What Really is Capitalism?

Capitalism is an economic system.  It is a system whereby people organise and undertake production and the distribution of goods and services.  Or so it is said.

But more accurately, it is a system whereby people organise and undertake production and the distribution of goods and services with a particular set of attitudes, with a particular view of oneself, particular view of other people, engenders particular types of interrelationships between people, particular set of morals, and particular set of goals with particular opportunity costs and consequences. 

Capitalism, like any other system, is used to nurture us into a particular type of human through the use of economics.  It is an ethical system, a moral system, a religious system, a philosophical system, serving to enable and disable, halt, control, and delete particular aspects of our human potentials for the purpose of particular returns.

The separation of Church and State was basically an effort to give Churchgoers no place to practice what their respective Gods and Saints preached.

What it enables, disables, halts, controls, and deletes, and for whose benefit is that which determines if it enables the maximal development of all for the ethical and equitable maximal returns to all.  And this is that which determines if the system is good or otherwise.

Capitalism is like a church with a whole economic arena wherein one can practice what is preached - unlike the Church where one listens to what is preached, but is deprived of a society to practice it in as that is for the practice of capitalism.  So whilst in Church, a priest might give the congregation God's blessings and tell them to go out and practice God's love, Capitalism tells you to limit that love to enable the unlimited ambitions for power and wealth of the elite.


Oh Yes Allah, Son, and Holy Ghost,
we truly do respect, love, and worship you,

but with the economic 'reality' we constructed,
we gotta keep it to the ole prayer mat and pew.

So Lord, it's with regret i gotta say this,

you're basically under house arrest,

For in this dog-eat-dog capitalist world,
we gotta go by the elite's behest.

Yeah at times we might pray to you,
for biblical type miracles and boons,

But where money is both saviour and God,
we'd rather spin the Wheel of Fortune

We'd really like to love our neighbour,
like you said, as we love ourselves,

but so sorry lord, we can't afford to,
cause we're just wage-enslaved little elves.

I like to practice what you preached,
in the bible, gita, quran, O Lord,

But after the bills and booze, 

That's a luxury i really can't afford

So we keep you for religious days and Sundays
cos that's when the capitalist rests,

That's for family, fun and friends,

and the rest of the week is me first, screw the rest


The separation of Church and State was basically an effort to give Churchgoers no place beyond their families to practice what their respective Gods and Saints preached.  Whilst the Church preaches the precedence of conscience, the State preaches the precedence of conscientiousness whilst limiting conscience - for the purpose of propping up and perpetuating its elite.  All ethical development could only go so far as to make things as good as possible without compromising the existence and ambitions of the elite.

People think that capitalism is an economic system.  It is not.  It is a means to a developmental end (what we become) which in turn becomes a means itself (determining the economic system).     And capitalism is a particular variant of an economic system purposed to create a particular variant of the Human Being. 

Capitalism, after all, is all about imposing an opportunity cost on success in the form of empathy and compassion.   In that, it is not so much an economic system, but a system to bring into being another and baser type of Human that uses economic to do so. 

Whether this variant is good or otherwise is dependent on who gains, when we gain, and at what expense.  Capitalism is a system that does not allow a forward advance unless it is at the cost to another.  You can make a million, but you must kill a 100.  But you will never know how you did it, but rest assured that you did.  Capitalism is a system that confines the consequences of your actions to a few blocks down the road so that you don't hear it, or see it.  It is a system that compromises the visibility of the consequences of the people's actions and apathy, 

 
We set an ultimately good God independently apart from ourselves so as to serve as an objective check on our worst impulses.  Capitalism is set as a system apart from ourselves so as to nurture, profit from, and perpetuate our worst impulses whilst restraining the degree to which our best impulses can have free reign and expression.

In capitalism, the Freedom to 'Love thy Neighbour as thyself', is compromised by the opportunity cost of unaffordability imposed on its practitioners.  And with practice, their purse of empathy and compassion is thus contracted.  People don't develop the ability to feel great empathy about things if they are led to think that they can't do anything about it.  That is why, in a capitalist or class-based system, one can at best only afford to give till it hurts, but never till it works.

Capitalism, after all, is all about imposing an opportunity cost on success in the form of empathy and compassion.  This is how the Freedom to Love your neighbour as yourself is compromised by the opportunity cost of unaffordability imposed on it. (the LGBT are misusing and perverting the meaning of 'the freedom to love' to mean 'the freedom to fuck anything that moves.')  

That is why people talk about 'giving till it hurts', which means, 'giving only to the point the system enables you to afford it, because the rest of the resources are for capitalists and celebs' whom are the real 'freeloaders' of the system.  'There is no such thing as a free lunch' is a principle applied only to those whom are not at the top. 

That is why, the Freedom to 'Love thy Neighbour as thyself', as Jesus Christ exhorted, is compromised by the opportunity cost of unaffordability imposed its practitioners.  And with practice, their purse of empathy and compassion is thus contracted.  People don't develop the ability to feel great empathy about things if they are led to think that they can't do anything about it.  That is why, in a capitalist or class-based system, one can at best only afford to give till it hurts, but never till it works.  

All history hitherto is the history of oppressors defining and limiting the length, breadth, width, depth, and content wherein the Human conscience can exist and is allowed to subsist on. And in doing so, determine the degree to which it can grow and be applied.  The economic system of capitalism, in this, is the means by which it is delivered.  Capitalism, is the Mark of Cain.

That is when people can fool themselves into thinking they've done their best for their fellowmen in terms of giving.  But the fact of the matter is that they can't do their best in giving to those in need if they don't do their best to stop others taking billions more than they need. 

So, capitalism is not an economic system.  No it is not. 

And we shouldn't see it that way as it presents it as 'just an economic system' instead of a moral system, a father and mother, who determines what we become as people, and how far we can go in working for the people.  It is not an economic system, but a system to promote, popularise, and perpetuate the darker potentials of human nature where one can't get ahead except on the heads of others.  

Marx said, 'all history is hitherto the history of class struggle'.  That is a statement of hope, not reality.  The lower classes have almost always been struggling, not for equality, but for the ability to subsist within inequitable conditions.  They seek to breathe, not to have the garotte removed.

All history hitherto is the history of oppressors defining and limiting the length, breadth, width, depth, and content wherein the Human conscience can exist and is allowed to subsist on. And in doing so, determine the degree to which it can grow and be applied.    

The system of plunder and profit is purposed to deliver us to evil by imposing a ceiling on the development of the Human Conscience to its fullest potentials.  You can say that it isn't for the sake of the interest of the elite, but that the elite is kept in place so that the Human Conscience can be limited.  In that, one can say that the Elite is a tool of yet another Fallen Entity.  The point here is not to impose a supernatural or spiritual view on the matter, but to take away our attention from the economics to its impact on our evolution as Human Beings.

The economic system of capitalism, in this, is the means by which it is delivered.  And what it delivers and the opportunity cost associated with it, presents Capitalism as nothing less than the Mark of Cain.

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