Sunday, November 17, 2013

Introduction The Meme: Why We Do What We Do: The Ten Internal Commandments and the Humans are not Animals Meme: a Treatise



The Meme: Why We Do What We Do:
The Ten Internal Commandments and the Humans are not Animals Meme: a Treatise

The following is a treatise to reevaluate the biblical Decalogue and the meme at its root.  (A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture.)  Each Old Testament commandment is stated in truncated veiled catechetical format followed by a more specific scriptural account.  These traditional legalities will be juxtaposed with a single word capturing the essence of what the original commandment pertains. 

This treatise attempts to interconnect the Ten Commandments, which is used as the apex example of a system of social and cultural constructs implemented by humans to shield humans from the reality that humans are no different than animals.  This is done in order to install a social hierarchy so that humans could live in consistent coordinated coexistent societies (rather than as singular vagabonds killing, stealing, and deceiving each other when convenient) for the long-term benefit of the species.  The meme on the most rudimentary level is born from a complex-being’s fear of death. 

The treatise intends to point out the myriad of human decision making trees that serve to protect this “Humans-are-not-Animals” meme (the Meme), identify the detriments and benefits to society created by the Meme, and consider the potential ramifications on the mental evolution of humans if this meme was reduced to lower thresholds by exploring religious, economic, political, and psychological aspects.

This piece is intended to extract the pith of psychological manipulation in each numerated Commandment in the long-standing addendum to people influenced by the bible as an extension of the Pentateuch and reexamine the benefits and detriments of the content, phrasing, and consequences upon our planet.  The single-worded headers are intended to convey a neo-Decalogue of internal commandments generating not out of what one is commanded by an external authority, but by what one understands inherently by being a complex life-form and therefore abides and carries out rationally, logically, and willingly under a comprehensive autonomous station of volition.  A better understanding of these core psychological concepts and how each relates to wielding our volition represents a path to usurp human-hunger for the Humans-are-not-Animals meme.

The commandments will be shown for why they are connected to the central Humans-are-not-Animals meme.  The treatise will show how the Meme is so successful as it attempts to keep humans out of chaos and disobey the laws of the universe by reducing entropy.  This treatise attempts to show that it is this violation of natural entropy that shows why the Meme cannot ultimately be sustained.  This may lead to humans accelerating human extinction if the Meme is not recognized for what it is if humans do not elect an alternative dominant meme that can serve as a substitute to communicate human interconnection.

The treatise often presents humans in roles manipulating and being manipulated.  This manipulation is most often subconscious through vast historical infrastructures of self-identity and social standing imprinted by humanity upon ourselves.  There is no monster, only ideas which we either choose to believe or not. 
The treatise delves into the most dangerous ideas man has ever conjured, the ideas which hold society from chaos and mobilize the masses.  We are inherently cognizant on a species-level that humans must organize in a hierarchy.  We cannot all be ant queens.  We will all die.

However discussing these realities is perilous.  We are a living super-organism.  We need exploitation in a sufficient measure so that we are not every man or woman scavenging alone in a wasteland or living day to day under a carnivore/herbivore arrangement of kill or be killed.  We see this in herds of buffalo and prides of lions.  So in we must understand this interplay within our species to not look first to jealousy, hated, anger, greed, or maniacal individuals. 

We must look inward to what and who we are as a collective and as individuals wielding volition knowing that it is in each of our individual best interests to participate in a system of balance for mutual survival and love if we can muster.  This is where we uncover the genesis and value of the Meme.

How do we as a cooperative society convince the bottom rungs to participate in a system designed to exploit the Poor if the complexities of the human mind recognize what is actually taking place?  The most common answers have been religion, patriotism, racism, and fundamentalism.  (The capitalized word Poor will be used in this treatise as a term to indicate the lowest classes of society in terms of financial wealth and social-power.)

Many may cry foul.  The ideas are like a shockwave piercing the shell of superego burrowing into ego and rattling who we are, why we do what we do, who is to “blame”, and scratching the mane of our animal-like id craving genetic replication.  If unveiled, if absent the disguised contortion, then chaos may ensue.  We may become enraged in rebellion at how we are tricksters and tricked. 

We see glimpses in Arab Springs, Katrina rooftops , Darfur pickup-trucks, Kandahar caves, Occupy Wall Street encampments, Mogadishu Saturdays, Filipino typhoons, Birmingham fire hoses, Juarez murders, Kenneth Lay, Bangladesh sewerage treatment, the Catholic church’s deposit for an island off the coast of Grenada, L.A. Riots, Monsanto seed patents, Tiananmen tanks, and nightly newscast screen crawls. 

