Origins of the modern banking system — Joseph F. McCormick and David A. Palmer, Ph.D “The right to coin money has always been and remains the surest mark and announcement of sovereignty.” — Alexander del Mar, History of Monetary Systems (1895), pg. 66 “[In China] there were formerly twenty-two several places where money was fabricated, at which…

2001 to Present — Joseph F. McCormick and David A. Palmer, Ph.D 9.11 was not only a wake-up call for America to step back and take a deep look at ourselves through the eyes of the world, rather than viewing the world through the eyes of our country, but, at a deeper level, it…

2001 to Present — Joseph F. McCormick and David A. Palmer, Ph.D The Fourth Great Test for America began with “the events” of 9.11.2001, events that fit into a much larger geostrategic context. We will discuss the more centralized, Imperial aspects of the context here, and the more decentralized, Utopian aspects in Part II. …

1948 to 2001 — Joseph F. McCormick and David A. Palmer, Ph.D The late 1940’s saw the advent of the Second Red Scare (1947 to 1956) focused this time less on the by then nearly non-existent internal demands of the Utopian Culture than on the external threat of Soviet and Chinese communism, the concerns…

1948 to 2001 — Joseph F. McCormick and David A. Palmer, Ph.D When World War II was over, predictably, the United States was stronger than ever industrially, nearly untouched by wartime violence on its own soil, at a cost of less than 1% of the staggering total 80 million dead from violence, disease, and…

1928 to 1948 — Joseph F. McCormick and David A. Palmer, Ph.D. In our last essay (1886 to 1928) we marked the end of the Third Great Awakening as the decline of the spiritual “City on a Hill” American dream (see previous essay) and the emergence of the materialistic version known as “A chicken…

1886 to 1928 — Joseph F. McCormick and David A. Palmer, Ph.D. Continued from Part I: Evolving “conflict system” An American “conflict system” had been evolving from the start. The fight, flight or freeze reactions to the experience of conflict is known to be addictive. …

1886 to 1928 — Joseph F. McCormick and David A. Palmer, Ph.D. The corporatization of America The sophisticated and ingenious financial and legal systems that had created the massive British East India Company (EIC) — indeed “the mother of all modern corporations” — migrated to America in the early 19th century. The EIC with its private army and…

1844 to 1886 — Joseph F. McCormick and David A. Palmer, Ph.D. The American Civil War took place in a context of imperial industrialism motivated by economic growth and utopian social unrest motivated by an awakening political feminine. 19th Century industrialism represented the next phase of the Imperial Project as human and natural resources…