Academic dementia, or Academentia, refers to the institutional group think supporting the conflict-based economy. It is also a collective denial of the negative consequences being caused by the national demise, which includes intentional inequality, democratic decay, and public abandonment.
Academentia is sustained by a belief-based political system, fueled by money, that rewards division and deception.
Candidates must campaign on their common beliefs with the public, but then inevitably legislate in favor of private profits, party loyalty, and personal prosperity.
The conventional wisdom of our culture as defined by corporate media and virtually every institution that dispenses information that matters, is misleading the public towards more conflict.
It would take too long to parse through even a partial list of the erroneous propaganda that gets parroted throughout our society. I will mention just a few examples of academentia to ease you into the possibility that there is a more accurate perception waiting for your understanding.
First, understand the current socioeconomic paradigm of the conflict-based economy requires an allegiance that goes against common sense and the public interest.
Nobody wants conflict except those who profit from it.
There is a stream of disinformation, from the professional political/pundit class, to persuade people into believing that there is no choice to our current socioeconomic system. It does not even exist. Or, if there is an alternative to the conflict-based economy it is impossible to achieve it because of human nature. Not your nature, of course, but the violent and deceptive nature of others that you need to be protected from, they will say.
Second, realize that despite the sincere efforts of so many to create equality and prosperity through peace and justice, the struggle against violence and chaos continues, making self-evident the existence of an opposing force that profits from undermining the public’s efforts towards more civility.
To understand the problem, connect these dots;
- Special Interests are corrupting the government
- Political parties are special interests
- Gerrymandering is election fraud
- Money is the representation we seek
- The public is 22 Trillion in debt
- We have record levels of inequality
To remedy the social dysfunction plaguing the public, investing in war must end.
The struggle of humanity for equality is ideological not geographical. Our allegiance is to our income, not the flag.
Wars against nations should be obsolete in a global economy. Wars are primarily waged now to preserve the otherwise obsolete, and global, industries that profit from them.
We all agree that wars are a last resort, but yet we can’t seem to stop waging them. That’s because war is profitable for those that work for, and invest in, the conflict-based economy.
If governments removed the ability from people to invest and profit from waging wars – the motivation for them would disappear.
Overtly we are all against war, covertly, we are not.
Institutional conflict requires money from the public to prosper because it has no demand in the free market – and in most cases is illegal.
Industries of conflict are supported by public debt so they must control public policy for self-preservation. They are motivated to undermine democracy to maintain control of the policies that keep their industries relevant and profitable.
Next, it is essential to understand the power, and the threat, of a democracy to those that prosper from conflict and inequality. That is why our democracy has withered and is always under attack.
Now, our political struggle is to save our democracy from those who are against it. In this case, our case, the opposing force to our democracy is a globalist, corporatism, and militarism, utilizing the emergency powers of an imperial presidency, ostensibly to keep us safe, while creating massive public debt and political instability for the public.
I’m not against a military or being protected. But, I do understand that as soon as we need military protection in our streets, democracy becomes impossible, and we have lost what our nation is supposed to be, a nation of law by citizen government as defined in our constitution.
We will have lost our democratic republic to militarism, under the guise of fighting something, because we believed that there was no choice.
Fighting wars, whether on drugs, commies, terrorists, or anything else, divides people intentionally, to enrich some for persecuting others – paid for with public debt. The practice should be ended.
Policies that create inequality and division undermine our democracy. Those afflicted with academentia might believe those polices are personally prosperous, and therefore worth the sacrifice.
We all mostly agree that slavery is bad yet ignore the institutionalized inequality of the conflict-based economy. Slavery is now achieved through public policies that reward some for depriving others.
The race to the bottom forces workers to compete for less so investors can make more, dividing the world into those that are invested, and those that are not. The tax burden of investors is offset for them, by capital gains, which effectively places the entire tax burden of society onto those that are not invested.
The government has chosen to shift the tax burden towards wages and reduce taxes on corporations in order to reward investors at the expense of those who work, which results in a system where investor prosperity is achieved by squeezing workers to do more for less. The practice is institutionalized slavery and should be ended.
Institutional propaganda tells us our conflicts are between ideals and religions, left vs right, etc. As if those differences between us are contentious enough to abandon our civility and take up arms against each other, which is ridiculous.
For instance, we supposedly believe our enemies are crazy fanatics, so we must occupy their land and oppress them to keep us safe, or weaponize them to fight each other, to prevent them from attacking us. In reality, the motivation for the deception is that investors prosper from publicly-funded conflict.
We wage wars for democracy, some believe, while we militarize our global partners who prevent democracy. We can also remain apathetic to trade polices that undermine our own democracy while our society transitions to a form of oligarchical militarism.
Symptoms of acadmentia include apathy and denial, or willful ignorance, likely induced instinctively to avoid the challenge of a cherished belief, or defending that belief despite imperical evidence to the contrary.
You might be suffering from a form of academentia if you believe that we are keeping the world safe – from universal healthcare.
You might believe we must prevent illegal immigrants from taking our jobs, after we outsourced our jobs to their countries for cheaper labor.
You might think we are all in this together while domestic inequality and division has never been greater and continues to get worse.
You might have beliefs based on willful ignorance or a denial that can be dangerous to the collective safety of us all, and to you as an individual.
The truth is most everybody believes differently than everybody else. We are all products of our environment. Most of us engage in a predictable economic group think. What we believe is usually defined by how much money we have. Therefore It is likely that you believe the same as others in your socioeconomic class.
That is because money is representation. It is not only speech, as the Supreme Court ruled, it is representation itself. It is the measure of our freedom and influence. It is access and persuasion. It provides nearly everything that matters. It transcends borders, bias, and law.
Despite the importance of money, we collectively allow a private profit industry to create it out of thin air and saturate our economy with it. Money creation results in an allegiance and an obedience to that money instead of defending our constitution and what should be our representative government. Our allegiance is to the money, not our beliefs. It’s self-evident.
Our current belief-based political system is a deception, compared to a system that acknowledges money is representation and apportions representatives accordingly.
Our current law of one congressional representative per seven-hundred thousand and some diverse constituents is entirely inadequate representation. It definitely violates the spirit and the intention of the constitution and is likely the root cause of most social dysfunction.
Therefore a new apportionment act is necessary to update congressional representation based on our expanded population and our diverse income levels. A new law could allow everybody to vote for candidates from their own socioeconomic status.
Congressional representatives would then better understand and represent the experience of their constituents and would likely hold the same beliefs as those who voted for them, as opposed to the way we do it now, by gerrymandering geography for party dominance.
We need to fix the democratic process itself, first. A new apportionment act could be the remedy to the democratic decay that causes the increasing inequality and social dysfunction.
The public needs to transcend its divisions in order to unite for better democratic representation, despite the attempts to divide us.
We need to fix our democracy first. To fix our democracy we need to acknowledge money is representation, and politicians merely legislate its distribution, mainly to benefit their sponsors.
We need to understand who and what the opposition is and what motivates them to impede our democratic potential if we are to remedy the dangerous social dysfunctions now threatening our collective futures.
Academentia describes the propaganda tactics and belief system that protects and defends the conflict-based economy, and prevents the understanding of, and the transition to, the logical alternative, a health-based economy.