pg. 306 and 307 from the book
"The Hydra of Carnege"
by Craig B. Hulet
The Folklore of Corporatism
Every new religion must displace the old traditions. It has been pointed out often just how tenaciously the obsolete Gods thrash about in an effort to survive. The old never passes over to the new without a fight. The fight is already over and Corporatism has won the day; it has not as yet won the minds of the old believers and old priests and so confusion reigns. In part, the old believers cannot understand the new folklore of Corporatism because they attempt to understand it using the old words, the old language and the old definitions.
To understand the new Priesthood requires understanding how they have redefined the terms of the debate. President George Bush Jr. will have as his main responsibility pressing forward the new language and semantics, guided by the best scribes the state can summon to service, to explain to a bewildered herd that what is new is not new but the same old they have always known. His primary focus will be to adapt old institutions and ancient rituals to the new; diffuse further state power over to international governance and its international bodies; no differently than when the Pope, of ancient times, overlaying pagan religious practices with Catholicism's new rites, while the old was still in practice by the converted. Bush II, the little sprout, as father and emperor must use old words, old names, old dogmas to convince the stupefied faithful that the new paradigm is but the old dressed-up in less wornout robes.
The people remain believers in free enterprise while free enterprise has been utterly decimated by regulatory agencies, confiscatory taxation and the managed centralizing economy now called our mixed economy. "Mixed" sounds better than "managed" so mixed is utilized to make comforting the transition to a non-free enterprise system. This does not imply anything like a socialist economy, the means of production remain in the hands of private for profit individuals; it is, though, at the same time not free to all, but only free for those with the right connections, fraternal and corporate, and thus not free at all.
Mergers and acquisitions, ongoing since the Reagan and Bush Sr. and Clinton era, continue apace with no end in sight. It shall be never-ending. Media scribes in corporate employ betray their ignorance each time they "see the end in sight," with mergers a thing of the recent past. There shall never be an end to the centralization of power and corporate combinations. In fact, the process of downsizing and consolidation has not even begun compared to what is yet to come.
It is this shift, a very real paradigm shift, that has been growing clearer Industrial Policy chaired by Corporatism's best and brightest lights. It is here that serfs, peasants and most experts miss entirely. The government within government, as represented by the corporate structure is no different than the government of the public sector. The private sector, the you and I as subject and labor, taxpayer and subsidy recipient, have no government representing our interests. The people no longer have an America that represents them versus the old view of democratic governance, nor an aristocracy nor monarchy. The nation in nation-state no longer exists. Nation has always meant that body of people that formed the State to represent them and protect their interests and unalienable rights. For thirty years that entity has not existed except in language; it exists in the flock's mind as faith and the sacred; it has not existed in the guarantees outlined in the United States Constitution since the seventies.
The nation (people) no longer have representation but obligations; they have areas to obey and conform; they have the police power ever watchful over their continued obedience; they have duties to the State, but no liberties, no rights whatsoever. What remains of Rights is the light heartedness of fashion and dress, T.V. and the Internet, personal proclivities that do not matter like sexual preferences and abortion rights. But in all things that matter they have no rights, only obligations.
So whose rights and liberties does the State, then, represent? For whom do the rulers (Bush, et al) govern? Whose rights and privileges, freedom and whose free-enterprise is protected and promoted? We have all heard the term, but think it means something from our past catechism, our past faith and ceremonies. In the corporate-state, the corporate has replaced the people in a nation-state configuration that has no relationship to the past terminology still in use today. The new religion of Corporatism shall use the terms "Nation," "free enterprise" and "free-market" as long as the people (the nation) remain believers in the old faith. The old taboos will hold. The old sermons retold. The old priests from the left and right shall supply the dialectic. But they shall supply apologia for dead gods and dead faiths.
