At this point, we can see the maturation process of the Shock Doctrine as Friedman's brainchild began developing techniques to artificially induce economic crisis where none existed in order to play the knight in shining white armor during the supposed rescue portion of the program.
Naomi could have covered Chinese economic history in the 20th Century a bit more. The economic transformation, welcomed first by Mao himself during the Ping-Pong Diplomacy years when Nixon was in power, took farmers and made them day laborers. That is where the little red book and Mao hats first started becoming the fashion. That was all they could produce then. Since Nixon, the economic power of the biggest country of the world has increased steadily and by double digits over the past 15 years. There were over 4 times the number of people in China than in the US, and when they decided that agriculture was nice, but city-life was spice (think Green Acres in reverse - Eva Gabor wins out), their economy skyrocketed.
The final decade of the last millennium was indeed quite tragic for the peoples of Asia as fabricated disaster after fabricated disaster was whipped up around their countries causing near total economic collapse and creating the classic conditions required for the wolves in sheep's' clothing known as the Chicago Boys. Their operating procedure, now as precise an instructional manual as any system out there, raped and pillaged countries across Asia. Where the Chicago Boys weren't found at the controls of a given nation's demise, the military industrial complex, that other pillar of American hegemonic export, could usually be found in their stead. This deadly duo would only increase their presence in the new millennium and even today, we can see their poisonous tentacles doling out misery and suffocation to the vast majority of the citizenry of any country they touch.
The third article will consist of a summary of this review of Naomi's Shock Doctrine rev. 2, the present form of the program, and expand out beyond her book, given the recent developments that have occurred since. I will go over her main points once again and present her conclusion, as well as my personal comments on it. We must, however, always keep in mind that her entire book reviews Shock Doctrine and its effects on other nations, the so-called third world, by way of the Military Industrial Complex. The Commodities Robber Barons played essential roles throughout these calamities like giant Hoovers sucking the nation's natural resources of every country they faced.
Up to the publishing of her book, that is where the majority of this doctrine had been applied. It would have been near impossible for Naomi to anticipate the events that have unfolded since its release, yet the same parameters and the same essential results should be, and are, expected. The main difference is, we are now seeing the Shock Doctrine being applied to the industrialized world as well, and this time, it's courtesy of the banksters.
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