Apparent Morality

"If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let’s go out and worship other gods’, do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity. Do not spare him or shield him. You must certainly put him to death. Your hand must be the first in putting him to death and then the hands of the people. Stone him to death because he tried to turn you away from the Lord your God” (Deuteronomy 13:6-11)"

The supposed morality of the Bible.

Murica.

"As the government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion and tranquilities, of Muslim Men; and as the States have never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two nations." -1797, Bay of Tripoli - John Adams, Joel Barlow representing the government of the USA.

Christian nation?

Change

"when people attack, ridicule, scoff and degrade "radical" ideas like the Venus Project, the Electric Universe, or people like Nassim Haramein, or conduct any other such action, remember that history is full of people who do this. They are the ones challenged, fearful, or simply too egotistical to accept something different." The Space Advocate

The Insanity Model

I am going to entertain myself with an analogy between our current market system, and a quote from Einstein. The quote will come at the end.

Our current financial system was born about 100 years ago. Since then, we have had recession after recession after recession, now commonly known as the boom and bust cycle. Averaging about one every four years or so. After each one of these recessions, the response is almost always the same; That is the government introduces new legislation to try and stop this disaster from happening again, and the central bank pumps new credit into the system*, only for the same thing to happen within a few years time.

Albert Einstein once defined insanity as "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results".

Does it not seem that the free market system which for good or bad has been exported to almost every corner of the globe, is insane? There is another interesting trend in that each recession is usually more severe than the last, so the problem keeps getting worse, and thus the legislation drafted is usually more draconian and the amount of credit pumped into the system has increased exponentially. Quite clearly, these actions have not slowed down recessions, nor have they have made recessions milder to bare for the general public.

Why on Earth are we still in a free market globalized system? Why on Earth are we still using a centuries old socioeconomic policy that could be improved upon today with real world science. Why on Earth don't enough people care?


* The Great Depression is the exception to this, in that the central bank of the USA restricted credit at the time, prolonging the recession.