Yet another great article mentioning the”Epstein Class”. This is what collapse looks like, because for one, the French won’t cop this on the chin. If the elites think they can uncouple, just wait til the man in the street does to. All we need to do is refuse to service our debts. Permanently. They would be on their knees in a matter of days…..
Also of great interest here is that the author links SURPLUS ENERGY to social security. The only other person I recall doing so is Gail Tverberg, and that was many moons ago….
As an aside, former Prince Andrew has finally been arrested….. maybe the Epstein Class is finally put on notice?
| When the European elite gave a standing ovation to Marco Rubio’s ‘love letter to colonial conquest’ in Munich, many observers were baffled. Why would the leaders of the EU—a project ostensibly built on peace and sovereignty—cheer for a speech that reduced them to junior partners in a US resource raid?The answer lies in a brutal class distinction. The European elite are not confused; they are calculating. They have recognised that the European Material Base (industry, cheap energy, the welfare state) is collapsing due to the loss of Russian gas and the thermodynamic reality of the Resource Entropy Singularity. Faced with a dying host, the parasite seeks a new one. 1. The Superstructure Decouples from the Base In a healthy nation-state with a high Energy Return on Energy Invested (ERoEI), the Superstructure (Elites/Government) serves to manage the Base (Population/Economy). Their fates are tied; if the nation prospers, the elite prospers. However, the SETE model predicts a specific fracture point when the energy flux drops below the level required to maintain complex society. When the internal energy surplus collapses, the cost of maintaining the social contract—democracy, the welfare state, and industrial employment—becomes thermodynamically unaffordable. The elite are then faced with an existential binary choice. They can either sink with their population by attempting to maintain the welfare state on a shrinking energy budget, or they can decouple. The applause in Munich signals that the decoupling has occurred. By aligning with the US Empire, the European leadership has detached its personal fortunes from the European economy. They have transformed themselves into Compradors—local managers acting on behalf of an external Imperial power, charged with managing the extraction and pacification of their own territory for the benefit of the Core. 2. The ‘Epstein Class’ Solidarity To understand this betrayal, one must recognise the specific nature of the modern oligarchy, often referred to as the ‘Epstein Class’. This is a transnational elite whose primary allegiance is to capital preservation and liquidity, not national interest or geography. They have no moral limits and operate with effective legal impunity. For this class, the US Dollar System—and the liquidity provided by the ‘Eurodollar Vacuum’—is the only lifeboat in a turbulent ocean. If European nations attempted to pursue genuine sovereignty—for example, by defying US sanctions to trade with China or Russia to save German industry—they would face the full wrath of US financial warfare. The elite’s personal assets, held largely in Western financial instruments and real estate, would be at immediate risk of seizure or devaluation. Safety, therefore, lies in vassalage. By submitting to the US, they secure their position within the US security and financial umbrella. They accept the role of local enforcers for the 10% universal tariff and the regime of energy austerity. In doing so, they insulate themselves from the consequences of their own policy failures, ensuring their own liquidity remains intact even as their populations are plunged into energy poverty. 3. Democracy as an Impediment Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the Munich spectacle was the enthusiasm for Rubio’s ‘Hard Power’ rhetoric. This reveals that the breakdown of the ‘pretence of democracy’ is not a bug for this class; it is the primary feature of the new order. As the standard of living in Europe collapses due to de-industrialisation, the democratic feedback loop transforms from a mechanism of legitimacy into a threat. Populism, whether from the Left or the Right, is simply the thermodynamic distress signal of the Base screaming that it is starving. For an elite tasked with managing a permanent decline in living standards, the voters are no longer a constituency to be wooed, but a security risk to be managed. Rubio’s vision offers a convenient solution: an authoritarian, securitised order where dissent is framed as ‘Foreign Interference’ or ‘Anti-Westernism’. The applause in Munich was the sound of relief. The European leadership was relieved that the US is giving them permission to stop pretending to care about democratic consent and start managing the decline by force. Conclusion The European elite are not ‘failing to recognise’ they are vassals. They are embracing vassalage because it is the only way to maintain their status in a biophysically bankrupt continent. They have traded European sovereignty for Class security. The standing ovation was the sound of a management team cheering for a hostile takeover, knowing their golden parachutes are signed, even as the factory floor is liquidated. The Ultimate Avatar of Balance. |
Damn the Matrix 