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Subject: Real democracy can't exist because it is a power vacuum
From: AnonyMint
Date: Tue, May 13, 2014 9:43 pm
To: "Armstrong Economics" <
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http://armstrongeconomics.com/2014/05/13/the-death-of-representative-government-the-real-conspiracy-crisis-in-democracy/It is a positive step (but unsatisfying) to see that Martin Armstrong has
dropped the illogical CIA plot red-herring, strawman argument (for now, we
he bring it back again?).
Now he reverts to his original reasoning displayed on his blog before the
Ukraine situation came into being.
Note I have read virtually EVERYTHING Armstrong has written which is
available on the internet.
Essentially Armstrong believes that the only possible solution for mankind
to avoid the repeating corruption of political structure throughout human
history, is term limits for politicians.
Armstrong's thesis is that politicians' vested interests become ingrained
if they are allowed to stay in office too long (Btw, an anti-dynasty law
is proposed now in the Philippines where I am).
I don't understand why Martin Armstrong can't grasp the point of Mancur
Olson's book The Logic Of Collective Action, which explains that voting
people into office creates a power vacuum wherein those who win are those
who promise the most to everyone. In other words, it hands away the
top-down control and power to privatize the gains from profits of banking
(and other corruptions) and socialize the costs of defaults from these
corrupt activities.
I've sent the following link to Armstrong numerous times, I guess he
hasn't taken the time to read it carefully. The following was written by
Eric Raymond, the progenitor of the open source movement and who is known
to have an IQ in the 150 to 170 range.
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=984(Some Iron Laws of Political Economics)
Creating some constitution or law to create term terms will not eliminate
the power vacuum, because the people who the term limits apply to are the
ones who are voting on the laws of the land. Even if they don't create a
law to absolve the term limits (one possibility), they can use their
influence while in office to gain employment after they leave office with
those corporations and entities which are benefiting from "the top-down
control and power to privatize the gains from profits of banking (and
other corruptions) and socialize the costs of defaults from these corrupt
activities.".
Thus creating a round-robin revolving door for political office
accomplishes nothing against the power vacuum of political top down control.
Even if we had the people vote directly on each and every action of the
government, the people could still be manipulated by mass media as they
are today. And because people are easily divided on petty issues, they are
easy to divide-and-conquer politically.
I long ago concluded there is no solution to politics. Martin sees that it
has been this way throughout human history, yet he thinks he is going to
lead some sudden change to the way it has always been? DELUSION! That is a
first stage of insanity! The power vacuum of political economics is a
natural effect. It can't be changed, because it is nature.
Come on Martin, come back to your senses. Get a grip on reality. You are
not God. Even the Bible explains this can't be changed in 1 Samuel 8. The
solution presented in the Bible is that those who believe are "not one of
this world" and should only answer to one King and not be concerned with
what happens in this flesh life.
Armstrong is correct that a Benevolent Dictator such as Caesar can provide
a brief respite from the power vacuum, but as Rome proved this is never
sustainable and the ill effects of the power vacuum re-emerge.
Armstrong is correct that the problem "is government" (specifically the
power vacuum) but he is incorrect to believe this can be changed.
There is only one change that has ever worked longer-term in the history
of the world. And that is for oppressed people to escape to a new frontier
wherein the government is small. This works until those people become
numerous and society becomes well-established, then the government grows
large again and the ill effects emerge.
Unfortunately now on earth, there is no more place for physical frontier,
because technology has shrunk the world. Even if you try to go hide in the
mountains between Argentina and Chile, there are roaming rangers who will
hunt you down. The U.S.A. even has satellites which can read the VIN
number plate on the dashboard of your car and identify your face from
outer space!
In the past at least we had physical cash (or gold/silver) to transact
with anonymously (out of view of the government) during oppressive times,
but now commerce is mostly electronic so tangible cash would mean a
cataclysmic implosion of the velocity-of-money (because it can't be
exchanged electronically), which is precisely what has been happening
since the blowup of Long-Term Capital Management in 1998.
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article45235.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantity_theory_of_moneyM × V = P × Q ≈ nominal GDP
So now we come full circle to the only frontier remaining on earth which
has any chance of providing a solution to the current global cataclysm
ahead.
I described in great detail how the world is moving away from labor to a
knowledge age. One must read the following linked threads and understand
that labor could be financed and top-down controlled (c.f. the Theory of
the Firm), but knowledge is different especially now we have the means to
self-publish (internet) and self-produce (3D printers) our knowledge. At
the thread below I successfully debated Eric Raymond:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=495527.msg6065144#msg6065144https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=557732.msg6078778#msg6078778The only frontier remaining is for us to move to a knowledge economy where
most commerce is hidden from the government (the power vacuum of
democracy) with anonymous crypto-currency.
The old labor-intensive industrial world is dying. Those bankster elite
are consolidating their economies-of-scale now with their geopolitical war
games and austerity programs driving revolutions, because IT IS JUST TIME.
What time is it? It is the end of their paradigm.
Finance will die. Because knowledge production no longer needs stored
capital.
This is a epochal shift and Armstrong is blinded. He can only see the old
world and old world non-solutions and plays right into the hand of the
elite's consolidation of power.
Whereas, the other side of the new technology is the birth of the
Knowledge Age and the death of the Industrial Age.
Is Martin too old to have an epiphany?
Well I don't have more time to convince him. I have real work to do on
doing my role to make this Knowledge Age come to fruition as fast as
possible.
What is the solution for Ukraine? It is the same as the solution for
people all over the world. Learn to do knowledge work in your home. Hide
away from the chaos outside. Let the elite consolidate their power.
Meanwhile adopt anonymous crypto-currency and profit from your knowledge
work. Soon the old world will be bankrupted as we race forward into
prosperity.
Epochal shift. Can Martin open his eyes to what TIME IT IS?