RE: I Now Pronounce You Human & Cosmos! You Were Born Married To Everyone - You Just Forgot!
Given that governments tend to be populated by those with a lot of money and that money tends to come as a result of capitalist competition - it follows that those who want to compete the most among us are actually defining the culture on a large scale, does it not?
I do not believe any of this. Not the premise, nor the connections.
Psychopaths/narcissists tend to look for positions of power. They want control.
Our current pyramidical structures attract them.
Even if the pyramidical structures are neutral, the psychopaths doing whatever it takes to get to the top will make them evil.
If you look at politicians, most do not start out rich. They get rich becoming congress critters. Most of the people in DC started with a 6 figure net worth and after being in congress now have 8 figure net worths. (definitely not on their salaries)
The psychopaths behind the scenes, who own the congress, the FED and the MSM do all they can to define the culture.
Things like funding feminism and "Black Lives Matter"
These very same people have used "capitalism", "socialism" and "communism" as fronts for their control.
It is that we, the people, thought our courts were just, and that govern-cement was for and by the people. But, if we ever read the constitution or the law, we would have found out long ago that neither is the case.
Your attack on capitalism is misplaced.
You see, what you are really after is that corporations own the govern-cement, and the evil at the top of those pyramids are using the evil in govern-cements to create more evil.
Or, in other words, money is not evil in itself.
But, Federal Reserve notes are evil.
I am well aware of the roll of psychopathy here and the corporate vehicles and the other observations you have shared here - I have been writing about it all for the best part of a decade.
I agree that the heartless unconsciousness and psychopathy will use whatever vehicle is available to it to meet its end goal of total domination and control/destruction of that which seeks life.
However, I am adding onto the top of that that any system that facilitates domination and inherent competition that allows some to die if they don't fit in to the limitations placed on them by others who have more 'wealth' is itself psychopathic. I see that capitalism does this time after time. I agree that we do not have good examples of how things would play out without the banking / crime syndicate control of things, but none the less - I know we can do better than competition.
To simplify this, experiments could be done to demonstrate the increased efficiency of co-operation over competition - but actually I don't recall ever reading of any. I just looked up a quick search on it and this one study claims to show that as competition increased, the amount of contributions to the project being tested decreased substantially.
In a system that lacks competition...
Look at the best car that the USSR made vs any car made in the States.
Without competition and struggle, the entire creation engine dies.
A group of scientists cannot out compete one Nikola Tesla.
No matter how much they cooperate.
So, we cannot survive without competition.
However, if all is competition, then the slowest people die.
One should not have to compete for food, when there is an abundance of food.
The real road block from people feeding themselves is property taxes and the FED. Both have conspired to make land ownership out of reach of the poor. Neither of these entities are "capitalism".
So, we also need a system that gives the means of producing food and shelter to every man.