Crapitalism (The Political Series Book 4) QUOTES

1 " Meritocracy is all about positive liberty, about the endeavour to perfect humanity and create an earthly paradise. It’s not afraid of legitimate authority – authority exercised in the interests of all. It’s wholly opposed to privilege, excessive wealth, dynastic rule, inheritance and anyone seeking power in order to serve his own self-interest and particular will rather the interests of all and the General Will. "

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2 " Meritocracy – going back to Plato’s Guardians – is about centralised authority. Meritocracy asserts that humanity can advance rapidly only under the guidance of geniuses, the smartest people in the world. "

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3 " American prisons have been outsourced. Much of education is outsourced. Much of the law is outsourced. Most of health is outsourced. Why not outsource Government?! Well, that’s our little joke, of course – it has already been outsourced. Corporations, the super rich, Wall Street and lobbyists run the Government. Elections are just a PR exercise to fool the sheeple that they have some sort of say in who governs them. They don’t. "

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4 " Don’t imagine psychopaths to be monsters with horns. They’re not. They’re people like Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. They’re well camouflaged most of the time. That’s why they fool you so easily. "

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5 " Every day of your life is a fight. If you haven’t realised that yet, you have already lost. "

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6 " Capitalists say that all that matters is the bottom line. In fact, all that matters is the top line... the excellence and quality of the human race. "

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7 " The world, when it comes down to it, is just the schoolyard writ large. Being on the side of truth and virtue doesn’t help anyone. You have to be on the side of popularity and power! "

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8 " We need an orchestrated, “positive liberty” world. We need geniuses to compose the symphonies, inspiring conductors to lead the orchestra, brilliant musicians for each instrument, singers able to execute fantastic harmonies, audiences capable of appreciating the highest quality and being transported out of themselves and spurred on to achieve great things themselves. "

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9 " In the Middle Ages, people would have pictures or statues of the Virgin Mary, or Jesus Christ, or a favourite saint. Today, people have pictures, posters or statues of celebrities: actors, sports stars, TV stars, fictional characters. Is that an improvement? "

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10 " Id capitalism wanted people to express themselves. In fact, to express every conceivable side of themselves, and sides they’d never even dreamt of. Change your clothes, change your shoes, change your hair, change your hair colour, straighten your hair or curl your hair, or shave it all off. Who cares? – just so long as you keep changing it and paying a capitalist to do it for you. Buy a new TV, a new computer, a new cell phone, a new iPod. Buy endless gadgets and keep buying every upgrade. Just keep buying. Indulge yourself, treat yourself, pamper yourself. Buy, buy, buy. Try a new image. Keep rebranding yourself. Keep having makeovers – because then you need to buy a whole new set of goods to reflect your new self "

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11 " Capitalism is Crapitalism. It’s a crap system for everyone other than the rich elite. But there is a cure – meritocracy. Meritocracy is about putting the world’s smartest people in charge, those who follow Logos rather than Mythos. They will rule via reason and logic, not via violence, religious stories, or wealth. Humanity, at last, will be free. "

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12 " There is no such thing as “people power” (democracy). The world is run by oligarchs for oligarchs. You have all been conned. You are all slaves of capitalism. You are ruled by a psychopathic elite just as your ancestors were. Nothing has changed, except the tactics of the elite. The weak, passive, submissive masses still go on being ruled by an elite few. They love it! "

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13 " The beauty industry does nothing but proclaim that women are never good enough and must always be changing their image. Why? Because that’s how the owners of the beauty industry make higher profits. They don’t care about women. They care about profit. They’re delighted to make women neurotic and depressed about their appearance if it generates more dollars for their own bank accounts. What kind of morality is that? What kind of society is that? What kind of beauty is that? "

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14 " Isn’t it time to get rid of crapitalism? Isn’t it time for a rational, sane world where the people are actually in charge, and the smartest people run everything on behalf of the Commonwealth? "

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15 " To produce the Music of the Spheres, the Harmonies of the Heavens, we need a collectivist, communitarian world where strong, autonomous individuals know that they get the best from themselves by getting the best from others. By helping others we most of all help ourselves "

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16 " The collective must respect the individual and the individual must respect the collective. It’s a disaster if individuals have contempt for the collective (as in far right American anarcho-capitalist libertarianism), and it’s a disaster if the collective has contempt for the individual (as in communism). Meritocracy is the system that reveres both the individual and the collective, bound together by rational laws, and dialectical improvement. "

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17 " The market is simply a proxy, or a pseudonym, for the rich and powerful, for the capitalist elite. In expressions such as, “The market did x, y, or z”, or, “The market reacted badly to the news”, or “The market demanded a new policy”, or, “The market gave it the thumbs down”, if you simply substitute “capitalist elite” for the word “market”, you will comprehend what’s going on. "

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18 " We already have a place where anarchy and liberty are given absolute free rein – it’s called the jungle, and right wing Americans are welcome to go there any time they like. It’s their spiritual “home”, after all: no government tells anyone what to do in the jungle, and everyone is armed to the hilt, ready to fight to the death. "

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19 " You don’t define yourself. The objects you own define you. Capitalism defines what objects you must have, so capitalism defines you. Why is it so hard to overthrow capitalism? – because it defines your identity. It literally objectifies you. Your identity is established not by who you are but by what you have. The objects you own are more important than your talents and your personality. Anyone defined by objects doesn’t have any talents or personality. "

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20 " We seek to replace the prevailing value system based on extraverted, irrational, superstitious, ignorant, emotional narratives (Mythos), and master-slave systems embedded throughout society, with an introverted, rational, knowledgeable Logos society devoid of privilege and unhealthy master-slaves relationships. We are for the liberty of the autonomous individual within the constraints set by rational laws designed to promote the benefit of all. "

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