What the Koch Brothers, the Supreme Court’s Gang-of-Five, and the rest of the corporatist crew are doing today kind of reminds me of Pearl Harbor…
Well into the 20th century, the Japanese military and their corporate elite had built an industrial monolith and had gone far in their colonial exploits. After all, they believed, they had more right over the natural resources and cheap labor of Asia than did the colonial gaijin.
When the US and Colonial Britain opposed their expansion and cut off oil and rubber, etc., for their industrial machine, the Japanese turned to war. (That’s usually what wars are about: Markets & Profit.) more…
As I witness this world, I’ve come to feel like an alien Robinson Crusoe…marooned on this planet and damned if I can figure out how to get back home, or at least some rational alternative.
In any event, as you requested Theophilus, here’s my promised report on earthlings. I realize that this section has been quarantined, so I might be here for awhile longer…
As you know, humans are a relatively recent species, being roughly only some 200,000 years old (a minuscule fraction of our galactic year).
They’re a classic case of psycho-projected catastrophism. more…