Tom,
This is it - all those questions I wanted to ask but didn't - in the
World Systems perspective.
I am not sure, or at least the idea of there being no Master Plan as
drawn up by humans, or is the Master Plan there is no Master Plan, where
the vultures have yet to appear over the horizon.
There seems to me four approaches to the problem; only the first will
produce answers to the question.
1. Ask the establishment or put the question to authority.
2. Analysis, synthesis and mechanistic techniques that if scientific come
up with a model of the system.
3. Historical perspectives. History repeating itself.
4. Speculation, intuition, analogy and folklore.
A lot of time is devoted to (3), some argument is made over (2), and (4)
is not altogether acceptable. Has anyone tried (1)? If not then should
not those of us on wsn start asking authority all the difficult
questions?
The problem I have is I don't think there is a Master Plan. I say this
not because I doubt any real answers will be given by authority, more
from the systems perspective - a plan of this kind, so complex, so novel,
so effortless in the way it is happening, defies what humans are capable
of conceiving. The Mother of all Plans is the human race working as a
complex organism. All that the organism lacks is a brain. An organism
with the characteristics of a necrophagous parasite, it kills the host,
consumes it, then dies.
It seems to me the human race has built up partnerships, organisations,
where they are stratified in some way according to size and
profitability. The strong prey on the weak, the weak either die or are
consumed by the larger, and the larger grows and grows. Each of the parts
have an agenda, the banks have to make profits to survive, or go under;
the TNC's have to make profits to survive, or go under; everyone has to
make a profit to survive, or they will go under. Everything is
competition above and below the stratum.
This is to me a natural process, of organisation, of creating order. As a
single organism this has now, at the end of the twentieth century, grown
into a MONSTER.
>From a historical viewpoint if there was a Plan then I think it would be
known. With a World Order in the traditional sense then some leader would
have emerged, probably telling us how good things are going to be in the
future. Since this hasn't happened I doubt someone working behind the
scenes, the desire to become known is much too great, and human nature
being what it is, anyone with the facility to get the attention of the
World will do so. That is if the intentions are good. Never mind how they
will turn out, invariably their plan will go wrong.
With a plan taking a lifetime there is no Master Plan. In general the
sons of the big businessmen do not perform likewise. If a Plan requires
the detailed planning necessary then someone is going to expose it.
Alright, perhaps not in the media that are told not to publish, but I
think the information would get through. Then again, a Plan might not be
believable. The individual could well be considered paranoid. I would say
the major players are not acting as a team, to any plan, and THIS IS THE
PLAN.
What is also historical and a World System to many is their Biblical
text. The big message running through the Old Testament is how a
community will crash when they make up rules to suit themselves, or rules
by a few individuals within the community. The word covert appears often:
avaricious, greed for gain, the eager desire to acquire what belongs to
another, property, goods, resources etc. Sounds very much like the
current system, or the common practice of exchange of goods and services.
Nowadays these qualities are sought after if you work for the big
organisations; the opposite is no use, for example, simple kindness is
taken as a sign of weakness. What might be lost to many is the message
that it just takes one person to overcome the massive armies of those who
have a Plan.
The intuitive sense of the Plan is felt by many in phrases that sum up
the feeling, such as 'where will it all end', meaning that it has to end,
it cannot continue indefinitely, and 'dog eats dog', meaning that the
avaricious are the winners in the present system. Most communities, when
social justice is cast aside, often revert to means that undermines and
worries the few who by stealth and theft acquire all resource; it is the
only means left to them. It is an invention of the community and it is
witchcraft. The mechanism is not unlike aircraft and missile defence,
where a double image or decoy is created, to cause hesitation in decision
by authority. This ensures there is a fifty-fifty chance of a decision
that works against authority. Locally the long standing 'witch' is a seer
or an augur, the Brahan Seer, or the Seer of Kintail. The way this works
is subtle; when the establishment suffer form some mishap it was
'predicted' long ago by the Seer. This is unnerving and unsettling to any
authority, particularly when it concerns their wives and children, a
common prediction of the Seer. If a poll is taken then a large majority
will say it had been predicted, without any reference to the various
works on the Seer. There are things to come. . .
When there is a crash of any kind, and here we are dealing with the
economic (environmental crashes are predicted by science), some 'witch'
will have 'predicted' it, or at least take the credit. Thus, the closer
we come to a crash so the predictions of 'witches' will increase.
Well, makes a change from mechanisms.
William Kirk.