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“It is sometimes hard to discern political collapse, because politicians tend to be quite good at maintaining the pretense of power and authority even as it dwindles. But there are some telltale signs of political collapse. One is when politicians start moonlighting because their day job is no longer sufficiently gainful. Another is when regional politicians start to openly defy orders from the political center.”
( The Five Stages Of Collapse By Dmitry Orlov http://www.countercurrents.org/orlov131108.htm )
"After the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia faced a dilemma. It had stationed a great many troops abroad in Eastern Europe and particular in East Germany. ・・・Repatriating and settling these troops turned out to be a logistical nightmare. There was no housing and no jobs for the returning troops. But this was nothing compared to the problem that will be faced by the United States, which has over a thousand overseas military bases.・・・" (D.Orlov "Reinventing Collapse" p.41)
The Death of Paper Money
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/7909432/The-Death-of-Paper-Money.html
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Published: 7:05PM BST 25 Jul 2010
戦前のドイツのハイパー・インフレ時の様子
・・・・Near civil war between town and country was a pervasive feature of this break-down in social order. Large mobs of half-starved and vindictive townsmen descended on villages to seize food from farmers accused of hoarding. The diary of one young woman described the scene at her cousin’s farm.
"In the cart I saw three slaughtered pigs. The cowshed was drenched in blood. One cow had been slaughtered where it stood and the meat torn from its bones. The monsters had slit the udder of the finest milch cow, so that she had to be put out of her misery immediately. In the granary, a rag soaked with petrol was still smouldering to show what these beasts had intended," she wrote.
Grand pianos became a currency or sorts as pauperized members of the civil service elites traded the symbols of their old status for a sack of potatoes and a side of bacon. There is a harrowing moment when each middle-class families first starts to undertand that its gilt-edged securities and War Loan will never recover. Irreversible ruin lies ahead. Elderly couples gassed themselves in their apartments.
Foreigners with dollars, pounds, Swiss francs, or Czech crowns lived in opulence. They were hated. "Times made us cynical. Everybody saw an enemy in everybody else," said Erna von Pustau, daughter of a Hamburg fish merchant.
Great numbers of people failed to see it coming.・・・・
“ 国家が暴力を合法的に独占できないと、テロやヤクザやマフィアのような私的暴力が発生する。本書 (『Violence and Social Orders』) は、こうした暴力の管理を社会秩序のコアにあるメカニズムだと考え、新しい社会科学のモデルを構築しようとするものだ。” ( 池田信夫 blog part2 「暴力と社会秩序」
http://ikedanobuo.livedoor.biz/archives/51503059.html )