Right now, this minute, the USS Abraham Lincoln and nine escort warships; 5,700 sailors, 75 aircraft, 1,200-plus Tomahawk missiles, 7,500 tons of ordnance, are sitting in the Persian Gulf like a firing squad aimed at Iran’s heart.
Think of the beating hearts of all the innocent, ordinary, civilian men, women and children. Add 50,000 troops, a dozen THAAD and Patriot batteries, F-35 squadrons at Al Udeid, and you’ve got three times the naval tonnage that preceded last June’s strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. Those killed 247 people, flattened 18 facilities, and bought the world exactly six months before Tehran was back enriching uranium.
Or so the US military machine and its compliant army of global mass media would have us believe. For years, we have heard that Iran is only months away from making nuclear weaponry.
Imagine if you can, this massive war machine. We have to imagine. Not one Australian media outlet; not Nine/Fairfax, not News Corp, not the ABC, not the indies, has a correspondent who can independently verify those numbers, track those ships, or model what they mean for Australians when the holocaust starts.
We’re about to sleepwalk into another war we’ll swear we never saw coming. Again. Are we up shit creek with Uncle Sam again? You bet. But let’s not forget our own role: we’ve spent the last decade so busy demonising boat people and building the national security theatre that we’ve forgotten who the real threat is.
How we Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Armada
Something happened to Australia’s threat perception over the past twenty years, and it wasn’t subtle. We normalised the abnormal until we couldn’t tell danger from distraction any more.
Trump’s back, threatening to flatten Iran with his “beautiful armada,” and the response is… what? A collective shrug? Mild concern? He’s negotiating by demanding Iran give up a nuclear weapons program it doesn’t have. The man who has done everything he could to award himself the Nobel Peace Prize is negotiating whilst holding the world’s biggest gun to Tehran’s head. The bloke literally tried to overthrow his own government, faces multiple indictments, openly admires dictators, and promises “speed and violence” against Iran.
But we’ve normalised him. He’s just Trump being Trump. Funny make-up. Pass the remote.
Meanwhile, we’ve spent two decades working ourselves into a lather over refugees in leaky boats. Stop the Boats. Border Protection. Operation Sovereign Borders. Billions on offshore detention.
Billions more on surveillance and intelligence gathering; ASIS, ASIO, the Australian Signals Directorate, the whole alphabet soup of agencies supposedly keeping us safe.
And when the boats kept not coming in numbers that justified the spending? We pivoted to new threats. Hate speech laws rushed through Parliament with minimal scrutiny, supposedly to protect us from extremism, effectively give government new powers to shut down dissent. We handed over our civil liberties like we were clearing out the garage. Took years of softening up, but we did it. A conspiracy of silencing dressed up as community safety. You wouldn’t read about it. You can’t. You know what happens to whistle-blowers.
From what, exactly, are we being protected?
Not from the country that could spark an oil shock through Hormuz disruption; regardless of global supply levels, closing that strait means supply chain chaos and price spikes that’ll cost every Australian household thousands in fuel and groceries.
Not from the ‘alliance partner’ that’s dragged us into every disastrous Middle East adventure since 1991. Not from the US military-industrial complex that treats Australian lives and treasure as loose change in the poker game of American empire.
No. We’re being protected from words that might hurt feelings, from refugees fleeing the bombs, missiles and carefully engineered shrapnel fragments our great and powerful friend is about to rain down on them.
And from writers, observers, thinkers; from citizen-journalists who might connect the dots too publicly.
The biggest terrorist threat to Australian prosperity and security is parking carrier strike groups in the Persian Gulf. But we’ve built an entire national security apparatus; surveillance, detention, speech codes, designed to look everywhere except at our own alliance obligations.
Hormuz matters. Even with oil glut, 21 million barrels a day go through that 21-mile-wide strait. Disruption creates immediate logistics crisis and price panic, even if there’s technically enough oil elsewhere. Insurance costs spike, tankers reroute around Africa (adding weeks), markets panic-buy futures.
The Infrastructure That Isn’t There
This isn’t about ideology or editorial courage. It’s about capacity. Cold, practical, dollars-and-cents capacity that got gutted while we were building border security theatre and speech police.
