Building new social contracts, local and global

Nations the world over can only survive where there are viable and just social contracts held sacred.

Truth or Consequences was once a famous American game show. Decades later it has become a civilizational nightmare where the game is played by psychopaths with no regard for truth or consequences. It is now a game played by oligarchs, bribed politicians and the monied super class. They operate in a delusional stratosphere where they see themselves as immune to the consequences of their actions and where the suffering and wreckage is deflected to others, where futures are foreclosed and planet earth becomes a rapidly depleted resource. There is no regard for sanity or sustainability as the plundering of the planet races out of control.

We were warned seventy-five years ago political “parties”originated as sporting clubs. They also originated as power cliques of like-minded souls getting together to consolidate their power over companies, corporations and ultimately forming political parties to form governments and govern whole countries. Now we know how sovereign elected governments can be subverted and overthrown in service to parasitic empires feeding on the wealth of nations and the impoverishment of the populations there in. The Kennedy assassination was one such coup d’etat.

There have also been abundant warnings political parties ultimately become totalitarian. Empires are by definition totalitarian and the totalitarian ideologues who run them must first of all slander history out of existence, control “ freedom” of the press, eradicate ever so vulnerable democracy, and mesmerize populations with weapons of mass distraction, endless lies, wars and hypocrisies.

Social contracts are shattered and there is a pathological disregard for truth, costs or consequences which is why they develop such tawdry euphemisms as “collateral damage.” Everything is reduced to names and numbers as the world is monetized for and by greedy oligarchs and venomous ideologues.

The redoubtable Bill Moyers, now 90 years of age, a distinguished American who has deep insights into America as a society and whose wisdom is shunned like so many true prophets whose voices are on the margins when they should be at center stage. These Moyer quotes confirm once again how predictive history is in the hands of those paying attention.

Now we are experiencing the apocalypse that follows when true prophecy is pushed aside, slandered out of existence by Philistines and war mongering barbarians. It takes the measure of our social consciousness leaving us with a failing grade.

Moyers and so many others saw what was coming. Now truth has been murdered and we are drowning in consequences, the treachery of the pathological few inflicted on the many.

Where social contracts are broken and “plutocratic control” prevails there is no democracy, no accountability and no regard for consequences. Societies become the plaything of war mongers and despots in their fleeting fifteen minutes of fame.

Looking at a world of consequences

There are powerful forces shaping our world to their own liking and they are ideological war mongering sociopaths. They have a complete lack of concern for the consequences of their actions. What happens now shapes the world for future generations. We all have a profound obligation to see the future is not destroyed for future generations. The world of today is highly integrated, highly complex and sound decision making and and policy development cannot be left in the hands of nitwitted half-baked troglodytes who have proven their greed, incompetence, their political and diplomatic immaturity for too long and too often.

The tragedy of America is that it has a huge brain trust of sages, wise men and women, scholars and academics whose voices must be heard and heeded. Bill Moyers is one such example. Yet venal buffoons and war criminals are left to run the country into the ground.

The Fourth Estate( the corporatized mainstream media) whores itself as the ministry for propaganda while the truth is marginalized to the Fifth Estate. A pathetic state of being for so-called democracies where freedom of the press is an essential pillar. Where that freedom is lost it is a conspicuous societal death wish based on endless wars, lies and propaganda.

Incidentally, I like to think of Mark Twain rather than finger pointing Uncle Sam as Americas national icon. If so America would be a very different country today. But empires habitually shun their true patriots, jail their dissidents, and are threatened by the binding truths of student demonstrations.

The post modern world now can only be governed by statespersons who know state craft and diplomacy. Too such leaders are Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping as they seek peace and prosperity and a more harmonious world. Many readers will balk at such a suggestion. If you do I would politely suggest you are a victim of the Western propaganda machine as we must go by the historic record; not the bullshit pumped out by the Western media and the slander of lying and corrupted Western politicians.

Western despots reject diplomacy because they are loutish ideological Philistines who insist on absolute dictatorial power. For them there is no room for consensus, compromise and no concern for future consequences. Three such examples are Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and Victoria Nuland. All are powerful unelected influencers, shapers of tyrannies behind the scenes. They typify the puppeteers pulling the strings and specialize in destroying social contracts. Just as we are seeing the social contracts of Western nations shattered. Rather than deliver peace, order and good government we are afflicted with forever wars, a steady diet of genocide and daily portions of political corruptness and stupidity. These are the imposters who are determined to rule the world!