The self-initiated beguilement is the glue holding civility from splintering in a shamble of raw fear.  Nothing is really stopping craven wanton greed, destruction, and anarchy.  Nothing can stop death.  Humanity has always been only held by volition. 

This unassailable fact is the crux of the Meme and the conflict between religion and science; or is it a thought rather than fact?  Is there a god?  If there is, is this god a safeguard?  How do we define god?  This is why humans are so passionate on the subject of god and by consequence religion.  The concept of god is foundational to the Meme.

We hunger for the comfort god represents against this inherent risk to being a living organism.  Our cerebral cortexes crave this electrical-power-surge protector as we plug into the human-living system.  Less complex animal brains do not require such assurances operating on instinctual acceptance of this reality.  Less-complex animals are ready to eat or be eaten.  Death is the omnipresence.  Animals do not costume the idea.  The Meme informs us we are more complex and this vulnerability is inapplicable because of god and our unique-being status.

Humans bury this debate deeply within our id making taboos of cannibalism and improper burial.  We have invented religion to pile layers over this risk in our superego so that we do not obsess in a deluge of fret over what is possible at any moment as a rat happens upon a snake.

So in tasting this peril, a portion of mankind manufactured the original Ten Commandments and to a degree all religion and various superstitions as a safeguard to distance ourselves from these unsettling innate cogs to life.  To point out superstition’s absurdities is to jeopardize that fragile skeleton and bank on trust and love rather than deception and fear. 

We grow to notice things that are in many ways once seen unable to be unnoticed moving forward.  We grow to see life as a choice and an acknowledgement of love or fear in ourselves and others.  We conquer death as the Meme attempts to do, not through the Meme’s false eternities, but by relishing the volition to love in our gene-vehicles operable life.

When we see into the workings of the Humans-are-not-Animals meme, we see how the Meme often influences us to choose fear and views love as human weakness to assuage our hunger for genetic survival.  We segregate, classify, and partition life into subcategories until we distance ourselves far enough from the initial love or fear decision that we are blind to why humanity operates the way it does. 

The Meme’s greatest benefit to human-evolution is that the Meme freed the human-mind from expending the preponderance of our conscious and subconscious thought on eat or be eaten and hour to hour survival as well as temporarily explaining scientific phenomenon.  This unlocked the computing-power of our collective cerebral cortexes.  The Meme communicates the illusion of an enforceable social contract.  This is the catalyst of our complex-brains domination of other Earth-species through mental evolution.

The Meme has been crucial, if not indispensable.  However, like most mechanisms of evolution, we must reevaluate our present needs, like a dinosaur into a bird, and shed the excess hindrances to provide a fresh allotment of freedoms to set our minds further along the spectrum-grindstone of the universe.  We are to do what all life is called, evolve or suffer extinction. 

To continue this evolution we can imagine that life can be deposited in one of two baskets on a scale to add weight to the imbalance.  Currently the Meme has the preponderance.  Thus the Meme dominates.  This treatise will act as a guide on how the authors see events, points of view, reactions in the arenas of human life to either be pro-Meme or anti-Meme.

This treatise urges humans to develop awareness to group stimuli and human behavior according to pro-Meme or anti-Meme.  One may find the world of human behavior suddenly more thoroughly explained.  Thoughts, bizarre logics, paradoxical behavior and reactions will appear connected through a formerly-hidden variable to complex-human life’s equation, which was previously unspecified, but is now glaring in how simple, yet magnanimous the Humans-are-not-Animals meme is. 

Conversely once one sees the folly electing the Meme’s perpetuation, one can inform others to see the Emperor’s nudity and openly speak in a mature discourse on the alternative replacement evolving meme.  One will see that it is not a naked overlord in the parade, but the entire crowd naked looking not at invisible fabric, but at a nonexistent emperor.  There are only us and our thoughts. 

The ten internal commandments are a suggestion to frame the groundwork for a replacement evolving meme and offered as reflective touchstones for individuals to contemplate inherent morality and an individual notion of what many might call god.  These are not meant to be an encompassing, complete, or restricted list, merely hubs for thought to grow.  

Let us continue.

