"Capitalism has no moral or ethical values - everything is for sale. In such conditions, It is impossible to raise a Nation: people turn into egoists, and sometimes - into thugs."
It's true. Staff a company with mid-level managers and give them bonuses for accomplishing things that further the company's goals, and you have willing participants in society's destruction, even without them doing heinous acts.
"Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges."
"The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment-or at least much handicap-to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need."
I have always believed that one cannot become super wealthy without being a backstabbing asshole. The only exception to that rule is inheriting wealth, which often gives rise to privileged assholes.
The Capitalists, through their ownership of capital and means of production, which came from the previous exploitation of workers (or just inherited) , are thereby in a position to further exploit workers.
Look up how many apartments the orange man inherited. Not Earned, inherited.
Only delusional idiots would expect this guy to care about "working people"..
When the means of production (basically all the land, factories, Companies/Corporations, Healthcare, Utility Services) are State owned, the PRIVATE individuals cannot excessively CONCENTRATE the Capital (and therefore power) bc they cannot INHERIT the means of production.
It does NOT mean Socialism will take your PERSONAL Property (like your house).
PERSONAL Property differs from the "Means of production" in that it cannot be used to derive profit (RENT) from it.
Ppl don’t seem to realize the only thing Oligarch (Rentier) Class is capable of is suck out the Interest/RENT from the working people.
This is exactly what Capitalism is - insatiable concentration of Capital, for the sake of Capital itself. That's why Greed is one of the deadly sins.
When they say "GREED is nature" don't forget animals don't take more than they can eat. Billionaires have so much money/assets they can't spend in 100 lifetimes.
***
"Wealth is addictive, the rich will eventually destroy society"
-Socrates and friends, about 2400 years ago.
***
"Money is an abstract human happiness, so who is no longer able to appreciate the true human happiness, is completely dedicated to it"
"The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle/working class pays all of taxes, does all of the work. "
"The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep 'em showing up at those jobs"
-George Carlin
***
BTW Inflation is in fact a mechanism for transferring wealth from the Middle/lower classes to the Rich.
Remember, Inflation always means that all the goods/services (esp. essentials) are getting more expensive EXCEPT for your LABOR. It is a hidden Tax that the poor pay to the Rich.
It always gets me when the rich and the US government that they now run entirely, start complaining about giving "free stuff" out to other Americans who live in poverty - i.e. the poor Americans who still work their asses off.
So Capitalists have cleverly flipped the script: poor working class Americans don't deserve anything more than what they get - despite huge productivity gains and working more than ever these last few decades - and anything beyond what the Wealth Class wants to give them is "Free Hand Outs". Meanwhile, any further profits the Rich can make off of the backs of the Working Class - is not "Free" and is completely deserved! Year after year, record breaking profits for corporations are considered "Deserved". But giving back to the labor class is considered handing out "Free stuff".
Note that, without Labor, there is no Capital. The Capitalists and Owner classes could not exist without Labor. Therefore Labor comes first, and is essential.
The Big lie is that the bread crumbs you are given is all that you deserve. That's the Big Lie.
"When they say "GREED is nature" don't forget animals don't take more than they can eat."
Nature has a way of slimming down animals that eat too much, either by putting them on a diet (fat cats catch few mice) or turning them into prey (fat cats are an easy mark for cat eating monsters).
I agree with your premise, but not with this example "don't forget animals don't take more than they can eat." There are many examples, but here are two: Watch what happens, especially during the great migration, when lions kill as many wildebeest as they can. They will hunt another even when they have just killed one.
And, take a look at bears, especially during the salmon runs, when at some point they resort to high-grading, in which they eat only the heads, skin and roe, leaving the rest, which will nourish the gulls, and the forest. I have this thing about accuracy, even when it must seem tangential, and also about not attributing false characteristics to animals.
I wonder if we'd all be better off if we'd characterize the workers who'd struggled and died in the Labor movement as martyrs -- just as Palestinians do their dead. For example, the key year of 1886 in the US, when thousands struck and hundreds died in defense of human rights is sloughed off in standard histories as "Knights of Labor". But it was a year of martyrdom for human rights and against oppression by rich oligarchs. Perhaps it'd emphasize that we're all potential martyrs to this diseased system.
Only cogent response I can think of is to put myself in someone else's shoes — in this instance, in the position of being a descendant of one of the dead. I'd feel a shitload better and more justified about my progenitor being portrayed nobly as having died for a just cause, rather than as an afterthought of some rich a-hole's whim. Otherwise your premise of dead is dead holds true, which kind of sucks.
Sadly, I think we have past the easy transformation into Socialism. Strange hearing people saying they are against taxing the rich, they provide the jobs, they one day will be rich : (
I have more in common with a houseless quadriplegic than Mush, Gates, or the Anti-Christ
Thiel. The arrival of Reagan may have been the signal of the end. If the Air-controllers, flight attendants, rail-workers, port workers had joined together to say no. The world would be a far different place in my dreamy, privileged self deluded bubble. : (
Bernie was afraid of the movement he started. He had no idea people would come together IF offered a venue to do so. Fuck you Bernie you traitorous monster giving hope to people and then " Joe Biden is a friend of mine he would make a great President" on the debate stage in South Carolina. Fuck you Bernie, BTW, I hope you are reading this, the book you sent me autographed after donating 4800$ to your two campaigns, I burned that book, the only book I have ever burned. Fuck You Traitor!
