LAST MAN STANDING

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"Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come." 

The Big Short

"Holy War will soon begin in Europe! "
Meylut Cavusoglu, Turkish Foreign Secretary (March 2017)

And so the world holds its breath, not for the countdown to nuclear war, which is all about the three to five minute experience, but for the war of all against all. History's biggest bloodbath is in the making. And I am drawn to these thoughts, not because the world is on fire now, but because the fuses have been lit and there is nothing anyone can do to snuff them out. The war to end all wars will not be fought with weapons of mass-destruction. The last war will be polygonal. Which is all about the exchange of an eye for an eye.

      Let’s face it, in a world which conceives of the perpetuation of unlimited demographic growth inside a closed ecological system and which admits that the number of its occupants is increasing by the amount its space is diminishing, nobody has an exit strategy. Which is why it would be absurd to propound solutions. We are in a race against time, and we are steadily losing. It may seem remarkable that calculations can be reliably performed for predicting a state of affairs that is so volatile, but according to relativity theory, the mass of an object increases with its speed. Combine the global increase of demographic mass with the speed of its growth, - roughly one-and-a-half  million humans added every single week - and you don't need algorithms or game theory to predict the outcome. Clearly, we are on the threshold of dystopian hell. 
        The 3bn-plus smartphones now ruling the world, may soon be packed with cameras, sensors, and GPs trackers that warn you of  “explosions, airstrikes and mass-shootings,” but at the heart of Armageddon lies the concept of mathematical proof: 

The Big Short told the story of a small band of traders who made billions by betting against the US housing market during the sub-prime boom that triggered the 2008 financial crash. And we appear to be caught in the same type of infinite regress.  Think Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merill Lynch chasing unattainable incentives that forced them to place potentially absurd bets, when the actual fact of the matter is that they were gambling people's lives. "Shorting" doesn't begin to describe the odds. This isn’t a numbers game, it’s Morgan Stanley's credit default swaps on acid. Especially when we know they are all but certain to fail. 
      The next global crisis isn't what you'd expect. It is made up of sub-prime demographics, accumulating population default swaps, contraceptive military correctives, social inequality, failing communal services, an overheated climate and rising tides. Or can you think of any better reason why we are raising a generation of murderers and terrorists. With global debt now running at $ 237 trillion, they are betting against the market. Add a net influx of some 80,000,000 humans a year as a consequence of population growth, and you have the symptoms of things that can only get worse. Fuelling what is in effect an undeclared war: the war of all against all.  Unlike other wars, this one will have no final objective. It is a war without end. It will have no winners or losers - only victims.

 The most telling development here, it seems to me, is the new threat that all nation states now face: the enemy within. Mass violence with practically nothing at stake. It appears to have shifted the world’s axis of potential discord from a division of the world along national lines to polarities whose boundaries can no longer be determined geographically.  Warfare will cease from now on to be

applicable in terms of political geography and the diplomatic and military relationship between constitutional nation states. Military supremacy has no deterrent value. Demographic densities make nonsense of diplomatic subtleties. Warfare has become a peacetime reality, ideology is a virtual State, religion the great spiritual disease and accusations of racism the last refuge for all displaced and disaffected souls... 

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