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The Disintegrating Empire Of "Controlled" Chaos
Submitted by Dmitry Orlov via Club Orlovb blog,
The term “chaos” has been popping up a lot lately in the increasingly collapse-prone world in which we find ourselves. Pepe Escobar has even published a book on it. Titled Empire of Chaos, it describes a scenario “where a[n American] plutocracy progressively projects its own internal disintegration upon the whole world.” Escobar's chaos is tailor-made; its purpose is “to prevent an economic integration of Eurasia that would leave the U.S. a non-hegemon, or worse still, an outsider.”
Escobar is not the only one thinking along these lines; here is Vladimir Putin speaking at the Valdai Conference in 2014:
A unilateral diktat and imposing one’s own models produces the opposite result. Instead of settling conflicts it leads to their escalation, instead of sovereign and stable states we see the growing spread of chaos, and instead of democracy there is support for a very dubious public ranging from open neo-fascists to Islamic radicals.
Why do they support such people? They do this because they decide to use them as instruments along the way in achieving their goals but then burn their fingers and recoil. I never cease to be amazed by the way that our partners just keep stepping on the same rake, as we say here in Russia, that is to say, make the same mistake over and over.
Indeed, Escobar's chaos doesn't seem to be working too well. Eurasian integration is very much on track, with China and Russia now acting as an economic, military and political unit, and with other Eurasian states eager to play a role. The European Union is, for the moment, being excluded from Eurasia because it is effectively under American occupation, but this state of affairs is unlikely to last due to budgetary problems. (To be precise, we have to say that it is under NATO occupation, but if we dig just a little, we find that NATO is really just the US military with a European façade hammered onto it Potemkin village-style.)
And so the term “empire” seems rather misplaced. Empires are ambitious undertakings that seek to exert control over their domain, and what sort of an empire is it if its main activity is stepping on the same rake over and over again? A silly one? Then why not just call it “The Silly Empire”? Indeed, there are lots of fun silly imperial activities to choose from. For example: arm and train moderate opposition to a regime you want to overthrow; find out that it isn't moderate at all; try to bomb them into submission and fail at that too.
Some people raise the criticism that the empire does in fact function because somebody somewhere is profiting from all this chaos. Indeed they are, but taking this as a sign of imperial success is tantamount to regarding getting mugged on the way to the supermarket as a sign of economic success. Success has nothing to do with it, but Escobar's “internal disintegration” does seem apt: the disintegrating empire's internal chaos is leaking out and causing chaos everywhere. Still, the US makes every effort to exert control, mainly by exerting pressure on friends and enemies alike, and by demanding unquestioning obedience. Some might call this “controlled chaos.”
But what is “controlled chaos”? How does one control chaos, and is it even possible? Let's delve.
Chaos Theory
There is a branch of mathematics called chaos theory. It deals with dynamic systems that exhibit a certain set of behaviors:
- For any causal relationship that can be observed, tiny differences in initial conditions cause large differences in outcome. The hackneyed example is the “butterfly effect” where the hypothetical flapping of the wings of a butterfly influences the course of a hurricane some weeks later. Or, to pick a more meaningful example, if the stock market were a chaotic system, then investing a million dollars in an index fund might result in a portfolio of about a million dollars a few months later; whereas investing a million and one dollars might result in a portfolio of minus a trillion dollars and change.
- Unpredictability beyond a short time-period: given finite initial information about a system, its behavior beyond a short period of time becomes impossible to predict. Since information about a real-world system is always finite, being limited by what can be observed and measured, chaotic systems are by their nature unpredictable.
- Topological mixing: any given region of a chaotic system's phase space will eventually overlap with every other region. Chaotic systems can have several distinct states, but eventually these states will mix. For example, if a certain bank were a chaotic system, with two distinct states—solvent and bankrupt—then these states would eventually mix.
Mathematicians like to play with models of chaos, which are deterministic and time-invariant: they can run a simulation over and over again with slightly different inputs, and observe the result. But real-world chaotic systems are non-deterministic and non-time-invariant: not only do they produce wildly different outputs based on very slightly different inputs, but they produce different outputs every time. What's more, even if deterministic chaotic systems did exist in nature, they would be indistinguishable from so-called “stochastic” systems—ones that exhibit randomness.
Control Theory
Another branch of mathematics deals with ways of controlling dynamic processes. A typical example is a thermostat: it maintains constant temperature by turning a heat source on if the temperature drops below a certain threshold, and off again if it rises above a certain other threshold. (The difference between the two thresholds is called “hysteresis.”) Another typical example is the autopilot: it is a device that computes the difference between the programmed course and the actual course (called an “error signal” and applies that error signal to a control mechanism to keep the boat or the plane on course. There are many variations on this theme, but the overall scheme is always the same: measure system output, compare to reference, compute error signal, and apply it as negative feedback to the system.
In order to apply control theory to a system, that system must obey certain principles. One is the superposition principle: output must be proportional to the input. Left rudder always causes the boat to turn left; more left rudder causes it to boat to turn left faster. Another is time-invariance: the boat reacts to changes in rudder angle the same way every time. These are necessities; but most applications of control theory make an additional assumption of linearity: that changes in system behavior are linearly proportional to changes in control input. Since all real-world systems are non-linear, an effort is usually made to endow them with a relatively linear flat spot in the middle of their useful range. Turn a boat's rudder a little bit, and the boat turns as expected; turn it too far, and it stalls and no longer works.
Applying control theory to chaotic systems is tricky, because of the issue of “controllability”: is it possible to put a system in a particular state by applying particular control signals? In a chaotic system, very small error signals can produce very large differences in system output. Therefore, a chaotic system cannot be controlled. However, an uncontrollable system can sometimes be stabilized and made to cycle around within a particular, useful, or at least non-lethal, part of its phase space. Generally, to stabilize the system, it must be observable: it must be possible to measure the output of the system and use it to issue corrections. However, even an an unobservable system can still be stabilized, by detecting its state periodically and applying a control signal to push it incrementally in the right direction.
Here is a real-world example. Suppose you are hurtling along a slush-covered highway in a subcompact car with bald summer tires. At some point a very minor perturbation of some sort will transform this controllable system into an uncontrollable one: the car will start spinning. Since it can no longer be steered, it will slide toward the barrier on one side of the highway or the other. It will also become unobservable: with the driver spinning along with the car, it will become impossible to observe the car's trajectory based on short glimpses of the roadway spinning past. Can this situation be stabilized?
Yes, it turns out that it can be. This is a trick I learned from a jet fighter pilot, which I was then able to apply to the exact scenario I just described. If a jet starts tumbling out of control, the pilot's job is to get it to stop tumbling and to get it back to level flight. This is done by twisting one's head back and forth in rhythm with the spin, catching glimpses of the horizon, and working the yoke, also in rhythm to the spin, to slow it down, and to make the horizon go horizontal.
In a car, the driver's job is to get the car to stop spinning without hitting the barrier on either side of the highway. This is done by twisting one's head in rhythm to the spin, catching glimpses of the barriers on each side of the road, and working the steering wheel, also in rhythm to get the car to stop spinning while keeping it away from either barrier. If the car is spinning clockwise, then a clockwise twist to the steering wheel will move it forward, a counterclockwise twist will move it backward, and a stomp on the brakes will slow down its forward or backward motion somewhat.
