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Milton lost: can we regain paradise?
by Jason Miller
November 22, 2006

[I dedicate this essay to the untold millions who suffered as a result of Milton Friedman’s creation of an intellectual bulwark for economic brutality. On 11/16/06, Friedman died of heart failure, an ironic cause of death for a heartless individual.]
    We have reached the deplorable circumstance where in large measure a very powerful few are in possession of the earth's resources, the land and its riches and all the franchises and other privileges that yield a return. These positions are maintained virtually without taxation; they are immune to the demands made on others. The very poor, who have nothing, are the object of compulsory charity. And the rest -- the workers, the middle-class, the backbone of the country -- are made to support the lot by their labor.
    ----Agnes George de Mille (granddaughter of Henry George), New York, 1979
Note that Ms. George de Mille penned her observations before the patron saint of the “have mores” established residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. In less than three decades, a Friedman-inspired Reagan and his successors made astounding gains for the “very powerful” de Mille described.

Reagan wielded the scalpel that emasculated organized labor and convinced America that “regulation” is a four letter word. George H.W. Bush further crippled unions and condemned many poor Mexicans to corporate exploitation through his relentless efforts to make NAFTA a reality. Convincing the multitude of his compassion and empathy, Clinton proceeded to sign NAFTA into law and cheerfully eviscerated public assistance.

Embarking on a “divine mission, George W. Bush has taken “free trade”, deregulation, fiscal strangulation of social programs, enervation of We the People, and militarism to breath-taking heights. In spite of W’s failure to eliminate the “Death Tax”, Milton Friedman is beaming with pride as the flames of eternal damnation incinerate his corporeal shell and render his wicked soul vulnerable to the divine castigation he so richly deserves.

Consider the words of Henry George, a US American economic and political thinker who advocated a balance of free markets, government regulation, and social programs:
    The forces of the new era have not yet had time to make status hereditary, but we may clearly see that when the industrial organization compels a thousand workmen to take service under one master, the proportion of masters to men will be but as one to a thousand, though the one may come from the ranks of the thousand. "Master"! We don't like the word. It is not American! But what is the use of objecting to the word when we have the thing? The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.
    ---Henry George, 1883
Inculcating and deluding the masses with a multi-billion dollar barrage of agitprop and sophistry potent enough to penetrate the minds of the most adroit thinkers, the moneyed interests behind corporatism and exploitative Capitalism have created a false dichotomy that clings to our collective psyche like a cocklebur deeply embedded in a wool sock. They are intent on retaining mastery over their wage slaves(1).

According to “conventional thinking” proffered by the corporate media, only two choices exist: the extant form of rapacious Capitalism or the gross perversions of Communism implemented by Stalin and Mao. Socialism might be considered as a third alternative at times, but since it is theoretically a transitional state leading to Communism, is “Leftist”, and advocates the needs of the collective over the desires of a few avaricious individuals, the MSM generally tends to equate it with Communism.

As all freedom loving denizens of the United States and its satellite bastions of Corporatism know, Communism is inherently evil while Capitalism is intrinsically good. Which is why the Bush Regime recently rescinded a ban on training right wing military forces in several Latin American nations. It is imperative that we keep the world safe for corporate plunder, human exploitation, and rape of the environment. Even if that means supporting murderous dictators like Pinochet or the slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians by right wing paramilitaries trained and supplied by the United States.

While it is true that there are potentially insurmountable problems with implementing a purely collective economic system that ignores the natural human propensities for greed and self interest, “prevailing thought” leaves no room for middle ground. As obedient wage slaves, we must labor to our dying breath to preserve an economic order that ensures the suffering of billions to afford a few million the means to satiate their every whim and desire(2).

Forget the existence of alternative economic theories like Distributism or Social Democracy. Potential economic models which threaten their stranglehold on prosperity are anathema to the plutocracy. Adopting an economic system with at least as much emphasis on society’s needs as on the pursuit of individual riches would almost certainly achieve a modicum of economic and social justice. However, as evidenced by their tenacious efforts to eliminate public funding for socially beneficial programs (rather than improving them), our opulent overlords have little interest in down-sizing their fleets of expensive cars so that children can eat.

And why do the wage slaves accept these pernicious lies, gross injustices, and moral aberrations?

Many have yet to shake free of insidious abstractions like uber-nationalism, xenophobia, racism, militarism, narcissism, and consumerism. These ludicrous conceptualizations effectively manacle their very minds and souls. Those who have awakened face the stark reality of nearly insurmountable economic barriers to freedom from some degree of complicity in the fascist designs of the Corporatocracy.

Virtually every member of humanity barring the pecunious class faces a brutal dilemma. Do they serve the elite as wage slaves or languish as one of their deeply impoverished victims? (In some cases both fates befall them simultaneously). While there are those precious few who win the lottery, exploit extreme athletic or musical talent, or miraculously embody the Horatio Alger myth, most people find themselves choosing between the Scylla and Charybdis.

