WAR is the Lamborghini the West can't afford
WAR is the Lamborghini the West can't afford
When war becomes a dangerous fetish
Memorandum to the Multitudes
As an artist I have always admired high tech design and the beauty designers and engineers create. In my schools days when my note books where supposed to be full of algebra , trigonometry and Latin ; mine were full of cars, aircraft and creative doodling. The classroom was my improvised design studio, under the wary eye of my teachers.
I take full credit for designing airplanes and cars before their time that did not get beyond the HB pencil stage. At that time I could identify just about every car made and every aircraft flown. The school board had its curriculum, I had mine.
Still today I admire the beauty and technology of a jet fighter. But this is now a love/hate relationship as they are symbols of the omnipresent and totally destructive wars and militarism ruining our societies. War and militarism have grown to a metastasized malignancy capable of destroying the planet. We are supposed to be the species of highest intelligence; but we are also the one most efficient at destroying our own habitat.
A Lamborghini exists at the pinnacle of automobile engineering with the price to go with it. For its owners it easily becomes a fetish: “an object of irrational reverence or obsessive devotion” a fixation, a form of idolatry.
We have a tendency to fetishize things in our lives and now I see war, Lamborghinis and yachts as war related fetishes.
Wars now are fought for corporate profits, making the richer and leaving a wake of destroyed societies and lives.
I find it truly amazing that war is the central idolatry of our times when there is so much else to life.
What sort of character reference do we write for mankind? Try it! It can be a very interesting exercise.
Russia and China aren’t really the enemy. Their right to sovereignty and self- determination, along with the rest of the world, stand in the way of the collective West pursuing fetishes no longer affordable or moral.
When I look at a Lamborghini now I see it as a metaphor for wars the dissipated West can no longer afford—a very dangerous fetish.
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In case you missed it:
The "Other" World OUTSIDE of this Bubble We live in, (the USA or USSA depending on how me/we/you View Reality) , is Moving AWAY from the Feral Reserve Bankster Dollar. Not just the BRICS but "Allies" that have Bought our US Treasury Bonds as well, like Japan.
Countries around the World Hold Our Debt in the form of Dollars and Bonds. If they All Dump them at once or within a small time period then The Value/Worth goes Down, to Zero? No probably not but Catastrophic for them in LOSS of Value and for US in Loss of Value of the dollar domestically, (Inflation)
So these Other Countries like Japan are gradually selling off their US Treasury "Assets" really Debt Bonds, right now At A Loss to them but getting something is better than getting Less or something closer to nothing.
We, the USA, "buys" (GETS) much of it's Goods and Neccessities from Overseas (the Other World) and They Are Getting Out of Dollars!!! So We ARE & WILL PAY MORE for Everything, as They Do Not Trust Our Bonds or will Want our Feral Reserve Dollars,
As I said, they are Getting Out Gradually, and have been for awhile, but do not want to start a "Fire Sale" as they lose even more. However once the Dam starts leaking, since the 60's, measured by Inflation = Defaluation of the Dollar, It just Increases until the Dam Breaks. Even After a Dam Break there is usually a small pond left behind, so its not a desert. BUT it IS a Drastic Different Reality.
We have No Duty to protect the US Feral Banksters, they have RUINED OUR ECONOMY and OUR LIVES which sonner and sooner is getting Worse. 32 Trillion in Debt, ADDING another Trillion Every Year IS DISASTER.
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GET OUT, as Far Away as Possible from the US Dollar. Tangibles bought Now are cheaper than tomorrows. Real Money in Gold/Silver in your personal possession, FOOD Supplies Stockpiled and Growing Capability/ Livestock, Sel Defense Capability are all vital, PRE not Post.
Please CYA, Conduct Yourselves Accordingly.
Interesting take. Thanks Robert.