Are we stupid enough to think TPTB aren't in control?

[MacG]

Indeed, but I think Glenny's point is that we are moving on from the Rockefeller world to something else, and it isn't very nice.

Indeed. I'm pretty scared about the future. We are in the beginning of a major systemic crisis, involving not just resource scarcity and overpopulation, but our social structures and general world view.