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Life in the Year Zero [1]
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Date: 2025-02-03
By David Glenn Cox
It makes perfect sense in a twisted sort of heavy Armageddon laden style, sick cynical end of the world nihilist philosophy. It all begins with that global Climate change SOME insist does not exist. Leaving out the causes and politics, the ice up north is melting faster than an ice cream bar in a Birmingham August. Conservatives being conservatives, see every half full glass of water as a chance to make money selling water.
On a shipwreck they sell life jackets in a blizzard they sell warm coats. It’s not a catastrophe, it’s a business opportunity. Recently, Congress held a hearing on UFOs and UAPs. Republicans pushed for a full release of all the files because there could be a fortune hidden in there somewhere! Why, if we could get our hands on an Alien Death Ray gun, we’d be rich! And it would be covered under the 2nd Amendment!
Back to our ice cream, there is now a new way to sail from Asia to Europe, a short cut through the Northwest Passage. For Canada “Cha Ching!” For the United States not so much. That water has always been frozen, and we never had to worry much about defending it but now we do! Now there is an open path through our backyard, and we don’t know who is using it and of course we want to control it. “Welcome Canada! Our 51st state!
Likewise, with plans to invade Mexico and retake the Panama Canal as well. Creating Pax North Americana gatekeeper to the world. There is a heavy sort of an apocalyptic feel to it all. You know if Canada became the 51st state, a lot those debts would be largely void. The 21st Century will be dominated by 1984 style trading blocks. Europe, Asia, North and South America. Each fighting and scrapping for market share amid declining resources on a warming planet. “Jesus. If you’re up there you’re cleared for landing!”
So, if Canada were to muck up our flag by trying to configure how to put 51 stars in a geometric pattern. And Greenland is to become a province like Puerto Rica or Samoa. To control both ends of the Northwest Passage. See? Climate change as a business opportunity! Effective immediately, we win on every hand dealt. Rome always wins and the Provinces feed the King with their taxes.
Now the basis of this philosophy is rock solid belief that everyone out there is cheating you. So that if you don’t win automatically, you feel wronged. So now the King is going to fix it where nobody can ever cheat us ever again at anything. You see, Europe isn’t really our ally. They just pretend to be friendly trying to take advantage of us. They aren’t our friends! They’re our competitors!
China wants to take over the world and that’s OUR job! Boiling down the niceties of world trade into a knife fight of ruthless world commerce. Not in our backyard! The United States has the largest consumer market in the world. If we choose to lock you out of it, it will hurt you a lot more than us. Tariffs on a whim mean only a fool can plan for the future. Flying economic buzz bombs! Had enough? Ready to say, “Uncle Sam yet?”
No more Mr. Nice Guy. From now on we play the game my way or you don’t play it at all. They are trying to fight the next war. Trying to reshuffle the deck. The war for economic supremacy and hegemony. The war for the New American hegemony! Neoliberal 21st Century Ludwig von Mises futuristic feudalism. My Billionaires can whoop your billionaires. See that Pacific Ocean? That’s ours! Not yours! See that Panama Canal? That’s ours! Not yours! Now that we understand each other a little better, we can commence discussing world trade.
Sovereignty? Legality? World Court? Treaties? How many soldiers do they have? No more pretending to be decent and law abiding. This is life in the year Zero, where it’s every man woman and child for themselves. Welcome to the jungle!
In an apocalyptic way you almost have to admire their sense of ambition. It took the Nazis six years to intimidate Austria and here the King is threatening Canada less than one month into his reign. Stock markets riled across the planet. Boy, I bet if you knew this was coming in advance you could have fleeced the suckers in the stock market but good! You could manipulate the shit out of the market, and no one would be any the wiser.
Fuck law, fuck courts, we’ll do what we want, and you can’t stop us. “Germany and the Soviet Union sign historic peace treaty!” Best friends forever!
It is a bad Mystery Science 3000 film about an aged, angry twisted leader in a galaxy somewhere far, far out of his mind manipulated by the belted earls. To seek a war of economic conquest to preserve their affluent futures on a dying planet for just a little bit longer. Fighting for market share like fighting in Stalingrad. Well, maybe I’ll let you bring in your Toyotas and then again, maybe we won’t. How about I let you bring them in, but they cost $60,000 each. Are you ready to make a deal yet?
The King is insanely serious about this Pax North Americana which means he’s seriously insane. This is his struggle, his Kampf. To break down the walls of laws and treaty obligations and grab the world economy by the throat and shout, “We’re taking over! Anybody got a problem with that?” Just like a Bond villain. Soylent Green is an important part of a balanced breakfast!
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell,
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