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My mom was in high school during the war, and remembers her family having a ration book in which merchants kept track of what was bought per year, with restrictions on quantities, such as only 1 pair of shoes per person and 1 set of tires. Once rations were used up in the book, no more purchases could be made for that year. In other words, America instituted a regulated, planned economy in the 1940s and that was alright by the monied capitalist industrialist powers since it enabled them to fatten themselves on war profits like [[wikipedia:Daddy_Warbucks|Daddy Warbucks]], but after the war such regulation was denounced (by way of [[Propaganda]] of the [[Propaganda#Ad_Council|Ad Council]]) as “socialism” and “communism” that threatened The American Way of life. From WWII, America learned that war was good for the economy (having lifted the American economy out of the Great Depression), not just the sale of munitions and supplies for the war itself, but rebuilding that commenced after the war when taxpayer dollars were “loaned” as aid to the war ravaged and the money pocketed by American contractors, yet another shill game of [[Organized crime]] perpetrated on an unsuspecting American public. And so [[The System]] grew more and more powerful post War by way of [[Permanent war economy]], making “defense contractors” major employers along with Big [[Government]] bureaucracy,  

We now know that McCarthyism and the whole Red Scare (that had us grade school kids scrambling under our desks for air raid drills) was nothing but a ploy to distract from what was becoming [[The System]] of [[Organized crime]]. Conspiratorial lying of the John Birch Society (stepchild of McCarthyism), especially its parlor game of [[Albert_E._Burke#%22Creeping_Socialism%22|“Creeping Socialism”]], has continued to be played well into the 21st century and has only gotten worse for wear. Christians especially should have known all along that stealing lands of [[First Peoples]] and exploitation of human [[Labor]] by way of indentured servitude and slavery for no purpose other than for riches, for [[Capitalism#Love_of_Money|Love of Money]], constituted [[Organized crime]], and that such is not only unethical, but immoral from a Christian perspective. True Christianity should be antidote to all such evils, and should have opposed development of [[The System]] instead of aiding and abetting its development as American “Christianity” has over the many decades with its heretical [[wikipedia:Prosperity_theology|Prosperity Gospel]] that posits riches (in Calvinistic Puritan fashion) as being proof of favor from God. This lie was evidenced initially in the [https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/the-great-barbecue-revisited Great Barbeque] of [[wikipedia:Conservatism#The_Gilded_Age|The Gilded Age]] and [[wikipedia:Gay_Nineties|Gay Nineties]] in the 19th century continuing through to the [[wikipedia:Roaring_Twenties|Roaring Twenties]] in the 20th century, laid low only by the [[wikipedia:Great_Depression|Great Depression]]. The same “Christian” form of Mammon worship was revived post World War II (after a short New Deal reprieve from that initial liberalism) by neo-liberalism beginning in the 80s and continuing through Reagan, Bush I and Bush II years into the 90s, continuing on through to today, thoroughly supported by both political parties as usual.<br>

Today, a user manual for modern times is even more critical than before, as it still appears “[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90WD_ats6eE?rel=0 The Times They Are A Changin]”, but underneath it all things remain pretty much the same — “progress”, economic “growth”, “Growth”,“GROWTH”, “World's Highest Standard of Living” by way of The American Way: [[The System]] of [[Organized crime]], that is turning Earth into a giant landfill. From a Christian perspective such exploitation, degradation and destruction is fulfillment of the intents and purpose of the devil, in his jealousy and hatred of God, to destroy all God's Creation (including humanity), turning Divine [[Cosmology|Cosmos]] back into Chaos from which Cosmos was created. [[Capitalism#American_Foundations|American Foundations]] of the contemporary reigning, global form of [[Modernity]] are thus found guilty of [[Capitalism#Love_of_Money|Love of Money]] (not of being Christian as right wing political ideologues proclaim), which makes for [[Main_Page#It's_A_Mad,_Mad,_Mad,_Mad_World|''A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'']], totally desecrated, disenchanted, desacralized and devoid of the spiritual, devoted solely to the material (the temporal, temporary not lasting), destined to decompose back into the dust from which it comes.