PRINT THE LEGEND

There is a perfect example being exhibited right now of the way Capitalism’s huckster fairy tale has escaped responsible analysis in America.  It is the ludicrous clown show known as “funding the government”.  We are advised that unless the limit or “ceiling” of the Federal debt is raised, all manner of disastrous things will happen and, no doubt, they will, but they are all a function of the profound idiocy of our method of financing the government.

Capitalism, which has always represented only the topmost tier of the financially affluent and their banks—those premier criminal organs of chicanery and fraud—convinced politicians and courts—like a father lecturing his children—that government, while in theory it exists to benefit The People, in fact owes allegiance only to the money elite that set it up and owns it.  Thus, governments under Capitalism have the double burden of being required to borrow the funds that enable them to defend entrenched wealth.

This is the most spectacular fraud in the history of crime, for it makes government directly subordinate to Capitalism.  This devastating megascam was instituted long before anyone but extremely wealthy elites had any idea of what government was, or what it did so that The People believed this was the only way it had ever been or ever could be.  That is, of course, utter bullshit.

The  evil of this system can be better understood by comparing government to a private entity.  Say you want to start a business and you need money.  You take a loan from a bank.  You owe a debt then and interest on the loan to be paid from your profits. 

Government’s job is not to make money but, in theory, to care for its people, emphasis on in theory.  Furthermore, a government is, by definition, the supreme power of the state.  As a sovereign entity—viz., “having supreme rank, power and authority”—it has all the rights of a ruling organ, including inherently that of issuing money for its own maintenance.  Under Capitalism, that right has been usurped from government which, though sovereign, must act as a supplicant, required to borrow money from a private entity within its complex apparatus in order to operate.  In other words, government is forced to act as an enslaved cash cow for the Capitalist Tyranny that owns and controls it.

We are now being treated to a nauseating Punch and Judy show of our sleazy, money-whoring parties bashing each other over the specifics of a slimy deal to allow this grifting lunacy, rather than denouncing and dismantling the rotten, dishonest system itself.

In the old movie, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", there is a line, nearly always misquoted, that sums up Capitalism’s shoddy defense of its parasitic, cancerous capture of government.  It is spoken by a journalist investigating the truth of the killing.  More captivated by the idea of appealing to an ignorant audience than telling the truth, when asked if he is going to tell the real story, he answers, “No, Sir.  This is the West.  When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

In regard to “funding the government”—like so much in American polity, with the craven imbecility of our dirty press, and our vilely corrupt political parties—printing the legend of Capitalism is what is always done, to our great cost as a nation.  America’s massive effort to distort and suppress truth is killing even our capacity to distinguish it.  

The author at an Occupy WS demonstration in 2011

I was an American boy raised around the world attending twelve schools in four countries. I went to Princeton and quit. Went to Cuba in the Revolution, worked ranches and farms out West, on the Dew Line as an ironworker, went to sea on a Thai freighter, rambled around South Asia, was an actor in movies, went to Vietnam with an NGO, was fired, got a press card and wrote and photographed in the war. I made a movie in Danang and Hue, cut it in New York with George C. Scott narrating. I was personal film director for Bobby Kennedy in ’68 till his assassination. I was hired as Story Editor of Gunsmoke and had a thirty-year career in Hollywood where I wrote 43 feature films. I own a ranch on the Rocky Mountain Front of Montana.