Poor metaphor yields good info
Pepe Escobar wrote a nicely-formed fable about the sane countries, using various rock-n-roll bands as metaphors. I know absolutely nothing about rock-n-roll, so those metaphors went way over my head.

The non-metaphorical parts are an important summary of the relationships between the sane countries, listing and describing the various agreements and treaties and new pipelines and railways and roads and bridges connecting the Silk Road. The actual construction is IMPRESSIVE. Europe and US can't even maintain our own roads and bridges and dams, let alone build new. We're too busy tearing shit down.

Only one of the metaphors was indirectly classical, so I could understand it. Unfortunately it was completely inappropriate. Presumably Escobar knows classical the same way I know rock-n-roll.

The miss:

So what will The Sanctioned come up next? A doozy like Deep Purple without Gillan and Blackmore or an epic like ELP’s Fanfare for the Common Man?

The Fanfare for the Common Man geoeconomic scenario reads like this.....

Well, I'm not sure what an ELP is, but I know the Fanfare was written by Copland, who is the PERFECT representative of US Deepstate. He belongs to all the Deepstate categories. He is a perfectly wrong metaphor in the context of sanity.

Hey! Given that he was the perfect representative, was he an actual asset for CIA?

YES. The Wikileaks archive helps here because he was an asset during the years covered by the archive. There are a dozen different memos from USIA and State, who were the coordinators of Deepstate's chaos generator program. Copland made several tours for them, and they were busy clearing the path for him to insure his chaos had the maximum effect.

Two examples:

From 1974:

PRO-CULTURA, SPONSORING ORGANIZATION OF THE IV BIANNUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL OF EL SALVADOR, STRONGLY DESIRES COPLAND'S PRESENCE AS CO-GUEST OF HONOR ALONG WITH KHATCHATOURIAN. FOR TOTAL FEE OF US 4,000, HE WOULD BE ASKED TO DIRECT THE TEATRO COLON ORCHESTRA OF BUENOS AIRES FOR TWO CONCERTS, EACH OF WHICH WOULD CONSIST OF APPROXIMATELY ONE-HALF OF COPLAND'S OWN COMPOSITIONS AND THE REMAINING MUSIC TO BE SELECTED BY HIM. THIS IS VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL TO THE PARTICIPATION BY KHATCHATOURIAN EXCEPT THAT THE LATTER'S VISIT IS BEING FUNDED BY THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE OF HIS GOVERNMENT. VIP TREATMENT BY BOTH EMBASSY ELEMENTS AND FESTIVAL SPONSORS WILL BE EXTENDED TO COPLAND

From 1975:

1. COPLAND ETA SEPTEMBER 5 FROM COPENHAGEN ON SAS 565 ARRIVING 1325. ADDRESS WILL BE HOTEL PONT ROYALE, 7 RUE MONTALEMBERT. 2. AGENT ON VACATION AND COPLAND CANNOT BE REACHED UNTIL NEXT WEEK. WILL ADVISE ASAP.

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We are making chaos and death on a massive scale. The sane countries are making life, value, and beauty on a massive scale. Satan vs God.

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