Quote:Full Spectrum Domino on March 01, 2018 · at 9:14 pm UTC
Exactly. America is a nation sublimated by an alien organism called Empire that roosts atop it. The military, even the currency, is in service to the organism. In many respects, America has the most unanswerable institutions on Earth.

It’s also more accurate to think of Empire not as a succession of discrete rises-and-falls, but rather as a vulture that descends and alights on one people after another. Thinks of Daniel’s statue, a constituent construction that is identifiable as a recognizable human form nonetheless.

The vulture grows on the power of usury. That’s why we call it International Capital, a transnational agglomeration of ever-increasing wealth and power. The underlying nation (which is allowed to enjoy the status and cache of being the Empire-of-the-moment) is never enriched by the vulture’s stay, but rather is picked unto fiscal collapse. I believe Katherine Austin Fitts uses a tapeworm analogy. That works.

The American people are victims, hardly beneficiaries, of Pax Americana. As recompense they are allowed to glory in the prowess of ‘their nation’. They are hopelessly nourished on Clint Eastwood military industrial false-consciousness-producing movies (our era’s Leni Riefenstahl.)

Poor bastards, all in all.