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Dr. Herb Ruhs & grandson
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Smaller and more local is always better
than bigger and more universal
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by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News July 8, 2008
A few basic thoughts on politics and crime: The use of reliable currency allows for larger
markets and greater profits. Not a bad thing necessarily (unless you
follow the lead of Anarchist Primitivist). The down side is that
reliable money creates greater opportunities for crime, and encourages
people to adopt criminal outlooks and lifestyles.
Crime does pay.
If society fails to suppress crime, criminals have a marked
competitive advantage in the "marketplace",
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and eventually criminals
will come to control all markets, black, white and grey.
When
criminals control markets they also gain control of governments. In
this final stage of criminality (some would say the final stage of
capitalism) a society can no longer function to
provide for the basic
needs of popu-
lations, and uncontrollable destructive process are set
in place that will destroy that society. The monolithic history of
collapse of complex societies confirms this analysis.
When markets
are global, individual national governments surrender sovereignty to
these markets — and to
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Local control and national sovereignty obviously does not guarantee freedom from control by criminal elements, but at least it offers the hope of containing and limiting such control in a way that offers a chance of being able to construct just societies.
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the criminals who control them. The advent of
truly global markets therefore condemns the globe to the same
processes of decay and destruction by criminality that have
traditionally destroyed individual societies down through history.
There is no way to effectively control crime that is organized on a
global basis. A one-world government with a one-world effort to
suppress crime is even more susceptible to criminal subversion than old-fashioned
national governments. Therefore, if we tolerate globalization, we
commit to global catastrophe.
Local control and national sovereignty
obviously does not guarantee freedom from control by criminal
elements, but at least it offers the hope of containing and limiting
such control in a way that offers a chance of being able to
construct just societies.
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