Bad Bug Going Around

Isn't it, though? [a tip o'teh tinfoil to Peter of Lone Tree, and check out what the Dark Wraith has to say too]

I like this:

..."Unless their master plan really was to crater the world economy with a blithering combination of neo-liberals, neo-conservatives, communists, Right-wing thugs, religious nutcases, and assorted other thunderously ignorant operatives, where we are headed would be the very last place putative global controllers would have wanted to go: down this path we are plunging lies what will in all likelihood be a horrendous, destructive clash of classes over everything from food to shelter to freedom..."

Assuming, of course, the global controllers have any use for contemporary civilization.

Let me submit there is substantial evidence, from the use of mercenary armies to the re-introduction of torture, that somebody who wants to own the show has no use for the modern world. Such an individual, or party of individuals, would seem to value a neofeudal order of society, where an aristocracy has all access to technology and resources.

I often reflexively blurt out "Chaos is the plan" because there is so much of it, and the same people seem to profit when there's more of it.

"They" don't want to run the world. They only want to own the best of it, keep everyone else at each others throats, and reward the servants who man the castle walls and deal with the rest of us wogs.