Theft
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There have always been two methods of acquiring wealth. One is with voluntary trade, and the other is stealing by force. Throughout human history, the first method has resulted in creativity, innovation, inventions, entrepreneurship, hard work, and better organization. In contrast, the users of the second method have devised newer methods to deceive, defraud, steal, snatch, cheat, and corrupt. Businesses organize to increase productivity, wealth, prosperity, and opportunity and raise standards of living and cooperation. On the other hand, the users of the second method focus on productivity, hard work, labor, income, wealth, and money earned by different people. Businesses think and work in terms of coming up with ideas, networks, supply chains, trade, technology, and science as the methods that may exploit natural resources most beneficially and efficiently by combining these factors to provide products and services that make the lives of people easier and comfortable so that those can be sold for the sake of profit and earning an honest living.
The business focuses on the instrument that makes the peaceful exchange more feasible, easy, and global, i.e., money. The second group focuses on power, coercion, and force. That is why the second group has always focused on accumulating as much power as possible, which it then uses to extract money from the earners, while the first group does it by offering valuable products and services that people want to buy. To achieve their goals, both groups must attain higher levels of organization; the first group produces better, sellable, and valuable goods and services, while the second group uses the accumulated power and authority more coercively with tighter organization.
The efforts of the first group have resulted in the global organization of business networks that benefit the production and generation of wealth. The efforts of the second group have resulted in the formation of a global power structure that wants to control the lives of every human on this planet by the whims and wishes of masters. The ultimate expression of the will of the second group is the government. The government takes the whole process of coercion to the next level. The gangsters take booty from the people and the businesses and use that to perpetuate their power and control, but that is not enough for them. They are still considered as criminals and are subject to the legal consequences.
So, they took it to the next level. They created a problem, reaction, and solution paradigm. The first evidence of this next level of theft and murder is found in the oldest known civilization, Sumeria. There were two inseparable pillars of the system. One was the organized religions. The gods told people natural laws were not enough to keep them safe. They need a legal system based on the whims and wishes of the gods. This system would defend them from enemies, domestic and foreign, i.e., criminals and armies. Instead of their own, gods told humans that they must use the protection of gods against criminals. Gods also had territorial issues, so they organized armies.
These armies and wars between gods also created the you and us philosophy. They are coming and will kill you unless you join and support your god’s armies. War and fighting with crimes became their cliche to extract hard-earned wealth from the masses. “We need money to protect you, and you must pay for it.” It was called a tax. Some of it went to protect from criminals and wars, but most was used to guarantee a great life for the gods at the expense of the Lulus. Human populations proliferated, though. Lots of these people were knowledgeable and freedom lovers. They asked, “Why are we being enslaved by this small minority of gods? In the meantime, the sons of gods were having sex and marriages with human women. They grew up into another race of demigods that was in between gods and their genetically engineered Lulus.
Slowly, it became harder and harder for gods to directly rule the vast populations of humans as humans became increasingly disobedient. So, they started handing over direct control to the demigods while disappearing in the background, still pulling the strings from behind, telling humans that people with your blood are in charge because they are more powerful and intelligent than you. We have fixed the system. It will work now for everyone. Demigods ruled Babylon, Assyria, and other places for a while. But they did not turn out to be any better. People quickly realized that it was merely the change of faces and that the behind-the-scenes gods were still in charge.
Meanwhile, the gods’ genes in successive generations of demigods diluted relatively quickly as demigods had shorter lifespans and started looking more like humans. So, kinship was descended to humans, making these holy royal bloodlines in charge. Rulers told humans again that the problem did not exist and that the system would work now.
They did not turn out to be much better, either. They continued to live extraordinary lives, build palaces, accumulate wealth, fight wars, and impose coercive laws and unnatural morality, all at the expense of wealth extracted from hard-working, creative people who had never worked themselves in their entire lives. People were also getting tired of these human royalties. Dissatisfaction soon started, resulting in mutinies.
So, the kingdoms mostly ended and were replaced by Republics and Democracies. Controllers and power brokers repeatedly told humans that the problem did not exist and that it would work now. In reality, the problem was still not solved. It still exists. As always, power brokers changed the same old wrapping, brand names, and terminologies and threw it back on us. Still, there is a religion, it is called Atheism or secular state, god called president, holy book called constitution, apostles called cabinet, legislature and judges, churches called corporate media and church schools called public schools. System of theft and murder prevails so far. Humans increasingly realize the harsh and occult reality that gods are still in charge.