A Question of Crises
George of Santayana famous warning “Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat”, crises, occurred not as a single moment but a build of many moments. Human history has been bases on crises and these crises are about power. Since human gathers settled into dwellers, the losses organization was structure, whether intentionally or by accident into despotic authoritarian individual, from east to a single individual, China to Persia and for the west the Athens of class of free white men or Rome a plutocrat classes, eventually evolved into a single individual.
Constantine by embracing Christianity created a another hold, human in early stage is to be trusty to elders to leant from previous experiences, but Constantine genius was use religion, to that time was devolved to multiple worships into a single one, and St Augustine expressed into City of God, but the rationalization of despotic system was Socrates and expressed in Plato Republic. In the Republic, the poets and dramaturges were the outsiders, since they appeal to human emotion creating skeptics, who are challenging the established order. Into today terms are culture, scientist will fall into the category, since they question the established order.
Two results are clear the property was base on the power of Authority whose defined who was to benefit ownership, created the right to land, case in point the conquest of America by West was in name of the Monarchy establishing right of the land independent of who was in the land.
The second the emotional justification, religion, using the God given right, but the Hebrew had tradition, the fact they existed challenge the justification of divine right, hate is political tool born, we called today as Anti-Semitism promoted for 2000 years by the Roman Catholic Church, by manifestation appear in Against the Catarrhs, the Crusade used to recapture Jerusalem from Islam who also being influence by the western thinking, manifested in Caliphate or power of the Mullah Shia Islam.
Luther in the reformation past the same Anti-Semitism rage, because question the new self described chosen people, but the issue against the Jews was not Christianity alone, but Islam, since both were make claim the Divine right. The consequence was by legalize Anti-Semitism in Ghettos, in Europe, was pogroms beginning in the Christians Crusades, the inquisition in Spain and combine the last 200 years of intensity Anti-Semitism by the Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Church especially Lutheran Evangelic Church in Germany, when Anti-Semitism was secular out the power of the Religious groups was Holocaust, there is a need to point out, by Roman Catholic church by recognized Mussolini power and helping. In Germany case, the first country to recognize the Nazi regime in diplomatic level was the Roman Catholic Church.
The political consequence of Authoritarian Despotic initially, manifested in the slave trade accepted in Islam, for Western Europe the introduction initially soft, meaning to Original Natives of The Americans the Spaniards slave them, to de las Casas after 20 years abdicate they were Humans, so they had a soul, the church accepted the argument, but did not stop exploitation as slaves, but not open call as slave, case of Guarani in Paraguay. The French in Haiti used race as tool to defined slave included the Portuguese in Brazil.
But the strong effect was found in the British Colony were with introduction of Slaves was legalize as race. Even after abolition of Slave, the new US of America continue to 1863, three years after civil conflict begin 1861, since Lincoln come to the realization the 400 years of the trade, especially in the Southern States, the economy was based using African Decent slaves by this time the international trade was being abolished. The used of raced produced wealth since the commodities (i.e. tobacco and rice and by the time of the civil conflict cotton become king). Lincoln method for dismantle the South was not new in the 1776 war with British, the British offered freedom to any slave will fought for the crown.
Since the civil conflict was not moral issued, but to maintain a federal structure, after the reconstruction 1873, began in South (the appear early by start to take shape KKK as intimidation to deny right to vote) idea of separation of the races, eventually legalize in case of New Orleans for African Americans to sit in the back to of the Bus.
The economy of this system was the all financial system benefit and the eve of the civil conflict New York wanted to be out of the Union, many trade, investment firms and manufacture firms, like in the case of ship yards Philadelphia and Rode Island, who built transport for the slave trade itself or transport the commodities to Europe.
The attitude of master and servant build in this despotic Authoritarian system peculated into the American industry, even the most Progressive in the industry like Pulman ideal city any worker could be evicted for change in his house, since the company defined what was acceptable, on the other hand in more repressive in West Virginia the mine cities, the only store in the camps owned by the company gauge the market and pretty much workers had not choice to pay extortion monies to the industry. The reaction by Authoritarian power for example the steel industry dealt with strike in Mckee Rocks 1900 strikes and 1886 Haymarket in Chicago which catalyzed the labor movement in US of America.
After so many social, race and religious conflict we left with different type despotic and authoritarian models, in Europe, we have or had in the right to left, in the right from Absolutes in case Mary Antoinette, and following this tradition Fascist in Italy, Nazi Germany and Christian Dictator in Spain by Franco. To Absolutist President in France, the Parliamentary system of British Aristocrats, to Scandinavian Moderate absolutisms base on the homogenous society and the old Soviet Union, where a new management class suppose come from the working class become the new lords, and practice in China today.
In the case US the political system has reduced to despotic, authoritarian model base in nepotism, which has produce incompetence, FDR to deal of free for all Capitalism put internal brakes in the assumption the individual needs, eventually will be in conflict with community, the member enter into the elite is wealth, the Calvinist attitude god choose me and therefore I have the wealth, so I can be the benevolent dictator, has be come the ideal, the reality a massive incopentese system one again is collapsing.
Journal Biotechnlogy, January 2008, by Bouchard, et al, repeating a study done by MIT in 1997, of the 21 drugs most important introduce from 1961-1992 , the used of public funding 14 of the 21, and continue by study of the Boston Globe in 1998, 45 of the 50 drugs best selling drugs in US from 1992-1997 come from public funding. Another study from Center Study of Responsive Law from 2007, 34 of 37 cancer studies done in US from 1955-1992 was funding by US Public funding.
One issue is clear long term work, since DNA discovery in 1950’s to today still the Gene Therapy a promise, but a long term commitment can not be done by single individual or a group, because there is not guaranty or possibility any success, communities making the commitment.
The idea a single authority can or defined, the need of community, or just a group, enter into conflict, the question is if the son is responsible of the father mistakes, the answer is depends, if we do not confront and find and take not responsibility we are not just a guilty we are more guilty
What are our options, the options is Libertarian Comunities.