beck’s 3G advice…

Posted on Tuesday 2 March 2010

In article in the last post [structure to the emptiness…], Glenn Beck gives us some advice:
    1. Recession: Get out of Debt, Save. Not very good advice, actually. That’s what people do by reflex, and it essentially shuts down the economy. It’s what FDR meant by, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." On his first day in office, he declared a Bank holiday to stop runs on the Banks. People were hording money in coffee cans, thinking like Beck would have us think.
    2. Depression: 1. + Fruit Cellar. Store up food for the coming Armageddon. That shuts down commerce. Stores sell off their inventories and don’t restock. Further grinding the economy to a halt.
    3. Collapse: 1. + 2. + G, G, G [God, Gold, and Guns]. One of the ways FDR got us out of the Depression was to outlaw ownership of gold. Again, hording gold was shutting down the economy further.
The whole point is that what "recesses," what gets "depressed," what "collapses" is the economy, commerce, spending, money moving – not money in coffee cans. Beck is advising us to respond individually by doing everything in our power to make the economy worse. Further, he’s fanning the flames of antigovernment-ism, when the truth is that the only thing that helps a depressed capitalistic economy is government intervention. They want to cut taxes so people will have more money to horde, further weakening the economy. They suggest individualistic solutions and rave on about communism and socialism at the very time when the only valid solutions are collective.

Why? Why suggest hording gold, or buying guns to shoot the other hungry people, or turn to spiritualists rather than economists? I guess it’s because it fits with peoples’ notions of their own self-interests, their fears, their frustrations, their need to blame someone. It’s telling people what they want to hear in order to gain either power or popularity. Recessions, Depressions, and Collapses are caused [rather than solved] by self-interests run rampant. Beck preaches that the solutions are the problem, and suggests that the problems are the solution

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