Thomas P.M. Barnett - Explanation of War & Terrorism (1/3)

Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqJ1QJ9Kjd8

Website:
http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/

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[hymnofashes]

@mencken Institutions behave much differently than the individuals who compose them. I think you have arrangements between institutions that function exactly as though there were a conspiracy despite the fact that individual actors are only semi-cognizant of it.

[hymnofashes]

Smarter than me about his subject, but dishonest. Revisionist. Talks too fast. Untrustworthy.

[halfmuslim]

prolegomena to the study of an elephant.

[kbobshacker]

NWO scum! This guy is also a member of CFR.

[mencken]

Projecting what? That your queries beg the question?

As far as money and power goes, you've got a simple radical's view: the one that sees only intersections of money instead of accurately putting money as one power node in a huge ven diagram of ideology, special interests, personal proclivities, business, geopolitical considerations, unions, and resource counting.

When your type speak about money and power, you always end up sounding like children, and there isn't any coincidence in that.

[simontrent1475]

Gyrode, just because Barnett has a trenchant sense of humor doesn't make him funny when he is talking about administering the world through unvarnished force. Mencken, you've got the wrong guy. Stop projecting. I'm sorry you don't understand the connections between power and money, and your inadequacy compels you to hurl quasi-literate fratboy insults. Here's hoping your portfolio crashes in flames and you learn that your gubmint doesn't give a shit about you.

[Gyrode]

Barnett said once, sarcastically in reference to Israel, "It takes a bulldozer to raze a village." I don't even think you know enough about this guy, you already assume aspects of this guy's politics that make you look impulsive, and frankly, looking for a good flame.

[mencken]

I don't have to..what was it? Ah yes, "explain how it is in America's interest to make the world safe for Wall Street" because the entire idea begs the question to begin with, and in a particularly stupid and paranoid way.

It's a religious belief you have there: you need to believe something nefarious is in control of everything, just like your type believed in the Illuminati and Masons conspiracies in the 19th century. You're merely an updated version of the superstitious medieval peasant.

[simontrent1475]

Cunt.

There's nothing more hackneyed than insulting someone else about living in the parents' basement or not getting out of high school. But since you're so intellectually superior and conspiracies don't exist because after all no one could possibly have control over the current system, please explain how it is in America's interest to make the world safe for Wall Street.

[mencken]

Aw, that's so cute- you've learned to put a few catchphrases on the web using your 'I'm A Big Boy Now' keyboard.

Maybe one day, long after you've finished high school, you'll have an errant thought about the issue instead of repeating some hackneyed conspiratorial nonsense you gleaned from a blog written by a pale paranoid writing from his mom's basement.

Maybe you will, but I doubt it, because while you can eventually grow up, you can't outgrow stupid.