HOMO SAPIENS - THE SPECIES OPTIONS DEFINED
Make capitalism honest and mutual, or make yourself expendable
'Expendable definition: adjective of relatively little significance, and therefore able to be abandoned or destroyed'
MUTUALITY -"a partnership based on mutual respect and understanding;co-operation based on the principle of mutuality – viz, respect for the feelings and needs of everyone in a society, regardless of rank”.
Here’s something for readers to chew upon – it’s Page 1 stuff, but our “leaders” just see what they want to see, and disregard the rest:
Man is a tribal species.
The most successful tribes throughout history have been based not on Devil-take-the-hindmost, but rather on ensuring that those needed to defend the tribe remain healthy and supportive.
As a species, our greatest success has been in creating and nurturing belief in the tribe through empathy and leadership rather than exploitation.
We are by nature social animals.
It is worth noting that the most effective torture to prise secrets out of prisoners during a War is solitary confinement.
Yet neoliberal globalist economics both (a) embrace the principle of exploitative money-based power that leaves the majority of citizens alone in a filthy, lonely cell; and (b) flatly refuse to take the empathy dimension of mutuality seriously in developing a more inclusive model of capitalism.
The species descriptor we awarded ourselves 160 years ago is entirely absent from the actions (described in the foregoing paragraph) that have been adopted by opinion leaders during the last four decades. When a econo-cultural strategy is devoid of sapient analysis, the chances are there is an agenda involving a devious and controlling minority.
This is precisely the situation we are in today. The case for mutual capitalism is – by any sane measurement – irresistible.
It’s time to give Mutuality a central position as the driver of an economic form that results in the greatest potential, health and contentment of the vast majority of citizens.
As I write in 2025, we are trying to “win” by repeating New Normal failures, while refusing to accept the appeal of a long-recognised species tribal instinct.
We have other factory-wired instincts that are potentially self-destructive. But empathy as the basis of accountable civilisation isn’t one of them.
But the assumption contained in all the foregoing analysis is that somehow, there just might some sanity in the sapiens of it all.
There isn't.
This isn't about sane policy, people: the digital 21st century is about CONTROL.
Many of you will have read stuff of mine alleging that the once Sovereign consumer is being turned into a slave. Here's an incident from yesterday that proves the point beyond any reasonable doubt....
I switched on my Dell laptop, being in something of a hurry to get more information on a large town somewhere to the south of me here in The Gambia. The screen told me I 'needed' to make updates to both Firefox and Microsoft 10. I pressed the 'dismiss' button and started a search on Google maps.
Three minutes later, my screen cursor disappeared.
I tried everything to get it back, then switched off the pc and waited five minutes more before rebooting.
The Dell logo had been replaced by a Microsoft blue screen with that telltale ring of white dots - upon which I observed this barked order:
'Microsoft is updating your pc, after which Firefox will be available once that update has been completed. Do not turn turn off your computer'
Hal4000 incarnate.
Naughty Sloggy, bad boy. Your wrists are hereby slapped. Orders must be obeyed at all times.
And then lo, my cursor was given back to me....but not before the updates Silicon Valley demanded had taken over, and forced me to do as I was told, or else.
You still think we're living in a world in which liberal democracy has triumphed? Is your name Martin Wolf perhaps? Or possibly Dambisa Moyo?
How about this vomit-inducing example from Youtube of Stalinist Politburo sycophancy in action during a recent meeting of Donald Trump's Presidential Cabinet from last week?
Of course, if your goal is an all-controlling totalitarian Global government, the first persuasion job you need to get on with is that of persuading the obedient 62% that the globe we call Earth is now ungovernable, thanks to the existence of a seeming contradiction-in-terms called 'Global Civil War'.
For example, the current English 'Flag of St George' movement designed to counter NWO treason and Fundamentalist Islamic demands
The US-organised battle between The Ukraine and the Russian Federation
The media/Secret State orchestrated war between the Trump Administration and US Progressives....
....and not forgetting the Civil War in the EU between Ursula Von der Leyen and the People
'The World's a mess, so what we need is Fascist monopoly command globalism run by Big Business, for Transhumanists and without Homo sapiens.
That's the Game Plan, folks.
This post ends where it began:
.....and the perverters of purpose will turn anything into a weapon in the bid to render us surplus to requirements
Distracting propaganda, weather, pharma drugs, smartphones, digital currencies, religion, ideology, AI, robots - all will be used without remorse.
PS Choosing sides - a reminder from the Slog archives