The American Impediment

The dominant ethics/politics in American culture, which came from Europe, have brought about the dead-end wasting of the global ecology/environment. American ecologies were pristine 600 years ago, not today. To the contrary, there have been many extinctions of species, habitat destructions, out-right pillaging and waste of indigenous people and natural resources.

European colonial republicanism is the underlying philosophical ethic of American economics/ politics. The worldview/ethic that has occasioned today’s global ecological/environmental catastrophes is incapable of reversing and repairing the havoc of its doing. A changed worldview/ethic is needed to remove the impediment.

What Vatican II has acknowledged is that worldview changes. A misinformed worldview misinforms; dogma premised on mistakes of the misinformed worldview is inapplicable. Politics, ethics and education premised on erroneous dogma misinform, misdirect and do damage. Worldview has to be updated, so does dogma pending on them, and so do politics, ethics and education.

American politics, business, religion and ethics derive from the corporate vision of Hegelian feudalism. Hegel’s authoritarianism bases its ethics and politics on the republican rationale of an oligarchic elitist class which controls public ethics, education politics and business economics. [Marxist Communism was also premised in Hegelian authoritarianism.] Like Hegelian philosophy, the American neo-colonial (neo-con) philosophy eschews the one-man-one-vote principle of democracy in favor of republicanism wherein control is effectively in the hands of an elite minority.

Radical Republicanism is what the GW Bush Administration has given America. Its outcome epitomizes the bankruptcy of a worldview that compounds its self-inflicted catastrophes. The irreversible catastrophes already imposed on nature, the culture of dead-end politics and ethics, demand now the wisdom of a deep root change of worldview that breaks away from the culture of corporate feudalism and moves toward a communitarian ethic that educates the public to a participatory philosophy of religion and politics that sustains the natural paradigm and preserves global biodiversity. Nature is to be obeyed, not demeaned and destroyed.

At the heart of the American impediment is the legal positioning of corporations in equal standing to the human person, with guarantees and privileges a person has. This privileged standing opens to abuses of corporate collusion to defraud the public, and it grants immunities and privilege equal and above what individuals have. The trading of corporate stocks is a hotbed of intrigue, collusion and public thievery.

The abusive manipulation of corporations by the oligarchy lets them take from the public with impunity, maintains their control over public wealth and holds the public subjected to corporations.  Elected representatives of the people in government are beholden to corporate money and become party to the abuse of public wellbeing.

When government represents corporations to the harm of the public, it is with corrosive outcomes, which need to be corrected. The people have it within their power to bring about change by controlling the kind of people they elect to represent them. What is called for today is public representation in government that preserves the trust of the people and that refuses to be purchased by corporations. When the majority interest of the people is represented in government the abuses of corporations can be challenged and laws can be enacted that correct the overreach of corporations.

For American representative government to break from corporate feudalism it is first necessary that public opposition to corporate abuses are registered in the Houses of Government. For this to happen, the people and their representatives have to come to a worldview understanding that abuses need to be stopped and that the structure of society must move toward a communitarian society in which the equality of persons is the guiding principle. Corporate structures should not have privileged advantage that lets them conspire and defraud the public, as the corporate philosophy of global feudalism allows.