Disincorporate And Decentralize
Disincorporate And Decentralize
If it seems that big government and big business are in bed
together it is only because they are - father and child.
Government defines a corporation as an artificial person. Amen!
What if we chose not to do business with artificial persons and
traded only with real people? Incorporation is a privilege sold
to business by governments. The business receives limited
liability, which is to say, limited responsibility. As we have
recently seen, a corporation can make fortunes for its operators
while stealing from everyone else. The owners are safe from
prosecution because they have a government immunity privilege
they may have paid millions for, over the years, paid by taxes
collected for their creators.
They are the tentacles of the government octopus and major tax
collectors. That the creators would bend over backwards to help
and protect them is a matter of self preservation and public
record. Outlaw incorporation or irresponsibility and the
father/child incest comes to an end. So does the whole industry
of corporate law. Don't you just love it when a single solution
solves many problems? What would things cost if lawyers didn't
get a cut of everything?
Easier said than done, huh? Government wants it. Business wants
it. Who doesn't? Only those who are tired of the rip offs,
poisonings, degraded environment, social repression and all the
negative isms, bald faced self interests have created.
Protesters are a minority and we all know this is "democracy"
where majority rules. Why, if it was not for government and
corporations, we would have no jobs and we would all die. Other
paid work is just not reliable enough for us. It makes us
insecure. We live for paydays. Aaah, there is the rub.
We enter the corporate world by pledge and agreement. We give
up our natural rights for the corporate society, the corporate
life. We become the bedrock support for the system and rarely
know the difference, as we protest the materialism, which cannot
exist without our tacit approval and us. When we protest the
deeds of power and influence, we protest because it is not ours
also. We are excluded from the table. A two sided triangle with
only the people missing. It just isn't fair and we hate things
when they aren't fair. Don't ask me to fix it. I've got a job, a
family and no time for politics. The whole thing can wait for
someone who does, and wait and wait.
When professional lawmakers and bureaucrats run the government,
workers are not going to change the laws in any meaningful way.
Their only real option is to withdraw support from the corporate
world and create a non-corporate life. This is decentralization
of power and government. It occurs proportionately to the
withdrawal of support. If you support that which you despise,
you are just another hypocrite. Shut up and do your job, which
is your duty. Spend all your money on what you are told. That is
your corporate duty too, Ms. Consumer. Let us compete with each
other for corporate favor and privilege, as we have been taught
so many years. Let us do nothing for ourselves for which we can
somehow hire professionals. Let us not govern ourselves. Let us
pay someone to govern us. Let us not heal our illnesses, let us
hire medicine men. Let us not grow our own food, make our own
clothes, build our own homes.
Corporate creatures can hire all things done. When we are
finally and gratefully, utterly dependent on folks who mock and
despise us, let us cry out with a loud voice, this isn't fair!
Let us point our fingers at them and demand satisfaction. Our
demands are like spitting into the wind. Let us congratulate
ourselves for voting and protesting and go back to our corporate
lives. This is not just what it means to be American these days,
it is what it means to be Western and civilized. Do as you are
told and don't forget to vote for more, more, more of every good
thing. This we call freedom. Your children and grandchildren
will too, because the corporate world will "educate" them, as
they did you and me. In this they never cease, day nor night. In
school, on radio, TV and all the major media. Think like this -
do like that. And we do.
If we are going to change any of this, we must first change us,
which also happens to be the easiest thing to do. Isn't that a
happy coincidence? If we will end our own corporate support and
enslavement, it begins with that simple question. How can I?
Don't expect to receive answers to questions we refuse to ask.
Can I have what I really want outside the corporate world? The
answer is yes. You can choose not to buy from the corporate
world, or at least buy a lot less of it and used, for starters.
Likewise, you can choose not to sell to the corporate world and
for the first time, your business will be nobody else's. How
much you earn or spend is no one's business but yours. How you
earn and on what you spend is also highly personal business that
becomes semi public the minute you do business with the
corporate world. If you work wisely, you can do work you love
for more money and less hours than is possible in the corporate
world. You don't have to buy million dollar ads on TV to sell
your products or services to enough people to earn a comfortable
living. You have eliminated the hidden costs of the corporate
world.
As more of the Western world comes out of Mystery Babylon, of
which the World Trade Center was symbolic, the corporate world
fades further in its economic power and influence. Politicians
must look elsewhere for campaign financing. We get some relief
from the incessant advertising that greases corporate wheels. We
separate from a 20th Century machine as we refuse to be cogs in
it. The corporate value system is that of the world. It is
revealed in the Book of Revelation, Chapter 18, as the
merchandise of Babylon - a long list from the highest value to
the lowest. At the top is gold, followed by silver and precious
stones. At the very bottom are slaves, followed by the souls of
men. Does this value system seem familiar? It should, it is over
3,000 years old. When we reject this value system, we must
operate from some other. Can we take the least valued thing in
the Babylonian system and make it the most valuable? Let us
disincorporate our lives and the world.
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