Replying to LO27791 --
Dear Organlearners,
Rol Fessenden <rol@fessenden.net> writes
>I would be willing to represent the dirty
>capitalist perspective on third world impact of
>globalization, but if I am going to take a lot of
>crap for trying to present another perspective,
>then I don't have the energy.
in reply to Andrew Campbell < ACampnona@aol.com > who wrote in LO27746
>>I wonder if any LO'ers currently working in
>>third world (sic) countries have any views
>>expressed with 'integrity' to share with us on
>>the actual effects of 'globalisation' and
>>'boundarylessness'?
Greetings dear Rol,
My own spiritual "free energy" also decreases rapidly when I am forced to
defend a one sided viewpoint. It is because I then have to discard the
"one-to-many-mapping" of "entropy production" and evolution as its outcome
in favour of LEM (Law of Excluded Middle).
"Integrity" which Andrew refers to, is for me a combination of wholeness
and sureness, two of the 7Es (seven essentialities of creativity). No one
of the 7Es is like a device which can be switched "on" or "off ". Each can
only increase or decrease in steps along a fractal path. Hence it is
likewise for integrity. It increases or decreases stepwise, but it cannot
be just either there or not there. In whatever we say, backed up by doing,
we manifest whether this integrity is actually increasing or decreasing.
I live in a country which has been the last few years often been degraded
from a developing country to a third world country because of its high
level of borring, crimes and diseases. Some do this degrading officially
while others do it casually.
During the years of apartheid a system of two currencies was developed to
withstand economical sanctions -- the monetary Rand and the financial
Rand. The monetary Rand was used by South African citizens, whites
favoured by apartheid as well as blacks discriminated against by
apartheid. The financial Rand was used for dealings in the international
money market -- imports, exports, investments and disinvestments. Although
the financial Rand was lower than the monetary Rand, whoever had to deal
with South Africa in whatever constructive or destructive way had to do it
through the financial Rand. By controlling self the conversion from
financial Rand to monetary Rand, the external world had less influence on
the South African economy as they would have liked.
Apartheid came down and soon after the dual money system was ended. The
rest of the world demanded the same financial opportunities in South
Africa as South Africans themselves. We became part of the financial
globalization. Unscrupulous importers with local dealers of the same ilk
began to import and dump cheap goods of low quality on the local market,
paying for it with highly valued dollars as is required by the exporters.
They knew that both apartheid AS WELL AS the fight against it (like
sanctions) caused immense employment as well as illiteracy. Many people
would buy the cheapest stuff not even knowing its bad quality.
Meanwhile this practice destroyed many of our our own farming and
industrial practices. Especially hit were those which produced stuff with
quality high enough that some of it could be exported. So our reserves in
foreign valuta began to decrease steadily, thus forcing the exchange rate
for Rand to US$ steadily higher from 3 to 6 Rand in less than a decade of
full democracy and globalisation. The Rand became steadily weaker.
Eventually during last November an attack on the weakened Rand was
launched by the international valuta speculants. They forced by every
trick in their book the value of the Rand lower so that before the end of
the year more than 10 Rand had to be paid for one US$. Unscrupulous
importers withhold their goods already paid for while dealers of similar
ilk immediately raised the prices of their imported goods. The importers
now sell those goods at higher prices to dealers and dealers claim that
these higher prices have come to stay, even though the Rand regained some
of its value lost.
The last few years some South Africans began to suggest that we should use
the dual currency system once again. However, upon every such a suggestion
the media turned into a frenzy against it, telling that it was the
beginning of the return to apartheid. Consequently few now dare to suggest
it any more.
The dual currency system was not apartheid, not even in the world of
economics. It was the drawing of a border between South Africa's own
currency, the monetary Rand and the currencies of the rest of the world
(of which South Africa's currency was but one drop in a bucket filled with
water). The permeability of this border was carefully controlled by South
Africans caring for their country rather than money dealers hoarding only
for their own profit. Money within this border self was called the
financial Rand. The financial Rand was the umlomo connecting the monetary
Rand inside to outside currencies like the US$, the UK Pound, the German
DM and the Japanese YEN.
Smuts' idea of wholeness as "the whole with its field", long after his
death, was finally put into economical practice to protect apartheid, the
opposite of wholeness, in the political field. So strong was it that even
the sickening ideology and practice of apartheid in politics could not be
broken. The financial whole was the monetary Rand and its financial field
was all the international currencies. The very financial Rand as the
umlomo allowing a flow controled by the whole (system) itself, shows that
this arrangement has nothing to do with apartheid.
Why do the local and international media react with such frenzy against
the suggestion of a dual currency system, denigrating it as the first step
towards apartheid (keeping quiet that it is rather the frist step to
greater wholeness)? There are many documents, even on internet, telling
with facts upon facts that those who control the money market, also
control the media to influence the public positively for whatever the
money market does. Search for them, study them and make up your own mind.
I have stressed several times in the past that all living cells from
unicellular simple prokaryote bacteria to complex multicellular eukaryote
organisms, even including humans, have a cell wall through which they and
the external world interact. The complex inside of the cell plus its cell
wall (boundary) was for Jan Smuts the whole while the rest of our globe
and even solar system was the field for this whole.
I can change that perspective slightly by thinking of the inside of the
cell as the one whole, the cell boundary also a whole acting as umlomo,
and the rest of the universe acting as the whole on the other side. But it
still remains wholeness as Jan Smuts' perspective does. To bring such a
permeable boundary controled by the cell's complex inside about, is
"increasing wholeness"=holism. The outcome of holism, as Jan Smuts said,
is evolution of the biological kind.
Is evolution of the financial kind possible or not? Did ordinary South
Africans experience financial evolution the past couple of months, or did
they experienced something close to extinction because of financial
clobalization. Well, the number of poor people knowing me and contacting
me for financial help increased dramatically the past few months. Some,
who do not have money to pay for a taxi or even for a telephone call, walk
for up to a hundred kilometers to my home. It is they whom I have to help,
even doing myself into bigger financial trouble. I still have enough for
my family to live from, but they face death.
They are my witnesses against the incredible financial destruction rather
than financial evolution going on in the name of globalisation. They are
the silent ones which nobody seems to represent, not even in the third
world. But I will do so because I have sufficient spiritual free energy to
do so. I deeply admire and respect them for resisting to improve their
financial position by commiting crimes, unlike some white collared
officers do in the name of increased profits as their bottom line.
Dear fellow learners, what is sacred, profit or life or a system which
advances both?
With care and best wishes,
--At de Lange <amdelange@gold.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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