To maintain their affluence and power, the haut monde need a relatively compliant stable of wage slaves to enable them to exploit the rest of humanity. Bread and circuses ensure the cooperation of most. As for the nuisances who begin to feel the agonizing prick of conscience and start questioning the system, the Sirens of consumerism, conformity, and fear often draw them back to devotional obedience and spiritual ruin.

And as for incorrigible dissidents, humanity’s subjugators exercise isolation and ridicule to arrest the spread of their influence on the rest of the population. And extortion virtually ensures a reasonable degree of servility from dissenters. As Solzhenitsyn observed in the Gulag Archipelago, even the most recalcitrant will fold when their families are threatened or jeopardized.

Leaving little to chance, the oligarchy has erected significant structural and psychological barriers to meaningful dissent, significant opposition, or escape from wage slavery. Consider this summary, which is by no means exhaustive:
    1. Maintaining nearly monopolistic control of the means to disseminate information (excepting the Internet)

    2. Providing seductively alluring offers of “success” in the form of material wealth and trophy spouses

    3. Dispensing immediate gratification via easy credit, pornography, and fast food

    4.Devoting insane levels of financial and human resources to law enforcement and the military (creating a formidable means of employing physical force)

    5. Manufacturing sufficient mass hysteria (first the threat was Communism and now it is “Terrorism”) to virtually eliminate civil liberties with little more than a whimper of objection from the populace

    6. Deflecting responsibility to scapegoats like Muslims, Gays, and illegal immigrants

    7. Promulgating a militaristic, commercialized form of Christianity via the mega churches of the Religious Right

    8. Allowing corporations to set our government policy, write our laws, and bribe Congress with impunity

    9. Wantonly deregulating corporations

    10. Implementing numerous free trade agreements

    11. Virtually eliminating the existence of organized labor

    12. Dumbing down many of our children by bombarding them with rote learning to prepare for barrages of standardized tests (which seriously limits their capacity to think critically and independently)

    13. Wal-Martizing the economy

    14. Demanding higher productivity for lower wages and decreased benefits

    15. Increasing the staggering number of people without health insurance

    16. Widening the wealth and income chasms

    17. Financially starving social programs

    18. Creating incestuous relationships between the state and major corporations (as exemplified by the military-mass media complex) and in turn endowing their government with power approaching omnipotence

    19. Waging perpetual wars

    20. Indenturing the poor and working class to creditors by seriously weakening bankruptcy protection

    21. Passing the Military Commissions Act and the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act

    22. Creating and stockpiling weapons of mass destruction

    23. Accelerating privatization around the globe (which is placing people at the mercy of ruthless corporations which sell them health care, education, utilities, fuel for their vehicles, and even drinking water)

    24. Perpetuating an unjust mandatory income tax (enforced by a jack-booted IRS) on people who ultimately have no real say in how the money is used

    25. Hijacking the vote in the United States for two consecutive presidential elections
In the face of such severe oppression, some of the victims in developing nations have resorted to fighting back with asymmetrical warfare. Choosing a path of non-violence, larger numbers in the developing world are employing political and economic power to defy the Neoliberal and Imperialist despots.

While some awakened souls amongst the wage slaves in developed nations have freed themselves physically by dropping out of the system, many have settled for spiritual and intellectual freedom as they strive to evoke change while enduring their bondage.

A relatively tiny number of craven and malevolent individuals hoard a majority of the planet’s wealth and have bullied billions into economic subjugation or a form of indentured servitude. Given the elites’ stacked deck, loaded dice, and crooked croupier, what play can the enslaved make?

How about an organized and unified effort to drive a stake through the heart of a vampiric system crafted and championed by compassionless bastards like Milton Friedman?

Despite facing economic tyranny of immense proportions, we wage slaves are far from impotent. In fact, we possess two strengths which give us incredible leverage:
    1. The system would collapse without our cooperation.

    2. We outnumber our “handlers” by a wide margin.
Prolonged massive boycotts coupled with widespread sustained strikes would catalyze a rapid implosion of a system already teetering on the brink of collapse. Businesses would shutter. Currency and market values would race downward. War machines would grind to a welcome halt. Governments would collapse. Hubristic malefactors would scurry as mice fleeing the imminent pounce of a hungry tom.

And chaos would ensue.

Would reason and humanity triumph to the extent that the emergent economic order would reverse the devastation inflicted by Neoliberalism, Corporatism, and predatory Capitalism?

Let’s hope we get the answer to that question before the criminal class crosses the Rubicon.

Notes:

(1)Karl Marx decried wage slavery and its inevitability in a Capitalist system. But one doesn’t have to subscribe to Communism to recognize the smothering oppression and egregious social injustices associated with the prevailing economic paradigm which is championed and maintained by nexus of economic power in the United States.

(2)Thankfully the United States has a “mixed economy”. Imagine the depth of human misery if unadulterated Capitalism was unleashed with men like Cheney at the helm.


