Saturday, December 21, 2013

After Empire

As our strange empire continues to implode, thankfully, I think it would be good for people to start thinking more about what this means and what changes it will bring.  I plan to discuss this over the course of several posts.

I don't foresee me getting all that far into the the knots and tangles of geopolitics- I've got some notions, but I'm going to confess that my ignorance of the balance of power means that I won't delve that much on, say, China.  I'm concerned about what an about-face in foreign policy means domestically, particularly since I don't think many really cover that turf.

When the sun set on the British empire, cheap products, access to shipping lanes and ports, raw materials and fuels dried up.  We can assume that the same will happen to us. 

 

 The mantra you hear now is that the import/export game now is "innovation" whatever that means- ask Thomas Friedman. but with capital beginning to flee and our population feeling less innovative--there will be obvious economic undulations, and some social ones.  I'll start listing some, in my fairly random fashion.  








































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