Living Memory and Forgotten Lessons

What has history taught us and why do we forget the lessons of the past?

The historical analysis presented here highlights two regression trends that are characteristic of our age :

1°  The return of dogmatic values based on revelatory culture; religious beliefs that spread hate and exclusion in the world. This trend was chastised and curbed in Western civilization in the period of the Enlightenment, which fathered three revolutions : the British parliamentary one in 1685, the US fight for enfranchisement from colonial rule in 1776 and finally the most important, the French Revolution that changed the course of humanity. The emergence of the secular state and human rights further strengthened the cause of laicity as a legal framework; where reference to "creationist" beliefs would be severed from the realm of social-politics and political science. God had no place in deciding on the course of a nation's public choices.

This trend has abruptly come to an end in the context of Pax Americana since the Reagan/Bush years. The American administration has openly morphed into a bible inspired administration whose two pillars of foreign policy are : support of a Zionist belligerent state and of a fundamentalist minded, Muslim Wahhabist  Saudi kingdom, both extremely  religiously and ethnically oriented political constructs; all to protect the world's sacred energy Oil patch.

Pax Americana is now the most open supporter of the very regimes that promote obscurantism abroad as does the neo-conservative, envangelista cabal, of GWB/Clash of Civilization inspiration, now promote the same insidious, seemingly neo-fascist and authoritarian trends at home in the USA. The alignment of the Democratic party under Barack Obama to the Patriot Act and Guantanamo prison doctrines, now enhanced by the new NDAA legislation, is a chillingly alarming trend of  US politics in general. We have a distinct impression that a psychopathic bend of political thinking now pervades all of US politics.

2°  Concomitant with this ideological mindset shift of alarming magnitude, Pax Americana, in its strategic choices of governance, has not only compounded the financial cabal run by the TBTF banks, it has fueled its dissemination by the irresponsible print to infinity actions of the FED, all determined to levitate a distorted risk asset market of the WS casino economy based on cheap ZIRP money pumping.

This is a financial cancer that will bring down the First world economies as it betrays the very founding principles of Capitalism : Faith, confidence, transparency and accountability and finally, creative destruction of failed capital constructs through free market mechanisms. All these principles have been openly flouted by the political administration in an opaque, crony capitalistic, arbitrary and non regulatory decision making process which challenges overtly the prudential rule of law and holds nobody accountable for their criminal acts of commission and omission.  Such a system of benign neglect is unsustainable as it has blatantly socialised the private debt by transferring it to the public balance sheet;  allowing the private Oligarchs responsible for this criminal collusion of rampant greed to get away scot-free.  All at the expense of creditor nations who source the runaway US economy based on pathologically financialised,  irrational exuberance and hubristic exorbitant privilege of reserve currency status.

The signs are already visible in the Pacific rim of new, major economic actors, now moving away from the USD reserve currency status that is now strangulating the global financial markets. China, Japan, Russia, India and Brazil will do everything in their power to sever their economies from a debt ridden US/Euro financial construct, all based on petrodollar hegemony. The key to the Pax Americana construct stays the oil patch alliance between the Arab producer states, surrogates of Pax Americana, and the US economy which consumes 25% of world energy resources with 4.5% of world population.

As we see no visible signs of the major consumer economies moving away from fossil fuels in the near future, the Net land export model of oil market will strangulate economic growth worldwide. As the demands of Chindia increase, as the production of exporters decrease, as their own internal consumption explodes; all of which means that there will be less liquid fossil fuels available for USA and Europe.

This energy conundrum is the straw that will break the First world camel's back. And it will occur sooner than later. We are there and there is no way out; except the mad, irrational temptation of Armageddon. The globalised financial system and consequent power construct where 40% of the world's riches belong to 1% of the world population, on which the nation-state governments have no say and control as they are parked in off-shore havens, is the damning sign of the times; a return to Feudal order and all this implies : we are indeed in  dangerous times where the four horsemen of the Apocalypse can give free reign to the worst character traits of the human kind.; social darwinism at global level.

The collapse of this system is the only salvation for mankind. But no power on earth controlled by legal governments is capable of achieving this. As the corruption of our first world institutions is so generalised and the 99% of the population can now be manipulated through regulatory capture of legal and legislative institutions of huge proportions by the 1% Oligarchical lobbies and pressure groups.
Putting thus into motion the seeds of theirs and our own collective destruction. Rome 476 AD.

If the Uterus civilization is attained then how can we spawn a new resurgence of Enlightenment?

A question to which there is no easy and apparent answer except what was implied in the previous post : a contraction of human population to a level of 1 to 2 billion inhabitants, in a totally irradiated and polluted world.

The thesis of "silent weapons" of global social engineering, if such a project exists in elitist circles, seems to lead there where all Dr Strangelove concoctions  are fatally destined : Pandora's box and silent Nemesis.

Is that the final lesson of western civilization to Man's history?
Is that Pax Americana's contribution to human evolution?
Your guess is as good as mine!

But silence is never the reply of history, even if it is used by some to callously sacrifice the lambs; as power hates a vacuum and civilization is inevitably reborn.  

In which case the Uterus civilization changes its safe haven; it is born elsewhere. This is the lesson of history, time and time again.

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