What's the big picture? I see chaotic flows, polycentric, consuming energy and information. The BBC documentaries and Earth and Ocean make it clear that most obvious animals are busy eating one another. They are consuming weakly-defended surpluses.
Trying to make sense of world politics is like trying to understand a grass fire by interviewing clumps of grass. The fuel is there. The fire is burning. When the fuel is consumed or out of reach, the fire stops.
The digital revolution, spreading information at the speed of light, is a big fire and is feeding on everything in all the cultures and faiths and governments of the world.
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