The Age of Uncertainty
This is the title of the most important book of the IT era and the following failed era: that of globalization, this globalization and neoliberalism, whose book prefaced by the no less famous Fernando Henrique Cardoso, authored by the no less famous French writer Wallerstein, this failure was the last gasp of bankrupt Europe since the end of Feudalism as Europe jumps from one survival crisis to another.
What crisis are we talking about?
The end of Feudalism created the illusion that Europe was in an age of enlightenment, dubbed the Enlightenment, the age of reason, which was resolved by the desperate search for land in the unknown southern hemisphere, then the crusades through Turkey via the Silk Road left to be an adventure started by Marco Polo, and with the circumnavigation of Africa new peoples were discovered for Europe to defile, plunder, extort, explore, and Vasco da Gama, Américo Vespúcio, Fernão de Magalhães, Bartolomeu Duarte, Vincente Pinzon, Duarte Pacheco, Pedro Álvares Cabral, and many others who devastated and unlocked new sources of wealth and new lands for the settlement of millions of people, exhausting the mineral and natural resources of forests, land exhausted for agriculture and pastures, minerals, water sources, employment , lands for occupation, religious crises, excess population, then the new world relieved the survival of those who remained in old Europe for five centuries.
North America, Central America, South America and sub-Saharan Africa expanded, relieving the European population that became rich with gold from the Americas, Australia, ores from Africa, new sources of food such as potatoes taken from the Americas for Europe, tobacco, chocolate, wood, coffee, sugar, precious stones, meat, tropical fruits such as the famous banana, orange, pineapple, substantially improving the European diet.
After the exploited colony phase, the metropolis had to adapt to trade instead of plunder and colonization, it faced moments of independence and the creation of new states and still tries to carry out predatory asymmetric trade to this day through phytosanitary barriers, democracy certifications , extinction of slave labor, environmental sustainability, equal treatment of gender, abolition of child labor, no burning and devastation of forests, condemnation of unhealthy foods such as salt, sugar, even the sun on tropical skin, everything that can be used to belittle and disqualify products from poor and underdeveloped southern Ecuador.
Then the crises return as after the break with Feudalism and after the end of the era of colonization, and the two great wars, and the ideological crises between communism and capitalism, between Christianity, atheism and Islam, between East and West, between environmental preservationists and Amazonian forest countries, everything is a pretext for Europe to acquire new alternative means of subsistence on its poor and depleted soils, scarce mineral resources and sources of drinking water.
New wars this time aimed at extorting new riches from the age of industry and technology, such as atomic minerals, third generation industrials such as copper, aluminum, titanium, vanadium, rare earths, graphene, niobium, petroleum, all abundant outside Europe.
The new and still old solution is war, war, for oil riches in the Middle East, Asia and the Caribbean.
Thus, we arrive at the era of the USA, which has almost all minerals but has developed the same problems of opulence among its population that Europe has experienced since the first millennium, so North America leads world development based on its mineral riches, however It quickly finds itself exhausted, as happened in Europe, and the wars for world hegemony to plunder wealth end with victory in the Second World War, only to soon begin another battle for the sources of wealth and raw materials around the world in the so-called Cold War.
Some US politicians realized the trap, but were overcome by the current of spenders and wealthy billionaires in America, so they allowed the military industrial complex to be the driving force behind the economy and prosperity, which allowed increasing wealth and guaranteeing the source of supplies of inputs, at the time of John Kennedy's government, then Galbraith's famous book “The Age of Uncertainty” appears.
The alternative to replacing the waste and strength of the military complex's industrial structure would be to create a new type of enterprise that would replace it without the negative synesthesia of the military industry that requires permanent wars.
So the alternative would be the space race to conquer the moon. The plan seemed to be going well with spending on NASA, which had 400,000 direct employees, and mobilized the same companies as in the war.
With the joint construction of the ISS international space station, it seemed like the problem was solved Keynesian of circular public spending, but unfortunately the economic group that was left out of the space race bonus took care to remove its main creator, US President Richard Nixon, deposed for a poorly explained reason that was unimportant for the elections, an alleged case of espionage of the opponent's electoral committee at the Watergate hotel, that many people like me never understood that whatever the competitor's campaign information was does not define the elections, elementary, any member could be co-opted to sell information from the opponent's campaign that is not so secret and deterministic methods to win an election.
Having removed the two responsible for the US space program, Kennedy and Nixon, one Democrat, murdered, and the other Republican, resigned, both for very unpalatable and strictly irrational reasons, we return to the old cold war and hot wars, in Vietnam, in Korea , in Iraq, everywhere as the military-industrial complex prefers, and now drowning in the war in Ukraine, by proxy, to maintain the ecology of Keynesian spending in the economy, this time to the detriment of the economy of Europe, Japan and favorable to the countries of Middle East, Russia, Asia that expelled from the dollar standard experience new freedoms free from environmentalist reprisals, artificial democratic standards, rigor in the control of human rights goals, and many other purely artificial demands and barriers, such as non-proliferation of energy use and study atomic bombs, missiles, rockets, submarines, everything that could threaten the power and control of the hegemony of the owners of humanity after European colonialism.
Never again has Europe achieved a definitive solution to the crises of aging and resource depletion, overpopulation.
The solution sought among alternatives for a new reset, a new migration to empty spaces in Africa and the Americas.
