But that's what you do when you buy into the idea that anything can be commoditized, and monitorized. Assuming, of course, that you've got the right portfolio of "take advantage of this," or "take advantage of that," bad situation stocks; of which dangerous competitions in resources, in military technology, and in the markets, to sell each other all of the damnable stuff that populates all of them, but especially those first two competitions, which can then offer all of the opportunities for tremendous profits these provide (which, conversely, doing the right thing hardly ever provides).

They also, unfortunately, don't offer much opportunity to try to start cooperating, instead of competing, to get important things, affecting everything, and everyone. attended to. Like... You know, maybe saving the planet and all. And because we have to cooperate anyway, precisely because we are so interconnected, whether we like it or not; interconnected, and interdependent. We are because we are in a new, and vastly more capable, environment of electrified instrumentality; stuff that is outpacing science fiction now on an almost daily basis.

And so now it becomes so crazy obvious that the situation that we are seeing here is that all of the players seem to be running way too hard to try and outcompete the other guy, and getting way too mired into their own, internal variations of "chaotic getting by," within a new operating environment they don't understand, while maintaining the "too much fearful effort," so as to force them into using the old "us vs. them" gambit to leverage nationalism, and fear, to keep the keep the people who like power, in power; which then only serves to make things even worse still.

And through it all is the mutated monster. The thing that is not Capitalism really, at all, anymore. How could it be when we have exposed it to the new, hard radiation of hard sell, to the point of weaponizing almost every aspect of human interaction anymore; all because you can't afford the other guy to get the competitive upper hand, making information itself one of the sorriest aspects of that weaponization; assuming, of course you do want to have workable civilizations.

Think this through carefully, I beg of you. The Chinese people are not our enemies. The Russian people are not our enemies. That mutated thing that creates the hothouse conditions, not only in our physical environment, but in every other social environment, that we operate in now, is. Hothouse conditions that play on one extreme tendency or another, without any sense of balance whatsoever, so that a few can profit without regard for the rights of the rest of us. That system is our enemy. For all of us on this planet. Make no mistake.