Industry
For one to be fruitful and multiply, one must start with firm and fertile soil.
I’m going to be once again attempting to do a Long Comms for Water as well as Earth, Wind, and Fire, but I can only squeeze so much into one post at a time. I was never satisfied with my Water post, so I’m approaching it from another angle.
For that reason, I’m going to separate the posts by creating stand-alone topic posts describing the nuances of a certain feature of the dominant element. I’ll be starting here with Earth, because it just happens to be on my mind. Here I intend to describe the crowning jewel of Earth we call Industry.
What is an Industry?
An industry can be described as an instance of an economic ecosystem that arises as a response to an economic problem. Essentially, the aim of any industry is to solve or maintain a specific problem that is derived from some existential disparity.
For example, humans have domesticated horses for transportation and labor.
It stems from a greater problem of transportation. Like stacking rocks, the base concern is transportation, the solution of which is the horse. Horses, however, bring their own problems that must be solved.
The problem with horses is that their hooves wear out faster than their bodies. They can perform plenty of work, but their hooves are simply not physically durable enough for the demanding labor which is unnatural to their undomesticated evolutionary design. For this reason, we humans have sought a solution to this problem.
What we settled upon was the horseshoe — an augmentation applied to the hoof that is more durable than the horses’ own hoof material. This augmentation can be made from many materials, but the one settled upon historically was metal, specifically iron. Iron is malleable, is non-toxic, plentiful, durable, yet can be soft enough to not damage roadways the horse might frequent.
Thus, an industry forms around horses, their labor, and the horse shoe required to put the horse to work. A supply chain of iron and other smithing materials are needed to feed this industry. Occupations with names all to their own are devised to describe practitioners of this industry. Farriers, for example. Inventions other than the horseshoe are devised — more augmentations to optimize the work gotten out of the beast.
Blinders, saddles, reins, carriages, chaps…
These terms are part of the overarching Equine industry that was the norm for most of human history. Occupations such as horse groomer, breeders, farriers, wranglers, trainers, veterinarians, carriage and cart builders, drivers, jockeys, saddlemakers, blacksmiths, manure disposal, hay balers, etc. all exist in service to the Equestrian Industry.
Without the domestic horse, all these jobs, their tools, inventions and varied innovations would not exist. All are part of Man’s desire to overcome Nature and establish for ourselves security and prosperity. Therefore, it can be said that without the horse, humanity would not be recognizable to what it is today.
It would be a different World…
That is what an Industry offers — an alternate World, and with it a different Worldview; a different perspective. a different landscape. This is how industry relates to Alchemical Earth, with Earth acting as an analogue for how one facet, one component, can alter entirely how we view and interact with the World as we know it.
In Service to Industry
Where, oh where, did all the jobs go?
In a bygone era, every city on Earth was graced with the scent of horse manure along with the jobs to clean it up.
In a bygone era, every city had a thriving equine sector as a backbone of its commercial viability.
In a bygone era, every man, woman, and child would be well familiar with the whinny and the clopping of hooves on cobble roads.
If you were involved in trade, you were involved in horses.
If you were involved in horses, you would have spurned any suggestion of regressing to a time before the Equine Industry. You would have lived and died to protect the industry as it stood, as a pillar of human civilization responsible for delivering us out of an era of terrestrial suffering — of manual human labor.
This dedication to an industry breeds fanaticism…
This fanaticism, while honorable in origin, always reduces humanity to the unsavory habit we in modern parlance call Gatekeeping.
Threats to the industry are seen as affronts to human civilization itself. An “end of the world” scenario arises when an industry that serves as the backbone of society is threatened; when it is clear change threatens to undo the industry in all its machinations…
In Comms, these great shake-ups are called “earthquakes.”
To avoid them, people work desperately to prevent “groundbreaking” events from taking place.
This is when Fanaticism becomes Zealotry.
This is when an industry actively sabotages new inventions and innovations that would render it obsolete. This is when the Bureaucratic Tyrant rears its ugly face.
Regulations are put in place to halt progress, under the auspices of preventing change from taking hold too quickly and disenfranchising an industry upon which all humanity has relied upon for succor. Just as a regulator restricts flow of liquids in a hydraulic system so that a steady pressure is achieved, regulations act very much the same in terms of Governance.
You need regulations, sure, but if they’re overbearing they can stifle progress. Too loose and you risk health and safety.
