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"Currency Wars and the RMB Strategy" Sequel 7: N Possible Ways a Harmonious World Could Exist

2007/11/20 9:05:23

Today's market analysis will be in the evening. Apologies.

N possible ways a harmonious world could exist:

  1. All people die off.

  2. All nations die off.

  3. All races die off.

  4. All religions die off.

  5. All beliefs die off.

  6. All interests die off.

  7. Everything that should die off dies off without a single exception.

Note: all the above conditions must hold simultaneously—then perhaps a harmonious world becomes possible. Beyond this, there is virtually no possibility. Even if science advances in the future and invents a "harmonious world serum" injected into every newborn, there would still be exceptions—drug resistance, genetic mutations, and other eventualities that ultimately destroy the harmonious world. So for a harmonious world, only the above possibility exists.

As long as there are two or more living people, two or more nations, races, religions, beliefs, interests, and so forth—a harmonious world can only be a slogan.

What is a slogan? A slogan is something used to hoodwink others, to trick them into a trap. Just like America shouts "democracy"—that's a slogan, designed to dupe people into submission.

Who are the stupidest people in the world? Those who create a slogan and end up believing their own slogan can actually become reality—in other words, people who get conned by their own con. Americans aren't stupid—why? Because when Americans shout the democracy slogan, they never believe it themselves. They only believe in military force, cultural invasion, carrots and sticks. Democracy is merely a layer of packaging.

No matter how many "harmonious world" slogans are chanted, oil prices will only move according to the resultant force of competing interests. Even if you had the entire world chant "harmonious world" six quintillion times, the resultant force of interests would proceed exactly as it would regardless.

The dollar's depreciation, the surge in all resource commodities—these co-occurring phenomena should tell even the most dim-witted person: this is warfare. This is premeditated, planned warfare. What good does shouting "harmonious world" do? This is even more foolish than the Boxer Rebellion's chants of invulnerability to swords and guns.

Was any of this hard to foresee? When this ID wrote "Currency Wars and the RMB Strategy" years ago, it was already laid out as clearly as could be.

Economic growth driven by population-consumption and asset-virtualization is an objective economic law, universal worldwide. When you reach this stage, these things happen. This ID has already pointed this out very clearly. Regarding the laws of population-consumption and asset-virtualization—nobody had articulated them before, but that doesn't mean they didn't exist, nor do they exist because this ID stated them. These are objective laws; this ID merely revealed them.

Under the operation of these laws, economic miracles are as natural as the sun rising on schedule—nothing to be proud of, because it's simply how things should be. This ID has said: as long as you don't do the stupidest things, the most supremely idiotic things in history, under these growth laws, economic miracles will continue to be miraculous.

However, once an economic miracle develops to a certain scale, transformation occurs—possible changes emerge. Why? Because economic capacity is finite. Once an economy's capacity reaches a certain level, all conditions shift. Internal and external pressures gradually form a new equilibrium of forces with the original driving force of the economic miracle. That's when you hit a threshold. Cross it, and the bull run continues; fail to cross it, and economic counterforces emerge, leading to a major correction.

Japan is the most classic example—it failed to cross a certain threshold. But in all fairness, for the Japanese to have reached their current level already demonstrates extraordinary capability. That threshold, given Japan's original conditions, probably nobody could have truly broken through.

But China is different. China's original conditions are far superior to Japan's. If China ultimately falls at a threshold similar to Japan's, that would be history's great joke—and that is the crux of the issue.

This ID began writing this series of articles years ago precisely to prepare for breaking through this threshold. Because before reaching it, everything will continue to be red-hot, right up until the equilibrium point of these combined forces, when potential variables emerge.

If the earlier phase could rely on national fortune, then the later phase requires wisdom above all. But where is the wisdom?

"Harmonious world" can continue as a slogan. But by whose standards do we harmonize? America has their standards; as many countries as there are, that's how many standards exist. Different standards, different interests—what ultimately determines the world can only be the resultant force of struggle.

This is a world of force. Only force can harmonize the world.