BE On Everything

Originally Posted by boycotteverything

It certainly is 'independence' that threatens Pax Americana. That's been so for every empire since the beginnings of civilization. And of course that's the main thrust of all of Chomsky's political analyses. And while American policy will be nuanced by the uprisings in the Middle East it will not fundamentally change. The reasons for that are obvious- control of all world politics is perceived to be in the vital national interest of maintaining American world dominance. Such a policy serves no-one but the United States and its close allies and is depended upon as the foundation of their security. The methods are many and varied and together constitute a Gordian knot that is not easily untied: economic domination, diplomacy, armed force, foreign aid, mythology... and on and on- built over the course of a century. It is policy chiseled in stone. But like stone it is brittle and inflexible. The undoing of this paradigm is nothing less than the undoing of the Empire itself. Pax Americana is cracking apart at the seams and managing it is unlikely that this decline can be managed in and orderly way. The fall of empires always leads to periods of chaotic and violent discontinuity- but also to interesting times.