Fragile states, military interventions and global basing

I invite readers to carefully study and scrutinize the three maps following. I am a great fan of images and maps as they tell contentious stories left untold. They tell stories difficult to put into words, confirming histories slandered out of existence, and taking the measure of our historical and political literacy.

Many of the countries on the map we are all familiar with. Depending on where we live in the world we can assess the state of social contracts, broken and intact, in our own locales. Being a resident of the West I can speak with some authority on the state of social contracts in the West. I invite others in your locales to do the same.

I question the integrity of most green zones on MAP1 as at this point in history social contracts are being shattered.

When we look at these maps we might also remind ourselves the essence of the world crisis we are suffering is because the delusional West is determined to conquer and subjugate the Eurasian heartland, regardless of the truth, cost and consequences. They are now panic stricken as their global dominance is evaporating like water on hot pavement and their only response is endless war and barbarism.

As you look at these maps imagine them laid one over the other and the congruities that appear. The states that are fragile, the ones that have suffered endless military and civil interventions, and those that are loaded down with US military bases . The reason the first two maps are so bloody red encapsulates the historical of Western plunder and pillage.

All three maps must be seen in the context of 500 years of imperialist extortionist history at the most critical turning point in world history.

Here are the three maps with my comments below. I invite yours in response:

Map#1

See an animated more detailed version of this map here

Fragile State Index is a Washington based research foundation. The criteria they use for drawing the above map is outlined there. For the purpose of making my comments I am taking the liberty of suggesting a failed state index is synonymous with social contracts, where they exist, where they don’t exist , where they have been suppressed and deliberately destroyed. Failed states, fragile states, and broken social contracts all fall in the same basket.

Failed states are now more euphemistically referred to as “fragile states.”

I question the integrity of MAP1 as green mostly denotes the Western NATO states which are in fact waging war on the rest to the world. Most are colonial states having given up their sovereignty and are slave states to the empires war on the world. Our economies are in decline, seriously in debt and slaves to the costs of the empire’s wars.

Western “greens” claim to be democratic when in fact we are alarmingly oligarchic and totalitarian.

We “paint” the rest of the world red as failed, fragile and threatening when the picture is otherwise. Russia is painted red as it is the scapegoat/nemesis the West uses to justify its constant wars of aggression on the world, as it also does with China. Neither wants war and both are committed to the diplomacy of peace and prosperity.

The West makes the fatuous claim the whole world is its “sphere of influence” erasing all others.

China and Asia are painted orange when in fact they represent 70% of the world’s economic production, with China now as the world’s largest economy. Needless to say Asia has most of the world’s population and the delusional West claims ownership over all.

The heart of Africa is deep red in large part because it it has been colonized and enslaved over centuries by Western imperialists. Only now is it rising up and kicking out the Western imperialists.

The red of Africa and the near East (where oil is abundant) can also be seen as blood dried and fresh.

Continuous perpetual war must in itself be seen as the shattering of social contracts as where there is no peace, no progress and social chaos reigns supreme.

The West has for centuries been vacuuming up the world’s wealth; now the rest of the world is claiming its proportionate share.

Map#2

MAP2 is equally provocative as it shows the blood red of US military interventions the world over since 1798. 251of 469 interventions have place since1991. As the maps author Ben Norton points out it only records and military interventions. The USA now maintains economic sanctions against a third of the world’s countries, as a way of limiting and destroying social contracts and progress. As one US official noted economic sanctions are “slow motion genocide.”

Read more here:

US launched 251 military interventions since 1991, and 469 since 1798

Map#3

This map from ALJAZEERA provides a world view of American military basing as if the rest of the world is its own backyard.

Notice how the basing is concentrated from the UK, through Europe and down through the Middle East. In the Pacific it is concentrated in Japan and south Korea with further military deployments on going to the Philippines and Taiwan in preparation for war against China. Here we are seeing the siege of Eurasia; Brzezinski’s pipe dream and the utterly insane brinkmanship and megalomania, fomenting nuclear war for delusional ambitions.

The whole world suffers as a very dangerous,“fragile” state as long as global wars are waged by sleazy western imperialists trying to steal and subjugate other nations. Where there is no peace there is no progress, no equilibrium, no social justice and social contracts lie shattered everywhere.

The emergence of the multipolar world is essential to planetary survival as it corrects a hideous dichotomy that has persisted for too long where the costs and consequences are ruinous to all. The world must establish a new equilibrium based on peace, progress, diplomacy and justice for all.

What too many complacently see as “normal” is a hideous betrayal of Humankind and broken social contracts.

Fifty years from now peoples of the world must be able to look back on these dark times as the crisis that ultimately created a better and more viable world for all.