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The hurricanes Katrina and Rita have caused terrible damages. Many name them "natural disasters"; few say
they are "signs"! Lots of talks did (and they may still) follow, in order to analyze and improve the
"evacuation procedures", and the "disaster assistance". Fact is, all those efforts are
impressive, both in terms of human energies and financially. However, good impression stops
right there, because from
the intellectual point of view those 2 events reveal a disastrous state of things.
Storms like Katrina and Rita will come again, most likely even stronger. Other natural disasters, say, quakes,
pandemic epidemics, a huge meteorite strike, or even a shift in the pole's axis may also come. What are we going
to do? Should we prepare for living on the roads, in the woods, under the open sky?
Suppose New Orleans was a city built as it should have been. Katrina came and went away, and people stayed in
their houses and nothing bad happened. Could it be that way, say, during the next hurricanes? Of course it could.
In fact, that is the intelligent way of handling disasters. Instead of displacing millions of people whenever a
tiny storm comes, it is way more intelligent to build those cities strong enough to face anything. The problem is,
that takes intelligence, and please note this: intelligence doesn't mean much money; on the contrary, only
imbecility asks for more and more money since it is strongly associated with greed.
We mentioned someplace in these articles the CREATOR IS INTELLIGENCE, and we want to emphasize that again:
the
CREATOR IS ONLY INTELLIGENCE. Whatever the CREATOR is, besides intelligence, that is not important. Now, we have
been blessed with little of CREATOR'S intelligence. The
bad Juju for us is, few have
sufficient amount of intelligence, and many have very, very little.
We have been following oil price fluctuations during the last years and things look this way: oil-price grows
permanently, based on many absurd--even hilarious sometimes--pretexts. Say, if a job-action takes place on an oil
platform in Nigeria, or in Norway, the prices go up, although that doesn't mean the oil is wasted. The oil is
still there, and we are going to take it out sooner or later. The money-handlers motivate:
"... the demand for
oil is increasing." Of course, the demand is increasing by 0.1% at the entire planet level,
though the prices
increase by 10%, and they remain high even after the "story" is over! The hurricane Rita is still in
development at the time we write this article. When it will pass, people are going to notice
that no great damages were
done to the South Texas oil processing refineries--as they have been
wrongly anticipated. However, oil prices went up to
over 200% at the gas pumps in N America even before Rita came! That is, before any damages!
Is is clear the oil
market is driven by either very rapacious companies/individuals or by paranoiac CEOs. We cannot let things
continue that way.
If some official organization would bother to analyze seriously the oil-price evolution during the past 10 years,
we could discover we were, and we are, dearly ripped-off. We paid for that
miserable thing 10 to 100 times more than
what it was worth all the time. Well, nobody is going to investigate those issues, because the mountains of
"free cash" stuff exactly the pockets of those in power. Besides, the strongest profiteers are our very
governments so ...
This oil-thing is in fact a severe crisis for our entire Civilization. Extreme measures, such as regulating the price of oil and energy, need to be implemented right now, in order to prevent the looming global
economic recession. In addition, we need to start converting our hydrocarbons based economy towards using
hydrogen and other unconventional technologies. Technologically, we have everything we need; socially, however,
we are as paralyzed due to the existing "democratic" governmental structures allover the planet.
The coming economic crisis will destroy most of the existing businesses
today, but it will allow few of them--including the governments--to
prosper. That is in fact the plan and the intention: a
global economic recession allows for redistribution of capitals, markets, and power. Of course, only the
wealthiest businesses are going to survive, and they will be the ones to become even more powerful--just as
planned! The fact that people are going to suffer, and possibly half of planet's population is going to vanish
is totally not important compared to the profits!
Let's take the US citizens. They believe they live in a democratic society having about 350 000 000 hard working
citizens. They also believe they have a great advantage over everybody based on their advanced level of
technology, on their great military power, and on their past, historical
determination. The reality is, there are about 10 000 000 more
individuals living in US, and the entire US democratic mechanism works
only for them. Who are those individuals? Well, their juridical name is
legal entities, and they are better known as companies.
Any new social-philosophic concept must take into account the existence and the needs of these new
"entities" in our Civilization. They have no face and no body, but they are recognized as
"individuals" having many social rights--a lot more than any human individual. We have no intention to
criticize the system, because we also try to use it as much as possible--see Corollary Theorems Ltd. The point to
note, however, is those juridical entities do exist; they have many rights; they are powerful; and they
take precedence to ordinary people, in any society.
The main consequences are: a continuous process of increasing the value of the
companies-entities,
while steadily decreasing the value and the importance of the people. Instead of being people, we are today
a number of jobs in one company or another. Today, one person, or a group of people, means nothing
compared to a company having, say, 200 000 jobs.
Please do not misunderstand this: we have nothing in particular against the social organisms named "companies", and it
is not our intention to criticize them. What we try to do here is to point out our reality. On the other hand,
there is the CREATOR ...
You see, dear people, the CREATOR has created us, as intelligent beings, and we are alike the CREATOR due to the
fact we do have little intelligence. We all are his children, and we are perfectly confident he loves us all,
equally. We are all brothers and sisters of the same parent; however, those of us who were gifted with a bit more
intelligence have the duty to take care of their less intelligent brothers and sisters.
We have to take care of
CREATOR'S CHILDREN--which are we; otherwise, it is going to be very bad for all of us. If we do not do our duty
properly, then we are going to be punished, somehow, and we have no doubts that is going to happen
rather sooner than
later.
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First published on September 24, 2005
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