Pure Capitalism

2006-8-7 05:48:00

Larry writes:

In many respects capitalism represents a high moral ideal. Authors like Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, and others have written extensively on this. I recommend reading "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" for those who are ignorant of the true history of capitalism.

It has been said that pure capitalism has never been tried - at least not on any major level. It certainly does not exist in this age. Instead, we have the corrupted prostitute sitting upon the beast of authority using corrupted capitalism to her advantage.

On the other hand, pure socialism or communism has been tried and in each case it has been a disaster.

Part of the reason for the success of capitalism and the failure of communism is that capitalism must operate within some degree of freedom and communism has always been forced upon the people. No good and lasting work can ever materialize through slavery. Capitalism, as it currently exists, succeeds to some degree because it has built in incentives for the individual and communism has very little incentive. Communism has group incentive, but few are evolved enough to be highly motivated by this, especially without free will. Some day through free will mankind will incorporate the best of the two systems, but it cannot be accomplished by Big Brother, or the Beast of authority.

We have just talked about the corrupt woman symbolizing misuse of capital but previously we discussed another woman:

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.  Revelation 12:1

This woman represents right use of energy, including money, for she has enlightened views (the sun) right control and direction of desire (moon under her feet) and a pure heart (twelve stars).

Both Socialism and Capitalism need the virtues of this uncorrupted woman to reach their full potential. The ideal of socialism is to provide goods and services in abundance to all the people. Unfortunately for idealists, capitalism is essential to create those goods and services. Hence the evolution toward the workable ingredients in socialism must be through capitalism.

It is quite possible that a pure form of capitalism must be finally created before the true social ideals will be manifest. In a truly successful capitalism where there is maximum free will the poor will be taken better care of through giving and generosity than they are by the present governments of the earth.

Global Warming Enlightenment: On 60 Minutes Sunday they had a special on the orthodox view of global warming. They were warning us that burning fossil fuels is making the ice melt in the Arctic and Antarctica. I wonder why no one has ever asked the question as to why these two areas are in the most danger when there are no cars or power plants there. And why is it that some of the Arctic waters are up to eight degrees above normal? Obviously there is something happening in the ocean that is causing this - like underwater volcanoes - not grandma driving her car in Ohio.