To adequately warn Australians about military build-ups that could crater our economy and drag us into conflict, you’d need maybe three to four specialist correspondents plus database subscriptions. Call it $800,000 to $1 million annually for a major masthead. Less than we spend on one year of detaining asylum seekers on Nauru. A rounding error compared to the budget for covering Taylor Swift’s tour.
But here’s the obscene part: we have intelligence infrastructure. ASIS gets $600 million annually. ASIO gets $500 million. The Australian Signals Directorate gets $2 billion. Defence gets $55 billion. All that capacity, all those analysts tracking threats; and not one tasked with telling the Australian public what American military buildups mean for Australian households.
We’ve got billion-dollar spy agencies that can’t warn us, and million-dollar media outlets that won’t fund the journalists who could. Perfect.
The Pattern we Keep Missing
This is the fourth time. The plot never changes. Only our tabloid-sensation-hungry, click-baited, dopamine-addled brains, short-circuiting long-term memory circuits, make each screening feel like a surprise.
Gulf War I, 1990-91: Half a million US troops pre-positioned. We sent warships, cleared mines. Then oil hit $42 a barrel, recession gutted manufacturing.
“Nobody told us it would be this big.”
Iraq, 2003: 130,000 troops, four carrier groups. John Howard committed us before the UN route was exhausted. Then 4 million refugees, twenty-year quagmire, war crimes inquiries.
“The intelligence was wrong.”
Iran, June 2025: Abraham Lincoln and B-2 wings offshore. Then 140 JDAMs, 247 dead, Brent crude to $110.
“It was surgical. Nobody expected consequences.”
Iran, January 2026: Same carrier. Three times the tonnage. Same Gulf. Same target. Same playbook.
Australian media coverage: You’re reading it.
The Spreadsheet in Plain Sight
None of this is secret. Volunteer plane-spotters track C-17 Globemasters to Ramstein. Satellite watchers catch the Abraham Lincoln through Malacca Strait. The War Zone reports mine countermeasure ships near Hormuz. CENTCOM announces F-15E deployments, readiness exercises.
It’s all there. Numbers, locations, weapons systems, historical patterns. Updating in real time, publicly available. We’re just not looking.
We’d rather spend the money on another inquiry into TikTok, another airport security upgrade, another few hundred million on detention centres for the refugees we’ll create when the bombs start falling.
What it Costs to Stay Blind
When the strikes come – and it’s when, not if – here’s what happens:
Oil shock. Twenty percent of our crude comes through Hormuz. Closure could send Brent past $150. That’s $2.50-plus at the bowser, $3 in regional areas. Tradies can’t afford job sites. Farmers can’t run harvesters. The economy grinds toward paralysis.
Alliance drag. ANZUS has no off switch. We provide intelligence through Pine Gap. Logistics. Probably special forces. Which makes us targets. Last time Iran retaliated, they hit Al Udeid Air Base with ballistic missiles. Our people operate from there.
Refugee blowback. Iraq gave us 4 million displaced. Syria, 5 million. Iran’s got 89 million. Where do they go? Here, via Indonesia, in boats that drown families. Then Hanson calls it invasion. Joyce demands tougher borders. The cycle continues while we refuse to see any connection between our bombs and their boats.
Budget black hole. Fuel subsidies. Defence spending surges. Veteran support overwhelmed. Every dollar that could’ve gone to housing or education gets eaten by a war we’ll pretend we were forced into.
And when it’s over, we’ll have the same inquest: “How did this happen? Why didn’t anyone warn us?”
The intelligence was available. We just spent twenty years building a security apparatus designed to look everywhere except at the actual threat.
We were too busy stopping boats to notice the armada.
The Fist is Clenched
Right now, the pieces are in position. Carriers deliver precision munitions. THAAD batteries absorb retaliation. Special ops mop up chaos.
Trump’s “hope I don’t have to use it” is June 2025 verbatim: bomb first, bluster later.
And Australia? DFAT will issue a statement about alliance partnerships. The Opposition will back the government. The Greens will object. The media will cover the politics instead of the consequences.
Then fuel prices spike. And we’ll pretend nobody could have predicted it.
But someone could have. Someone would have, if we’d valued warning Australians about real threats as much as scaring them about imaginary ones.
The information is there. The pattern is clear. The consequences are predictable.
We just spent two decades teaching ourselves to look the other way. We built a security theatre that protects us from refugees while leaving us naked to the country that keeps starting the wars that create them.
