The vast majority of humanity don’t see this coming

OPINION: In the short term, the best bet is to give the neocons all the rope they need to hang themselves

The background. In theory, the Establishment Old Media neocon globalist assumptions are devoid of clothes. Let’s call a spade a spade, should we? 2008 was Crash1, but little if any of the thinking upon which it was predicated has changed. Bourses are madhouses, wealth doesn’t trickle down, a wealth restricted to 3% cannot kickstart a real recovery, the Fed Reserve is akin to Hitler’s bunker, the mass of people making 30% less than they did in the last century can’t consume on the level demanded by the Growth nuts, the secure human job market has been phased out, new robotics appear every week, still nobody knows what percentage of radioactive packaged investments are netted, at least nine eurozone and one British bank are utter basket cases, monetarist stimulation theory is a busted flush, and two huge Asian financial markets – Japan and China – remain upright solely by the use of giving free money to the casino (China) and the central bank buying up everything that stands still for longer than an hour (Japan).

We are on a journey, and there is only one place it can end: failed objectives, bank collapses, huge Bourse corrections, mass unemployment, and 40% of most Western populations financially wiped out….living alongside that 3% who have (it is estimated) enough capital in various forms to bale out the other 97% five times over. And that is not counting the electronic money swimming aimlessly around the shadow banking system.

Never in the recorded history of the world has that sort of ending evoked anything less than violence, repression, censorship, revolution, wars and then dictatorship. The only reasons the vast majority of humanity don’t see this coming are first, an ignorance of history; and second, the flaw in human wiring that prefers denialism up to and including the point where they’re sliding down the deck in the direction of the cold sea.  [...]

In a nutshell, the driver of events today is, overwhelmingly, the thought-axis of unelected, armed intolerance that aims for global victory.

All neocons, Leftlibs and Islamists are globalists – they just have different (albeit equally rigid) belief systems they insist must win because their Truth alone is the real one.

Is there a quick-fix way to head off disaster? Well yes – there is, in a way: one of them wins without blowing up the planet. But I rather suspect that even the most apathetic among we of the 97% would find that a pretty miserable epilogue.  [...]

A theoretical possibility is that passive, widespread citizen resistance before things get too bad would bring the whole termite-ridden edifice of élite fantasy down. In truth, States and global businesses could be swept away within months at most by national strikes in tax payment and consumption.

But three elements are missing from the formula required to create that outcome: education, enthusiasm and solidarity. And also, it is my opinion that – within the Muslim population as a whole – there is an additional fellow-travelling obedience factor that would militate against mass action.  [...]

My attitude – hardening more and more in recent months – will, I know, dismay some people. But it is, simply, whatever lunacy they want to try next, bring it on. The dafter things get, the sooner they and their creators will be gone for good.

(integral aici)