Consumercidal Tidbit
“An outbreak of measles occurred among adolescents in Corpus Christi, Texas, in the spring of 1985, even though vaccination requirements for school attendance had been thoroughly enforced… We conclude that outbreaks of measles can occur in secondary schools, even when more than 99 percent of the students have been vaccinated and more than 95 percent are immune.” Gustafson et al. (1987) “Measles outbreak in a fully immunized secondary-school population”, NEJM; 3216: 771-774 |
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At the hearts of this institutional self-preservation lies the monetary system, for it is money that provides the means for power and survival: therefore, just as a poor person may be forced to steal in order to survive, it is a natural inclination to do whatever is needed to continue an institution's profitability. This makes it inherently difficult for profit based institutions to change, for it puts in jeopardy not only the survival of large groups of people, but also the coveted materialistic lifestyles associated with affluence and power. Therefore the paralysing necessity to preserve an institution, regardless of its social relevance, is largely rooted in the need for money or profit. ...It is important to point out that regardless of the social system, whether fascist, socialist, capitalist or communist, the underlying mechanism is still money, labour and competition... the reality is that "monetary-ism" (so to speak) is the true mechanism that guides the interests of all the countries on the planet. The most aggressive and hence dominant variation of this monetary-ism is the free enterprise system. ...whether it is dumping toxic waste, having a monopoly enterprise, or downsizing the workforce, the motive is the same: profit. They are all different degrees of the same self-preserving mechanism which always puts the wellbeing of people second to monetary gain. Therefore, "corruption" is not some by-product of "monetary-ism", it is the very foundation. And while most people acknowledge this tendency on one level or another, the majority remains naive as to the broad ramifications of having such a selfish mechanism as the guiding mentality in society. ...war, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system, that is there will be very little significant change: it is going to take the redesign of our culture, our values... --Zeitgeist Addendum, 00:57:30, 1:00:00, 1:01:55
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