On the relation of transnational interlocking of directorate to EROI decline
It is better for a corrupt and slimy leadership to remain in place than to remove it so incompetently as to unleash the worst elements of the people. Just look at the chaos which ensued in Libya after their lives were so wonderfully 'improved' by the removal of Gaddafi, who was not a nice man but knew how to keep the situation from spiraling out of control and how to suppress the worst elements. The present ruling class can neither understand nor manage the world situation, but at least it knows some of the problems it faces and has made some attempt to deal with them. The worst elements of the people would surely arrive in power on a tidal wave of blood and then compound a difficult and challenging crisis by refusing to acknowledge its very existence. Now, in order to understand a given ruling class or paroxysmal policy, we absolutely must relate these severally to the bottom lines which obtain in the given world-historical period. Most people do not take EROI decline personal...