US hegemony is a bit oversold, especially now - but has been since 1949, when the Communist Axis got nuclear weapons. In actuality it's closer to being a quadripolar world now - US/WEF + Europe/Russia/China. Each hegemon accuses the other as creating a unipolar world - but that's just a bid to increase power and scope, not reality.
I am not sure if the term isn't misleading. Look at all that USAID money: nearly every country in the world was getting some. Is it 'US Hegemon' controlling/influencing the world, or an international 'globalist' network which has captured the US along with most other polities? I suspect the latter.
In terms of the Yi though: #8 Union/Leadership of all the hexagrams most expresses the unipolar/hegemon principle. Why? Because the 5th line is central to the upper trigram and so conventionally the main 'line of the Ruler'. Also because it is Yang ruling 5 yins, I could go on, but it's about as hegemonic a configuration as six broken and/or solid lines can present. Then you have it changing to #29. In this case the lower trigram has a solid line between two broken, so we have two strong yang leadership lines in both upper and lower trigrams. This show two similar configurations. If you put the two trigrams side by side instead of one above the other (to make a single hexagram) they would be equal. About a clear an expression of multipolarity as you can get. So #8 Unipolar changes to #29 Multipolar. You cannot get more than two in only 6 lines so I interpret it as 'two or more' poles, the main point being it is no longer one.
And going back to the first point, Dugin and Putin often define multipolarity as being grounded in sovereignty, and that is the key. The current hegemon is not the US as so many keep repeating; it is a transnational, corporate-led movement that is undermining national sovereignty everywhere in many ways.
Some might say: 'no, China is clearly sovereign!' But are they? Can they step off the modernization-industrialization wheel funded by multi-nationals? I doubt it. Put another way: China's extraordinary modernization of late came about partly because of the native genius of her people and civilization - no question - but also partly because the Western-led modern world invited them in and used them to hollow out domestic manufacturing in preparation to collapse their economies and enslave their captive, impoverished populations. (Else why deliberately hollow out Western manufacturing?)
US hegemony is a bit oversold, especially now - but has been since 1949, when the Communist Axis got nuclear weapons. In actuality it's closer to being a quadripolar world now - US/WEF + Europe/Russia/China. Each hegemon accuses the other as creating a unipolar world - but that's just a bid to increase power and scope, not reality.
I am not sure if the term isn't misleading. Look at all that USAID money: nearly every country in the world was getting some. Is it 'US Hegemon' controlling/influencing the world, or an international 'globalist' network which has captured the US along with most other polities? I suspect the latter.
In terms of the Yi though: #8 Union/Leadership of all the hexagrams most expresses the unipolar/hegemon principle. Why? Because the 5th line is central to the upper trigram and so conventionally the main 'line of the Ruler'. Also because it is Yang ruling 5 yins, I could go on, but it's about as hegemonic a configuration as six broken and/or solid lines can present. Then you have it changing to #29. In this case the lower trigram has a solid line between two broken, so we have two strong yang leadership lines in both upper and lower trigrams. This show two similar configurations. If you put the two trigrams side by side instead of one above the other (to make a single hexagram) they would be equal. About a clear an expression of multipolarity as you can get. So #8 Unipolar changes to #29 Multipolar. You cannot get more than two in only 6 lines so I interpret it as 'two or more' poles, the main point being it is no longer one.
And going back to the first point, Dugin and Putin often define multipolarity as being grounded in sovereignty, and that is the key. The current hegemon is not the US as so many keep repeating; it is a transnational, corporate-led movement that is undermining national sovereignty everywhere in many ways.
Some might say: 'no, China is clearly sovereign!' But are they? Can they step off the modernization-industrialization wheel funded by multi-nationals? I doubt it. Put another way: China's extraordinary modernization of late came about partly because of the native genius of her people and civilization - no question - but also partly because the Western-led modern world invited them in and used them to hollow out domestic manufacturing in preparation to collapse their economies and enslave their captive, impoverished populations. (Else why deliberately hollow out Western manufacturing?)
Food for thought. Thanks for your comment.