“I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.” “… it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government. Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the institution.” (Booker T. Washington). In continuance of this definitive NEED TO KNOW that “Knowledge is Biblical. Education is not.” (Me. By way of Vision).
When we consider the dire need to recognize that ‘The Scripture’ records DESTRUCTION as a direct result of there being ‘no knowledge’, it is no small thing that the greatest of the planet’s Philosophers sought to understand how it is that we even come… “to know”! But to arrive at a punctiliar in our lifetime where Events are occurring with no thought for Truth (living… not simply artificial intelligence, BUT alternate truth); not even seeking to KNOW or understand… The Why! And to hear more daily the old “Who Knows?” AND the very visible reality of ‘WHO even WANTS To KNOW?’ Dying Churches and Institutions that no longer take concern for life in the face of Mass Injustice. While ‘no Justice means no Peace’, “no Knowledge means… DESTRUCTION”. It’s Biblical.
Dr. Booker T. Washington continues from his truth and knowledge of being born into the American system of Slavery. “The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority. Hence labour was something that both races on the slave plantation sought to escape. The slave system on our place, in a large measure, took the spirit of self-reliance and self-help out of the white people. My old master had many boys and girls, but not one, so far as I know, ever mastered a single trade or special line of productive industry. The girls were not taught to cook, sew, or to take care of the house. All of this was left to the slaves.”
I began a course presently on “Healthcare, Inc. Understanding the U.S. Medical Industrial Complex”. I was drawn to this class from living through a very bitter battle of this Nation turning the tables on this issue upside down onto Barack Obama in labeling it “ObamaCare”. But in all these thing the ‘getting knowledge nor understanding’ could ever be seen. Only mass hysteria, complete chaos and total confusion. First, for me, lies in the Title that came through like a light bulb the very first day of class: Healthcare IS an “Industrial Complex”!
“The slave owner and his sons had mastered no special industry. They unconsciously had imbibed the feeling that manual labour was not the proper thing for them.” (Booker T. Washington)
My understanding that ‘Knowledge is Life’ causes me to always, always want to “Know Better”; so this eye opening study of the U.S. Healthcare being an ‘industrial complex’ sent me to a difinitive meaning and understanding of industrial complex as well as it’s use. Here we go.
By definition ‘Industrial Complex’ is… socioeconomic. Business become entwined in social and political systems and institutions. Creating and bolstering a profit economy from these systems.
Credited with the first use of the term is President Dwight Eisenhower in his Jan. 17, 1961 farewell speech. Eisenhower described a “threat to democratic government” called the military–industrial complex. “The total influence—economic, political, even spiritual—is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. …Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
“The exploitation of prison labor by private corporations is one aspect among an array of relationships linking corporations, government, correctional communities, and media. These relationships constitute what we now call a prison industrial complex. The term “prison industrial complex” was introduced by activists and scholars to contest prevailing beliefs that increased levels of crime were the root cause of mounting prison populations. Instead, they argue, prison construction and the attendant drive to fill these new structures with human bodies have been driven by ideologies of racism and the pursuit of profit.” (Angela Y. Davis)
The pharmaceutical industrial complex… agriculture, entertainment, media, education, criminal justice, security, transportation… Industry grown… very complex.
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