Love, Fear, Faith, Hypocrisy, Death, Empathy, Avarice, Knowledge, Energy, Prejudice

Each original Commandment is stated under the following two formats:
[Traditional Catechetical Catholic Formula]
{Exodus 20: 2 to 17}

Part 1 Love 1 to 4: The Meme


1) Love
[I am the Lord your God: you shall not have strange Gods before me.]
{I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.  You shall have no other gods before me.  You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.}

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Love is not jealous.  The primary commandment explicitly confirms the jealously of the Old Testament god who is understood to be the same god who is one in the same as Jesus under the New Testament paradigm.  The attempted delineation to segment the Old and New is like a two-party system pledging loyalty but respectful disagreement for the mutual benefit of a country where each has signed a common constitution.  A flag cannot be parceled through revisionist stitching to spare one body of congress for acquiescing to the will of the other. 

Jesus does not provide such segmentation.  Judaism does to retain its sovereignty.  Islam is a similar game plan as Christianity syphoning Abraham-derived folklore through the tributaries of Moses and Jesus to channel resources through a fresh voice of Mohamed to arrive at the same goal.  Each attempts to maintain compliance with the initial commandment as the god referenced is slightly shifted and portrayed as the original given time’s clarification.  If any member of the triad were to explicitly state a name to god, the conceptual god would inhabit an increased culpability of specificities beyond a name.  This would fissure the foundational integrity of the Bible and Koran and the beneficial corollaries.

Each fragment of the pie is culpable for the poisons and nutrients in the apples.  The storyline encourages such linkage.  The bond carries nicely the conversion of Jews into Christians and Christians to Muslims adding credence in the formative years of each piggy-backed religion.  Like an evergreen tree this supplants pagan ritual by mucking the waters to cloud definitive delineation in order to proselytize converts in the opiates of common bond. 

The limited connection by Jews to appear inclusive of Christianity has afforded the nationless-nation, Israel.  In addition Judaism is provided a hovering angel of protection in the form of the predominately Christian-formed United States of America on a northern-hemisphere dominated globe establishing the planetary definition of north as top and south as bottom. 

The biblical link of Old and New Testament between the two does require consistent reassurance.  The Vatican’s apathy and the ramrod anti-Semitism of Nazi Germany serve as eternal reminders of how quickly vengeance for the accused regicide of Jesus could sever the tie given political convenience during a debt crisis.  The idea that such a human-deity’s volition to acquiesce to the prophecy of his grand plan, rather than oppose or prevent an assassination Jesus saw coming, which makes the death more suicide than murder, was apparently lost on or a convenient omission in the propaganda of Hitler and Popes.

This Christian-Jewish bond is at the crux of the divide between a Palestinian people and the various slants of Islam.  These parties hold a confrontational two-chair game of duck-duck-goose over the three predominant Earthly monotheisms.  The ire of standing alone is correlated with the advent of global terror.  This fragmentally veils the divide behind notions of nation to substantiate taxes as surrogate tithes for secular militaries awash in the murky pond of crusade and jihad. 

The literal Earthly-representative of the symbolic gamed-chair is the city of Jerusalem.  The consensus of Western political and religious authorities abide for the ass cheeks of Abraham to wedge sitting room for Moses and Jesus on a single chair rather than include the competitor-prophet Mohammed.  The planet may be better to consolidate much of global conflict as imagining Abraham, the human father-figure god-representative of the dominating monotheistic triad finding favor between Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed. 

This disregards the godly histories of native North Americans down the Central American isthmus descending through the Amazon and Andes, over to Africa, and Buddha and crew in the Far East occurring at similar periods.  This can be seen as the dominant Meme has arbitrarily assigned Jerusalem to be the hub of declaration for the dominant god.  Therefore including these other regions and parties to the triad of central monotheisms is deemed problematic and burdensome.  This cascades downward to treat the humans in these lands as equally superfluous and nonessential. 

This is a man-made illusion to impose the differentiation of humans in order to divert passionate conflict to external rather than internal fonts of authority.  This is part of a greater gambit of global domination by a centrality of forces that bear few losses in the wars created.  Births, deaths, blood, and diseases are fleeting compared to the immortality of the Meme commanding allegiance and with it power over volition.

The compromises to form and counteractions to assert dissent to such allegiances are the core of this first commandment to not have strange Gods before me.  The me is subjective and therefore a manipulative variable to be definitive or vague when convenient to the empowered. 

