Now That the Parasites Have Consumed the Host….
The parasites have been feasting for so many decades that they’ve lost the ability to discern reality: their survival now depends on feeding on other parasites.
Let’s conduct a thought experiment. First, set aside all the usual economic-ideological certainties, mythologies and filters–capitalism and free markets are the fountains of endless wealth, socialism is the answer, etc.–and then look at our culture not as a monetary-economic machine but as an ecosystem of parasites and hosts. From this perspective consider this statement:
Now that the parasites have consumed the host, they only have each other to feed on.
In this scenario, the US consumer is the host and industries, cartels and corporations are the parasites (along with local governments, whose tax revenues are drawn from transactions and bubble wealth valuations), seeking to “maximize shareholder value” (i.e. profits) by any means available without killing the host.
The problem is the “profit motive” knows no limits and lacks the mechanisms to detect the host is about to keel over. In the natural world, parasites are in a feedback loop with the hosts they’re feeding on, as the death of the host means the death of the parasites.
In our culture, the parasites assume the host is immortal, due to the Fede
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