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“Ignorance of a law is not a valid justification for not fulfilling
it.”
This is the basic
principle of law, however with the existent laws this is impossible
to fulfill because of their number and complexity. A person that
really wants to know all the laws one is subject to in the duration
of one’s life would have to spend it entirely dedicated to study due
to the countless number of legislations in vigor. And it is quite
probable that one would not achieve this objective.
But the principal remains
valid for certain laws of nature, which the human is equally subject
to during his passage on Earth, as he is also a species in it, as so
many others. The principal is valid because contrary to the laws of
man these natural laws are very simple and clear. Nobody can disobey
them under the allegation of ignorance because all that is needed is
a minimum effort in the observation of them to be able to recognize
them.
One of these basic laws is the
one that deals with balance. We clearly observe its effects in places
where man’s influence has still not arrived. An ecosystem that has not
been corrupted yet by destructive human action will always be in
perfect balance. It will never present, for example, an accentuated
disparity among the number of species found there. You will never see
one of its members trying to destroy the ecosystem, seeking to obtain
immediate advantages for itself. Neither will you find some species
lacking what is necessary for its survival there, having to experience
“material needs”. The beings that belong to an ecosystem give
in one way or the other something for all, receiving in
compensation what is necessary for its own subsistence, it is a
continual balance between give and receive.
Even the species of the
vegetable kingdom automatically obey this law of balance. From nature
plants and trees receive nutrients from the soil and give
it flowers and fruit in return. They use the carbonic gas from
the atmosphere and give back oxygen.
But the humans behave in a
different way. It is precisely because of their social organization
that they should be a living example of unconditional obedience to the
law of balance; yet they have despised it intentionally, in the most
flippant self-presumption.
Due to its spiritual
constitution, this species occupies a special place in nature. Its
mission is to perfect nature in physical matter by elevating and
ennobling it through the fulfillment of the effective laws; this is
how it was planned.
However, this expectation was
not fulfilled. All the other species continued obeying what they were
expected to do instinctively, according to the natural laws. But man,
the elevated spiritual being that should care for nature, gave no
importance at all to these basic laws, laws that were in force
before his appearance on Earth. He presumptuously placed himself
above nature, as if he owed it no respect. In his inconceivable
arrogance he anointed himself lord of Creation, while he did not even
execute his duties as a simple integrant of Creation.
That is why now he assists in
disbelief and perplexity the inevitable crumbling of all his false
work, incautiously built on sand.
The entire human work was
erected by ignorance and stubbornness on a sandy soil, inappropriate
to construct any building. Man principally ignored the
fundamental law of balance that is so basic, only firm soil can
support any construction. It doesn’t matter how well planned the
construction is or how resistant the materials used are, or how good
the engineers and architects are. If it is erected on sand, sooner or
later it will have to fall.
And economic science is one of
the many works engineered by the human intellect completely
dissociated from this basic principal of balance.
Today we see in the majority of
countries a frenzied, almost desperate effort, from the most esteemed
specialists seeking to control the multiple economic indexes. With
admirable zeal (we recognize) that they try to make this, absurdly
complex and unstable economic machine that they have invented, work
adequately, making frequent adjustments to the several control
instruments at their disposition; however, with precarious results.
The numbers that translated the
immense calamity that the world economy was submersed in at the end of
the last century seemed unreal because of its gigantic size, and even
so it continues to grow, as if it has come to life on its own.
Everywhere there are increases in the disparity between production and
consumption, between work and remuneration, between debts contracted
and benefits generated. Macro and microeconomics are merging into
frightening mega-chaos, where imbalance is the tonic in all sectors.
And amid all this disorder the
illustrious economists stand out, fencing with each other in a not
very gentlemanly like manner, each one trying to impose his
revolutionary and exclusive solution of salvation.
Everyday we see the parade in
the press of the most contradictory and contusing explanations on the
causes and effects of exchange devaluation, inflationary control,
public deficit, bank crisis, bankruptcy, speculative capital,
fluctuation of interest rates, super valorized shares, growing
unemployment and concentration of income, etc, etc.
All this confusion could have
been avoided if, from the outset the necessary balance between giving
and receiving were simply observed.
In reality, people already live
in a continual exchange of values, however, without giving due
importance to it. Their biggest mistake here – unforgivable in itself,
- was neglecting the indispensable balance in this natural process of
exchange.
With one’s work one gives
something to the world in which they live, in this case Earth, and for
this they receive what is necessary for one’s life here. First
of all come food, clothes and dwelling. In natural sequence other
complementary goods, always according to one’s own contribution. Money
is nothing other than an instrument, a means to facilitate the flow
between giving and receiving in our civilized world. And everybody
involved has the duty to maintain this flow in absolute equality,
making sure that the scale-plates remain completely even.
This is the general picture of a
harmonic collective action, is it too simple? Indeed it is, as
everything is, that in fact possesses real value and therefore has not
been infected by the intricate guidelines of the limited human
intellect.
However, the following happened,
like in so many other things that took place, man decided to “perfect”
the natural law of balance. Through his limited understanding, fruit
of his unstoppable and also already un-disguisable spiritual
decadence, he imagined that he could live a more beautiful and happier
life if he lowered one of the scale-plates in his favor. He wanted to
receive more and more, giving less and less. And with the passing of
the centuries this imbalance grew increasingly more, until arriving at
the point where we find ourselves today, where money has become an end
in itself, instead of a mere physical instrument for the carrying out
of giving and receiving.
From this point on, the little
that remained of the dignity and respect to one’s fellow man, from
this creature suffering from blind greed vanished once and for all, he
started to want to take advantage in everything in order to obtain
more money, not caring if he had to inflict damage upon his fellow man
or not.
To obtain more money employees
deceive their bosses, bosses explore their employees, fraudulent
people study new schemes, speculators start rumors on the stock
exchange, factories create cartels, banks become discounting houses,
politicians sell votes, timber merchants cut down forests, nations
fight each other for commercial interests. And everybody gets into
debts that they cannot liquidate. They cheat, they rob, they kill, and
they destroy and go to war only for money.
Greedy humanity twisted the
commandment given it of keeping the balance in everything as much as
it could; it lowered the scale-plates to its maximum in its own favor,
in the illusion of conquering earthly happiness this way.
Nonetheless, what man did not
imagine is that unlike human law, the laws of nature cannot be
disobeyed without punishment. Yes, man managed to tip the scale-plates
for a certain period of time, but now it returns to its original
position in a violent manner throwing off into the distance
everything that was accumulated in man’s interior.
The impact this has on the
economy has become evident through a tragedy of apocalyptic
proportions, never seen before in human history.
Today, hundreds of millions of
people live in absolute poverty, without any perspective of bettering
their material conditions. The ones that have a job and still earn
enough to live decently form one extensive legion of unhappy people,
firmly convinced that life has been unjust to them by denying them
material wealth. Instead of ennobling the world with spiritual and
terrestrial values they only increase the amount of bad will, envy and
distrust. But for the ones that already possess many resources, by in
large almost exclusively use them to satisfy their own desires,
without the slightest worry in preserving and bettering the well being
of all.
Every year, every month, every
day we see the calamity of world’s economy increase, generating
anguish, hopelessness and… insecurity. The pedestal of the idol money,
raised by the many willing hands to a height that totally obscures any
glimmer of spiritual life, is coming undone, falling to pieces above
the heads of a now fearful and shocked humanity.
The unstable world economy
provokes social unrest, crisis in governing, fear and, above all,
widespread insecurity.
These are the fruit we are
picking now, through the neglect of a simple law and at the same time
so essential, that alone could guarantee total harmony in life on our
much-disturbed planet.
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