Geopolitics

The old distinction between hard power (military force) and soft power (power of inspiration) has been replaced by the distinction between brute force and efficiency.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

Prophecy is often wrong, and when it is dire, we are thankful for the mistake.  But sometimes prophecy becomes pertinent again when we displace it from its original context to a new one. Almost sixty years ago, the noted sociologist Wright Mills wrote about the causes of World War Three in a context that eventually proved him wrong.  Alas, his alarms seem more appropriate today.

The word Geopolitics is an association of these two terms that are in conflict today: the planet and the system of social relations. This conflict is more evident everyday and demands more political soundness, because Geo’s response, that is mother earth’s, could be terrible and undisputable