Hello Robert Billyard, I tend to like the tone of your thoughts. Many other sites use stronger language to condemn, and "expose the empire". It is a litany of atrocities. It becomes the way to "crowd-source" negative emotion. By your and my "knowing about it", nothing happens. So we are being asked to build a changed world, moving forward from one failure to the next.
What can you build out of repeated failure? Only resignation.
This (my new site) is a experiment, only a month old. I ask, what can we build from the foundation of success? So I have to focus the subject matter on personal choices that can (and do) make a difference in daily living.
✓What can I do to limit my susceptibility to reaction?
✓Is reaction and emotionalism really my source of energy and power for getting things done?
✓Do I really get along with my wife? (or husband?)
✓Do I respect my family and my local community?
If I can't even freely make choices in the personal and the local level, what right do I have to talk about international relations or the "evils" in the world? Am I just attempting to lay my hang-ups on the global environment? Am I just seeking agreement to feel a part of some group, (with similar hang-ups)?
Here I use "Hang-Ups" as the belief in faulty definitions. It's false cause, it's Not defective DNA. So then we can talk about definitions, and what do we REALLY KNOW?
You start by admitting a few things, which is surely the first step:
"I am now more acutely aware than ever I was born into a dominant society with all the benefits and securities afforded therein." "The civilization I was born into had two faces, the rise and the fall, the light going to dark, social equilibrium and dissolving into chaos."
All societies (so far) rise and fall.
YOU ASK:
"I also ask myself how much of this chaos is a deliberate calculation and how much of it is inadvertent." It is called the "Oops Theory of Governments". We tried so hard; but darn-it, something upset the apple cart! This Oops-Theory should be the first article in the US constitution.
I go strictly with Roosevelt's quote: "If something happened: You can be darn sure it was planned that way." Results are the only allowable measure. What people say is meaningless. Therefore propaganda can no longer penetrate. Public servants should be prosecuted by their lack of results, not by "Laws" that seek out extenuating circumstances.
You say, people open doors. A president can run a war as a sideline hobby. You ask "Are there are treatable controllable malignancies?"
Not by any medicine that I know of. Not by the miracle of "Democracy". So-called democracy is the main (revolving) door. It is the door through which money controls politics. (I am not advising any alternative.) I am just starting out by admitting a few things.
You say: "establish culpability, and ultimately accountability." NOT IN OUR SYSTEM! There are the proxies that activate the atrocities, and there are proxies (whipping boys) that take the punishment. Anything else is an unfounded pipe-dream.
America: is so many "nice people", and what they sincerely want is the insurance that nobody can take away their privileged lifestyle. That always took gunboat diplomacy, so why should it be any different now? Now to contain all the world-wide "threats", big think tanks are saying that America will reinstate the military draft within 2 years. Will that be a wake-up call? I think the oldsters will swallow it, and force it on the young.
And those, while opening doors that never should be opened, close doors that should never have been closed. Such is the moral and ethical chaos of "Centrism"; the elimination of right and wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXIEGeaBjEM
Hello Robert Billyard, I tend to like the tone of your thoughts. Many other sites use stronger language to condemn, and "expose the empire". It is a litany of atrocities. It becomes the way to "crowd-source" negative emotion. By your and my "knowing about it", nothing happens. So we are being asked to build a changed world, moving forward from one failure to the next.
What can you build out of repeated failure? Only resignation.
This (my new site) is a experiment, only a month old. I ask, what can we build from the foundation of success? So I have to focus the subject matter on personal choices that can (and do) make a difference in daily living.
✓What can I do to limit my susceptibility to reaction?
✓Is reaction and emotionalism really my source of energy and power for getting things done?
✓Do I really get along with my wife? (or husband?)
✓Do I respect my family and my local community?
If I can't even freely make choices in the personal and the local level, what right do I have to talk about international relations or the "evils" in the world? Am I just attempting to lay my hang-ups on the global environment? Am I just seeking agreement to feel a part of some group, (with similar hang-ups)?
Here I use "Hang-Ups" as the belief in faulty definitions. It's false cause, it's Not defective DNA. So then we can talk about definitions, and what do we REALLY KNOW?
You start by admitting a few things, which is surely the first step:
"I am now more acutely aware than ever I was born into a dominant society with all the benefits and securities afforded therein." "The civilization I was born into had two faces, the rise and the fall, the light going to dark, social equilibrium and dissolving into chaos."
All societies (so far) rise and fall.
YOU ASK:
"I also ask myself how much of this chaos is a deliberate calculation and how much of it is inadvertent." It is called the "Oops Theory of Governments". We tried so hard; but darn-it, something upset the apple cart! This Oops-Theory should be the first article in the US constitution.
I go strictly with Roosevelt's quote: "If something happened: You can be darn sure it was planned that way." Results are the only allowable measure. What people say is meaningless. Therefore propaganda can no longer penetrate. Public servants should be prosecuted by their lack of results, not by "Laws" that seek out extenuating circumstances.
You say, people open doors. A president can run a war as a sideline hobby. You ask "Are there are treatable controllable malignancies?"
Not by any medicine that I know of. Not by the miracle of "Democracy". So-called democracy is the main (revolving) door. It is the door through which money controls politics. (I am not advising any alternative.) I am just starting out by admitting a few things.
You say: "establish culpability, and ultimately accountability." NOT IN OUR SYSTEM! There are the proxies that activate the atrocities, and there are proxies (whipping boys) that take the punishment. Anything else is an unfounded pipe-dream.
America: is so many "nice people", and what they sincerely want is the insurance that nobody can take away their privileged lifestyle. That always took gunboat diplomacy, so why should it be any different now? Now to contain all the world-wide "threats", big think tanks are saying that America will reinstate the military draft within 2 years. Will that be a wake-up call? I think the oldsters will swallow it, and force it on the young.
Well, enough for now, lots to talk about.
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The chickens are coming home to roost. Funny how that keeps happening throughout history.
Great post. Please do more of them.
And those, while opening doors that never should be opened, close doors that should never have been closed. Such is the moral and ethical chaos of "Centrism"; the elimination of right and wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXIEGeaBjEM
Thanks , I will take a look