Not to distract too much.
But he did represent General Electric for a few years and there were some "rocket scientists" there.

And we know he replaced the most technically advanced president that I can think of.

Rutherfordian ------------------------------ RDRutherford

And MSM purposefully distorts.  As far as rocket scientists I believe we stole them from other countries.
Globalization?  Well the scam worked so well in the US my guess is that they decided to expand the meme elsewhere.

Much appreciated!

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

Ah, but you forget the advantage the American economy had. Vast mineralogical reserves, coal and oil, iron, grain. Not least it had people, hundreds of millions of them.

And it became the world's powerhouse in the aftermath of the 2nd world war when all of the previous powerhouses were on their knees in the aftermath of a war that left them literally and economically shattered and exhausted. It had no competition for 30 years and created a mythology of economic supremacy that overwhelmed the world. You either collaborated or you went under.

Now the US and Britain sustain themselves on momentum alone. It is regrettable that just at the moment when other paradigms are needed, the French might lose confidence in theirs'. But one thing is sure, if neither the French electorate nor the politicians seeking their vote truly understand the issues they face, I must suggest that in this they seem to share their ignorance with elecotrates and politicians everywhere. Just remember, the Americans voted for George Bush twice, that is surely not an informed decision.

keep to the Fen Causeway

Thanks for a brief but "in"forming overview of the structures of the argument taking place.  Should help me in my grounding as I read.  I've a lot of catching up to do before I can feel I comfortable presenting respectably nuanced version of my own understanding of geopolitics to what appears to me a refreshingly sophisticated membership of this board.  My own appreciation of the French includes those philosophers you've mentioned, but tends to have focused a few others in the range of Sartre, Claude Levi Strauss, and Derrida.  Recently I been reading Ellul, who has much to share about the Luntz/Rovian propaganda models that have had such an enormous effect on US public opinion over the past few decades.

I'm engaging here in hopes of getting a more intimate version of the European vision of "Globaloney."

"I would pillow myself on the stream, for I'd like to cleanse my ears" - Sun Chu (218-293) Chinese recluse

brilliant and very true...

i grew up in the 50's, 60's and early 70's in england and witnessed the scam hit bigtime, my dad cheering it on with his mad avenue job.

i witnessed the sunset flare (the music!!) and the consequent spiral into desoulment, as the yank model steadily assumed its chokehold on british attitudes to money and marketing, with a jolly black giant smile and countless tv pap shows to bend our minds into a narcissistic cavorting before mammon's hologram.

i escaped to the postcard beaches of hawaii, doubtless inspired by the 'blue hawaii' elvis poster i had on my boarding school dorm, to cogitate on the weird wonder of life, and gradually got a few remnants of my sanity back....

now i live in italy and am seeing globaloney eat into the core values that make this country what it is, and i feel for france so much more than i ever did when i lived off-continent.

watching hawaii getting raped was no picquenique either.

when berly got sent packing, it felt soooo good, and i pray for a similar wave of commonsense to roll across france come the election.

bonne chance sego!

wonderfully erudite, relaxed diary, classic et.

mahalo

melo

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty