| Many things happen on their own characteristic time. Ice ages during the Pleistocene, for instance, cycled on a time scale of about 10,000 to 100,000 years. Anthropogenic climate change, on the other hand, will be fully upon us in 50 to 100 years. The energy crises, first noticed in the 1970s, is fully upon us now and will come to misery in 5 to 10 years. The political time frame, at least in the US, is about four years. Lots of pseudo economists like to imagine various business cycles but people who look closely at stock market data can’t find temporal correlations beyond a second. Empires, apparently, rise and fall on a cycle of a few hundred years. As we can see, that of the US is coming to a fall. As it comes down a theory with quite a lot of predictive power is that it’s owned by gangsters. The gangsters fix things so no matter what, wealth moves from the many to the few – them. A recent piece in Rolling Stone showed how Goldman Sachs is gangster central. Look at the resumes of many in power and you’ll see their Goldman credentials. Stacked up against us then, first is a gangster run economic gangbang. Next is the end of surplus energy. After that are drought, floods, crop failures, and starvation. In the meantime the wolves are busy fleecing the sheep. It’s easy, it’s fun, and it’s lucrative. Besides, there are plenty of sheep. Feliz cumpleaños, tío Sanovio. ¿Cuantos años mas? |
