Twelve Days of Empire
Twelve Days of Empire
On the first day of empire we said hip hurray, we had just defeated Germany and Japan.
On the second day of empire we started the Cold War, but Germany and Japan grew three times as fast.
On the third day of empire our president wanted peace, but we shot him in Dallas instead.
On the fourth day of empire we invaded Vietnam, but the locals were the stronger in the end.
On the fifth day of empire we went to the moon, but the next president resigned in disgrace.
On the sixth day of empire we had a massive tax cut, but the 1% kept all the gains for thirty years.
On the seventh day of empire the Cold War ended, but we attacked Iraq to keep the military going.
On the eighth day of empire peace made us prosperous, but we went back to the Bushes anyway.
On the ninth day of empire the president allowed 9-11, but we followed him into two Asian wars.
On the tenth day of empire we were mired in Asian wars, and soon the bubble economy crashed.
On the eleventh day of empire we got health care, but the Koch brothers stopped us in our tracks.
On the twelfth day of empire homeland spying was exposed, but we got Ferguson cops instead.
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Twelve Stages of Empire (encore)
#1. Isolation and Growth. A non empire society with promise can grow if isolated from older militarized neighbors and allowed to devote resources to economic growth rather than military spending.
#2. Economic Dominance. The growing society eventually overtakes the slower growing militarized economies around it and becomes dominant economically.
#3. Military Domination War. Economic domination leads to military domination after war between the top two economic powers. Usually the other power has been dominant but has limited its growth through militarism allowing the new power to catch up and overtake it.
#4. Military Control of Others. Military domination leaves the new power in an unstable position, usually leading to maintaining high levels of peacetime military power in the mistaken belief that it is now a rich society and can afford to maintain a higher level of military spending.
#5. Economic Control of Others. The new power can dominate now both militarily and economically and proceeds to do so.
#6. Military: Source of Political and Economic Power Internally. The military now becomes a dominant internal force and begins to dominate and control politically and economically within its own original society.
#7. Destination for the Young. The new dominant society attracts aspiring young people from around the world who want to be a part of the highest level of civilization.
#8. Military Industrial Complex Dominates Government. The high levels of military spending lead to the formation of a military industrial complex that turns its dependency on the government around and starts to dominate and control the government.
#9. Generating Wars to Dominate Internally and Externally. The new military economy justifies itself to the larger community by generating and rationalizing new wars to increase its domination both internally and externally.
#10. Economy Erodes as Scientists, Engineers, and Capital Wasted. The economy erodes with the new high levels of military spending as the best resources of scientific talent, engineering talent, and capital investment are consumed in the nonproductive military economy.
#11. Workforce and Society Stagnate and Change. The new slower growing economy that emerges now demands a “sideways” workforce to manage the stagnation. Soon the whole society changes to meet the new situation. The command and control nature of the military reinforces these internal changes. Crime, poor health, and income inequality grow.
#12. Collapse or Replacement. The now collapsing society can salvage some of its former glory by abandoning expensive overseas entanglements, or seeking another society to take over its formal role of dominance. New international institutions can help make either task easier.
For more information about how these twelve points apply to America:
https://www.academia.edu/5415354/STAGES_of_EMPIRE
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