Chasing War: A Desperate Distraction in Desperate Times
Chasing War: A Desperate Distraction in Desperate Times
As usual when politicians want to hide their incompetence and betrayal they use war as a weapon of mass distraction against their populations. The "beaching" of Humankind is upon us.
It is a sad sight to see in the media these days how frustrated Canadians are with our political leadership. It is equally sad to see the mainstream media is either unwilling or unable to go to the source of the public dismay.
The source is there for all to see if we wish to see it!
The source, the problem, is that politicians no longer govern. They are reduced to being minor functionaries to the corporate capitalists who run them. Western politicians, much like the defunct British monarchy have only titular powers. They loiter about in well tailored suits doing photo ops, and it doesn’t go much beyond that.
How did this come about? Most people are not even aware that classical liberalism is dead. We now live in the era of neoliberalism. The advent of neoliberalism arrived in the late seventies and early eighties. It was in fact a cat’s paw regime change where corporations seized control of democratically elected governments and the rule of law became that of the free market economy, where all wealth and benefits accrue to the one per cent. In other word’s socialism for the very rich, and capitalism for everybody else.
The father Pierre Eliot Trudeau was a classic liberal, the son Justin, is a dyed in the wool neoliberal swearing allegiance to the gods of war and the World Economic Forum.
If we wonder why there are so many multi-billionaires loitering about the world it is because the system is designed for the wealthy to become so obscenely wealthy they run their own space programs and buy off politicians with small change.
There is what I call the “Yacht Index”. It is not uncommon for the very rich to have just one multi-million dollar yacht, but two or three. A yacht broker who has been in the business for thirty years noted that his customers only get younger. Once buyers were in their sixties and seventies, now they are in their forties and fifties.
How many NATO soldiers would be willing to give their lives if they realized their sacrifice was for corporate profiteering?
War in these fateful times is really all about desperate distraction in desperate times. Going to war is the cliched response of politicians blind to the urgent issues we face, so they go to war to block out reality.
These truly are desperate times as we are at an historic pivot point where the world is so highly integrated, so inter-dependent a war against one country is a war against the world. Needless to say we have a rogue empire present and unaccountable, waging war on the world for the past seventy five years, manically holding the world hostage to its delusional hegemonic ambitions.
If we think perpetual war is going to solve our crisis we are absolutely delusional. We are merely beaching mankind further on the rocks.
The world is so militarized, so attuned to perpetual war we may be beyond remediation.
Our salvation is to recommit to value systems we have recklessly abandoned. An essential starting point for the Collective West is to restore our commitment to real democracy and go back to the humanitarian values we once championed. We must abandon the ruinous ideologies of war, reckless capitalism, neoliberalism, hate and racism.
It is a sad epitaph the Collective West is bringing the world to wreck and ruin for the sake of corporate profiteering and the obscene wealth of the one per cent.
If we want to discuss war crimes they must be convened in Brussels Belgium with NATO member states testifying under oath.
Chasing peace and progress become urgent priorities!
