“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance,
it is the illusion of knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking
With us, it’s far better for everyone to just be effective!
What it boils down to is that in the New Alliance Economy we help each other to take nothing for granted, especially what we know, or think we know.
In other words, we help each other to listen, think and act from a position of Not-Knowing. That way we put our pathetic, self-serving egos on hold so that the most effective solution(s) to our problems can emerge naturally.
But what about the members of America’s leadership class, especially perhaps, her economic elite?
Apparently, for their purposes a worldview like ours would be anything but helpful.
Maybe that has to be, though. After all, unlike most of us in the New Alliance Economy America’s economic elite attended all of the best schools with all of the best professors.
Moreover, they have read and mastered all of the required texts.
On top of that, they also enjoy all of the power, profits and prestige that come from being the right gender and having all of the best club memberships, organizational affiliations, prejudices, certainties, jobs, thoughts, feelings, beliefs, diets, automobiles, friends, spouses and kids.
But, when in all of human history has any of that kind of stuff ever been good enough?
Neoconservative Democracy in America - “Come in, sit down, look at me, shut up, I am right, you are wrong, go now, have a nice day!”
For example, it seems to me that you would need to have a really unclean opinion of yourself and your life, not to mention others and their lives, to be willing to crash a great nation’s entire economy just so that you could keep on convincing yourself, and others, that you were indeed among the “best and the brightest” and for that someone who just always has to be right.
Stunningly, from all the evidence, that appears to be exactly what Wall Street’s Alan Greenspan, Bob Rubin and Larry Summers and their cohorts were willing to do, and finally did do, for precisely that reason.
To catch a glimpse of how they went about bringing their project to a successful conclusion I highly recommend the PBS documentary Warning!
A “must see,” Warning! is the story of a brilliant and capable adult female who chose to be effective as the most courageous, responsible and loyal public servant she could possibly be, namely Brooksley Born, and the decade-long hatchet job done on her by Messrs. Greenspan, Rubin and Summers and their allies in order to prevent her from implementing badly needed regulations in the wildly corrupt and highly fraudulent neoconservative laissez faire derivatives market.
Brooksley Born
If you, unlike her antagonists, still believe in self-respect, humanity, love of the truth and democratic justice, it will break your heart.
And so will this!
To date, no American official has demonstrated having any of those qualities in sufficient quantity to officially charge these treasonous miscreants with any wrongdoing and make it stick.
God love you Brooksley Born, and good luck to you wherever you are.
