2007-06-22
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Nationalist / Corporate Power Struggle in the Global Economic
Ecosystem
This is a follow on from the article
Economic Metabolism, this will make more sense if you read that first if you
haven't already. In that article I comment at one point that:
"The spread of the common currencies, whether non-conserved or conserved
delimits the range of collective integration. For example, the spread of
American culture as the common non-conserved currency and the use of the
American dollar as the common conserved currency throughout the world is
effectively the assimilation of the planet into the American organism and over
time these conditions will inevitably result in the Americanisation of the
planet." [FR]
And I quote examples of "Fragmentation and Assimilation. "exclusive use of a competitive
programmed currency in a community tends to be destructive for the community
fabric. This isn't theory. We've seen this happen at the tribe level, with the
collapses of traditional societies. I've seen one happen myself in Peru among
the Chipibo in the Amazon. That tribe had been in existence for thousands of
years. When they started using the national currency among themselves, the whole
community fabric collapsed in five years' time. The same thing happened here
during the 19th century in the Northwestern United States and Canada, in the
traditional indigenous societies. The moment they started using white man's
currency among themselves, the community collapsed, the traditional fabric broke
down." " [FR]
"Consider a small organism (analogous to an isolated tribe) that has its own
coherent and healthy metabolic processes (systems of exchange) that are central
to its healthy functioning and continued integration. Then this organism is
swallowed by a larger organism and it is surrounded by the metabolic process of
the larger organism. This foreign system of exchange invades and permeates the
smaller system of exchange. There are now different biochemical messengers
flowing around that swamp the smaller metabolic processes. The cells can no
longer exchange meaningful signals in their own symbolic language and the flow
of these signals diminishes (reduced interaction energy) whilst at the same time
they must all adapt to the new symbolic messages which are in high concentration
(high interaction energy) so new meanings are transferred between the cells thus
changing the nature of their communications and interactions so the previously
healthy organism is torn apart and assimilated into the larger organism."
[FR]
First I'll comment on the metabolic power play between nations and then
discuss the subtler interplay of corporations.
The metabolic effect of assimilation and integration most likely explains the
recent rise of U.S. aggression against Iran. One of the primary metabolic fluids
of the industrial complex is oil and at present it is inextricably linked to the
U.S. dollar through "petrodollars", this is a mainstay of the supremacy of the
U.S. dollar as the primary medium of exchange throughout the world and thereby
secures America's metabolic supremacy over all other nationalist organisms.
Iran is threatening the supremacy of the U.S. dollar by accepting euros as
payment for its oil, just as Iraq attempted to do in 2000 but the U.S. responded
with devastating force and now controls Iraq's oil supply. But Iran's threat is
even greater than Iraq's because it plans to open an international oil exchange
(a bourse) whereby many nations can buy and sell oil in euros rather than U.S.
dollars. This is an effective method of resistance to the American metabolic
assimilation of the rest of the world. Also due to the instability of the U.S.
economy it also poses a serious and potentially fatal threat to the internal
metabolic stability of the American economy as a whole. More >
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