Controlled Disintegration II

 

Let us re-visit the concept of ‘Controlled Disintegration.’

 

Let us properly define disintegration.

 

1. The process of losing cohesion or strength.

 

1.1 The process of coming to pieces.

 

https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/disintegration

 

https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/glossary/central-planning/#:~:text=Central%20planning%20is%20also%20referred,the%20work%20of%20Karl%20Marx 

So, we are looking at a centrally planned and controlled process of the current structure coming to pieces or losing cohesion and strength. The invisible managers and others saw some things coming. The idea of freedom is waning. Just as the idea of nation-states. A, or newer periods are being ushered in. Much re-structuring is taking place. We will see where all of this goes.

 

Nation states are being challenged today unlike times previous. There have been political, educational, familial, intersexual dynamic, and even social changes that have left the world looking altogether different. Many have and are covering the specific facets of our modern world. It takes time to narrow much of this down. But it can be done. Rana Dasgupta, in the Guardian article titled The demise of the nation states observes,

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/05/demise-of-the-nation-state-rana-dasgupta

“What is the relationship between these various upheavals? We tend to regard them as entirely separate – for, in political life, national solipsism is the rule. In each country, the tendency is to blame “our” history, “our” populists, “our” media, “our” institutions, “our” lousy politicians. And this is understandable, since the organs of modern political consciousness – public education and mass media – emerged in the 19th century from a globe-conquering ideology of unique national destinies. When we discuss “politics”, we refer to what goes on inside sovereign states; everything else is “foreign affairs” or “international relations” – even in this era of global financial and technological integration. We may buy the same products in every country of the world, we may all use Google and Facebook, but political life, curiously, is made of separate stuff and keeps the antique faith of borders.” (Dasgupta, 2018)

 

Central planning or economic planning by governments appear to be becoming more and more of a reality in our modern times. Jan Tinbergen in Central Planning observes,

 

“The historical origin of planning techniques applied today clearly springs from two main sources: Russian communist planning and Western macroplanning. Russian planning was designed to guide in detail the production processes of a whole country, taking advantage of a completely publicly owned productive apparatus. This program was based on a general background of Marxian ideas, which forecast that enterprises would become larger and larger and that finally the community would take them over and operate them as one big enterprise. 

… Western macroeconomic planning had a very different origin, namely the desire to understand the operation of the economy as a whole. It was highly influenced by the statistical concepts relevant to national or social accounts and by Keynesian concepts, combined with market analysis, which later developed into macroeconomic econometric models.” (Tinbergen, 1964, pp. 4-5)

 

I have mentioned previously that some of your best economists were also philosophy majors. Philosophy as defined,

 

1 The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.

 

1.3 A theory or attitude held by a person or organization that acts as a guiding principle for behavior.

 

https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/philosophy

 

Philosophy gets into the behaviors of human beings. The current method and approach to economics is largely based upon econometric modeling. It largely does not consider how people work as in the decisions that they have and will make. This has been a major issue for some time. The current version of capitalism is not even based upon free markets meaning,

 

“The free market is an economic system based on supply and demand with little or no government control. It is a summary description of all voluntary exchanges that take place in a given economic environment. Free markets are characterized by a spontaneous and decentralized order of arrangements through which individuals make economic decisions. Based on its political and legal rules, a country's free market economy may range between very large or entirely black market.” (Staff, 2020)

 

This is termed by some as free market capitalism. We do not have free markets. It is capitalism but not as many of us have come to understand it. Which is why many are leaning towards a desire for socialism. Capitalism is rooted in competition. Let us take a look at what Sam Vaknin observed concerning competition,

 

“Competition has innumerable advantages: a. It encourages manufacturers and service providers to be more efficient, to better respond to the needs of their customers, to innovate, to initiate, to venture. In professional words: it optimizes the allocation of resources at the firm level and, as a result, throughout the national economy.

 

More simply: producers do not waste resources (capital), consumers and businesses pay less for the same goods and services and, as a result, consumption grows to the benefit of all involved. b. The other beneficial effect seems, at first sight, to be an adverse one: competition weeds out the failures, the incompetents, the inefficient, the fat and slow to respond. Competitors pressure one another to be more efficient, leaner and meaner.” (Vaknin, 2009)

 

No one likes to lose. So, some get to a certain place and then work to change the rules so that they will never lose what they have obtained. Some never get there’s and work to take what others have obtained. This idea of equality does not exist within the real world. We have never worked that way. Fairness, equality, etc. are great ideals but it is not possible when you consider family lineage, upbringing, opportunities, choices, and circumstances. There were and are always winners and losers. This is just the way that it works.

 

We are moving to a more controlled model of economics and life in general. This goes against how people work. The invisible desires to see a world the way that they desire. They are going to continue to work to bring it about. We will explore more of this in time.

https://intelpub.podbean.com/e/controlled-disintegration/

https://intelpub.podbean.com/e/controlled-disintegration-ii/

https://intelpub.podbean.com/e/controlled-disintegration-ii-voice/

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:17fedc62-8787-454e-ac74-296751174c09

References

Dasgupta, R. (2018, April 5). The demise of the nation state. Retrieved February 13, 2021, from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/05/demise-of-the-nation-state-rana-dasgupta

Staff, I. (2020, April 28). Free Market. (B. Barnier, Editor) Retrieved February 13, 2021, from Investopedia: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/freemarket.asp

Tinbergen, J. (1964). Central Planning. New Haven, CT, US: Yale University Press.

Vaknin, S. (2009). Financial Crime and Corruption (3rd ed.). REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA: Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint.