America's motives

[pms]

The problem with conspiracy theories is, the assumption is that someone,
somewhere, is actually In Charge -- an interesting variant of Weber's
vanishing mediator, actually. The reality is that history is made
by massive, gigantic, bumbling bureaucracies, bound up in
historical constellations of power, which need to be carefully analyzed
and decoded.

- -- Dennis

So your saying that those long generations of vast fortunes don't willfully
exert influence on world affairs? That big capital doesn't realize that an
ageing and increasingly unemployed US population needs to be "managed"?  It
took years of hard work to get the people to label progress as petty
"political correctness".  It took concerted effort to get women enjoying the
benefits of feminism every day, to disown feminism.  You don't think that
certain elements in the US have worked toward disappearing the dreaded
Vietnam Syndrome?  One persons conspiracy is just another persons dream.
And dreams manifest. Visions permeate whole bureacracies.  They come from
somewhere.