On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 07:20:39 -0400
Steve Kinney <[email protected]> wrote:
> The TPP and similar deals under negotiation indicate that the
> 'establishment' in question is trans-national. The content of
> these negotiations indicates that its agenda is, as always, more
> money and power for the ruling class at any expense to anyone else.
>
> I just call it real life.
>
> Per my own pet theories, today's Deep State will self destruct by
> virtue of its own existence:
Unfounded 'optimism'?
> Unbreakable commitments vs. Laws o'
> Thermodynamics, never mind the details.
Well, maybe you should provide some details otherwise you only
have an unfounded assertion.
Real life is this : the state keeps getting more power. That is
exactly the opposite of self-destruction.
> In that model, the actual
> "fall" of the Deep State is already in progress, as part of a
> complex and turbulent transitional period with historically
> unprecedented features. We do live in interesting times.
>
> One of the most interesting political features of today's novel
> social landscape is the Internet: Analysis and exploitation of
> group behavior in this new medium is all the rage in propaganda,
> PsyOps and marketing disciplines. Instant many to many mass
> communication is inherently biased to facilitate popular
> uprisings;
That's why there are so many uprisings. Especially in a
naturally libertarian 'nation' like the great US.
Oh wait. So far the only internet 'uprisings' we've seen are
actually CIA-GOOGLE-FACEBOOK-NSA coup de etats in the middle
east?
> among other things it breaks the State & Corporate
> monopoly on propaganda,
Well, I also WISH that would be the case but I know it ISN'T.
and enables rapid ad hoc organization and
> large scale action by segments of the great unwashed public.
> Pushing back agaisnt State efforts to control "problems" created
> by Internet is a job for... um... isn't the word cyber-something?
>
> :D
>
