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The nature of life is growth. The animal kingdom is in constant association with death, as the mental resources for infinite development have not unfolded at the animal stage of existence. Mankind, however, has achieved this capability for infinite development. The fact that the planet is currently inhabited by 5,500 times as many people than the planet could support in an animal sphere of existence, is proof of this capability. The human system is sustained not by the resources of the dust of the ground, as the animal world is sustained, but by scientific and technological development.
Currently, no perceivable limits exists that would prohibit this development from continuing, which has the potential to go on literally to infinity. There exist no true limits in energy resources, in mineral resources, in farming resources. Whatever limits are paraded in front of the public's eye are imaginary or are based on political doctrines designed for maintaining exploiting empires.
Two major doctrines of this nature are currently promoted. One doctrine was mentioned earlier. It is that which is currently used to promote deindustrialization. Its focus is centered on promoting the idea of dwindling resources. The focus is being sustained by artificially generated proof that is found in the result of a world-wide destruction of the scientific, technological, and industrial capabilities, through which normally the new and ever greater resources are brought on line.
The second major doctrine designed to halt the development of human life on this planet, is the "carrying capacity" theory that aims at reducing the world-population by 60-90% in two generations. The project has the appearance of reflecting a major insanity, but it is non-the-less promoted by the world's most powerful institutions and individuals. Both these counter-development doctrines employ what may be called a 'negative growth' system of economy, with which to achieve these goals.
The nature of negative growth systems.
Logically, negative development, or negative growth should be an impossibility, for all true development is positive, unfolding according to the dynamic pattern of life which manifest positive growth. Unfortunately, in a world steeped in mythologies of all sorts, 'negative development' is possible, resulting from what may be termed 'negative growth' systems. Several of these systems have been created. On the surface, they all present the dynamic patterns of growth, but this growth, by its nature, is inherently destructive.
These 'negative growth' systems have distinct faces, but one aspect unites them. On the surface they all appear to be benign. The mythologies that generate the illusion of positive growth, therefore, makes their true nature hard to detect. Still, one needs to become aware of them so as not to fall victim to the effect which is the effect of 'negative development.'
Negative development can be understood as a development based on faulty assumptions. It is a development which generates a certain type of growth which is destructive to life. This 'negative' growth is quite different in nature from the growth of a liability that an accountant might accumulate in terms of unpaid bills, which can certainly be paid to settle accounts. Negative growth is typified by a dynamic growth that is fundamentally suicidal, like a cancerous growth in a body, or like the growth of certain types of financial aggregates as we find them in today's world financial system. Here, as was noted earlier, we find an enormous growth in capital aggregation that has no relationship to the physical reality, but which is ultimately destructive to the physical economy that it pretends to serve.
For example, if one owns a share in a corporation that is bought at fair value, then, there there exists a physical equality between the capital value of the share and the physical value it represents. If the share is subsequently sold at an increase, while the value of the company remains the same, that increase in the value of the share is a fictitious capital value that has no physical equivalent, either in terms of any value to the society, or in terms of value to the owner of the share. However, this increase, which is a fictitious capital value, is financed with real capital by the purchaser. The fictitious capital growth, therefore, while it registers real growth, is destructive, for the process of acquiring fictitious capital value draws real capital away from the physical economy into fictitious assets that have neither real value in themselves nor afford any tangible profit for the advance of society. The result is, that the productive development of the society stagnates as capital resources are drawn out of the productive economy into the fictitious markets. At the same time the fictitious markets grow inflationary and become thereby volatile to disruption like a highly inflated air filled balloon.
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