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The Evolutionary Paradox: Markets or State Planning?

The Evolutionary Paradox: Markets or State Planning?

The Secret State Planning of Britain’s Decline

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Jul 22, 2025
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A Genetic Dispatch on State-Enabled Financialization


The Host, The Parasite, and the Beautiful Lie of Capital

This isn’t an essay. It’s a dispatch from the last functioning nerve of the British economy. A code red from a ghost host, still pretending it’s in charge.

You thought Britain believed in free markets. It didn’t.
It believed in the illusion of choice and sold itself to someone else’s industrial plan. Finance didn’t emerge. It invaded. Like a gene. Like a virus. Like logic without mercy.

Brexit wasn’t political. It was biological.
Trump isn’t ideological. He’s immunological.
The system is mutating and the host is panicking.

This is not left or right.
This is host versus parasite.

Why Another Britain Essay

Because this was never about Britain.
It was about the machine that used it.

Two essays back to back. Like London buses.
You wait and wait, then the system cracks and two arrive at once.
The first mapped the terrain. This one autopsies the DNA.

It isn’t just policy we’re tracking now. It’s evolution.
A sovereign experiment in parasitic finance is unraveling in real time.

This is the second shot.
The one that confirms the diagnosis.

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