House of Paine

empire entropy

  wanna be inspired ?

wanna 
 see  
the big picture  
turned into mush  ?

here's 
   a toss along those lines  
                   
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" All empires collapse eventually
 you name them, they all fell, 
and most within 
a few hundred years. 
The reasons are not really complex"
                               K SALE  
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caution:

some of 
the following quotes
 may have been altered
 to suit 
          the  posters fancy 

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DETAILS:


" An empire 
is a kind of state system 
that inevitably 
makes the same mistakes 
simply by the nature
 of its imperial structure
 and inevitably fails 
because of its size,
 complexity,
 territorial reach, 
stratification, 
heterogeneity, 
domination, 
hierarchy, 
and inequalities. "

HERES HIS 4 CAUSES OF CRUMBLE:



First," environmental degradation." 


"Empires always end by destroying 
the lands and waters 
they depend upon for survival
 largely because 
they build and farm and grow 
without limits"

MANY EXAMPLES OF UNCLE'S poo poos 
                   FIT IN HERE 

MY FAVORITE...

" excessive  overuse 
of the earth's
 photosynthetic capacity"

"UNCLE'S 
  ecological footprint 
is already too large 
for the planet to sustain
 and it is getting 
      BIG FOOTIER AND BIG FOOTIER ." 
                            E.O. WILSON 

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IN FACT 

ACCORDING TO A GAGGLE OF 
 PENTAGONIAN STAFFICATORS  

we can look forward to :
 
 a "significant drop 
in the planet's ability 
to sustain  civilization."

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Second CAUSE
" economic meltdown"
 

WHICH AT FIRST LOOKS LIKE ITS JUST
CAUSE ONE TURNED ON ITS EAR  

" Empires always 
 eventually fall 
when the resources 
are exhausted "

BUT THEN TIS ADDED 


" or become
 too expensive 
for all but the elite"

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AS A FLY BY POINT 
 by the way 
doctor von braun 

"U.S. manufacturing 
is just 13 per cent 
      of our GDP"

SO WE IMPORT LIKE CALIGULAS 
AND SNATCHERALLY

" This level of excess 
is simply unsustainable"

BESIDES THE BLUNT FACT  

 "Nobody thinks 
it's  sustainable either..."
AND CONSEQUENTLY

"the dollar has lost 
tons of value everywhere"

eventually we'll
    get a coup de gras 
         
a head shot type 
   economic play by ...
 
"China " 

our nextest 
and seemingly lastest 
      evil empire rival 

though our boy

talks not
or inter imperial rivalry

but please 
no such clutter here

china iz
beside the point 


uncles goin down
cause of 
hiz own entropy 
  
but any how the han-ers'll

"  float 
the yuan 
against the dollar
 effectively making 
amerika  bankrupt 
    and powerless"

whoooopz 
does over determination loom   
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Third, military overstretch. 

again the causes  
   chain link ....
  we're never far from
some damn kind 
 of ruthless
      natural resource exhaustion  .....

"Empires are always forced
 to extend their military reach 
 beyond their  resources
  till  coffers are exhausted "

 uncle's empire  ?

no exception

" Talk about overstretch "

 
"now that Bush 
  has declared 
a'war on terror'
 our armies and agents
 will be on a battlefield
 thats
   both  
    universal and permanent"



and what a joke that is 

cause...


" far from having
 a capacity to fight
     every where at once
       even  
two wars 
        simultaneously
 as the Pentagon
       once hoped
 uncle is  proving
  he can't really 
              sustain even 
                      one war "

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 cause four
 "domestic dissent and upheaval"

hey pokes
 try  beatin  this opening line ....

 "Traditional empires
         end up 
collapsing 
simultaneously
  from within 
as well as  without"

nice trick eh?

pre-established harmony perhaps 


but 
FYI....


" so far 
the level 
of dissent 
within the U.S.
 has not reached 
the point of rebellion 
            or secession"

THANX TO..

" a unique combination 
of  :
  serial   marriage vows 
   
   male  sports-fan  mania 

top dollar
   television contests 
and award shows 

 internet sex 

 designer narcotics 

  and plenty of
          ole time bible churchin' "

plus these
  over kill type
    security 
     trump cards .... 
 
" wall street 
        bribed radio commentators
            and
  expanded 
    domestic   surveillance 
     including  
          a flat out
all court 
data-base invasion 
      of 
little amerika's 
         personal privacy" 

okay so u think 

"  the American public will
never bestir itself 
to challenge the empire 
at home until things get
 much, much worse" 

" after all 61 per cent
 believe  
religion can answer
 all or most 
of today's problems," 

"and  59 per cent believe 
in the imminent apocalypse "
i.e.
 only 2 %
believe in 
case by case
behind the scenes
piece meal 
higher power  interventions

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but fuck consider thiz...
 
 
the whole 
fuckin'
     domestic potlatch
 
 iz
   fer a sifted few 


" resting on 
a  social and economic base 
  of intolerably
   unequal incomes
         and property"


 thats gettin worserand worser
even  as we watch ....


and notice too
 if you will 

" The upsurge in talk 
about secession"


did ya wondered about 
that word secession
when he slipped it in  there earlier
along side domestic rebellion   ?


well 
 read up 


" after the last election
there's been secession talk
 (some of which 
     iz deadly serious)"


" today we have 
organizations 
fixin on a national split
throughout most 
of the blue states"

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 all well in good 
but

" how long lord
how long 
    must we wait .."

  hiz bold prediction...

" collapse will come..
 within the next 15 years 
                    or so "
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now is that collapse 
          gonna gist be

" the American empire herself  "
 or
 "industrial civilization 
             as a whole"

hopefully
     the former 
 if 
" the rest of civilization
 once it is aware 
of the dangers 
of its current course
 can learn 
from the failures 
of the past 
and avoid 
sharing america's  fate ?"

but sorry

the record shows
the answer to be 

"prolly not "

not when 

"the deadly social toxins 
that will bring on
 uncles fatal  collapse
are shared worldwide 
are memes cherished by all" 

nope 

 despite amerikas fall

  "the globe iz likely 
to  keep drinkin this shit in...."

" a  rough mixture
of 
 capitalism 
individualism
 nationalism
 technophilia
 and humanism 
(as the dominance 
of humans over nature)"

" we will not stop drinkin those killer memes "

Hence 

"no chance to escape 
  the collapse of empire
              and world too "

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oh !

thiz 
K Sale

 is the author of twelve books,
 including 

Human Scale

 The Conquest of Paradise,
 
Rebels Against the Future,

 and 

The Fire of His Genius:
 Robert Fulton 
     and the American Dream.



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