John Robb: The Highest Good of Social Capitalism

QUOTE: The Summum Bonum (Highest Good) of Social Capitalism Summum Bonum = Latin for the highest good. The tranformation of Capitalism from an ancillary activity (as opposed to the activities of monarchs) into an engine of material and technological bounty was through the (likely accidental) introduction of an ethical/moral substrate. This ethical substrate enabled a …

John Robb: A Capitalism Reformation?

JOURNAL: A Capitalist Reformation? Here is some thinking that you might find interesting.  Remember, history rhymes but doesn’t repeat. Here’s a simplification of the historical pattern of Reformation.  Think of it in terms of the global Capitalist system: Universal system. Compliance and participation enforced by violence. Bureaucratic and lethargic.  Corrupt and unfair.  Hardship and misery. …

John Robb: Occupy (Insert XYZ) – Capitalism’s Crisis

OCCUPY (Insert Your City Here): Protesting Capitalism’s Crisis Let me spool you up on what’s going on with the Occupy movement. It’s an open source protest (there’s lots about how open source protests and insurgencies work on this blog, in posts all the way back to 2004).  So, it’s not like the protests you’ve seen in …

John Robb: The Pope of the Church of Capitalism / Capo of Government-Sanctioned Financial Terrorism

JOURNAL: The Pope of the Church of Capitalism Let’s step a bit outside of the day to day grind.  I spent a bit of time watching the Chairman of the Federal Reserve “scold” Congress.  This got my brain thinking a bit outside the box.  So I’ll share with you my thoughts. The Chairman of the …

Robert Steele: Resetting Global Governance & Capitalism

The next 90-180 days may well bring the creative destruction of predatory immoral capitalism and the emergence of resilient moral capitalism. “We are on the verge of an economic collapse which starts, let’s say, in Greece. The financial system remains extremely vulnerable.” (George Soros, 2011) What is collapsing is the predatory Western system of financial …

John Robb: Hollow States & Crisis of Capitalism

Tuesday, 06 September 2011 HOLLOW STATES and a CRISIS OF CAPITALISM Had fun with this post.  Working on getting the thinking on this right.  Tough to do. ________________________ Hollow, bankrupt states and crisis of capitalism is not a “dystopian future” if it is actually happening now. With almost hourly updates. I coined the term, “hollow …