04.07.08
US vs China: Should the yankees settle for autonomy or go for independence?
Just finished reading a book I referenced a few days ago Olympics boycott: Tibet’s fate will be ours:
In the Jaws of the Dragon: America’s Fate in the Coming Era of Chinese Hegemony (Hardcover)
by Eamonn Fingleton
Americans are a bit cocky, but it may be that they are incurably stupid.
I recommend this book to anyone who is trying to survive disinformation in the current media environment, for its clear depiction of the new brand of Chinese mutant Confucianist Stalinist consumerism economy, asking themselves how long they can do their Wal-mart shopping without ending up in the slave labor economy that produced it.
The Chinese, it seems, if the book is not alarmist (it will be denounced as such), have perfected a new form of something the Japanese pioneered (with at least the semblance of democracy).
Mutant is the right word, I think. Basically the issue is: how to do capitalism in a Stalinist petri dish, and have a good laugh if it brings America to its knees. Clock ticking, suspense.
There happen to be a lot of exit points here, but they have been consistently squelched each step of the way. Have we passed the point of no return? I hope not.
The book has a few problems, no doubt, but a minimum of right-wing or Buchanan type crude. He shows the demonic ingenuity of this new brand of totalitarian economy and how it works (pioneered in Manchuria by the Japanese, decades ago), and how American got sucked into it. Breathtaking cleverness, totalitarianism reinvented.
The previous post discussed the question of Tibetan autonomy versus independence, they also have this problem. Your move.
It is easy to talk about independence, but the already corrupted leadership might settle for autonomy, independence could start a world war. The elites will be well rewarded for muffled the game. Write off American freedoms as unprofitable.
Worth reading Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation, a little background on the crises of ‘market’ Darwinism and world war, the last time.
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