Empire: we have no one alive, never mind anyone who was educated in a different way from what all institutions in the US and West have been following and promoting. So there is no one else to be picked: just the other side of the coin.
There are not yet new hard and soft/human sciences in the West. There is not yet a different education purposefully designed for the Digital Paradigm. We have not yet re-integrated Theology into our view of humans/souls. We have rejected modernity, but no agreement on what to do about it…we will retrieve the Medieval views of humans/souls, but not there yet.
There is no such thing as thinking strategically, as in a new kind of Net Assessment. It has not truly existed in decades. We “plan” based on what we have been educated and want. Not based on any reality of the world we now live in. These people do not yet exist…meaning those of us who don’t see others as the “enemy” are not going to be hired to anything.
So where does all of this go?
* Plans for the young and those not yet born. This is what is needed. Globalism is dead and is being replaced by different civilizations that wand to achieve their own civilizational ends. The West is not yet there yet. We are still arguing over the past with Star Trek/Star Wars views of the future.
“These are not the droids you are looking for…” ;)
We have much to learn and figure out and then make and put into place plans for cultivation of new elites in the West. We are far behind others who have been working on this for years.
Where are the people that are concerned about this and are wanting to move on to the new narratives? I want to talk to and work with them.
America is not shaping China. We are being shaped, actually deformed, by our appetite for consumer goods, by our desire to consume without producing. This appetite benefits our financial and corporate and political elite in the short term; with the noisy help of environmentalists and the quiet help of organized labor they have offshored the dirty job of manufacturing goods to consume. We get to eat our clean cake here and have it... made elsewhere, in a dirty place, for a time. That time may be drawing to a close.
As to China exporting its ideology, its illiberal values? The NSA collects all our data, and our elites want to defend themselves against domestic terrorism, so all bets are off that this data will not be used against us, has not already been used against us.
I think Trump's ongoing appointment of neocons in his foreign policy staff is a form of Queens gamesmanship. He wants to be able to negotiate with Russia and China by saying that they better meet him halfway or he will unleash his neocon Rottweilers on them. It's juvenile bluster and bombast, but he has had success with this technique in his business life and expects it to work with peer nations. Both Putin and Xi know this and will pander to his ego, but ultimately stand firm. The key problem is that the Zionists can make Trump dance, but they can't make him fight. He's a bragger, not a brawler. Eventually, it's put up or shut up time, and Trump will not pick a fight that he knows he can lose, so the neocons will be forced to resort to other methods for starting a war. Planning for the war in Ukraine began in 2012 after Obama was reelected and Victoria Nuland was the spearhead hiding in the bureaucracy. Trump will be stabbed in the back by one of these 5th Columnists (just like in his first term), but he's now a lame duck and can fire them at will. That is the best we can hope for, but the odds are not good.
Gee, it would be so nice to have folks that were not deluded, indoctrinated, demented, foolish, greedy or just plain stupid in high offices. I guess that would be incompatible with the Empire's goals ?
a "tolerable cost" involves Colby remaining alive to "persue a policy" while others die.
Far more likely - Colby and ALL others belonging to the circle of "insider elites" revert to the "complete City" built to specification under Washington DC and quite simply . leave the rest of us outsiders to perish .
It’s not just Panama and the Canal. I believe the President-to-be also suggested he would like to acquire Greenland as part of National Defense. That mighty mouse of Europe, Denmark, who consider Greenland part of their National domains, squeaked with indignation.
In Canada, Turdeau was hit below the waterline by the suggestion they could become the 52nd (or whatever..) state.
Sure, he was already sinking, but it as an unhelpful comment from his perspective.
I guess this approach to grandiose claims is covered by Mr Trump somewhere in his opus ‘The Art of the Deal”,..
Not to mentioned the rot in the military procurement industrial complex.
Trump's over the top comments on Panama are negotiations. Best to wait and see the results. I agree the Chinese have been paying attention building infrastructure to Mexico, Central, and South America while America's attention been focused on important things like correct pronouns and Ukraine.
Speaking of the MIC, this TAC article from 2019 is excellent. Not sure if Mark linked it before, or a commenter here, but it is a very clear-eyed view of what the Chinese were able to accomplish with the cooperation of Americans.
I think the Anglo-Zionists will be happily subsumed into the Techno-Elite, in which people of all races will be happy to scramble for advantage servicing the new paradigm of control through surveillance technologies, based in the US or elsewhere. It will be without regard to national borders, but individuals will continue to play the race card as it benefits them.
The melting pot is no more, there is no American culture to assimilate to. The culture we propose for Chinese students to assimilate to is liberalism, which is no culture at all.
The US MIC is in a rear-guard maneuver until the new controls are in place.
Make America Great Again means…?
Empire: we have no one alive, never mind anyone who was educated in a different way from what all institutions in the US and West have been following and promoting. So there is no one else to be picked: just the other side of the coin.
