The Canadian National Newspaper: Economics trade focus indifferent to human destructionss

Similar to vultures over a carcass, there is a current convening at Davos in Switzerland, a labelled "World Economic Forum" which is comprised of this year's gathering of the heads of large trans national corporations and of their national surrogates, together with their respective government parallel operators, apparachnicks, and technocrats. Substantively, when the window dressing parts of the sessions have been put aside, the gathering will be discussing techniques and strategies for more access of conference participants (and their surrogate agents and agencies) to the financial bonanza that can be extracted from (what they see as) the resource base, that is represented by the earth, and its peoples.

Accordingly, with governments as hostages to corporate capitalism, our future is in jeopardy. That is because the capitalist perspective on the prevailing environment, (and on how humans are linked to it), has led governments to operate under the corporate view on planet earth, as being essentially, no more than A RESOURCE BASE that must be exploited for maximum financial-(equivalent) corporate profit. However, planet earth is not merely the resource base that these capitalists see it as being. Rather, it is our homeland or home base. The environment in which we live, provides the support for our survival. Additionally, IT IS SPACE SHIP EARTH on which we are all crew; and which we must husband and protect, if we are to survive.

Meanwhile, the normal circumstance in today's Western society, is that capitalist-dominated corporations secure their profits from the control of resources, and from the sale of items which the manipulation of these resources generates. At the same time, capitalist economics through its impact on the ambient educational system (and therefore on the awareness context within which people process information), has now embedded a number of unfortunate attitudes and tolerances into the Consciousness of human society.

There is a particular capitalist premise that those of us who are concerned with the quality of human survival need to challenge. That premise is the capitalist view OF OUR ENVIRONMENT as being a resource-base, that is best managed when profit-seeking holders of financial resources (and of technical information), can obtain fee-simple access to the component parts of this environment, (as resources that may be treated as PRIVATE property).

Capitalist economics, has succeeded in influencing governments and the members of respective societies, TO OVERLOOK how the quality-of-living of people (as Conscious entities) is being serviced by the existing resource base. That is because capitalist ideological control over the education system, has succeeded in influencing how governments interpret reality. Governments and the citizens who make up the society are influenced to see the success from prevailing human activities (in trading and exchange), as being indicated in financial rather than in quality-of-life terms. Capitalist educational propaganda therefore influences governments, to see satisfactory economic development initiatives as being those that lead to activities out of which will arise high levels of profit-producing financial-equivalent trade, that satisfies the priorities of the holders and managers of money.

Members of the society (inclusive of those who are functionaries in government) are therefore victims of a beguiling capitalist (propaganda) premise. It posits that financially-centred weights comprise the most "scientific technique, with which to measure the results and outcomes of trading operations. For example, individuals in capitalist-dominated societies are conditioned to accept as scientific truth, the following proposition. Best "economic" results, and highest levels of "prosperity", will be forthcoming when well funded corporate interests, are allowed to use fee-simple purchase, to acquire and manage for private discretionary use (in pursuit of their greed-driven private profit targets), the materials and resources in the environment on which our survival as humans depends.

Arguably, however, these capitalist planners of how we (as humans) should be linked to our environment, have neglected to give attention to the following critical fact. When the human members of planet earth had formed themselves into groups, they had invented, created, and given to government, the responsibility to protect the survival of the members of the group.

On having discovered the benefits to which trading and exchange contributed, people therefore vested government with the power to protect intra-group as well as inter-group resource exchange conditions, (so as to enable the members of the group to enhance their quality-of-living). Groups of people had also vested in government, the power to requisition and to accumulate the resources it would need to execute that task of group protection.

In full oversight of that quality-of-living responsibility of government, capitalist economists argue that the responsibility of government is to promote "prosperity" (as indicated by extensive and buoyant sales levels, of the types of goods and services for which people are prepared to offer money in exchange). Meanwhile, structured human dominance and subjugation result, when governments abstain from their responsibilities to foster enhanced quality-of-living, and instead allow the financial profit goals of corporations to dominate the access of humans to their means of survival. However, capitalist economists are indifferent to that resulting living related trade-off. Instead, these capitalists impute that the commerce-supportive and non interference role for government, which they are promoting, was long ago set forth by the English cleric Adam Smith, (as per his writings in his An Inquiry Into the Nature and the Causes of the Wealth of Nations).

