The world-order-shifting earthquake that’s currently taking place in slow motion will change not only the intellectual status quo, but also the power structures that manage societies at large.
I can say this with reasonable amount of confidence. American institutions, while they are suffering from a major case of intellectual denial at the moment, will self-correct as election cycles occur. The current elected politicians licking the boots (and probably other things) of a highly disconnected, incorrectly incentivized donor class will slowly be shown the door by their disillusioned constituents. Throw as much money as you want at whatever lobby and whatever president, but American idealism will slowly shine through.
How can I possibly be so hopeful? Let’s face it, America has been inside countless morally dark places over its history. Here’s some context to help support this idea:
The word “slave” does not appear in the Constitution. The framers consciously avoided the word, recognizing that it would sully the document. Nevertheless, slavery received important protections in the Constitution. The notorious three-fifths clause—which counted three-fifths of a state’s slave population in apportioning representation—gave the South extra representation in the House of Representatives and extra votes in the Electoral College. Thomas Jefferson would have lost the election of 1800 if not for the Three-fifths Compromise. The Constitution also prohibited Congress from outlawing the Atlantic slave trade for twenty years. A fugitive slave clause required the return of runaway slaves to their owners. The Constitution gave the federal government the power to put down domestic rebellions, including slave insurrections.
America is a perennially-evolving project and it’s Israeli/weapons/tech-industry-lobby love affairs are simply one aspect of this capitalist-fueled evolution. I’m sure there will be many others. What is great about this country is that the people are given a certain platform—however barricaded it maybe with the help of an overly-militarized police force—to exercise their constitutional right to disagree. Sure, that sounds borderline-absurdly idealistic, but do you see a better option around the globe? America has tremendous amount of financial and military power, but there is a powerful electorate that wakes up from time to time to help guide this power. This aforementioned electorate seems finally awake and primed to act over the next few election cycles.
One area in which the electorate has awakened is in the media space. A lot of credit goes to Donald Trump for shining the spotlight on “fake mainstream media.” The guy was right all along and I think a considerable percentage of Americans realize that the real news is not purveyed by Fox, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, etc., but they must instead dig through various social media channels to gain necessary insights. While the latter channels are more raw and unfiltered, they are undoubtedly less under the influence from a highly biased donor class. It’s not a perfect media landscape out there, but Americans are slowly learning to maneuver through the mountains of stinky B.S. with the help of a thriving independent media scene in order to gain profitable insights to help make political decisions. Having said that, don’t fault the electorate for sometimes making bad decisions because the donor class is slowly learning how to maneuver around powerful algorithms that run social media channels and the electorate is intentionally kept distracted and insufficiently educated to deal with the tsunami of information that is trying to get their attention.
Another area seeing tremendous change is academia. The institutions once revered as lofty palaces of intellect and judgement are nothing more than financial institutions that serve as shadow investment vehicles through which hedge funds generate profits, sometimes helping to fund a lucrative weapons industry that has its hands drenched in genocidal blood.
The average college student paid $24,623 for tuition, fees, and room and board for a year of school in 2019, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics. That is an increase of 59% compared to 2000, when the inflation-adjusted price was $15,485. Wages have not kept pace. Between 2000 and 2020, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that inflation-adjusted median weekly earnings for people with a bachelor’s degree rose 5%.
Source: USAFacts.org; This is from 2021, so I’m sure the numbers are much worse now.
It’s no wonder these institutions were hiking tuition so rapidly! Thankfully, as we learned earlier in the year with the wildfire of student encampments burning at campuses across the nation and world, there are plenty of highly qualified and courageous students and professors willing to put everything on the line to help change these financial institutions back to teaching institutions. Obviously, this change won’t happen overnight, largely thanks to, once again, a very deep-pocketed donor class, but rest assured, the change will undoubtedly occur. These same students currently in academia will write countless research papers, articles, books and everything else that creates a society’s academic knowledge base, so it’s only reasonable to expect that change is inevitable.
As we know, knowledge and power are closely linked and seeing how the wheels of change are finally turning on the knowledge front, we can only expect similar changes to occur in the various levers of power as we look into the future. It’s tough to be hopeful in such dark times, but judging by not only national history but also world history, we must be assured that the world is capable of change and that’s really a big deal.
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