The hardest thing for competitive bullies is to stop and imagine what it's like to be someone else, especially in another country. I keep trying to imagine the Chinese, Russian or Venezuelan farmers' point of view over the last 50 years. What do they see the UN, the USA, or their own governments doing in the world body politic? How does it affect their ability to plan for a future?

For Americans, we tend to always see and think "money" as our conduit to living. Few Americans can imagine a life without it; scavenging or subsistence growing, let alone imagining a small village setting where we would only be in contact with civilization once a year or so.

Everything you need to survive in the USA arrives on a truck.

Almost nothing you need in the Amazon forest does.

China has spent the last few decades exploiting America's desire for life to be delivered, and they've become arguably the foremost influence in the world for it.

Russia has been trying to build a coherent idea of what their nation means since Soviet collapse, and the corruption of 'help' from outside and power on the inside hasn't been conducive to a peaceful future.

When the USSR collapsed, Wall Street saw sugar plums and dollar signs, but so did the politicians who wanted to push their constituents' products (I'm pointing at you, Red States).

Nobody really wants to stop and talk to the subsistence farmers of the world, but with all of the political confusion and competition, every country has farmers they can anchor to.

The American Century was built on farmers and the Green Revolution, powered by cheap oil to produce cheap food so everyone could enjoy 'disposable income' to corrupt the world with Consumptionism.

As the whole world is facing phosphageddon and Peak Oil, it's getting more and more obvious that food will be the rule of law.

As water supplies fail, disasters and heat waves and disease will kill billions, and then those who are left will still have to eat.

While our attention is coerced toward climate change 'fixes', political disasters, and tired old concepts of competition (anti-communism, anarchism, all the other -isms), we fail to address the fundamental problem that will still exist:

Humanity has made itself useless to its places, so its places are in revolt.

It's not the Zombies rising out of the ground we have to worry about: it's the ground itself that we are making toxic to our own future. Nature is going to stop feeding the rats.