author's.

Beoordeeld in de Verenigde Staten 🇺🇸 op 5 juli 2016

This was a preliminary, unedited, and unfinished manuscript that was put together. From the very beginning of reading the current edition I found myself criticizing it left and right. The author declaring himself bankrupt from deriving meaning of the global events unfolding before his eyes on television. One, the television is an idiot box and the news derived from it is propaganda at best. Two, bankrupt is the key word because the banking system worldwide is bankrupt and is currently being kept afloat by fraud. Three, climate change is not due to CO2 but is the result of cyclical change of our sun at the center of the solar system. And finally, the metaphor of metamorphosis is being used as bearing all the hallmarks of a foreign body[actual words used by author].
Metamorphosis is actually close to being an excellent metaphor. The reason being is, that inherent in civilization are two different body plans/body blueprints: public power/political power versus private power/economic power. Ideally they check each other in ways that benefit both. In democracy the political power can establish the building of infrastructure: in roads and bridges; communications systems; public heath system; utilizes of power; and more - at near cost. The businesses would use these without having to pay for roads, health care, high interest[public banking], and more. These businesses would be more competitive as those costs were already born by the public. Public power would be like an Aladdin's Lamp holding the financial genie within the lamp/nation state[borders]. The financial wizards would be regulated[Glass-Steagall Act Banking Act of 1933]. But Clinton released the financial genie by deregulating economic power and the subsequent corruption skyrocketed.
I kept reading and trying to follow the author's reasoning but found myself totally disagreeing and/or at loss to his meaning. For instance, in describing our mass media he introduced the concept of landscapes of communications and public bads. He stated that the mass media has long been, and today is still largely, a world of nations. Again I disagree. President Clinton and Robert Rubin both quipped about how quaint the concept of Nation States were. That the economic powers had basically captured the nation states and defanged them[reregulated and/or bought off those in charge of enforcing what's left of financial regulations/laws]. There are no public airwaves; the airwaves/media is privately owned. In fact,. what's going on is the economic power is privatizing anything and everything publically owned. Your governments are being corporatized. Your public water sources - privatized. Your public education- privatized. Your highways & byways - privatized. Your public heath systems - privatized. That's what happening.
A similar sea change happened when capitalism replaced feudalism. Now that financial capitalism is eating industrial capitalism's lunch - we are going back to the future/electronic-computerized feudalism. In this dystopian future there are digitized platform monopolies[like google] and this digitization is putting the world's growing inequality gaps on steroids.
Economic Power is waging a class war - and the 99.99%'ers are loosing.
In my reading of The Metamorphosis of the World I found my disagreements with the author's world viewpoints at crosswords.

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