Political and economic ideologies are almost useless if not practiced
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0.000 HBDPolitical and economic ideologies are almost useless if not practiced
<html> <p>If you ask 10 people, you'll probably get 10 different answers of what they think in terms of ideal political and economic management. </p> <p><br></p> <center><p>https://s9.postimg.io/8xn24cntb/Erickson_NPOV_political_chart.jpg</p></center> <p><br></p> <p>The more opinionated are usually those who are totally ignorant, or, those who have been very active in reading, listening, thinking and discussing about political and economic ideologies. But my question is this: <em>What good is any ideology about political or economic systems if one can't use it?</em></p> <h3>Introspection</h3> <p>Let's start with the basics. Assuming you have an X or Y ideology on political and economic systems, please take a few seconds and ask yourself this: <em>"I am an advocate of the X or Y system, but do I realistically expect it will be implemented anytime soon?"</em></p> <p>....what type of answer did you get?</p> <p>If you are honest with yourself, you'll typically get a "<em>no</em>". </p> <p>And now you must ask again: "<em>Why? Why wouldn't my preferred ideology get implemented? What's stopping it?"</em></p> <p>After answering that one, you now have some "reasons" on why this won't happen.</p> <p>Then you have to ask yourself this: <em>"If I know this, deep inside, then why am I wasting my efforts on the ideological front, when I need to be working on those "reasons" that prevent my ideology to be implemented?"</em></p> <p>Before going further, ponder that for a while.</p> <h3>Going deeper</h3> <p>The chain-sequence of questions and answers will usually take you to the "immaturity", "malleability", "ignorance", and other "issues" of your fellow men who seem to be supporting the established system out of their ignorance. </p> <p>Yet, even if you go to the more "enlightened" people (like yourself) who are "above the masses" and "above the sheeple", and have been thinking about these things a lot, you'll see that there is no consensus because everyone seems to have their "superior way".</p> <p>So, what's the problem now? Is it the sheeple? There are definitely people out there, which you would acknowledge that they are smarter than you, and they have different systems to propose than what you propose. And these smarter people may even disagree between themselves on what is better. You can have 200 different opinions. <em>Can you now start seeing that the problem is not what you thought it is?</em></p> <p>Even if we totally "eliminated" the masses from the equation and made a "council" of all the best thinkers who are engaged in the seeking of better political and economical systems, and even if we knew that these thinkers genuinely wanted the best for mankind, they would still disagree between themselves on what is best and what should get implemented.</p> <h3>The reality of power</h3> <p>With all this paralysis-by-extreme-analysis, you'd think humanity wouldn't even have a system to run on. Yet we do have systems in place. Why? <em>Because ultimately, the only thing that counts is power. Those that have power to implement their system do.</em> And that's what they've been doing. </p> <p>The Elite that control the world's governments are not interested in specific economic or political ideologies. The same moment they promote "freedom" in one country, they use a military junta or an oppressive regime in another - and they are perfectly fine with it. They laugh at every "ideologist", academic, blogger or "intellectual", who tries to convince the world on why a certain system, a certain policy, or a certain way is better - because that's not their modus operandi. The Elite use economic systems and political systems as <strong>tools</strong> for the perpetuation and expansion of their global power. </p> <p>If an economic system is good for Elite, for a particular use-case, they'll use it. People, academics, journalists, bloggers debate endlessly on what solutions would be better for the economy or government and yet this is totally irrelevant and useless.</p> <p>Restated for emphasis: The Elite (who have the power to implement the systems) don't care about ...optimal political systems or optimal economic systems. They care about <strong>control</strong>. They have the <strong>power</strong> to implement whatever they want in order to maximize their <strong>control</strong> of the world - even if that means wasting trillions here and there, even if that means having governments that act against the citizens interests, etc etc. </p> <h3>The workarounds</h3> <p>Instead of being paralyzed by the over-analysis of things, one can focus on practical and usable solutions.</p> <p>If you are against fiat money, you can dump it and buy property, precious metals, etc. </p> <p>If you are against oppressive intellectual property rights, you can write open source code (or books) and distribute it for free. Linux and other open-source software are prime examples.</p> <p>If you are against the economic policies and monetary system, you can create or support something like ...Bitcoin. Bitcoin doesn't wait for the global monetary system or global payment systems to change. It just appears out of nowhere and "competes" with these systems by presenting itself as a new option that embodies the philosophies of its creator in a practical manner. People who are aligned with it use it, people who aren't aligned with it use the established systems. </p> <p>If you are against the way the mainstream media operate, you can blog. Along with millions of other bloggers you can make a difference in the quality of information. </p> <p>Even if you don't like the blogging paradigm as is dominated by the main blogging platforms, you can create or support alternatives like Steemit - which embody different philosophical characteristics.</p> <p>By acting in a philosophically consistent way you can be an example of your ideology while also creating positive change for the world - at least as you see it. But is the impact created by such actions enough to effect changes in the status-quo?</p> <h3>Long-term changes</h3> <p>To create deep and lasting changes in the system a lot more has to be done. The fundamental control structure of the Elite exists for specific reasons. These things rarely change at a fundamental level by the implementation of the various "workarounds". </p> <p>One will find these reasons if they extend the line of inquiry started earlier: "<em>Why do the Elite have the power that they have? How can they "impose" their ways on billions of people, if the masses theoretically outnumber them and as such can overthrow the established control structure? What can be done about it?"</em>...etc etc<em> </em></p> <p>If one is <em>truly</em> interested in changing the world and not be engaged with ideologies as a "hobby", they'll have to go down that rabbit hole sooner or later and find the answers to these questions. But most don't even ask these questions - pretending that it's all a matter of choosing whether this system or that system is better and what characteristics are better and debating endlessly on self-evident things. Yet this is nothing more than a waste of time because it has zero real life consequences.</p> <h3>Conclusion</h3> <p>One can be thinking or discussing about ideologies surrounding economy and politics all day long, but this won't be creating any change in the world unless the ideologies are applied and tested in some practical way. And even then, that change won't be at a <em>fundamental</em> level because one has to first understand the way the world operates, recognize the key aspects where change is needed, find the ways to effect change in these aspects and then focus there first. But this is very rarely done.</p> </html>
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