Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Oct 4
th, 2012 at 12:12am:
As was inevitable given the lack of true lasting economic potential in the foreign divestment of productive capability by the West to the ROTW for short-term profit, globalisation that benefited the middle men most, and the inevitable rise in living costs and thus wages for those in the countries to which the West off-loaded its industrial capability.
The off-loading of Western industrial capacity to China was a form of cultural imperialism - since it was inevitable that issues such as rising standards of living for industrial workers would create a demand for rising wages and thus rising costs including to the now end users - the West - which would fracture Chinese society into segments of those who were 'Industrial Men' and those who were not - farmers and so forth -- with the latter now incapable of keeping pace with the costs of living - and thus forced to adopt a capitalist approach by raising their prices just to stay alive, thus engendering a capitalist system in all but name - accompanied by the same increasing divides as in the West - between the 'haves' , the 'have-nots' - and the new and rising class of the 'never-will-haves'....with all the accompanying social ills of poverty, crime and so forth....
At the same time the rising costs of ROTW produced goods have risen to equal costs formerly held in the West for finished products - and then taken on the same level of constant rise in those costs - and have generated a new poverty for the West, along with rampant inflation, often hidden but real.
Thus are we becoming truly 'equal' in our level of poverty - apart from the Chosen Ones - across the World - and a true New World Order has been set upon us like a pack of ravening wolves.
It is with heavy heart that I finally find myself finally allied with the radical protestors in Canada some years ago - who protested against the New World Order......
Perhaps the only true hope lies with the proles.....as Orwell said..... or with the concurrent inevitable destruction of all this facade under pressure from petroleum decline and popular pressure up to and including insurrection....
I feel a need to read Gibbons' 'Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire'.....
Poor Fellow - My Country!
the new world order is without an inclusive medium and long term vision. there is no tomorrow from their pov.
it is a product of our capitalist political system, with capitalist goals being unfettered in the industrialised world.
china's culture has always been capitalist, with limited opportunities according to the political system of the time, so they play the game well. Though, centrally, the motivation for the economic revolution, I suspect, is expansionism - note recent examples with vietnam and japan.
as the workers' pay increases, the end result of that will be inflation in the west. americans printing money, europe going down the tube finacially, my electricity bill going up, and the trolls running riot in the forum.. our belief that there maybe ongoing global stability is dissolving.
we do need to change our system, on a global basis, but our societies are so entrenched in their respective hegemonies, doubt that we will achieve much before the big hand hits the '12' on the human clock.