{"id":471,"date":"2018-03-29T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T22:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=471"},"modified":"2018-03-29T15:51:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T22:51:41","slug":"four-underlying-forces-in-international-affaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2018\/03\/29\/four-underlying-forces-in-international-affaires\/","title":{"rendered":"Signals through Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the whirl of events in which we are all immersed these days, thanks to media, social or not, I&#8217;ve been trying to sort signals out from noise. I have boiled this commotion down to four talking points to help muster my own thoughts. I offer them here without further ado.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Until the financial crisis in 2008, the US was <i>the<\/i> superpower. That phase is over. This turn of events will be traumatic for the US and dangerous to us all. See <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hegemony\">hegemony<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Within the US, a majority of the diminishing white majority has declared demographic war on the rest of the population, which can no longer be categorized in terms of black or white. See <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Majority_minority\">majority minority<\/a>. This conflict is accelerating the decline of US power, soft but perhaps even hard.<\/li>\n<li>Capitalism, increasingly based on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fictitious_capital\">fictitious capital<\/a>, has rushed forward from the 2008 financial crisis into a new bubble of imaginary values. When, sooner or later, this bubble bursts there will be unimaginable chaos, trumping the issues of US decline and its internal civil war.<\/li>\n<li>Once the weapons existed, nuclear war, intentional or accidental, become possible. There are reasons to believe that it is now probable. Carbon-driven climate change pales against the threat atomic weapons pose to the planet. See <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Global_catastrophic_risk\">GCR<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the whirl of events in which we are all immersed these days, thanks to media, social or not, I&#8217;ve been trying to sort signals out from noise. I have boiled this commotion down to four talking points to help muster my own thoughts. I offer them here without further ado. Until the financial crisis &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2018\/03\/29\/four-underlying-forces-in-international-affaires\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Signals through Noise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}