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                    THE LAST CAPITALIST QUEEN

     At the beginning of the summer, I receive an email from Steven
asking me if I would submit to a new journal that he was starting
on utopian philosophy.  I wrote him back a reply and said that I
would be more than happy to write an essay for his journal.  I told
him that I would like to write an essay about the late capitalist
Queen, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.  The purpose of the essay is to
envision an alternative archetype of a female ruler in order for us
to envision a feminist Neutopia (1).

     When he wrote me back a reply to my essay idea, I noted that
his address was from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University.  He said for me to go ahead and write whatever I
wanted.  When I told my mother that I was planning on writing an
essay criticizing the life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis for someone at
the Kennedy School of Government, mother cautioned me to not
write about Jackie because I might offend someone important like
Caroline Kennedy Scholossberg who helped finance the Kennedy School
and I might want to apply for a job there someday.  So, with the
threat of censorship in mind, let me begin this essay.

     The Queen is dead; long live the Queen!  Now the Queen is the
Queen Jackie's daughter, Caroline, one of the wealthiest and best
educated of America's royal family who is now writing a book on
privacy laws. The press has estimated that her mother left her and
her brother 100 to 200 million dollars.  In the July 1994 issue of
_Vanity Fair_, Dominick Dunne writes in her article on Camelot's
Queen, "If reports of the size of Jackie's estate--somewhere
between $100 to $200 million--are even close to the truth, Caroline
and John will probably be richer than any of the other Kennedys,
and will be truly their own people, independent of anyone".

     This quotation reveals the basic principle of American
democracy.  If you want independence you have to be part of the
superrich. If you are not part of the wealthy class well, baby, you
better learn to be happy being their servant or let us call it by
its other name, their slave. The tabloids write that Queen Jackie
insisted her servants call her Madame. In America, don't forget the
oligarchy rules!  The law has been written on their behalf, to keep
the few in power as their media experts keep the public dazzled by
their riches, seducing them to be envious of their opiate luxury.

     Oligarchical queens gain their power through marriage and
inheritance, so is it any wonder why Jackie believed the most
important value to instill in children are the ideas of family and
that of service.  Service is important because once you have all
that wealth and power, you'd better act like you are doing
something humanitarian with your private wealth, so that the
servants don't get mad at the economic injustice.  Could it be that
the  _real_ purpose behind President Kennedy's famous line in his
inauguration speech, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but
ask what you can do for your country," was devised to suppress the
revolutionary activity of the time? When the government is run by
the holders of private wealth, the people are really working for
the oligarchy.  If the servants start asking the question of what
their country ought to be doing for them to make their lives free,
like providing them with public housing, transportation, health
care, and free education, then the powers will have a social
revolution on their hands.

     Queen Jackie was a perfect political mother, who never took a
bad photograph.  She knew how to act with elegance and grace by
exhibiting her famous smile in public while in private it was been
said that she was a chain-smoker, a spend thrift, and a compulsive
shopper.  Her elusiveness made her into the world's most famous and
mysterious woman, a woman whose style attracted Aristotle Onassis,
an oil tycoon who had the wealth to buy her the privacy and
protection she needed to perpetuate her feminine mystique.

     Like all good artificial aristocrats, she preferred art over
the vulgarity of politics, even though in the end she chose to take
her place in history and be buried in the Arlington National
Cemetery beside the man who she said "belonged to the people", the
man who betrayed her time and again, President John F. Kennedy.
Andy Warhol's prints made Jackie into an icon, the woman who all
other women wanted to be, the woman who could buy anything she
wanted and gave her money to her favorite charities, like the
American Ballet.  The rich love to give to charities to help them
get rid of the guilt of being on the top of a world of vast
inequalities which have caused immense suffering and vast
environmental pollution.

     Yes, like the King's mother, Rose Kennedy, Jackie lived to be
the help-mate of her husband.  She is quoted in the May 30th, 1994
issue of _U.S. News and World Report_ about the proper role of a
political wife, "You have to do what your husband wants you to do.
My life revolves around my husband.  His life is my life.  It is up
to me to make his home a haven, a refuge, to arrange it so that he
can see as much of me and his children as possible--but never let
the arrangements ruffle him, never let him see that it is work.  I
want to take such good care of my husband that, whatever he is
doing, he can do better because he has me.  His work is so
important." And so, Jackie will always be remembered for the
wonderful job she did redecorating the White House while the cold
war was raging.

