We often talk about 'the west' but there is more to it, I think. And this (more) has major implications on geopolitics. We should talk about the (autocratic) land people culture versus the (free) sea people culture.
Is it the war for Ukraine and the potential war for Taiwan, or is there a deeper war going on? I think the latter. Let me explain.
I see the world moving forward from a (land) nations dominated organization into a free space network organization. I can see a history of wars between freedom and serfdom. The most brutal ones have been the wars of the west and Japan against China. Think about the brutal Opium wars and the Second Sino Japanese War. And the permanent battle with sea powers surrounding it from the Russian Empire in all its forms of appearance (Communistic or not) till today.
We live in a time when these wars culminate into global conflicts and new wars. Probably and hopefully the final wars.
Beijing, Moscow, Vienna, and Paris have one thing in common, they are land-locked (farmers-metropolis). Very unlike London, New York, Tokyo, Cairo and so on. The later are open sea metropolises. The first are land locked and always dependent on an open sea city or metropolis for trade networks.
On the other hand, the land metropolis traditional have control over the food sources.
Humanity has globalized through the sea metropolis, not through the land-locked metropolises.
The sea network cultural is the predecessor of the internet culture. And the internet culture is the predecessor of the Free World People culture in the make.
Because sea people always have a way out (the sea) they are more easy able to resist autocratic government movements. They always can take the boat to escape, so to speak. Democracy and free people movements are network movements with the freedom to escape. Not without reason, democracy was invented by the Greek sea city states.
On the other hand, autocratic ruled serfs need their nobility or autocratic rulers to bind them together for common goals. This mutual dependency of a parasitic elite and a parasitic under class parasitize on the middle class I call economic string theory. It is a network of parasitic strings, overgrowing the middle class like a molt until it collapses. On land, there is no way out for the middle class. Again and again the autocratic disease pops up and disappears. Europe has known the Napoleonic disease; the Stalin disease; the Hitler disease and the Putin disease.
The reason in this time the final battles take place has everything to do with the end of the oil-age. We (humanity) have two options after the carbon burning age. Or we go back to a farmer society. Or we embrace Thorium or fusion based nuclear energy. The only nuclear we know today is uranium based. And with that we face the same problem as we have faced with oil, namely limited finding places. This again gives (most of the time autocratic) land-cultures a handle to disturb freedom.
But Thorium or fusion is not operational yet. So we live in uncertain times. Autocratic regimes react on this uncertainty with a desperate attempt to get more control. They sense that they are disappearing from the stage of power. In the 'Free World People' future, in the end Hong Kong will be more influential than Begeijin, for example. St. Petersburg will be more influential than Moscow. DutchDeltaCity (the area around Antwerp and Rotterdam) will be more influential than Paris. And so on.
It is hopeful that the world realizes the carbon-fuel end time is here. As concluded on December 13, 2023. And The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, gave green light on the Hermes to build a Thorium test reactor in 2024.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NRC-approves-Hermes-construction-permit?feed=feed
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