“There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.” ~ WOODROW WILSON, the 28th US president.
For millions of years and also as late as up to the close of Middle Ages, man used to produce almost all his consumer commodities, all by the individual consumer himself. He had to depend only for less than one percent of his necessities on the market or middleman. Barely up to a couple of centuries back and for millions of years, 99% of people lived by producing almost everything of human wants, including food, by every individual himself. Today not even one percent of people produce things for his own-consumption. During the 99.99% of his period on Earth, spanning millions of years, man was living by individually producing most of his requirements with no MIDDLEMEN involved.
Today everybody produces things or becomes part of a mechanical process to produce things for selling to others to earn money so that he can buy things, from others, for his self consumption. Here the shocking fact is that while the actual producer usually gets only much less than 10% of the actual price of his product, the end buyer of this product, at some distant place, has to get it at an exorbitant price, as the long chain of middlemen with scores of ‘sweet poisons’ (sales promotion techniques) are pocketing more than 90% of the margin between the producer and the consumer. Further, another shocking fact is the end product becomes a poisonous commodity, especially if it is an agricultural product, in the long chain of ‘value addition’ and other product treatments in a series of ‘sweet poisons’ like dipping it in chemicals for preservation, packing, transportation and so on, before reaching the end consumer.
For millions of years and also as late as up to the close of Middle Ages, man used to produce almost all his consumer commodities, all by the individual consumer himself. He had to depend only for less than one percent of his necessities on the market or middleman. Barely up to a couple of centuries back and for millions of years, 99% of people lived by producing almost everything of human wants, including food, by every individual himself. Today not even one percent of people produce things for his own-consumption. During the 99.99% of his period on Earth, spanning millions of years, man was living by individually producing most of his requirements with no MIDDLEMEN involved.
Today everybody produces things or becomes part of a mechanical process to produce things for selling to others to earn money so that he can buy things, from others, for his self consumption. Here the shocking fact is that while the actual producer usually gets only much less than 10% of the actual price of his product, the end buyer of this product, at some distant place, has to get it at an exorbitant price, as the long chain of middlemen with scores of ‘sweet poisons’ (sales promotion techniques) are pocketing more than 90% of the margin between the producer and the consumer. Further, another shocking fact is the end product becomes a poisonous commodity, especially if it is an agricultural product, in the long chain of ‘value addition’ and other product treatments in a series of ‘sweet poisons’ like dipping it in chemicals for preservation, packing, transportation and so on, before reaching the end consumer.
This process, while cheating both the actual producers and consumers, also, on a pyramidal scheme basis, bring profit to the market by artificially generating other related wants, like the market for synthetic medicines by generating illness among the consumers of these spurious products.
The fact is that in the technogenic model there is the law domineering – profit at any cost. The pandemic race for profits has made us prisoners or hostages of manufacturers’ and sellers’ interests. The easiest way to gain super-profits is cost reduction. The more synthetics in a product the lower its cost is. The longer the period of storage, the easier it is to encash the product.
The next question is: how dare they to feed us this stuff? How could this happen that we are surrounded with synthetics — and not only in the food alone– in everything?
Again, it is very simple: if the consumer mind is at a zombie level, you can sell anything to him. And he will believe that this is not only useful but crucial for his own health.
All this happen because manufacturers and retailers are a category of ill-intentioned people. In fact, the system forces them to act the way they do. And just like revolution devours its children, the children of the system are in its power.
Moreover, when the world fell into the crisis and then got stuck in a deep recession, the race for profits became even more acute. And now it is very much reflected in the quality of goods – and any goods, not just food. Any household item, from paint through to a bulb, contains cheap chemical components that constitute a direct threat not only to health, but even for life.
You would be surprised to know, on a detailed reckoning, that almost 90% of our problems are just myths and that 99% of our wants in the market are indeed un-wants or superfluous. Today man does not need almost 99% of products available in the market. Modern man is forced or humored into buying what he does not actually need; and he thus buys these by selling or spending his things and energy that he really needs for his more basic life functions. This world produces 99% of its things that are not only redundant for man or Nature but also are ending up as poisonous or injurious to Nature and man. And, in addition, this feat is carried out by destroying or poisoning what is essentially needed, like fresh air, fresh water and organic food and fertile soil. Here it is enough to conclude that “the fool (modern man) and his money (wealth) is soon parted.”
In capitalist societies, the primary KPI (key performance indicator) that the vast majority of the population organises their decisions around is acquiring money. Most people acquire money to consume. These dual focal points lead to really stupid behaviour and gross misallocation of resources across society.
