This is a short follow-up post to the essay I published yesterday: Prosperity that Never Ends…Oops. Besides a few unexplored aspects of this situation, I also left hanging the question which is the title of this post: Why Are the Parasites Killing the Host?
Indeed, why? Wouldn’t they be better in the long run to keep the source of blood and flesh alive while feeding off of it? I really can’t say for sure and I don’t believe it worth spending too much time thinking about the matter. It’s a bit like trying to figure out what went wrong in the political system of Germany while planning for your battalion to meet its goals, including survival, on the beaches of Normandy. There will be time for such historical analyses, by professional historians, when we move past the oncoming disasters. For now, I just wish to make a few suggestions to make it possible to have a more or less complete narrative understanding of the situation of the human race in 2012.
- The thrill of the hunt has gotten hold of some of the bankers and politicians and a feeding frenzy has begun.
- The population of the exploitive or predatory class has grown so large as to unleash, again, shark-like feeding behaviors in the face of a limited food supply.
- The beast is dying anyway, so why not rip out a big hunk of as-yet healthy flesh.
- The looting has been set in motion and no one can or will stop it.
In my next essay, I’ll move on to a more useful attempt to understand: why have so many of us been oblivious to the increasing signs that something had gone wrong in our age? In fact, some seem to still be oblivious. In my hometown, everyone is excited about the possibility of redeveloping the mills which once were so productive of jute-stuff and then a variety of metal and paper products. What sorts of companies are going to go in there? The major occupant will be a large health-care facility at a time when Medicare is approaching a cliff, Medicaid is probably dead on the scene but not certified, all sorts of insurance companies are likely to tank because they’re one of the industries being stripped to the bone by the low interest rate strategies of the central banks (and they have other problems), and everyone has noticed the U.S. pays twice as much as Germany, as a percent of GDP, for our relatively crappy health-care.
Let me add an item to my list: The parasites are killing the host at this time because the host is loving it as its flesh is ripped away from its bones; it cries for more of the same stuff.