There was a time after the A bomb when the allegiance of national allies seeking a compromise became a ' suck my dick contest '.
China was not, Japan was portrayed as the enemy, Russians were cold and since 1932 there was a thing called television.
But there was also Radio, and alcohol and opium.
The East India Tea Company facilitated the movement of tea in exchange for drugs.
English Admiralty created a passport for corruption.
I am manicalled to a post.
In somewhere near the year 1620 there was an economic disaster known as the Tulip Wars.
Stocks of flowers that were not available were floated on the pretense of profitable inflation.
This was a new manouvre successfully adopted as a decoy that determined the wealth of others but neglected to address your significant influence.
There was a guy way back in the 1700's who rorted the law and the established monarchy.
A damned champion of mastering social weakness.
Which reminds me of how powerless I feel to seem to be.
Current society allows me to be legally drunk and legally mentally incpacitated but there is no meter to gauge how particularly emotionally violent I can be.
What is wrong - what is right ?
History is written by the victorious because they have restricted access to freedom.
How to compete is incomprehehsible to anyone who cannot spell or share thoughts.
Malthaus was possibly right in that anyone who could not exert their power should be extinct.
Too many people, not enough food.
But he did not promote manipulation or eradication of lesser species.
He supported a theory of evolution - that only the strong will survive.
Bacteria feeds on devolution - entropy, decay and insignificance.
And yet it survives.
Such a simple brain programed to kill - but with significant disretion.
It will immobilise you and render you impotent.
Genes and lust are bad bed companions.
And welcome to the 22nd century.