Financial Viruses
Rolf. A. F. Witzsche
page 01
|
The
search for a
type of
virus that reaches deep into the fabric of
society, surprisingly, takes us back to sir Isaac Newton and
the founding of the Bank of England. Actually, what the bank represents
has a much longer history, but its founding marks a fundamental shift in
oligarchic thinking which still affects us today with the most tragic
consequences. It marks the beginning of a new phase of
feudalism.
Traditionally, feudalism was centered on estates of land
that were rented out to the peasants for a King's share of the product of
the land. This feudal, slavery type system, goes back thousands of years
and fulfilled the opulent desires of a tiny minority. The problem was that
this system was limited by the fixed size of the available land. To
overcome this limit the feudal system was extended in the early part of
the present millennium with the creation of financial estates that can
likewise be rented out for a King's ransom. While this was nothing new,
since this sort of thing was called "usury" in biblical times and was
forbidden by moral codes, the new element that was introduced at the
beginning of the second millennium A.D. was the organized nature and the
size of this usury. This was the time when the huge banking empires began
to be developed, such as the Geonese, Florenzian, and Venetian empires. It
was precisely this financial feudalism that Aligheri Dante fought against,
which got him exiled from his beloved home city of Florence.
|
|| - page index - || - Index - || |