User:Sycamore/How to become an unproductive predator nation

Appropriation of old icon to signify acceptable suffering for the poor on utilitarian terms has made the Tea Party one of the best "Grassroots Movements" of a declining hegemon. The Gadsden flag pictured is one of their most recognizable symbols. It looks cool and reminds us of a time when Metallica were not just cool, but respected in some way.

“Really, there's no need for any of this!”

~ Hans Blix

“Better to die on ones feet than to live on ones knees”

~ Thucydides

Of all the ailments in social contract, no doubt this achicvemtn is the greatest: To have loopy politicians oversee your industrial collapse whilst pursuing initimidation and harrassment of other weaker nation states.

Oh by Jingo!

Like all of the empires in history, a curcial zero point is often reached between a question of balance in the world and the need of some nations ot feel they have a right to moralise based a violent and adveturist foregn polcy arudn the globe.

However the usual trick is the merger of company as an arm of the state whereby multnational (formally trading companies in 19th century Europe). For nations the models have ususlaly been Roe, and like Rome wars, espcially small wars have been ideal. Ideally

Astroturfing in democracies

One of the most crucial areas to understand is that the wars and performance that an unproductive predator nation undertakes is at home. It is sadly people and not machines that build the who keep the whole charade going.

Utililising the people power is essential and this, by virtue of technology itself, come in the form of the media....

The alure of madness

“To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace”

~ Calgacus

It's a mean world out there... and it needs a nation that can be mean and perhaps a little psychotic back. This is where you can really shine

See also

• Jingo