Geopolitics

Reader beware: the following analysis will not be delivered at Davos.  A three ring circus is a circus with simultaneous performances in three rings. It has come to mean something wild, confusing, engrossing, or entertaining. It is dangerous as well. It is therefore an apt image for the world today.

Deceit is an inherent part of politics. Today, it is boosted by social media. A great effort of civic reflection, clarification, opposing organization and mobilization are needed to counteract its dire consequences.

The old distinction between hard power (military force) and soft power (power of inspiration) has been replaced by the distinction between brute force and efficiency.

The United States is experiencing regime change.  As in Ancient Rome, the republic is being replaced by a more authoritarian regime, under an emperor sui generis surrounded by generals.  Will this change last or will it be undone by constitutional means?

Are we Rome? In spite of the obvious differences, our political systems, and economic system upon which they rest, are as unsustainable as were the republican institutions and Ancient Rome pillage economy, prior to their collapse vis-à-vis the permanent dictatorship, called Empire.