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That service isn't offered out of kindness, of course. It is built into the Gollum's nature, by design. Adam Smith (like the Gollum), has become the great guide to the whole of humanity in matters of 'economics.' As a consequence of this trust in the guide, the entire global financial and economic system had become infinitely fragile, a bubble of illusions so tightly stretched, that the smallest pin-prick will be sufficient to cause a cascading disintegration that leaves nothing behind but fine spray of mist that will blow away with the wind.
Yes, nothing worse could have been brought to America than synarchism, the fear-fed monster that devours all that is human, and it's fatted pig, greed based economics. However, synarchism has no foundation.
Tolkien seems to have been totally aware of this fact. In the saga, as in the real world, Saruman's empire has nothing to stand on that is not being destroyed by the outcome of his own synarchism. Synarchism is by its very nature self-defeating. Adolf Hitler recognized this to some degree. Hitler, for instance, didn't dare to implement the grosser elements of synarchism, especially not the Gollum process. He kept this pig out of his empire. The modern American synarchists were not as 'intelligent,' however. They praised what Adolf had shunned.
The attack on society now includes the entire range of the synarchist forces on a near global scale. In many places the process is mastered from the highest levels of government, including the American government, from where the synarchist forces are destroying the productive capacities of society that the synarchist's own existence and their war plans depend on. In this sense, the modern synarchists are a great deal more stupid than Hitler had been. They are like a man preparing himself for battle by shooting himself in the foot.
This outcome results from a trend that Tolkien evidently hadn't foreseen. What we have happening today is the equivalent of Saruman blowing up his own castle, his own tower of strength, his Orthanc, and flooding his deep workshops with poison gas. If Tolkien had foreseen this kind of insanity that is ruling today, he could have saved himself all the passages in the saga about Treebeard and Fangorn Forst, about the diverting of the river Isen, the building of a dam, the tearing it down, and the final flooding of Saruman's empire with a sea of mud. It seems that the modern synarchists can inflict this damage to their empire entirely by themselves without anyone having to inflict it from the outside, by fighting against them.
Nevertheless, Tolkien did understand the consequences of people submitting to fear, and the synarchists are not excluded; or to poverty as the Gollum did. He understood that this exposure makes people mad. The "My Precious" corruption had made the Gollum mad. It had divided it against itself. Tolkien understood that since the Gollum process had invaded society with its madness, it absolutely had to go. He also understood that it wouldn't go away until the entire synarchist dynamics that grew out of Saruman, who himself was a pig in Sauron stall, would be eliminated at the source where the ring of corruption and of power had been forged, were alone it can be destroyed.
Sacrificial Wars
Commonly, wars are fought for a direct objective. For instance, the Opium Wars against China were fought to force the Chinese people to accept British 'free trade' in opium. Britain won that war and flooded China with its poison that nearly destroyed the Chinese society. The war had a direct objective.
The synarchist process has taken warfare one step further. It has developed a new type of war, the sacrificial war. Such a war is fought for a secondary purpose, which is usually extremely well hidden.
Tolkien illustrated this type of warfare to some degree. Let's consider the situation in the saga at which the fellowship of the nine people was established who had committed themselves to take Sauron's dreadful ring back to the chasms of fire were it had been created. They had committed themselves to destroy it there, in order to free humanity from its power that has stopped all human development and began threatening humanity's very existence.
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