[Excerpt from BIPED on the Blue Ball [The Supposed-Sapiens Who Laughed at the Dodo], 3rd Edition, Earth Day 2010. Shortly after April 22, Earth Day, this new book by Ed Aurelio C. Reyes is carried in http://love-life.faithweb.com/biped.htm. (Earlier, the site carried the 2nd Edition, 2000.]
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. “Pardon us for forcibly intruding in your dream, Major Tom. We have developed the technology to violate at will your understandable preference to dream in complete privacy, no doubt a petty human fixation.
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“This is a legitimate assertion of our superiority over humans, you who would qualify to be our maleable minions only if you could muster enough wisdom to understand and accept our superiority.
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. “Appearing to you like white-costumed versions of the Darth Vader, we are machine-created message carriers who have all the reason to gloat that our power over the human race is invincible, we have taken over the minds of men so you would do the justifying for us for this ongoing operation of conquest we are undertaking, for your own good, and for our ever-legitimate interest to draw profits from these most noble endeavors. You may call us the...
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. ‘...Prophets of Profits...’
Completely helpless as you are now to try to do anything against us, we dare to categorically identify ourselves to you, while many economists of your governments and the academe on your planet still see fit to deny who they really have become.
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. “As Prophets of Profits we now enlighten you on the supreme importance and invincibility of the full Logic of the Profit Principle, as somehow explained in detail in the ‘Ten Commandments of the Golden Calf,’ that your governments have signed decades ago as the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade. Listen closely:
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. “Earth is now being transformed into a planet inhabited by individuals in complete competition for needs, completely rejecting the grossly unproductive concept of Nature as a generous benefactor and the concept of people unproductively sharing the abundance of the Earth.
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. “Humans have harbored these concepts of ‘Dignity” and “Rights,’ without understanding that all ‘human dignity’ worth talking about is the distinction one human can have over others in terms of ownership and command of resources. These resources are not available to the common people because they allow themselves to be limited in their ‘absolute right to acquire, accumulate and control these infinitely.’ Your philosophers have even maligned this basic right as ‘greed,’ and promoted the unproductive superstition that having enough is enough so the others could also have enough! Bah, those others are just lazy, or stupid, or unlucky!
.
. “ We have conditioned you to worship the ‘Profits Principle’ for the productivity, efficiency, progress, prosperity and convenience that we have promised to all and delivered mainly to a powerful handful. We have also vowed ‘trickles down’ and many of you actually believe it.
.
. “All resources on your planet should be delivered only to those who have the ability and skill to acquire and exploit them; let all fiercely compete, peacefully or otherwise, by fair means or foul, for them. In this mutually-annihilative competition for survival – humans must be capable of competing for everything; the most important is to win. Losers don’t deserve to control anything, even their own lives. They don’t even deserve to survive and exist.
.
. “And if parts of your planet get utterly destroyed while you nobly pursue profits and more and more profits, consider that as ‘natural selection’ – Nature is selecting which parts deserve to continue in existence! You have to repudiate such conceptual integrations in ecosystemic approaches as watershed, airshed, and ‘state-range conservation of migratory animals.’ Treat them all as many individual properties.
.
. “Develop every part of the Earth, such that it will acquire monetary value for selling.
We are helping you to completely abandon your primitive sense of thinking of the Commons. We are helping you discard common sense. You don’t need it, and it only impedes you from optimal pursuit of profits, the real fulfillment of Human Dignity.
.
. Your species has been described to be in a two-legged run for further consciousness evolution. But through the predominance of the Profit Principle permeating all societies as adopted by them or enforced on them by the powerful among you, all consciousness about commonalities, about synergetic systems, about synergetic collectivities – the second foot — is now being pushed to atrophy by separative selfishness. We’re that powerful!
.
. The two-legged run of human consciousness evolution has been transformed into a “monoped pogo-walk” by those who have limited every human being to what his or her skin contains, denying even the aura and mental energies.
.
. The accumulated profits of The Corporations of the world can easily refute and paralyze, silence permanently, ‘neutralize’ all opponents of the Profits Principle.
.
. “We have been buying off governments and mercenary scientists to bless our inventions, including those most deadly to health and to life itself. Our bio-technology on genes has created plants that need no spraying with pesticides; they are themselves poison! And they are raping and contaminating similar plants and stopping these from having seeds. We shall soon be producing and selling all the seeds, and hold hostage all the staple food supplies of your planet, and our stockholders will be much richer and more powerful than before!
.
