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John Adams"
While this Adams quote wasn't intended toward capitalism I think it applies nearly equally. Without integrity, focus and self restraint capitalism can be misused and abused. When the ends justifies the means, measures by any means, there is a degree of moral bankruptcy. When regulation is needed to reign in abuse you are merely trading in one miscreant or one group of. miscreants for another and government is almost always far worse.
Over all, I think, the sentiment was more that individuals living with a personal code of conduct (morals) should prevent the need for laws governing personal conduct. Religion and Religious are broad terms, each setting common framework to a faction (group) that negated the need for laws.
Of interest, Adams was an interesting lawyer. He was the lawyer who successfully defended the redcoats at the Boston massacre.
Rudyard Kipling (1919)
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Or “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results“ attributed to A.E.
Bynner: Tao #18
When people lost sight of the way to live
Came codes of love and honesty,
Learning came, charity came,
Hypocrisy took charge;
When differences weakened family ties
Came benevolent fathers and dutiful sons;
And when lands were disrupted and misgoverned
Came ministers commended as loyal.
Klaus Schwab and the others of the WEF (World Economic Forum) are pure evil.
Schwab has been quoted as saying:
“In the new economy (that being after his Great Reset) you will own nothing, and will be happy. We (the WEF elites) will own everything and will be very, very happy.”
There is also a short video on YouTube in which Schwab talks about everyone being required to have a microchip installed in their bodies or brains to facilitate tracking of thoughts and activities as well as whereabouts.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UmQNA0H...
All of the WEF members are uber-wealthy elites. You know many of them by name.
It nearly makes one wish for a taxation plan to strip all of them of their wealth.
Check out the video by Tim Gielen called “Who Owns The World” for another layer of the Great Reset, showing just how corporations are consolidating the world’s wealth in the hands of a few. See the link below. Mind blowing stuff.
https://rumble.com/vmyx1n-monopoly-wh...
There is an old Chinese curse that reads: "May you live in interesting times" Times are already too interesting, thank you very much.
A conspiracy is simply more than a couple of folks working together. What is amazing is that the CI A
asswipes were able to brainwash the sheeple into poo pooing any talk about people working together to shove a red hot poker right up liberty and freedoms asshole. It’s like hearing 4-5 lies and still trusting the liar. Let’s go Brandon , let’s go Deletes.
Every family member hollered out my name in unison. Yeah, I was that kid. I also went on to get my degree and learn how not to blow things up.
Once you adopt this simple demonstrable truth into your worldview everything will start to make sense.
Considering the US as an example, why and how did people of diverse national, cultural backgrounds find a relatively peaceful and harmonious "live-and-let-live" existence in major US cities until the advent of Wilsonian progressivism? If there wasn't some universal attraction to swim-or-sink culture (e.g. in NYC prior to Wilson), why did millions forsake other countries and risk the journey to arrive and enjoy it?
But today, with government social safety nets in place (e.g. universal medical coverage in California), when millions of unvetted "migrants" are unleashed on European and American cultures, they become servant-activists for the Great Reset. The same can be said of smash-and-grab looters, or those who vandalize monuments to a culture they never knew or comprehended.
Brexit, Trumpism, and the current confrontation on the Polish-Belarus border are all desperate, largely unheralded sociocultural reactions to the Great Reset.
Step 1 is going to be to create and sustain an economy outside the woketards' control. In particular, we will need to duplicate, or create substitutes for, critical institutions such as the banking system, so that we won't be left broke and helpless when they kick us out of theirs.