     Jackie was trapped in traditional stereotypical gender roles.
She followed the President's agenda as she waited for the King of
the White House to come home to her loving arms or to the loving
arms of one of his mistresses.  Can you imagine Jackie and Marilyn
Monroe in a brawl pulling each other's hair and scratching at each
other's faces in the Green Room of the White House?

     After President Kennedy's assassination and the magnificent
funeral she designed imitating the funeral of Abraham Lincoln, she in
her black veil which the British royals wear at the death of a
sovereign, more thana mere mortal.  To the world, she was now a
widow-goddess.  To her fellow Catholics, she was the Madonna.

     The press has praised Jackie for bringing her children up to
be respectable American citizens, the kind of children who don't
take drugs and obey the matriarchy. One tabloid reported that when
John, Jr. told her he wanted to pursue acting, she threatened him
with disinheritance if he did not go law school.  Oh yes, this is
the way the old wealth works!  Do what your rich mother says or
else!  And who would John be without the family name and the family
wealth?  Would he still be the sexist man alive if he was dirt
poor?  It was also reported that Jackie approved of John's
relationship with Daryl Hannah after she discover that Daryl was
not just a Hollywood actress, but she came from a old blue-blood
family who had lots of money.  Oh yes, America's prince charming
must marry another blue-blood media superstar!

     Jackie gained her power and prestige through the traditional
female ways. She was born into a blue blood family, was a
debutante, and married into the prestigious Kennedy clan where she
became the media Queen of America.  But she was shrewd enough to
know that in the days of global capital, power transcended
nationhood.  Couldn't this explain why she married and lived with
men who were pirates of international finance? Is it any surprise
that she fell in love with Maurice Templesman, the man who turned
her small fortune of 26 million dollars which she inherited from
her marriage with Onassis to 200 million dollars?  Didn't he, a
diamond merchant, fit perfectly into the mythos she, the capitalist
Queen, had spun? You know, diamonds are forever...symbols of true
love.

     Diamonds present Jackie perfectly as they sparkled in the
limelight, dug out of the ground by African wage slaves so that the
rich can parade arrogantly around in their polished jewels.  Like
her 5 million dollar Manhattan apartment and her 25 million dollar
Martha's Vineyard super chic resort compound, diamonds are the
symbol of the successful American family. The dream of every
American girl is to someday have a huge rock on her hand. In her
life time, Jackie had achieved it all, wealth, power, fame, and men
showering her with diamonds.

     Finally, Jackie's lust for power lead her to being a book
publisher.  Jackie knew about the power of the image and the
word, and, in the information age, these things would determine the
new global elite.  Was it any wonder that she chose to publish
books on popstars such as Michael Jackson?  Jackie must have known
that true art is dead.  In the wasteland of mansions and slums,
popculture is all that is left and Jackie was the shining star.

     As a glamour queen of international high fashion, she knew how
to rule by her image.  A good Catholic who prayed to God the
Father, she is praised for raising her children to be normal
American citizens of the world's ruling class.  She taught them how
to play the money game, the game of power and material possessions,
seek privacy at all cost, and to act gracefully in front of the
cameras to give the impression that everything is fine and dandy
within the American family.  She stated, "The thing I care most
about is the happiness of my children.  If you fail in that,
nothing could ever matter very much."

     Before her death she even sold her New Jersey estate for 100
dollars to her children.  Jackie, the queen of private wealth, knew
like other wealthy matriarchs, to sell before you die to get out of
paying death taxes.  She certainly didn't want to give a penny more
to the American government than she had too!  Why should her hard-
earned money go to helping some scum-of-the-earth welfare mother?
Now, Caroline and John are free to do anything they wanted in the
world to make themselves and their clan happy by maintaining their
wealth, power, and prestige.

     Now, let us use those diamonds to cut through all the
illusions.  In the final analysis, Queen Jackie was not a good
ruler. Her subtle tyranny cleverly manipulated the minds of people
with her affluent value system.  She was not a queen of the poor,
that is, a queen of the majority of people throughout the world.
Her love for art was nothing more than the same superficial lip
service since the true artists of the people are the ones who are
trying to create a system of economic justice which certainly Queen
Jackie had no interest in building.  Even though her social
privilege took her around the world, her fatally myopic vision
warped by greed made it so that she could not see that only being
concerned for her offspring's happiness and fortune was in no way
going to create the loving value system that would make the world
a safe and happy place for her grandchildren to live. It seems
obvious that Queen Jackie could have cared less about the children
who were not her biological offspring.

