A bitter M&M

MALTHUS AND MARX COMMITTED THE CARDINAL SIN OF MIXING EVIDENCE AND LOGIC WITH BELIEFS, THEREBY GIVING BIRTH TO GEOPOLITICAL CONFUSION In response to Ken Freeland of Israel Shamir’s website <diogenesqu

Post-Malthusian and Marxist publicly-guided thinking incorporates three seldom-recognised misconceptions.

The first chicane on the path to clarity is the determinedly promoted Elite-derived version of democracy; which is, that electing somebody else to represent us within a rigidly controlled chamber and infrastructure, constitutes democracy.

That is not democracy.

The last notable person to define democracy was Abe Lincoln, with his lyrical and concise "Government of the people, by the people and for the people." In contemporary terms, this means that the community, at all levels of population size, formulates all policy; then to be implemented by the public service (administration/executive).

Note that this excludes: parliaments, politicians, representatives, voting, majorities, campaigns, policies, political parties, and so on. Ergo, the Elite’s pseudo-democracy entirely excludes the people-power equation and we the people lose our ability to determine our own future.

No wonder they killed Lincoln. The future of globalism was in the balance.

The second miscomprehended element is 'capitalism'.  Free trade is exploitative capitalism: "free" to repress and manipulate at will. But this is always said in an accent that implies 'private enterprise'.

In point of fact, in a genuine DEMOCRATIC MERITOCRACY, private enterprise can flourish, with only unacceptable impositions on the community prevented by government, whose actions are clearly mandated by the people through, not elections, but consensus protocols. This is the function that justifies the existence of government in the first place.

It is an actively hidden fact that humans are hard-wired to agree (watch them smile compulsively when they do), and when everybody has access to the same information, consensus is invariably in the vicinity of 97%. Had we the people access to policy formulation, none of the evils plaguing humanity would have been permitted.

The third unrecognised element is 'population growth'. It is not a “1,2,4” biological sequence as so many have been led to believe. Human environments expert Buckminster Fuller dismantled this cherished belief back in the early 1960s. But the Australian demographic experience of 1949 to 1973 demonstrated this in real life.

Prosperity and social security

Australia’s comprehensive social security system was installed in 1946, funded by a worker contribution of one shilling and sixpence per pound before tax. Thus, the workers owned the Welfare Fund and government was expressly prohibited from even touching this (which did not stop Menzies or Keating from violating this referendum-mandated law).

Thanks to the intervention of trade unions, (aided also by building societies, veteran organisations, and the Churches... according to Donald Horne's 1964 book "The Lucky Country"), every Australian worker had access to well-paid full-time jobs, paid annual leave, and paid sick leave. Every family had access to a new car and was able to purchase a family home, if they so chose. Although all university graduates BELIEVE otherwise, all citizens over the age of 70 know otherwise.

Measurable poverty in Australia was so insignificant that demographers had to include seasonal workers (who invariably owned their own homes anyway), in order to actually present a technical poverty sector on the famous Australian vast middle class bell curve.

Other countries installed similarly. It was eventually globally-recognised that when nations adopted an age pension, population growth went into reverse within 20 years. The lesson learned was indisputable: Insecurity is the driver of population growth. The Rothschilds and Rockefellers reject this because it renders their cherished return to medieval feudalism unnecessary and, in fact, psychotic.

Australia's (and NZ's) egalitarian prosperity could not be tolerated and, in 1975, the "democratically elected Whitlam Government" was sacked conjointly by the CIA and MI6 and Australia has been run by the City of London and the Rockefeller Trilateral Commission ever since, with the catastrophic outcome the world now gazes at with horror.

Both Marx and Malthus were wrong because they attempted to insert fond beliefs into the evidence plus logic equation. Let’s define. 'Beliefs' are the adoption of attitudes and positions despite the evidence; a process we might better equate with insanity.

I will never understand why some people actually respect beliefs.

Anyway, with a dumbed down education system, assisted by cerebral electrical interference, endemic lack of sleep, “reality”, faux news, active censorship of any attitudes approximating recognition of corruption, official lies, cronyism and nepotism; three generations now operate almost entirely on belief systems, and the words science, logic, and evidence are now modern forms of medieval incantationalism.

In 1999, an exasperated editor of the Newsweek-Bulletin, Max Walsh, undertook a survey of 30,000 random citizens of the full spectrum national demographic and discovered that unemployment was 23%, despite both major political parties claiming poker-faced it was 3%.

My own Ryan Institute, applying much tighter definitions, replicated the surveys in 2001, 2004, 2007, and 2010 and identified unemployment at, consecutively, 17%, 19%, 21% and 23% (much under-employment was excluded). Regardless of whose surveys one might favour, our joint point was well established: Without any threat of criminal prosecution, John Howard could claim 3.4% unemployment, declaring 2007 to be Australia’s greatest era of national prosperity.

Genuine community consensus democracy would have precipitated a national wave of condemnation and revulsion, especially considering the thousand or so husbands and fathers who then committed suicide, believing they alone had failed their families.

Actually, the 2010 survey revealed that 54% of Australians already guessed actual unemployment was between 15% and 30%. A vast credibility gap has emerged between politicians and the community that has yet to manifest itself.

If I were a politician, I would not walk the streets alone at night.

Malthus would have thoroughly approved of Australian oligarchy and Marx would be cheering on the destruction he so gleefully predicted. In point of fact, both were wrong. If every member of the Australian community had access to policy formulation, commensurate with his or her own desire for more or less participation, not only would the oligarchy cease to exist, so too would poverty, repression, and Australia’s participation in global wars. © Copyright Tony Ryan 2022. Derived from a briefer response to Shamirfrinds