We are in the Anger and Denial stages as a dying empire refusing to accept the inevitable cycles of history and the temporality of every aspect of our existence.
So true, for them they think they can control the narrative and for too many they do.
I can remember when there were concerns about corporate ownership of the media and the concentration of ownership, now there is nothing said. Corporatism has been a rolling coup d'etat flattening everything in its path.
Psychopaths have no critical thinking skills and they will always self destruct. The US empire is a mass murderer. The consequences of those actions will come home to roost. Cause and effect. As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
Thanks for expressing this, Robert. I really like you comparing the west to a terminal illness in a person, and the stages they go through.
I think about the people in power and how they will react often, and hope that they get to the depression stage soon. The way they're flailing around is endangering all of us.
This paragraph really spoke to me:
"The absolute measure of great societies is to rebuild, renew and adapt as necessary. Anything less relegates them to the dust bin of history. China for instance is by far the oldest civilization at 4000 years. India and Egypt occupy second and third places. Maybe its time the impertinent West shows some respect for much older more mature societies. The pathetic measures of our “success” are endless wars, militarism genocides, predatory capitalism, ruinous ideologies and unrepentant boorish behaviors."
How do we develop governance systems that are constructive, I wonder.
One way is getting the big money out it politics. It attracts all the wrong people. I can remember when capable people interrupted lucrative careers to go into politics. Now politics has become the "lucrative career." A couple of terms in our Parliament and you are a millionaire with a very lucrative pension.
And the longer it takes to face reality...the greater the harm onto ourselves will be. No empire has lasted forever...not one.
This is a very key point that must be emphasized!! Five empires were destroyed or collapsed in the 20th century.
Which ones?
Ottoman, Germany, British Japanese and USSR.
In too many ways the US Empire is a spill over of the Third Reich, and quick to plunder its human resources and technology.
Regardless of 'Empire'...the white race has been plundering other races' resources forever and a day...
I believe the authoritarian psychopaths of the West feels it can actually KILL reality.
Every statement made by the Collective Waste's leaders is false, belligerent, hypocritical and cowardly.
All bluster with no direction, except self-destruction.
It's very easy to ignore what they say, but dammit, make sure the eyes and ears remain open and don't comply with anything.
So true, for them they think they can control the narrative and for too many they do.
I can remember when there were concerns about corporate ownership of the media and the concentration of ownership, now there is nothing said. Corporatism has been a rolling coup d'etat flattening everything in its path.
Psychopaths have no critical thinking skills and they will always self destruct. The US empire is a mass murderer. The consequences of those actions will come home to roost. Cause and effect. As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
Thanks for expressing this, Robert. I really like you comparing the west to a terminal illness in a person, and the stages they go through.
I think about the people in power and how they will react often, and hope that they get to the depression stage soon. The way they're flailing around is endangering all of us.
This paragraph really spoke to me:
"The absolute measure of great societies is to rebuild, renew and adapt as necessary. Anything less relegates them to the dust bin of history. China for instance is by far the oldest civilization at 4000 years. India and Egypt occupy second and third places. Maybe its time the impertinent West shows some respect for much older more mature societies. The pathetic measures of our “success” are endless wars, militarism genocides, predatory capitalism, ruinous ideologies and unrepentant boorish behaviors."
How do we develop governance systems that are constructive, I wonder.
One way is getting the big money out it politics. It attracts all the wrong people. I can remember when capable people interrupted lucrative careers to go into politics. Now politics has become the "lucrative career." A couple of terms in our Parliament and you are a millionaire with a very lucrative pension.