On Deception Watch describes the
convergence of global issues that necessitated the creation of a new
world-governing paradigm. The current model, active since the dawn of recorded
history—territorial, patriarchal, and tribal—in Slaider’s world was no longer
up to the task of fulfilling the social contract between the governor and the
governed.
The contract was void because it was no longer clear
who the parties were to the contract. Who is governed is always clear. It is
the unavoidable human mass in Slaider’s world being a less and less relevant
burden in the age of automation and globalization of almost every aspect of
wealth creation. Like a bank deposit, the people were no longer an asset. They
were a liability to those in charge.However, in Slaider’s world of the not too distant
future those who governed were no longer openly evident by the usual symbols
and institutions of political power and control. Real, but unseen, power had
shifted from political power centers to economic power centers.
Accountability in this age of the multinational
corporation had become more and more elusive, more and more abstract. Power was
no longer derived from the people, willingly or unwillingly. National
governments became simply one more of the many variables to be measured and
manipulated. It had become the new world of the illusion of
government where the real power worked behind the scenes rewarding with the
false intoxicant of political power or punishing with the withdrawal of that
power, closely followed by a swift spiral into public oblivion. Nothing was as it seemed, which has always been true.
News media are businesses and businesses have an agenda that supports that
business and so the news supports the agenda that supports the business.
Government purveyors of information are part of a business, the business of
preserving access to the prerogatives of government. They have an agenda to
support the government that provides the prerogatives. And all sources of
information and opinion have one thing in common: the will to deceive.
The world is complicated and the commitment to
deception is partly traditional (how do you tell if a politician is lying...?)
and partly because the truth is too complicated. This was Slaider’s world, the near future in an age of
transition. Slaider’s vision was a world governed by protocols that manage
self-interest by nourishing a unique global unity, a world of "all us and
no them," a world of coerced inclusion. As General Slaider understood it,
the only sustainable path (not to mention the only profitable path) for the web
of business alliances already in place was to accept a new all-inclusive
allegiance to a “top of the food chain” global economic structure with its
governing algorithms and its economically incentivized system of rewards and
punishments. National constitutions (real or alleged) would be replaced by a
mission statement and a business plan.
On Deception Watch describes the
convergence of global issues that necessitated the creation of a new
world-governing paradigm. The current model, active since the dawn of recorded
history—territorial, patriarchal, and tribal—in Slaider’s world was no longer
up to the task of fulfilling the social contract between the governor and the
governed.
The contract was void because it was no longer clear
who the parties were to the contract. Who is governed is always clear. It is
the unavoidable human mass in Slaider’s world being a less and less relevant
burden in the age of automation and globalization of almost every aspect of
wealth creation. Like a bank deposit, the people were no longer an asset. They
were a liability to those in charge.However, in Slaider’s world of the not too distant
future those who governed were no longer openly evident by the usual symbols
and institutions of political power and control. Real, but unseen, power had
shifted from political power centers to economic power centers.
Accountability in this age of the multinational
corporation had become more and more elusive, more and more abstract. Power was
no longer derived from the people, willingly or unwillingly. National
governments became simply one more of the many variables to be measured and
manipulated. It had become the new world of the illusion of
government where the real power worked behind the scenes rewarding with the
false intoxicant of political power or punishing with the withdrawal of that
power, closely followed by a swift spiral into public oblivion. Nothing was as it seemed, which has always been true.
News media are businesses and businesses have an agenda that supports that
business and so the news supports the agenda that supports the business.
Government purveyors of information are part of a business, the business of
preserving access to the prerogatives of government. They have an agenda to
support the government that provides the prerogatives. And all sources of
information and opinion have one thing in common: the will to deceive.
The world is complicated and the commitment to
deception is partly traditional (how do you tell if a politician is lying...?)
and partly because the truth is too complicated. This was Slaider’s world, the near future in an age of
transition. Slaider’s vision was a world governed by protocols that manage
self-interest by nourishing a unique global unity, a world of "all us and
no them," a world of coerced inclusion. As General Slaider understood it,
the only sustainable path (not to mention the only profitable path) for the web
of business alliances already in place was to accept a new all-inclusive
allegiance to a “top of the food chain” global economic structure with its
governing algorithms and its economically incentivized system of rewards and
punishments. National constitutions (real or alleged) would be replaced by a
mission statement and a business plan.
No comments:
Post a Comment