-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/17/2015 09:15 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
"Here’s what would happen in the totally impossible scenario that this person was elected and tried to act like a Lee Kuan Yew or an Augusto Pinochet against the Deep State:"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-16/how-survive-deep-state
Thanks for the heads up - the last time you posted part 1, I found i t
PS, even the comments grant an insight: "Fuck how to "survive" the deep state! Tell me how to destroy the motherfucker!
I would say the author was politically naive. His list of reforms that a hypothetical Dictator of the United States could implement to fix things, essentially consists of abolishing the functions of the State in one sweeping blow, and (presumably) letting the infallible Market replace them with something better. But then I realized he was pushing offshore Real Estate by promoting the idea that "nothing can be done" to improve conditions in the U.S. He also seems like applying the Laws O' Physics to large scale human problems, which I'm all for. But he manages to breeze right past the inconvenient truth that a human population crash will be well underway by the end of the century if not WAY sooner; I guess that would make overseas Real Estate sound less desirable as a retirement solution. In re the Deep State, I'm all about "destroy the motherfucker," as that's a guaranteed winning position: It has already destroyed itself, in that no human agency will be able to turn it from the course it is committed to: Perpetual exponential growth inside a closed container. The question is, how to "destroy the motherfucker" in a manner that makes things better instead of worse? Or, how best to mitigate the human costs of the Deep State's self destruction. My preferred solution: A revival of populist politics, in the sense of large numbers of "regular folks" doing whatever it takes to steal back some useful amount of the power that their rulers have stolen from them over the last ... um ... history of Western Civilization. Here's some docs about that, the kind of info that's surprisingly hard to dig up even from "radical" sources: http://pilobilus.net/xfer/Strategic_Nonviolent_Conflict.zip Of course, the resulting Utopia would at best be the "least bad" of available options. I don't expect a world that anyone will ever call "the Good Old Days" to appear before about 2150 at the soonest. :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJWIofeAAoJEDZ0Gg87KR0LU18P/AzJ6KmjOA7f2PWGMTw9e2/q svWvCfbR3VPJgoePpct3b1HMIOD9GjmOsUG6DBuClsHiQVw+7l2Sy0InhsH34S7c ahkKDIgB5314ruTNPeKKydcWy8AXywzU+XdoNt8C8OqLdjorFmgxFCkG0+a4eUrJ BzGLosYp+QgyOW6bGl+F86EaAkDz/IO+05+B933BWeNhkN4golO3nLDSrcsiZqHv 7bAfofJpAT51v8FjYxe5D609gV7ksWN1KAc+43O3BKFgG6jFxPtdiln1pPiBkGqY IY8FAvfO5feTEznu4DNikwAI0WMeOtCDjbK51k3ivf2DY4OB2pEqnErjBKfOkgLZ Dj9cRTRAGY11KyQSrj28aBlFYNnODrVxGXYTGCw0sHHzQOFuMHNntMSUb70El+Wg dK0KqrvWnq6YvJyZwvKONp1uATVWWzM8KAd1XEY6Ventyn47QLWIGCCg5NjKBELJ ONuTzBkxisGYwsev4oiZG0khRJVyR8FGJst6zq3x4V54zmB/4+uUsh1b94FdHnKO 8Wda/ChE70FiuyPHuK7x65bs0PjxGHuUBAqU06Ub+wl1xOUCfsxvNFGvzbY5ZQWi Nfm1FoJ5+TIIjLjzNii/Kge8Pi1QOB3035L3BjWA0xR86v2n3xJAtrA2pgevW/Jz kqqYSqo+PCRkTpsOCRaP =vXQd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----