This is a brief but candid glimpse into the mind set of the power elite.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the major technocrats of US dominance in the last twenty years and President Carter’s foreign policy advisor, candidly assesses the world in the light of two new developments:

1. The challenge to the Atlantic world (US-Europe), which constitutes the current global political leadership, from a more diverse group – the developing countries, as well as the second world

2. Greater political awakening among the masses than at any other time in history, which obstructs the ability of the leadership to deal effectively with world-wide turmoil

The occasion is a meeting of a branch of the Council of Foreign Relations in Montreal, May 15, 2010

Brzezinski argues that the UN ( which he calls a “fiction”) cannot provide solutions, except in cases where consensus already exists (for eg. where human suffering, health or food is involved)

However, where there is no consensus, the power centers have to come into play.

Brzezinski clearly sees no room for a libertarian, anarchical model of human cooperation and peaceful exchange to arrive at compromises when there are problems. No, the answer must be force, and force from above.

It’s clear from this speech that he finds the centralizing and increase of this force an urgent imperative, now that people are “awake” and have begun questioning what’s happening around them.