The lunatic foxes in our vineyard

Politics has become too much about psychological pathologies

“It is easy to despise what you cannot have”— moral of the Fox and the Grapes, Aesop’s fables

“A hungry Fox saw some fine bunches of Grapes hanging from a vine that was trained along a high trellis, and did his best to reach them by jumping as high as he could into the air. But it was all in vain, for they were just out of reach: so he gave up trying, and walked away with an air of dignity and unconcern, remarking, “I thought those Grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.”

To follow history and politics is to follow human psychology. My interest in history leads me inevitably to knowing and understanding human behaviors, ergo— human psychology. If we want to know why things happen we must look at psychological motivations.

It has been said that if we understand Shakespeare’s plays we understand human psychology. This also applies to other huge blocks of literature ranging from the great operas to short stories, poetry and so on.

I am hearing complaints the Humanities and the study of them are more and more ignored as we become addicts to cell phones, artificial intelligence, incessant salvos of propaganda, and the insane utterances of demented politicos and their criminal abdications.

I read recently where a university has put LOOK UP signs on their side walks to urge students to put away their cell phones and spent more time on their studies and seeing the world as it is, broadening their horizons; and most importantly escaping the ghetto of intellectual and moral depravity our civilization has come to embrace.

It is no coincidence barbarism is pandemic in our societies as the emphasis on the Humanities is debased by corporate dominion over universities, and their wielding the big stick of money to control curricula, the hiring and firing of university presidents, and everything else. Where universities were enclaves for impartial learning and debate they are now captive to corporate agendas.

When we witness the passing parade of human folly it is a bumper crop for writers as we see emperors walking naked in the streets. Their callous behavior so infantile. So obviously they have been eating too many poisoned apples off the money tree, for too long, and too often. The lust for power and privilege becomes a blood lust where casualties are beyond counting, and consequences are the windows slammed shut and the curtains drawn. The hallowed halls of power become darker and the stench palpable.

There are many reasons the West has gone mad and only with time will there be more clarity. Our foresight is blind and we have been listening to the false prophets too long and the true prophets, so available to us, have been drowned out, and pushed to the margins.

We lobotomize human intelligence, floundering blindly in open seas, while embracing artificial intelligence.

The Philistines have done their dirty work smashing our moral and social fortifications with their deep penetration bombs.

In the mean time we can ponder Aesop’s fable updated where there are too many lunatic foxes, in too many vineyards full of spite and hate. They see hate and violence as the road to absolute power and anybody who stands in their way is the “enemy” and they cannibalize accordingly and are quite content to torch the vineyard,

“It is easy to despise what you cannot have”