Indeed, to advocate a government hands-off policy when corporations (as seekers after greed driven exploitation), set out to use the trading realm to control the prevailing resource environment, capitalists use that particular book by Adam Smith, as a sort of ideology-validating reference "bible". These capitalists also draw on a further analytical artifice. It imputes that, where individuals are allowed to "freely" trade (without government interference), the price at which the bulk of the trade takes place, provides government with a scientific weight, such that they may judge the economic importance of each traded item, by its exchange value/price. Capitalist advocates, therefore continue to emphasize that when appraisals are made about what economic results have been happening in the prevailing environment of resources, governments should look on financial results; and these analysts then completely overlook how the quality-of-living of the populace at hand has been affected.

As a result of that capitalist influence, governments then use the aggregate value of trade (in recently "produced" goods and services), rather than how extensively quality-of-living has been enhanced, to show how effective their economic policies have been over any reference period. Indeed, it can also be argued that, governments made themselves comfortable with the financial emphasis on results, because, as far as they are concerned, these traded goods (as wealth objects), form an uncomplicated visible base from which that government may extract tax revenues (which they may then funnel via "projects", to their cronies).

Additionally, the unimpeded profits which corporations secure (as a result of that capitalist-promoted hands-off policy by government), can also fund handsome levels of short term "political" "contributions". The result is that, governments tend to find it convenient to overlook the feature that in the society at hand, they were created to take initiatives to foster and to protect the Quality-of-Living targets of Conscious human economic agents.

Responsible members of the society who are concerned about human survival, and about the forthcoming quality-of-living results, ALSO need to make themselves particularly aware of the following fact. A number of ethically chilling results have followed from this capitalist (and market-economics-supported) principle of concentrating on financial results, and of allowing corporations almost free rein to orchestrate how human access to survival is managed.

For example, in principle, the educational institutions IN ANY SOCIETY, need to prepare exposed humans to develop their critical intellectual capabilities (as they pursue their objectives in Human Development). Therefore, the current practice, of allowing the departments, faculties, infra-structure, and the buildings of prevailing educational institutions, to be recognized under the names of respective corporate "sponsors", tells a story ABOUT PREVAILING GOVERNMENTS, and about the type of leadership of the society which these governments are promoting.

Governments which tolerate that type of corporate sponsorship of the prevailing infrastructure of the educational sector, merely demonstrate that they themselves operate under corporate sponsorship, rather than under a commitment to protect their citizens responsibly. Not surprisingly therefore, in the name of economic growth, these governments now appear to operate via program and policy tactics, which at the same time CAUSE the universities and other educational institutions in the environment, to operate as no more than glorified vocational schools that will turn out "paid slaves", to fit into the financial profit-maximizing-needs of corporations.

Such a structure of corporate-sponsored educational programming, leads to a number of distressing outcomes. For one, when development performance is computed primarily in financial-equivalent terms, capitalistocrats find it convenient to make themselves indifferent to the following fact.

An economy, is essentially and is effectively an ADMINISTRATIVE domain, where the functioning government, polices the integrity of prevailing trade and exchange, and where it also enforces (via a court system) the terms under which voluntary contracts have been struck.

However, rabid right wing capitalists who (collectively, and via their meetings and their official trade associations) are in pursuit of unrestrained control over the resource environment as they pursue market exploitation, usually advance the following claim. They usually disingenuously, and incredulously proclaim that they want to get government out of the economy. Meanwhile, these right wing capitalists at the same time also seek to get the governments of their society to use military means (if necessary, as in Iraq) to enable them to acquire or to get control of the resources of other societies.

The capitalistocratic propagandized capturing of the "educational" and the information-processing system has led to some additional Consciousness-related distressing results. Notable examples are found in the routine adaptation of two unspeakably odious capitalist-centred word-sets, that in the name of science, have been inserted into the current pervading vernacular of the communications system, about how our environment should be interpreted. One of these odious word-sets, is the term "human resources/capital"; and the other word-set is the term "globalization of economies".

The human resources term, (of which capitalist economists talk in the name of science), seeks to promote dis-enfranchisement and dis-inheritance of the effort-providing members of the society from also being seen as its owners, (whose Human Development objectives, democratic government was invented to service). Instead, (in the name of science), the human capital/resources word-set is used by economists, to denigrate citizens, into being perceived as no more than "service instruments/implements" that corporate interests may manipulate (as surrogate machinery). The imputation is that these effort providers may be used, or may be discarded on the environmental rubbish pile, dependent on the capability of these persons to service profitable trade.

