In preparation for my holiday I was reading a bit the history of central america, it becomes clear to me that the Americans (ie USA) have always been interferring idiots (I am fighting to keep my rage under control). I'll write something later about this.Anyway I digress my literary trail lead me to Philippe Sands QC book "Lawless World". It describes the history of International Law, and how in the last few years Americans have retracted from a large number of their international responsibilities. It lays out exhaustively the approach that the US has taken towards trying to bend the laws and in the end just breaking them. Invasion of Iraq, guantanamo bay detainees, kyoto protocol, the list is long and shameful. What comes through more than anything else is there ineptitude, and the don't give a fuck attitude they have to the rest of the world.
I'm beginning to think Hugo Chavez is right.Silly pictures of George W. Bush are not funny any more.
The guy is not inept and bumbling (well he is but the people controlling him aren't). The actions of his presidency have not been done from a lack of understanding of the rest of the world. They have been calculated to maximise and maintain USA as the foremost nation on the planet, irrespective of what a shitheap the planet turns into. And all to serve the elite few who pull the strings.
Homework:
i) read lawless world
ii) read Confessions of an Economic Hitman
iii) ask yourself "what would tyler durdan do?"
The sermon ends.
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I've skipped parts (1) and (2) of my homework for now (I'll come back to them later) and have gone straight onto part three, asking 'what would Tyler Durden do?'
Seeing as his first choice for Equality failed (get rid of all the banks - put us all back onto 0), Tyler would need to adopt a different strategy. I can't see him petitioning government somehow, and I don't imagine that he'd have the oomph to impose sanctions on the U.S.A. I do, however, have a sneaky suspicion that whatever he did would probably involve extraordinarily large amounts of fruit juice and soap.
Somewhat tangentially, I've got it into my head that within 50 years the British people are going to turn around to whatever party is in power in our country and say "you know what; we've thought it over and we don't want a government anymore. We the people hereby give you 24 hours notice to pack up, get out and fuck off" I appear to be becoming somehow both more Tory and more Anarchist in my middle age.
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