"Rules Based International Order"
"Rules are rules, one must follow the rules"
"Rules are made for your protection"
"You're free to follow the rules or suffer the consequences"
"We must have rules to protect the children"
The U.S. Is Run by a Selfish Oligarchy, a Ruling Elite with a Pretend Democracy & Free Market (1993)
According to Mills, the eponymous "power elite" are those that occupy the dominant positions, in the dominant institutions (military, economic and political) of a dominant country. Their decisions (or lack thereof) have enormous consequences, not only for the Americans but, "the underlying populations of the world." The institutions which they head, Mills posits, are a triumvirate of groups that have succeeded weaker predecessors:
"two or three hundred giant corporations" which have replaced the traditional agrarian and craft economy,
a strong federal political order that has inherited power from "a decentralized set of several dozen states" and "now enters into each and every cranny of the social structure," and
the military establishment, formerly an object of "distrust fed by state militia," but now an entity with "all the grim and clumsy efficiency of a sprawling bureaucratic domain."
The resulting elites, who control the three dominant institutions (military, economy and political system) can be generally grouped into one of six types, according to Mills:
the "Metropolitan 400": members of historically notable local families in the principal American cities, generally represented on the Social Register
"Celebrities": prominent entertainers and media personalities
the "Chief Executives": presidents and CEOs of the most important companies within each industrial sector
the "Corporate Rich": major landowners and corporate shareholders
the "Warlords": senior military officers, most importantly the Joint Chiefs of Staff
the "Political Directorate": "fifty-odd men of the executive branch" of the U.S. federal government, including the senior leadership in the Executive Office of the President, sometimes variously drawn from elected officials of the Democratic and Republican parties but usually professional government bureaucrats
Mills formulated a very short summary of his book: "Who, after all, runs America? No one runs it altogether, but in so far as any group does, the power elite."
https://youtu.be/oE0DF9MT5J8
The bots are "virtue signaling". In the modern tower of Babylon, virtue is wielded as a club on the climb to the top. These bots are boosting the "virtuous" as they attempt to rise above the "deplorables".
Imagine how many old-growth forests would still be standing if Big Timber hadn't beaten Hemp with their Reefer Madness, high niggers are gonna rape the white women, fear campaign.
All we CAN do is know, and be aware in our patronage and support of institutions and corporations.
For example, when making procurement decisions, do you source from a small business…or just default to Amazon's choices?
Do you guide your kids to college and then into a corporate stooge career or do you educate them to work for themselves?
Baby steps.
Liberal international order
In international relations, the liberal international order (some times referred to as the rules-based[1] or the US-led[2] international order) describes a set of global, rule-based, structured relationships based on political liberalism, economic liberalism and liberal internationalism since the late 1940s.[3] More specifically, it entails international cooperation through multilateral institutions (like the United Nations, World Trade Organization and International Monetary Fund) and is constituted by human equality (freedom, rule of law and human rights), open markets, security cooperation, promotion of liberal democracy, and monetary cooperation.[3][4][5] The order was established in the aftermath of World War II, led in large part by the United States
Aspects of the LIO are challenged internally within liberal states by populism, protectionism and nationalism.[12][13][10][14] Scholars have argued that embedded liberalism (or the logics inherent in the Double Movement) are key to maintaining public support for the planks of the LIO; some scholars have raised questions whether aspects of embedded liberalism have been undermined, thus leading to a backlash against the LIO.[15][16][14]
Externally, the LIO is challenged by authoritarian states, illiberal states, and states that are discontented with their roles in world politics.[10][17][18][19][20] China and Russia have been characterized as prominent challengers to the LIO.[10][18][19][21][22] Some scholars have argued that the LIO contains self-undermining aspects that could trigger backlash or collapse.[17][22]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_international_order>Rules
I think that's true. The pure absurdity of how events actually unfold, vs how we perceive they should unfold, makes chaos theory seem so much more plausible.
We exist because we fill an ever expanding niche in the entropic processes of the universe, like every other life-form.
I never counted on sky-daddy.
Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.
Corrolary: Future proves past.
Right and wrong is a poor way to express the results of quantum computing.
It's more like, probably right or probably wrong, because conditional probability is the output of the function.
Relying on supernatural forces to intervene is basically having "no plan". "Any plan" has a statistically higher chance of succeeding than "no plan".
Hydrocarbon deposits are the result of ancient swamps. Millions of years of organic matter sinking, decaying, being heated and compressed. Climate variation and natural processes buries and reveals geological formations naturally/ Coal, oil, and natural (swamp) gas are finite. The abiotic theory likely false, and certainly not proven.
Fossilized trees are regularly found embedded in coal deposits.