Feeding the Fire: What is the Economy For, Anyway?
Janus:
– 17 November 2023 –
Janus:
What is an economy for? And what is a state for? Are they ends unto themselves? Or are they vehicles to something else; and if they are vehicles to something else, to what ends do they serve?
Similarly, what is technology for? And what is social change for? Are these just inevitable, unstoppable forces to which everyone must cater themselves, otherwise they will get crushed in competition or lost in irrelevancy? Do these developments really serve common men and women and their nations, let alone God? Or do they serve the ends of someone else?
There are the rulers, and there are the ruled, but even the rulers must answer to outside forces. Some social forces can be channeled and engineered, and some arise as unintended by-products of that channeling and engineering.
It’s true that never before in history could the actions and wills of human beings so affect social and natural forces as they do today. But it’s also true that social and natural forces are reacting and cascading in unintended directions just as powerfully, if not more.
Possessing such limited mental and spiritual capacity, even the most clever and powerful people in the world seem only half in control, as they can hardly control even themselves let alone their peers and underlings and the ricocheting powers that they unleash from their haphazard aims.
Monkeys learn to play with fire, then they burn themselves, and their whole forest burns into cinders.
How does one keep a fire under control? Does he let it burn wherever it will? Does he feed it fuel all the time, and make himself a slave to it, and make his whole people constantly depend on ceaseless, barely restrained fire? Or can he benefit from the fire in a minimal way?
The answers seem obvious when it comes to primitives with their fires. Keep the fire safely in its place, contain it, take care with it, respect its power and its danger, and use it only when needed.
If such care is so obvious when it comes to fire, why is this not so obvious when it comes to business and government, or technology and social change? All of these forces run amok, engulfing everyone with little control, and everyone from the least to the greatest slaves away for them.
We live in an age when common people earn their livelihoods sitting or standing in dull jobs that increasingly amount to keeping a fire roaring, a fire that keeps themselves and everyone else a slave while it burns our whole forest into ruin. Then, on top of that, common people give up their spare time and money to exercise their unused bodies on machines that serve no other useful function, and to express their broken emptiness to unfeeling therapists who issue them pills so they can cope with the pointless fire.
People work half their waking lives to indebt themselves to live in houses far from their jobs and far from the dregs, far from friends and families, far from their sources of sustenance, thus they chain themselves to mortgaged vehicles, and they buy glowing screen phones to keep them plugged into a world from which they wall themselves away.
To feed the fire of continuous economic growth, the liberal state must constantly grow, debts must infinitely accrue, populations must limit their children while unlimited foreign populations replace them, technologies must constantly advance and spread, and new markets ruthlessly conquered, digested, and extracted. All to feed the fire.
Nothing is held in check, and nothing is sacred. All must serve the fire of economic growth, and the only ones who really benefit are the monkeys who charge for the fuel and charge to repair the damage.
What is the economy for? What is the state for? Within the Divine order, they exist to serve the people of their nations so they can live healthy and fruitful lives as stewards for our God in symphony with the Church.
But that is not the practice today! Within the present order (disorder!), the combined state and economy exist to enslave the people and exploit their lands so that a few megalomaniacs can worship themselves as gods and foster Satanic rebellion against the true God. Worship in the fire.
Technological advance and discoveries of knowledge are part of human development and they have been since at least the fall of man, when our existence became a physical struggle. But these are tools to benefit our lives in harmony with the natural order, not to disrupt our lives without need or care.
Social change is also part of human life. Nature is always changing our conditions, and nature has always forced us to sometimes change along with it. Groups of people naturally change in their behaviors over time due to internal and external factors, and this force is also part of human life, sometimes even beneficial. But people are meant to grow roots together and into their lands and to reach our branches towards God. In organic societies, people are able to grow roots together across generations.
Yes, we use fire, but the fire serves the organic nations. The organic nations don’t serve the fire.
There is nothing organic about this socio-economic system today. Rather than merely heat our homes and feed our families, in service to the people, its fire rages as an inferno and our rulers charge us money to treat the burns.
The system opposes the organic and works to burn down the natural order in unholy human sacrifice, self-worship, and idolatry.
“For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
“Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place. And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away. Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.“
“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
“Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.“
A sobering breakdown. Fire is the catalyst, the zeitgeist- the spurring and stimulant which drives all logos activity in creation from the world of the atom to the realm of the angelic. Just as the sunlight cannot warm the Earth without the Sun itself, so too the creative societal stimulus of fire cannot exist divorced from the Logos its causal power derives from.