BACK TO THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS

TRANSLATED FROM THE BLOG DE PATRICK REYMOND, 24/08/12

The means of communication destroy information, the means of transport waste time, the health system alienates and kills. And to take up another Illich quote: “schools are factories for unemployment”

I have often said that the ‘American economic miracle’ owed more to geographical circumstances than to the merits of one economic system over another.

The USSR had to struggle with its own space, and its communication difficulties; as for the American model, it possessed in the Mississippi river valley, an advantage and an obvious major transport route, reinforced further by the work of man, in the 19^th Century by the digging of the Ohio and Erie canals, which transformed New York into a Mississippi port and multiplied its traffic tenfold.

Today, the model is limping, and even limping badly, at several levels. The Mississippi is finding it difficult, with the drought, to assume its role as a thoroughfare, through which 500 million tons transits every year, particularly cereal and coal.

But the problems caused by the drought do not end there. The production of gas and oil from shale has also been badly affected because hydraulic fracturing (fracking) requires lots of water.

In addition to this, there is a question mark over the profitability of gas, with a 70% fall in prices (something that everyone must have noticed in their gas bills since 2006. No? Well, well, what a surprise!!)

There are problems associated with water in France too, with nuclear energy, requiring lots of water, and in China too where mega coal-powered power stations are being constructed, which are likely to finish off the country, and where the northern zones already suffer from serious water scarcity problems.

Thus the harvests which were looking promising until June are now catastrophic, and without doubt, it will be hard to export. Of course, unlike the case of the USSR, the current economic system will by no means be called into question, even though it is this which is responsible.

In particular due to the fact that politicians have abandoned food resource management to industry and the private sector …..

A billion people suffer from serious famine, 3 billion from food deficiencies, and 3 billion just get by.

So, with what is going to happen, the three billion are going to find themselves in the category suffer from serious famine, and even a certain number of the 3 billion lucky ones, who, without suffering, do not usually have anything left over.

The “direction of history” is always the same. Everything is done for only 10% of the population. It will therefore be necessary for more and more people to suffer from malnutrition and serious deficiencies, for everything to get back to the natural order.