The Cancer Stage of Economic Parasitism, 18
The parasite expansion: the spread of infection, the metastases of cancer
The ability to recognise the problem depends completely on what point of view one looks at it from: either from a relative or absolute, from a partial or global ethics. As previously seen, the common denominator of any relative, partial ethics is: one cares about the survival of just a part of the whole, by nature a small subset, and to hell with all the rest. And despite any and all propaganda to the contrary by suppressives, potential trouble sources, criminals, cynical, apathetic and morons, nothing short of global ethics will do, eventually.
If one looks around from the viewpoint of a relative, partial ethics, through the eyes of one of the above, everything is normal and that’s just the way it is, homo homini lupus. One must realise that homo homini lupus is not normal, that it is not just the way it is, that survival is the product of honest cooperation, to begin to see things take shape through the fog. And since that is not just the way it is but things are caused, any inclination to any of the above attitudes is a symptom of contagion. A metastasis, however small.
It is in fact in terms of metastases of cancer that parasitic economy becomes evident: absolute ethics means that economic flows are at the service of people, while the other way around, when they are at the service of the parasite and feed the cancer, is suppression. It only takes the guts to confront the fact that honesty is survival and dishonesty is suppression.
It is at that point that you can ask of whatever flow of resources, whether they be financial or material, what’s its purpose? What benefits does it produce for whom, and in exchange for what product for whom? And what damages does it produce for whom, if any? Is its yield the deserved reward for production of survival factors or the tainted loot for their theft and destruction?