The board is set. The missiles are primed. The playbook is open to the same page as 1991, 2003, and June 2025.
And we’re about to claim, once again, that nobody saw it coming – because we were too busy stopping the boats to notice the world’s biggest armada. If you don’t count China.
This article was originally published on URBAN WRONSKI WRITES
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So very true, there is not an international conflict since WW2 that hasn’t got the USA’s fingerprints all over it
To make matters worse, we, here in Australia, have been complicit in every case.
Our duopoly governments are just proxies for the USA’s administration, we have become addicted to Big Mac’s and ground beef. How I long for a T-bone and a touch of national pride.
And for who’s benefit do you think this is for?
Oligarchs, tech oligarchs who want to monetize the Iranian country, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Google et al and they are the ones who have developed the latest weapon that will cause massive devastation; it’s also Googles technology that is delivering for Netanyahu.
The sooner everyone takes notice of what tech they use and how they can reduce reliance, the better; as always remove the source, the blood flow and for the oligarch’s it’s money.
….and while the band played “Waltzing Matilda” the crowd waved flags and shouted God save the King. It has all happened before and we are powerless to stop it from happening again. The system is set in stone. I know: I clearly remember reading the headlines of the Inchon landings in Korea, The Malaysian “Emergency”, Viet Nam, Afghanistan, Iraq 1, 2, and 3, etc; etc; like lemmings into the abyss.
I wonder if Trump checks out the Nobel Committee first to let them know he will be attacking Iran and to just keep the Peace Prize on ice until he has brought pax Americanus to the people of Iran (without killing too many of them in the process)?
In the meantime, Netanyahu is egging him on from the sidelines and the MAGA crowd are yelling, ” Take Greenland (or Iceland) while you’re at it”.
And Trump forces are claiming victory over the people of Minneapolis.
What a crazy world Donald Trump has brought us, in just a year!
Well I guess this is the test that will clearly demonstrate that the Canberra bubble protects politicians and especially public service desk jockeys from the reality of their inept decisions and incomplete analysis.
However, COALiiton voters will then be able to say, “Look, it is not our fault this time. Albanese took us to the Iran Invasion and he was a LABOR sycophant to the TACO Trumpery”.
No worries mate,Albo will save us, he’s got himself in hand,and he’s flat out saving us from the TRUTH.
Isn’t it wonderful being passengers on the bus to perdition?
Fuck me.
To add insult to injury,he invites Hedgehog to visit, while Israel continues the genocide that’s bringing this calamity on.No. fucking. idea.
Lemmings, ostriches, deers or rabbits in the headlights… the reality is that whatever it’s called – democracy, representative government, governing for the people and of the people – all a sham, really, isn’t it? Footlight theatre, lime lighting, the focus on hoodwink and razzle-dazzle, a bit of bread & circus, mainstream media in on the con… keeping the punters preoccupied with the latest – sport, housing prices, laura norder, glamour & bling – and all along, the politicians doing whatever they can to ensure their sinecures and bide their times and let the big boys have their ways.
Another war? No problem. The Iranians have it coming, don’t they. We’ve never forgotten, or forgiven, how they held our boys hostage, or how they overthrew our man on the throne, or how they nationalised their fossil energy assets… who do they damn well think they are? And Bibi keeps hammering away at our man in the White House… Iran must be destroyed if we want peace in our time. War is peace, someone said.
History? F*ck history. History’s for pussies and wimps. Don’t need to remind us about Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Vietnam, or, hell, even Korea. This is now, and we’re Americans, and we’ll damn well show the world what we’re made of. That’s how it is, and that’s how it goes, and if you don’t like it you can get off at the next stop. And this will send a strong signal to China… if they’re not careful they’ll be next.
Showing how far up Israel’s fundamental we are, tin-eared Albanese Says he looks forward to welcoming Herzog to Australia. How much more outrageous can he get? The demos against him will be huge. I predict our police (and the army) will again be deployed in massive numbers to thwart the protests and Albanese will use the inevitable disaster to justify even harsher controls (or outright bans) on pro-Palestinian demos. Cynical sucking up to the nefarious Zionist lobby in Australia. Shame.
History might repeat itself: recall in 1966, NSW Premier Bob Askin’s “run the bastards over” to his driver while riding in a motorcade with Lyndon Johnson, referring to anti-Vietnam War protesters blocking the road in Sydney.
