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A graphic illustration of the now ongoing trend towards the total collapse of our present world-financial system has been made the enter image of the cover of this book. The illustration has been authored by the American economist Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., a man who after 35 years of warnings about the present danger, now in his early eighties, has become known for his work around the world, especially in many high-level spheres of governments and institutions and also within the empires where his name is held in contempt and his warnings are regarded with fear.
In part, the background of this book is rooted in Lyndon LaRouche's work on economics, on his discovery of universal principles, and on in his fight for these principles. Another part of the background is rooted in Mary Baker Eddy's work, specifically her scientific focus on the Principle of Universal Love. Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) is the discoverer and founder of Christian Science - America's pioneer of the "divine Principle of scientific mental healing." The book combines both backgrounds. It has been designed to discover and to help society explore, failures in concepts related to economics. It is hoped that when the destructive processes are understood, the failures can be corrected. And so they should be corrected. Mankind is too precious for great calamities to be embraced that tear its civilization apart. Mankind is also too resourceful as an intelligent being for it to allow this to happen. The book is designed to inspire a processes of healing.
Since this book is a part of the research series, Discovering Infinity, the healing I expect goes deeper than an exploration of merely technical issues of economic policies, but requires also a healing of our perception of the nature of the human being, and thereby a healing of the perception of ourselves.
For example, in the modern world an imperial agent of the early stages of the private British Empire, a man named Adam Smith, is worshiped highly, nearly as a god, as the inventor of modern economics. He is telling society that the raw greed of a man in the pursuit of his lust is the foundation for the public good in that it drives the economic processes required to fulfill his lust. In scientific terms this is a counterproductive process, and it was meant to be that.
Adam Smith was commissioned by Lord Shelburne of the East India Company that had become a world-empire, to explore processes that could be used to destroy the American republic should its independence drive succeed. This happened before the USA was formed as a nation-state republic. Adam Smith was commissioned to study the free-trade process as a weapon, and to study the causes for the collapse of Roman Empire. The free-trade process was later inserted by Lord Shelburne into the Paris Peace Treaty after America won its War of Independence. Lord Shelburne became Prime Minister for one year to assure that this would happen. Indeed, the free-trade process worked well. Within a short time America was bankrupted. The American republic was saved, however, from this chaos of its bankruptcy by Alexander Hamilton's policies of federalism on the basis of the General Welfare Principle. The principle was implemented through federal banking for national industrial development and through tariff protection of the national industries. On this platform of the nation's self-development by its own resources the USA became the richest country on earth and the envy and the model for mankind. Unfortunately Hamilton was killed before Adam Smith's second weapon of greed-based fascism, misnamed an economic principle, was gaining popularity. Now the economic and financial system of the world has been driven to the brink of collapse by the sword of the weapon of greed.
Contrary to Adam Smith's historic propaganda the human being is not a creature of greed by nature, but is a creature of love and respect for one-another as human beings. The greed element has been artificially cultured and promoted to justify the existence of empires that have no natural universal principle for their existence and purport. The fact that greed is not native to the human being is well illustrated by the following anecdote centered on a question of economics during the time of so-called Asian financial crisis when many a nation in Asia was raked over the coals by powerful and ruthless financial speculators. During a meeting in exploring the tragedy that had became a near catastrophe for some nations, one person defended the speculators. He said that the strong players in the market that have spent years developing their financial might have every right to be successful in exploiting weakness that offer opportunities to profit them. At this point another man asked the person a simple question. He asked that if a man had the resources at hand to go to a hardware store and buy himself a sledgehammer, who thereby would have the might to smash down his neighbor's door and steal all of his belongings while his neighbor was away at work, would he have the right to do that? This simple question changed the tone of the discussion. The first person conceded that no one has the right to steal by any means. In fact, he suggested that he personally would be more inclined to actively protect his neighbors home from would-be thieves, as would be anyone else. It would be certainly far from his mind to break down his neighbor's door and steal.
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