Little afterthought as a food for thought: Let me also cite here a conclusion of a brief summary of central banking in the US from opensecrets.org: Flag waving and propaganda aside, all modern wars are wars by and for the private bankers, fought and bled for by third parties unaware of the true reason they are expected to gracefully be killed and crippled for. The process is quite simple. As soon as the Private Central Bank issues its currency as a loan at interest, the public is forced deeper and deeper into debt. When the people are reluctant to borrow any more, that is when the Keynesian economists demand the government borrow more to keep the pyramid scheme working. When both the people and government refuse to borrow any more, that is when wars are started, to plunge everyone even deeper into debt to pay for the war, then after the war to borrow more to rebuild. When the war is over, the people have about the same as they did before the war, except the graveyards are far larger and everyone is in debt to the private bankers for the next century. This is why Brown Brothers Harriman in New York was funding the rise of Adolf Hitler. English, the language of modern finance and capitalism (and other things too) does have a peculiar idiom to make a killing, which chiefly means to make an enormous, large and quick (financial) profit (i.e., he wanted to make a killing as a banker ...). In common usage, to make a killing also came to denote a sense of unsurpassable perfection--killing the song ... In US culture, moreover, the connection between literal killing and killing as profit making were never too far away from each other as attested in this dictionary example: The term was used in the literal sense by American bison hunters to describe the act of shooting a large number of buffalo in a short period of time: 1907, John R. Cook, The Border and the Buffalo, Citadel Press (1967), page 118 (describing events occurring in the 1870s): Buck said if I would stay with him he would make a killing as long as it would pay to stay; said he would give me 30 cents apiece for all the buffaloes I would skin and peg out. So what does this make of capitalism and fascism and their inherent connection? Fascism happens when profit and killing (in the sense of making dead) come together much literally and physically on a sufficiently large scale.
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 18:41:07 +0000
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