Thursday, November 27, 2014
H G Wells Sums things up
HG Wells 1906 visit
The English novelist H G Wells visited The United States of America in 1906 and wrote several books from the experience…. ‘The Future in America’ 1906 and ‘The War in the Air’ 1908 the second being a very exciting book describing an air attack on New York and the city burning. But what fascinates me is a couple of observations Wells makes which fit into the context of my study of Myth America in connection with the paramount for the whole world- Oil Industry and Banking Industry.
The comments are; ‘The typical American has no sense of state. I do not mean that he is not passionately and vigorously patriotic. But I mean that he has no perception that his business activities, his private employments are constituents in a larger collective process; that they will affect other people and the world forever; And cannot as he imagines begin and end with him’ And ‘America’s greatest problem was the pervasiveness of private ownership. ‘Until he land, he public services and the whole of the great economic processes could be rescued from the irresponsible control of private owners, injustice was institutionalized’ p298 Abroad in American Smithsonian 1976.
These two comments are ends of the same staff. The destructive disconnect of miss named ‘Free Enterprise’ doing damage to USA and now consequently to the whole world. Climate Change coming from environmental destruction and the 20th Century Boom beginning now to go in the devastating –Bust Phase of the 21st Century. And the greatest tension in the reviewed elsewhere on another blog 2009 book Too Big to Fail comes when the CEO of Wells Fargo in the melting down of the US Banking and world financial system refuses a 25 Billion dollar bail out as part of a government buy out of the Nine biggest banks because he is fired up with the idea of individualism allowing business to be involved in everything including murder as long as America is: ‘Free Enterprise’. While accepting sixty years earlier in 1953 Iran Oil Crisis- (the largest eight world oil companies- five of them America based, and three Rockefeller) The Eight largest oil companies had come to this early critical acceptance that ‘Anti Trust’ ‘Anti Competitive Behavior’ while other industries could have those ideas and maybe restrictions- Oil Could Not because of the more important Need for Empire- Great Britain loosing empire because of it’s failure in Iran and handing over with a CIA stage coup- America taking the world stage with an oil back foremost world empire. All that happened then in 1953.
So do I agree with an essentially Stalinist approach to the State owning the land and resources being advocated by H G Wells? Well yes do read in the Bible Genesis 41-47 and by the end of it- We have the world’s Strongest Ever State and Joseph sets it up! So I do agree this is wonderfully biblical! But while the Seven Oil Companies (‘The Seven Sisters’ A Sampson Hodders 1975 ) did arrive under the leadership of John D very early on at the need for the companies themselves to distribute the oil slow enough to keep high stable profits- and despite by my 1946-47-48 (Britannica year books informing me of the critical debate at that time) The price of oil was not held, not oil dribbled out at the restricted levels of 1944 and 1945 and thus by 1974/5 USA had peaked her production and went into decline and by the end of the 20th century the same place was being arrived at for the whole world. Yes the consequences are….. Well let me conclude this Myth America by saying the ‘Free Enterprise’ myth has lead to inevitable Civilizational Collapse.
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