Reviving Justice without killing Liberty
"Oh Lord, grant us the strength to make things better, and the wisdom to see what we cannot change"
14th century Monk's prayer
At this pivotal point in the history of Homo sapiens, there are two absolutely central considerations to live by at all times:
1.Reform of our approach to social, ethical, judicial and geopolitical coexistence must be The Genuine Article this time. It has to be radical and devoid of window dressing.
2.Somewhere between four and six percent of our species are incurable cases of ASBD - that is, they are Anti-Social Behaviour Disordered at the level of either psychopathy or sociopathy. At the time of writing, there is no cure for their condition....nor indeed do they want to be cured. There has therefore to be reality among all reformers about this congenital fact.
Radical Reality is a golden rule I first put forward twenty years ago. In it's essence, it asks those who follow the tolerant, mutual and entrepreneurial version of culture to accept that the species is both facing an existential crisis and there is always the likelihood, if we try to do the impossible, of creating the
There are many people you can inform, persuade, enlighten, encourage and support. And there are others you can define, recognise and use - but above all, they must be controlled.
ASBDs suffer delusions of Deity, entertain an assumption that other people are expendable, and harbour a desire to run the entire planet. Trying to exert genocidal holocaust against them won't work, because they are akin to sharks' teeth: they'd simply keep growing back.
Equally, such people do, at times, have unique qualities - displaying evidence of both foresight and genius. Like it or not, they do solve problems and create new opportunities. Appeasing them, however never works.
And last but not least, suppose it was possible to use drug therapy to eradicate the ASBD gene from our species: the law of unintended consequences further down the line always applies when apprentices meddle with God's work. [For example, as with the Eloi versus Morlock dilemma in HG Wells' brilliant novel The Time Machine - this from the Slog archives]
There is little doubt in my mind that Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Keir Starmer, Albert Bourla, Barack Obama, Matt Hancock, Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Recep Erdoğan, Ursula von der Leyen, Vlodomore Zelenskyy and Emmanuel Macron all display key behaviours suggestive of ASBD tendencies.
At the same time, so too do Xi Ping, Vladimir Putin, the clique around Gambia's Adama Barrow, Vice President JD Vance, Kamala Harris and the sycophants licking Trump all over in the recent US Cabinet session. But while most of us would have doubts about the motives of, for example, Bric nation leaders - hypocrites or not, last week they reiterated their summit outcome with a further sensible endorsement of Multi-polar geopolitics rather than Western neocon fantasies about US hegemony.
Bottom line: there are some folks you can't rehabilitate. But without the no-nonsense Radicalism required for the survival of civilised human behaviour and justice, we might as well just hand over Planet Earth to the ASBDs and have done with it.
On that note, this is my starter sextet of game-changers:
1.The ridiculous definition of who owns personal or business bank deposits requires complete and immediate abolition. That's to say, bank customers are not 'unsecured lenders to' unaccountable banker Goforits. Money deposited in banks belongs to the depositors. Let's bury this brazen transubstantiation theory in a leadlined coffin and dump it in the nearest active volcano at the earliest opportunity.
2.It is not the job of the financial-cum-commodity bourses of the World to directionalise individual stock, precious metal and crop future prices purely to make money, take profit and then dump the rookie investor in a cess-pit just before the close of trading. Concerted price manipulation based on false or zero data is not difficult to observe, track and fine: even the most braindead AI program could do it. The job of bourses is to provide investment capital for genuinely creative capitalist concerns: it is not to create investment house corrupters of all media information and/or fund ill-considered, greed-fuelled mergers and takeovers that result in command monopoly fascists where once there was cultural mutuality. M&A activity should all be referred to regulatory enquiry.
3.We must tackle the growing (and intentional) NWO practice of exporting extremist fanatics upon nation States with the aim of making those countries ungovernable, multicultural basket cases....and thus, ripe for quasi-colonial takeover. Only by making the Rule of Law constitutionally sacrosanct can this vital recovery of tribal identity and business honesty be restored as the antidote to gigantic, distant World Government based on monopoly command pricing and senior corporacrat mandarins ignoring the Law.
4.Equally, if redress to Law in order to control the Deity-complex dingbats is unaffordable for most citizens, nothing will change for the better. It is the duty of those elected to serve the citizenry to ensure that legal aid is restored to support everyone defending liberty on behalf of the rest of us.
5.The digitalisation of cash is already being put into the hands of smartphone service suppliers and electronic network providers across the globe. It is of vital importance to all levels of society not to acquiesce in the creation of an unregulated institutional/ISP Silicon Valley monopoly of money supply. We need an internationally agreed law to make cash payment acceptable in perpetuity. Anything less would mean the end of all Civil Rights in relation to control of one's own monetary budgeting.
6.Government agencies and service providers online should be banned from the use of 'NoReply' in their email, text and other electronic communications with customers. It is an affront to our Civil Rights and every principle of responsive service in the first place. It is also (along with AIBot 'chats') a blindingly obvious attempt to fob off citizens with third-rate after-sales care. No service supplier in future should feel able to hide from those whose money keeps them in business. From here on, accountability must apply to everyone without exception.
Check it out: how likely is YOUR homeland to put forward people in public life who could get this massive task under way?
Let me say this about my own country, The United Kingdom.
The Opposition to Starmer's corrupt New World Order administration talks a good game about 'Starmer Out'.
In truth, the potential resistance to Labour's Liars is all over the place.
There is one Party calling itself 'Reform', but its leader Nigel Farage would reject every one of my reforms.
So, a great deal of work needs to be done.
Enjoy your Sunday.