This is typically the best that can be done in controlling chaos: using small perturbations to keep the system within a certain range of safe, useful states, keeping it out of any number of useless or dangerous ones. But there is one more caveat: such applications of control theory to chaotic systems require finding out the properties of the chaotic system ahead of time. That's rather tricky to do if a system evolves continuously in response to these small perturbations. In situations that involve politics or military matters, applying the same control measure twice is about as effective as telling the same joke twice to the same audience: you become the joke.
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The moral of this story should be obvious by now: as with the car on a slush-covered highway, any fool can get it to spin out, but that same fool is then unlikely to have the presence of mind, the skill and the steel nerves to keep it from hitting one of the barriers. Same goes for the would-be builders of an “empire of controlled chaos”: sure, they can generate chaos, but controlling it in a manner that allows them to derive some benefit from it is rather out of the question, and even their ability to stabilize it, so that they are not themselves hurt by it, is in grave doubt.
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They are using chaos to destroy demand for oil in countries they don't like, to keep the center of empire well-greased.
It is crisis management. "never let a good crisis go to waste". Rahm the moron
"They are using chaos to destroy demand for oil in countries they don't like "
More likely trade tends to be constrained to those who have things to trade, with some externalities considered too such as political power and history and position.
They destroyed demand in Libya and Iraq, both countries with "something to trade", which were not liked, due to trading those things for not-dollars.
More likely it's the; "If we can't control it then neither will you" mentality
Chaos be damned! The Wall Street Journal just had an article on "dirtboxes," devices which act as phoney cell towers in airplanes flying overhead. These devices hoover up all cell phone communications in an area. The CIA provided the initial funding ten years ago to get the dirtboxes in the air (mostly in Cessna light aircraft) in the USA, an egregious violation of the CIA charter. Everyone seems to be using "dirtboxes," even the NYPD, which apparently puts them in helicopters for night time cell phone spying activities. Who needs a stinkin' 4th Amendment.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/cia-gave-justice-department-secret-phone-sca...
They are a lot closer to total control than uncontrolled chaos, wake the fuck up!
so, a 6 sigma move in the swiss franc is your idea of control?
To many cats for even the most evil fucknut to herd. They may be surprised to find out that the free shit army they are training turns out to be the ones that are the most defiant, afterall they really don't give a shit. The ones that pay their bills, go to work dutifully every day, pay their taxes? are they the real sheep? Just a thought.
they like to think that tapping everyones phone and internet and putting CCTV everywhere will give them total power, but as anyone whose every tried to spy on an unruly girlfriend will tell you, it's just a path to total psychosis..... if everyone starts putting terrorist kewords in their email, the NSA computers will meltdown..... they are scared of some violent revolution, because they know how broken and bankrupt the system is.... but it won't take too much to over power the Govt. by force... no police or army want to kill their own citizens, especially when the whole system is going bankrupt and no one is being paid on time....
as much as you try to put in security, it fails... Kings built castles, gunpowder and cannon smashed down the walls and made them obsolete... There is nothing the Govt. can do in their ever shifting technological landscape to stop the people communicating and rising up against them.....
Yes lets all drive them nuts with our boring lives. I named my two dogs Explosive and Terrorist. I would like to see them figure that one out on a phone call.
So, does Explosive ever get diarrhea?
super fund clean up project
this is the problem isn't it.... if you are NATO you need cold war type unrest, if you are CIA you need people to spy on, if you are NSA you need situations to justify your blanket tapping.... GOVT itself needs one crisis after another to keep people safe or life would be terribly boring for them..... fixing potholes in roads and building schools is not as exicting as creeping about in the middle of the night in foreign countries, heavily armed, spying and taking out the bad guys - even it's nothing more than a silly child's game.
$dxy over 99 now
Just a cunt hair from 100
I for one cant wait to see how much further the USD collapses upward this week as people keep panic buying the currency of this disintegrating silly empire....
Explosive Fraud Coming!
The $64,000 question is whether the same people pulling the strings behind the western system also exert some control over the "eastern block". i.e. How much of the friction we are witnessing between "east" and "west" is real, and how much is theater? I readily admit that I simply can't know based on the inputs of open-source information. Hard to believe however, given human nature, that any group sizable enough and with influence in such a variety of cultures would truly share the same platform and goals for their ideal end-state. More likely that at least some of the friction is real and genuine. If that's true, the warfare and destruction will be equally real. Keep your heads down, and try to influence the circle of those around you to maintain some pockets of sanity in an increasingly insane world so there may be seeds to plant something at least a little decent among the rubble that may very well be the outcome of the ongoing chaos. Ten years of chaos? Twenty years? More? Hard to know. Buckle up. It's going to be a hell of a ride no matter what. Pray we make it through to the other side.
Sofapapa asks the ultimate question....who's pulling the strings.... If the catholic church using 'god' as its leader and going to heaven as the incentive, was unable to unite men, and soon resulted in dozens (now hundreds) of branches of what essentially amounts to the same religion (that all hate each other to varying degrees)... I doubt that zionism, satanism, money, greed, power or even death is enough to unite some roving band of NWO advocates.
Most likely what we see is a the sum of short term manipulations, occasional teamwork between rival factions and a certain amount of bait and switch, pump and dump... but all running with only short term - max. 10 year agendas.... no one wants to wait a life time or build some incredible legacy for their kids... they want it now....
The only possible alternative is some high counsel of alien beings controlling the planet to steer it into a mess, so we are all chipped and tagged and ready to be shipped off to planet Zarg as zoo animals, spare parts, slaves etc. but if they are smart enough to do that, they'd be smart enough to build robots and wouldn't need us.
Thus the huamn condition and the global economic / political condition is simply a reflection of our own messy human existence... the sooner we take responsibility for that and get some of these poltico psychopaths out of power the better.
"Indeed I will make those of the synogogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie-- indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you." Rev 3:9
as you were ...
if i go out into the desert, take loads of magic mushrooms and write a book today and tell you it predicts the future in 2000 years time... if enough people read it and take it seriously enough... that might just be the future in 2000 years time.... doesn't mean anything.... it only makes you more stupid than the author, who was already nuts.... where does that leave us ? Ever seen the movie Idiocracy ?
i concede the point, but it don't matter amigo, i dont run the show :-)
If you wrote a book 2000 years ago and made the statement that every person on earth would be subject under one system you'd have been accused of being a madman. And now, here we are on the precipice of that playin out. Welcome to the theatre of the absurd. And you should be more respectful of that which you are ignorant.
Robots do work. People are food. Make sure to go work out so you can be super healthy Grade A Prime.
I used to have Ukrainian girlfriends: one killed my pets, another pooped into my drinking well, and the third vowed to kill herself if I won't give her money. Russia can handle this better than a poor day trader.
Ukraine – Hey, Russia!! What Have You Done for Me Lately?https://marknesop.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/ukraine-hey-russia-what-have-...
