[GJM] Working with Banks, and Corporations to Achieve a High Degree of Global Justice?

[Steve Consilvio]

Profit and Interest are both mathematically impossible in the long  
term. (See The Interest Mechanism on my website.) Both create  
inflation and the inevitable division of wealth follows, along with  
the conflicts. To think that one can "bribe" moral behavior is  
patently absurd, since accepting the bribe is immoral behavior.

It is the whole concept of the market economy that must be re- 
invented. Unfortunately, marketplace theory is at the center of all  
three empires: business, government and non-profits. As such, a  
radical restructuring is necessary, and it requires a unique  
combination of faith, humility and charity. A Jubilee should be  
regarded as the proper goal, but in fact that would only be the  
result of a strategy of dis-investment and non-participation within  
the status quo. Since all three empires need to change, and in  
general people move from empire to empire in search of a solution,  
this is no easy intellectual, spiritual or practical task.  
Complacency is a mountain and those satisfied with the present are  
not easily convinced of the possibility of a world of compounding  
renaissance's.

Man has a vigorous capacity to think abstractly, which is why science  
is even possible. That same power of abstraction has grown with  
widespread literacy, but the central issue remains the same: You  
cannot build a moral world without moral people. Marketplace theory  
is simply an excuse for sin by the angry and greedy, and since  
everyone is doing it it seems a requirement to participate in the  
same manner. Those who lead with a moral vision will always take it  
on the chin, but unfortunately there is no other way to improve  
things: To create a moral society leaders must lead by example. Of  
course, there are plenty of leaders who wrap their anger and greed in  
morality.

As society has more moral people it becomes easier to lead a moral  
life. Morality, however, cannot be self-defined or self-approved  
(that is self-righteousness.) There needs to be a discussion of what  
morality "is," since many fail to see that "justice" is another word  
for revenge, and that "rights" is another word for privileges.  
Changing places in the system should not be seen as changing the  
system itself. The power of mercy lays dormant because all three  
empires are gripped by their own version of fear, pride and greed,  
and as such the individual must suffer for the good of the insane,  
regardless of which empire is dominant at any moment. People simply  
do not recognize that they are enslaved by an empire when it is an  
empire of their own choosing.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they  
are free. - Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

Peace,
Steve
www.behappyandfree.com


On Feb 20, 2007, at 2:00 PM, discussion- 
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