Ever since our resident emperor announced his u201CWar on Terror,u201D I have insisted that this campaign had less to do with confronting u201Cterroru201D – an effort that would have implicated the United States' use of the practice – than with forcibly resisting the peaceful decentralizing processes that threaten the established institutional order. (See, for example, here, here, here, and here.) Social systems are moving from vertically-structured to horizontally-networked models, a transformation that bodes ill for the political and economic establishment.  Some three years ago I suggested naming this conflict the War for the Preservation of Institutional Hierarchies.  If a shorter … Continue reading CXV – What the ‘Struggle’ Is All About