     Jackie stated, "You have two compartments, your public and
your private life.  I think I'm more of a private person.  I don't
really like to call attention to anything."  Isn't this exactly the
attitude of the rich as they jet set to luxurious country hideaways
throughout the world?  They really don't like to call attention to
anything because everything about their lives is selfish,
egoistical, and wrong.  Their opulent life-style is what is killing
the world soul.

     In Sam Keen and Anne Valley-Fox's book, _Your Mythic
Journey_, they write about the private self, "Secrets come in all sizes
and shapes, from adultery to xenophobia, but they cluster around the
emotional centers of shame and elation.  Many of the things we hide
from public view fear, guilt, despair, impotence, cruelty,
self-hatred, ugliness, and coldness of heart. We are afraid to let
anyone see our degrading self-images, but we also conceal our tender
ideals, grandiso visions, and ecstasies."  It seems ironic that at
Jackie's funeral Senator Teddy Kennedy said, "No one else looked like
her, spoke like her, wrote like her...No one we knew ever had a better
sense of Self."   Poor Jackie, the world's most private woman had so
much of her self to hide.  Could she have been the most deprived
woman who has ever lived?

     To be a public person in the best sense is to be a spokeswoman
for the people.  It is a role which stands for a world of justice
and social equality.  Being a member of the artificial aristocracy,
Jackie did not have the inner desire and strength required for her
to become the great voice of liberty. Her rulership, derived from
the patriarchy, was based on the falsehood and insincerity of
having a split personality between the private and public life.
Let's hope this essay helps to extinguish the Eternal Flame of the
Kennedys and the other artificial aristocrats so that the
meritorious Queens of liberty can relight and heal the memory of
the world.

     So now, the question remains:  will Queen Caroline follow the
ways of her greedy mother or will she become a lover of all
children and invest her energy into the building of Neutopia?  Only
then could Caroline achieve her Queenship through merit by
becoming a servant of the future well-being of humanity.  To put
herself in this role would require Caroline to go against
all the values that the Queen Mother taught her, to become a
lovolutionary(2) who opposes the plutocracy and the nightmare of
injustice it has created.  Whose law will Queen Caroline follow:
the law of the plutocracy or the cosmic Law of Love?  Does Caroline
have the heart to give up such extravagances as the heated toilet
seats at the Martha's Vineyard compound so that others may have the
resources to live a quality life?

     I would guess that Queen Caroline doesn't have a clue as to
what is happening among the poor of the world.  How could she
possibly know?  She was been locked away in her private cocoon all
of her life.  She was raised by the finest nannies money could buy
and then attended the exclusive schools of the upper class.  From
my experience with upper class women, they don't have a clue as to
how difficult it is for people whose families have no wealth to do
anything for their children, or how difficult it is to work one's
way through school.  They have no idea how horrible it is for poor
people to pay back their student loans or to give their children a
nutritious meal or to have to deal with the pressure of finding the
money to pay the rent every month when you are unemployed?  Do you
think that Caroline will begin to feel the suffering, or will she
continue to suppress her feelings?

     Maybe it is futile to think that by some miracle the rich are
going to wake up someday and find the compassionate spirit which
strives to build a world of arcologies(3).  Maybe it is indeed time
to knock the crown off the heads of the heiresses of wealth by
eliminating their private funds.  A few key strokes at the computer
should do it. Yes, it is indeed time for a transfer of power.  It
is time to transfer their private wealth into what Bucky Fuller and
other futurists have called the Earth Bank(4).  Then we will begin to
see who the real Queens of truth, love, and beauty are as we begin
to envision life in networks of Neutopian socialist palaces of
planetary peace.


                                      Doctress Neutopia


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Endnotes

1. Neutopia:  a new good place; a sytem of global management governed
   by a democracy/meritocracy form of education/goverance.

2. lovolutionary:  one who becomes part of the lovolution.
   [lovolution:  the evolution of revolution;  a non-violent spiritual
   revolution to establish love and justice as the foundation of a
   Neutopian soulization].

   Soulization:  as we move into a world of arcologies, we move from
   the state of civilization (the city) into a place of soulization
   (cyberspace) of humanity.  In this new place, one's character is the
   determining factor of social prestige.  Power is achieved through
   one's social merit.

3. arcologies:  a word coined by architect, Paolo Soleri, combining
   the words architecture and ecology.  Arcologies eliminate social
   stratification based on class, race and gender so that we can build a
   world where education and leisure activities are open and free to
   everyone.

4. Earth Bank:  the place where the world computer data base records
   all the information about our planetary resources.  The World
   Management Committee will be responsible for distributing the wealth
   so that we can begin to build a world of interdependent arcologies.


























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