Technically speaking, the British Empire no longer exists.  Its colonial possessions have all gained their independence, nominally, though they remain under the organizational umbrella of the British Commonwealth of Nations whose sovereign is the Queen of England, the monarch of the United Kingdom, the Queen of British Empire.  At this center all "transworld" oligarchic structures merge into one.  The "transworld"/British Empire presently rules the planet.  Its avenues for total, global control are many, and include the direct domination of much of the world through its near global ownership of the media, research institutions, and environmental institutions.  Its avenues also include a strong 'bought' dominance in national governments, and the near direct control of such global institutions as the U.N., the I.M.F., the World Bank, etc., by which its process of looting the world becomes protected and legalized.

In a fundamental sense, the arch enemy of the oligarchic system is the nation-state which promotes the processes which elevate, strengthen, develop, and enrich a society.  All, these, the oligarchy aims to destroy in order to maintain its power.  Indeed, the oligarchy is fully aware that it must destroy the institution of the nation-state, or else the days of its own institution are numbered.  The power of the nation-state was frighteningly demonstrated to the oligarchy by the F. D. Roosevelt administration of the U.S.A. during World War II, which had demanded, and almost brought about, an end to the British Empire, the center of feudalism and slavery.

The society (1), however, does not have the option to steal or to loot in order to advance itself, as the oligarchy pursues.  Its goal for self-advancement can only be reached through progressive self-development by investing its energies into productive infrastructures, education, culture, technologies, and industries by which its physical, social, and spiritual existence becomes enriched.  A nation cannot steal from itself.  It can only develop itself.

The most advanced institution that has been created for the self-development of a society, which has not been superseded to the present day, is the sovereign nation-state, which is able to provide a platform for an infinitely developing economy.  No other platform can achieve this end.  The oligarchic platform, at its very best, represents a terminal economic system that creates huge bubbles of shiny financial estates which time and time again implode into nothing, creating depression and social chaos.  Right now, the world faces the biggest of such bubbles ever created, and the most chaotic implosion of all times as the inflated system once again pops, and terminates.

The rescue apparatus that has brought the nations out of the most recent historic implosions of the oligarchic financial system, has always been the nation-state.  Unfortunately, this institution is extensively weakened, today, through numerous oligarchic assaults, world-wide, from without and from within.  The society's survival during the presently impending financial implosion crisis, the potentially greatest crisis in all of human history, requires an unprecedented re-dedication by society to the principle that underlies the institution of the nation-state.

The motivation of the spectator (3), in contrast, lies between the two above mentioned poles.  Originally, the idea of a stockmarket was not to facilitate speculation, but to provide a platform on which the public could join hands in setting up large companies that are jointly owned with the profits being shared.  By this process large, efficient structures can be created that can never be created on an individual basis.  Apart from this characteristic, a public company is no different than any other enterprise.  The invested capital is never repaid, but is applied to create the business.  The value of a person's share in such an enterprise, therefore, reflects the profits generated and shared.

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Stories about War from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche