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Greetings All,
Until recently, I had dismissed ever understanding the audacious mortgage system in which so many USA families had become involved since the year 2000. I thought only stock analysts and mortgage brokers and real estate agents would comprehend the seemingly complicated results people were experiencing, results that in 2006 upset many citizenries, not only in USA. I had done no research on global credit until a synchronous moment interrupted my casual curiosity.
While watching a televised sports event in which the famous and favored baseball team was not winning, miserably, I began scanning channels. In just a few seconds, that familiar, intuitive “Surprise!” nudge caught me off guard, again. A presence of mind was felt enough to follow the nudge by stopping the scanning to watch the remaining forty minutes of a program titled House of Cards.
That television program was inspiration for writing, and the entire program in video format is presented at the bottom of this ezine.
Whelming Desires for More
House of Cards shows evidences that each piece of proof would necessarily fit like a puzzle within a larger puzzle assembled within an even larger puzzle of engineered structures of immense, global debt.
The first puzzle with many pieces came my way in 2005, and was titled The Money Masters: How International Bankers Gained Control of America, a documentary that inspired my first serious article as a newbie writer. The two introductory paragraphs of that article are read when you Hover Here,
My earliest recollection of the scorned use of money was the biblical incident in which Jesus reportedly tossed the moneychangers out of the temple. I had not investigated that scenario, believing my Sunday school teacher’s inference that retailing in the holy place would have been simply intolerable. Obviously, Jesus knew the moneychangers’ arrogant methods had already provoked people for millennia.
It seems whelming desires for more are insatiable. Debt is a priority of great depth to the high rulers’ echelons if we view this planet’s peoples easily governed by results of contemptuous temptations to exercise debt. Humankind is not only beings of consciousness, whether applied for good or bad in any circumstantial condition of being, but the few humans acting as preeminent rulers of humankind are interminably and notoriously disruptive to a point of massive, fear mongered psychological operations perpetrating ongoing, for-profit wars and interest due on myriad loans especially among large groups of citizenries wishing only the most peaceful lives on every continent. Hover Here for more context.
The good old buddy system is everywhere on Earth, and within that white-male dominated system gone globally willy-nilly since the year 2000 are millions of gambled bargains of bad faith with essential details concealed, subsequently revealing a primary notion that traditional mortgage agreements would multiply unemcumbered into infinity.
It’s reasonable to remember that debt and interest due can necessarily elicit competitive motives of greed between both buyers and sellers, too many times eventually spoiling otherwise uncompromised friendships and partnerships in industrialized societies.
Cosmology and Greed Conjoin?
I’m not at all sure I can answer my own question, ‘Where do cosmology and greed conjoin?’, but I’ll attempt a few debatable points of interest from my always changing, still newer personal cosmology beginning with
revealed in mathematical equations and scientific interpretations, cosmology invokes philosophies, aesthetics, and anecdotes expressing assumptions about how the physical Universe and our planetary home created and influenced biotic forms over eons.
Earth contains within itself the structural and causal essence of the whole of the rest of physical reality known as our Universe; humans also contain within our physicalness, and with ever increasing precision, the same structural and causal essence of everything supplied by Earth out of which we were birthed.
Our species, homo sapiens—specifically, rulers of male dominated civilizations—have for millennia necessarily restrained en masse other homo sapiens’ imaginations with disaffections as vexatious symbols and words and noxious behaviors.
Now that humankind is massively present on Earth, we can discover more anecdotes about how barter and debt were exploited during the recent twenty millennia. Since WORLD WAR TWO, corporations’ for-profit gutting of Earth’s crust upon which we live, and corporate for-profit, scientific experiments on various species notwithstanding psychological for-profit productions of warring homo sapiens, egregious competitions and rabid greed within humankind’s corporate imagination has become a blatantly governing meme as well as mortician for collapsed regions of Earth’s crust.
Consider a new, personal cosmology that observes corporations’ sloven control of biotechnological and biochemical experiments and careless interruptions of the natural flows of species’ creations and evolutions on land, in the air, and in waters within and around continents, all humanly devised breaches that could eventually collapse or compromise the existence of homo sapiens. ¹
Consider a new, personal cosmology that tolerates the egregoric, amoral international banking system, which obligates exchanges of borrowed currencies, and subsequent computed debts with interest due between countries and nations on every continent, to function as a multifarious organizational chart for ruling families of wealth and their governing shills whose peaceful well being is threatened via their unreturned favors or unpaid monetary debts to rulers, as well as billions of taxpaying hirelings from whom the rulers of wealth time and again extort money and human sources for assuring corruption in the war-locked continuum inherited and honed throughout at least the most recent two millennia. ²
In other words, results of buying and selling debt are everywhere; in many instances in convoluted conspiracies, buyers and sellers are the same individuals and the same financial houses; thus, epic indebtedness weaves its webs from citizen to citizen, from politician to politician, from business to business, from bank to bank, from speculator to speculator around Planet Earth, and tenaciously presses the resilient sensibilities of humankind’s well being to the margins of an imagined real world of heedless debt secured by imperious industrialized consumerism.
So, here’s the point at which my personal cosmology conjoins greed, I think: if theories of economics demonstrate labyrinthine complexes of calculated percentages indicating humankind’s greed and competitive behaviors and predispositions for volatile, fear laden advertising inherent in for-profit marketing of global debt, global banking, global war on drugs, global war on terrorism, global police states, global militarism, global corporatocracies, global taxations, global consumerism, global destructions of life and property, global biochemical engineering, global ocean fishing, global deforesting, global mining, global drilling, global biotechnology, global detritus, global diseases, global human trafficking, global racism, global genocides, global pharmaceuticals, global malnutrition, global climate changes, global fundamentalisms, global space weaponization, global insurances, then we are noticing disruptions of global well being bearing gargantuan economic designer webs of debts and interest due that were astutely computed for any region on any continent for any period of time and for any purposes deemed fit by highest echelons of invisible rulers who are not nameless but neither named nor pictured in mainstream media and on most Internet pages.
Dime a Dozen
“…Until we remove the base causes of the criminal activities which lead to 911—the buying and selling of our elected representatives, graft on a gargantuan scale, corporate motivation to maintain global imbalances, the largest military force in the history of the planet with nothing productive to do, the fascist ownership and use of the communication networks for plainly propagandistic purposes, etc.—until these issues are dealt with then there will be no real truth, at least not a Truth With Consequences. Not a 911 Truth, nor a North Pacific Gyre truth, nor a Golden Triangle truth, nor an African AIDS truth, nor any other kind of truth which can be bought away by the price of your average K-Street/Goldman Sachs corporate fascist business as usual congressional briber extortionist. And let’s face it, they’re a dime a dozen. Figuratively.”
~ Thanks to barracuda, an artist, thinker, writer at Rigorous Intuition, a forum
Great Vampire Squid
Another puzzle of many pieces, which at first seem nearly unimaginable, is a Matt Taibbi article, The Great American Bubble Machine, with associated articles published at Rolling Stone dot com.
“The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank [presently governed by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York] is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.
“Any attempt to construct a narrative around all the former Goldmanites in influential positions quickly becomes an absurd and pointless exercise, like trying to make a list of everything. What you need to know is the big picture: If America is circling the drain, Goldman Sachs has found a way to be that drain — an extremely unfortunate loophole in the system of Western democratic capitalism, which never foresaw that in a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. ³
“They achieve this using the same playbook over and over again. The formula is relatively simple: Goldman positions itself in the middle of a speculative bubble, selling investments they know are crap. Then they hoover up vast sums from the middle and lower floors of society with the aid of a crippled and corrupt state that allows it to rewrite the rules in exchange for the relative pennies the bank throws at political patronage. Finally, when it all goes bust, leaving millions of ordinary citizens broke and starving, they begin the entire process over again, riding in to rescue us all by lending us back our own money at interest, selling themselves as men above greed, just a bunch of really smart guys keeping the wheels greased. They’ve been pulling this same stunt over and over since the 1920s — and now they’re preparing to do it again, creating what may be the biggest and most audacious bubble yet.”
~ Read Matt Taibbi’s entire piece, The Great American Bubble Machine, © 2009 Rolling Stone
Epilogue
In House of Cards, my curiosities were answered yet not entirely. Albeit, I found that subprime mortgages were begun in 2000 in financial services offices located in Orange County, California, and USA mortgage-backed securities, and corporate and municipal bonds, were packaged into various mathematically baffling instruments inclusively marked Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO) by Wall Street in 2004. °
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