The Modern Art of War

I am amazed with this comic, The Ravages of Time, stories of Three Kingdoms during China's warring state. It tells us on how the warlords of different clans plan their strategies to accomplish their goals and territories, how the strategists planned, anticipated their opponent moves and read all the psycological factors in the battlefield. Strategists that had made their names on the history book is never ordinary; Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi, or even warlords like Cao Cao. Those were the days where accomplishments were measured on the territories that you conquered, or the battles that you had won.

In modern days, war is no child's play. An atomic bomb during 1940s could take out an entire town, and during 1940s, your ordinary PC now has the computing power better than the whole military back then. The setback of war will be too much for mankind to take; with the advancement of technology the world could burn down in minutes. 

The war is still going on nowadays, just at different ways. It's what you do to be wealthier than others. It's a symbol of status and glory. Just like how all the recession cycles happen every 10 years. The distribution of wealth will not have any changes if there's no one manipulating behind it. That's economy. Economy exists when mankind brings the warzone to different field. If things are to let it move as it is, there will not be any issues on the economy. Even during depression period, the wealth are still in the market, just in different hands. 

And how we see it now, strategists in the business world are doing all they could to gain the most distributed wealth, and manipulate how things will be going in years to come. It's just like how the fuel price was speculated for the benefits of certain group, and how Asian economic crisis happened during late 90s. 

Lets talk bout the current situation now. In order for the economy to move, someone will need to spend money. This will start from the government, and they will start printing money. When the currency is not backed by gold, it will float and caused inflation. By then, food price will increase dramatically. But when you're thinking why food when the production of food is always there without shortage, it goes similar to the fuel price. The fuel ain't short either, it's manipulated by someone behind to gain the most out of this war. The economy will go on this way, recession happens, someone will lose the war and someone will win. 

I'm no strategist nor economist, this is just a personal view of mine based on conversations with others and simple readings. There is always people smarter than us, so smart that those are the people manipulating the whole economic structure behind. I know someone whose aim is to achieve such altitude, someone who wish to accomplish big, or even wants her name to be in the history record. But deary dear, sometimes such accomplishment is just as good as having triple Obama orgasm; we can.. ahhhhhh .. yes we can ..ahhhhhhh ... yes we can .. AHHHHHHH :p 

This post is dedicated to you, a little economic rant to spice up your passion as a birthday gift so that you got much more inspiration for your economic research proposal. Happy Birthday, and may your dreams come true, be it triple orgasm or making your name into history .. or both ;)