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Even if Maduro had a hand in this second blackout it will avail him little. His regime is being eaten up by entropy.
The power of a state depends on its ability to reward and punish. Maduro can't even communicate effectively over state media any more or monitor obedience. Terror loses its effect if it cannot be made known.
Even if Maduro can convince the audience that the gringos control his electric grid it would be a humiliating admission of impotence and weaknesses
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A lot of irresistible forces will collide with immovable objects in the coming weeks. The EU demanding a 2nd Brexit referendum, the eruption of white/western terrorist groups and the wave of de-platformings likely to ensue and others not yet manifest but gathering.
A terrible clash is brewing and a multitude will find what once seemed solid shift and forces once chained up now free to roam. If politicians are to head this off, they have to start deconflicting at once.
The psychological barriers are in danger of collapsing. They've been going gradually for a long time.
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In one of my early Belmont Club posts, a few years after 9/11 I predicted if terrorism and the clash of cultures could not be stopped someday people I didn't know would lynch me for reasons they themselves couldn't explain. People in uncertainty and fear will do anything.
Maybe that was because, as a young man in Mindanao, I went through towns where complete strangers killed each other because one was Christian and the other Muslim. It wasn't personal, you see, just the continuation of unfinished business.
News that up to 50 people were killed in 2 New Zealand mosques by what will probably be a neo-Nazi cell or persons strongly suggests that that the terrible tribal score settling and grievance mongering is here.
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One could say we are watching a struggle between two great and ancient religions, whose roots are in the distant past. One is known as 'capitalism' whose tenets are free will and individual salvation and damnation. The other attempts wants to build a secure group tower.
In truth many find freedom too distressing and frightening to endure. They'd prefer a handout provided it was assured; and a short and tolerable life to the terrifying prospect of eternity;
But as the story of the tower of Babel -- and the fall of Communism shows us -- security is illusory. We are trapped in a glorious and scary universe, whether we like it or not.
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