I have long been of the opinion that the never ending stream of wars and crises are being deployed against us. Recent reading has opened up the view of the origins of the Boer War, WW1, and thus WW2 as well. The same names inhabited the corridors of power throughout. It takes a very special kind of person to devise a plan in which close on 100 Million people were to be killed, and they seem to have embarked on a prolonged breeding Programme in the last century
Well heck...as the deficits rise and the need for re-spiking the punch (rollover of debt) increases, eventually the US knuckleheads will need to drop a nuke somewhere in order to project the power of the state. See, we can still be number one. That won't work for eternity.
I have recommended seizing the means of production suitable to our personal circumstances, to take advantage of the leading edge of tech advance that now makes decentralization of the means of production where productivity increases first and fastest. We see on the battlefield today that <$50k drones defeat >$B bombers, and recently <$100 manpads were published that people can print on their kitchen tables to secure them from $50k drones and $B bombers alike. We see this first on the battlefield, but it is happening in every field of industry today.
Remaining dependent on our enemies for what we need to live will not turn out well for us.
"Green transition depends on consumer choice, market signals, and price competition".
I take issue with that. Simply for the fact that both the EU and the UN ( plus the Vatican!) have signed up to the Great Reset in which everything is tied to CO2 emissions through the system of CBDCs and Digital IDs. And the banking sector through the BIS and Basel3. Digitisation of everything. A total leger mechanism w Wallets for..mmm..the Common Good, decided by those who set the rules on which the mechanism functions. Ie, not you or me.
If you think this is Capitalism you couldnt be further from the truth. Away from the Capitalist vs communist
structure it is all about who controls the clearing house. It will always be The Party not The People. Nice for people in The Party or playing ball with them. Not good for either Democracy or The People.
In the end it is or should be about individual freedom. That is the western contribution that is being sidelined. Marx has the wrong answers. The Socialist Utopia is structurally impossible no matter how many Gramscis you throw at it..
Fabio Vighi is a brilliant economic analyst, but he ignores the driving factor behind financial collapse which is Peak Oil (which contrary to popular belief is about declining net energy- NOT running out of oil). And behind Peak Oil, the real Great Reset explains why the PTB don't really care about PO or financial collapse.
Controlling language is a fundamental tool for manipulating perception, thought, and societal behavior. By restricting vocabulary, manipulating definitions, and using framing, language shapes how reality is interpreted. Those who control language can steer public discourse, limit critical thought, and make, or hide, specific actions that are deemed acceptable or unacceptable.
When people are forced or manipulated into using specific terminology, they begin to perceive reality through that linguistic lens, turning them into machines. This control mechanism makes it difficult to impossible for individuals to challenge the status quo if the words and ideas needed for that challenge are not available to them.
Those who run corporate governance know this and spend millions each year on managing public perceptions through linguistic manipulation.
Hi Allen, I have been a big fan of your comments, particularly on this Substack, for a few years now. But, I am confused as to where exactly CK_ used controlling language. Was there a particular passage in their comment and/or link that could turn us "...into machines"? Or, was there a reply to their comment, above your own here, that you were replying to that has since been deleted and contained the controlling language? Genuinely confused here (and probably a little dense).
Fabio's framework remains some of the sharpest financial-political analysis available. He correctly identified how emergencies have become the default operating system. However, I believe the analysis needs one deeper layer. The financial maneuvers and manufactured crises you describe so well are themselves symptoms of a more fundamental constraint: the long-term decline in net energy surplus available to industrial civilization. The post-1945 order (and its financialized extension) was a dissipative structure built on conventional oil with EROI in the 30–100:1 range. That created an enormous thermodynamic windfall. As we shift to lower-EROI sources and the global weighted average for oil liquids trends toward ~6–7:1, the real surplus contracts. Financialization was (and is) an entropy displacement mechanism , borrowing order from the future against a declining physical gradient. The repo crises, QE waves, programmable money experiments, and geopolitical yield management are increasingly frantic attempts to maintain far-from-equilibrium complexity on a weakening energy base.In short: the system isn’t just post-productive in Marxian/Wertkritik terms. It is becoming post-surplus in biophysical terms. This is why the crises must accelerate and why symbolic language itself is collapsing, the structure is consuming its own boundary conditions.Your work maps the tactics brilliantly. The thermodynamic lens reveals why those tactics are ultimately insufficient. The two frameworks are highly complementary: finance as the proximate mechanism, energy return as the ultimate limit.Would be very interested in your thoughts on integrating net energy / EROI dynamics into the crisis deployment model.
Depressing... Truly! I choose to have faith in my God, who is bigger than all of this corruption. That's where my hope is ✝️🙏🏼
I often see an intricate analysis of how the govt cons us , but what's the point?
The bigger question is - what can we as individuals do?
Grow our own nutritious food and make our food our medicine.
A lot. Every minute of every day.
Yes, very concerning.
Wow! So much wisdom and truth here! Worth reading even if you don't agree with any or all of it!
