How to Handle the Corpse of Capit Alismus at the Excel-lent Building
1- For the necrophiliacs
Stop kicking or kissing him, wooing and missing him. Let him go! Don’t be an Idiot!
As the Iranian proverb goes: in tou bemiri az aan tou bemiri-ha neest.
2- For the necrophobiacs
While in fear to give a corpse a kiss of life, just because you lent him money, doesn’t make you look any wiser than the necrophiliacs.
Now that you have accepted your phobia, be prepared to let go of some of your gambling loss as the common cost for the funeral.
3- Some food for thoughts on value/currency/need
At present more money has been injected into the economy of Britain in order to keep the inner market of UK look more flowing.
However this excess of money in the market cannot create more value even in terms of capitalism.
And I am sorry to have to say that just before the revolution in Iran the last Shah used the same fiscal policy, but mainly in order to create inflation and the collapse of the economy after his departure, which was unsurprisingly followed by hostage takings at the US embassy by unknown elements (to the public) leading to a major standstill of the economy followed by a defensive long war against Iraq.
An example for the valueless value is for instance the sudden gradual recovery of the price of properties which only works for dealings within the country.
The real Less Value (valueless) is only felt when shopping at the supermarkets for exactly the same kind of foods you bought few years ago paying now double the amount compared to then or when paying your regular bills these days.
Basic clothes remain cheap as their value in terms of need is more limited to numbers than food and domestic energy use, which depend on renewed daily consumption.
I believe there have been suggestions coming from various parts of the globe to move away from the total dependency of the world on US dollar, either by spreading that dependency to other major currencies or perhaps by creating a totally new currency???
Let us have a look at how the situation in some countries actually is; for instance an African country with major produce of banana and coffee.
The people in the West are still having their daily coffee and eat their banana too. However that country in Africa is still hit by the gambling nature of the global capitalism.
So I assume it is the price of what is exchanged, and is produced by the western countries, which hits the people in that particular African country? - Never mind the old unjust debts, they can be suspended.
But what are the exchanged goods and who is getting them?
- Microchips, which can nowadays be bought even in India,
- Computers, which can be second hand retrieved when chucked out frequently by the shopping addicts of the West
- fuel, which usually comes from other Third World countries, who played a major role in the process of western industrialisation by allowing exploitations initially for the price of a peanut - never mind their present fat cats share of economy in particular in USA and Canada.
So really the Third World countries can make arrangements amongst themselves, so that their exchange depends on goods with values based on needs and not on a currency.
In this way that African country gets its microchips and fuel, and the poor children of India, Iran etc get at least their 3 bananas a day.
For the Iranians this may even help to give back the word ghahveh-khaneh (ghahveh = coffee / khaneh = house) its actual meaning by serving Turkish coffee again - apart from tea only.
This would help especially the men in north, next to Caspian Sea, who usually get even more sluggish by drinking extremely strong teas in their local ghahveh-khaneh (only very briefly brewed tea is invigorating).
I know strong tea is crucial for opium addicts, but it’s time to give up addictions.
Occupational therapies would help; this can be combined with the need of the country to find appropriate solutions to the environmental issues.
New projects should be created following discussions with all those who are to be involved. This would be not only constructive but also will give access to fresh air, a lot of green colour to feed the liver and getting rid of depression, while at the same time working for the generations to come.
This in turn gives hope and shifts the constant obsession with the cravings of the Self towards more shared group enjoyments.
It is actually enjoyable to watch happy people once the envy and jealousies are discarded as the inferior and regressive emotions, which not only limit one’s own inner space, but also make happier people feel unloved.
Live and let others live. Happiness is an energy that can expand beyond the individual. Learn to see it! Bless and be blessed. Be sure that it is impossible to be happy and exclusive at the same time.
4- On system and goals
When a system reaches a point that it has to consider goals which are beyond its spirit of functioning and interest, the result will be that it continually fails to achieve those goals.
The annual announcement of those goals, despite their continuous failure, would of course work only as long as the system itself seems to work, in particular for those who benefit from it in one way or another, or those who think that they do so.
Once the system crumbles within itself simply because everything in nature has a conception, birth, growth, decay and death - with of course various degrees in timescale – the artificiality of those goals become completely apparent even in words.
It is very easy to see this aspect for instance in this week’s G20 summit.
The goals regarding the poverty of ‘developing’ countries are almost out of the Excel-lent building’s windows.
Now of course by this it is admitted that poverty is relative and as a matter of class even the gambler capitalists are getting poorer and need to be saved by getting handouts, so that they can lend more to the poor who are there not only to produce but also to continue to consume goods they don’t really need. For instance with shortage of energy and environmental issues on top, do people really need one TV in each room and few cars for one household and so on?
Is it right to continue adjusting goals to a system that is already dead?
I don’t think so.
If the goals are more progressive than the system itself, it is the system that has to be discarded and not the goal.
It is time to discuss world politics leaving the capitalist Selves out of the Excel-lent rooms all over the world.
To be prepared to bring some material sacrifices will be inevitable, considering the magnitude of change needed in order to achieve the all time humane goal for the rule of justice and the possibility of happiness for all.
5- The next evolution through imagination
I must have mentioned somewhere before, that what makes humans special is the extent of imagination, which is also the cause for the development of the language. But we also know that the latter has not necessarily led to a perfect communication.
The real test for the imagination however is now.
As long as the greed is forgotten everything is possible from idealism to utopian socialism. Go for it!