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Jason Miller is a wage slave of the American Empire who has freed himself intellectually and spiritually. He writes prolifically, his essays have appeared widely on the Internet, and he volunteers at a homeless shelter. He welcomes constructive correspondence at willpowerful@hotmail.com or via his blog, Thomas Paine's Corner, at http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/


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"Brown calls President's '07 budget "morally reprehensible""
  February 6, 2006
  Ben Wikler

"U.S. detention camps for political subversives"
  February 5, 2006
  Paul Joseph Watson

"Bring regime change home"
  February 5, 2006
  David Swanson

"Evolution is intelligently designed: Social Darwinism, silver spoons, and our emperor’s call to arms to sustain the rich"
  February 5, 2006
  Jason Miller

"Cindy Sheehan terrorizes Bush and his trained clapping seals at the State of Disunion speech"
  February 3, 2006
  Special by Ben Hooked, Historical Science Fictionists from the Planet Alpha-Omega 1,2,3

""Fixed" intelligence from Feith's "Gestapo Office" the CIA and the Bush administration's impeachable lies about Iraq's prewar links to al Qaeda"
  February 3, 2006
  Walter C. Uhler

"Enron: The Bush Administration's first scandal"
  February 2, 2006
  Jason Leopold

"What an idiot!"
  February 2, 2006
  Daniel Patrick Welch

"Being a national activist"
  February 2, 2006
  David Swanson

"Responses to State of the Union Address"
  February 2, 2006
  Institute for Public Accuracy

"The State of the Union: Blah, blah, blah (Yawn)"
  February 1, 2006
  The Ostroy Report

"Bush & Cheney Are The Great "Protectors?" Give Us a F***king Break"
  January 31, 2006
  The Ostroy Report

"Rev. Jesse Jackson mourns Coretta Scott King"
  January 31, 2006
  Rainbow/PUSH Coalition

"What we didn't hear tonight"
  January 30, 2006
  Governor Howard Dean, M.D.

"Eggs Roll, Eyes Roll"
  January 27, 2006
  John Ireland

"Unfathomed dangers in Patriot Act reauthorization"
  January 26, 2006
  Paul Craig Roberts

"Halliburton's Sleeze"
  January 26, 2006
  Nancy Khoury

"Relevant Saint"
  January 26, 2006
  Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Media Services

"Alito and Roberts: Evasion Confirmed"
  January 24, 2006
  Paul Rogat Loeb

"Open letter to members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee"
  January 20, 2006
  Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD)

"How Dick Cheney used the NSA for domestic spying pre-9/11"
  January 20, 2006
  Jason Leopold

"The war on dissent gets creepy"
  January 20, 2006
  Mike Ferner

"The polite majority"
  January 19, 2006
  Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Media Services

"NASA ready for the worst, response will be prompt if Atlas 5 explodes"
  January 18, 2006
  Todd Halvorson, Florida Today

"Woolsey's way to peace"
  January 18, 2006
  David Swanson

"Bush and Republicans vs. rule of law"
  January 16, 2006
  Stephen Crockett

"Dr. King: Drum Major for Justice"
  January 16, 2006
  Rev. Jesse Jackson

"Filibuster Bush, impeach Alito"
  January 15, 2006
  Paul Rogat Loeb

"Filibuster evasion"
  January 15, 2006
  Paul Rogat Loeb

"Poll: Americans support impeaching Bush for wiretapping"
  January 15, 2006
  Bob Fertik

"Birth of awareness"
  January 12, 2006
  Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Media Services

"Anti-war group has documents proving NSA spied on them"
  January 12, 2006
  Kevin Zeese

"Pants on Fire: The Liars of the Bush Administration will take the world down in flames if we let them"
  January 12, 2006
  Daniel Patrick Welch

"Fitzgerald maintains focus on Rove but attorney says 'Architect' not a target"
  January 11, 2006
  Jason Leopold

"It's been a long trek since Nov. 2, 2004 -- now getting shorter"
  January 11, 2006
  Robert Lockwood Mills

"Man of the Year: Patrick Fitzgerald"
  January 10, 2006
  Gerald Rellick

"Another unqualified Bush appointment"
  January 10, 2006
  Gene C. Gerard

"A peace movement demanding the rule of law"
  January 10, 2006
  David Swanson

"On Martin Luther King Day: giving ourselves to the struggle"
  January 7, 2006
  Todd Huffman, M.D.

"Forum with Congressmen Moran and Murtha packs hall, 500 turned away"
  January 7, 2006
  David Swanson

"Primal smirk"
  January 4, 2006
  Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Media Services

"A new year’s message from Ramsey Clark"
  January 4, 2006
  Ramsey Clark

"Extraordinary circumstances indeed"
  January 3, 2006
  Paul Rogat Loeb

"ImpeachPAC forms Citizens Impeachment Commission"
  January 2, 2006
  ImpeachPAC

"Go to the light!"
  January 1, 2006
  Sheila Samples

"Can Cheney save Bush's presidency?"
  January 1, 2006
  David Swanson




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