It’s outrageous & appalling that this federal government is welcoming Herzog to the country; the so-called president of Israel who visited an IDF munitions dump and signed bombs destined to slaughter civilians with words wishing them a trip to hell.
And let’s not forget the big picture.
This is bigger than Iran.
This is the liberal world order trying to destroy BRICS.
If they do not destroy BRICS very soon, the US will become just another regional power.
And the EU, close to irrelevant.
Steve,
You’ve put your finger on the strategic earthquake that’s rumbling beneath all this theatre.
BRICS isn’t just an economic bloc anymore; it’s become the existential threat to dollar hegemony that keeps Washington’s strategists awake at night. When you’ve got 45% of the world’s population, control of critical resources, and nations actively trading outside the greenback, the American century starts looking more like the American afternoon.
Iran’s not the target – it’s the firebreak. Hit Iran hard enough, destabilise the region thoroughly enough, and you fracture BRICS expansion before it solidifies into something that makes NATO look like a regional book club.
The timing’s no accident. China and Russia have spent two decades building alternative financial architecture; SWIFT alternatives, yuan-ruble settlements, gold-backed arrangements. Iran joining BRICS in 2024 wasn’t just symbolic; it connected Persian Gulf energy to that emerging system. That’s the nightmare scenario for Washington: Middle East oil priced in yuan, traded outside dollar circuits.
So yeah, this isn’t about Tehran’s nuclear program; that’s the excuse, not the reason. This is about maintaining global monetary control whilst there’s still enough military advantage to enforce it.
The EU? Already irrelevant, mate. Vassalised through Ukraine, de-industrialised through energy dependency, neutered through NATO. Brussels gave up sovereignty for “security” and got neither.
The question isn’t whether the US becomes “just another regional power”; that’s inevitable, demographically and economically. The question is whether the transition happens through negotiated multipolarity or through the kind of desperate, declining-empire violence we’re watching assemble in the Persian Gulf.
Australia’s got choices here too. We could be positioning ourselves as an independent middle power with trade and diplomatic links across a multipolar Asia-Pacific. Instead, we’re lashing ourselves to a mast on a ship that’s taking on water, convinced that loyalty to a fading hegemon constitutes “strategy.”
BRICS represents 37% of global GDP now. By 2030, probably half. You don’t bomb your way out of that mathematics. But you can blow up a lot of Iranian civilians trying.
And when the dust settles? The dollar’s still weakened, BRICS is still rising, and we’ve created another generation of refugees whilst pretending we were defending “the rules-based order.”
Cheers for seeing the bigger board, Steve. More people need to.
David
@ Steve: Agreed. How many countries are now using the BRICS foreign exchange system rather than feed profits to the US banking industry?
@ Canguro: Agreed. I know that many of the English ”upper classes” supported the democratically elected German government of 1933-1945 to protect their wealth and position. However, Chamberlain met the German Chancellor out of Britain before he shouted ”Peace in our time” in 1937.
Australians should not be botty kissers for foreign politicians pursuing ethnic cleansing like the GAZA GENOCIDE ….. WHEN WILL ALBO GROW SOME POLITICAL TESTICLES??
Canguro,
You’ve nailed the script—right down to the stage directions. The theatre of democracy, as you say, is less Hamlet and more Waiting for Godot: the set never changes, the actors just rotate, and the audience is left wondering if the play was ever about them at all. But let’s pull back the curtain a little further, because the real tragedy isn’t just the performance; it’s the scriptwriters.
Your list of distractions—sport, housing, law-and-order pantomimes, the endless parade of bling—isn’t accidental. It’s the raison d’être of what Sheldon Wolin called “inverted totalitarianism”: a system where the state and corporate power merge so seamlessly that dissent becomes a consumer choice, not a civic act. The punters aren’t just preoccupied; they’re managed. And war? War is the ultimate product placement, the ad break that never ends. Iran, China, whoever’s next—it’s not about geopolitics, it’s about the one thing capitalism can’t abide: a world that refuses to be a market.
But here’s the rub: the lemmings aren’t just the public. The political class is just as trapped, sprinting toward the same cliff, convinced that this time—this time—the laws of gravity won’t apply to them. They’ve internalised the myth of American exceptionalism so deeply that they can’t see the irony: every empire that believed itself invincible wrote its own obituary in the same ink. (Ask the Brits how their “strong signals” to the world worked out post-Suez. Or the Soviets after Afghanistan. Or the Americans after… well, pick one.)
