09-06-2010, 10:41 AM
WT Reader Wrote:Amusing yet sad video of Dubya above, Danno.Of course corruption is about the influence of money. Corruption in human society started to appear when neolithic society began. Technological advances made surplus possible which opened the door to corruption. Before the neolithic age, in a hunter/gatherer society, life was very much egalitarian.
As for our system just structurally open to corruption, I opine that it is the huge influence of vast sums of money which corrupt it.
Our Founding Fathers did not foresee this development, such as rich powerful private banks and particularly The Fed...both Jefferson fought against a central bank, Andrew Jackson did, Lincoln warned of the rise of vast, huge corporations and special interests (for which many believe he was assassinated as a result) and Woodrow Wilson was crushed, both emotionally and physically, upon promoting and passage of the third new central bank for the USA, The Fed, back in 1913. JFK likewise saw the threat, tried to curtail The Fed and many believe it was the private bankers who had him assassinated for this "act of rebellion."
Our Founding Fathers had nothing against free enterprise and capitalism. Rather, they never envisioned how powerful special interests then global interests would become, and in their own way back to Washington warned against it.
Problem is that we did not heed their warnigs, ergo what we have today. A mess of an economy on Main Street while Wall Street revels in our misery, showing nothing but contempt for the average American worker. It is all about The Elites today, both nationally, on the state level and even on the municipal level.
As long as The Elites and many of Their puppets in government posing as our leaders are happy, fat and sassy, the rest of us are just a burden to them, an inconvenient truth, and we can just "go eat cake." New faces yet mostly same failed policies and lack of vision...and as the Good Book says in Proverbs 29:18 (KJV) "where there is no vision, the people perish; but he that keepeth the law, happy is he."
-- WT Reader
The founding fathers were certainly aware of the fact that corruption was an inherent part of the free enterprise system. They however believed that corruption was an inevitable part of human nature and therefore it was an issue of degree. In other words corruption was viewed as unavoidable due to human nature so some degree of corruption was inevitable and thus acceptable. Their intentions were probably noble but they really didn't know they had a better choice. Science knows different now... we do have a better choice.
We ALL need to realize that fact worldwide or we are in for some big big trouble soon.
My prediction is a world war that will make all other wars look like childs play that will take place sometime within the next 5 to 5o years. Those huge underground doomsday shelters are probably a smart choice. Those few who survive will have a much better world than we.
On a slightly different note, one thing our founders probably did not predict or envision at all is the fact that the free enterprise system is very very hard on the planet and its resources. It cannot be sustained. We also know better now and do have a choice but there are some very stubborn people in the world.