Beyond the Midas–MARS Trap
Life-Coherent Security, Economic Conversion, and the End of Claim-Protected MilitarismBy Dr. Bichara Sahely
Length1h 30m
About this audiobook
Beyond the Midas–MARS Trap argues that modern insecurity is not only a problem of war, empire, capitalism, or public finance, but of a deeper civilizational coupling: Midas converts living relations into money, assets, debt, property, and corporate claims, while MARS — Militarized Asset-Resource Security — protects those claims through force, budgets, bases, sanctions, surveillance, and war. This audiobook proposes a life-coherent alternative: security as the shared capacity of persons, communities, ecosystems, institutions, and future generations to live, repair, learn, adapt, and flourish. Drawing on John McMurtry, Johan Galtung, Joan Roelofs, Mason Gaffney, and the author’s life-coherent framework, it calls for conversion from death-provisioning to life-provisioning, guided by one principle: no person is disposable, but no life-destroying dependency is entitled to continue.
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GenrePolitics and Government, Business and Economics
Length1 hr 30 mins
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Publish dateMay 19, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
368.4 Gaffney and the Midas–MARS Trap
2The Argument in Brief
379. Militarism as Ecological Destabilization
31. Introduction — Naming the Trap We Now Face
389.1 The ecological contradiction of militarized security
41.1 The life-coherent starting point
399.2 Military emissions and hidden accounting
51.2 From diagnosis to conversion
409.3 Rearmament and climate targets
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62. The Midas Trap — When Claims Rule Life
419.4 Ecological security as hard security
72.1 Life-value and claim-value
429.5 The fifth corrective principle
82.2 Why Midas needs enforcement
4310. No One Disposable — The Ethical Center
93. MARS — Militarized Asset-Resource Security
4411. Life-Coherent Security
103.1 Common defense
4512. Life-Coherent Conversion
113.2 Claim-protection
4613. Eirene–Ploutos — The Counter-Archetype
124. The Metrics That Matter — Death-Provisioning Versus Life-Provisioning
4714. The Life-Coherent Coupling Audit
134.1 What the numbers make visible
4814.1 Financial coupling
144.2 Jobs as the decisive political terrain
4914.2 Mission coupling
154.3 The ecological contradiction
5014.3 Livelihood coupling
165. The Military Paradigm — McMurtry’s Contribution
5114.4 Harm coupling
175.1 The false sequence of military necessity
5214.5 Silence coupling
185.2 The person-pattern distinction
5314.6 Conversion capacity
195.3 Enabling war and disabling war
5414.7 Democratic accountability
205.4 McMurtry and the Midas–MARS Trap
5514.8 Audit principle
216. The Psychopolitics of Consent — Galtung’s Contribution
5615. Policy Pathways for Life-Coherent Conversion
226.1 Rationality, irratio, and collective discharge
5715.1 Public budget conversion
236.2 CMT: Chosenness, Myths, Traumas
5815.2 Worker and community guarantees
246.3 DMA: Dichotomy, Manicheism, Armageddon
5915.3 Regional conversion authorities
256.4 Repression and projection
6015.4 Life-ground procurement
266.5 Galtung and the Midas–MARS Trap
6115.5 Peace-inclusive ESG and SRI standards
277. The Insecurity Blanket — Roelofs’s Contribution
6215.6 Pension transparency and reinvestment
287.1 The military economy as social embedding
6315.7 University uncoupling and redirection
297.2 Jobs as militarism’s political shield
6415.8 Beneficiary-pays security accounting
307.3 Nonprofits, universities, philanthropy, and captured relevance
6515.9 Future-generation trusteeship
317.4 Roelofs and the Midas–MARS Trap
6615.10 Metrics of conversion
328. Defense as Public Good or Private Subsidy — Gaffney’s Contribution
6716. Conclusion — Security After Midas and MARS
338.1 The public-good disguise
68Source Note for Listeners
348.2 Caciques and externally secured tenure
69Acknowledgements
358.3 Beneficiary-pays security accounting
70About the Author
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