THE CRIMINAL DESTRUCTION OF NATURE
Some thoughts for 2011… There are few things stupider than to look at the American imperialist system and think that this is a good system that has somehow gotten confused. No. This is a malevolent system. It's an insane system. It’s a stupid system. Looking at a theme that can define the current so-called world order over and over and over again I come down to the term "the criminal destruction of the planet". This is a criminal system engaged in criminal acts. What are the chances that the system will reform itself voluntarily? The chances of that are zero, none. The odds are nearly 100% that some kind of revolution from below, or an authoritarian revolution from above, or some combination thereof will be the solution.
A WORLD RULED BY TWO COMPETING CORRUPT SYSTEMS
When you look at the complete failure during the last 15 years to develop a strategy to deal with the future, there are consequences. We need long-term views of history, not the endless delusions and self-promotion of America since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The way to look at the collapse of the Soviet Union is that this was the collapse of one bankrupt system that was in competition with another bankrupt system. America and the West came awfully close to collapsing in 1990 themselves. In fact, American and the West were in such severe economic trouble that had the Soviet empire been able to hold together, America might've fallen apart in the 1990s. The reduction in defense spending and the overall era of good feeling in the financial markets produced by the collapse of communism was able to save the Western states from the kind of collapse that hit the Soviet Union.
THE COLLAPSE OF DEMOCRACY
However as things evolve now, it's pretty obvious that the wheels are coming off the car in terms of the American imperialist system and this has severe consequences. Where we come in is a creative view of political ideology. That's our role. We aim to fill the vacuum that has been created by all the idiotic drivel of the 1990s and the early 21st century about how the American system is the ultimate crown of creation - and so on and so forth - and the total neglect of the study of other forms of government; particularly, the kind of totalitarian systems that may have to come in to clean up the nightmare that these people have produced. The American political system as we see it now is paralyzed. It's paralyzed. It just can't move and it just can't get things done. So it's going to simply slide towards a tremendous disaster. Hopefully that disaster will lead to something positive, but America has a big problem in that the argument that it likes to make in its own defense is in fact its greatest weakness. We are talking about America's view that it has the only version of political truth.
America has a very narrow minded political system and the American people have had their heads stuffed so full of garbage, that it's very difficult to see America having the flexibility to adjust its political system the way say Greece did after the suicide of Athens. That might be an educational example too because Athens died a terrible death politically as did the Roman Republic. So it may be that America needs to go through that kind of experience to in order to wake up. As we've repeatedly mentioned, the American system faces threats that Athens and Rome did not face in terms of the global environmental crisis. That is perhaps the greatest trademark of the whole American dream: the wholesale destruction of the planet's environment.
THE RISE OF NEW SYSTEMS
One of the most creative approaches to this whole thing has come to from people like Evo Morales in Bolivia, of the concept of a climate court. This is very intriguing, because in spite of all the self-righteous posturing of America, America is the number one climate offender. America's always liking to brag about the free market and the rule of law and so on. Well, it would be very logical that the states that are being devastated by climate change, such as Bolivia, should have the right to sue the number one offender in terms of putting poison in the atmosphere. This is a very interesting concept of criminal justice and something that definitely should be pursued.
As America collapses, different voices will be heard, and these voices will spread rapidly through the Internet. A drastic restructuring of the world will take place. Unfortunately 2 billion people probably aren't going to end up not being around to enjoy the party because of the structure of the disaster that these people are producing but we need to think creatively we need to look for the post-democratic era and think creatively about the philosophy that’s to come.