The Metamorphosis

Let us be not like ostriches that hide their heads in the sand and think everything is okay in the world. No my friend nothing is okay anywhere. Every system is corrupt, every law is corrupt, every institution is corrupt. I know, I know the apologists of the system would come up with something like “Man this is the most we can do. This is the best we can do” Well they may be even right, but that does not mean that what they are doing is right. Take a hard look at the human history. What do you see? Did we pause and say that this is the best bloody system in the world and stay put. Well there were some such systems. The Egyptians, the Greeks, the Indus people, the Mesopotamians, they all thought they were the finest civilization ever. They stopped evolving and you know what happened- they were replaced by intellectual minions. These new people were aggressive. They did not care a bit for the edifices of the older civilizations. They pulled them down ruthlessly. Greece was ransacked by the Romans. The Indus valley by the Aryans, the Egyptians by a lesser people. They failed because they refused to evolve with the times. Their culture had become like a stagnant pool. Once the pool was vast and clean. Hundred s of rivers had fed the pool and had kept it vibrant. But when it reached a point they refused to listen to the voices of the changing world. The world does not stay quite. It creates quite a din sometimes. This noise is the pain of giving birth. They needed to listen to it and change with it.
I am not trying to make you read Fukuyama (though it would be nice if you could do that). No I do not believe that our civilization has reached a saturation point. Far from it. It is at a transitional point. One horror is being replaced by another hideous structure. The capitalists are being replaced by the technocrats. But what about countries like China you say? Well my friend if Yunnan is any indication it is going the same way as the rest of the world. If you believe “One swallow does not make a summer” you can think again. The world has changed; we have almost made the swallows extinct. In these times one swallow is more than enough to predict a summer. It is going to the age of technocrats from now onwards. Let me quote from a comment on one of my earlier posts from “C”. I do not know who this gentleman/woman is. He/she was outl lining the current US domestic policy based on a book by Russell D. Howard (Colonel USA) and Reid L. Sawyer(captain USA) (written/copywrited in 2003 by McGraw- Hill/Dushkin
and is listed in the Library of Congress with Control Number 2002106286 as per the comment).

“page 543
> Business Versus Terror
>
> Only a new kind of alliance can win the war on terrorism. This
> alliance will not be one between nations nor will it be bounded by a
> treaty. Instead, it will be unconventional, involve millions of
> disparate actors, and be guided by rules that will be constantly
> rewritten. It will be an alliance of a motley army of horizontal
> partnerships, with a nontraditional leadership structure. Its best
> troops will be the regiments of geeks rather than the special
forces
> that struck the first blows against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
These
> pocket-protector brigades live on rations of cold pizza and coffee,
> not MRE's (the military ready to eat). They take orders not from
> generals or admirals but from markets and stockholders.
>
> Th members of this fighting force are scientists and doctors,
> venture capitalists and corporate project managers--the private-
> sector army that is the United States, not-so-secr4et- weapon and
> best hope. These unlikely warriors will provide the software,
> systems and analytical resources that will enable the United States
> to track terrorists. It is they who will develop the sensing
systems
> to detect biological, chemical and cyber threats. And it is they
who
> will perfect the biometric devices, such as retinal scanners or
thumb-
> print readers or facial-recognition technologies, that will be
> critical components of next-generation security systems and that
will
> close the gaps Mohammed Atta and his associates revealed.
>
> The Bush administration and terrorism experts know this group is
> critical. The enormous Pentagon aquisition apparatus has already
> begun to direct funds to new private-sector ventures that can
satisfy
> immediate and longer term tactical and strategic needs. Governor
Tom
> Ridge, director of the Office of Homeland Security, has taken the
> first steps toward institutionalizing the public-private
partnership
> that is absolutely critical to achieving US domestic defense goals.”

Though the central theme seems to be that of combating terrorism it provides an insight into the current thought structure of the US and of course the rest of the governments in the world on the direction things are going to take from now onwards. It is almost as if the governments are in the process of “withering away” as prophesied by Karl Marx (what an irony of fate!). Note that this alliance is formed exclusively between the executive and the technocrats mediated only by business interests. No system readily supports its own over throw. It fights to the end to hang on to its achievements. But that all seems to be in the past now. The current power structures are welcoming the change with relief.

This is because they have learnt their lesson from the past. They know if they fail to evolve they would be replaced, and they are evolving. The only thing is that this evolution has not taken the right path. It harbors ill will towards the people. It is the mutation of the already corrupt to the status of the absolute masters. We have never been at such a pass before. You can imagine what course it would take. Even now every single human being in the world is under constant surveillance. This is not fantasy. It is a fact. Any nation which has satellites in the orbits around the earth is capable of monitoring every single event that is happening below. There are rays which could penetrate thick walls and hundreds of feet underneath the earth’s surface. So our life is not privet any more. Our governments are either inept or corrupt. But yet they are the governments we put into place. Though they almost always act dumb when it comes to the question of human rights these are at least our own creations and represents us. The tools they have now are the property of the people and theoretically they can be controlled by us through democratic means. But once these tools are passed on to the hands of the privet sector or they start building more sophisticated tools to be used on the public it can not be controlled in any manner known to us. We are yet to find a business man concerned about the welfare of the general public.
This is the world that we are living in. This is our present reality. Some may call it even inevitable, but when business starts to look after the interests of the state, the whole concept of governance changes. It becomes based on the philosophy of profit and loss and not on welfare. Already such interests are visible in the world. The World Bank IMF and the ADB is seeing to that. Most of the poor countries are being told what to do inside their countries in no uncertain terms. The moment governments start to play to the tune of business interests (under whatever pretext) the basic principles on which the modern state is founded upon is eroded. This is not an unexpected phenomenon. All over the world governments have been slowly withdrawing from social welfare obligations.
But the danger is more threatening than even this scenario. As stated earlier The governments are trying to evolve. They are about to shed their shells and climb into a new one. This period of transition is their most vulnerable moment. Propaganda is not enough to assist them in this transition, mis- direction and mis/dis information is not going to be of much help. More subtle methods are needed. This is where they turn to tools of brain control; to me this is the back ground of mass mind control they are practicing. They want a submissive society which would permit this transition by ignoring it. The efforts are to numb the brain on the one end and to flood it with useless information on the other end. Those that oppose would be termed as subversives. In fact in the modern state every honest citizen is a potential threat. If you believe in liberty, freedom, equality and the like you become a persona -non -grata to the establishment. If you ask questions you are a trouble maker.
But if you are glued to the TV and gulps down everything that the media dishes out to you and are satisfied with things in general you are left alone, but mind you, you are still under surveillance, whether you like it or not. Some you might think that things could not be as bad as that. Well try this if you want to find out. Get on a bench, a box or any some place elevated and say a few things about how things are in the world, say that you hate war or how unemployment is on the rise in your country, or how the prices are going up. You live in a free country don’t you? You have rights to express yourself, it goes without saying? If you think these are simple things and you have the rights to say it, try and find out. I would not advise it though!
I am afraid that we are witnessing the metamorphosis of the modern state into a business venture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Fukuyama

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Last_Man