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19 janvier 2025 7 19 /01 /janvier /2025 07:16

Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish, round perdition’s flames…

This is a complement (including immediate political events) to « Farewell to America », published on this blog on September 8, 2024.

https://europe-tigre.over-blog.com/2024/09/farewell-to-america.html

The french version of the present text (« Fata Morgana ») is published on this blog today.

https://europe-tigre.over-blog.com/2025/01/fata-morgana.html

Buffalo Bill Wild West Show, last lap. Tomorrow, Donald John Trump will be officially sworn in as the 47th President of the United States of America, in polar cold, at a time when the second largest city in the USA is still in flames. His very large victory in the last presidential elections, his alliance with Elon Reeve Musk, a visionary genius, equipped, at least for the moment, with a colossal financial strike force, followed by the rallying of all the "Tech giants" to the winner's red plume (submission of Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg) including on the ideological level (Peter Thiel's "Girardian" Apocalypse), could become a real internal political revolution, with global repercussions. It will eventually constitute, if it manages to take shape and become effectively functional for a period exceeding the next few months*, a very fragile and very provisional palisade against the raging and redoubled waves of the ferments of civil war for an America in an advanced phase of fragmentation. The current evolution of the general atmosphere within the collective psychology seems to be the manifestation of a final manic phase before self-squaring, through a whirlwind recapitulation of the great spontaneous and recurring tendencies implemented in this country since its creation **…

 

* No one can prejudge the respective situations of Donald Trump and Elon Musk in 3 years, 3 months, 3 weeks… O combien de marins, combien de capitaines – Qui sont partis joyeux pour des courses lointaines…

** Whaling activities are the real foundation that has structured the spontaneous tendencies of the country until today (as I believe I clearly demonstrated in my book published 5 years ago), inducing an extractivist and annexationist logic on a universal scale. While the designers are not necessarily aware of it, Donald Trump's Peace through Strength induces an irresistible dynamic towards the 3rd World War, Elon Musk's Rescue of Humanity implies as a prerequisite to make ever larger areas of the Earth's crust hostile to human life.
Donald Trump's real strategy (unthought by its author, especially since he is personally not at all warmongering) is WAR (the fate of the Venezuelan and Iranian regimes is probably already sealed), in a dynamic that will quickly lead to what he wants to avoid: the 3rd World War. Indeed, some of his interlocutors (and not the least) in what he imagines to be a muscular dialogue with a conclusive vocation, have clearly more determination, obstinacy and constancy than him, and all the means to make them prevail. In addition, his initiative is made more difficult by the latest decisions of the Biden administration in terms of energy…

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/01/13/the-folly-and-illegality-of-sanctions/

At the same time, Elon Musk's claim to the status of "Savior of Humanity" by spreading part of it to other planets is becoming all the more consistent as the Earth becomes more and more uninhabitable... Nomadic shepherds thus choose other pastures for their herds when they have exhausted the phytological renewal capacity of the one they were exploiting until then...

Glory to the victor, glory to the Hero. Triumphant over multiple trials, Donald Trump, like the Caesars in the Heraclean finery of Ancient Rome, has now become a modernized figure of the mythical sperm whale and lumberjack giants, Alfred Bulltop Stormalong (who appeared in the early 1830s in response to the ravages caused by large male sperm whales in the American fishing fleet) and Paul Bunyan (in memory of the epic of the digging of the Erie Canal (1817-1825), which allowed the hallucinatory development of the city of New York)...
His "Peace through Strength" imagines itself to be an avatar of the "Monroe Doctrine" of the early 19th century. He thus defined an exclusive sphere of influence, which explains his de facto takeover of Ecuador and Peru, his pressure on Mexico for a potential armed intervention (the prey had already been half devoured in the 19th century), on Panama for a re-annexation of the canal (designed then built in part by the French from 1880 to 1889, before being completed by the Americans until its inauguration in the summer of 1914), his official hope of absorbing Canada (already claimed from England during the "Alabama claims" (1864-1872) in compensation for the aid provided by the latter to the Confederate army during the Civil War) and Greenland*, thus establishing an Arctic continuity as far as Alaska (sold by the Russians in 1867, for fear of having it torn away without being able to oppose it in any way, as masterfully shown by Michel Poniatowski in his work on Russian America -1978-)…

