The Wall Street transition of the U.S. economy into foreign
investment and globalism with speed of light stock trading, tranching,
arbitrage and social networking makes for a smaller planet without many
idea-firewalls remaining. M.B.A.s are about managing and manipulating existing
business structures rather than inventing new material processes. Bankers and
M.B.A.s are not inventors or scientists generally. Even the independent start
up inventor seems a little anachronistic or quaint when big bucks are made with
fast and clever programs and entertainment. The system clearcuts the wild as if it were a practico-inert object-for-profit.
http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-07-01/forest-service-approves-big-thorne-timber-sale#.UdL03DtsiSo
None of this is good for the prospect of democracy leading
national economic change to one of hundreds of alternative synthetic forms of
capitalism that would reduce mass-consumption of non-renewable resources,
conserve biodiversity, cut back on pollution and reverse global warming. The
greed-is-good ethos provides a red herring that environmental is a concern of
communists or former communists. Those most invested in a particularly virulent
and aggressive form of capitalism have blinders on to economic philosophy and
the thousand faces of capitalism that are possible with competent political
direction in ecological and economic theory and practice.
The United States has evolved a practice of capitalism as a
social absolute in-itself in which the ecosphere is an externality. That is
myopia of the worst kind. The world is the nasty, rationalized funhouse the
animals live upon. Just making it comfortable without concern about using it up
won't work very much longer.
Republican failure to lead is understandable. The default of
intelligent voters to the dark side of the moral force (Democrat Party) is the
only alternative to walking the plank of ecospheric doom of right wing talk
radio and oil-soaked Presidential candidates. The President just uses the
environmentalists to get elected yet doesn't walk the walk of the radical
ecological economist at all. He flies an entourage on Air Force One to Hawaii
or a Golf course with the slightest provocation.
Development at all costs is the economic foundation of a
nation where only a minority actually makes anything physically. When so many
have so much invested in making money off of foreign manufacture and other
people's production none have an interest in changing the way things from a
disposable economic model to a renewable sustainable economic foundation within
a recovering ecosphere.
President just promised to give three African countries
seven billion dollars for electricity production doubling that continent's
production. It may also support increased resource consumption. The U.N.
millennium project cost far less-why wasn't that funded at all? Training
African economies to work on an ecological economic basis of high renewability,
sustainability and conservation and recovery of wild habitat are vital for the
survival of life on Earth including human life. The United State of America'
has so far proven itself incapable of being a leader in the right direction
however.
America's own economic transition to a post-industrial
society with speed-of-light global stock trading has defeated national
prospects for creating a sustainable economy with free enterprise, national
self-determination, full-employment and a recovering ecosphere. That is the
hard fact.
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