The cancer stage of capitalism is not a metaphor. It is a rigorous description of where we are.The current financial stripping of economies and environments across the world exhibits, in fact, all the hallmark characteristics of a carcinogenc invasion. As on the cellular level, an uncontrolled rogue sequence of reproduction invades and self-multiplies across social borders with no committed function to life-hosts. As on the cellular level, the cancer advances by not being recognised by surrounding life communities.
Growth for growth’s sake is the ideology of the cancer cell
- Edward Abbey
Let’s see, America. As Scott Lehigh has said, you’ve got to face an inconvenient truth: $50 trillion in unfunded liabilities. The ACSE has been harping on and on about your ailing infrastructure. T. Boone Pickens claims you’re transferring $700 billion per year to the Middle East in exchange for oil, and you’re borrowing from Japan and China to do it. To hide your money-printing ways, you’ve stopped reporting M3. Over the past two years, 268 of your major financial institutions have failed. And that’s just the start of it. We haven’t even addressed the expenses of your military incursions. Yes, I know Japan and China keep lending you money, and in that sense they’re enabling your oil and war addiction. But try to see it from their angle - they have no other choice but to spend the money you give them on T-Bills because debt and funny money are your exports. It’s co-dependency at its finest.
America, I know you’ve been through a Civil War, two World Wars, a depression and several monetary inflations, but those were all caused by minor-flareups stemming from the banker infestation Jefferson warned you about. Kennedy tried to offer a cure, but we know what became of him. What began as a benign tumor has metastasized into a full-blown growth that’s sucking the life right out of you.
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