Re: <nettime> The Trump Speech

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

We may be witnessing a start of the shift in the business model of the 
US of A, Inc., primarily due to internal strife between elites.

While viewing the US elites as a monolithic interest in conflict with 
the rest of the poor colonized world, and ongoing changes as the result 
of this conflict, might be stimulating, it's not realistic. The rest of 
the poor colonized world has been properly fucked and is more or less 
ineffective.

What is more realistic is intra-elite "industrial revolution", where the 
segments of the elite that did not massively benefit from the 
militarized economy are rising. US of A, Inc. revenues come from taxes. 
Currently these go to feed the militarized economy, from which about 
1/3rd of the US population live from.

This shift may involve channeling this revenue money into something 
else, and making a different segment of the elites float to the top. It 
still needs globalized communications, intimidations and control, but 
not necessarily the burn rate of, what ... 3-400 lives per day (averaged 
over major war spikes.) That's so 20th century.

The proposition is that another kind of sustainable tax money 
consumption is more efficient than the old militarized economy model. If 
correct, it's a step forward, at least for the would be dead ones (and a 
boost for the Marxist school of thought ... means of production, social 
relations etc.)

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