[GJM] Subject: Re: Rethinking Social Security - Talking Economics

[marguerite hampton]

Robert, in this posting it asks re: corporations and their

role in today's world. 



If we look closely at corporations, their success is based

on the production of excess for sale as a first priority for

the continued success of world trade.  However, we are 

beginning to realize that world trade is not sustainable. 



Coupled with production of excess for sale as first priority

rather than production for self and community first, we then

begin to realize that this is the driving force behind the 

unprecedented world migration taking place at this time

with over 100 million people on the move as of 1997 and

possibly many more today as people are forced off of their

lands to make way for corporate interests both industrial

and agricultural.  This practice increasingly deemphasizes

the human being. 



And, of course, much of this is also caused by the 

replacement of human labor by technological advances

which are more and more favored by the corporations

as it allows them to make more profit since technology

can be written off as capital expense and labor cannot. 



But, as we discussed previously, the migratory lifestyle

may be a more natural one that is condusive to earth

preservation rather than the current agriculturally-based

one on tilling the soil and monocropping along with the 

excessive raising of beef cattle to feed a relatively 

small portion of the world's population.  And which is

accompanied by mechanical production of goods and

services. 



It appears that in order to regain a balanced perspective

it is imperative that we return to life based in small 

community endeavors where production for self and 

community is respected as the first order of the day as

it revers life; whereas corporatization is about death. 



For those pondering this, I highly recommend Dr. Jay

Earley's book:  "Transforming Human Culture - Social 

Evolution and the Planetary Crisis"  In this book, Dr. 

Earley argues that certain ground qualities were present

at the beginning of our social evolution, e.g, natural living,

community, equality, vitality, and a sense of belonging.  

However, as the human family sought more power in the 

world emergent qualities, e.g., technology, rational thinking,

and social order -- including the powerful Global Monetary

System -- arose and suppressed the basic qualities in such 

a way as to cost us our health and wholeness.  Early suggests

that the way forward is to integrate the basic and emergent

qualities so as to create a healthy balance.   

 

Biologically-speaking, we are not prepared to handle advanced

technology as it was not a part of our world at the beginning

of our social evolution. Due to this factor, we have become 

disproportionately dissociated from our natural environment

and have become the destroyers of it. 



The basic qualities largely represented the feminine and the 

feminine was very much suppressed as the figure of the male

god arose to head up the hierarchial structure of religion. For 

this the world is paying a terrible price.  



The role of the woman in society and in "patterning" the triune

brain is extremely important in forming the natural "Christ - like

consciousness" that is inherent within each human being from

point of conception.  



For those seeking a way home, I cannot recommend Jay Earley's 

book highly enough.