Governance-By-Equities
Is Truth Ever An Option?
Op-Ed by Hephaestus Nwo, PhD
Let’s discuss keeping the poor and underprivileged out of the way, in their place, docile and compliant–on a globally warmed Earth. Topping the list for keeping the underclass tame is making sure they have food, shelter, potable water, and protection for their families. After all, we don’t want to radicalize the little varmints during this crisis by conveying their situation. (Note that varmint is a relative term–oh I see, you are upper middle class–hmm…)
Regardless, a completely new regime of pain waits–no matter what the economic geometry. The underclass is in trouble. Their situational awareness makes it worse. And there is our driver for truth: Propaganda cannot handle the fullness of climate change–as we have seen over the last two decades– while maintaining hope is a cornerstone of our civilization. Under the former system of national entities, hope had provided insight into the wisdom of government. Under the current system, Governance-By-Equities, hope herds a dulled, pliable asset, an unfocused underclass. Advancements in hope, like false hope, prompted by the free market tool of FU (False Understanding), have fostered a huge step forward in the shepherding of a docile underclass. Both forms of hope are necessary for Governance-By-Equities. Both forms of hope are under attack by global warming.
Hope supports social and economic stability as well as another key component of our system, sequestered wealth. Failure to maintain hope leads to struggle across all the classes. This struggle deteriorates if events continue to worsen and the situation of the underclass appears to weaken without effective response–as we are currently seeing in our degenerating climate. Hunger, disease, tyranny, and so forth, when witnessed by the dispossessed, have far more import than spin. In stage two, when members of the underclass no longer witness, but participate in heartbreak, spin losses all meaning as events become emotional and psychological tattoos–leading to chaos. Hearing that someone is starving evokes empathy, seeing your family starving evokes action. Ironically, reactivity (in a changing climate) leads to discovery among the less fortunate. With repeated witnessing of terrifying climate events, clarity develops, leading to critical thinking by the underclass. Keeping the poor comfortable eliminates unwanted responses, like critical thinking, or recognizing the truth. To put it another way, hope mitigates desperation. Reactivity in response to desperation fosters chaos.
Certain enterprises, and their equities, will sustain damage from sea level rise, energized storms, drought, mass migration, and desertification. The conflagration of events will devastate the poor. Those who then have nothing to lose will target successful enterprises for various reasons: revenge, food, shelter, and so forth. System pushback will result leading to increasingly radical projects by the underclass. Far worse, some will seek justice. This means the smart, capable, and ruthless members of the underclass will be in the driver’s seat of change. Over time, subject to ongoing climate horrors, the masses will lose their fear of death and follow the tide of adjustment. At that point, the disenfranchised are unstoppable as a force for change. Social divisiveness, coercion, and media spin will be laid bare as the lazy tools of an inept leadership. Excrement tossed against the wall of first person clarity and the actions that stem from it. At that point, expensive escalated pushback emerges and markets seek a downward trajectory.
Consider the two most likely forms of escalated pushback: the use of levers and the military. They are both expensive–by societal metrics–and their evocation fosters the decay of equities, an issue for us all.
The most expensive response to the radicalization of the disenfranchised is repositioning the underclass as a lever for undermining the existing power structure through apparent support of the disenfranchised. Using the lever of underclass, those that would be king de-sanctify the offered structure, assisting in the death spiral of a society, while transferring power to the underclass–albeit for a short period of time–a negative for Governance-By-Equities. Or, to put it another way, a power struggle will destabilize your investments.
The other expensive retort is the military. In general, armed response has its place: defending the nation, supporting a sustainable market, restoring order through force. Unfortunately, with social chaos, the military is placed in the role of internal national defender. Soldiers forced to fight their own class, in their own nation, sometimes in their own city. The use of a military as a national police force has a limited effective timeframe before fractures appear in the command structure and supply chains are threatened. So the costs are enormous. Asking soldiers to kill their own kind leads to corruption of the military as a defender of class–also making it less effective as a defender of our system–one reason why we are not a police state. For the military to fulfill its objective as a cash-cow and remain focused on its mission to protect our structure, the enemy cannot be former soldiers, friends, familiar faces, or family. Admittedly, robots and other drones address this issue, but the R&DD is still too murky for administering this remedy during the crisis–maybe next time.
Considering our negligence in the face of human-induced climate change, none of the reactions to misery can be considered good for business, for investing, or for providing a safe haven for cash–unless you are a litigator. Without the doors of hope and trust, chaos runs free in a society. Stability keeps the doors barred and shut. Returning the planet to climate stability should therefore be a key objective.
By this point, you have no doubt noticed a lack of equity bolstering systems for making the underclass docile–on a globally warmed Earth. In many quarters, this is not a surprise. Common in academia, in business/government, in the hallowed halls of lobbyists is the whisper saying climate change will initially hurt the poor far more than it will intrude on the upper classes. Why toss this rock downhill? Why be so cavalier in our analysis of the changing climate and the poor? Why pass power to the powerless? We can’t kill them all.
The poor will not eat their hope for sixty years. This is the Information Age. Carbon dioxide will linger in the atmosphere for generations. This also means temporal precision is the key to a successful response. That’s the punch line: To keep the underclass out of the way we have to eliminate the threats of global warming as quickly as possible. This is why spin campaigns that shatter political will among the population have become a burden to Governance-By-Equities, prompting this call for a shift in policy. Even though the objective of Governance-By-Equities is ignorance among the masses–not clarity–we must now redirect old myths on anthropogenic forcing of the radiative balance. Paradoxically, sadly, due to a rapidly degrading climate and spin-masters gone wild we are forced to support the truth: Climate is more important than economics.
In a house divided against itself, can equities long endure?
Climate change will physically injure the poor first, then the wealthy. But in all honesty: Must we be so stupid? The clock is ticking against our system of Governance-By-Equities. At this juncture, galvanizing political will, through truth, to support an effective climate response is the only way to protect our investments. We desire this to occur without the use of truth, but this will not be so. We have wasted too much time protecting dinosaur-industries, outdated energy systems, and old-school ventures. It’s economic triage time, like it or not.
Or, we can hope for escape under the sea, beneath a mountain, or into space–turning ourselves into the new underclass–subjects to the whim of our host.
I’ll take truth over demotion, any time.
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