We're of different minds that's all, I hope to Christ I'm wrong. I am assuming most of Europe won't have a say, or that those with a say can be easily bought/bribed/removed and that the US will bleed Europe dry and some other states will get the Ukraine treatment. Not that it's necessarily the plan now, but that continuing the unsustainable practices of the US professional class, in the context of a rising China which hopefully can't be engaged directly, will necessitate this course of action.
In my mind, the long term project is still just to get Capital, or the ultra-wealthy whatever you prefer, into a position of automated technological supremacy over all other life on Earth. A police planet for want of a better term. I was thinking of starting some kind of YouTube or whatever channel to disseminate some firsthand research as yet unpublished (I think), mostly private correspondence and diaries from RAND alumni of the era, about the near-total overhaul of the built environment after WW2. It seems to have been a concerted effort, learning from both the Soviet and Maoist revolutions, and paranoia about Marx's original ideas, to disrupt rural revolution AND isolate people via suburban sprawl. Giving the professionals their skin-in-the-game half acre/mortgage/auto loan and growing the role of television in manufacturing consent, and telephones/mail in surveillance.
Ultimately the bulk of the imperial core's military - certainly the one nominally defending the country with the most captured, controlled, propagandized, and unquestioning domestic audience - is in the US. Much of the war machine development/construction, surveillance equipment, and the development of computer algorithms to financialize all aspects of human interaction also occur in the US. A lot does happen in UK/France/Germany for sure, but I don't imagine the CIA has any real alliances, and when push comes to shove the calculus will be to shore up the professionals completing the police planet technology so they don't abandon the mission, or find a conscience through a reduction in their standard of living.
We're of different minds that's all, I hope to Christ I'm wrong. I am assuming most of Europe won't have a say, or that those with a say can be easily bought/bribed/removed and that the US will bleed Europe dry and some other states will get the Ukraine treatment. Not that it's necessarily the plan now, but that continuing the unsustainable practices of the US professional class, in the context of a rising China which hopefully can't be engaged directly, will necessitate this course of action.
In my mind, the long term project is still just to get Capital, or the ultra-wealthy whatever you prefer, into a position of automated technological supremacy over all other life on Earth. A police planet for want of a better term. I was thinking of starting some kind of YouTube or whatever channel to disseminate some firsthand research as yet unpublished (I think), mostly private correspondence and diaries from RAND alumni of the era, about the near-total overhaul of the built environment after WW2. It seems to have been a concerted effort, learning from both the Soviet and Maoist revolutions, and paranoia about Marx's original ideas, to disrupt rural revolution AND isolate people via suburban sprawl. Giving the professionals their skin-in-the-game half acre/mortgage/auto loan and growing the role of television in manufacturing consent, and telephones/mail in surveillance.
Ultimately the bulk of the imperial core's military - certainly the one nominally defending the country with the most captured, controlled, propagandized, and unquestioning domestic audience - is in the US. Much of the war machine development/construction, surveillance equipment, and the development of computer algorithms to financialize all aspects of human interaction also occur in the US. A lot does happen in UK/France/Germany for sure, but I don't imagine the CIA has any real alliances, and when push comes to shove the calculus will be to shore up the professionals completing the police planet technology so they don't abandon the mission, or find a conscience through a reduction in their standard of living.