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A Synopsis of American Entropic Development
13/May/2009 10:23 Filed in: Weekly
Column
This week’s
Chronicle completes our tenth year of somewhat
consistent weekly publication. I suppose the
question should be is that a milestone or a
millstone?
Onward and upward has been America’s developmental slogan for pretty much all of our evolutionary history. But is that really true or has the increase in American power been pretty much in spite of our best intentions rather than the result? As Brute’ mentioned last Friday, we have worked and tried very hard to get something for nothing, in the end however it seems that we have sustained nothing of lasting value for all of our diligence.
This week we will look briefly at a number of American developmental schemes over history and see how they relate to where we are now and where we need to go forward. Then we will attempt to put President Obama’s present activist government enlargement within that scheme, to see that this may be the bungling bureaucratic bourgeois’ final attempt to continue the slouch toward entropy.
Right now in all the press you hear that we are on the threshold. Pretty much all of the mainstream media seems to think that we are on the brink of eternal bliss. Those of a more conservative bent have considered this the threshold, before socialism, fascism, and our loss of liberty and freedom. We are in the process of losing our capitalist system and the prosperity it provides.
As we proceed through this synopsis we will look at American capitalism to see if it really ever existed without government perks, and just how free are free markets or are they just bungled attempts of failed Machiavelli’s to become the prince of the moment. In the result of these manifest destiny offerings, Have we created a unified bungling bureaucratic bourgeois that encompasses both the so-called public and private sectors?
Before we begin, perhaps a definition of capitalism is in order. From the American Heritage Dictionary we find: An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market.
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Onward and upward has been America’s developmental slogan for pretty much all of our evolutionary history. But is that really true or has the increase in American power been pretty much in spite of our best intentions rather than the result? As Brute’ mentioned last Friday, we have worked and tried very hard to get something for nothing, in the end however it seems that we have sustained nothing of lasting value for all of our diligence.
This week we will look briefly at a number of American developmental schemes over history and see how they relate to where we are now and where we need to go forward. Then we will attempt to put President Obama’s present activist government enlargement within that scheme, to see that this may be the bungling bureaucratic bourgeois’ final attempt to continue the slouch toward entropy.
Right now in all the press you hear that we are on the threshold. Pretty much all of the mainstream media seems to think that we are on the brink of eternal bliss. Those of a more conservative bent have considered this the threshold, before socialism, fascism, and our loss of liberty and freedom. We are in the process of losing our capitalist system and the prosperity it provides.
As we proceed through this synopsis we will look at American capitalism to see if it really ever existed without government perks, and just how free are free markets or are they just bungled attempts of failed Machiavelli’s to become the prince of the moment. In the result of these manifest destiny offerings, Have we created a unified bungling bureaucratic bourgeois that encompasses both the so-called public and private sectors?
Before we begin, perhaps a definition of capitalism is in order. From the American Heritage Dictionary we find: An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market.
Read More...