Thanks for another incredibly dense chapter in the narrative you have been constructing.
Again joining lots of dots. Awakening memories of times past during the Biden administration when I was accessing stories from RT to counter-balance the Ukraine war narrative being pushed by the US MSM because of intense cognitive dissonance I was experiencing.
But also this article has made me juxtapose the global/macro perspective you persuasively present, with the micro/lived experience of my own life as I try to navigate life as a recently retired man living in Australia.
The phrase you use in your article - "a demoted precariat available for populist mobilization" - kind of resonates with my current concerns about my daughter who is demoralized by her financial/life circumstances at the present time. She is enthused by the narrative provided by the Australian Greens who are probably offering a narrative similar to that of the "Democratic Socialists" faction of the Democratic Party in the US. It is almost impossible for us to discuss anything political - although I do understand her being drawn towards the siren song of our "far left". I truly am not "far right", although my daughter seems to think I am "brainwashed" in that direction.
These different factions of the global TCC class perhaps have something in common - a desire to preserve and maximise their power and to "divide and conquer" the "little people" at the same time that they engage in their 5th generation warfare with each other. I am sure that in Russia and in China there are people like me who love their "precariat" children the same way I do, and wish they had more options to help them in a greater degree than they seem to have at this present time.
Duncan — thank you. You're living the demoted precariat experience with your daughter and the split at your own kitchen table is happening to families and friends everywhere. My observation is that the progressive wants the world restored forward and the conservatives want it restored back the way it was. Neither is wrong because the world has significantly changed. The truth is we can't go backwards because we can't undo what technology has done to the world and we can't go forwards because nobody knows where to go or even how to get there. We're sailing into unknown waters.
"Divide and conquer" gives them too much credit. It assumes a room where someone decides to split people up but the TCC are just as divided on the same issues. Example of Elon Musk trashing USAID and pushing for tighter immigration laws, while the left called him a Nazi racist -- (then there was that salute!).
There is no room. Each faction recruits the demoted for its own war — the nationalists want popular resentment, the progressives try to harvest young people's hope — and the division is the byproduct, not an intentional design. That should unsettle us more, not less: a plan can be exposed and stopped. This can't, because there is nothing to expose. A cabal has an intentional agenda but a class has unconscious social status to protect.
And Sting wrote a great song about your last point:
One always knows which side one's bread is buttered upon, and what the likes and preferences of the providers of the butter are. Within the "Cathedral", some research gets funded, and most does not. Researchers who keep getting funded know how to please the funders, and little needs to be said.
Over time enough narrative-control comes into play, and is locked in, to effectively kill independent science within that system.
Fortunately, but with great difficulty, regimes that have become corrupted are prone to collapse and eventual reformation, as with both China and Russia.
The West is in decline for sure but how long will the decline take and how far will it go down is anybody's guess. The Roman Empire took 400 years to decline. The conventional wisdom is that the rest of the world is on an incline, especially China, but for how long? Can China continue to deliver prosperity forever? My thought is no. The rest of the world is just catching up with the West in terms of technology and science but civil rights are declining all over the world. There were 11 mass protests last year in the Global South for example:
The owners are on edge lately. They want more failsafe controls on the human herds.
I presume that the Fed Plunge Protection Team is using AI and a swimming-pool of cash to keep markets looking good(ish), but nobody talks about such an obviously good idea...
US/NATO/Israel are very low on air defense missiles, badly depleted in offensive missiles, and vulnerable economically, with no apparent plan to get out of the situation, and unwilling to swallow the bitter medicine of capitulation.
You could make a case for that argument because the United States has been given too much power with the dollar. It made them imperialist empire builders after WW2.
Hi Richard, I just came upon this article from March 17 by Fabio Vighi, which is aging quite well at this point, and which dovetails with your analysis:
Thank you yes you’re right. He’s on the same track…his ”power exercised through infrastructure rather than legislation” passage is a cruder rheopolitics theory, though he defaults to an orchestrated agenda: the crisis “is escalated,” the infrastructure was “previously prepared and stealthily integrated,” then “unveiled and deployed as the solution.”
Just checking out his book “Emergency Capitalism” … and yeah, there definitely is an emergency and he goes into depth to explore the crisis. It seems that most commentators are convinced that we are headed to some mega crisis because “things can’t continue the way they’re going.” But I’m thinking that really is the crisis, that things are going to continue in a permanent crisis mode. If there was a hidden hand, pulling the strings, it would lead to an inevitable conclusion, but if there is no hidden hand, then financial and digital anarchy is the new normal.
"Muddling through" is badly underrated, perhaps because it is too complex to actually visualize, with so many little accommodations being made, then other ones and other ones, by everybody.
System breakage is easier to imagine. I do it all the time, myself. ;-}
Yes, it focuses mostly on the creation of BIS with Nazi involvement… stating that it runs the world is a sensational title, but the reality is that it is an apparatus of the Davos globalists with institutional momentum. And there’s nothing secret about the bank… It has a website, publishes annual reports. The author doesn’t go into the details of everyday operations because it’s boring and nobody would read it… It’s a lot more exciting to read a book about a secretive bank that nobody’s heard of that does sneaky secretive things in the dark… All very scary.
Thanks for another incredibly dense chapter in the narrative you have been constructing.
Again joining lots of dots. Awakening memories of times past during the Biden administration when I was accessing stories from RT to counter-balance the Ukraine war narrative being pushed by the US MSM because of intense cognitive dissonance I was experiencing.
But also this article has made me juxtapose the global/macro perspective you persuasively present, with the micro/lived experience of my own life as I try to navigate life as a recently retired man living in Australia.
