Insurance

Private insurance is seeking to pillage the social security network of the United States. The insurance industry blocked true health care reform through its lobby. It cowed Obama's reformers away from a one-payer system, the one adequate solution for controlling health care costs by controlling the greedy hospital  and pharmaceutical magnates. Now the insurance industry, in tandem with the investment industry, has its eyes on social security retirement money as well. Trillions of dollars of government-enforced profits for fat cats. This is insurance of their future domination of the country and its people.

Materialist Cathedral: Insurance Tower

The post-Reagan infatuation with privatization represents the hyped Reagan philosophy of narcissistic self-determinism. It is not based in science. It is based in greed and imposed social Darwinism. Trickle-down economics deliver a simple message from the privileged to the underprivileged, "Wait and see what I drop your way, if you behave and do as we say. We know better." This lies behind the deluge of media propaganda, which successfully convinces average Americans to vote against their own self-interest by supporting movements like The Tea Party.

Narcissistic self-determination on a planet with an unsustainable human population will lead to a predictable dead end. It will assure more war, more famine, more poverty.  The Reaganite illusion that the quality of life is generally improving globally is a luxury of the bourgeoisie, as it always has been. The recent events in the Arab world are a loud answer to that illusion. The recent repression of dissent in China is as well.

Of course, if you are of the wealthier class, you can soothe your conscience and your fears by buying into the Wall Street power structure and buying lots of insurance and financial instruments. You can delude yourself into thinking that everybody else has the same option. You can do all this until those who are impoverished by the system that keeps you wealthy awaken and turn against you. When that happens, there is no insurance which will prevent the disastrous consequences for everyone.