The Symptoms Of Capitalism

 

When one is sick, one suffers from symptoms, we see the symptoms and, in more reasonable medicine, attempts to address the root of the problem. In other instances, more extreme, the disease is so intractable that one cannot remove said disease but merely treat it as best as one can and limp along until the inevitable expiration of said body from said disease. In this way we are limited by our medical technology and our understanding of the many complexities that it entails.

There is one disease, however, that we know perfectly well. We have studied it, for hundreds of years, and ever more we come closer to recognizing it's solution. We are moving towards it's cure, towards it's ultimate end; lest it destroy us with it's malignancy. Capitalism, a disease once thought chronic, incurable by it's very nature as a deeply entrenched parasite, but now I believe we are nearing a solution.

However, one must start by defining the root of the disease; what it's primary make up is. Classism, this is the sole root debilitating ailment that is the capitalist system of economics. It is not the cause, but the root of the crippling ailment that keeps capitalism a malicious operating system. For the overall system of wealth aggregation and stratification is the true problem, but it manifests itself in physical form as classism; a separation of society through 'standing' or 'wealth' these things being forms of social dimorphism that segregate segments of society into groups.

Stratification creates the problem, first it is 'rich and poor' than it is 'rich and poor and other (racism)' than it is 'rich and poor and other (sexism and racism)' than it is 'rich and poor and other (homophobia, sexism and racism) and than it is 'rich and poor and other (xenophobia, homophobia, sexism and racism) ect ect... Eventually, should the poor realize itself and the rich respond in fear of losing status it becomes 'rich and middle class and poor and other' thereby granting the illusion that one can escape the misery of poverty and alienation, however, after a time the 'middle class' will be eroded and done away with by the wealthy as the fear that created it has been beaten back and so the cycle continues as it did before the advent of the 'middle class' and those toxic 'other' memes are recharged and thrown back out to the mass of 'poor' so as to distract them from the true cause of their suffering. One must remember that the toxic 'other' memes always lay latent in capitalist societies and become flared and obvious when the economy 'goes bad' and than go back in to sleep mod when the economy is 'doing good' but they never leave and are necessary for the preservation of the system of capitalism itself.

In other words, racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, even the middle class itself, are all memes created for the self preservation of the capitalist system; think of them as an immune response system. They preserve the system of classism, and thereby capitalism itself, by creating distractions for the public at large to be lulled into complacency so that the parasite of capitalism can extract their labor and thereby generate wealth for itself. Thus the meme structure of capitalism is that of division, divide and conquer, by doing such the entire institution can and does generate vast sums of power and wealth by the virtue of it's 'confusing' the public. Capitalism is chaos controlled, not by a conscious mind, but rather a system of chaos that has only one goal; amassing more wealth and power, which thereby protects the system itself.

It has built into it many self generated protective measures, however, all of them rely on division and a lack of interconnectivity; as this is the foundation of classism itself, thereby making capitalism very individualistic in nature and often shortsighted system. All of these things (racism ect ect...) are meant to keep people, and most importantly minds, apart and thinking only for themselves; in other words capitalism makes everyone shortsighted, and this is itself a boon for the self preservation of capitalism, which makes the masses unable to see the true cause of their problems. This is how the system works, it inundates the people with delusions of grandeur so that they will not challenge the system itself, because they always have the "but someday I may get rich" kind of statement wandering through their heads, they fail to realize that it is an elaborate fantasy propagated by the capitalist system so as to preserve the system itself.

One must remember, one does not have to be rich to be happy, live well, or enjoy life to the fullest, you don't need to be rich to travel the world, see the sights or have fun; some levels of wealth are so extreme that you'd never be able to be spend the money. This level of opulence is, therefor, completely unnecessary and thereby does not justify itself. This is the brilliance of capitalism, it makes people believe that lie that extreme wealth is somehow 'just fine' without them even taking a step back to think about it; hell they don't event think about it when they do, they will immediately start justifying it because the meme 'but I may get rich some day' dances through their heads as soon as the thought of how unjustifiable it is walks into the room. These are old memes, memes that play on our own shortsighted and selfish tendencies; that's why they work so well.

However, it has come to my attention that there seems to be a slight recognition of the very undercurrent of memetics in our society nowadays. We are now able to see the 'man behind the curtain' as it were. This is actually great! As memetics entire goal is to raise awareness of undercurrents in thought and thought systems; how they operate and protect themselves. And I believe that we can now begin to apply memetic thought to the very system of capitalism here and now in the twenty-first century. Marx was right in his critique, but he didn't have the memetic engineering capacity that we have here and now. He couldn't see the underlying reality that ideas have lives and immune systems that protect those very lives; we have discovered this with religion in recent years, the works of Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett were the first pioneering endeavors into memetic idea space (credit to them).

I believe, if we are to succeed in defeating the parasite of capitalism, which is threatening our very existence due to climate change, we must begin a full scale examination and understanding of the memetic structure of capitalism. We must discover its weaknesses and its protectors. I believe that our main group of study should be the 'anarco-capitalist' movement; as they are the proprietors/generators of the defensive memes that the capitalist system uses to spread it's delusions and influence. This is but a small step, but the reality is that the world is running out of time and we are in dire need to solve both our economic and ecological problems that seem so interconnected in a death spiral of unimaginable proportions. We are the only ones who can save us from ourselves; let us hope we're not too late.