"a sliding scale of grief over free-speech issues when he slobbers and moans about the cruel dictatorship that will not permit homeless unemployed delinquents to shout about shit and bitches and Putin in its houses of worship, but maintains that Edward Snowden is a traitor who should be shot because free speech is just a commodity to be harvested and exploited like any other."
Release the Krakken.
You can say that again...
Rob Ford?
Release the Krakken.
Douglas McWilliams?
Chaos is by definition uncontrollable. Silly oxymoron. Let's go back some fat skinny girls tonight!
I left college hopping to never read control theory again...WTF!!!
Shit, man! The midterm's tomorrow at 9:00!
Now take Disintegrating Empire Of "Controlled" Chaos ( Chaos + Control Theory ) and Confessions of an Economic Hit Man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man does not look so good ;-)
In the book, Perkins repeatedly denies the existence of a "conspiracy." Instead, Perkins carefully discusses the role of corporatocracy.[2]
Since say the mid 1900s, The move has been to morph the economy into one that can be controlled with control theory (for those not in the know, that is the "matrix") where coefficients of the various and sundry modelling equations are chunked in a computer that spits out your outputs. It partially works, you just have to shoot the chaotic (creative / unbridled) elements in the head - really eliminate or "linearize" them. Kick them to the curb by starving them of capital. (Hence a limited number of corps controlling entire segments of the economy - easier to model and manage) It doesn't actually fit the human race all that well - what you see today are the results. Misallocation on an unprecedented scale, for example. The psychological problems are there also, despair, suicide, etc... Many people in high places (progressives) believe if they can simply have total control to more or less linearize the whole system, they can provide a healthy happy garden of eden. Just have to kill several billion people to get there, you know, collateral damage.
I said above mid 1900s, but planning has been in place, at vearying levels of maturity, for several thousand years. Boole and his peers formalization of the algebra of logic (Boolean Algebra), combined later with the development of the transistor - things started getting real (state machine design) fascinating stuff really. I can scarcely even imagine what the undisclosed state of the art is at present.
iWatch?
dude i'm laughing - i live in a 700sf cabin on less than 8k per year - almost all of which goes for taxes and utilities. i set the clock on the wall to 5 pm 7 yrs ago :-)
and who decided to pass all this information on down 4-5 generations, and who runs it all, and how come no one ever deicde to blow the whistle, change paths, take the 'plot' for themselves and break off into a rival faction.... etc. etc. etc. someone's wife or lover would have found out, some 'decent' person would have climbed into it and exposed it, some crazy guy would have broken off and created a rival.... it's too complicated....
what i do believe is that Trotsky was placed in charge of a communist revolution and Lenin upsurped him, and then Stalin upsurped Trotsky again.... and Russia that was supposed to be put under control of US / Europe, was lost to it's own mess.... Then to counteract that threat, Hilter was backed and put into place and he simply made even more of a mess....
This agrees with the idea of control chaos.... it's impossible.... Sadam was western ally no#1, so was Mujahadeen, so was ISIS... so were Colombian drug smugglers... at one point or another all these factions are 'useful' to the status quo, until they go rouge and do their own thing... everyone pats everyone on the back, largely so they can feather their own nest.... or stick a knife in each other... then they go and do their own thing.....
Humans are far too disagreeable to mount any kind of lasting conspiracy... it's all short term greed.... even ultra wealthy families, royalty, kings legacies etc. have lost their way, as younger generations get increasingly lazy, greedy, entitled and stupid.
"Humans are far too disagreeable to mount any kind of lasting conspiracy"
True, human is derived from ther word humain (humane) - more or less implies that they have compassion / benevolence. The people in question (Those who say they are Jews but are not) are certainly not humane.
Read all about them (Rothschilds and their buddies) if you want. Time is short. Get right with the Man.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/03/08/the-hidden-history-of-the-incred...
We met the Gods, and they were limited. Kinky tricks, but nothing we couldn't do with some brute force science.
It's a sad strand on the time-frame when you meet those locked beyond for so very, very long, and they're less interesting than your average GOP politician."Here's the internet, try and work out how humans think now". Not to mention Allah (praise the sun) and all the other Abrahamic religions seeing the world through different EyEs.
Order and Chaos, bound to the Balance staff. And, boy, are they are all bitching about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjSpO2B6G4s
Hermetic maxim applies: 'As above, so below'. Those we see playing this game aren't in control of it, they are either directly following orders or following their innate tendencies of psychopathic desires that eventually lead to self-destruction. As Castenada said: 'They gave us their mind'.... and their minions are used to institute these plans of Chaos, which they seek to control, but if they really could, they wouldn't need to continually go back and forth to keep 'fixing' it, would they? That science doesn't have to be 'brute', but that is their preference, their way, their mind that we've inherited here in Purgatory, thus all the controls, the monopolization and centralization. It is up to us to find the means to wake up and make sense of the shadows on our Plato's Cave, to wake up and fight the fear of turning around and seeing where those shadows are coming from, who is making them and why and whether we want to stay or go. Time is runnning out, which is why the chaos is ever more chaotic as 'they' get desperate to 'fix' the game in their favor. It is and always has been our CHOICE... once we awakened and realize the power we hold called Free Will. 'They' need us, we don't need them and they don't like that simple fact, thus their 'hunger' that is forever seeking a satisfaction which can never be sated. That is their fate, their addiction, which we share by being here and cannot change our fate until we wake up and realize we are being 'played' like sheep... we are all sheep until we learn to become shepherds of our own souls... Free Will.... forced choices until we learn to make free ones.... and doing so changes everything.
I'm perhaps unusual, and can parse all that. Without even pausing.
Some of us weren't given that choice. Some of us fight so that you have that choice. Let's just say: we weren't impressed by the torture and screaming endless nonsense that was inflicted (from either end).
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En arch? ?n ho Lógos, kai ho Lógos ?n pros ton Theón, kai Theós ?n ho Lógos.
[Edit - meh, ZH doesn't do fonts]
There is no controlling the chaos. The whole point is if you change an initial condition you can watch the strange attractor flip in a second. The efforts to control are changes in initial conditions.
They can influence how a snapshot turns out. Not how the model will flow. Synchronic analysis (the result at a time and place) vs. diachronic (moving process).
Close.
There's other things around. And: they are things, concepts, LOAs, and so on. And they're being massacred by... us. I w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZJ0TP4nTaE
You're silly.
For sure.
Under the silly lies the Truth though.
He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's
health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath
the initial impulse to gain control, is unnatural, it triggers a chaotic ripple. the assumption that there is a lack of natural order is immature, born in the ego.
I like the analogy of throwing a hand full of ball bearings into a huge machine.
You can control how many balls are initially thrown, and you can predict that all hells gonna break lose in a few minutes,with pieces of machine flying everywhere...
BUT you can't predict exactly which parts will fail in which order.
It's kinda like you know it's position, but not it's velocity type thing.
ps
I like "chaotic ripple" as a descriptor
while they are pursuing chaos as a tactic they are also deploying multiple sites / countries for the instability to spread and to keep the encirclement of Russia moving and systematic
this is a long long game - Ukraine is the tip of the iceberg
http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/03/10/4290
Control is an illusion.
Also take a look at "Russia" and explain how one "encircles" it. Only Russians believe they are being encircled.
