Here you will find some results of a lifelong study of that rent-seeking complex of vaunting and fear some call the "System". This work is informed in part by my studies in physics, dynamical systems, Austrian School economics, psychology, law, revisionist history, linguistics, biology, evolution and the origins of order, chaos, complexity and information theory, monetary theory and history, market analysis, and so on. These viewpoints can be coalesced into a consilient theory of the course of human events: Asimovian Psychohistory. One modeling technique is to map the current times against past events- the history-rhyming theory. I study the examples of Rome, Nazi Germany, the Great Depression, the USA, and of course the old Soviet Union, which is a close, modern analog of the American Empire (and its creation, btw).

The collapse of the American/Atlanticist/Anglo Empire has already commenced, with the gutting of the manufacturing base in the imperial core (Triffin's Dilemma), the overstretch of the imperial military, the barbarian invasion from within, the dissasociative mentality of the ruling elite, the increase in transaction costs (complexity), the loss of entrepreneurial initiative, the evisceration of the law, the domination of parasitic over productive economic activity, and most critically: the accelerating abandonment of the worldwide dollar-reserve standard.

A New Dark Age is descending upon us in several crucial aspects: in those black holes in the cultural memory, and in the increased time-preference* of the modern American. As others have noted, a Dark Age is not necessarily all bad news. I hope that you will find this information applicable in your every day life, dear Reader.

*I may add a glossary and bibliography for the underlined stuff later.

Below is in part a report on recent (as of April10th, 2005) field results concerning

April 1^st, 2004. 3:30 AM. I was traveling in my automobile* on a public right-of-way. Another automobile sporting bright blue and red flashing lights appeared behind me. When I pulled over to let this apparent emergency vehicle pass, it stopped behind my automobile. An armed man wearing a costume festooned with a variety of totems and amulets got out, came over and performed a ritualistic harassing of myself. Sensing a crime in the making, I did not "cooperate" beyond the normal things one does during a hold up. He falsely claimed I was "drinking and driving". It is a very simple matter to determine that the crime rate in the US is skyrocketing, by using the definition: a crime is a trespass against a real person.

Feb 11^th , 2005 Combo motion hearing, quasi-trial, inquest (by myself) somethingorother.

MR. BISHOP: The reason -- if you may recall on January 5th the reason I waived that is because you, sir, told me that you can overrule a jury.

THE COURT: Yeah, I can.

MR. BISHOP: And I spent quite a bit of time digging through statutes and procedures and court rules and yada, yada, yada. I cannot find this.

THE COURT: Okay. I understand you can't find it but I'm telling you I can.

MR. BISHOP: Do you know the rule? Where would I find it?

THE COURT: I'm not going to tell you. You can go look it up yourself. [rage & aggression indicia, the only instance in which I've seen Mr. Chow display this.] All I'm telling you: I ruled on it, you made a decision, I asked you about it. Okay, we're beyond that now.

A secret rule! Of course, in Admiralty Law, there is no Jury verdict required anyway…we’ve been beyond that for quite some time now.

"Analysis: One must not confuse a country’s past glory with its future prospects. The United States has devolved from a republic to a social democracy. I would argue that the U.S. is experiencing economic "undevelopment" directly related to the decivilization process occurring in America today. In Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s fabulous book Democracy: The God That Failed, Dr. Hoppe describes what happens to a populace living under nanny-statism. He describes how the decivilizing nature of social democracy

TBD

Geopolitical Empire is a form of pyramid scheme: a hierarchical, dynamical system composed of individual Actors in capacities as (crudely) Masters (the early investors), Enforcers (organized crime) and Slaves (the dupes, or downstream investors). These model terms and boundaries are idealizations; no one can perfectly embody the properties of a ‘pure’ Master, for example. As with the dyadic transactional models of a back-alley mugging or a con, net crime flows one way, while net resources flow the other way.

This socioeconomic structure can be analyzed (for example) in terms of transport phenomena and their associated gradients, in a multi-species Predator-Prey equation. We can then speak of such things as crime gradients, energy-use gradients, purchasing-power gradients, complexity gradients, and, perhaps most crucially, information gradients. The structure of the information held by each Actor has a precise and discernable form, that differs in relation to the Actors overall position in the Empire Gradients.

The Actor’s (theoretical) internal cognitive state (his psychology and worldview) and resultant external responses to certain stimuli are somewhat predictable. The time-evolving set of cognitive maps produced from the actions within the network of dyadic transactions between the different Actor’s forms a psychodynamical system. I call this the "Psychostructure", to differentiate it from less precise, collectivist terms such as ‘culture’, ‘class’, ‘society’, ‘us’, ‘them’, or ‘a people’s beliefs’, and to name the system under study. The ‘System’ evoked above can then be called the Psychostructure of the American Empire.

"Throughout history there have been numerous inflations, depressions, and periods of societal breakdown.... one of the most interesting aspects of this "modern" predicament is the essential rejection of history, even by many in that profession. It has been fashionable, especially among those who advocate social planning, to stress the new and unique aspects of modern industrial society…"

The physical and cognitive structures described above can be represented as a distortion, or perturbation, of a violence-free network of dyadic, voluntary exchange. Bearing in mind the fundamental non-computability of economic systems, as the Austrian School economists have shown, here are some conjectures:

a) The trajectory of the putative Psychostructural Vector in a cognitive and economic product space is predictable to some degree. In other words, the future course of human events can be mapped with some confidence.

b) The confidence of the prediction rises with the increased distortion of the violence-free market. (The rise of Empire is the physical manifestation of that market distortion.)

c) The physical distortion is accompanied by an increasing mismatch between objective reality and the cognitive maps of the various Actors.

e) The overall process of growth and collapse is independent of the particular rate and state of technological development, but a higher level of (information) technology acts as a net process accelerator.

An example of a psychohistorical prediction of record that I made in a UN study:

Basis: ‘Arranged’ or ‘permitted’ attacks on USS Maine, HMS Lusitania, Reichstag, Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin, USS Cole, etc."[and other bases noted in the study]

–Forrest Bishop, November 7^th, 2000.