“…if you’ll give me forty years I’ll turn this rig around…”
Great old song it was, and I only had to change one word to
bring it totally up to date. Change yards to years, and then look at the world
you’re living in. It’s right there in your face. Gentle reader, the endless run
of reboot movies, the endless run of reboot propaganda, these things are not
because those who craft the entertainments and the manipulations are out of
ideas, not at all. There is a very skilled and subtle intention in play, and in
all truth it’s one that I would (grudgingly) have to support until and unless
some better idea comes along.
Their intentions are to most literally get the good old cold
war going again and split the world neatly in half east to west, US/Nato vs.
the Russian Republic in the role of The Soviet Union. They are frantically
trying to dial the calendar back to 1980.
It sounds like lunacy, but there is a viable reason for such
a campaign. That reason is a desperate attempt to curtail the exponentially
rising power of the Corporate Neo-Fascist in their bid for domination. The CNF, who have allied themselves with the nation of China after failing to
conquer the United States with their attempted coup by media-manipulation of
the Bush administration, the CNF must be stopped if any nation is to survive.
The Russians know this, the Americans know this, the remainder of the world
knew it before they did.
With the world once again divided along the old lines the
CNF will no longer be able to operate on a global scale with utter impunity. Do
business east, or do business west, but no longer will they be able to run with
the sun around the globe. With the old cold war mentality back in place China
is once again returned to the status of enemy to both sides… yes, the Soviet
Union had a 65 division army, and 45 of those divisions were parked on the
Chinese border assuming they’d have to give a thousand kilometers to stabilize
a line against a Chinese attack on their nation.
It is the old, old truism of divide and conquer played on a
global scale against a global enemy. Unless by some miracle the United Nations
should step up and establish a global code of law to govern the CNF I don’t see
a better strategy on the horizon. And that… is a terribly sad thing.
We really need to make ourselves a note that the next time
we try for global peace we’d better make sure there are no monsters lurking
under the bed waiting for the old warriors to hang up their swords before
making their bid for world
domination. We need to remind ourselves not to make the same mistake twice.