Which is kinda interesting if you think about it.
An Empire imposes its will on a hostile populace and that populace ultimately agrees to that.
In the US that was true of the native populations...but that was the only time I am aware...other than the current time.
Can't really explain it but the US does appear to be engaged in Empire building vis a vis Russia and Venezuela right now.
Nothing formalized as of yet of course...
disabledvet: Only Russians believe they are being encircled.
So you're mentally disabled. Got it. Loud and clear.
https://ixquick-proxy.com/do/spg/show_picture.pl?l=english&cat=pics&c=pf...
this map is inacurate.
the idea is correct overall, but some node are fantasy.
90% of what matters in Russia in on the European Continent, so yes you can encircle it from the West very easily, everything East of the Urals is Siberia, North is the Polar Circle and South is mostly desert and hight mountains.
Napoleon Bonaparte quotes (French General, Politician and Emperor (1804-14). 1769-1821)
Ha. I am reading that book right now. Pepe is on the ball!
I just finished another one by MS King called The War Against Putin. It was OK, could have been better written.
Looks like a good read, only $4.00 on kindle/amazon.
Stop whoring for Wall Street.
http://www.showrealhist.com/yTRIAL.html
http://patrick.net/?p=1223928
Who says the chaos in the middle east needs to be controlled? It's called divide and conquer. They are certainly divided now aren't they? So they can not band together, rise up, and threaten the US. No country in the ME is militarily strong enough to do anything to the US. Mr Bush himself said instability in the ME was the goal.
The control part is taking place in Eurasia.
But there is one more caveat: such applications of control theory to chaotic systems require finding out the properties of the chaotic system ahead of time. That's rather tricky to do if a system evolves continuously in response to these small perturbations. In situations that involve politics or military matters, applying the same control measure twice is about as effective as telling the same joke twice to the same audience: you become the joke.
The properties of the system have been tested for thousands of years and are known. You invade a neighboring country to a superpower and parade your fucking tanks on the border and you will get a military response from said superpower. Predictable, time tested, control.
OMF...
TL; DR - TOOO LAME , DINT READ.
One question. . What determines how long a lame ass story stays at the top of the site?
And why is it that the top stories get the most replies?
Not sure if you noticed, BUT.. when too many people reply, its al.ost impossible to read on smartphone. So..fix it...or dont. Your funeral.
are you implying a smartphone is a misnomer?
The criminally insane ruling classes are somehow presuming that they can continue to still be socially successful, despite that backing up lies with violence now involves using weapons of mass destruction that are trillions of times more powerful than ever before in human history. However, their apparent beliefs that they could still control the final consequence of what they are doing is just more proof of the degree to which they have become criminally insane.
THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IN THE BACKGROUND is that human economic activities, powered up by the industrial revolution, have primarily been based on strip-mining the planet's natural resources. Although it is theoretically possible that human beings could develop better integrated systems of human ecology, industrial ecology, and natural ecology, the ACTUALLY EXISTING SYSTEMS are turning natural resources into garbage and pollution as fast as possible, BECAUSE, the world IS controlled by the people who are the "best" at backing up lies with violence, REGARDLESS of the longer term consequences, that is what ACTUALLY HAPPENS in each short-term increment. That is how and why the international banksters already dominate most of the world with their ENFORCED FRAUDS. The only groups that can somewhat resist them have to do that same things that they do, in order to be able to compete. So all the other social pyramid systems are driven towards maximization of the short-term benefits, while disregarding the longer term consequences.
The "best" professional liars and immaculate hypocrites are the international banksters, and the political puppets that they control in the Western countries, and therefore, NATO countries tell BIGGER LIES than others, HOWEVER, there is nobody else that I am aware of presenting more radical truths, and even IF they did, the human species would overall still most likely continue to maximize their short-term abilities to strip-mine the planet, regardless of the longer term consequences.
What war would do quickly, the established systems that were made by the long history of warfare are doing anyway, only in slightly slower ways. The human species, through civilization controlled by backing up lies with violence, is pretty well totally able to destroy the natural environment, more and more, faster and faster, while pretending that is a good thing. The two most important FACTS are the irreconcilable social polarization, and the irreparable destruction of the natural world. Developing anything else than political systems based on a core of organized crime, surrounded by controlled opposition groups, appears to be practically impossible.
There are NO countries in the world today that are NOT social pyramid systems. The Western Empire of Chaos has become the worst, however, all of the rest are similarly based on criminal insanities! Therefore, the relatively quicker ways to commit suicide through out of control warfare using weapons of mass destruction are merely the most extreme ways that civilization would commit suicide. Just more "business as usual" would do that too, only more slowly.
Since the established systems based on backing up lies with violence do not care, because in each short-term increment they do not have to care about the longer term consequences of what they are really doing, the paths we are on are able to persist through attitudes of evil deliberate ignorance. More rational evidence and logical arguments make NO DIFFERENCE to social systems based on being able to back up lies with violence. The only things those systems care about is continuing to be able to back up their lies with violence. The countries that are attempting to resist the Western Empire of Chaos do not provide any better order, because in order to survive they had assimilated the same basic social techniques, through their own kinds of backing up lies with violence ... albeit not as extremely as the Western Empire of Chaos does.
Therefore, the ONLY ways to ACTUALLY change a civilization based on backing up lies with violence are MORE lies backed by violence, which will actually make things get worse faster. I WISH that presenting rational evidence and logical arguments made any difference, but, OBVIOUSLY, that is not so! The established systems of enforced frauds are controlling civilization, in ways which merely manifest the threat of world war with weapons of mass destruction as the most obvious symptom of what is generally a terminal social sickness and insanity.
The most important political problem is the history of successful warfare, based on backing up deceits with destruction, that was the foundation for a political economy based on enforced frauds. Those have driven the strip-mining of the planet's natural resources, in the most criminally insane ways possible, from the perspective of the longer term future of the human species. However, there were never any practical ways to stop that from happening. The best organized gangs of criminals control the world, in the most criminally insane ways, and that is automatically getting worse, faster, every day ...
I WISH that my research had been able to result in different conclusions. I WISH that all of my work on attempting to understanding things better had resulted in something other than that there is nothing to do but indulge in individual amusements, while overall the human species is preparing to commit suicide ... However, nothing I have learned has ever changed that view that the more one knows, the worse it gets, especially since indulging in some individual amusements within the established systems is about the only things which are practically possible to actually do.
We run our human ecology on the basis of the maximum possible deceits about how the real death control systems operate, which enables us to run our political economy on the basis of enforcing the maximum possible frauds. Overall, those central social facts drive us towards destroying the natural environment, and to high-grade ourselves to hell, because strip-mining the planet's natural resources as much as possible, as fast as possible, has been presented as a good thing to do, by all of the people who were doing that.
The deeper reasons driving warfare are all automatically getting worse, faster, building up greater and greater pressures, as the limits of being able to strip-mine the planet at an exponential rate are being reached. We have already grossly overshot what might have otherwise been sustainable. We never got even remotely close to developing any less insane human ecology, or industrial ecology, while the natural ecologies were degraded and destroyed at an exponentially accelerating rate.
