CHAPTER 1

Freedom and Intelligence

Freedom and intelligence are Man's most precious possessions. Both are menaced:

1. Freedom is menaced by the manipulative forces of greed. True, slavery has been abolished in so-called Western liberal democracies -- but it has been replaced by new virulent and pernicious forms of economic servitude. Not much has changed -- the slaves and the indentured servants of colonial times have been replaced by millions of indentured citizens.
2. Usury -- gain at the expense of others -- permeates and encroaches on most human activities.
3. The chains of economic subjugation have become contractual -- usurious mortgage agreements, credit card agreements, credit line agreements, loan agreements, lease agreements, student loan agreements, etc. With student loans, millions of young men and women risk becoming indentured -- "man as mind" is now an alienable property. Whole nations are being indentured -- one government at a time.
4. Big Business is constantly divorcing Science and Technology from scientists and engineers, as employees and researchers; and monopolizing Knowledge in the form of patents, copyrights, and trade secrets. Skills are being separated from workers -- and hoarded in intelligent machines and robots.
5. Women are being separated from families and exploited, in record numbers -- as workers-consumers in the marketplace. Ironically, all political parties preach "family values."
6. Free trade is an abominable and farcical tragicomedy. Capital can move freely to exploit labor across national boundaries, at lightning speeds; but the same labor force cannot cross freely the same borders, to exploit the same opportunities.
7. Magian laws serve the absurd monopolistic interests of Big Government and Big Business. Laws have been perverted to give Darwinistic advantages to Big Government and Big Business -- at the expense of the Citizen. The asymmetries in the rights and powers (economic and legal, and, therefore, political) of Big Business and Big Government, on the one side, and of the individual Citizen, on the other, make an absolute mockery of Democracy and Justice.
8. Money is not just value in exchange or value in use. A more ominous meaning of money has emerged -- it is value in coercion and subjugation. Capitalism has become monstrous dirigisme.
9. Contrary to the buzzing propaganda, Capitalism is not accessible to all the citizens. Capitalism has been perverted into a Faustian technology to dominate Man -- as servant, as worker, and as consumer.

Unfettered, these encroachments on liberty, spirit, and mind can lead to WORLD WAR III AGAINST THE MONEY TRUST.