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.
Audiobook details
GenrePolitics and Government, Business and Economics
Length1 hr 30 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 19, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
2The Argument in Brief
31. Introduction — Naming the Trap We Now Face
41.1 The life-coherent starting point
51.2 From diagnosis to conversion
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62. The Midas Trap — When Claims Rule Life
72.1 Life-value and claim-value
82.2 Why Midas needs enforcement
93. MARS — Militarized Asset-Resource Security
103.1 Common defense
113.2 Claim-protection
124. The Metrics That Matter — Death-Provisioning Versus Life-Provisioning
134.1 What the numbers make visible
144.2 Jobs as the decisive political terrain
154.3 The ecological contradiction
165. The Military Paradigm — McMurtry’s Contribution
175.1 The false sequence of military necessity
185.2 The person-pattern distinction
195.3 Enabling war and disabling war
205.4 McMurtry and the Midas–MARS Trap
216. The Psychopolitics of Consent — Galtung’s Contribution
226.1 Rationality, irratio, and collective discharge
236.2 CMT: Chosenness, Myths, Traumas
246.3 DMA: Dichotomy, Manicheism, Armageddon
256.4 Repression and projection
266.5 Galtung and the Midas–MARS Trap
277. The Insecurity Blanket — Roelofs’s Contribution
287.1 The military economy as social embedding
297.2 Jobs as militarism’s political shield
307.3 Nonprofits, universities, philanthropy, and captured relevance
317.4 Roelofs and the Midas–MARS Trap
328. Defense as Public Good or Private Subsidy — Gaffney’s Contribution
338.1 The public-good disguise
348.2 Caciques and externally secured tenure
358.3 Beneficiary-pays security accounting
368.4 Gaffney and the Midas–MARS Trap
379. Militarism as Ecological Destabilization
389.1 The ecological contradiction of militarized security
399.2 Military emissions and hidden accounting
409.3 Rearmament and climate targets
419.4 Ecological security as hard security
429.5 The fifth corrective principle
4310. No One Disposable — The Ethical Center
4411. Life-Coherent Security
4512. Life-Coherent Conversion
4613. Eirene–Ploutos — The Counter-Archetype
4714. The Life-Coherent Coupling Audit
4814.1 Financial coupling
4914.2 Mission coupling
5014.3 Livelihood coupling
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