Do We Need Global Economy?
What we need is global charity but not global economy.
America provides beef for Japan, Japan provides components for China, and China provides iPhones for America, all on the charity basis.
You do not even need money to adjust differences in economic value in exchanged goods and services, since it is charity but not economy.
Then no world empire will emerge in the world.
CHAPTER I: Global Economy
The Roman Empire:
The global economy for the Roman Empire was to use military force and conquer other tribes, so that the Empire took foods and goods, in addition to gold and silver, produced in colonized lands.
Typically, they colonized Egypt and other regions surrounding the Mediterranean, so that foods and goods produced in those regions were brought free to Rome and other cities of the Empire.
In this scheme, input is superior military forces as hardware and a high level of application of the Greece Civilization as software. The circumstantial element is the lack of rivals.
When favorable conditions of its hardware, software, and circumstantial conditions were lost, the Roman Empire and its global economy collapsed.
Middle-Age Europe:
Economy for the Middle-Age Europe was not global except minor trade with or through Islamic regions. However, due to the Renaissance, hardware and software Europeans could use for future expansion to the world were developed based on legacies of the Roman Empire and the Greece Civilization.
When internal potential of Europe increased enough, it needed global economy. Though it could not break through the wall of Islam, it could find ways to the New World through the Atlantic Ocean.
The Spanish Empire:
The global economy for the Spanish Empire was to use military force and conquer other tribes, so that the Empire took a large amount of silver and gold, in addition to foods and goods, produced in colonized lands.
Typically, they colonized the Latin America, so that especially gold and silver produced in those regions were brought free to Spain and then to other European areas, such as Holland, through internal commerce.
In this scheme, input is superior military forces as hardware and a high level of application of Renaissance cultural products as software. The circumstantial element is the superiority to other rival European nations.
When favorable conditions of its hardware, software, and circumstantial conditions were lost, the Spanish Empire and its global economy collapsed.
The British Empire:
The global economy for the Spanish Empire was to use military force and conquer other tribes, so that the Empire took foods, goods, silver, and gold produced in colonized lands, or imported them at cheaper prices. They also took or imported material and resources for their industry at cheaper costs and controlled markets in the colonized lands.
Typically, they colonized North America, Africa, India, and Indochina, so that especially imported material and resources boosted their industry and their industrial products were sold in the colonized lands.
In this scheme, input is superior military forces advanced with growth of the British industry as hardware and a high level of application of modern cultural products as software. The circumstantial element is superiority to other rival European nations reinforced by the Industrial Revolution.
When the superiority to other rival European nations and America was lost along with spread of the Industrial Revolution, its global economy became part of the European/American global economy.
Further, as European nations lost their colonies in Africa and Asia after WWII, their global economy became more software oriented. They came to more leverage technological superiority and advanced financial systems as new weapons.
They could import foods, goods, and resources relatively cheaply and export industrial goods and financial services at reasonable prices for them.
The American Empire:
The global economy for the American Empire was to leverage advanced military force and put other nations under its influence, so that the Empire could import foods, goods, silver, and gold produced in other countries at cheaper costs. They also imported industrial resources at favorable costs, in addition to human resources and talented people, and dominate local markets and economic systems in the countries under American influence.
Typically, they exerted strong influence on Latin America, the Middle East, Indochina, and the Far East as well as whole Europe, so that American businesses sold goods and services in local markets of these areas.
In this scheme, input is very advanced military force as hardware and a high level of application of post-WWII advanced American cultural products as software. The circumstantial element is the superiority to other rival European nations and the Soviet Union.
When the industrial superiority to Japan and Germany was lost along with growth of Japan and Germany, its first-phase of the global economy was over.
But, its second phase started well as America could succeed in building a global financial scheme. With the new monetary system, America could secure investment from Japan and other nations in return to import of goods and services from those countries. The rising economic power China is even brought into this system.
However, as America has also a large-scale industrial base inside, it still needs cheap natural resources and industrial material from overseas. By controlling the global market and economic/political systems of foreign countries, it can advantageously access natural resources and industrial material in foreign countries; its monetary system can function more widely. The whole scheme is also protected politically with support of super military power of America.
Review:
The global economy is simple in principle.
The major player in a given era tries to take foods, goods, silver, gold, natural resources, industrial material, global markets, human resources, and money with whatever means the empire can take up. It is the core or the true meaning of the global economy.
If the level of global civilization of today is similar to that of the Roman Empire, America will simply use military force to take foods and goods, in addition to gold and silver, produced in other countries.
But along with development of civilization in these 2000 years, America today takes money from foreign countries under its cultural, political, and military influence.
If America should stop taking money from other countries, the global economy of today will be drastically changed.
Put simply, the global economy of today is accompanying the fate of the American Empire in history.
But, to correct the present state of global economy so defective, the world should not simply return to the eras of the first phase of the American global economy, the British Empire, the Spanish Empire, and the Roman Empire.
Yet, this history of the global economy, namely from de-facto seizure of foods to that of money, by the leading empire of each era is so simple, wild, selfish, greedy, and anti-Christ. To tell the truth, what is needed is not new economics but new moral education and training of leaders of the leading empire of each era. In other word, without reeducation and reorientation of American leaders, the global economy of today cannot be improved.
The global economy of today is, as everybody feels vaguely, led by the seizure of money by America who issues the sole key currency, the U.S. dollar, to worldwide countries. It was just like the global economy 1700 or 2100 years ago was, as everybody knows apparently, led by the seizure of foods and goods by the Roman Empire who delivered the only meaningful citizenship of the era, the Roman citizenship, to the conquered tribes.
(Click to enlarge.)(http://www.murc.jp/report_pdf/20101228_154605_0550594.pdf)
If you think this theory is a kind of joke, ask American rich men whether or not they want a huge amount of money even if they have to establish a global empire for this purpose. They will surely say, "We already have."
I will not be surprised if they think in their mind: "They call it the global economy; we call it our rule."
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Mencius said:
"In ancient days, each person knew what title and rank the Court in Heaven allowed him to enjoy.
Accordingly he made an effort to fulfill his duty requested for his Heavenly title. As a result, he also received a peerage in the court in a worldly kingdom that corresponded to the Heaven-endowed title.
Nowadays, a man seeks some rank in the Court of Heaven so that he can receive some title in the court in a worldly kingdom. When he gets the worldly title, he sets aside and discards the Heavenly rank.
But, such a man will eventually lose even the worldly title."
In English, they say to live with your means. In Japanese, they say to know your true position.
Yet, the Bible says, "Accumulate treasure in Heaven!"
So, I think it is reasonable to be respected and loved even in this world for your treasure in Heaven.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYpPfFOEBZo&feature=related
Sung by a China-born Japanese female singer, actress, and politician who once lived in Kamakura, since she married a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whom she met in New York.
I seldom, say once in 20 years, visit Kamakura, though I live around Tokyo.)
By the way, one of yesterday's postings was the 1700th for this blog. I think I have not lost in any one of them. But, even if it is the 1700 contiguous wins, it is still a humble record compared with 30 or 40-years long politicians or TV journalists who have made a public appearance every day.
Joh 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
Joh 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.