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Peak Prosperity Podcast
The Saker: The Syrian Powderkeg
Published Monday, July 10, 2017
Length of podcast – Approximately 46 minutes
The podcast gets into interesting political dynamics of foreign policy, the global stakeholders, war games, influence, conflicting goals, deterrence, and a host of issues.
Depending on your state of mind, this podcast can either be tremendously intellectually stimulating or steer you off into a more depressed and anxious state of emotion. On one hand, global conflict can really hit home if it impacts you personally. It’s simply tragic. On another hand, it’s part of human history and will probably be a part of humanity well beyond our living years.
It also makes you think of conflicting goals on smaller and smaller scales (fractile nature of society). You have countries with conflicting goals, residents within those countries that have conflicting goals, wants and needs. You have different religions, cultures, and beliefs. But even within governments, you can have conflicting goals. An example would be here within the government of the United States. You have conflicting political parties. But then you have conflicting goals of the white house, the senate, and the congress. You have conflicting goals between politicians and the military, the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, and the think tanks. You also have conflicting goals of the University and educational departments of our society. Throw in Wall Street, Main Street and it quickly becomes a jumbled pile of spaghetti.
These are all complex systems, with no easy answers. It’s just a fluid situation that can create a conflict of various levels and severity. Game theory is an important tool but often relies on the rational behavior of the opposing player and often humans don’t act rationally. They act anything but rational as we are all emotional beings with different wants and needs.
My brain hurts a bit as does my heart. I worry about humanity which is not rational. I’m acting emotional – there I go being all human again…