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Over time eternal
reasonable people have contested
fatalistic
mythologies.
Spiral of anger,
repression and despair can
last only so long before breaking.
Submission to
MICE culture is
incomprehensible to
critical
thinkers.
Many of us now burn with
a sense of injustice
over the oppression.
Time to disrupt the ideal of
a recognizable exchange of organized
violence.
MICE culture
masquerades as "freedom and
democracy".
Marketers
remain silent about addiction,
alienation and
fragmentation.
Zombie like state of
denial in the face of state sponsored terrorist
acts.
Satisfaction of the
flesh requires psychopaths in
control.
American
public avoids experiencing guilt or
suffering.
Either cherish life and care
for it or ... stamp it out ! Every last living thing !
"The most important element of a free society,
where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the
rejection of the
initiation of violence.
All initiation of force is a
violation of someone else's rights,
whether initiated by an
individual or the state.
Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in
self-defense." – Congressman Ron Paul
Listing of Notable Deployments and/or Imperialist
Misadventures of US Military Forces Overseas:
the comparative theory of superpower
collapse"If there is one thing that I would
like to claim as my own, it is the comparative theory of superpower collapse.
For now, it remains just a theory, although it is currently being quite
thoroughly tested.
The theory states
the US and
the Soviet Union will collapse for the
same reasons, namely:
a chronic
shortfall in the production of crude oil, a worsening
foreign trade deficit,
a runaway military budget, and
ballooning foreign debt.
I call this particular list
of ingredients "The Superpower Collapse Soup."
I've been working on
this theory since about 1995, when it occurred to me that the
US is retracing the same
trajectory as the USSR.
By the mid-1990s
I started to see
Soviet/American Superpowerdom as a sort of
disease that strives for world dominance but in effect eviscerates its host
country, eventually leaving behind an empty shell.
It is the
asymmetries, the differences between the two superpowers, that I believe to be
most instructive.
When the Soviet system collapsed, many people lost
their jobs, everyone lost their savings,
wages and
pensions were held back for
months, their value was wiped out by
hyperinflation, there was
shortages of food,
gasoline,
medicine,
consumer goods, there was
a large increase in crime
and violence.
The Soviet
economic system failed to thrive, and
the communist experiment at
constructing a worker's paradise
on Earth was a failure.
As a side effect Soviet economic system
inadvertently achieved a high level of
collapse-preparedness.
In
organizations, especially large organizations, "best practices" offer a good
way to avoid painful episodes of watching colleagues trying to "think outside
the box" whenever they are confronted with a big historical shift.
Here is the key
insight:
The old ways of doing things don't work any more,
old assumptions are
all invalidated, conventional goals and measures
of success become irrelevant.
If you
thought that the previous episode of uncontrolled debt expansion through
globalized Ponzi schemes was
silly, then I predict that
you will find this next episode of
feckless grasping at macroeconomic straws even sillier.
Except that it won't be funny.
What is crashing now is
our life support system.
The systems and institutions that are
keeping us alive.
I don't recommend passively standing around and
watching the show - unless you happen to have a
death
wish.
"In the US, the
agricultural system is heavily industrialized, and relies on inputs such as
diesel, petrochemical
fertilizers and pesticides.
This agricultural
system is efficient if you regard
fossil fuel energy as
free.
It is a way to transform fossil fuel energy into food with a bit
of help from sunlight, to the tune of 10 calories of
fossil fuel energy being embodied
in each calorie that is consumed as food.
The food distribution system
makes heavy use of refrigerated diesel trucks, transporting food over hundreds
of miles to resupply supermarkets.
The food pipeline is long and
thin, and it takes only a couple of
days of interruptions for supermarket shelves to be stripped
bare.
Many people live in places that are not within walking
distance of stores, not served by public transportation, and will be cut off
from food sources once they are no longer able to drive.
Besides the
supermarket chains, much of the nation's nutrition needs are being met by an
assortment of fast "food"
joints and convenience stores.
In fact, in many of the less
fashionable parts of cities and towns, fast "food" and convenience store "food"
is all that is available.
In the near future, this trend is likely to
extend to prosperous suburbs.
McDonalds may prove a bit
more resilient in the face of
economic collapse
than supermarket chains, but they are no substitute for
food security, because they
too depend on industrial
agribusiness.
Their food inputs, such as
high-fructose corn syrup,
genetically modified foods,
various soy-based fillers, factory-farmed beef, pork and chicken,
are derived from oil and the petrochemical fertilizer is made
from natural gas.
They may be
able to stay in business
supplying food-that-isn't-really-food, but eventually will run out of
inputs along with the rest of the supply chain.
Before they do, they
may for a time
sell burgers that aren't really burgers, like the bread that
wasn't really bread that the Soviet government distributed in Leningrad during
the Nazi blockade.
It was mostly sawdust, with a bit of rye flour added for flavor.
My grandfather had a donkey while he was living in Tashkent in Central
Asia during World War II.
There was nothing much for the donkey to eat, but, as a member of the
Communist Party, my grandfather had a subscription to Pravda, the Communist
Party newspaper, and so that's what the donkey ate.
Apparently, donkeys
can digest any kind of cellulose, even when it's loaded with
communist propaganda.
If I had a donkey, I would
feed it the Wall Street Journal." - Dmitry Orlov 02/14/09 |
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