The Unsustainable Empire
The US seems to have become an unsustainable economic entity. It is mired in debt it can't get out of if it does not radically change it's unsustainable persona. And what of its persona - a persona poisoned by the need for war and greed?
It needs to foment wars (or at least the threat of wars) in order to prop up it's massive military industrial complex. If peace were to break out, the military industrial complex would drastically shrink and this of itself would collapse the US economy. The major flaw in this "economic model" is that the cost of the wars instigated to justify the military industrial complex is pushing up debts to the point where the US taxpayer cannot pay the price any longer.
The original idea was that the "liberated" countries would grow rich and be able to repay the costs of "liberating" them. But guess what? The "liberated" countries were totally destroyed by this insane process and have no intention of paying the invaders and destroyers for the privilege having their country comprehensively trashed by an insane "economic model".
The US needs to perpetuate greed in order to justify the pillaging of the global resources, the consumption of which has become an addiction. i.e. addicted to insanely wasteful and totally unsustainable lifestyles which its citizens have been brainwashed into "aspiring to" by the marketing maniacs employed by the conjurers of consumerism.
The US is also trying to ride on a doomed philosophy: The philosophy of letting its robber barons browse and pillage the rest of the world to bring home the goodies needed to prop up the totally unsustainable American Dream. This is now seen for what it always was - a fatally flawed philosophy.
The robber barons have now created globalised corporate pirate outfits which have been exposed for what they really are: Psychopathic entities.
Thus the US Empire's ambition to dominate the world has been achieved - but it has also spelled its doom.
If that is the problem, what is the solution?
It needs to foment wars (or at least the threat of wars) in order to prop up it's massive military industrial complex. If peace were to break out, the military industrial complex would drastically shrink and this of itself would collapse the US economy. The major flaw in this "economic model" is that the cost of the wars instigated to justify the military industrial complex is pushing up debts to the point where the US taxpayer cannot pay the price any longer.
The US needs to perpetuate greed in order to justify the pillaging of the global resources, the consumption of which has become an addiction. i.e. addicted to insanely wasteful and totally unsustainable lifestyles which its citizens have been brainwashed into "aspiring to" by the marketing maniacs employed by the conjurers of consumerism.
The US is also trying to ride on a doomed philosophy: The philosophy of letting its robber barons browse and pillage the rest of the world to bring home the goodies needed to prop up the totally unsustainable American Dream. This is now seen for what it always was - a fatally flawed philosophy.
The robber barons have now created globalised corporate pirate outfits which have been exposed for what they really are: Psychopathic entities.
Thus the US Empire's ambition to dominate the world has been achieved - but it has also spelled its doom.
If that is the problem, what is the solution?
posted by The Editor at
11:40 PM
4 Comments:
I shall agree with you, what you have said is basically what has happened to the U/S. The downward slide will continue until anarchy reigns.
I'm not a fan of anarchy, and I don't think the demise of predatory, exploitative capitalism needs to lead to anarchy.
That's not to say that the collapse of this putrid system won't lead to massive civil unrest. This, in turn, might well lead to some draconian counter measures leading to some sort of totalitarian regime.
It's really up to the people. Apathy will not give us a good outcome.
I think it's called the "Trap of Empire."
And is there a way out of the trap?
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