On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 07:20:39 -0400 Steve Kinney <admin@pilobilus.net> wrote:
The TPP and similar deals under negotiation indicate that the 'establishment' in question is trans-national. The content of these negotiations indicates that its agenda is, as always, more money and power for the ruling class at any expense to anyone else.
I just call it real life.
Per my own pet theories, today's Deep State will self destruct by virtue of its own existence:
Unfounded 'optimism'?
Unbreakable commitments vs. Laws o' Thermodynamics, never mind the details.
Well, maybe you should provide some details otherwise you only have an unfounded assertion. Real life is this : the state keeps getting more power. That is exactly the opposite of self-destruction.
In that model, the actual "fall" of the Deep State is already in progress, as part of a complex and turbulent transitional period with historically unprecedented features. We do live in interesting times.
One of the most interesting political features of today's novel social landscape is the Internet: Analysis and exploitation of group behavior in this new medium is all the rage in propaganda, PsyOps and marketing disciplines. Instant many to many mass communication is inherently biased to facilitate popular uprisings;
That's why there are so many uprisings. Especially in a naturally libertarian 'nation' like the great US. Oh wait. So far the only internet 'uprisings' we've seen are actually CIA-GOOGLE-FACEBOOK-NSA coup de etats in the middle east?
among other things it breaks the State & Corporate monopoly on propaganda,
Well, I also WISH that would be the case but I know it ISN'T. and enables rapid ad hoc organization and
large scale action by segments of the great unwashed public. Pushing back agaisnt State efforts to control "problems" created by Internet is a job for... um... isn't the word cyber-something?
:D