But the Monroe Doctrine contains a fundamental oversight, which is that of "The Eternal Frontier", the spontaneous tendency of Americans to want to conquer a horizon that is constantly slipping away, and to resolve internal crises by this ever-further push. President James Monroe presented his doctrine on December 2, 1823, while the country’s whaling industry was growing in power, with Nantucket Island alone constituting a veritable thalassocratic superpower on a global scale, a powerful vector for the establishment of democracy throughout the world (Herman Melville highlighted this aspect in chapters 14 and 82, in particular, of his novel “Moby-Dick”)… The dynamics induced by this process involve a predation of the territories approached homologous to that of harpooned cetaceans (“Moby-Dick”, chapter 89 “Moored Fish, Lost Fish”: “To John Bull, the formidable harpooner, what is unfortunate Ireland but a moored fish? And to Brother Jonathan (the nickname given by the English to the United States), the apostolic harpooner, is not Texas one too… What was America in 1492, if not a lost fish on which Columbus planted the Spanish pavilion... Is not our terrestrial globe itself a lost fish? "
On American territory itself, this tendency towards limitlessness produces recurring results comparable to those observed outside: a veritable Pandemonium, which Upton Sinclair magnificently illustrated in his description of the Chicago slaughterhouses (The Jungle, 1905) and the oil fever (Oil!, 1927)…

* The whaling dimension of the "Greenland question", and the dynamics towards Antarctica that it generates.
The last hunt for the great white whale... This would be coordinated in an American-Anglo-Norwegian coalition (the British authorities have officially stressed that they would not oppose in any way the initiatives of their "closest ally", the Norwegians intend to settle to their advantage their historical dispute with the Danes concerning the large island) to establish a strategic continuity in the Arctic zone [Greenland-USA/Canada-Alaska: 21.7 million km², more than Russia, with 17 million km2].
Traditionally, the Inuit of Greenland consider the creation of icebergs as a birth of the ice sheet, a gigantic maternal organism of profuse fertility. In the 19th century, there was widespread use of the term “calving” among American, Danish, and Greenlandic whalers (Olivier Remaud, “Penser comme un iceberg,” 2020, pages 58-62).
Trump’s hostile takeover of Greenland is a remake, on a larger scale, of the odyssey of Thomas Welcome Roys’ whaling ship Superior in July 1848 in the Bering Sea. Considered by historians of the American whaling industry as the most important event in its history, it nevertheless began with a one-off renunciation: the ship encountered a Greenland right whale so enormous that the captain gave up any attempt to capture it, for fear that the "moored fish" would drag the ship to the bottom... Subsequently, this newly discovered species was called by sailors "Russian whale", and even "Russia"...

From Greenland to Antarctica, the eternal Frontier. Appetite comes with eating, the unraveling of international law calls for its intensification.
And among the countries with claims on portions of the Antarctic continent, we find the British and Norwegians, who are eyeing neighboring sectors. These, once united, would constitute a territory of nearly 4 million km² to the north of the continent. At the same time, the mutual appetites of the Norwegians and the Japanese are being sharpened for the hunting of rorquals, which could lead to a real competition between these actors, comparable to that between the Soviets and the Japanese in the 1960s (today, there are several hundred thousand "minor" rorquals in the Southern Ocean (peripheral to the Antarctic continent))... In his "Grande aventure des baleines" (1953), Georges Blond mentioned a real Norwegian "Bulltop", Einar Bornik, who killed 5,000 large cetaceans between 1932 and 1952…

 

THE ELONIANS. Will Elon Musk, spiritual heir to Cecil Rhodes, avatar of the superheroes of Marvel culture, Icarus the meteor of war, succeed in sending a small group of human beings into space?

On the moon again.

 

An unthought-of adversary. With whom it is easy to live in peace, but with whom it is difficult to wage war...

Great flood (1862), great fire (2025). Thar, he blows! Moby-Dick, ch 36: "I will pursue him... beyond the flames of Hell", ch. 119: "He sometimes bursts forth from this cloudless sky, like a bomb exploding on a sleeping, dazed city."
Ch 111: "Thus, this mysterious and divine Pacific encircles the entire mass of the world, makes all the shores its one and only bay, and its flow seems to throb like the heart of the planet."
165,250,000 km², an area larger than all the land masses, as well as that of the planet Mars.

The "Pacific War" is, de facto, a polysemic formula...

 

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