The worst-case scenario is when a select few gain control over the levers of power, and only allow change that benefits them…
When those put in charge to oversee the regulatory practices entrench themselves and understand that as soon as said regulations lapse they themselves are out of a job, it becomes clear to them that the “only way forward” for them is staying put. The regulations become permanent, forever halting the gears of industry from turning over and any Revolutions from taking place in the status quo unless it suits their interests alone. Sub-optimal practices are enshrined, if not down right given religious dogmatism, to ensure things stay exactly as they have always been until such a time as those in power grow bored.
Again, this is Gatekeeping — prohibition of technological advancement in order to retain control and “security.”
Why don’t we have a cure to cancer?
Why don’t we have free energy, or at least nuclear power?
Why don’t we have free access to education and unrestricted certification?
Why don’t we have flying cars?
Because…
If we had these things, the World as we knew it would be unrecognizable.
A few select and truly privileged people don’t want that to happen…
Those currently with power would be made powerless. Those currently with wealth would be made penniless. Those systems upon which so many rely to earn a living would be made obsolete — and all the knowledge and skills involved rendered useless.
Years of experience… all a waste…
It is for this reason that we simply cannot have nice things…
We cannot have nice things because people, especially old and actually privileged people, cannot adjust to change as quickly as necessary to adopt new practices overnight. Most simply aren’t willing to because it inconveniences them.
They, who would smother Truth due to its inconvenience.
Obsolescence…
What are we seeing now with Artificial Intelligence?
How many jobs, from illustrators, graphic designers, programmers, musicians, managers, linguists, writers, etc. are all slated to be rendered obsolete?
Is it not the same with what happened to the Equine Industry as we moved into Motor Vehicles?
Within a decade suddenly every occupation involved in the Equine Industry fell into obscurity. In its place grew a fledgling industry of oil, metalworks, mechanics, driving instructors, inventors, tinkerers, chemists, engineers, and factory workers.
From the stump of the old, gnarled, and weathered tree sprouted a new tree unrestricted by the shortcomings and age of the old. The old tree broke new ground, and fertilized it with season after season of its fallen leaves. From its husk and mulched roots the new tree took hold and now the Earth has been shaped under a new canopy. Eventually, that tree too shall fall and from it another acorn to birth a new industry, it’s branches reaching into all sorts of wondrous occupations.
This is the way of things.
This is the nature of any industry — to eventually be made obsolete with the coming of a new. The problem remains, yet the solution is always becoming more and more refined. Evolving.
No terrestrial king can reign forever.
Slowly but surely continental plates crash into one another; earth is swallowed up and mountains spring forth. Precious minerals wrested free from the depths. Seeds of metal…
No matter how much they Gatekeep, no dynasty can keep the flood of information out forever. Eventually, the “better way” will be known to the public, and eventually, when all the older ones set in their ways have died off, the new shall replace the old.
That is, unless malevolent forces restrict our ascent…
The Parasite
What is the Abortion Industry?
Abortion is the termination of human life in order to convenience and prioritize the current generation and its desires over the next generation, our progeny.
Basically, a whore will abort their child because they put their own lust and greed before their duty to humanity to reproduce and make wise decisions on behalf of future generations. It is a feature of a society which has a surplus of social welfare and conditional security coupled with a deficiency in propagating Moral Truth.
The Ultimate Truth, being, that Actions have Consequences…
Ultimately it is a selfish and self-serving industry. It cannot proliferate naturally because its adherents eagerly self-terminate. The same can be said with homosexuality, as they cannot bear offspring and therefore must resort to various “recruitment tactics” to replenish their demographic base.
In other words, it’s a parasitic industry.
It lives to feed on the host. It is not self-replicating. It offers nothing to the progeny of human civilization and can only destroy, not create.
Which also means it is a net drain on our economy. We must pay so that people can continue to make stupid decisions.
Let’s say you work in the Abortion Industry.
“Sales” were low this week. How do you increase profits?
If you were selling a worthwhile product you’d typically either widen your target demographics, innovate and improve upon previous designs to sell a newer model, or set upon inventing an entirely new product to solve another problem in your industry.
All such things are impossible for the Abortionist.
No, they have no product, only a service that actively destroys their user-base.
So?
