Ah here we are again, happily I dont mind repeating myself.
Dont join all the dots. You appear keener to make order out of chaos, via an oversimplified worldview, than the elites do. Powerful people have power, this comes as no shock to anybody. The suggestion that the crisis was deliberately engineered, is a serious claim that requires specific evidence, rather than generalisations about powerful people being corrupt and betraying the interests of those with no power.
Sure we can say that the current system had flaws in it which have brought about the crisis. We can say that some people with power should have known better, could of seen it coming. We can look at the bailouts and see how it favours certain people more than others. We can see injustice and get angry about it.
But is there anything to be gained from demonizing and scapegoating? Can we really lump all the people with power into a single group with a specific agenda, and expect to be taken seriously? Is there even any point demonising powerful people, will it wake up a single person who somehow missed all the specific individual injustices and horrors that happen all the time because of the way humans organise, seize and use power?
And I complain again about the tendency of some who are understandably cynical about mainstream lies, to run straight for a new lie, one which is full of specific strains of American anti-federal right wing militia types. Oh how I weep at those who may point left a little or a lot, but end up as strange bedfellows with those who lurk on the right, at least in part due to a desire to oversimplify, vilify, or not want to bother with the dull details of economic and political issues. Sure, what the left and the right have in common is that neither side is governed by people who represent them and do what they want, but this is perhaps one of the few areas where I am glad of this! I mean, oversimplified wordviews and kneejerk reactions are one of the phenomenon that allow some of the elite to justify their role to themselves, doing whats best for the masses because the masses are ignorant, we know whats best for you etc. Whilst I take a dim view of such notions of democracy, and hope never to give up on the idea that nearly all humans can be rational, sensible and informed if given the opportunity, this is not helped by these sorts of threads.
It is interesting to consider whether certain crisis could be manufactured. Certainly they will be managed in a way thats supposed to keep pretty much the same order of things, but this crisis in particular will probably show just how much powerful people do not always get along. Right now they need to show solidarity, but I expect as the consequences hit the real economy hard in the coming years, we will see world order become more chaotic.
