Will They Have The Intestinal Fortitude For A Knife Fight?
During a global pandemic, the United States continues its experiment with a lack of leadership, science denial, and neoliberalism.
Where is the much-touted BIG DATA? Of course, Big Data serves MONEY too, so why hasn't Fed created funds been thrown into brute force big data projects to parse the pandemic and develop best practices for combating challenges surrounding it?
In the United States, nothing happens without money. The Players have had a good looting spree. They control the capital. For things to get back to "normal" (extracting resources at a fever pace to support economic growth through mindless consumerism), they are going to have to deal with the monster virus.
Why don't the players pay large, global, tax-dodging companies with important shareholders some big bucks so they can crunch the SARS-COVID-2 data and get the Bread & Circuses show back on the road? They own those companies, after all.
Could it be that the Players believe that there is no hope for their business model moving forward? Have they lost their faith in the global neoliberal economic growth model? Are they throwing in the towel and preparing their bug-out mansions near the poles? Is this their last night at the poker table?
Come on Players; you are all geniuses, you can throw some of those ones and zeros at solving some of these problems so we can all stay entertained and full of dreams until wet-bulb earth puts an end to your self-terminating game.
Who are the Players going to lord over while they're hunkered down in their fortified mini city-states? They'll have to direct their blood lust for power against each other. Are they planning to develop a Game of Thrones World?
Someone should come up with a uber-lux dojo chain to teach oligarchs how to knife fight. They could go at each other with sticks, canes, swords, and knives just for sport once the plebs have died off in mass numbers. Playing the role of a noble knight might provide some excitement for them. Oh, I forgot, the Players let other people do the fighting.
The Players had better get busy training before their private armies put an end to them once they realize that for the first time in human history, resources have suddenly become, in fact, very scarce.
