[GJM] CONSPIRACY THEORY & Credit Crunch

[Steve Consilvio]

I agree many people have a mistaken definition of democracy, but it  
does not follow that if we were a democracy that we would have  
somehow made an improvement.  If the world is screwed up because of  
the intellectual agreement of money (ie, economic theory) then what  
is needed is a proper economic theory.  Any change to the political  
system (how people make the wrong decisions) has nothing to do of  
what makes the decisions wrong, economically.

In other words, any political system cannot replace the original (and  
perpetual) need for good content.  Or perhaps more succinctly:  
political reform is not economic reform.  If the economic system is  
broken, then it is the economic system that needs to get fixed.  A  
million changes to the political system will have zero effect on the  
economic system.  It is as if you changed the oil to your engine  
repeatedly trying to get the car to start, but never put gasoline in  
the tank.  You need both; both need to be clean and present and in  
the proper locations.

I am of the opinion that no political system can work without a  
proper economic theory, since what is argued about politically is  
primarily economics.  This is also consistent with the scriptural  
warning that the love of money is the root of all evil.  A political  
system that converts the love of money into a political virtue will  
be endlessly subject to the misery that the love of money creates.   
Therefore we need a political and economic system that devalues and  
controls the importance of money, whereas today money is the ultimate  
measure and treasure.

One of the recurring problems that I have with the concept of "social  
justice" is that it is primarily economically based, whereas  
injustice is actually a cultural phenomenon.  While it may get  
expressed in money imbalances, its root is elsewhere.  And, if my  
theory regarding The Interest Mechanism is true, the imbalances are  
caused by how we use money, and not by who is using it.  The  
concentration of wealth is a mathematical phenomenon, not a political  
phenomenon.

I believe we now have enough history to know that this concentration  
of wealth is a true economic phenomenon, irregardless of the  
political system.  More shockingly, when God gave Moses the  
instructions for setting up the new government for the Hebrews, the  
things that he told them  proven themselves to be correct, especially  
in regard to interest, profit and jubilee.  Jubilee is a system for  
fixing all imbalances before they grow too large, that are caused by  
profit and interest.  God is the smartest political, economic and  
cultural theorist that man has ever known.  Mercy, not justice, will  
solve all our political, economic and social problems, but we have  
created political and economic systems that pursue justice instead.

What does this have to the Credit Crunch?  The government is between  
a rock and a hard place.  The borrowers look to the government for  
help, and now the lenders are in trouble, too.  How can the  
government help both?  It's impossible.  This is why in the ideal  
situation everyone is:  "neither a borrower nor a lender be."   Since  
the government started off in debt, debt has continued.  No one has  
followed Franklin's advice.  War increases debt everywhere.  Even  
prisoners of war were expected to pay the debts accrued while  
imprisoned, just as those in debtors prison were expected to pay for  
their upkeep.  (Go read over some of the peace treaties of the  
past.)  The system is as totally nuts today as it was then; we have  
been shifting the problem, not solving it.  A crunch means that there  
is no one to shift it to, again.

We think of debt and lending, and even borrowing from our own  
"equity" as perfectly normal.  We think mortgages and car loans are  
normal.  We think profit and interest is normal.  We are very  
abnormal to think these things are normal. :-)  The marketplace of  
math is a fiction (2+2=5) down to its very core.  The people are  
real, the goods are real, but the accounting is absurd.  Nobody can  
govern over an absurd system.

peace,
steve


On Nov 7, 2007, at 5:38 AM, discussion- 
request at globaljusticemovement.net wrote:

> From:   Dr. Ulysses S. Crockett, Jr.
>
> To:  All persons under false belief U.S. is a nation
> close to a democracy.

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