The Great Replacement Of Everything

Dollar, Western civilisation sidelined: what gives?

Jul 21, 2024

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John McCloy was Rockefeller's geopolitical fixer of WW2 and the Cold War
Meet BlackRock's Tom Donilon. In 2010 he declared Asia was the new target
The 'Donilon Doctrine' turned U.S. from Afghanistan, Mid East and Europe
Financial, industrial fulcrum shifts East - how could China not be involved
In a cybernetic reorganisation of society, rationing resources and population
But it remains a rival for control, not a client
Are the owner investors choreographing a play with two sides?
Washington is complicit in end of the petrodollar agreement with Riyadh
The Great Replacement extends to the words we use to describe ideas

(2,000 words or 10 minutes of your company)

Elizabeth Catlett’s tribute to Ralph Ellison, author of the novel “Invisible Man.”

Jul 21, 2024

There is more to compute every day.

In the U.S. much of the establishment has reconciled itself to a Trump presidency. The factional war disguises their unity on the march of the surveillance state.

In Europe, the economy continues to contract. Unilever, Thyssenkrupp and Bayer are some of the big names that downsized.

Sectorally, the growth is in consumption not manufacturing: artificial intelligence, the cloud, data centres, CBDC... electric vehicles, telemedicine, DNA harvesting and biosciences. All are energy intensive and compete with what's left over for people.

Globally, the decline of the dollar accelerates; the extent of the pivot becomes clear. We don't yet know how much of the West are they willing to discard in order to shift the financial, industrial fulcrum to the East.

The longer this goes on, the more it seems clear that China is on board but perhaps as a rival for control.

Objectively, it looks like the outcome is a cybernetic reorganisation of society: a reduction in population and a corresponding fall in resources, engineering and infrastructure allocated to sustain the masses.

It is tempting to reach for labels that neatly describe what is happening — post-capitalist, post-imperialist, post-human, post-truth — but these box us into pre-conceived notions.

However well informed we think we are, perspective limits what we can see. Upbringing, education and social conformity set our expectations. The Great Replacement culls the words we use to describe ideas.

Too stupid not to be planned

In this article we discuss the architects of this scientific revolution, and its casualties, why political saviours are unlikely, and the responsibility we cannot dodge.

First, let's set the terms of our debate and agree what we witness.

Last week Elon Musk said he's moving the headquarters of X and SpaceX from California to Texas. The list of companies quitting San Francisco is a roll call of America's most famous retailers and brands. The state will earn less tax, from companies and shoppers; the quality of life will fall; and yet more will leave.

To quote Bill Holter: "It is too stupid not to be planned."

Green war economy

Europe's post-imperial hubris was on display at the NATO summit in Washington on July 9 through 11, leaders acting, as Harley Schlanger says, like petulant children. They want their war and shall have it. [1]

Ukraine has depleted Europe's military to the point where it cannot defend itself.

They are expanding weapons production, led by Germany's Green warmongers, who helped appoint Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to a second term. Yet Europe's economy is shrinking, dragged down by the closure of energy producers and farms.

A green war economy. Who would've thunk it? Of course it makes net zero sense.

Even if the decline of a thousand years of Western civilisation were organic, there's little attempt to preserve it — quite the reverse: the political, academic and corporate class take pleasure in ridiculing its bourgeois corpse.

The question is what is the real objective.

If we faced just one challenge, the U.S. in particular could withstand it. If it was, say, a decision to go Green and slash our energy capacity; if it was the weaponisation and crash of the dollar; the replacement of cash with cards; if it was a president with only a few mental issues...

All at once, in a society that has been purposely divided, we experience:

the collapse of generational knowledge through the dumbing down of education
the replacement of civic duty and know-how by naive ideologies
a system of politics and bureaucracy led by woke automatons
the hyper-financialisation of every corner of society
as bankers print money like toilet roll, the Modern Monetary Theory
and gear up for war
while experimenting with new injectables on civilians and military

The U.S. is pushing the world towards a reset marked by the replacement of the dollar. Geopolitically it may not stop with Europe and the U.S.. Is China an independent observer, a perpetrator or a participant?

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