what i'd like to know is

what I'd like to know is how an entire nation [america] [and all of humanity] managed to ignore the simple point that money is power, and unlimited [and necessarily unjust] wealth concentration is unlimited power, is unlimited undemocracy unliberty unfreedom tyranny fascism totalitarianism gangsters-in-government

america was *founded* on the principle of prevention of wealth concentration - obviously the tyranny americans escaped and which americans wished to be eternally free from was totally dependent on unjust wealth concentration [wealth in excess of own contribution by own work]

vigilance is the price of liberty, and vigilance over prevention of wealth concentration was zero from the beginning, although in the 19th century prevention of wealth concentration was in all the rhetoric

the greeks had established that laws were spiders' webs, the 'great' break through

inequality, pay injustice had reached an inequality factor of one million in america in the 1880s - 10c a *day* for sew-ers, $10,000/*hr* for Jay Gould - globally today, the inequality factor is one billion -

whence the superblindness?

are people that stupid?

or is there a mighty masochism in humanity?

americans had just come from tyranny, limitless wealth and poverty, overpower and underpower - you would think they would have been passionately vigilant to prevent growth of limitless personal power - you would think the whole pride of people in their new nation would have centred on the fundamental, the sine qua non [the without-which-nothing], the essential

there doesn't seem to be an atom of a good theory to explain this utter ignoring of the whole point by americans for 200 years, by humanity for 3000 years

why was there not a whole intellectual industry in america to establish with exactitude the limits of just fortune, to draw a line in the sand: individual power shall go no farther than this?

you'd think americans would have had a school curriculum subject in pay justice, an academic industry in the thinking behind just limitation of fortune

you'd think all humans in every age and country would have pursued this essential - the purpose of government is justice, james madison - the state built on injustice cannot stand, roman saying - so it was essential to *patriotism* to pursue pay justice, to determine the most one person can contribute to wealth by his own work and can justly claim as his

as henry george wrote, obviously one person on his own cannot produce much more than anyone else in the same time, with the same materials, tools, data, etc

[pay justice is far and away the most important justice, since money buys almost all nonfree necessities and desirables, including political power, social standing]

now that we have 60 times PDC [planet death capability], and ratio of highest to lowest pay/yr of one billion, with violence-generation and growth proportional, the american freshstart chance to make tyranny [which is also corruption, warmongering and cannonfoddering] extinct was probably our last

the greeks had said equality breeds no strife - and humanity has watched inequality and strife grow for 1000s of years, [punctuated with revolutions that were only briefly and very partially effective in justly limiting individual power], without the slightest sign of alarm -

i see no sign of the slightest atom of an explanation for this stupendous utter blindness about the super-obvious

the gitmo trials are just one fruit among millions of evil fruits on the tree of unlimited-fortunes social systems which we have embraced for 1000s of years

the chance that we will wake up and get the point before violence grows to the point of using the 60 times PDC bombs [looks like in the next 30 years] seems to be infinitesimal

the goddess isis is supposed to have said: if they knew they were blind, they wouldnt be blind - we are unconscious of our blindness - because we see many things, we think we are not blind - forgetting that seeing jigsaw puzzle pieces is not seeing the picture ***at all***, although the pieces are part of the puzzle

we have great confidence in our seeing reality when we should have very little confidence in that - it seems the 'obvious' lesson of history is just too big to see - like ants confidently operating on their tiny level that can't interpret the shadow of the giant anteater, evergrowing unlimited wealth-power producing evergrowing weaponry, warmongering and cannonfoddering

- although there are plenty of warning quotes, from american presidents, presidents of national banks, us generals, and from the moneypower itself

the bankers own the earth. take it away from them but leave them the power to create deposits, and with a flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it all back again. sir josiah stamp, president, bank of england, 1920s

it seems every assassinated american president has been assassinated by the moneypower - every assassination has followed some attempt by the president to interfere with the freedom of the moneypower - eg, jfk printed some u.s. money without borrowing it from the privately owned reserve bank

the credit of a country is backed by the natural bounty of the nation and by people's work - and the federal reserve steals this credit and makes the nation buy it!!!!!!!!

in 20 years i have not experienced one example of the slightest interest, enthusiasm, excitement as responses to the fact that the *world* average pay/yr is US$100,000, paying housewives and students too [making world av. family income US$200,000], in the fact that 99% are underpaid [and would therefore get more of their earnings if there was more pay justice - and would get more liberty and democracy and less war and crime].

legal thefts are wide open: a billion at 10% doubles every 7 years, multiplies by 1000 every 70 years - with no work at all

pay justice is pay for work, no pay for no work

are people really so dazzled mindless by limitless wealth that they cannot take in that limitless wealth for what must be limited work [which cannot be more than about 30% more than the average work] means overpay [theft] means underpay for most, means violence, evergrowing, as both sides try to prevail with ever-greater weaponry and terrorism?

are people really so dazzled by overwealth that they cannot take in that the intensity, power and persistence of attacks on overwealth are proportional to the size of the overwealth, so that overwealth is always under seige of many kinds, and must fall in time, as history shows they always have, so that overpay is no fun at all? - that if one person takes or by any means has the property of 1000, that person is vastly unhappier too, with merely 1000 times more than he can use, and loss of 1000 friends, fellows and protectors, and gain of 1000 enemies?

are people swarming to sam pizzigati's free online book greed and good, with its ten times america, or to carey's democratic capitalism? - no - the swarming is flat calm

the good news is that a species with great abundance [every working person, incl housewives and students, producing US$100,000 worth of workproducts per year] and yet knowingly calmly starving 50 million people to death every year, deserves the death sentence they are bringing to themselves with all speed with all technological brilliance

at least the nazis believed or kidded themselves the jews and other minorities were enemies or no good - we know the starving are innocent

but although we know these things factually, do we really know them? - do they penetrate our consciousness? - do they fire a central fire in the brain or mental core?

WHY are we technological giants and yet [in the crucial main point] ethical [pursuit of happiness] cretins?

are we programmed by nature to settle for enough, which in our present technological super-abundant society is underpay, which then releases overpay to grow limitlessly, growing underpay and violence limitlessly?

has nature not fitted us with consciousness of more than our patch, so that our technologically very much more connected world is beyond our natural mindset?

[a day away has grown from 50 miles to 12,500 miles in the last 200 years, shrinking the world by a factor of 250]

[weaponry has grown by a factor of 60,000 times in 50 years, from power to kill 100,000 in one day to power to kill 6 billion - have big parts of our consciousness just not caught up with this?]

[world income: $300 trillion - world working persons: 3 billion - world income is from sprout and weaver, international distribution of income, kyklos journal, v45, 1992, pp237-258, updated with global inflation since 1987]