Given all those facts, the runaway debt slavery systems driving debt insanities towards provoking death insanities have already been baked into that cake. IF there is anything left to do, then MAYBE that will be to attempt to catalyze the on-coming conditions of death insanities, and human mass murders, into something which would otherwise be even worse. I continue to regard militarism as the supreme ideology. I promote the notions that the only genuine solutions are to develop better death control systems, which are based on radical paradigm shifts in the ways that we perceive the death control issues, which SHOULD BE the ways that we change how we think, AFTER the development of weapons of mass destruction.
HOWEVER, in the real world, civilization continues to be dominated by the best organized gangs of criminals, which are surrounded by practically nothing but opposition groups that those criminals also control. Therefore, all the fundamental factors driving us towards suicidal wars are automatically getting worse, faster, while there are practically zero chances of any more rational public debates about that.
Authors like Orlov, in the article above, is a typical illustration of how articles which are republished on Zero Hedge usually grossly underestimate how bad things are, and therefore, tend to grossly overestimate how effective some possible "solutions" could be. The world situation is way worse than the metaphorical illustration of a car spinning out of control used in the article above. To steer with respect to the spin is how to tack close to the wind, while attempting to sail up wind, into the on-coming social storms, of debt insanities provoking death insanities. It is too late to prevent those death insanities, and probably effectively impossible to prepare for those. But nevertheless, the theory is that we are heading into times of out of control death insanities, while the ONLY possible genuine solutions would be to establish some new death control systems, in order to then be able to back up some new debt control systems.
Every time that there is yet another social success based on backing up lies with violence, or enforcing frauds, the overall real problems underneath that get even worse, and those worsening problems are driving us towards much worse military conflicts. I am attempting to promote better militarism, to a world almost totally drowning in its own bullshit, that routinely makes utterly inane, lying statements supporting its existing combined money/murder systems.
THE SOCIAL FACTS ARE THAT THE INTERNATIONAL BANKSTERS CONTROL NATO COUNTRIES, AND THEREFORE, THEIR ARMED FORCES' ACTIONS AMOUNT TO FIGHTING FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BANKSTERS' FRAUDS. That is done through ridiculously old-fashioned theories of successful militarism, based on being able to back up deceits with destruction, mediated through bullshit-based speeches, because the banksters were able to apply the methods of organized crime to the political processes, so that the REAL systems were based on enforced frauds. Our current military "leaders" were promoted because they were a good professional liars and immaculate hypocrites, who could make suicidally insane statements with a straight face.
The international banksters have been able to control governments to enforce the banksters' frauds. They are able and willing to risk world war, in order to promote their agenda. Moreover, there is pretty well nothing else that is publicly present that addresses the deeper reasons regarding how and why that situation has developed. Therefore, all of the underlying causes for insane wars are building up their pressures. Nothing gets done otherwise that would decrease those pressures. The Empire of Chaos fundamentally exists due to the paradoxical ways that being able to enforce frauds never stops those frauds from being false. The more socially successful the international banksters become, the more psychotically insane the society that they control becomes, because that society necessarily goes further out of touch with reality, and especially far, far out of touch with the systems of globalized electronic monkey money frauds, backed by the threat of force from apes with atomic bombs, that those banksters originally made and maintained, but no longer fully comprehend, and can no longer control!
No better death control systems are being developed. The only things that are actually happening are that the runaway debt slavery systems HAVE created debt insanities, which are headed towards provoking death insanities on an astronomically amplified scale. Meanwhile, it continues to be practically impossible to have any saner public debates about those problems, since there is almost nothing but controlled opposition groups surrounding the core of the organized crime of the banksters.
Although I do my best to still try to enjoy my own individual amusements, that gets harder and harder to do as the facts that the human species is headed towards tragic self-annihilation automatically become more blatantly obvious. I am personally stuck in my own insane rut of WISHING that there was something I could do to change that ... while events keep on proving that is a delusionally unrealistic thing to expect ... But nevertheless, despite that I can do nothing practical to stop that from happening, I continue to find that future too tragic to accept, without bitching about it, and still wishing that I could do something to change that ...
I would LIKE to still believe that it was possible that the mass murder of the majority of the human population could be contained, however, I am no longer able to believe that ...The more I have learned, the worse it has always gotten, while I have spent most of the previous several decades learning about this stuff, to the point where I am completely convinced that the ruling classes are so criminally insane, that they are NOT in control ... The ruling classes ARE carrying out their agenda. However, that agenda has become criminally insane!
I REPEAT THAT I can NOT believe that they understand and control the globalized systems of electronic monkey money frauds, backed by the threat of the force from apes with atomic bombs! Sure, they originally made and maintained those systems, however, the human ruling classes no longer comprehend what they have created. Meanwhile, the vast majority of the people who are ruled over have been reduced way too much to become incompetent political idiots, to be able to resist their rulers' agenda ... HOWEVER, that kind of social success based on being able to continue to back up lies with violence, within human civilization, does NOT stop that civilization from being runaway criminal insanities.
In my view, no matter how bad the irreconcilable social polarization becomes, the irreparable destruction of the natural world trumps that. Monkeys with electronics, or apes with atomic bombs, does not look survivable to me, especially since those are primarily applied in order to magnify by many orders of magnitude the ability to enforce frauds, WITHIN human societies, in ways which are thereby even more able to get away with attitudes of evil deliberate ignorance towards everything that is beyond human control.
I WISH that I could still believe that the ruling classes were NOT as criminally insane and madly self-destructive as I currently believe them to actually be. However, everything that I have learned has more and more convinced me that is the case ... especially since I still see nothing but controlled opposition surrounding those criminally insane ruling classes, while the vast majority of those who are ruled over appear to be brain-dead Zombie Sheeple, on whom even less reasonable hope for the future could be placed.
The only irrational hope that I am able to still slightly entertain is that, after things get way worse, then, perhaps a new ruling class may emerge, which was not so totally insane. Indeed, that is the vain hope, as a kind of political science fiction and fantasy story, that I have been attempting to develop for several decades, since I first learned, back when I was teenager, that I had been born into a situation where there was exponential growth backed by weapons of mass destruction ... whose prospects were extremely terrible to contemplate being extrapolated.
That is why I have spent most of my time thinking about those problems, and attempting to communicate my conclusions. However, to be honest about that, I have to face the facts that, so far, that has been proven to have been worthless to bother to do, since the same old-fashioned systems of organized crime, surrounded by controlled opposition groups, STILL dominate the society that I was born into, and those are STILL automatically getting worse, faster, with no end in sight ...
The Empire of Chaos is surely going to continue to work through their morbid psychological and political habits, by again and again doubling down on their ability to back up lies with violence, and thereby endeavour to continue to enforce the frauds that are controlling the civilization that was originally made and maintained upon that basis. However, NOTHING about that has ever before adapted to developing technologies which became trillions of times more powerful and capable.
The combined money/murder systems have become runaway criminal insanities, because the ruling classes can not longer control the chaos that they are creating, by continuing to back up lies with violence. That used to work, for thousands of years. However, it is no longer working, and could never work again, unless there was some profound paradigm shifts in political science, which enabled that to become more consistent with physical sciences. In my opinion, Orlov's article above merely scratched the surface of what it would mean to apply more mathematical physics to understand our political problems.