Meanwhile, the "Globalization of Markets" word-set, is a corresponding propaganda term, that capitalist economists (and their right wing corporate masters) are proselytising. This word set, is designed to seem as no more than the description of events and of trading relationships, (that arise as the result of a legitimate pursuit of market efficiency by profit-seeking entrepreneurs and multinational corporations). However, THIS GLOBALIZATION OF MARKETS WORD-SET MASKS THE TRANS-NATIONAL USING OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES, AND OF THE BANKING SYSTEM (rather than the former usage of standing armies), to subjugate, to prey on, and to appropriate the domestic resources within any TARGETED nation-state.

At the same time, another feature which must be deplored, is the technique of economic performance appraisal which imputes that, communicating about the quantity of money which has been exchanged for "sold" items (inclusive of the sale of natural resources to capitalists), represents an equitable communication about what has happened in the environment of economic exchange However, that submission by capitalist economists, has overlooked the fact that the power of humans to survive, is vested in their use of the material environment and in its associated natural resources. Therefore to vest to trans-national corporations for money, the power to determine how these resident natural resources (inclusive of space, land and natural resources) are used, also represents transferring out of local hands, the power to substantively manage their survival.

However, notably, in order to execute the (unpublished) objective of providing capitalism with a human face, (and thereby making the world safe for capitalist priorities and emphases) even world wide international bodies (associated with the United Nations, such as the I. B. R. D., and the I. M. F., and some other parts of that organization) have set out to overlook/bypass the (management centred) Consciousness-expression out of which quality-of-living arises. Instead these bodies have set out, to formulate, to promote, and to provide financial-equivalent weightings to the human commitment of resources, efforts, and time.

This whole CORPORATE-FRIENDLY CAPITALIST EMPHASIS, which presents humans as being linked to their environment primarily through how they can make use of a "for sale" sign, is linked to the capitalist procedure of drawing on The Wealth of Nations as their historical ideological "bible". That is because these capitalists saw Adam Smith as (like themselves) talking of wealth as a stock of financial-equivalent purchasing-power which trade can yield.

Yet, these capitalists (as represented by those who are now gathering at "the World Economic Forum" at Davos), have overlooked the fact that Adam Smith also had a focus on wealth, (as the enhanced Consciousness, and the quality-of-life attainment), which he saw humans as securing from their interpersonal exchange commitments. The commerce-centred capitalist society which has succeeded in capturing the focus of governments, has overlooked the fact that in his other book, the Theory of Moral Sentiments. Adam Smith had introduced this non financial wealth context (which one can associate with quality-of-life enhancement).

In fact, those of us who are correspondingly concerned with the quality of human survival, may argue that this other book by Adam Smith, represented the second blade of the intellectual scissors which he had brought to bear on the "trading" arrangements, into which humans enter. Therefore, responsible citizens, as well as respective governments who want to accommodate to the societal support feature for which government was initially invented, will want to bring together these two blades of Adam Smith's intellectual scissors. Thereby, they will foster quality-of-life enhancement of the sort that releases human society from the modus operandi of prevailing corporate societal dominance.

In spite of the institutionalized constituency that the annual Davos meetings represent, there is no absolute existential need for us to join with capitalistocrats to support and to promote a greed oriented transformation of our environment into a profit generating sewer. Additionally, although a corresponding activist constituency does not yet exist, citizens and governments that desire to foster quality-of-life enhancement, are invited to draw on an alternative to the current capitalist financially-centred economic performance appraisal context. This alternative is presented in the book Quality of Living and Human Development as the Outcome of Economic Progress, ISBN 1897036353.

The alternative economic performance appraisal context does not primarily promote corporate-led capitalism and globalization of markets. Instead, it argues for a remedy of the prevailing operational capturing and awareness-subjugation and the general "dumbing down" of the population,(on which the corporate-led operational capturing of the system of mass communications and also the education system, has embarked).

In particular, the alternative economic performance measurement focus (which was set out in that book), accepts the usefulness and the convenience of monetized trade. However, its focus is on the impacts of trade on people, rather than on corporate profits. Instead, it promotes the need to use programs of economic development management to foster human survival, in conjunction with the evolution of Human Consciousness. The alternative focus also requires governments to focus on evaluating how effectively their choices of economic development programs contribute to high quality human time-use-commitment opportunities. The overall emphasis is that, the choices of economic development programming on which governments embark, must particularly promote and must also enable OPPORTUNITIES for each individual human being to pursue the type of survival, that is accompanied by enhanced understanding (of themselves and of their environment).

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