From the Archives: The Incubation of Criminalism

Criminalism, as the philosophy that dictates the taking of value (material or spiritual) instead of creating it, has two incubation lairs: the realm wherein youths’ ignorance is still stronger than its conscientiousness (before education and experience have a chance to settle in), and prison.

Prison not only retards the progression of criminalism to its logical end (death), but, within its context, reverses and validates it. A robber or drug dealer’s ethics dictate that they take value from society so as to fund their own existence. In the vast majority of cases, these are not evil individuals per se, but misguided souls with self-esteem issues preventing them from thinking they can create value. However, when they come to prison and their existence becomes subsidized by taxpayers, without having to create any real value, their initial goal of plundering society is fulfilled.

As it’s the omnipresent system doing this, their philosophy is validated. And in another ironic twist, in generally forcing inmates to “work” in menial, pathetic jobs that rudimentary machines could do, the system enacts slavery.

This is another immoral form of taking value, and as such, is the ethos of criminalism. The wretched philosophy is once again validated in the eyes of these inmates. Hence, in a grotesque systemic inversion of logic, criminalism’s logical end is not only prevented from being reached, but is reversed and validated. And the recidivism rate, at a cost of untold billions of dollars (and opportunity costs of some multiple of that), is maintained at an absurd 65%.

I’ve detailed in this blog before, multiple times, models for instituting true justice within the criminal “justice” system. In a nod to the other half of the equation, in six months I’m going to have a small-scale model for the implementation of the creation of value philosophy—as a medium of rehabilitation—within the prison system.