I have a personal email written by Bernie on AOL from 1990 having been introduced by a mutual friend teaching in Vermont. I keep that email to remind me we are in this without politicians. I never thought I would think it let alone write it.
Fuck You Bernie. Free Palestine and free ourselves.
Great question, the structure works IF you have unions of working people. There are no unions in the u.s. police, teachers, nursing with only teachers and nurses demonstrating power by shutting that sh it down. The major unions back the owners as seen by the farce that was the railroad workers pretend strike. Today they still don't have sick leave ha. There is a reason the u.s. Gov. used it's Air Force to bomb coal miners striking. Working people have power when they come together.
I liked my own comment, so few people know history of labor, Eugene Debbs running for President from F U C K ING prison. The bit of history people call me a liar for repeating During the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain, U.S. Army bombers dropped bombs on striking coal miners in West Virginia after federal troops arrived to end the conflict. When people doubt, I say stay ignorant and nothing will change. Blank stares. The 1% are counting on us trying to save our family and friends. I paid several months of my Sons friends rent, she and her Daughter, Grandson where about to be evicted. Why because the hospital she works at owned by a fucking private equity co. only allows her now 34 hrs. a week.
My solution, a General Strike named Shut That Shit Down!
Free Palestine and we free ourselves. Shut that Shit Down!
Who is our Eugene Debbs, Fidel, Che, I cry as I write this.
China's system of socialism seems to be working well, although it is still based on capitalistic growth, with increase in production to provide jobs, energy and food, though the state owns the banks. It may help even out wealth among the people but it is certainly not the cure to humans living on a finite planet with rampant human-made climate change. Only a global degrowth economy can cure this. We have it within our power to do this and to pull the legs of the villain at the same time. It's not as glamorous as calling for a revolution, but is achievable and effective and less destructive to the vulnerable in society.
Marx would be proud. I have read, Marx warned, Stalin, Lenin, and Trotsky they would fail not having gone through Capitalism. Capitalism does have to end or we see what happens as the 1% try to hold their wealth in declining means. We are the Colonized.
"This motto drives the otherworldly pronouncements to their flocks and wage-slaves who attend church, that the Lord prefers them where they are in the conditions in which they find themselves; because even as a baby you are responsible for not being born wealthy… as the errant Senator Grassley has put it, “You’d all have a million dollars if you’d stop spending your money on booze, women, and gambling.” The capitalists’ holy motto, “God helps those who help themselves”, is a brilliant masterstroke which lets you know that they are favored for “helping themselves”. “God gives the money to the capitalists” (a Reverend Doctor) because He loves them, and trusts them; and I knew a Lutheran Pastor who proclaimed in 1990, “I refuse to preach the Gospel of Jesus for less than $30,000 per year [that’s not including perks).” You are simply a low person, “Oh Lord! Heaven knows! We belong way down below… Oh Lord! Tell us so! We belong way down below!” (The Pretty Reckless). So in this rich man’s heaven, the following occurred in Salt Lake City:"
Will the word Guillotine become Anti-Semitic? What we did to the Palestinians will be done to us. There is no doubt. I wonder if anyone in Mexico understands they are the next Venezuela?
With 38.3 Trillion in debt, the Fed can not even borrow more than a few 10s of billions at the long end 10-30 yr. so the continued ever climbing need for more and more short debt will collapse the financial markets of all kind. The AI bubble explosion is 5x the size of the Com. Backed Sec. failure. All of this chaos is about the 1% saving themselves. Will 1789 become Anti-Semitic?
A variation on and illustration of the overall theme... Recently attended a health care conference. HR 1, ya know, the Big, Beautiful, (Further) Budget-Busting Bill came up, specifically its Medicaid "reforms" with work requirements. It was interesting to get some of the details, but come the Q&A I had to ask, "With these work requirements, aren't we just seeing latter day Poor Laws of 1834, when one's sorry lot in life was due to moral failing, for which you had to pay in order to get help? And all this while as a society, or a government, we just crossed the threshold of a $1+ TRILLION per year Penta-gone budget? And therefore haven't we crossed another threshold, on the road to becoming a failed state, financially, morally?"
A woman came up to me afterwards and thanked me for having asked the question.