The only option is to encourage degeneracy. Promote promiscuity. Engage in campaigns that increase acceptability of a doctrine of death to recruit more to the ideology while working to control the alternative market of contraceptives. Work towards tearing down the moral fabric of society, invent a “Sexual Revolution” to evangelize young women into a “love is love” ideology and then graft yourself onto Corporate interests by advocating for “Women in the Workplace.”
Your interests align with cheap labor in that by doubling the workforce you can effectively halve the pay — all in line with the law of Supply and Demand.
Abortion permits the “working woman.” The “working woman” has no time for child-bearing. Corporate interests and the Abortion industry converge; two parasites in a symbiotic relationship to drain the host dry of all prosperity. Women can work because they are “free” of children. Women abort their children so they are “free” to work.
All while sucking they very lifeforce out of our future generations…
Meanwhile, medical contraceptives, which the Abortion Industry has also sought to control, are formulated to have debilitating side-effects that alter the brain chemistry of women, making them far more irrational, depressed, lustful, and rebellious. In that way, even women “on the pill” will work towards promoting wanton sexual acts in popular culture as part of a greater theme of “sexual liberation.”
Thus the ideology churns a cultish pot and scry upon excuses to “liberate” themselves from their moral duties so they can imbibe upon objectively immoral behaviors.
“It’s not bad to get an abortion, because I’ve had one, and I’m not a bad person!”
The narcissism of such a statement… it’s so disgusting…
The goal of the Abortion Industry, then, is to degrade the moral fabric of society as much as possible to promote sexuality, all in service to increasing profits in a purely predatory industry that uses psychological manipulation, the exploitation of animalistic habits, and socio-political pressure to entrap people into working against humanity’s best interests in favor of the parasitic industry.
The zealous “Gatekeepers” of the industry, then, work tirelessly to disparage the alternative which threatens their power and profitability — the Nuclear Family.
Make no mistake, the Nuclear Family is the ideal solution to the problem of human suffering. It is the bedrock of all things. People are stronger together. People are weaker alone. Familial bonds are the strongest of all, while transactional bonds are the weakest.
Abortion promotes purely transactional bonds. Sexual gratification is the goal, not lifelong pair-bonding and certainly not reproduction. A society built upon sexual gratification over the wellbeing of their progeny is doomed to fail. You can’t have a healthy and rounded future generation if you actively kill the future generation. You can’t have “family planning” when all your rhetoric actively disparages people from having families.
On that note, not unlike the Abortion Industry, we also have the Divorce Industry.
How does a Divorce Lawyer attain more clients?
Well, you need to increase the number of failing marriages, right?
So, the Divorce Industry actively must engage in destroying the nuclear family model in order to achieve record profits, correct?
You see the problem here?
You see how an industry can actively sabotage humanity’s best interests in exchange for short-term gain?
There are many such examples, all of which seem to have been adopted by the Western Worldview…
Schools teach students how to graduate, not work.
Hospitals instruct doctors to treat symptoms, not cure disease.
Employers hire based on quotas, not merit.
Dating services promote hook-ups, not ideal matches.
Unions focus on petty inconveniences, not debilitating practices.
Taxes and accounting are made complicated, not approachable.
Each industry is predatory by nature. None can work, inherently, because all are incentivized to fail at the very thing they are presumed to solve. If they solve the problem they’ve been tasked with addressing, they’d all be out of a job.
Even worse, some conspire to serve one another with the common citizen suffering unduly in order to feed a malevolent industrial oligarchy set upon extracting all the life and money out of them as possible before their untimely deaths.
Hypocrites…
They say “We fight for women’s rights” while depriving women of all that makes them righteous by nature. Everything they do results in the exact opposite of the good they claim to be doing.
It is our duty to stop any such industry before they take hold of the host…
Firm Foundations
Bricks are made of Earthen materials. We need to stack Earth to reach great heights.
Industries serve as foundations for life works to take hold. How might one expect to build a house from scratch? You will be relegated to using mud and straw, if you are lucky to have such materials available.
No… Great Works require us to build upon what already is. Larger, coarse-cut bricks are at the bottom. Smaller, detailed bricks near the top.
That which cannot be built upon is waste and folly.
That which serves as firm soil for building has within it an industry ready to sprout and prosper. No tree can expect to grow tall on a sandy bank.
Invention. Innovation. Inspiration.
These are the building blocks of industry. Fertile soil is nothing without a germinated seed ready to take root. If an idea may serve as the seed, then the soil serves as opportunity.
