{"id":14425,"date":"2015-11-15T08:10:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T13:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14425"},"modified":"2015-11-15T08:10:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T13:10:38","slug":"time-is-running-out-for-pax-americanas-apologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14425","title":{"rendered":"Time Is Running Out For Pax Americana\u2019s Apologists"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"singleh2\"><a title=\"Permanent Link to Time Is Running Out For Pax Americana\u2019s Apologists\" href=\"http:\/\/orientalreview.org\/2015\/11\/11\/time-is-running-out-for-pax-americanas-apologists\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Time Is Running Out For Pax Americana\u2019s Apologists<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"date-comments\">\n<p class=\"fl\"><a title=\"Time Is Running Out For Pax Americana\u2019s Apologists\" href=\"http:\/\/orientalreview.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/pax-americana.jpg\" rel=\"bookmark\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fl\" src=\"http:\/\/orientalreview.org\/wp-content\/themes\/freshnews\/thumb.php?src=\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/pax-americana.jpg&amp;h=100&amp;w=100&amp;zc=1&amp;q=80\" alt=\"Time Is Running Out For Pax Americana\u2019s Apologists\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<div class=\"pf-content\">\n<p>The paradox of the current\u00a0<strong>global crisis<\/strong>\u00a0is that for the last five years, all relatively responsible and independent nations have made tremendous efforts to save the United States from the\u00a0<strong>financial, economic, military, and political<\/strong>disaster that looms ahead. And this is all despite Washington\u2019s equally systematic moves to destabilize the world order, rightly known as the\u00a0<em>Pax Americana<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Since policy is not a zero-sum game, i.e., one participant\u2019s loss does not necessarily entail a gain for another, this paradox has a logical explanation. A crisis erupts within any system when there is a discrepancy between its internal structure and the sum total of available resources (that is, those resources will eventually prove inadequate for the system to function normally and in the usual way).<\/p>\n<p>There are at least three basic options for addressing this situation:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Through reform, in which the system\u2019s internal structure evolves in such a way as to better correspond to the available resources.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Through the system\u2019s collapse, in which the same result is achieved via revolution.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Through preservation, in which the inputs threatening the system are eliminated by force, and the relationships within the system are carefully preserved on an inequitable relationship basis (whether between classes, social strata, castes, or nations).<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The preservation method was attempted by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinahighlights.com\/travelguide\/china-history\/the-ming-dynasty.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Ming\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinahighlights.com\/travelguide\/china-history\/the-qing-dynasty.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Qing\u00a0<\/a>dynasties in China, as well as the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/meiji-restoration\" target=\"_blank\">Tokugawa Shogunate<\/a>\u00a0in Japan. It was utilized successfully (in the 19th century) prior to the era of capitalist globalization. But neither of those Eastern civilizations (although fairly robust internally) survived their collision with the technologically more advanced (and hence more militarily and politically powerful) European civilization.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time Is Running Out For Pax Americana\u2019s Apologists The paradox of the current\u00a0global crisis\u00a0is that for the last five years, all relatively responsible and independent nations have made tremendous efforts to save the United States from the\u00a0financial, economic, military, and politicaldisaster that looms ahead. And this is all despite Washington\u2019s equally systematic moves to destabilize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[130,138,10035,452,5013,681,6856,827,865],"class_list":["post-14425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-civilisation","tag-global-crisis","tag-japan","tag-pax-americana","tag-resources","tag-systemic-collapse","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14426,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14425\/revisions\/14426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}