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Exploring the structure of Conservatism.In contrast to the scientifically correct Healing systems based on Christ-truth, the world is awash with defective healing systems that become transitional to Conservatism. An example might be found in the way solutions are sought to financial problems. Let us consider the debt crisis that has gripped literally ever nation, which most nations try to address through various facets of conservatism. The effect of this conservative crisis, is that hospitals are shut down, health-care becomes eliminated, infrastructures become neglected, education becomes cheapened, scientific research projects become eliminated - in other words, the approach that has been chosen to address the financial crisis is focused on shutting the nation down! Conservatism screams, don't spend any money, conserve! But, is it really possible to heal a deep wound, such as the current debt crisis, by going conservative on the life-giving processes? It is physically possible, of course, to address a patient's pain by choking off his oxygen supply until the patient looses consciousness, but this can hardly be classified as a process of healing. A conservative solution, therefore, is fundamentally a defective solution created by an erroneous approach that is contrary to the fundamental principles of life. Christ Jesus illustrated the nature of conservatism in his parable about the 'talents' that a certain master put into the care of his servants. He spoke of three servants. One received five talents, another two, and another one. Those who had received five and two talents, respectively, used them to generate profit, while he who had received but one talent, was afraid of loosing it and hid it in the ground. When the master required an accounting, the servant who had hid the talent was severely reprimanded. Thus, the one talent was taken from him and given to him who had ten, who had generated the most profit. Conservatism is an attempt to solve a problem by counter-acting processes. Those processes create no profit for society, but tear apart whatever profit making capability exists. The conservative revolution that is sweeping the world is attempting to service a financial debt by shutting down the wealth creating structures that do exist. What profit, then, remains with which the obligations might be paid. Instead of creating productive and expansive structures that create wealth for a society, the conservative revolution is going into the opposite direction by destroying the infrastructures that are essential for the existence of a productive society. One shudders to think what Christ Jesus' comment would be to describe this obvious stupidity. One gathers from the Gospels that his remarks in such cases of obvious stupidity were frighteningly blunt. And so they should be. It is inconceivable that any rational person would attempt to solve a national debt problem without improving the 'wealth' generating capacity of the nation. It is even more inconceivable that anyone would even dream of going in the opposite direction and attempt to solve a debt crisis by shutting down the infrastructures on which the creation of 'wealth' depends. The stupidity that has gripped humanity is so bad, that it is actually difficult to come up with an appropriate term to describe this type of lunacy. There exists a term, however, that comes close to describing it. The term is, oligarchy. If one becomes sensitive to who blows the horn of conservatism the loudest, one will invariably the find the oligarchic elite behind the scene, setting the tone. The chief among those, are the fronts of the oligarchy, the IMF's whose song has been "austerity!" The trouble is, the oligarchy is committed to its conservatism, even in the face of death. Its own existence, not the lives of the nations, depends on conservatism. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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