. “We have employed mercenary economists to bless our schemes on trade rules, currency rates and financial policies. We have bought off many of our foes. We can buy their not so glamorous sudden demise. We can buy you off or ‘neutralize’ you... if we need to.”
Completely helpless as you are now to try to do anything against us, we dare to categorically identify ourselves to you, while many economists of your governments and the academe on your planet still see fit to deny who they really have become.
.
. “As Prophets of Profits we now enlighten you on the supreme importance and invincibility of the full Logic of the Profit Principle, as somehow explained in detail in the ‘Ten Commandments of the Golden Calf,’ that your governments have signed decades ago as the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade. Listen closely:
.
. “Earth is now being transformed into a planet inhabited by individuals in complete competition for needs, completely rejecting the grossly unproductive concept of Nature as a generous benefactor and the concept of people unproductively sharing the abundance of the Earth.
.
. “Humans have harbored these concepts of ‘Dignity” and “Rights,’ without understanding that all ‘human dignity’ worth talking about is the distinction one human can have over others in terms of ownership and command of resources. These resources are not available to the common people because they allow themselves to be limited in their ‘absolute right to acquire, accumulate and control these infinitely.’ Your philosophers have even maligned this basic right as ‘greed,’ and promoted the unproductive superstition that having enough is enough so the others could also have enough! Bah, those others are just lazy, or stupid, or unlucky!
.
. “ We have conditioned you to worship the ‘Profits Principle’ for the productivity, efficiency, progress, prosperity and convenience that we have promised to all and delivered mainly to a powerful handful. We have also vowed ‘trickles down’ and many of you actually believe it.
.
. “All resources on your planet should be delivered only to those who have the ability and skill to acquire and exploit them; let all fiercely compete, peacefully or otherwise, by fair means or foul, for them. In this mutually-annihilative competition for survival – humans must be capable of competing for everything; the most important is to win. Losers don’t deserve to control anything, even their own lives. They don’t even deserve to survive and exist.
.
. “And if parts of your planet get utterly destroyed while you nobly pursue profits and more and more profits, consider that as ‘natural selection’ – Nature is selecting which parts deserve to continue in existence! You have to repudiate such conceptual integrations in ecosystemic approaches as watershed, airshed, and ‘state-range conservation of migratory animals.’ Treat them all as many individual properties.
.
. “Develop every part of the Earth, such that it will acquire monetary value for selling.
We are helping you to completely abandon your primitive sense of thinking of the Commons. We are helping you discard common sense. You don’t need it, and it only impedes you from optimal pursuit of profits, the real fulfillment of Human Dignity.
.
. Your species has been described to be in a two-legged run for further consciousness evolution. But through the predominance of the Profit Principle permeating all societies as adopted by them or enforced on them by the powerful among you, all consciousness about commonalities, about synergetic systems, about synergetic collectivities – the second foot — is now being pushed to atrophy by separative selfishness. We’re that powerful!
.
. The two-legged run of human consciousness evolution has been transformed into a “monoped pogo-walk” by those who have limited every human being to what his or her skin contains, denying even the aura and mental energies.
.
. The accumulated profits of The Corporations of the world can easily refute and paralyze, silence permanently, ‘neutralize’ all opponents of the Profits Principle.
.
. “We have been buying off governments and mercenary scientists to bless our inventions, including those most deadly to health and to life itself. Our bio-technology on genes has created plants that need no spraying with pesticides; they are themselves poison! And they are raping and contaminating similar plants and stopping these from having seeds. We shall soon be producing and selling all the seeds, and hold hostage all the staple food supplies of your planet, and our stockholders will be much richer and more powerful than before!
.
. “We have employed mercenary economists to bless our schemes on trade rules, currency rates and financial policies. We have bought off many of our foes. We can buy their not so glamorous sudden demise. We can buy you off or ‘neutralize’ you... if we need to.”
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“No, you can’t!!! Uhh! Where am I…? where are those..., uhh...messengers...?”
You fell asleep, Major Tom, but your face looked troubled all that while. Were you having a bad dream? I would, too, if I were in your place!
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1 comment:
hi ding:
the problem in all these is really how balance the human needs and biodiversity. the profit goddess/ideology can be a boon but once it gets loose and allowed to gallop (as in the developed people's areas), there is definitely going to be a destruction of some species of living organisms including humans). it is easy to slide into a rut of needs (convertible to unbridled greed culture) and profits, at the expense of balanced lives (ecology if you wish) or biodiversity. this is as simple as i can put it but it really is very complex and needs one long--or series of--session(s). cheers gil santos
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