The global political and economic system has been, for quite some time, trending towards increasing degrees of concentrated power and wealth in fewer and fewer hands. It has been on a deliberate trajectory of expanding inequalities of income, power, rights and freedom; and an accelerating transfer of control and authority from the state to institutions of private power.
If you believe that what is happening now signals the collapse of that global system, you couldn’t be more mistaken. We are witnessing an unprecedented show of force, a consolidation of power by elites; and a dispossession, disenfranchisement , and subjugation of the population that is truly breathtaking.
The system is not falling apart, it is lunging forward on its established trajectory with bewildering speed.