On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 22:34:32 +0000 Sean Lynch <seanl@literati.org> wrote:
Now there's one I hadn't heard before. Usually you hear about the "NWO" from people pushing UFO theories and new age bullshit, or from Christian conspiracy theorists who think Obama is the antichrist trying to create the NWO or some such crap.
So, you want to associate serious political analysis with that kind of lunatics because you have zero argumentes against serious politcal analysis.
It seems to me the most likely explanation is that we all love a good conspiracy theory and there in fact is no NWO.
So 'institutions' or gangs like the IMF, the world bank, the WHO, the UN, WTO, etc, etc, don't really exist. And transnational US military contractors like google don't exist either.
The stability of any conspiracy is inversely proportional to its vastness because
And now, after trying to smear people whom you can't refute and tried to deny reality in the most stupid way possible you start to babble pseudo academic nonsense. With 'libertarians' like you Sean freedom needs no enemies.
of the prisoners' dilemma. That doesn't mean powerful individuals or small groups can't apply just the right pressure at just the right time to take advantage of opportunities, and it certainly doesn't mean that there aren't vast alignments of incentives that make people act as if they are involved in a conspiracy (military industrial complex, prison industrial complex, drug war, etc). It doesn't even mean it's not sometimes easier to talk about an alignment of incentives as if it were a conspiracy. Or perhaps this latter thing is what you mean?