Welcome the New Brave World

Great! I already know what the new world order will be like. Some paleo-traditional conspiracy theoreticians imagine it will be the totalitarian one-world directly from Orwell. How old fashioned and unimaginative. Besides, the time already passed when it was still possible to set up this peoples heaven, the totalitarian paradise ruled by a puppet world government, something what the UN will never be, and in reality ruled by the mysterious Them. Actually, those Them are not so difficult to figure out as they must have something to do with globalization and those who gain and promote globalization are international investors.

            I am always amused reading writers like Noam Chomsky or Naomi Klein, or that ilk of people. It is not that they are not correct in almost everything they write. They are mostly correct, but they always have to stress that there is no conspiracy. Probably, should they admit that there is a conspiracy, their economical backer, some obscure international speculator, sorry, a philanthropist, one of the best of the people, might get pissed off. That is why for these authors the culprit is the USA, or we all normal people, or capitalism, or something, but it is never any conspiracy. They also have a bit twisted view of Israel. Knowing that Israel does seem to have a special relation to these culprits, these authors condemn Israel but explain how it is just a foot soldier of the mighty superpower.

            And then these authors always believe that Osama bin Laden made the 911 attack, and that there was the Holocaust with 6 big ones. It would be nice if one of these authors once made the calculation of this 6M and noticed that Jewish data gives 4.5M, but 3.5M of these losses are on the area that the Soviet Union controlled before the Barbarossa Operation. As 3.5M losses cannot be explained in this limited area, the natural solution is that Soviet population figures must be mistaken by one million both before the war and after it, before as 1M Ukrainian Jews are counted both in the Polish and Ukrainian figures, and after because calculating backwards from a Soviet census says so. So, I like reading these types of authors. They all write well, and most of what they write is true, but it is still propaganda.

            Well, there was a conspiracy and this conspiracy did aim to set up a totalitarian one-world, rather like the Soviet Union. But that time passed. Now there is a better Brave New World. It is not that They are making this new catastrophe. It happens and cannot be helped. They only make the best of it. There is not much else to do. Who adds knowledge adds suffering. Blame science. In this new world there are all these unknown viruses that every now and then force governments to impose so total quarantines that the economy remains ruined. It is of course not only viruses. I forgot the superbacteria. Bacteria are worse than viruses, only we forgot it as they can be killed with antibiotics. I guess you know that some cannot. Those that cannot become immune, but they are not so infective. Or that is what you think. I bet there are in some bioweapon laboratory many strains of highly infective bacteria that have been cultivated to be immune to all known antibiotics. You say, but these cannot be used as there is no way to limit them, and you are right in the second part but wrong in the first part. It would be so if a country, like our dear superpower, would like to reach world power (which it already has, so why to reach it) by attacking its enemies with super-bioweapons. It would not do so, but it is not a country. The conspiracy is not a country. Some people will easily manage to stay safe.     They can even travel to different countries and spend holidays in the best tourist places. That is, if there are every now and then outbursts of killer viruses and bacteria, there cannot be mass tourism. Then who could be the tourists? We still have airplanes. Somebody should use them. The easy solution is that the superrich use them. It is a small group, but if the fees are high enough, they suffice as customers to all services. In fact, the fees do not need to be that high as country average salaries will be somewhere around a dollar a day. That is clearly where the neoclassical economic theory (or was it neoliberal or neoconservative?) leads. Nothing can be developed because international capital moves in and out and reduces all countries to colonies. Colonies to what? Yes, there has to be some core that is not a colony. People working in that core can have a bit higher salaries. Mostly the work is done by robots and programs, but admittedly, some people are needed.

            This ruin of economy implied by neoclassical economic theories and effectuated by random outbursts of killed viruses is not all. Let us not forget the climatic catastrophes. In the Brave New World there will be hurricanes and tsunamis, or just super-storms. Nothing is ever repaired. The economic loss is minimized if those who lost everything originally had nothing. It is Naomi Klein’s type catastrophe capitalism, only the cleared beaches will not be filled by hotels for mass tourism. They will be filled with something for a select few. You see, I do think Klein, like Chomsky, or Stiglitz, or Chossudovsky, are all correct in most things. Only, they do not see any conspiracy. I have started to see one, the same one all the time. And then, of course, I am a pessimist, they are optimists. But personally, I am not pessimist, I am a hopeless optimist: in reality things are incomparably much worse that I even can imagine.