You’re right to mock the amnesia. Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam—they’re not cautionary tales, they’re instruction manuals. Each failure is repackaged as a “lesson learned,” only to be repeated with more drones and fewer draft cards. And the media? They’re not just “in on the con”; they are the con. The same outlets that sold us “shock and awe” are now selling us “strategic patience” with China, as if patience is what’s needed when you’re staring down a global climate collapse and a debt bubble that makes 2008 look like a garage sale.
So what’s the counterplay? That’s the question that keeps me up at night—and the one I’ll dig into in a future piece. (Spoiler: it’s not about better politicians. It’s about worse audiences—ones who stop watching the show and start rewriting the script.)
What do you think, Canguro? Are we stuck in an endless loop of bread, circuses, and body bags? Or is there a third act we’re not seeing?
Cocky, I’m not sure if your question was rhetorical, but this is of interest.
From elsewhere — The inestimable Prof. Michael Hudson is on the global forefront of studying solutions to minimize US dollar hegemony. He is adamant that “the line of least resistance is to follow the already-in-place Chinese system.” That means CIPS – the China International Payment System, or Cross-Border Interbank Payment System, yuan-based, and already extremely popular, used by participants in 124 nations across the Global Majority.
Apparently BRICS is working on several plans to by-pass the $US.
Thanks, David, for another robust reply, confirming to some extent my sense of the game.
What do I think? I recently posed some questions for Steve, encouraging him to check the tea leaves, or the smoke wreathes from the censer, or even to deal the Tarot cards; clearly tongue in cheek. paul walter chimed in with the useful suggestion of going through the chook’s guts as another age-old method of divination. Crystal balls didn’t get a mention though, perhaps too risqué.
A strategic caveat might be ‘I’ve got no idea,’ which naturally opens up the opportunity for accusations of being a mere fantasist or fabulist, but there are some useful observations that play into what’s on the table, as it were.
[1] Mechanicality. It’s hard to argue for free will and creative activity in response to the challenges we hominids face. The issues that dog us – global warming, economic inequalities, social & financial… ditto, injustices at many levels – these are, from a certain perspective, solvable. Clearly, though, there is zero consensus around the necessary steps and processes needed to initiate remediation of the raft of problematic issues that grind away at mankind’s being and tenure. The problems lie, and originate, within the human psyche, and the solutions must also be found from within that domain. How to replace mechanicality with creativity, inertial repetition with creative activity… problematic, and unlikely to be easily solved. We mammals, like all our mammalian cousins, are creatures of habit. Few of us, relatively speaking, live on the cutting edge of active creation in our lives. Given we rely on the political classes to do the hard yards in these contexts, I think it’s unlikely that anything will improve in the foreseeable future. A relatively wise man said to those in his presence, including myself, some 45 years ago, that governments just keep making more and more laws because people are unable to govern themselves, they have to have these external controls placed on their behaviour because of their inability to self-govern.
[2] The time-honoured existence of the so-called Seven Deadly Sins: anger, envy, greed, gluttony, lust, pride and sloth. They’re all still very much part of the fabric of the human psyche, operating at personal, local, national & international levels. And none of it for the general benefit of mankind at large.
[3] We are, to bring in the broad brush, in the thrall of technology. And we have, to a large extent, lost sight of the fact that we are embedded in nature, that we belong to the natural world, as exemplified by the 98.8% sharing of the DNA pattern with our cousins the chimpanzee. This loss of a never-ending, always-on acute sense of sharing in the great mystery of life on this planet, along with a respect for that fact and a sense of empathetic connection to all other life forms is disastrous. There’s no other way to characterise it. When the ideas became accepted that the earth and its resources were solely there for asset stripping at all levels organic & inorganic, the seeds were set for destruction. Given what we now know is the result of these centuries of despoliation, it’s likely too late to turn around, to remedy the damage done.
[4] I’ve argued many times in these pages that global warming and its consequences will sort things out. It won’t be pretty. It’s all-encompassing, with no refuge, despite the billionaire’s sense of buying shelter in NZ or wherever, and we’re all in the pot along with the frog. The kids of today, sadly, will bear the major costs as those effects move into their mature phases.
