Today's Headlines

In Iraq chaos begins to engulf an almost 30 million person population. Israel fights with Palestinian forces on one side while it waits for Hamas to strike again from Lebanon with the ever watchful eyes of Iran and Syria peering over. The poor people of Darfur are slowly being removed from our planet. Sri Lankans battle among themselves fighting for freedoms. Afghanistan and their war continues on (are we sure this isn’t the same battle we were fighting in the 70’s?). North Korea tested a nuclear weapon. The Chinese are beginning to power up what could be the most powerful war machine that will ever walk this planet. Columbia is fighting a war with drug raiders who have better focused funding, solid technology and connections everywhere to be bribed. The Russians are selling weapons to the Iranians and the Chinese and the North Koreans all so they can defend themselves against the United States of America. The Iranians are pushing forward with their research in the nuclear technologies, which is sure to kick start a Middle East trend (that is sure to start up the Israeli war machine). China and Pakistan are agreeing to things to hedge their relationships with India. Georgia and Russia scream about international politics and gas prices. The British wonder if Putin is killing people just like Mr. Stalin in his heyday. Al Qaeda is spreading due to bone headed motivation created by the United States in Iraq. Gangs rule the major cities of Brazil waging war and killing targets at their behest. Haiti has been fighting for peaceful elections yet still hasn’t been able to get that all important powerful intelligent ruler in there. Castro lingers on casting doubts about the stability of one of the longest running states in the Western Hemisphere. Chavez is trying to spark a flame and light a continent in an incendiary revolt. His friend was elected to power another country. A Sandinista came to power via election in Nicaragua. Russian spy caught in Canada. American President, Vice President and Secretary of Defense up for a lawsuit that will head to the Supreme Court or lead to impeachment. Chechnyan rebels killing and being killed. Pakistan fighting with the Taliban as well. India fighting off the Pakistanis, Maoists and any of a dozen other extremist groups.

 

If you took the time to read that, then you just saw a fragment of the painful things going on in this world right now. These are properly the biggest media spectacles, as those are the items that tend to pop up in a two minute brain storm. The world is fighting all over. The market in violence is grand. How is it that we have managed to hold ourselves afloat? We push.

History Allows me to see the Progression

http://www.mises.org/story/2355

 

Take a few minutes.

What to come?

I wonder…

Where the plans are stored that discuss the details related to a US Military run “control mechanism” breaks down the United States of America into 130 (random number…sorta) clearly defined and separated (by various things – rivers, troops and wilderness would be the big ones I suspect) pieces of land so as to control the societal chaos caused by who knows what (world famine, financial collapse, military invasion, government corruption, disease or any numbers of world wide calamities)? What is the logic behind how you dissect 300 million individualistic peoples who are used to their right to bear arms? Would we be able to resist like the Iraqi population (who they are fighting changes at times…)? Would the force of the military be so great in the states in combination with the possible support of the local police forces that society could be controlled in the same sense a rumbling herd is moved and culled along the edges over time?

We clearly have a desire to plan for the control of all places that could cause disruptions to the potential safety of the United States of America. Society tearing at its roots would be very bad for an economy of such significant connectedness. The web of America’s business is significant. If the military no longer has the economic engine running behind it, there is nothing it can do because it is only made of the people from that world. Of course, there is a point where the military and government as well as all the direct supporting pieces are so large in size that they would very easily be their own community without the need for a significant independent civilian world…but I don’t think our beast is that strong.

Curfews, constantly moving military vehicles scouring the land, controlled and moderated news, roving bands of vigilantes rolling around the land taking as their weapons can and all the other concepts of societal revolt could quickly convene. We know the Pentagon would rather spend the time and have plans in place for things that are highly unlikely rather than have no plans at all. And since societal revolt is something that has occurred continually somewhere since man first began gathering, I would think that would be something of decent chance of happening. Los Angeles is the most recent example of the people running the show in a scary world. 1968 apparently scared the book writers as well. We can’t control Iraq (26 M people – about 1/11^th of the US total), who is to say we can take care of our own people? Would all of the US military currently stationed all over the world suddenly converge here and leave more of the world open to its own evolutions? Can we hope to reasonably save millions from internal combat?

At what point would the birds of war in the Air Force bring down their own version hell? Would the troops support overly stringent measures on an individual level? Would the redisbursement from their local area be enough to allow them to shoot as trained? How much control would the states have now that the President has pulled the power of the National Guard from the governors as well as gotten the houses to agree to allow for the stationing of American troops for purpose of acting in their profession (following up the precedent of using troops in the aftermath of the hurricane in New Orleans recently)?

Things change. The world moves. Every once in a while terrible things happen and the tables have to be righted. There are people who are paid to think of these things.

Bodies sans animation

Who cries for Iraq? Just her people really, I guess. We all have our own problems. Who is pained for the single life? So perfectly loved, unequivocally loved. Who sings for the souls that are being burnt?  As society tears at its enemy, it reaches to harm its own other. Who teaches ourselves the knowledge we need to gain when we see atrocity?

 

I fear we are beyond control. I fear the world is on the edge. Cataclysm might befall. Doom impending. Might the world fall in upon itself? To what level can we grow before we begin sag in upon ourselves? The fraying at the edges of the world are getting warm…spreading. Soon they will alight with a fire that may set the whole upon itself with an unquenching thirst.