Economics as a Religion: more Cult, Dogmas and High Priests, 2
In the opposing field, that economics has successfully achieved a religious, or cult, status is confirmed by the fact that people’s acceptance of “economics Word” is an article of faith. Blind faith. By dint of façades with columns, dark suits, and the art of “assuming the appearance of power until the people gives it to you”.
As Nuri comments about this facet, “not coincidentally the rational justification for economic scripture is not available, nor questioning permitted, to “laymen”. If capitalism is a religion, then any suspicion regarding the system's integrity, particularly that focusing on the specific mechanisms of its actual physical embodiment (such as money expansion, central banks, or fractional reserve banking) may all be regarded as sacrilege, heresy, blasphemy, or a conspiracy theory.”
Same old story of humanoid faults and powerful tame media… However, here and there a few chips in those façades with columns indicate that someone’s faith, by dint of perennial impoverishment and hamster wheel, begins to waiver.
It has been said that of all our duties and skills, differentiating and detecting the social and the antisocial personalities ranks the highest, and here we have a practical implementation: if we remove suppression and PTSness from whatever subject, that subject recovers its original ethics, and thus its rationality, understandability and productivity, too. Reversed, destructive tools contain a positive potential because, if they’ve been reversed, they originally contain a positive potential; hence, by removing the reversal, the positive can resurface. And economics is no exception. As I said in the Not Up to It? section, you definitely have the right to know and the right to understand, and anything can and must be reported in such a way that any non−specialist can understand. By now you are well aware there is an arm wrestling between who wants to know and who wants to hide, because once enough veils are removed one can understand whether what is in front of one’s nose holds up, makes sense, is ethical, or not.
