Her
fuelling system, for example, is incapable of
ignoring and not eating mouldy
food from the gutter, despite the inevitably unpleasant side effects that sometimes end with another trip to the vet.
The research methodology manages to systematically
ignore the most critical evidence surrounding the drivers undermining U.S. primacy: such as, the biophysical processes of climate, energy
and food disruption behind the Arab Spring; the confluence of military violence, fossil
fuel interests
and geopolitical alliances behind the rise of ISIS; or the fundamental grievances that have driven a breakdown in trust with governments since the 2008 financial collapse
and the ensuing ongoing period of neoliberal economic failure.