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JEWS AND MONEY An anomaly? One aberrant fraud? I don't think so. There's more here than just its superficials. We're talking about a very Jewish world view, secretive or not, a Jewish identity that even transcends other merely transient socio/political allegiances: a key to traditional Jewish identity -- and both its religious and pseudo-religious root -- is the cloning of money. And money (much to the detriment of Jewry's bogus, self-decried victim
status) has always been a very clear manifestation of power. Look around us today. We live in a consumer culture that has become Judaized. Christianity, which once dominated Western culture, has always condemned money as "the root of all evil." Poverty, and the renouncement of this world materialism (best exemplified by anti-Jewish materialism rebel Jesus Christ), was celebrated as a virtue. Judaism, in contrast, has always celebrated money. Christianity looked to an afterlife for redemption and relief from suffering. Judaism looked to this world, the here-and-now, and an important tool was always the exploitation of the non-Jewish world towards collective Jewish tribal advancement. Modern "Christian" culture has been largely emptied of its anti-materialist ideology. Under assault for decades by Judeocentric demands, and stripped of the public heralding and promotion of Christianity in mass culture by Judeocentric defensive activism, "Christian" culture has replaced its former emphasis on an other-worldly God with a parallel emphasis on materialist aggrandizement. Jewish entrepreneurialism -- whether by trade or usury, whether organized crime or investment banking -- has always been central to the growth of modern capitalism. The lure of money has swallowed all before it. Modern Jewry has bristled at these charges, of course. And the organized Jewish Lobby has spent decades veiling Jewish history and identity from the public attention and memory. In fact, it has succeeded in driving such honest commentary completely out of public discourse. But look what evidence surfaces from time to time, albeit in academic circles and rendered obscure: Professor Lisa Keister has recently published a study that reveals what everybody intuitively knows but are uncomfortable talking about. (We're all socialized by powerful, punishing forces that condemn public discussion of the obvious. Jews in Western culture are deemed sacrosanct and aggressively protected from public criticism.) Ms. Keister has found (shock!) that American Jews have a very much higher average income than Christians. In fact, " the median net worth of Jewish people in the survey was $150,890, more than three times the median for the entire [non-Jewish, Christian] sample ($48,200)." (2) In other words, however you try to spin
it away, in general terms your average American Jew is three times as
wealthy as your average American of Christian heritage. That's THREE TIMES!
A little disparity, no? "While some may say that the results confirm religious stereotypes, such as the contention that Jewish people are greedy and acquisitive, Keister strongly disagrees. “What I’m finding is that families have a powerful influence on how people learn to save, and religion is often an important part of family life,” Keister said. “The things children are taught in Jewish homes are very different than those that are taught in conservative Protestant homes.” (3) Families teach one how to save? That's it? I beg your pardon? The difference between Judaism and Christianity is that Jewish children are thrifty with the spare change in their piggy banks? Keister also says that "religious services may be another opportunity, especially for Jews, to be indoctrinated with beliefs that help build wealth. Also, it is a social network issue ... Jews ...don’t have a strong orientation to the afterlife, but encourage pursuits that will lead to wealth accumulation." (4) Let's cut through the smokescreen. Let's make it simple: the Jewish socialization process -- particularly via the synagogue -- enhances the proclivity to money-making. Want to get rich? Saving pennies won't cut it. You've got to expand, exploit. Buy cheap, sell high. You've got to hustle. You've got to elbow your way to the front of the line. If you spot an opportunity, seize it quickly before someone else sees it. You howl the traditional Jewish ethic of chutzpah (obnoxious pushiness), drag in your favorite Jewish con-man, and harvest the pockets around you. Now -- in our Judaized culture that consistently denigrates Christianity and has rendered it enfeebled -- materialism, hustling, chutzpah, exploitation, and aggrandizement are all considered positive values. Only someone out of step with the march of Judeocentrism today would preach that money is the root of all evil. Such a person, in modern terms, is a sucker -- a sitting duck for someone who wants to, say, repossess his house. What do the results of Keister's research really mean? Despite all the apologetic spin, it means the obvious: Jews are richer than everyone else. They are wealthier because their religious ideology has always celebrated money-making. And how does one make money? By the traditional tools of selfishness (personal and tribal) and exploitation,. Capitalism -- whatever else one might call it -- is a pyramid scheme. The affluence of members of capitalist society is always relative to others in the money chain. Eveyone can't be rich. In order to accumulate wealth, there also has to be the poor to milk like cows, to build wealth upon, to glean, to suck, to furrow. Someone, as the saying goes, has to take out the garbage. Someone has to be the maid. And that won't be Jews (even in the modern Jewish nation of Israel, the Arab population is grossly exploited and underpaid to do the nation's dangerous and "dirty work."). Formerly, such evidence from Keister about Jewish affluence would be an indictment of the great silver coins of Judaism, emblazoned like magnets across the doors of the synagogue. Pickets would be set up by exploited workers in front of Jewish community centers. People might chant, "Money-grubbers go home." Stones might get tossed. It would be yet the ten zillionth expression across history of textbook "anti-Semitism." Those whose communal ethic is exploitation would reap what they ultimately sowed. As always. Do I endorse throwing stones at rich Jews? No. Of course not. 3) Ibid 4) Ibid
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