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The Third Millennium
1) A spectre is *still* haunting Eur-, no, the entire globalized, post-industrial world
THE PAST
2) The Industrial Revolution was supposed to completely make up for medieval backwardness
a. The subjective force of religion, as it once was for 1,000s of years, was no longer a guide for the means of production.
b. But each individual worker in the new economy was guided by a new subjective force-- leisure. The capitalist experience may be so bad for the worker, but he will participate as long as is given a wage to accommodate a separate life outside the workplace.
B1. Concentrating his God-given talent and nurtured energy to many different areas of leisure (i.e. family, friends, hobbies, entertainment, etc) meant that the worker could not maximize his entire God-given talent and energy to one area- the means of production (his job). The cost of his leisure-related consumption, the demand, raises the costs of production, the supply, to be very high. For the costs of production, the burden is spread over everyone participating in a capitalist society.
B2. This situation has maintained a vassal position for men in the new millennium; man profits from technology but has too many benefits from it. At instances when he needs all he can to assert himself, he has found that at least some aspects for his plan has been already tied up by the leisure-capitalist system. If he could only truly maximize his power, the benefits could be distributed to the producer and also the rest of society.
THE PRESENT
3) Understanding that the means of production at the time of Marx was manufacturing. Now today it is the individual mind:
a. For capitalism to be saved for the 21st century of our Lord, subjective desires must be intergrated intothe means of production as much as possible
A1. Any subjective-leisure forces that cannot be unified with production should be reduced in influence or at best be eliminated
A2. All remaining subjective forces should be merged with 1) a person’s natural, inherited abilities, 2) human capital, and 3) social capital into one unit
A3. Now this unit can reenter the capitalist setting, and can channel his fullest amount of energy towards market demand
AA1. Man now serves an objective demand rather than a subjective demand of the past 10,000s of years.
THE FUTURE
4) The new objective demand treats the individual mind as the head of his own nation state (which the rest of the body) that is motivated by the same practical desires of an actual country. A country like the United States, enlightened and unbiased, unified by core values, but also dynamic and resilient.
Unlike the Marxist focus on the production and the masses, the new approach is directed towards consumption and the individual.
The post-industrial system is not to be rejected.
Rather, man should participate in capitalism as a fit competitor so he ultimately benefits his fellow neighbor. For the individual to assume the role of a nation-state, he can efficiently create an identity for himself and evolve on a one, unified, flexible path. Taking the initiative can result for salvation for all.
The end:To be better at being yourself. The means: Consume less and work more.
CONCLUSION
It is destined that all of humankind will be subjects of capitalism.
People in the West and people in China and India will be.
Those in the free world and in the Islamic caliphate will be.
Conservatives, liberals, and everyone in between will be.
Those who believe life starts at contraception and those who believe in a women’s right to choose will be.
The citizens who evacuated New Orleans and the citizens were left behind in the 9th Ward will be.
Baby boomers and their descendents of Generation Y will be.
Conflicts driven by subjective desires have a potential to be worst enemy for man, wherever he may be in the world.
No matter what side he is on.
Any task towards a goal will have ups and downs. World peace as goal is ruled out; nobody's perfect. But the longer it takes for us to resolve our conflicts, the more likely larger conflicts will occur in the future for our future generations.
Putting off the slavery question to the side made the Civil War more deadly and destructive for both Northerners and Confederates. No true winner or loser in interconnected, industrial world like the 19th century. Imagine with the even more interconnected, postindustrial world of the 21st century.
Action does indeed speak louder than words like these here. But the point is not the action, but rather the mind controlling the action. There is also the saying look before you leap. Think twice about what purpose that action serves.
The time is now. The moment is for us. It all depends on how we direct that moment. We as a human race have but one earth, united we stand, divided we fall.
