If the simple statistical calculation of mine breaks through the barriers of Paradigm-protection and restores an awareness of the central realities of the world economic order, it will have served sufficient purpose. That is the reason why I have made the personal effort at calculating the numbers for the relevant categories. It is not my specialty. Others should have done this work, and could surely do it better than I. I will be pleased if my effort sparks others to try their own calculations for the collective categories, even if in hope of refuting me. Probably in many cases this is the only way that most Paradigm-protective people could overcome their assumption that this must all be nonsense and allow the truth of the matter to penetrate. I am in fact pleased to be able to say that the Streit Council has taken up my challenge, in the period prior to publication of this work, and done its own calculation which I have shown above, and its own thinking through of the assumptions and categories. I hope others will next. I am sure my main conclusions will hold up: the ratios are simply too robust to be overturned. I will be even more pleased if my effort sparks the major GDP assessors and projectors -- IMF, World Bank, CIA, Goldman Sachs -- to start including calculations for the most relevant categories, the collective ones, on their published charts. Then at long last we will have projections expressed in forms that are not misleading. The policy makers of the world need this. Dynamic Hegemonic Stability: averting hegemonic challenges and global war The objective realities of Atlanticism, as long as they are coupled with joint institutions and with a basic awareness of the Atlantic Perspective, make possible an unusual kind of which we might call We have described the basics of it earlier: “sliding continuity”. the rest of the world keeps growing, by nature gradually catching up in production and technology, but the Atlantic-West also keeps growing as more countries graduate into its ranks. The West retains all along a strong hegemonial position in economic and security affairs, and retains all along its internal coherence as a grouping of sociologically similar and politically likeminded countries. This situation can potentially continue until the West becomes the entire world. This is a remarkably positive situation, far more stable than any other perspective can provide. And it is not just a perspective: as long as it is not refused or thrown in the trash, it is the mainstream evolving reality. It avoids the dangers to world peace that flow from situations where
If the simple statistical calculation of mine breaks through the barriers of Paradigm-protection and restores an awareness of the central realities of the world economic order, it will have served sufficient purpose. That is the reason why I have made the personal effort at calculating the numbers for the relevant categories. It is not my specialty. Others should have done this work, and could surely do it better than I. I will be pleased if my effort sparks others to try their own calculations for the collective categories, even if in hope of refuting me. Probably in many cases this is the only way that most Paradigm-protective people could overcome their assumption that this must all be nonsense and allow the truth of the matter to penetrate. I am in fact pleased to be able to say that the Streit Council has taken up my challenge, in the period prior to publication of this work, and done its own calculation which I have shown above, and its own thinking through of the assumptions and categories. I hope others will next. I am sure my main conclusions will hold up: the ratios are simply too robust to be overturned. I will be even more pleased if my effort sparks the major GDP assessors and projectors -- IMF, World Bank, CIA, Goldman Sachs -- to start including calculations for the most relevant categories, the collective ones, on their published charts. Then at long last we will have projections expressed in forms that are not misleading. The policy makers of the world need this. Dynamic Hegemonic Stability: averting hegemonic challenges and global war The objective realities of Atlanticism, as long as they are coupled with joint institutions and with a basic awareness of the Atlantic Perspective, make possible an unusual kind of which we might call “sliding continuity”. We have described the basics of it earlier: the rest of the world keeps growing, by nature gradually catching up in production and technology, but the Atlantic-West also keeps growing as more countries graduate into its ranks. The West retains all along a strong hegemonial position in economic and security affairs, and retains all along its internal coherence as a grouping of sociologically similar and politically likeminded countries. This situation can potentially continue until the West becomes the entire world. This is a remarkably positive situation, far more stable than any other perspective can provide. And it is not just a perspective: as long as it is not refused or thrown in the trash, it is the mainstream evolving reality. It avoids the dangers to world peace that flow from situations where
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