3rd Time's a Charm

I plan on beginning (again) with a series I'm calling "Placatory Structures of Capitalist Statism."

Let's first breakdown two phrases I will be using consistently throughout my blog:

State Capitalism can be described as an economic system in which commercial (for profit) economic markets and activity may be modified or controlled by the state, with management and organization of the means of production undertaken in a capitalist manner - even if the state is nominally socialist [1].
From this, we can induce that Capitalist Statism is a system in which social markets and activity may be modified or controlled by the capitalists, with management and organization of communal resources undertaken in a socialist manner - even if the state is nominally capitalist.

While perhaps not a perfect definition, there is more than enough evidence to suggest that this is similar to the functionality of the U.S. for (at least) the past hundred years. Take for example, the "campaign contributions" made by J.P. Morgan Chase to the members of the last Senate Banking Committee:

                                    Source:Open Secrets, Zero Hedge


They are, of course, not even the worst offenders. Here is a handy list of officials from various administrations who also collected a PAYCHECK from various Fortune 500 Companies. 

You may need to zoom in on your browser to read this info-graphic more clearly

We are at a point in American history where profit motive has eclipsed the ethical obligations our legislators and other governmental officials have to their constituents and fellow citizens. The Capitalist Machine rolls ever onward, swallowing democracy in it's path. These people not only decide when and where our money goes to what, but are responsible for every policy made for our "protection" and posterity. 

The second phrase we should familiarize ourselves with is Placatory Structures. Let me be completely clear: I am in no way ever suggesting that Ben Bernanke and the Rothschilds sit down with the President and the unnamed head of Mainstream Media Inc. and plot ways to subvert the concerns of the population or in some way suppress revolutionary momentum. You will hear no such conspiracy nonsense from me at any point (in this series or this blog.) I pride myself on providing the reader only with fact from which they are free to draw their own conclusion, and building my arguments solely on quantifiable, empirical data. But the truth is that a market as large and diverse as ours functions in many ways like a living organism (or perhaps family of organisms,) that grows and evolves and develops mechanisms of self defense. It has grown so dense and exists in a ecosystem (the global financial environment) so lush, that it is growing increasingly adaptive, and much like a human body clones it's own proteins to attack infection, all of which are then excreted, neo-liberal capitalism has developed processes of assuaging the public's concerns and neutralizing any subsequent action by utilizing it's most inherent genetic functions.

Tentatively, the series will move as follows:

Series 1:Entry 1-The Myth of Altruism
Series 1:Entry 2-Following the Green in Green Industry
Series 1:Entry 3-A More (or Less) Tolerant World for Sale
Series 1:Entry 4-The Conspiracy Conspiracy
Series 1:Entry 5-Capitalism in Crisis?

Some of these I have selected for their timeliness and fleeting relevancy (provided I can get to writing them in time.) I have chosen to forgo many of the more obvious choices (the military-industrial complex, organized religion, the bipartisan model) so as not to begin quite so pedantic, in the understanding that most folks reading this will have already grasped the more deranged nature of these institutions, and so that I may explore them with greater depth later on.