The opposite to free-trade is simple.  It is Scientific political Alertness!  It's upwards path also spits.  It generates discoveries of fundamental principles that can be explored and applied, which in turn leads to discipline to Principle.  This is the path of Classical humanism. (Don't you get tired of hearing those phrases again and again?)  The fact is, this discipline is essential as a means to protect and advance the development base of society.  This base includes highly developed social conditions, cultural conditions, education, scientific research, technological institutions and support structures, national physical infrastructures, financial infrastructures, legal infrastructures, etc..  All this underlying support system advances the status of society, without which society cannot exist.  But it comes at a price, and this price must be factored into the pricing structure.  It is the price one pays for life.  This commitment to technological infrastructures increases the productive capacity of labor on which civilization rests, and by which it is protected and advanced.

The horizontal branch points to its manifest in Scientific, political and financial activism, the force that is building the Sovereign nation-state on a platform of Scientific Christianity. (See Appendix A14)

Under free-trade exposures to the cheapest pricing structures in the world, these upward oriented structures that are so essential to the processes that create and maintain the structures on which civilization rests, become dysfunctional.  The society collapses into poverty and indebtedness.  This collapse is a lawful result of processes set in motion that dampen Scientific political alertness and promote Political apathy.  That is why the free-trade weapon is so destructive, and why it is so much loved by the oligarchy.  It is driven by a powerful psychological mysticism called "Cheap imports," which gets the Political apathy game going and keeps it on track.

In order to achieve creative progress, the opposite is needed, to thoughtless fascination with Conservatism.  A nation's social infrastructure cannot be ignored, which includes equitable wages that are necessary for a healthy human environment.  It is not wisdom for a society to shut down its wealth creating structure in order to save a buck, and then be forced to shut down its health-care and social support structures, its industries, and its income for living.  One needs to become aware that the carrot of cheap import that conservative free-trade logic holds before the eyes of the people, may well be the most expensive item that nation ever latches onto.  Few nations realize that the sheer physical life of their people need to be protected against this foe, apart from the maintenance of cultural and financial prosperity.  And this protection must be won through sovereign government and its power by law to prevent destructive impositions through the use of protective tariffs.  It is not wise to leave one's house unlocked to thieves.  A nation must never be thrown open to the vultures who profit be destructive commerce, and so allow itself to be destroyed.  The pricing structure must also be such to allow for a reasonable level of taxation with which to pay for the national infrastructures that are commonly shared by the whole nation.  Unless a nation has a broadly based, healthy, pricing system, the infrastructure is missing for further economic development, and collapse is imminent.

It has been said that the idea of the welfare-state needs to be eliminated in order to save money.  The very opposite is true.  Unless a society can maintain itself in a healthy state of continuing dynamic growth, no matter what it takes, the society is doomed to collapse.  Of course, the best way to eliminate welfare, is by eliminating the need for it.  The aim of the welfare-state should be, to pay no welfare at all, but to create the conditions by which people are able to provide for their own well being, and add to the welfare of the nation as well.

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