Pyrrhic Politicos in Post Modern Times
The Collective West suffers onward and downward. Brussels suffers the scars of habitual colonization and Washington is weary and drained from an excess of wars.
“A Pyrrhic victory is a victory that is achieved at a great cost, or results in significant losses for the winner. The term is named after King Pyrrhus of Epirus, who won battles against the Romans but lost many of his troops.”
The collective West stumbles onward, spiraling downward. Brussels suffers the scars of habitual colonization, while Washington is weary and drained from an excess of wars.
The Ancients warned us of the folly of Pyrrhic wars and Pyrrhic victories, yet it seems humanity never truly heeded their cautionary tales—a tragic pattern repeated far too often.
Despite possessing a remarkable historic legacy capable of guiding us through the most challenging times, we cast it aside, choosing instead to dwell in a bubble of willful ignorance. Here, we are led by psychotic doominaries and reckless yahoos.
The collective West has reached an unprecedented state of intellectual and moral decline, where the magnitude and frequency of wars stand as declarations of our chronic and self-defeating Pyrrhic behaviors.
This dumbing-down is easily explained as democracy has been allowed to lapse out of existence, too many ruinous ideologies have been recklessly adopted with no regard for social impacts.
We live in crazy times where leaders openly condone genocide, provoke wars, lose them, a million or so killed, and then demand their money back.
We wage war for corporate profits in service to a predatory capitalism.
We walk from sacred social values, norms, and rights to sustain a woebegone tyranny.
We suffer the cold embrace of neoliberal delirium where everything and everybody only exist as commodities, bought, sold, destroyed; where social contracts have been shattered.
I had a pipe dream recently! What if the day arrived I could hold politicians in the same high regard that I hold my physicians? Physicians are the healers who keep us alive and well. Politicians, on the other hand, I regard mostly as pesky self-serving indolent children. Where they should be heroic figures worthy of the grave responsibilities with which they are entrusted, they are agents of perversity with a total disregard for the adversities we must address and live by.
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re: politicians:
Two crocodile brothers meet up after years apart. After all these years, “Biggie” is twice the size of “squirt.”
Biggie asks, “What happened - why are you so little? What have you been eating?”
Squirt says, “I eat politicians, don’t you?”
Biggie says, ”Of course. How do you catch yours?
Squirt: “I catch them in the parking lot. I hide under their car, then grab their feet, beat the shit out of them, then eat them.”
Biggie - “Well, that’s your problem - you’re not getting enough calories!”
Squirt - “How so?”
Biggie: “When you beat the shit out of a politician, all that’s left is the briefcase and an ass hole!"
As for Brussels - Europe, it is the age old same, old same...our civilization (?), our values (?), our history (?) comes first and foremost - so why join the 21st century? As for Washington...weary and drained??? From the looks I would not think so.