I confess to reading zerohedge, but it seems to help me feel like I understand whats going on out there. What we want is a new paradigm, thats for sure, because the zero-sum world of Great Power War is not fun for anyone, even those of us who have chosen to hide out in the mountains.
The US must admit and accept that we are living in a multipolar world. Its a load off anyway, we don't need to police the whole world. There are a ton of solutions and a lot of work to implementing them, employment for one hundred years to manage our great ecosystems back into climax.
But what we are getting is hybrid war. Take a look at this fascinating analysis by Tom Luongo, where he shows that the Hwang explosion from last week could very well be a carefully planted trap card on the global yu-gi-oh board. In this case, the cyclical dollar liquidity squeeze play underway by the US (and posted about by me last October) unleashed a 'Tiger Capital Trap Card' of un-hedged leverage bombs.
Lets get cooperative real quick now. We can make ecosystems produce a lot more in a more sustainable way, and each earn a larger slice of more, instead of fighting for the last crumbs of a dying pie.
The great game is indeed afoot, but I'll tell you exactly how we are going to play our cards here in Colombia, and I hope the rest of the world too. We are going to focus on developing our productive capacity, to add value and extend our internal supply chains.
Globalization has impoverished us. It sounds backwards, but after dozens of interviews in my small town, I can confirm that a once prosperous and industrial town has lost all of its industry and is now dedicated to selling untransformed agricultural products.
Small industry, or 'human-scale technology' is the next stage in the re-development of the culture and attitudes that lead to the local development of these towns in the first place.
By focusing on improving our productive capacity, though polyculture, agroforestry system design, mob grazing, waste upcycling and other systemic and design improvements, we can change the scope of the issue at hand.
In a multipolar world, each actor must focus on what they can bring to the party. Each of us today would probably be well served by considering exactly what value we are providing to our family, our community or our society. If you aren't providing value, take some time to think about how you can add value! Value is not always represented by money, so some people can get it confused.
One of the reasons I like to use the #menofcrypto tag, is to recognize that those of us in crypto have been given a chance to be leaders for the rest of society, and add values back into the equation, values like adding value.