Ah yes, Trotsky’s permanent revolution. There is probably a more clear connection to the British Empire which spanned 300 years and was in a state of perpetual war revolving through 24 time zones. Don’t you think? How long does a war culture run before the question of permanence is irrelevant? The issue I was targeting was ‘truth’. There is a disconnect between “the truth” and the consequence of a government’s actions in this case. There are little voices like the Boy Scout, but they are no match for giant media noise and corporate propaganda which roll over them with distraction and perpetual confusion. When a leadership is no longer held responsible for the truth, the society is off its moorings, floating free with the tide. In the case of this metaphor, the tide is corporate lust for power, not even national but international in most cases. The East India Company would be a better historical case in point.