The phrase you use in your article - "a demoted precariat available for populist mobilization" - kind of resonates with my current concerns about my daughter who is demoralized by her financial/life circumstances at the present time. She is enthused by the narrative provided by the Australian Greens who are probably offering a narrative similar to that of the "Democratic Socialists" faction of the Democratic Party in the US. It is almost impossible for us to discuss anything political - although I do understand her being drawn towards the siren song of our "far left". I truly am not "far right", although my daughter seems to think I am "brainwashed" in that direction.
These different factions of the global TCC class perhaps have something in common - a desire to preserve and maximise their power and to "divide and conquer" the "little people" at the same time that they engage in their 5th generation warfare with each other. I am sure that in Russia and in China there are people like me who love their "precariat" children the same way I do, and wish they had more options to help them in a greater degree than they seem to have at this present time.
Duncan — thank you. You're living the demoted precariat experience with your daughter and the split at your own kitchen table is happening to families and friends everywhere. My observation is that the progressive wants the world restored forward and the conservatives want it restored back the way it was. Neither is wrong because the world has significantly changed. The truth is we can't go backwards because we can't undo what technology has done to the world and we can't go forwards because nobody knows where to go or even how to get there. We're sailing into unknown waters.
"Divide and conquer" gives them too much credit. It assumes a room where someone decides to split people up but the TCC are just as divided on the same issues. Example of Elon Musk trashing USAID and pushing for tighter immigration laws, while the left called him a Nazi racist -- (then there was that salute!).
There is no room. Each faction recruits the demoted for its own war — the nationalists want popular resentment, the progressives try to harvest young people's hope — and the division is the byproduct, not an intentional design. That should unsettle us more, not less: a plan can be exposed and stopped. This can't, because there is nothing to expose. A cabal has an intentional agenda but a class has unconscious social status to protect.
And Sting wrote a great song about your last point:
https://youtu.be/wHylQRVN2Qs
One always knows which side one's bread is buttered upon, and what the likes and preferences of the providers of the butter are. Within the "Cathedral", some research gets funded, and most does not. Researchers who keep getting funded know how to please the funders, and little needs to be said.
Over time enough narrative-control comes into play, and is locked in, to effectively kill independent science within that system.
Fortunately, but with great difficulty, regimes that have become corrupted are prone to collapse and eventual reformation, as with both China and Russia.
"The West" awaits that process now.
"Truth is a lion."
The West is in decline for sure but how long will the decline take and how far will it go down is anybody's guess. The Roman Empire took 400 years to decline. The conventional wisdom is that the rest of the world is on an incline, especially China, but for how long? Can China continue to deliver prosperity forever? My thought is no. The rest of the world is just catching up with the West in terms of technology and science but civil rights are declining all over the world. There were 11 mass protests last year in the Global South for example:
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/01/how-gen-z-movements-shared-tactics-and-challenges/
The owners are on edge lately. They want more failsafe controls on the human herds.
I presume that the Fed Plunge Protection Team is using AI and a swimming-pool of cash to keep markets looking good(ish), but nobody talks about such an obviously good idea...
Both Russia and Iran have good reason to ramp-up in August, and that may have begun yesterday. https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/taking-the-initiative
US/NATO/Israel are very low on air defense missiles, badly depleted in offensive missiles, and vulnerable economically, with no apparent plan to get out of the situation, and unwilling to swallow the bitter medicine of capitulation.
You could make a case for that argument because the United States has been given too much power with the dollar. It made them imperialist empire builders after WW2.
London moved to New York... ;-(
And also moved to Geneva, Brussels and Basel…
Historically America just keeps the war machine going doesn’t seem to matter if they’re losing or not
Historically WITH RESERVE CURRENCY STATUS, not historically without it... ;-/
Hi Richard, I just came upon this article from March 17 by Fabio Vighi, which is aging quite well at this point, and which dovetails with your analysis:
"The Programmable Crisis: Iran and the Financial Regime Change" https://www.defenddemocracy.press/the-programmable-crisis-iran-and-the-financial-regime-change/
Thank you yes you’re right. He’s on the same track…his ”power exercised through infrastructure rather than legislation” passage is a cruder rheopolitics theory, though he defaults to an orchestrated agenda: the crisis “is escalated,” the infrastructure was “previously prepared and stealthily integrated,” then “unveiled and deployed as the solution.”
Just checking out his book “Emergency Capitalism” … and yeah, there definitely is an emergency and he goes into depth to explore the crisis. It seems that most commentators are convinced that we are headed to some mega crisis because “things can’t continue the way they’re going.” But I’m thinking that really is the crisis, that things are going to continue in a permanent crisis mode. If there was a hidden hand, pulling the strings, it would lead to an inevitable conclusion, but if there is no hidden hand, then financial and digital anarchy is the new normal.
"Muddling through" is badly underrated, perhaps because it is too complex to actually visualize, with so many little accommodations being made, then other ones and other ones, by everybody.
System breakage is easier to imagine. I do it all the time, myself. ;-}
Have you read "The Tower of Basel"?
Yes, it focuses mostly on the creation of BIS with Nazi involvement… stating that it runs the world is a sensational title, but the reality is that it is an apparatus of the Davos globalists with institutional momentum. And there’s nothing secret about the bank… It has a website, publishes annual reports. The author doesn’t go into the details of everyday operations because it’s boring and nobody would read it… It’s a lot more exciting to read a book about a secretive bank that nobody’s heard of that does sneaky secretive things in the dark… All very scary.