There are not yet new hard and soft/human sciences in the West. There is not yet a different education purposefully designed for the Digital Paradigm. We have not yet re-integrated Theology into our view of humans/souls. We have rejected modernity, but no agreement on what to do about it…we will retrieve the Medieval views of humans/souls, but not there yet.
There is no such thing as thinking strategically, as in a new kind of Net Assessment. It has not truly existed in decades. We “plan” based on what we have been educated and want. Not based on any reality of the world we now live in. These people do not yet exist…meaning those of us who don’t see others as the “enemy” are not going to be hired to anything.
So where does all of this go?
* Plans for the young and those not yet born. This is what is needed. Globalism is dead and is being replaced by different civilizations that wand to achieve their own civilizational ends. The West is not yet there yet. We are still arguing over the past with Star Trek/Star Wars views of the future.
“These are not the droids you are looking for…” ;)
We have much to learn and figure out and then make and put into place plans for cultivation of new elites in the West. We are far behind others who have been working on this for years.
Where are the people that are concerned about this and are wanting to move on to the new narratives? I want to talk to and work with them.
America is not shaping China. We are being shaped, actually deformed, by our appetite for consumer goods, by our desire to consume without producing. This appetite benefits our financial and corporate and political elite in the short term; with the noisy help of environmentalists and the quiet help of organized labor they have offshored the dirty job of manufacturing goods to consume. We get to eat our clean cake here and have it... made elsewhere, in a dirty place, for a time. That time may be drawing to a close.
As to China exporting its ideology, its illiberal values? The NSA collects all our data, and our elites want to defend themselves against domestic terrorism, so all bets are off that this data will not be used against us, has not already been used against us.
N. S. Lyons had a long post, https://open.substack.com/pub/theupheaval/p/the-china-convergence.
I think Trump's ongoing appointment of neocons in his foreign policy staff is a form of Queens gamesmanship. He wants to be able to negotiate with Russia and China by saying that they better meet him halfway or he will unleash his neocon Rottweilers on them. It's juvenile bluster and bombast, but he has had success with this technique in his business life and expects it to work with peer nations. Both Putin and Xi know this and will pander to his ego, but ultimately stand firm. The key problem is that the Zionists can make Trump dance, but they can't make him fight. He's a bragger, not a brawler. Eventually, it's put up or shut up time, and Trump will not pick a fight that he knows he can lose, so the neocons will be forced to resort to other methods for starting a war. Planning for the war in Ukraine began in 2012 after Obama was reelected and Victoria Nuland was the spearhead hiding in the bureaucracy. Trump will be stabbed in the back by one of these 5th Columnists (just like in his first term), but he's now a lame duck and can fire them at will. That is the best we can hope for, but the odds are not good.
Gee, it would be so nice to have folks that were not deluded, indoctrinated, demented, foolish, greedy or just plain stupid in high offices. I guess that would be incompatible with the Empire's goals ?
a "tolerable cost" involves Colby remaining alive to "persue a policy" while others die.
Far more likely - Colby and ALL others belonging to the circle of "insider elites" revert to the "complete City" built to specification under Washington DC and quite simply . leave the rest of us outsiders to perish .
It’s not just Panama and the Canal. I believe the President-to-be also suggested he would like to acquire Greenland as part of National Defense. That mighty mouse of Europe, Denmark, who consider Greenland part of their National domains, squeaked with indignation.
In Canada, Turdeau was hit below the waterline by the suggestion they could become the 52nd (or whatever..) state.
Sure, he was already sinking, but it as an unhelpful comment from his perspective.
I guess this approach to grandiose claims is covered by Mr Trump somewhere in his opus ‘The Art of the Deal”,..
It's going to take years top fix the Rot DEI has caused in the US Military:https://www.zerohedge.com/military/dei-death-effective-military-command
Not to mentioned the rot in the military procurement industrial complex.
Trump's over the top comments on Panama are negotiations. Best to wait and see the results. I agree the Chinese have been paying attention building infrastructure to Mexico, Central, and South America while America's attention been focused on important things like correct pronouns and Ukraine.
Speaking of the MIC, this TAC article from 2019 is excellent. Not sure if Mark linked it before, or a commenter here, but it is a very clear-eyed view of what the Chinese were able to accomplish with the cooperation of Americans.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/americas-monopoly-crisis-hits-the-military/
Excellent article, and nothing has changed in the last 5 years.
I think the Anglo-Zionists will be happily subsumed into the Techno-Elite, in which people of all races will be happy to scramble for advantage servicing the new paradigm of control through surveillance technologies, based in the US or elsewhere. It will be without regard to national borders, but individuals will continue to play the race card as it benefits them.
The melting pot is no more, there is no American culture to assimilate to. The culture we propose for Chinese students to assimilate to is liberalism, which is no culture at all.
The US MIC is in a rear-guard maneuver until the new controls are in place.