The Descent Of Power: An Interpretation of the Global Economic Crisis Pt VIII
May 28, 2010In closing, I wanted to tell you about a dream I had a couple of months ago–I mean the kind of dream you have in your sleep. I dreamt that it was the year 2070 and that I was walking…
The Descent Of Power: An Interpretation of the Global Economic Crisis Pt VII
May 25, 2010Now, as I was writing about Napoleon Bonaparte for my book The 33 Strategies of War, in 2003 and 2004, I became intrigued by a company that seemed to exemplify–in an almost uncanny way–the Napoleonic model I have just outlined….
The Descent Of Power: An Interpretation of the Global Economic Crisis Pt VI
May 22, 2010Napoleon came to power in one of the most chaotic moments in history–the French Revolution. The French people had overthrown a monarchy that had existed for hundreds of years and established a new kind of political order. But because it…
The Descent Of Power: An Interpretation of the Global Economic Crisis Pt V
May 18, 2010Now, I know that this is not the usual way that people discuss what is currently taking place in the world. Instead, we hear much about the banking industry, the corruption within it, and its preying upon helpless consumers; the…
The Descent Of Power: An Interpretation of the Global Economic Crisis Pt IV
May 15, 2010Now at the same time that this wave was building something else was going on, something rather strange. We have gone through two economic bubbles in a very short period of time. Economic bubbles generally occur for two reasons. The…
The Descent Of Power: An Interpretation of the Global Economic Crisis Pt III
May 12, 2010Now, in the 1990s something else came into being that sped this process along even further. And this was more like warp speed, a sudden acceleration into the future. I am talking about the Internet, or more specifically the world-wide…
The Descent Of Power: An Interpretation of the Global Economic Crisis Pt II
May 6, 2010In anthropology there is a concept known as historic fatality. What this means is that occasionally there emerges a certain idea, a certain way of doing things that is so immensely seductive to human beings that eventually it spreads around…
The Descent of Power: An Interpretation of the Global Economic Crisis Pt I
May 3, 2010The following is an amalgamation of two talks I gave recently: the first at the Emirates Festival of Literature in Dubai, and the second at the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore. Both of these talks were geared for a…
The 50th Law Pt III: The Neurotic Type, The Republican Party and the Transgression of the Law
July 26, 2009According to The 50th Law, we can be defined by our relationship to reality. Reality is what lies outside of ourselves, beyond our subjective experience. We have desires. We want people to help, support and like us. We want our…
The 50th Law Part Two: FEAR and POWER
July 10, 2009Our lives are often subject to a pattern of movement that is set in motion at birth. The human animal spends an inordinate amount of time in the mother’s womb. When we are suddenly thrust out of that zone of…