While I believe that is theoretically possible, it can not be done by still relying upon thinking in terms of DUALITIES, which Orlov implicitly presents by asserting, relatively correctly, that other countries are no quite as insanely evil as the dominant Western Empire of Chaos has become. In my view, surviving through The Disintegrating Empire Of "Controlled" Chaos requires a series of intellectual scientific revolutions, which are theoretically possible, but whose main obstacles are that understanding that demands that we recognized how and why governments ended up being the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals.
Such an understanding can no longer be based on the same old-fashioned false fundamental dichotomies, and related impossible ideals, as the source for "solutions." Rather, we need to develop more UNITARY MECHANISMS that understand human energy systems as continuous with the natural energy systems. That is possible, however, it requires must more radical application of corrections to the dominant philosophy of science than Orlov has somewhat pointed towards in the article above!
General systems are controlled by their most labile components, which in human terms means the most dishonest and violent people. General systems flow along their own path of least action, or least resistance, which in human terms means that civilization follows the path of least morality. It is possible to organize resistance to change the path of least resistance, but that still must operate within the overall context that human beings and human civilizations are entropic pumps of energy flows.
A deeper level of paradigm shift is to perceive that an arbitrary minus sign was inserted into the entropy equations of thermodynamics, and information theory, in order to make those appear to support the biggest bullies' bullshit world view. At the present time, everything which is scientifically understood is being done so through understanding energy systems. However, all of that has been almost perfectly inverted by reversing the meaning of entropy.
Therefore, while what Orlov stated above was superficially correct, it was still much more profoundly wrong. The fundamental problems presented by the Empire of Chaos continue to be the paradoxical ways that social successes were based on being able to back up deceits with destruction, and enforce frauds, whose success itself is inherently more and more contradictory. Those contradictions are being amplified to astronomical sizes by progress in physical sciences, without any matching progress in political science, primarily because that would take facing the facts that the oldest and best developed social science and social engineering was warfare, whose social successes were based on deceits and treacheries, which then became the foundation for an economic system whose financial successes were based on enforcing frauds.
Those are the problems which are now being magnified many orders of magnitude, by the development of globalized systems of electronic monkey money, backed by the threat of force from apes with atomic bombs. In my view, it is ludicrous to believe that the ruling classes that made that system of electronic frauds backed by atomic bombs actually understand and could therefore control that creation! Rather, IF the human species is going to survive having done that, then the ONLY way that might become remotely possible is IF political science went through even greater paradigm shifts than the physical sciences have already done!
The essential issue is whether or not social pyramid systems based on being able to enforce frauds can survive being amplified by technologies which became millions, then billions, then trillions of times more powerful and capable, while those are headed towards becoming quadrillions of times greater, IF that technological civilization could survive through its contradictions from doing that ???
At the present time, the overwhelmingly obvious answer is "NO!" The established social systems are based on a ruling class that specializes in being dishonest and violent, while the vast majority of the people ruled over adapt to that by becoming ignorant and afraid. Thereby, that Empire of Chaos, based on being able to back up lies with violence, through its combined money/murder systems, which operate through financial frauds being enforced, automatically becomes more criminally insane, while there is practically nothing else than those systems of organized crime, surrounded by controlled opposition.
In my view, Orlov does not address the degree to which other countries, which are somewhat appearing to resist the Empire of Chaos led by the Western countries, over whom control has almost totally been captured by the international banksters, are NOT genuine alternatives, rather than merely more of the same, only still slightly less evil, because they are relatively less able to dominate.
The bigger problems are the fundamental structure of Neolithic Civilization social pyramid systems, being based on backing up lies with violence, where the contradictions that doing that never makes those lies stop being false, but only eventually makes that society become more and more psychotically insane! Neolithic Civilization has been an Empire of Chaos since it began! ... It remains to be seen whether or not the human species can survive the progress it has made in the physical sciences. At the present time, due to the almost total failure for there to be any matching progress in political science indicates to me that the human species is most probably going to commit collective suicide, because the Empire of Chaos is not merely driving irreconcilable social polarization, it is also driving irreparable destruction of the natural world.
Nothing that merely mildly mitigates the degree of runaway social polarization comes remotely close to coping with the bigger environmental issues, which are being seriously driven way further out of human control, than the merely social problems are being driven. Theoretically, we need to develop better integrated systems of human, industrial and natural ecologies. That would require that we understood human energy systems in ways which were consistent with understanding industrial and natural energy systems.
However, doing that has to overcome the biggest bullies' bullshit world views, which are manifesting through all of the various established systems of organized crime, and their controlled opposition groups. Pretty well every old-fashioned religion and ideology is actually now an integrated part of the Empire of Chaos, because those are all forms of controlled opposition that surrounds the core of organized crime.
Recall that we currently misunderstand the concept of entropy backwards, because we have a philosophy of science that inverted its meaning. Then consider what that means to the general consideration of the phrase "Empire of Chaos." Ironically, inside of a Bizarro Mirror World, everything appears proportionately backwards and distorted. That applies just as much to the bogus "solutions" promoted by the controlled opposition groups as it does to the bullshit "solutions" promoted by the core organized crime groups.
More than anything else, that boils down to regarding militarism as the supreme ideology, because it deserves to be. The prime requirement to survive through the times of the Empire of Chaos going through a series of psychotic breakdowns is to change the basic perceptions regarding death controls, which means changing the basic paradigms of militarism. At the present time, there exist weapons of mass destruction, while nothing regarding the basic paradigm shifts which happened in physical sciences like quantum mechanics, or the special theory of relativity, have been embraced by the technological civilization that is applying things like electronics and atomic energy as special effects, to tell the same old stupid social stories, in much more fantastic ways.
Unless political science is able to go through even more prodigious and profound paradigm shifts than the physical sciences have already done, then a technological civilization based upon those physical sciences is not going to be able to survive its contradictions. At the present time, the Empire of Chaos is driving the human species towards committing collective suicide. I WISH that it was possible to avoid that, although I do not currently perceive any practical ways to do that, since the established systems are now almost nothing but organized crime surrounded by controlled opposition.
In my view, the primarily Western based Empire of Chaos is somewhat losing control over some of the other countries which it was previously able to control more totally. That threatens to provoke things going way more out of control, especially since the slightly less controlled opposition is just another microcosm of the same old Empire of Chaos, rather than any genuinely coherent system of alternatives. In the metaphor of the article above, the world is more like an out of control rocket ride, rather than merely an out of control car. Or, even more so, it is an out of control system of globalized electronic frauds, backed by the force of atomic bombs ...
u bookwritter or something ?
I used to write books, when I was several decades younger, like Megasynthesis and Letters Home From Oedipus. However, I no longer bother to do that, because there is no longer enough motivation left to try.
Now, I run a fringe political party in Canada, where I try to change the basic social fact that less than 1% of the people pay for 100% of the registered political activities, while more then 99% of the people pay for none of the registered politics. However, after two long court cases against the government of Canada regarding the laws that control the funding of political parties, and after having talked face to face with tens of thousands of people from all walks of life about these issues, I have been forced into a stalemate situation.
