The Unholy West: Refusing to Eat Crow
These are trying times when "eating crow" is at the top of the menu.
"Eating crow" is an idiom that means to admit defeat or to be humiliated after being proven wrong.—Google
As best I can, I strive to see things as they truly are. From our life experiences, we all recognize the dangers and pitfalls of not knowing and not seeing. However, it becomes even more complex due to a phenomenon unique to humanity—willfully not knowing and willfully not seeing.
These tendencies can lead to the most severe consequences, ranging from criminal trials and self-destruction to mental instability. History has shown us that such behaviors can result in the collapse of entire civilizations. History, serving as a guiding light can lead us through challenging times.
Yet here we stand—postmodern lemmings—seemingly ignoring the lessons of the past.
Retirement is true liberation. It has granted me the freedom to become a world observer—a compulsive blogger with an insatiable curiosity for history. Like our pet elk hounds, everything gets the sniff test.
This inquisitive "sniffing around" often uncovers unsettling truths, not always easy to confront, about ourselves and others. It can feel like a loss of innocence, particularly grim when our own arrogance is to blame. Violations of peace, order, good governance, social balance, and countless other principles too often trace back to our conceited selves.
Life, as we choose to live it, is both idiotic and idiomatic. Things have tipped too far into the idiotic, and it’s time to impose a grueling idiom—one that may well force us to “cough up our cookies.” So be it.
The raging tumult of the West calls to mind the act of "eating crow," a bitter reminder of our collective unwillingness to admit when we are wrong. Ergo, this stubborn refusal to take responsibility for our actions becomes a deadly flaw, preventing us from making amends and moving forward.
The flailing empire stumbled into an ill-conceived war in Ukraine thinking its grubby imperialist intentions could be hidden from the world. That some how enough bullshit propaganda, lying, cheating and stealing would allow them to prevail. The pipe dream of dominion over all has aged and yellowed over too many decades.
The emperor has no clothes, as he buries the truths of the past to legitimize his flagrant demagoguery. The chameleon empire has run out of colors. It is now the soiled tapestry of millions dead, misspent trillions of dollars and endemic corruptions.
Emperors and most other ranking politicians of the West are incapable of candor, contrition or being penitential. Their modus operandi is arrogance, hypocrisies, steady flows of platitudes and promises rarely kept. And, of course, a major reason for this being so— they are openly bribed by the vested interests controlling them.
How are we supposed to respect the office when the office holder is not worthy of such respect.
Why do we go to the polls knowing that candidates are bought and paid for.
Why do we go to the polls when there are 7000 lobbyists in Ottawa and 12000 in Washington, devoted to tapping the public purse—That is approximately 20 lobbyists for every elected member in both countries.
The European vassals are determined to fight on to save face, long lost, victims of their colonization and facing the challenges of rehabilitating their futures.
Ditching Europe to suck up to Russia is the fool’s errand as Russia, China, India et al know where their “bread is buttered”.
Aged empires suffer too many incongruities, much like trying to stuff a truck load of skeletons into a closet much too small.
The Ukraine war has shaken the West to its very foundations revealing the rot of a dying empire? Soon followed by the utter barbarity of an unstoppable genocide.
Our values and rights are debased by those perpetrating the crimes and lies, the corruption condoned and populations betrayed? We walk away from the sacred and embrace the profane, and rusted-out demagogues prevail.
When they aren't duping us they are desperately attempting to cover up their incompetencies and avoid being held accountable for their immoral criminalities. More and more this administration is looking like a replay of the Biden administration on steroids with a different cast of doominaries. The collective west has become a merry-go-round where the despots are trapped in their own web of wars, deceits and corruptions.
How is it our legislatures have become echo chambers for nothing more than vacuous standing ovations, exhausted bonhomie, and shattered coalitions?
All is chaos on the “Western Front” where the muck of liquefaction oozes on. It is the dying of empires, and a plea for peace, truth and reconciliation.
Why does the collective West have such a visceral hatred of Russia, China, the advent of BRICS and the emergent multipolar world? The answer isn’t just blowing in the wind. It is a ear piercing hammer blow. Five hundred years of Western imperialism has come to an end. The dominance of the West has shifted to the East where the majority will prevail.
The West is still addicted to Brezezinski’s 20th century game of great power winner- take-all competition which has no place in the 21st century. The West is running late frozen in time fighting too many wars suffering a feeble lassitude leaving itself frozen in time where the rest to world has moved on.
Forty years ago, the East embarked on the determined pursuit of peace and prosperity, and today that dream has become a reality. Yet, this hard-earned prosperity is under threat from the revanchist West, which remains trapped in a pitiful worldview defined by endless wars and conquest. The West’s war machine is superfluous as economics are proving to be the deciding factor. The Mad Hatters for more wars are running late, desperate and delusional.
Eating crow is a very big swallow for the West. But it must now join the rest of the world in pursuit of peace, prosperity and an equilibrium that is fair and just for all.
These are trying times when “eating crow” is today’s menu for the West.
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Eloquent read that should be read by every Westerner and most especially their so called leaders.. but of course, that is a fantasy as they will never touch an article such as this with a 100ft pole
The West's hegemony is finished but they will cause a lot of damage as they go down and that is what we are currently seeing but that final breaths can't come soon enough for the rest of the planet I tell ya
Cuz honestly, you guys are much too little to be causing this much damage to the whole planet ( in terms of share of world population ) and the fact you have gotten away with it for 500 years tells me that humanity has a serious problem it needs to fix that won't end with the end of the. West cuz it's so much Deeper... Spiritual even
How much hungrier must we be before we do eat it?