Flowers For Socrates

We will continue to be distracted by ethno-nationalist strife over the coming months, but the narratives have been there in a number of cinematic treatments where national policies and private capital co-mingle in ways detrimental to democracy. Blood will be shed for others, mainly the 1% who will use law and economy against the greater good … and no amount of anti-globalist posturing can hide the contradictions that will only be revealed by concerted bipartisan prosecution of Biglygate.

It’s all about crony capitalism and kleptocracy. For example, by having a rogue portfolio, Bannon can achieve an objective of joining the billionaires club. Short of getting stupid about being married again, he wants the flexibility to build some things that will make bigly money whenever he leaves government, which simply makes him as much a spoils-looter as Lord Dampnut.

The kinds of things that will go into place will be probably media network infrastructure with possibly international reach for the “ethno-nationalist” cleansing that intra-national conflict will cause and from which nascent capitalism will profit. Because terrorism, especially by the Other. But the more benign benefit will be global information control for nationalist agendas, all framed as anti-globalist. darn that pesky UN, NATO, ASEAN…

There could be domestic security profits as well, private security for private education or what could be see as identical, enrichment of the PIC (prison-industrial complex). This is the making money from old post-Soviet breakup and post-PRC Cultural Revolution. They will only be discovered if there’s leakage by the bagmen.

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