Meanwhile, I amuse myself articulating what I think out loud after I read various Zero Hedge articles, while the world around me continues to get worse, faster, so that nothing I am doing makes any sense. As I said above, one can indulge in one's individual amusements within the established systems, but it is practically impossible to do anything to prevent or prepare for how the established systems are criminal insanities, which are automatically getting worse, faster.
These days, I mostly just watch and wait. While I continue to attempt to understand how things work, my conclusions are that everything is controlled by lies backed by violence ... Therefore, writing books, or indeed, doing anything else that I can think of, is way too little, way too late, and will be too trivial to matter much anymore ...
Since the established human ecology is based on a long history of operating the most socially successful death controls through the maximum possible deceits, and the established political economy is based on a history of financial controls through the maximum possible frauds, it is NOT possible for those established systems to recognize the limits to growth on a finite planet. Fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting systems make it IMPOSSIBLE for human and industrial systems to be reconciled with natural systems, because "money" made out of nothing as debts is IMPOSSIBLE to reconcile with natural systems based on the conservation of energy (EXCEPT AS ENFORCED FRAUDS, which those systems adamantly refuse to admit and address.) The basic problems with the Empire of Chaos is that human civilization IS controlled by entrenched systems of backing up lies with violence, which makes it IMPOSSIBLE for human systems to be sanely connected with natural systems. Although, OF COURSE, human systems are still INSIDE NATURAL SYSTEMS, the ways that human beings operate through the maximum possible deceits and frauds makes any efforts to change their behavior to become less criminally insane practically impossible.
While it superficially seems that it should be possible to integrate human, industrial and natural evolutionary ecologies, as continuous energy systems, through which the same energy flows through a series of entropic pumps, none of that is remotely possible while civilization is almost totally controlled by fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting systems, backed up by force. Instead, that Empire of Chaos is going more and more out of control, and society is becoming more and more psychotic. The ruling classes continue to be able to back up their lies with violence, while those they rule over continue to be ignorant and afraid. Combined that means that civilization is a criminally insane Empire of Chaos, headed towards committing collective suicide.
In the short-term, for most people in the Western world, they still have access to enough natural resources left to strip-mine, that they are able to continue to deliberately ignore the limits to doing that, while they continue to enjoy the lifestyles that were previously based upon easily being able to continue to do that. The overall, longer term, world situation is way worse than the metaphorical illustration of a car spinning out of control used in the article above. While, the vast majority of people continue to be able to live as if they were still inside of a relatively normal problem, like a car spinning out of control, the bigger picture is that the "car of civilization" is headed at an accelerating rate towards crashing into the walls of the limits of being able to strip-mine more natural resources, after which it will bounce off the edge of a cliff whose bottom cannot now be seen.
The image of a car spinning out of control presents the possibility that a skillful driver could recover control and survive through those dangers. I would like to also be able to indulge in those irrational hopes that the "car of civilization" could steer with respect to the spin, like how it is possible to tack close to the wind, while attempting to sail up wind. However, we are now sailing into the on-coming social storms, of debt insanities provoking death insanities. There is practically nothing being done to prepare for running into the limits of the environment. The only thing that the ruling classes have actually done is prepare to mass murder, which they have particularly advanced through a series of inside job, false flag attack, terrorists events, in order to get the "war on terror" going as a self-fulfilling prophesy. Creating that kind of chaos has been an extremely successful strategy for the ruling classes, to create more chaos, that enables them to develop more ability to control and kill people. It is too late to prevent those death insanities, and probably effectively impossible to prepare for those. But nevertheless, the theory is that we are heading into times of out of control death insanities, while the ONLY possible genuine solutions would be to establish some new death control systems, in order to then be able to back up some new debt control systems.
Personally, I like to indulge in the vain fantasy that, as the world actually does go through much more manifestations of out of control death insanities, those forced to cope with those events then may begin to think differently ??? Thinking differently about death controls inside systems of artificial selection is what I have been attempting to do for several decades, ever since I first learned about the existence of weapons of mass destruction, the politics of which led me to follow the money through the funding of the political processes ... However, so far, I have to admit that the established systems of organized crime, surrounded by controlled opposition, where the ruling classes rule by enforcing frauds, or backing up legalized lies with legalized violence, while the vast majority of people continue to still be mostly ignorant and afraid, inside of those situations, so that the vast majority of people continue to act like incompetent political idiots, provides NO good grounds to doubt that the future will automatically get way worse, way faster ... while the day dream that people will finally start to think and behave any saner then is probably even more ridiculous than believing that they should have already paid attention to more rational evidence and logical arguments.
The established Empire of Chaos, where social control is achieved through backing up lies with violence, while the majority adapt to that by remaining ignorant, does not appear to provide any reasonable ways to be ameliorated. The established systems are already out of control criminal insanities, which appear to have no ways to effectively prevent nor fully prepare for.
A Focus on Symptoms, Never the Root Cause
"Does a child not have as much right to privacy and freedom from parental conditioning as the parents expect for themselves? It is one of the most fundamental problems facing humanity today. The future depends on how we solve it.
"... the child is the father of the man. If the child is brought up in a wrong way then the whole of humanity goes wrong. The child is the seed: if the seed itself is poisoned and corrupted by well-intentioned people, well-wishing people, then there is no hope for a free human individual."
Chapter 3 | Conditioning, from: the book of children
Although Osho came close to the truth, notice he did not define the root cause.
Unconscious Procreation is the fundamental problem facing humanity today. The future depends on how we solve it. [FIFY]
Dmitry Orlov is pulling a straw-man argument here because Pepe Escobar's 'Empire of Chaos' is clearly meant for the U.S. and not for China or Russia. And we can clearly see what this 'Empire of Chaos' actually means in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and most recently in the Ukraine were the allegedly 'bringing order' was the reason to invade these countries while chaos was the result. Zorg Explains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt1W0F0yObg
And Pepe Escobar also explained that the China-Russia cooperation was as a result from escaping the U.S. dollar financial chaos. So Dmitry Orlov is nitpicking for an argument were there is non. On the contrary I think that Pepe Escobar and Dmitry are much more on the same page as he wants to admit.
The whole thing looks so old, so antique, so rusty to me... This kind of high tech we have created, and on the other hand, the same ancient fight for domination (chaos, control)... I used to hope for human evolution, but the so called élite keeps giving birth to dusty brains.
I'm so disappointed of watching them play their obsolete Game of Thrones again and again along the centuries...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZnis3XO5VM
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the empire of chaos is derived from israel policy in palestine and lebanon. the idea was to regulate(control) those two areas by creating chaos within them which would prevent a unified anti israel force from forming. even though it has backfired the idea that it was a good plan for the entire region to india was fait accompli. pnac was a big part of this.
so now they have just figured out chaos brings more chaos but they have responded with more chaos to "lead" the chaos only to lose control again. anyone with a brain wave can figure out where this is going to end.