However, just as with any plant, one’s immoderate gardening can bring ruin. Water it too much and it will swell and uproot. Water it too little and it withers and perishes.
Such as it is with industry.
Overwatering results in an industry swelling with bureaucratic bloat and uprooting as the earthen foundation is swept away and the industry loses track of it’s roots. When you forget where you came from, you lose track of any vision for the future. An investor focused only on explosive short-term growth shouldn’t be surprised when the subject of his infatuation collapses under the weight of those unrealistic expectations.
Underwatering results in an industry drying up and withering as others compete for what little moisture is available. As others compete for succor, only those capable of surviving the drought are left. Typically, these are the weeds and other such pests not suitable for bearing fruit. They are spikey, irritating, and unsightly. When you neglect a plant which needs, it cannot compete and will perish.
When you are too liberal with the water, you risk bloating.
When you are too conservative with the water, you risk withering.
If water is information, or knowledge — and if knowledge is power, as demonstrated by the humble waterwheel and steam turbine alike, then we can fully understand how Industry both might thrive and fail relative to the quantity of knowledge you permit it.
Pruning and Weeding
Overregulation, liberalism, is the constant pruning of the plant, which will distress it greatly. If every uneven leaf and wayward stem are pruned as soon as they sprout, how might a plant ever hope to grow big and tall? Save the pruning for the larger plants which can handle the loss of leaf and limb.
This results in Stagnancy. “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.”
Underregulation, conservativism, is the the neglect of pruning the plant, which will cause it to grow unevenly and intrude upon others. When left to its own devices, a tree can sprawl and devour all the sky, leaving everything beneath it a barren waste obscured in shadow.
This results in Monopoly. “I shall block out the sun!”
Weeds are industrial parasites, as described above. They cannot survive on their own, and need a host industry to provide cover for their antics. Abortion, for example, cannot exist without the medical industry and political schemes to support it.
Weeds are the consequence of moderate regulation. An over-pruned tree will die, leaving no host for the weed to nestle against. An under-pruned tree will smother the ground, leaving no light or water for any other. Only with proper tending to the tree might you inadvertently create the perfect scenario for weeds to take hold.
By finding the perfect exploits and loopholes in between regulatory mandates, a niche can be found and the Earth widened for the weed to take root.
This results in Bureaucracy. “Getting lost in the weeds…”
This is why vigilance is needed more than ever when things are held in a moderate fashion. It is also why many will opt for radical jolts towards Left or Right, overregulation and underregulation, respectively. They seek to stop the weeds at all costs, and their solution is to sacrifice the optimal state of the Tree in exchange for smothering out the most unsavory and parasitic entities, either by exposure or obscurity. It always results in the collapse of law and order, all to spurn the weed.
The hard path is the well-tended garden. An over-tended garden is a desolate field. An under-tended garden is a wild and treacherous bramble.
It requires weeding.
It requires a dedication and discipline to do and do well.
For our progeny…
All those weeds who would exploit and terrorize must be cut away and tossed into the fire. Their seeds, their beliefs and ideas, smothered by the flame once and for all. Unsavory and predatory practices which perpetuate the problem to justify the never-ending “solution” must be curtailed each and every time they arise, preferably before they can even bud.
Once the weeds are done away with, you must disparage them from ever taking root again. This starts with the Earth. It starts with Industry. It starts with a firm foundation.
It requires discipline.
It requires dedication.
It requires a Moral Framework.
It requires a Gardener.
As it was once before…
It shall be again…
This is the Earth, upon which Man must Toil until such a time that he deny His Self and takes up the Cross — to once again tend the Garden as his father and his father’s father were instructed. Be industrious, multiply, and in your own hands you will find the Master Craftsman’s works. God breathed Adam into being as one casts bronze in the Earthen mold. Industry requires diligence.
late 15c., "cleverness, skill," from Old French industrie "activity; aptitude, experience" (14c.) or directly from Latin industria "diligence, activity, zeal," noun use of fem. of industrius "active, diligent," from early Latin indostruus "diligent," from indu "in, within" (from PIE *endo-, extended form of root *en "in") + stem of struere "to build" (from PIE root *stere- "to spread"). The meaning "habitual diligence, effort" is from 1530s; that of "systematic work" is from 1610s. The sense "a particular trade or manufacture" is first recorded 1560s.