The Cancer Stage of Economic Parasitism, 12
Things do not happen spontaneously: things are caused. And there are those who have interest in causing things, who can and do cause them. The parasite feeds off the vital flows of its victim, which are known as metabolism, hence the parasite has interest in increasing the victim’s metabolism. Unfeasible? Parasitology has discovered that there are parasites in nature which can and do increase the victim’s metabolism – and to quite incredible an extent. Which has opened our eyes to how a major way economic parasites carry out economic suppression is by increasing their victim’s metabolism, that is, by causing and pushing both rapacity and consumerism in economy and society.
The economic parasite sucks the society’s vital energy through its pyramid of increasingly evil drains: the profits of its monopolistic corporations, the taxes of its governments slaves to debt, the usury of its banking partners in crime, and chiefly the debt money and the infinite debt trap stemming from its moneypulation out of sheer nothing. But quite in addition to that, the evolution of its power is such that the result is what we familiarly call our hamster wheel: our economic and existential strain is not only heavy; it is also increasing. Among our faults there is that of being reasonable and of bestowing our nature to the world around us, therefore we may think that strain being spontaneous, somewhat normal, and just the way it is. Well, it’s not; the way things are is deliberate, artificial and suppressive. The power of the economic parasite is such that it can progressively increase the economic metabolism of society in both amount and velocity.
But this is not even limited to pushing the current metabolism to its physiological limit; oh no, not at all. Parasitology taught us the parasite can rob its host organism well beyond the amount allowed by its current level of metabolism, too. How? By forcing it to, as they say, mobilise its reserves: that is, economically, to drain its savings. An organism does not have just the energy currently in circulation; it also has additional energy stored in its reserves, which are a very important survival factor. The parasite wants that, too, and in order to steal it it must hijack and speed up the host’s metabolism so that it draws upon those reserves, transferring that energy into the flows, where the parasite can steal it.