I'm guessing it is joooos running your life.
my goodness, this article has so much prop in it that I have to take it apart one phrase after the other:
"Eurasian integration is very much on track, with China and Russia now acting as an economic, military and political unit, and with other Eurasian states eager to play a role "
bullshit. Belorussia was scheduled to have open borders with Russia, by now. it has now again border controls. further, where is the EurAsian currency, modeled after the EUR?
nope, "very much on track" is simply not true
"The European Union is, for the moment, being excluded from Eurasia because it is effectively under American occupation, but this state of affairs is unlikely to last due to budgetary problems. (To be precise, we have to say that it is under NATO occupation, but if we dig just a little, we find that NATO is really just the US military with a European façade hammered onto it Potemkin village-style.)"
bullshit again. We, the countries of the EU, had a very corteous offer by President Putin to join the EurAsian Union. So we are not being excluded. By the way, thank you for the offer, but no, thanks
this "American Occupation" is a voluntary thing. France, for example, exited NATO in 1966, and re-joined later
meanwhile, it's Russia, with the Annexation of Crimea, that fans the flame of NATO. Any even middling student of european history could point out to Annexations as the kind of contention that makes europeans the most suspicious of any Power, independently from the merit of an Annexation
yes, American and Britain are pushy. yes, they have many faults, and spy too much, and have agents all over the continent, and meddle, meddle, meddle
but there are proper and unproper ways to push back. Meanwhile, Crimea makes NATO look better, and makes the Balts reasonably nervous
"And so the term “empire” seems rather misplaced. Empires are ambitious undertakings that seek to exert control over their domain, and what sort of an empire is it if its main activity is stepping on the same rake over and over again? A silly one? Then why not just call it “The Silly Empire”? Indeed, there are lots of fun silly imperial activities to choose from. For example: arm and train moderate opposition to a regime you want to overthrow; find out that it isn't moderate at all; try to bomb them into submission and fail at that too "
historically incorrect. there were plenty of empires that were not ambitious, from Hadrian's Roman Empire to the Holy Roman Empire for most of it's time
further, there were plenty of empires that enjoyed great local autonomy, with plenty of sovereign leeway in them. again, look at the HRE
the term empire is not misplaced, imo. and in all this, Moscow is behaving like an imperial capital as much as Bejiing and Washington
in fact, Brussels is also behaving like an imperial capital, even if still toothless. but empires don't have to be top-down control-freaks. Again, look at the HRE
the EU, for example, is still steered by the national capitals, plural, where the taxes are gathered and the armies are recruited. so it's more something like an Imperial Alliance
"Some people raise the criticism that the empire does in fact function because somebody somewhere is profiting from all this chaos. Indeed they are, but taking this as a sign of imperial success is tantamount to regarding getting mugged on the way to the supermarket as a sign of economic success. Success has nothing to do with it, but Escobar's “internal disintegration” does seem apt: the disintegrating empire's internal chaos is leaking out and causing chaos everywhere. Still, the US makes every effort to exert control, mainly by exerting pressure on friends and enemies alike, and by demanding unquestioning obedience. Some might call this “controlled chaos.” "
the main profit, the main "imperial success" is in... globalization. Version 2, then the first Globalization Empire was the British Empire
the secondary profit... is in the Industrial Security Complex, i.e the Military Industrial Complex and all the new addition to it, from the Commonwealth Intelligence Complex (the Five Eyes) to even the US Private Prison Complex
and there we see signs where the secondary profit motives become more important then anything else. a lack of constraint, a lack of political will
yes, Bush Junior did start a policy of "You are either with us or against us". but there is push-back among the allies on several political fronts. you can't claim "unquestioning obedience"
the rest of the article is all about "controlled chaos" out of the context of the introduction
imho the author is accusing the US of creating chaos which it can't control, afterwards. but were so many words necessary?
sure, in this article Moscow is profiled as New Benign Order, while the Old (US) Order is profiled as Chaos
nevertheless... is it interesting enough? Europe is being treated as the GF of Uncle Sam, which should leave him and join Uncle Vlad... under the Russian Authoritative Aegis
very conservative, very nationalistic, and very.... imperial
Pepe is in my top five of the most tiresome to read......he is your typical 3rd illiterate.
"controlling chaos" Theory - I like your example, but to make it work you need to know most if not all parameters of the System, you need to know (or at least guess correctly) what effect a pull/push on any of the parameters will have, you need Practice .. non of the above are possible on a Global scale unless you've got 1000s of years of experience (which by some estimates the NWO has) but still it's a crap shot.
That is why the "NWO" has learned to let the "car" crash once in a while against the Rails(but also have learned to survice this impact themselves), this we call War, that's the only sure way of always staying in controll no matter what.
Let's try the analogy with developed world Central Bank actions today. The CBs are driving a full bus at night on a sleet covered highway. Their visibility is poor (crisis mode) and they are hitting the accelerator (inflation), as they head into worsening cold (economic depression) and into increasingly slippery conditions (ZIRP), and they refuse to use their brakes (FASB Rule 157).
So, the CBs today say that because they can steer the bus with one finger and one eye shut and no foot on the brakes that they they are in control of the situation. When the inevitable happens (Lehman event), everyone will see that the situation was not at all under control (crash).
psychopathic bankers run the western world.
wars and destruction generate debt.
what is it that bankers love ?
The Empire of Chaos that the GWB Crusade prolonged in ME to neutralise the Sunni fundamentalist revolt; fall out of US's oil patch plays, after failure of Saddam's incursion into Ayatollah Iran (at the behest of Saud/US axis); ---and as the logical spread of the empire of chaos that was initiated by Pax Americana's Nam rage to launch the asymmetric wars of global MIC oligarchy age--, is now looking like coming to an end in the ME; especially if the Israeli elections EJECT Netty yahoo from his intransigent perch and control of Zionist uncompromising, warmongering Israel.
Here is why :
1° The current Admin will swing sides by signing a peace with Iran and concentrating its efforts on ISIS cleaning. If Netty yahoo wins this strategy will be more difficult (as the Repub alignment to Netty's views in current Senate stand-off have proven).
2° The new Saud King is aligned to this position of now considering ISIS as main enemy and relegating Assad's regime's removal as a SECONDARY ISSUE.
This is an awesome reversal of past Saudi strategy concocted by Bandar with backing of defunct king. Assad is now Kosher to Obama admin and will be more so to Saud, especially if Iran is part of new ME team and Netty's rage is now a page that will be turned in Israel.
3° All US allies, including France and Turkey--both rabidly ANTI ASSAD-- will be asked to kow tow to this new Pax Americana/Saud line which will obviously be backed by Iran.
4° The new regional coalition will then go after ISIS big time and the Daesh Caliphate should be history by end of 2015 if this plays out.
5° The Jihadists will then be exported to the Caucasus region as the shooting match between the US and Putin is NOT OVER; far from it. But that requires for the Syrac problem to be laid to rest for the US to concentrate on its new COld war challenge vs the eventual Russia-China axis.
ME will then become a less dangerous zone and Central Asia the new cauldron.
Orlov obviously has not had much experience driving on a slippery road. The way to recover control is to steer into the direction of the slide, not counter to it. This usually enables a recovery on a straight stretch of road. On a curve, one ends up (if lucky) against the barrier, or a pile of plowed snow. NEVER attempt to use the brakes. Expanding the metaphor, in a failed foreign policy, control can be achieved by turning the wheel in the direction of sanity and avoid the military impulse.