Third act? I think that’s it, point # [4]. I don’t think there’s any point in expecting a kind of global kumbaya when there’s serious resource deficiencies or water shortages or wave on wave of ‘natural’ disasters impacting country after country. I could be wrong about all of this… let’s hope so.
There’s a lot at stake for Iran.
The following from Reuters explains how Iraq is now a US colony that can do nothing without US approval.
The United States, since its 2003 invasion of Iraq, has held effective control over the country’s oil revenue dollars, giving Washington extraordinary leverage over Baghdad’s affairs, with implications for regional dynamics involving Iran.
The U.S. control over Iraq’s oil revenues primarily stems from the management of Iraq’s oil income through the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. After the 2003 invasion, the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), led by the U.S., established the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI), which was held at the New York Fed. The DFI was designed to collect Iraq’s oil revenues and use them for the country’s reconstruction and development. It was also set up to protect the Iraqi oil revenues from lawsuits and claims relating to Saddam Hussein’s rule.
Then-president George W. Bush signed an executive order, which has been renewed by every president since, that set up the arrangement. The DFI eventually became an account of the Central Bank of Iraq at the New York Federal Reserve, which remains the case today.
What leverage does this give the U.S. over Iraq?
Oil is Iraq’s most important revenue source, accounting for some 90% of the state budget. This gives Washington significant sway over the country’s economic and political stability. When the Iraqi government asked U.S. troops to leave the country in 2020, Washington reportedly threatened to cut Iraq’s access to the New York Federal Reserve funds, with Baghdad ultimately backing down.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/how-us-controls-iraqs-oil-revenues-2026-01-23/
@ Steve: Thank you for your clear explanation of the coming financial demise of the USA (United States of Apartheid).
Time for Australia to diversify the means of foreign exchange.
Sound article, thanks David.
And the comments are worthy. I’m with Steve and Kanga, for different reasons, and as such I have commented many times before.
Regarding the blight of ‘liberalism’ that confers ‘power’ to real property ownership and thereby drives acquisitiveness for the sake of ‘power’. And of course neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism, liberalism’s bastard progeny that put the ‘ideals’ into action. Along with now, the ignoramus Techbros. As Yanis Varoufakis accurately named it, “tecnofeudalism”.
As for the psycho-babble we are all exposed to cradle to grave through the fears of the vulnerable caring mother to those of the equally vulnerable warrior father, it’s a hard one to crack. Especially when it’s been sprayed around endlessly since the advent of so-called civilizations. From the pronouncements of anthropomorphic ‘sky-gods’ to the invention of enemies, and ‘othering’, all beguiling messages, stock in trade for obsessive acquirers. They seek to control human will for beneficial cooperatives, throttling those through assertion of necessity for singularity of faith, knowledge, science, belief and desire. Where anything outside that singularity is not only abnormal, but evil, and to be not only avoided, but eliminated. And bingo, there you have it, SUPREMACY!
Faced with all that since dot, along came the invention of ‘democracy’, but rather than starting afresh demanding mandatory benevolence and responsibility by and for all, it incorporated all the psycho-babble. So thereby flourished in that mutuality.
The folk being busy, but expected to be involved, did little more than abdicate their responsibilities via a vote (or not). And so the pretenders and the elected learned that psycho-babble was in fact their most useful tool. And so on and on it continued through millennia of civilizations rising and crashing, via the acquisitive corrupted hereditary monarchs, and the elected.
Folk all know there’s psycho-bable, misinformation, disinformation and corruption. Like never before there’s access to the full gamit, but folk recognize there’s little ability to decipher it, along with an unwillingness to dig deep and decipher one’s self. So instead, there’s an ongoing mirroring, and adhering to belief’.
Over time, it’s cataclysm and hunger brings about change. And most would realize that is fast approaching via climate change and ‘western’ brutal politics – with both its targeted and inadvertent victims.
It would seem that art and language are the keys to decipherment of externalities and internalities and thereby the understandings necessary to change course.
Of late we may have seen the beginnings of a shift, but it seems, in jockeying for hierarchical positioning, the shift is slow, still dragging along many myths. Will the new language and art drag us back from the edge of the Earth?
Who will leverage the art and language, and when? How close do we have to get? Who knows? Maybe it’ll be “Mirror, mirror off the wall …”
From someone who knows tech better than I ever will and he’s coming to Australia!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBPX2fHJAMA