The underlying belief in theism causes reflected ills in the West mirrored in Islam in the East, which are less likely to be determined to be interconnected under a non-specific god.  To fell Islamic terrorism in the world, humanity must fell theism and the hypocritical depravity required to proselytize the non-empirical.  A Christian or Jew decrying the ills of militant-Islam ignores the dream-image of creed terrorizing a common planet with a common vice of ignorant capitulation in the common Meme.

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The Decalogue was written by men.  The conceptual mythology of Moses on Sinai carrying stone tablets is mooted by the history of human editors spanning time.  This coincides with the brevity and simplicity of the statements.  The traditional iteration of the Decalogue is a concise predictable allotment to address human conduct which is both insufficient, a double-standard, and a glaring under-achievement if intended to convey the communication and documentation talents of a deity.

Whatever our longest-held verbatim account of such instructions that version is not the original.  What we see are a string of seeds translated through oral and written history.  The timing of the gospels, written long after Jesus’ biological life, mirror such distance.  So even if under the belief of direct godly-pronouncement at the impetus, whatever remains is a tainted derivation thereof spread by humans.

Given that infection, the Decalogue is corrupted with social engineering on the grandest scale.  The words’ inherent link to such a deity provides a deluge of automatic obedience amongst specific populations.  This causes those in a position of power to appear as emissaries for and symbolic representatives of the connoted and correlated beatitudes of the Speaker.  Therefore those advertising such commandments independent of the logic or actual wording of such salvation-dependent legalese could prioritize perception over reality in the grand lesson of the fable of The Emperor with No Close. 

The primary directive of a capitalist organism is to conquer, replicate, eliminate competitors, expand, dominate, and avoid its self-induced extinction by quelling internal rebellion as the risk expands with its portion of the market.  The economy of god holds an asset greater than oil, gold, water, land, or financial currency; the market is volition. 

A complex life-form’s free will is the crux of societal structure and how one acquires and expends resources therein.  No tool in the history of humanity has been more effective at explicitly and implicitly bearing weight to internal mental scales to sway the volition of man and womankind.  The arenas of eternal salvation or perdition, miraculous pardon or wrathful punishment, karmic chains of blessing and detriments, and superstitious ritual present a powerful playbook for those who choose to manipulate theistic-majority societies.

If one has control over free will resources of wealth follow.  The curtain of the Wizards of Oz becomes transparent with the perspicuity of science.  Floods, earthquakes, plagues, caverns, and celestial bodies once used as vehicles for the transmittal of godly ideologies are uncoupled with the empirical logic of barometers, telescopes, and microscopes.  The advancement of time threatens the internal composition of fundamentalism.  What we see in response is a televised-evangelicalism that consumes a palatable inclusion of science as godly-presence rather than absence.  This is the original gamble anew.

The whitewash of paganism (the inventors of the game) was rampant with the careful placement of Easter, All Saints Day, Ramadan, Rosh Hashanah, Christmas, and countless ritualistic festivals to supersede local habitual practices covering spring, summer, fall, and winter.  The adoption of selective science in a theistic paradigm instills comfort to stem the rebellion of the rational mind to continue obedience despite increasing evidence to the contrary.  It blurs the vast absolute contradictions between faith and science to shadow a pool of coexistence so that rhetoric can stand commensurate with fact.

Every day absent a clear deity-derived apocalypse leaves monotheism on a more precarious pedestal. The additional entropy represents potential additional doubt in the Meme, which must be counteracted.  This is in many ways why each religion boasts knowledge and foreboding regarding the end of days.  The threat of meteors, nuclear annihilation, or global warming to create an unsustainable human environment, whether teleological or anthropogenic grows by the hour.  The potential presence of a god is meant as a counterweight to human wariness of such a termination.  In many ways the argument regarding human obliteration via a deity is made as a blessing.  The obedient shall find a post-organic salvation and contrarians earn perdition.

This subconscious thorn of a meme is bed with the fundamentalism of Iran, Ireland, and America etc.  The U.S. Republican party’s commitment to deny the realities and ramifications of global climate change and the heating of our oceans undermines this godly-link.  It is therefore rebuffed due to its threat to the systems of global control maintaining, fueling and perpetuating the empowered and with it the organization of society.
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The ramp of global ocean temperature coincides with the industrial revolution of the United States and Europe ascending to dominate global wealth.  During typical diatribes and discourses on global climate change, the end of humanity is often confused with the end of the planet.  The planet’s cessation is unlikely and deglamorizes religion’s version of the apocalypse. 

