by Thomas Purcell

Created on: January 03, 2011   Last Updated: January 04, 2011

The theory of elitism, and nobility of class, is manifested today in the Green movement. Green politics portends that mankind, if left to his own devices, would destroy and ruin the very environment in which they live, in order to gain more profits from an enterprise. They also believe, as do many of the royal families of Europe, that resources and growth are best managed from a central authority, that the lands belong not to the individual that settles or owns them, but to society as a whole, or a central authority such as government, or the modern day equivalent of State. Statism, whereby the individual is subservient to the State, is the central and preeminent goal of liberalism- whereby society is managed from a centralized planning source. It is in this way that it fits neatly into the age-old society model of feudalism, which plans society around a central authority figure.

In short, a monarchal and feudalistic economic model is in this respect, similar to modern day socialism or communism. The good of the whole is of far more worth than the value of the individual; in fact the support and long term existence of society in fact depends on it. The king is its chief architect, passing down their authority from generation to generation through family heirs. Great pains were made to ensure the line would continue, and great sums spent to educate and train men (and women) for the task at hand- running the kingdom. A noble would never protect the rights of a peasant over the kindom’s rule of law. In feudalistic times, life was cheap, and typically very brief. 

The concept of basic environmentalism however, should not be confused with the political movement of the Greens. Before liberalism and Statism began to take hold in American society, industrialists were well aware of the problems of pollution and environmental damage. Industrialists saw pollution as something else- they saw it as waste, and the reduction of pollutants would not only be popular among consumers, but would lead to more profits as less resources went to waste. A clean burning economic growth, industry was making cleaner factories. The factory of the 1940’s beared little resemblance to the factory of the 1840’s. Workers were given cleaner and safer areas to work, factories recycled waste into more useful byproducts. By the time activists like Ralph Nader came along, factory foremen and engineers were already looking to shave a few more cents on the dollar by

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