pinkfloydpsw's Blog

I think, in this era, the early parts of this century, it is more important than ever to think about why conflicts arise. We all know the stories of the wars that have happened in history, but in our own time we also know that there is always always always more than meets the eye to whatever is going on in the world militarily. The same kind of books will be written about these current wars as have been written before about the last ones, likely by the same people, or those that have been carefully chosen to replace them, after all Max hasting is getting on a bit now.

What will not be supported will be the marginal discourse, the writings of those who were involved that did not agree that theirs was a noble quest to make the world a better place. Neil Faulkner was a guy who was in contradiction to the writings and canons of history concerning the great wars of the 20th century, and it’s definitely worth a look at his work. I wanted to think about what underpins war, how does it arise that the concerns of a farmer in Ohio somehow come into conflict with the life of a similar agrarian in the Middle East or Russia, so as to cause them to support, financially and in rhetoric, the actions of their rulers to fire missiles at each others representatives?

War is the extension of politics by other means, it serves the interests of the economy and those that steer it, never the interests of morality. Politics is the economy regulating the social world. The economy is the owners of the world’s resources regulating the means available to the political system. The owners of the world’s resources are motivated by self interest. Acts of social optimality are sometimes a necessity, but they are almost never benevolence.

Financial institutions provide individuals to serve in government, government then appoints individuals preferred by financial institutions to regulate financial institutions. Government appoints individuals preferred by financial institutions to offices concerned with the regulation of the social world, the courts, therefore the law is indirectly made by financial institutions.

Property is the main concern of the law, but not the distribution or moral aspects of it, just the protection of it from the needs of the social world. This effect is masked as a personal freedom from losing the property you have, in truth you do not own your property until you have fully paid off your mortgage debt, the financial institution does. And when you die then your estate, if you have one, is taxed.

The owners of financial institutions own the news media, the narrative always presents what is best for them, so the news is not actually the news of what is going on in reality it is a form of propaganda. The government regulates the news media on behalf of the financial institutions. The news media convinces the people to support the actions of the government in making wars against other nations, for the benefit of the classes that will remake the conquered or subjugated lands.

In short, the financial world makes conflict inevitable, and profitable…

Paul S Wilson