Why would humanity go extinct absent god showing his face “again,” while allowing the Earth and the remainder of the universe to go on like we would over the splatter of a mosquito on our windshield?  Resolving this conundrum in the subconscious mind is why a theist is so much less likely than an atheist to recognize the severity of the problem climate change represents.  To recognize no humanity in such a way questions the assumed existence of god.  The same principle applies to asteroid collusion.

Humanity’s demise is doubted in the face of the empirical in preference for matters of faith.  For if humans were instructed to base the potential inhabitability of our planet as a function of scientific comprehension other macro level variables could also become subject to such detailed inspection.  Therefore the science is so often denied, decried, and attacked as panic.  Science diverts the show from traditional avenues of human exploitation which have advanced the problem rather than collective points of action with less well-established profit-opportunities designed to reduce the problem.

In comparison the Dalai Lama echoes the dramatic threat of climate change and urges that man has caused that.  So it is man’s issue to resolve.  Why look to god?  This is in no small part correlated with the absence of material-wealth or the gross manipulation of Earthly resources by Buddhists to a commensurate scale as the triad of monotheisms.  This is a natural evolution. 

Organisms will find a sustainable resource, whether it be the consumption of a fungus, a geothermal vent on the ocean floor, or parasitic bacterium; memes like religion are no different.  The peaceful harmonic observer status of Buddhism, although formed in relative Asian-Pacific isolation compared to the Western ethos, is able to permeate the global surface of Western dominated economies based on understanding the meme-resources left available after the big-three have taken root.  The democratic avenue of the internet and the Dalai Lama’s numerous web-video broadcasts represent a dramatic shift in the media-power of religious thought, good and bad.  (The Dalai Lama still purports his holy generational spiritual linkage.) 

India, after extracting its splintered Islamic-appendix Pakistan, comingles a long-history of Hinduism and Islam under a nation of modern make-believe.  India lives in a hereditary feudal monarchy rather than a true-democracy representing its massive throngs of Poor.  India has mystified itself with notions of computer assistance and call centers prancing under the ballyhoo of Bollywood trailing with mismanagement by the upper-remnants of castes with a mirage of parliament scions uttering in the tongue of semi-expelled imperialists. 

The once British colony has yet to evolve through the anti-Meme-part of Gandhi as India is still a buffet of malnutrition.  America struggles with obesity as America similarly still has yet to understand the anti-Meme in some of Martin Luther King’s words.  Memes of India’s polytheism and karmic internal blame to rationalize wealth and blight for the choices of ancestors pour forth directly from a key meme akin to the first commandment which is a centrality in a parallel karmic-infused theism.  

Christianity and Catholicism spread like cannabis plants throughout South and Central America with Spanish domination plowing through “pagan” lands harvesting gold and plants.  What remains are natural resource farms for the northern hemisphere and squalors of dependent poverty where elements like basic water rights are sold by governments to private entities who exploit citizens in the return bill.  The sun, the land, the cocaine, the marijuana, the oil, the produce, the coffee, and the sugarcane are all saleable.

The influx of cheap migrant workers engaged in a modern form of civilized slavery have built over half the roofs in Texas and picked flat after flat of strawberries in California.  In return immigration reform is protested as the ‘criminals’ are the humans hiding in cargo containers to slip past armed wall-watchers.  The battle is really about farms and corporations keeping cheap labor and the veil of anarchy swarming the gate in drug-towns like Juarez.  This is the same as Charleston resisting ending slavery and the garnered profits or San Paulo being the last to cease slavery in the Western Hemisphere in 1888. 

The Poor refrain from revolution behind the promises of Madre Maria and Jesus.  Zapatistas may surface, but are crushed or starved out through political quagmires.  People are placated to be content with the nothingness while televisions are assembled for and sold in an American Wal-Mart making a pittance rather than nothing.  Be happy with what you have and do not ask about who keeps the differential. 

China holds the largest atheist population on Earth.  To compensate the state has adopted the communist party as a surrogate god.  The communist-state attempts to control the tone and content of media, business, and politics.  China possibly more than any place on the planet demonstrates the true danger of the first commandment and the fallacy of any conceptual god.  Religion is merely a mechanism to facilitate this control.  God is the vehicle to which free-will is abdicated no matter the book, clothing, or curtain in exchange for placating our fears of inconsequence to our existence on a psychological level and death on an organic one.  This includes the State.

