I’m a very slow reader, mostly because this book is so dense with information, so no I’m only on the 1st volume, 1/2 way thru, but even that is enough to make many historical blocks fall neatly into place that I’ve wondered about for years, decades really.
As to voting—I agree with you that making the vote elect the politicians and policies I’d like to see is a lost cause right now, but letting the corporations and fascists take away my vote when I worked so hard to get the vote for Black people in the ‘60’s—well, it ain’t gonna happen. But then, because I’m a Libra I can make both sides of any argument—I realized that voting for Dim damn Dems has lead to one of the great goals I’ve had since Viet Nam: the demolition of the Empire. Biden is accomplishing this like a boss, like a master. He and his handlers are so incredibly arrogant and incompetent that with every war they start, the US defeat is more imminent. Putin and China are more popular than ever. And this has come about by people not voting! Letting the PNAC goals be implemented by miserable losers who defy what 80% of Americans want from their government. So in the best traditions of non violence, maybe not voting has defeated the empire more than voting! At any rate, I may vote for Joe again ‘cuz he’s doing such a good job of destroying the MIC.
O that’s brilliant. I never read Sun Tzu, but all that Eastern philosophy stuff is so potent. I read Lao Tzu often and love as you say, the counter intuitive thinking—how he can just flip a seemingly impossible quandary into wisdom. My only regret is that I really want to write in Rashida, but I’m coming to see that if T-rump were to get elected, he’d empower Israel as he did last time with the Jerusalem thing, and that can’t be allowed. Once Israel is blocked and the Zionists discredited, it has to be kept that way, and a one state solution implemented. In my humble fucking opinion. ❣️
I’m a very slow reader, mostly because this book is so dense with information, so no I’m only on the 1st volume, 1/2 way thru, but even that is enough to make many historical blocks fall neatly into place that I’ve wondered about for years, decades really.
As to voting—I agree with you that making the vote elect the politicians and policies I’d like to see is a lost cause right now, but letting the corporations and fascists take away my vote when I worked so hard to get the vote for Black people in the ‘60’s—well, it ain’t gonna happen. But then, because I’m a Libra I can make both sides of any argument—I realized that voting for Dim damn Dems has lead to one of the great goals I’ve had since Viet Nam: the demolition of the Empire. Biden is accomplishing this like a boss, like a master. He and his handlers are so incredibly arrogant and incompetent that with every war they start, the US defeat is more imminent. Putin and China are more popular than ever. And this has come about by people not voting! Letting the PNAC goals be implemented by miserable losers who defy what 80% of Americans want from their government. So in the best traditions of non violence, maybe not voting has defeated the empire more than voting! At any rate, I may vote for Joe again ‘cuz he’s doing such a good job of destroying the MIC.
O that’s brilliant. I never read Sun Tzu, but all that Eastern philosophy stuff is so potent. I read Lao Tzu often and love as you say, the counter intuitive thinking—how he can just flip a seemingly impossible quandary into wisdom. My only regret is that I really want to write in Rashida, but I’m coming to see that if T-rump were to get elected, he’d empower Israel as he did last time with the Jerusalem thing, and that can’t be allowed. Once Israel is blocked and the Zionists discredited, it has to be kept that way, and a one state solution implemented. In my humble fucking opinion. ❣️