‘Daddy Bucks’ and the paternalistic fascination

for Him by his Black folk

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White folk have a similar fascination, but it has a more 
profound consequence with Black folk. It’s the perception 
that “With riches things would be so much better..”.  
I disagree and think that money isn’t going to fill the void 
of a developed psychological insecurity about one’s worth 
as a Black human being in Amerikkka, per se.

Money with its trappings and conveniences will not cure the 
pathologies that have developed with the obsession for it, as 
is often heard:

“If I only had some money..”. What people are willing to do 
or be given that negates any dignity or integrity for the 
virtues of inner creativity and resilience to be the source for 
their own prosperity are exhibited in the solicitations and 
shameless testimonies for the willing debasement of 
themselves for what they would consider the practical means 
for a “necessary” ends.

In doing so doing, they not only degrade their own worth as 
humans, but at the same time they enable the further 
neglect of those faculties that would provide them the 
self-constructed means for doing and knowing how to accomplish 
those aspirational ends. As was noted ..
  by 
Frederick Douglass  and as declared a century earlier by 
Jean Jacques Rousseau
 ..

Let it be said, that the disparities of comfort and convenience 
when being in slavery and then the deprivational terrors of 
de jure, segregation in the South  
made any comfort or convenience a luxury to cherish. That 
sentiment has carried over as the relative disparity  in the 
standard of living between the working class of few privileges 
to those of greater privileges from the exploitative, 
discriminatory institutions that favored the privileged few has 
given cogency to the notion of “by any means and for whatever 
ends..”

The opportunity cost for the price of such a conscious neglect 
and dismissiveness for the utilization of the gifts of the inner 
faculties reverberates through time 
as the invisible curse of the soul upon the inhabitant of the 
body who have let go to waste what could have been a long 
term benefit for the short-term expedience of forsaking the 
experience of development of self for the reliance upon transient 
outside factors delivering the illusions from a lack of effort.

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Morality as no more than a rhetorical utility, than an ethical imperative

The Economy, Stupid!

I was channel surfing my cable guide for Sunday evening, and I saw a C-span program about 'what would Alexander Hamilton do about the national debt'. It interested me enough to DVR it, by doing so I became aware of an Economist Robert E Wright, who's Chair of the Econ. Dept at Augustana University in S. Dakota. His views on macro-economics and the budget I think would be good fodder for this forum to rhetorically chew on. His prognosis he had for the economy was based on the status of the 'Yield Curve', with the near future (coming 12 months) being a slight up-tick, but nothing to get excited about for good or bad news, pending how the Yield Curve develops, as a result of the effects of the new GOP tax law.
OBTW, spoiler: He has arguments for ending social security, at the same time being against the Citizen's United ruling/

THE HISTORICALLY RETRIBUTIVE KARMA

O' how buying cheap and selling dear of humans life as a commodity has its historical retribution that eventually comes together as a karmic synthesis of those inequities and injustices, as the 'chickens coming home to roost'! NOW, we know why the chickens DO cross the road-TO LAY THE EGGS which WE have inseminated

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the Ozian hollowness of US FOREIGN POLICY & the CONSEQUENT MILITARY LIMITATIONS

Russian 'support' of Ukrainian rebels shows the short-sighted aesthetic-driven military policy of the U.S. and NATO driven by abstract existential phobias, such that when humanitarian action is needed to prevent aggressive outrages, they are not only fiscally restrained but politically restrained by their war-ravaged populations who see themselves as political and economic fodder for indifferent to predatory interests hostile to their own existential well-being

Empire tyrany: The materialistic seeds of its inherent inevetability

As long as materialistic convenience is the standard, then the profits which reduce wages and the surrogates for labor will leave a pool of under-employed and unemployed who will be the resource for instruments of violence by non-state or state actors. The state sponsored actors are the more destructive tools since they are used to appropriate and secure greater realms of economic and political control around the globe. It is from the appropriating of wealth from other territories that make it necessary to have these armies of people who have no other stable economic recourse for themselves to be the manpower pool from which the controllers can expand their conquests for enhanced living standards.



The empires of antiquity and the 'empires' of the present are based on the privilege of luxury and extravagance by the few, and those seeking to attain that stage of privilege. As the few seek to opportunistically hoard the means of convenience to themselves, they will seek the consequential deprivation of others. The anticipated resistance to this encroachment upon other's resources and means of production are met with the fodder from the surplus pool of those who became redundant and fungible in the economies of efficiency for greater profits.



There will always be under-employment along with unemployment because the race-to-the-bottom for cheap labor will move jobs and dislocate workers from sustainable income. From within this pool will be those who would be willing to provide the coercive persuasion for the political policies that enable the economic opportunism for material aggrandizement.



A nation-state will either be a colony-pawn for these imperial manifestations, if not one of the imperial perpetrators. The loss of civil freedoms and economic security will be a direct correlation to the growth of imperial expansion by the nation-state to control resources for the privilege of the fews' convenience at the necessary expense of the many. The need to control will trump any past ethics of restraint and virtue as the bottom-line to provide goods on demand in the competition to get and keep patrons will dispense with any restraining notions as quaint and obstructionists to the desired ends of satiating demand.



The profiteers of this aggrandizing will be the money-bags for the political operatives who make the laws and regulations. This latter group's political position and personal state of privilege will be based on patronizing the wishes of these aggrandizers. To maintain this status, they will sacrifice the well-being of the many to enable the former's activities.