Let's You And Him Fight -- Curtain Call ---2017

The subject line is something that I recall my dad saying from time to time.  It is about a third party actually not physically involved in the fight stirring up a fight between two other parties to the agenda benefit of the instigator.  Another meme that he said from time to time was the one about poking a stick in a bee hive to stir things up.  The meaning and purpose behind both of these really dawns on me only now that I have lived one year beyond my father's life span.

My own refinement of the meme, the former more than the latter is the most elegant way to skin a cat by inducing it to jump out of its own skin.  This resolves a two distinct entity conflict induced by a third entity to a conflict internal and solely applicable to the single entity itself to cause it to split into two identities of itself that lead to its own functional destruction.

From the vantage point of this last day in the year it looks like the "Let's you and him fight" meme wraps up the progress of the past year and points to a future year starting tomorrow where the cat, being US skins itself to the major long term planned benefit of a third party.  A third party collective entity that all share a common interest, although as specifically different as each child descended from a common parent having the attributes and methods of the parent.  They are all the same family.

Three entities.  You, Him and Me. 

Me in this case as the instigator of the conflict between You and Him.  Me (I) does not stand in the middle of the fight.  Not in the middle where there is harm to me.  Not even in the middle as a neutral referee in a fair fight that might be judged by either or both You and Him as biased or involved in the outcome like making bets on the winner.

Me (I) am removed removed from the conflict.  Only my actions, the things I know how to do or otherwise introduce to the equation, are operating behind the curtain to cause the result (conflict) and ultimate new state of being outcome.  My actions promote the conflict like a catalysis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalysis

The way I see it at this year end of 2016 is that a .01 % of the population is introducing the presence of a catalyst to the rest of the word to induce economic chaos and physical violence.  The active agents are functions of the control of power.  Like the inherent power of fossil fuels conceptual power resides in the form of potential energy in weaponize Money, Authority and Media organized controlled by 1% of the population like an old style monarchy in new conceptual existence but hid behind the curtain pulling the levers from a safe distance

Will the curtain be pulled back in 2017 revealing the collective 1% con man (men) pulling at the levers of Let's You and Me Fight"?

I think that the heat has been turned up so gradually and so skillfully to boil the frog that the "new norm" has gone so far to the absurdity of truth that we do not even know where to grab the curtain any longer to expose what is behind it.

Once we had an Iron Curtain that descended upon the world.

“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” Churchill’s speech is considered one of the opening volleys announcing the beginning of the Cold War."

It was a physical and geographical curtain of Iron creating a macro level binary physical and conceptual division.  When that curtain fell physically at the macro level it did not fall conceptually.  The way I see it the conceptual curtain only fragmented down to lower levels of physical manifestations.  All the way down through non-state level entity actors through lower granular levels like cells acting in 911 to the lowest granular level of a man in the Whitehouse, a man in the Kremlin, etc. It is at a point where there are many curtains hiding the manipulators and the manipulators are more granular puppets of an even more impenetrable curtain hiding behind them.

Domino theory was once representative of how nations might physical fall to Communism in a chain of physical events.  In the new Information Age of conceptual curtains might there be a new Conceptual Domino theory that says the curtains behind which conceptual manipulators hide (and cause You and Him to  fight to serve the manipulators agenda) all start to fall one at a time in quick succession like the Iron Curtain fell?

That is a hope for the New Year!