Of what use are the rulers? From T.L. Davis at tldavis.com:
We are finding out that the world built in the shadow of World War II doesn’t work. What’s termed the international rules-based order is a failure. As Cormac McCarthy wrote in No Country for Old Men, “if the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”
The idea that the international community could be ordered based on a set of rules and creating international organizations to monitor compliance with those rules is absurd. But I guess it had to be tried, if for no other reason than to discard it out of hand in the future. Politics operate on a cycle of power, control, abuse, resistance and revolution. No agreement or power-sharing will stop that cycle. At best, it can shorten the cycle by excluding abuse where resistance would begin at the point of control, but rarely has it ever done so.
If anything should give one pause and recognition of their vulnerability it should be how the international rules-based order threatens to remove the resistance part of the cycle and extend abuse even past the point of arriving at revolution. Everything in the world right now is designed to exert control over everyone and everything and leave that control in the hands of a few insane billionaires driven mad by excess.
The rules?
Suggestions for halfwits that clap along to their demise like trained seals.