Dear George,
There is much talk about America as a military and political hegemon, and it is making many people nervous. Power is expensive and its execution can rot a nation’s soul. They fear America will slip into moral and economic bankruptcy, not realizing that we’re already there so, what the hell, we might as well sit back and enjoy the ride.
All this talk about military and political power is but smoke and mirrors that conceal our true goal—economic hegemony. Our military and political clout are mere tools we wield to achieve this end. When our leaders speak of our national interests, they mean our corporatist interests.
Our economic hegemony became possible with the emergence of the Corporatist State. A Corporatist state is born when corporations and the State come together in a dance that has all the beauty and grace of two elephants fucking. When elephants fuck, the ground trembles and a lot of of mice are squashed.
Historically, every society has the potential to develop into a capitalist economy, thus increasing the free market competition that is capitalism’s backbone. We are hegemons because we have destroyed capitalism and replaced it with Corporatism, which abhors competition.
The key to our Corporatist success on the international stage has been neoliberalism, or the “Washington Consensus.” Implicit in the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) is a determination to maintain our economic supremacy by hamstringing the economies of the Third World, thus crippling their ability to develop the capitalist economies that might challenge ours.
Simply put, a capitalist economy evolves when a country’s economic surplus is turned inward to develop a manufacturing infrastructure. The genius of the Washington Consensus, in conjunction with the World Bank, the IMF, and the WTO, has been to suck this economic surplus out of the Third World and retard their economic development.
We are not the world’s leading arms seller simply to turn a profit. Arm sales are an integral component of our economic hegemony. The impoverishment created by the Washington Consensus creates a rabble that is both unhappy and pissed off. This constitutes a real and present danger to Third World elites. To prop them up, we sell them military hardware by the truckload ostensibly to deal with external threats, though its true purpose is to put down internal threats. The secondary role of these arms sales is to drain off even more of a country’s economic surplus that might have been used to address the very conditions that created its popular unrest in the firsts place, thus justifying the need for even more arms sales that drain off even more capital.
Our success as an economic powerhouse becomes obvious when we compare per capita GDPs. In 1820, the spread between the per capita GDP of rich and poor countries was 3:1. By 1992, the spread was 72:1. What further proof do we need that God is indeed blessing us as a nation?
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
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