For example, it is too easy for companies to make money by doing stupid things that are totally unneccessary (like fill plastic bottles with water and transport them 500km to be sold, using oil and creating plastic waste, when local water, properly filtered, is of equivalent quality) and then use advertising to promote their sale. Such activities move money, and create profit for the controlling party, while wasting oil, with no net benefit to society overall.
Thus, technology is empowering capitalist stupidity, and as self- centered capitalists people become more powerful through more tools, the effect on our planet is becoming more severe.
Right now, governance is skewed by highly funded lobbyists creating policies that suit corporate interests instead of mankinds interests. This is largely invisible to the average person who takes their lead from the media - their primary source of information about the world - where that same media is skewed by PR firms and advetisers. The most profitable and thus advertisable products have very high markup from cost of production to cost of sale - like coca cola (flavoured sugar water that is not healthful).
Our system in its current form, where all companies activites are organised around stock price growth, is broken and we need a totally different system of sensible resource allocation that takes a long term (multi-generational) view so we leave our planet better off for future generations.
It is a fact that the whole world has been reduced to a big market and the business of man is ending up as his only business. And today, in the fully commercialized – and commoditized — world which has been in existence towards the last leg of human history, it is this less than 0.1% of human race – business people – who control the rest 99.9%.
But today, man depends on market or middlemen for not only 100% of his consumer items but also for such basic life-sustaining natural commodities like fresh water and fresh air. Being totally mechanized and thus degenerated to the brim, 99% of the present population is forced to do things just in the reverse order of how their ancestors used to do for millions of years. It will not be an exaggeration to say that almost 99% of what man produces today – which include his food and other products and services – not only end up as waste or what we call pollution but also that they end up recoiling on himself in the near future with more ravage force.
Modern man spends 99% of his energy and money that only go on working against him and his children, let alone against the whole human society and Nature. In creating money – synthetic wealth – he destroys the natural wealth without which, however, he simply cannot survive.
Today almost 99% of whatever modern man does turn out to be not only worthless and against society and Nature in near future but also against man himself, even if he is a middleman. That is, as modern human beings, we all – including you and me – are ending up doing almost everything against ourselves. As mostly a parasitic mechanical being, modern man is fast developing to be the terminator seed not only of mankind but also of almost all life forms on this planet.
Today, the single day that man lives on this planet pollutes it much more than what it used to be polluted during the total period when man lived for tens of thousands of years during the pre-modern era. Now, as the pollution crescendo keeps building up on chain reaction through a million known and unknown sources and shapes, it can be safely concluded that either the planet is aging prematurely due to this vitiation process or nature is devising ways to get rid of this erratic, irritant species called modern man.
Thus almost 99.99% modern human life is indirect, negative, destructive, unproductive and thus unnatural ever since he started this vitiation process, largely since the Industrial Revolution.
And the world thus ended up in making the whole mankind to be dependent—no, not on nature—on each other, for selling and buying techniques of exploitation of man by man. In other words, modern mankind, despite being the long exploiters nature, became exploiters of one another or just the PARASITES of the same species. And the trend soon got mandated and globalized with the market getting the lead and globalization becoming the norm.
In perpetually living a life dependent on the exploitation of the same species and thus promoting collective foolery, modern man has come to develop techniques of foolery – and its arts and craft. This exactly is the science and philosophy of what we call modernism. Modern man works on dreams – sweet poisons which he calls ‘hypotheses’. This development has, at last, come to the saturation point and reached the end of the road. This is the chain marketing development that has reached up to the last man who, out of no other option, is looking for the next imaginary buyer to sell – lately in other planets.
Thanks to Marius Paul ..
FIRST NATIONS SAY ENOUGH
The fact is that in the technogenic model there is the law domineering – profit at any cost. The pandemic race for profits has made us prisoners or hostages of manufacturers’ and sellers’ interests. The easiest way to gain super-profits is cost reduction. The more synthetics in a product the lower its cost is. The longer the period of storage, the easier it is to encash the product.
The next question is: how dare they to feed us this stuff? How could this happen that we are surrounded with synthetics — and not only in the food alone– in everything?
Again, it is very simple: if the consumer mind is at a zombie level, you can sell anything to him. And he will believe that this is not only useful but crucial for his own health.
All this happen because manufacturers and retailers are a category of ill-intentioned people. In fact, the system forces them to act the way they do. And just like revolution devours its children, the children of the system are in its power.
Moreover, when the world fell into the crisis and then got stuck in a deep recession, the race for profits became even more acute. And now it is very much reflected in the quality of goods – and any goods, not just food. Any household item, from paint through to a bulb, contains cheap chemical components that constitute a direct threat not only to health, but even for life.