I have long been of the opinion that the never ending stream of wars and crises are being deployed against us. Recent reading has opened up the view of the origins of the Boer War, WW1, and thus WW2 as well. The same names inhabited the corridors of power throughout. It takes a very special kind of person to devise a plan in which close on 100 Million people were to be killed, and they seem to have embarked on a prolonged breeding Programme in the last century
Pure evil is what it is :(
Politics is pantomime. There is nothing real about it, least of all in the phoniness known as De-Mockracy.
Thank-you both it doesn't get more critical than this!
Well heck...as the deficits rise and the need for re-spiking the punch (rollover of debt) increases, eventually the US knuckleheads will need to drop a nuke somewhere in order to project the power of the state. See, we can still be number one. That won't work for eternity.
I have recommended seizing the means of production suitable to our personal circumstances, to take advantage of the leading edge of tech advance that now makes decentralization of the means of production where productivity increases first and fastest. We see on the battlefield today that <$50k drones defeat >$B bombers, and recently <$100 manpads were published that people can print on their kitchen tables to secure them from $50k drones and $B bombers alike. We see this first on the battlefield, but it is happening in every field of industry today.
Remaining dependent on our enemies for what we need to live will not turn out well for us.
Fascinating- I am inspired to build ‘useless systems’ in the best sense of the word. My library will remain!
"Green transition depends on consumer choice, market signals, and price competition".
I take issue with that. Simply for the fact that both the EU and the UN ( plus the Vatican!) have signed up to the Great Reset in which everything is tied to CO2 emissions through the system of CBDCs and Digital IDs. And the banking sector through the BIS and Basel3. Digitisation of everything. A total leger mechanism w Wallets for..mmm..the Common Good, decided by those who set the rules on which the mechanism functions. Ie, not you or me.
If you think this is Capitalism you couldnt be further from the truth. Away from the Capitalist vs communist
structure it is all about who controls the clearing house. It will always be The Party not The People. Nice for people in The Party or playing ball with them. Not good for either Democracy or The People.
In the end it is or should be about individual freedom. That is the western contribution that is being sidelined. Marx has the wrong answers. The Socialist Utopia is structurally impossible no matter how many Gramscis you throw at it..
Fabio Vighi is a brilliant economic analyst, but he ignores the driving factor behind financial collapse which is Peak Oil (which contrary to popular belief is about declining net energy- NOT running out of oil). And behind Peak Oil, the real Great Reset explains why the PTB don't really care about PO or financial collapse.
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1p7rzjc/how_will_it_all_end_cataclysm_scenarios/
Controlling language is a fundamental tool for manipulating perception, thought, and societal behavior. By restricting vocabulary, manipulating definitions, and using framing, language shapes how reality is interpreted. Those who control language can steer public discourse, limit critical thought, and make, or hide, specific actions that are deemed acceptable or unacceptable.
When people are forced or manipulated into using specific terminology, they begin to perceive reality through that linguistic lens, turning them into machines. This control mechanism makes it difficult to impossible for individuals to challenge the status quo if the words and ideas needed for that challenge are not available to them.
Those who run corporate governance know this and spend millions each year on managing public perceptions through linguistic manipulation.
Words matter.
I agree. It is with the struggle to decline the established terms and stand up from distinct roots.
Hi Allen, I have been a big fan of your comments, particularly on this Substack, for a few years now. But, I am confused as to where exactly CK_ used controlling language. Was there a particular passage in their comment and/or link that could turn us "...into machines"? Or, was there a reply to their comment, above your own here, that you were replying to that has since been deleted and contained the controlling language? Genuinely confused here (and probably a little dense).
I wasn't responding to CK. It was a general comment.
Strange though that he believes the "Green Agenda" is a good one.
Fabio's framework remains some of the sharpest financial-political analysis available. He correctly identified how emergencies have become the default operating system. However, I believe the analysis needs one deeper layer. The financial maneuvers and manufactured crises you describe so well are themselves symptoms of a more fundamental constraint: the long-term decline in net energy surplus available to industrial civilization. The post-1945 order (and its financialized extension) was a dissipative structure built on conventional oil with EROI in the 30–100:1 range. That created an enormous thermodynamic windfall. As we shift to lower-EROI sources and the global weighted average for oil liquids trends toward ~6–7:1, the real surplus contracts. Financialization was (and is) an entropy displacement mechanism , borrowing order from the future against a declining physical gradient. The repo crises, QE waves, programmable money experiments, and geopolitical yield management are increasingly frantic attempts to maintain far-from-equilibrium complexity on a weakening energy base.In short: the system isn’t just post-productive in Marxian/Wertkritik terms. It is becoming post-surplus in biophysical terms. This is why the crises must accelerate and why symbolic language itself is collapsing, the structure is consuming its own boundary conditions.Your work maps the tactics brilliantly. The thermodynamic lens reveals why those tactics are ultimately insufficient. The two frameworks are highly complementary: finance as the proximate mechanism, energy return as the ultimate limit.Would be very interested in your thoughts on integrating net energy / EROI dynamics into the crisis deployment model.