NOTES ON THE REVOLUTION
“That’s the sign post up ahead – your next stop, The Twilight Zone.”
This is Part I in a series to help the reader understand the road to violence in our Age of Revolution. In a Revolution history doesn’t rhyme as much as it repeats itself. Everyone’s invited and attendance is mandatory. The events enumerated in “Notes On the Revolution” are sign posts meant to help set your bearings so you can get a feel for where the America is going and where it all leads. In other words, Your Survival.
History defines Revolution as a governmental bankruptcy, which leaves only two options to its resolution; liquidation or reorganization. Liquidation means violence with the only peaceful resolution being a reorganization against which events are stacked. Liquidation manifests as an armed insurrection driven not by the obvious divisions that develop between the factions in a Revolution, but through the twin assault of both inflation and taxation. And not just increased taxation, but aggressive tax collection. The former wears many faces; scarcity, demand, supply chain break-down and a depreciating money all of which drives the rising price of shelter, food and energy that leads to food riots and the complete breakdown of society. The latter comes from the financial strain of an unrepentant bankrupt governments spending that drives not only higher taxes, but the need of its collection by whatever means justify.
In pre-Revolutionary France, tax collectors bid for the tax collection franchise and arriving upon a citizen’s threshold could and would walk into a home and after a quick survey, levy a tax and collect on the spot while scalping their commission. At the same time inflation ravaged the cities as a rapidly depreciating fiat currency drove wheat prices higher pressed higher still by adverse weather, an antiquated road/delivery system trying to feed a rapidly growing population resulting in the ensuing food riots (let them eat cake).
In our American Revolution who can forget the Stamp Act of oppressive taxation in the post French and Indian War (Seven Years World War 1754-1765) where few taxes existed before. This led directly to the creation and formation of the anti-tax Sons of Liberty, the Boston Tea Party/Massacre and The Shot Heard Around the World. The new tax, payable only in specie (gold/silver) in turn drove inflation higher throughout the Colonies under a flood of fiat/ paper money, causing Ben Franklin to observe beggars on the streets of Philadelphia where none had existed before.
Fast forward to today. Congress spends money with unbridled restraint and deficit driven by the demands of Empire, administrative law and a corporatocracy addicted to government hand-outs represented by lobbyists (corporations) where if you’re not at the (negotiating) table, you’re (American people) on the menu. Inflation follows under the synthetic strain of destructive Green Climate Change energy policies that exasperates any nations economy, because the price of energy emanates in the cost of everything.
Here in the United States the governments answer to inflation is to do what created it in the first place, spend more money to fight it. It’s like throwing gas on a fire with the hope the explosion will extinquish the fire. To pick up the bill, Congress has hired 80,000 new IRS agents to allegedly collect a fair share tax in audit of 400,000 millionaires all armed with an army of accountants. And what happens when these agents run up against the wall of accountants?
They come for America’s butter and egg money. This week the IRS warned American’s they’d better report and pay taxes if you sold more than $600 on Ebay or Epsy or Fakebook. And just look what the government has done to the price of butter and eggs.
Governmental Bankruptcies, Revolution On a Global Scale & WWIII
Europe is so screwed along with every nation that share borders with peers, only Europe is doubly screwed due to its immigration policies the past 10 years, as its upheavals will come from within. We received a glimpse of what to expect this week from the European riots following Morocco’s win in the World Cup.
In China, change only emerges out of the chaos of violent and seemingly spontaneous rebellion. Unique to the orient, it settles its bankruptcies through the emergence of competing factions of power/warlords always lurking beneath the surface, unlike the Four Stages of Revolution in the western/ occidental world. With so many people living in China, each succeeding government over the centuries has only represented 20% to 25% of the population at any point in time leaving the rest oppressed on on their own. For this reason China will never become a consumer society like the west. It’s just not in their DNA and why China was so easily dominated by the west in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is also why governmental reprisals can become so murderous that deaths are reduced to ‘statistics’, an event not isolated to Mao’s “Great Leap Forward”.
The same holds true for both South America and Africa with peer border nations that will lead to intercontinental internecine warfare. Whereas conversely, nations without border peers like England, Australia, New Zealand and the United States are more immune to the violence of Revolution, as geography plays a role.
What is so fascinating about governmental bankruptcies when they occur on a global scale is that along with the interruptions and evolution of trade, they foment the creation of competing settlement/reserve currencies. It is an impossible situation that so polarizes trade that the resolution of competing financial systems provides the singular cause of World Wars. Part II will address the issue of Intra-State Secession as a prelude to a violent action by America’s Police State. Part III will examine World War and the role of Foreign Policy in this series of “Notes On the Revolution”.