You would be surprised to know, on a detailed reckoning, that almost 90% of our problems are just myths and that 99% of our wants in the market are indeed un-wants or superfluous. Today man does not need almost 99% of products available in the market. Modern man is forced or humored into buying what he does not actually need; and he thus buys these by selling or spending his things and energy that he really needs for his more basic life functions. This world produces 99% of its things that are not only redundant for man or Nature but also are ending up as poisonous or injurious to Nature and man. And, in addition, this feat is carried out by destroying or poisoning what is essentially needed, like fresh air, fresh water and organic food and fertile soil. Here it is enough to conclude that “the fool (modern man) and his money (wealth) is soon parted.”
In capitalist societies, the primary KPI (key performance indicator) that the vast majority of the population organises their decisions around is acquiring money. Most people acquire money to consume. These dual focal points lead to really stupid behaviour and gross misallocation of resources across society.
For example, it is too easy for companies to make money by doing stupid things that are totally unneccessary (like fill plastic bottles with water and transport them 500km to be sold, using oil and creating plastic waste, when local water, properly filtered, is of equivalent quality) and then use advertising to promote their sale. Such activities move money, and create profit for the controlling party, while wasting oil, with no net benefit to society overall.
Thus, technology is empowering capitalist stupidity, and as self- centered capitalists people become more powerful through more tools, the effect on our planet is becoming more severe.
Right now, governance is skewed by highly funded lobbyists creating policies that suit corporate interests instead of mankinds interests. This is largely invisible to the average person who takes their lead from the media - their primary source of information about the world - where that same media is skewed by PR firms and advetisers. The most profitable and thus advertisable products have very high markup from cost of production to cost of sale - like coca cola (flavoured sugar water that is not healthful).
Our system in its current form, where all companies activites are organised around stock price growth, is broken and we need a totally different system of sensible resource allocation that takes a long term (multi-generational) view so we leave our planet better off for future generations.
It is a fact that the whole world has been reduced to a big market and the business of man is ending up as his only business. And today, in the fully commercialized – and commoditized — world which has been in existence towards the last leg of human history, it is this less than 0.1% of human race – business people – who control the rest 99.9%.
But today, man depends on market or middlemen for not only 100% of his consumer items but also for such basic life-sustaining natural commodities like fresh water and fresh air. Being totally mechanized and thus degenerated to the brim, 99% of the present population is forced to do things just in the reverse order of how their ancestors used to do for millions of years. It will not be an exaggeration to say that almost 99% of what man produces today – which include his food and other products and services – not only end up as waste or what we call pollution but also that they end up recoiling on himself in the near future with more ravage force.
Modern man spends 99% of his energy and money that only go on working against him and his children, let alone against the whole human society and Nature. In creating money – synthetic wealth – he destroys the natural wealth without which, however, he simply cannot survive.
Today almost 99% of whatever modern man does turn out to be not only worthless and against society and Nature in near future but also against man himself, even if he is a middleman. That is, as modern human beings, we all – including you and me – are ending up doing almost everything against ourselves. As mostly a parasitic mechanical being, modern man is fast developing to be the terminator seed not only of mankind but also of almost all life forms on this planet.
Today, the single day that man lives on this planet pollutes it much more than what it used to be polluted during the total period when man lived for tens of thousands of years during the pre-modern era. Now, as the pollution crescendo keeps building up on chain reaction through a million known and unknown sources and shapes, it can be safely concluded that either the planet is aging prematurely due to this vitiation process or nature is devising ways to get rid of this erratic, irritant species called modern man.
Thus almost 99.99% modern human life is indirect, negative, destructive, unproductive and thus unnatural ever since he started this vitiation process, largely since the Industrial Revolution.
And the world thus ended up in making the whole mankind to be dependent—no, not on nature—on each other, for selling and buying techniques of exploitation of man by man. In other words, modern mankind, despite being the long exploiters nature, became exploiters of one another or just the PARASITES of the same species. And the trend soon got mandated and globalized with the market getting the lead and globalization becoming the norm.
In perpetually living a life dependent on the exploitation of the same species and thus promoting collective foolery, modern man has come to develop techniques of foolery – and its arts and craft. This exactly is the science and philosophy of what we call modernism. Modern man works on dreams – sweet poisons which he calls ‘hypotheses’. This development has, at last, come to the saturation point and reached the end of the road. This is the chain marketing development that has reached up to the last man who, out of no other option, is looking for the next imaginary buyer to sell – lately in other planets.
Thanks to Marius Paul ..
FIRST NATIONS SAY ENOUGH