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The same apocalyptic balancing act is true for the military industrial complex and energy sectors.  The continued construction of mechanisms of war including: missiles, submarines, rifles, tanks, bullets, armor, aircraft, ships, encampments, trajectory systems, chemical agents, etc. are found irrelevant without conflict.  Look at the corporate cattle-brands on flying drones.  Fundamentally connected with this system is fuel of a controllable derivation.  There is no more uncontrollable fuel than the sun. 

Renewable energies such as solar and wind threaten theism.  As once conceived as being controlled by god, our scientific understanding of and ability to capture and provide a socialized ubiquitous font of cheap energy to the planet is stymied rather than stridently obsessed over for the reality that once the cork is removed from the genie’s bottle to transport cheap solar or wind power to the masses, trillions of dollars and societal control will be lost.  Public ownership of sun or wind farms would likely be pilfered by the Meme into private corporations as a counterbalance.

Some countries will adapt renewable sources under the meme’s zest for monetary advantage over other countries, but this is done for economic reasons to garner more control given the global market of fossil fuels in spite of the potential loss of control domestically.  This is why isolated countries like Germany or France are more likely to adopt renewable energies than oil and gas rich nations like the United States or Russia.  It is not so much that renewable energy cannot work.  It is that the Meme inside countries rich in fossil fuels prefer to sabotage, delay, and stymie renewable energy to milk the product lifecycles of compressed Paleozoic carbon rather than lose the profit to obsolescence under a paradigm shift.  

If renewable energy becomes dominant, a primary rationalization for war, energy supply, will be vacated and less profitable peaceful environments will spread.  More independent people will be less hungry to consume as basic needs of food, housing, and clothing will each be more easily met at a higher standard with cheap available reliable energy which can be farmed anywhere the sun shines, which is not owned or controlled by private parties.  Happy people are less likely to support militarized conflict.

Desperation in a people leads to lower labor costs, tolerated product quality standards, and thresholds of circumspection to those offering wares.  War and crime are therefore intentionally kept as a specter to maintain a sufficient threshold of fear to command obedience.  If nations do not schedule or participate in military conflicts on a regular basis, military budgets will seem largesse to the citizenry.

This is primarily done on a subconscious level.  Majorities of populations have rationalized the savior of other lands through the very annihilation of the infrastructure of those lands.  The key is the “at least it is not me” logic of a foreign war.  Better there than here.  Soldiers often believe god is on their side, despite contradictions we will discuss later. 

The Meme is correlated to the current state of the Republican Party in the United States of America and Prime Minister Netanyahu’s actions in Israel.  This is correlated with the interconnected role of oil in the Middle East, in particular the regimes of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in context to the United States along with the fundamentalist opposition of the Supreme Leader in Iran behind a puppet secular government. 

The U.S. Democratic Party and other global left-leaning parties have traversed ever more central in policy despite being lambasted as far-left in media cycles.  True American liberalism would be championing a single-payer universal health care system including the decriminalization of marijuana, cocaine and to a degree heroin to form intergovernmental raw materials purchasing programs with foreign governments to supply regulated distribution industries inside America. 

America would impoverish the black market distribution networks and combat poverty as a social issue through education and prison reform while encompassing addiction mediation in a comprehensive medical system focused on wellness rather than profit by using IRS adjusted-gross-income fluxing deductibles and copays.  However, none of this is even suggestible on a national stage, due to the dominance of the cascading subconscious ramifications of the first commandment created by the Meme.

So many industrial mechanisms profit from the manipulation of free-will by utilizing the exponential human-consumption of limited and functionally irreplaceable planetary resources.  This includes: water, oil, marijuana, cocaine, opium, land, habitat, forests, fisheries, coal, methane, and gold etc.  To internalize the collective scientific and societal costs of such actions externalized from the individual market-players profit equations increases the risk of human volition electing to assert an internal nexus rather than the centrality of religious and political establishment. 

Few businesses will elect to voluntarily incur a tax which provides marginal benefit to the collective and substantial fiscal detriment to the individual.  Enforceable market-laws must be established to assure the market shortcuts are encompassed in a collective profit-equation.  To not do so is self-destructive and in the best individual-interest of the wealthiest humans, absent either planetary human unsustainability or a threshold of atheism or divergent election of religious brand which the empowered cannot control.