The Holy Business Empire
Business Enterprise has become the new religion, spanning the globe. Our civilization has conflated religion and economics. As a civilization, our purchase against Death has become "the economy." People measure their worthiness by the size of their paycheck, not by their pious acts. The transgressions of the pedophile priests has been dealt with exactly as the society dealt with the transgressions of Enron's economic rapists: trials were held and penalties were levied. These were business transactions. Nowhere that I am aware of was the subject of the consequences for the priests' souls or the victims' discussed.
The only difference between Republicans and Democrats concerns where to set the "burdensome bar." Both worship Business, but like the early Christian sects they disagree as to the details of the contract between the Deity and the People. No one dares question the "holiness" of Business Enterprise or the "godliness" of The Economy. Money, The Economy, and Business Enterprise are respectively, the Son, the Father, and the Holy Ghost of the new religion. All discussions of whatever kind are carried out in the context of the new religion. Brazilian officials complain that efforts to stop burning the Amazon Rain Forest will slow the nation's economic growth. Bush says expanding health care for children would be bad for business.
The prayers of people, usually men, who utterly devote their wills and their lives to worshipping the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost of Business Enterprise sometimes are heard and rewarded. These people are called hedge fund managers, CEOs, arbitragers, and bankers. The reward, in the form of stock options, cash, and arcane monetary manipulations understandable only by the high priests of Business Enterprise, provides both a medical and a psychological defense against death. The wealthy can afford the best health care, which is the medical defense. Securing the favor of Business Enterprise can delay physical death by a score of years over the national statistics. The psychological defense against death consists of endowing an academic chair in one's name or financing a university building or a museum in one's own honor. The illusion of life after death is supplied by having the title "CEO and Founder" after one's name in the history of the corporation that gained the favor of Business Enterprise. The illusion is perpetuated in the engraved marble or the wrought bronze letters proclaiming the Louise M. Davies Hall, or the Rockerfeller Medical Center.
The Corporatocracy comprises the high priests of the Holy Business Empire and the vast interlocking religio-economic structure that has seized control of the planet. Fanning out from the Bildenburg Group and Trilateral Commission to the World Bank and the neuronal network of banks, corporations, governments, NGOs, and bureaucracies in every nation of the world, the Corporatocracy has ruthlessly enforced global control. Europe, China, the U.S. & U.K., and South America are far less independent, competing regional power centers than they are business bishoprics controlled by satraps who owe their primary allegiance to Business Enterprise. The Corporatocracy can be understood by the metaphor of the Catholic Church. The Bilderburg Group is analagous to the College of Cardinals. The various "business bishops" from around the globe compete for the highest position, which is analagous to election as Pope, the President of the Bilderburg Group.
Business Enterprise has become the new religion, spanning the globe. Our civilization has conflated religion and economics. As a civilization, our purchase against Death has become "the economy." People measure their worthiness by the size of their paycheck, not by their pious acts. The transgressions of the pedophile priests has been dealt with exactly as the society dealt with the transgressions of Enron's economic rapists: trials were held and penalties were levied. These were business transactions. Nowhere that I am aware of was the subject of the consequences for the priests' souls or the victims' discussed.
The only difference between Republicans and Democrats concerns where to set the "burdensome bar." Both worship Business, but like the early Christian sects they disagree as to the details of the contract between the Deity and the People. No one dares question the "holiness" of Business Enterprise or the "godliness" of The Economy. Money, The Economy, and Business Enterprise are respectively, the Son, the Father, and the Holy Ghost of the new religion. All discussions of whatever kind are carried out in the context of the new religion. Brazilian officials complain that efforts to stop burning the Amazon Rain Forest will slow the nation's economic growth. Bush says expanding health care for children would be bad for business.
The prayers of people, usually men, who utterly devote their wills and their lives to worshipping the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost of Business Enterprise sometimes are heard and rewarded. These people are called hedge fund managers, CEOs, arbitragers, and bankers. The reward, in the form of stock options, cash, and arcane monetary manipulations understandable only by the high priests of Business Enterprise, provides both a medical and a psychological defense against death. The wealthy can afford the best health care, which is the medical defense. Securing the favor of Business Enterprise can delay physical death by a score of years over the national statistics. The psychological defense against death consists of endowing an academic chair in one's name or financing a university building or a museum in one's own honor. The illusion of life after death is supplied by having the title "CEO and Founder" after one's name in the history of the corporation that gained the favor of Business Enterprise. The illusion is perpetuated in the engraved marble or the wrought bronze letters proclaiming the Louise M. Davies Hall, or the Rockerfeller Medical Center.
The Corporatocracy comprises the high priests of the Holy Business Empire and the vast interlocking religio-economic structure that has seized control of the planet. Fanning out from the Bildenburg Group and Trilateral Commission to the World Bank and the neuronal network of banks, corporations, governments, NGOs, and bureaucracies in every nation of the world, the Corporatocracy has ruthlessly enforced global control. Europe, China, the U.S. & U.K., and South America are far less independent, competing regional power centers than they are business bishoprics controlled by satraps who owe their primary allegiance to Business Enterprise. The Corporatocracy can be understood by the metaphor of the Catholic Church. The Bilderburg Group is analagous to the College of Cardinals. The various "business bishops" from around the globe compete for the highest position, which is analagous to election as Pope, the President of the Bilderburg Group.
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