“This motto drives the otherworldly pronouncements to their flocks and wage-slaves who attend church, that the Lord prefers them where they are in the conditions in which they find themselves; because even as a baby you are responsible for not being born wealthy… as the errant Senator Grassley has put it, “You’d all have a million dollars if you’d stop spending your money on booze, women, and gambling.” The capitalists’ holy motto, “God helps those who help themselves”, is a brilliant masterstroke which lets you know that they are favored for “helping themselves”. “God gives the money to the capitalists” (a Reverend Doctor) because He loves them, and trusts them; and I knew a Lutheran Pastor who proclaimed in 1990, “I refuse to preach the Gospel of Jesus for less than $30,000 per year [that’s not including perks).” You are simply a low person, “Oh Lord! Heaven knows! We belong way down below… Oh Lord! Tell us so! We belong way down below!” (The Pretty Reckless). So in this rich man’s heaven, the following occurred in Salt Lake City:”
This is a comment on Caitlin's current and preceding posts:
Chatbots of De-Generative De-Evolution
Earth’s few gentle and decent people with higher consciousnesses and consciences are under constant siege by the simplistic prick and cunt brains with mere animal awareness instincts who constantly generate the dystopian absurdities of life. The dominant money-driven prick and cunt brains have had the beastly cunning to invent the oppressive money-making concepts of pseudo intelligence. At the end of the present 3500-3600-year cycle, one of history’s countless, they again lead the Homo species into processes of degenerative de-evolution. Self-centered, self-righteous and driven by base instinctive animal urges that translate into survival delusions of “the strong”, they believe they make history. But what they really make is another trash-heap of lost lessons, meanings and oblivion. Their money-driven AI products, “flagship” chatbots, are another series of digested and controlled trash-in-trash-out word, image and sound mincers to further stupefy the billions. In an ongoing paranoia of inverted “value politics”, they form the filthy criminal polity establishments that most of the tribal populace has been brainwashed to admire. And they all profess one or another “religion”. Clearly, the Homo or Homo-like species on Earth have degenerated similarly in the past cycles. Some of the fragmentary proofs are remnants of pre-ancient pyramids, temples, underwater cities, interspaced over the geological time with cave paintings and primitive tools, human footprint fossils of millions of years ago, flash frozen mammoths in now cold regions and whale bones on mountain peaks. Even a total imbecile would suspect that wars, mass murders and genocides make no sense because all people eventually perish equally in the natural cyclic catastrophes of our local cosmic space. But the filthy prick-and-cunt-brained establishments and the science whores funded by them won't come to such a naked ethical truth. Every past cycle witnessed a zigzag mental degeneration of the Homo species. Whatever would begin with a cathartic promise as a sobering renewal after a catastrophe soon again tumbled down a deep dark valley of mental eclipse, and so up and down, and up and down different gradients until the final vertical cliff fall into a bottomless abyss like the proverbial lemmings. More frequently than not, however, not even a brief period of sobering catharsis occurred with a new cycle. A cycle came and went with negligible mindset differences relative to terror, hate and mass murder. The cycles are not limited only to the Holocene or the past 14 000 years but to all Homo species history. Proofs of no cathartic sobering lessons drawn at the start and into “our” present cycle, which now "culturally" involves the so-called West, were the "deep dark valley" mental de-evolutions even during and regardless of the cosmic upheavals ravaging Earth: BCE’s Egypt’s slavery system, Exodus and subsequent butchering of Palestine tribes (ca 1400 BCE), Babylonian and Assyrian invasions of Judea, bloody invasions by the ancient Greece and Rome with their slavery systems, to mention but a few such “achievements”. Contrary to whoring official interpretations, none of those were carriers or spreaders of any “civilization” but of savage mass murder, oppression through poverty, and terror. The same in CE’s Middle Ages and passim to the present. And look at how many of us "in our time" remain enthusiastic about those sadistic criminal empires and enterprises. In officially induced mental distortions, we find them so “impressive” and “entertaining”, so “progressive” and even so “spiritual”. An apparent cherry on top that history is the legacy of ancient criminal Rome's legal system, the wellspring and bedrock of our laws! Hey, people of the 21st century! - We have not journeyed far at all, except back into the constancy of cyclic degenerative de-evolution, constancy of the usual mass paranoia now “supercharged” with AI Chatbot support. If, indeed, there are any superconscious Spirits of the Earth and the Sun, do we as an intelligent species give them any grounds to like us?
The villian is not seen as a villian, that is why people support capitalism and the "logic of being an exploiter" exist. The insane answer to not everyone can be an exploiter is that you do need to out compete everyone to become the exploiter. It isn't about everyone becoming a landlord or business owner. The villian is just someone manipulating everyone else into playing a game. I guess like Jigsaw or something? My point here is that this is a popular game to play and so many believe in playing it. That's the problem and why it exists and persists. People don't want to change the system that exploits them either because they can't or don't know how if they want to. In the pyramid horror movie no one is thinking about solving the problem, they are only thinking about themselves, that is the problem.
This commentary on capitalism is an indicator that true democracy and capitalism cannot coexist; thus America’s boast of “democracy” is an illusion that has destroyed nation states forced to ingest such toxicity.
Just like Glenn Greenwald states in his segment (see ScheerPost link below), I too, was mystified by the Noam Chomsky-Jeffrey Epstein connection (or friendship, perhaps?… though I don’t know if there was really a friendship there), until it dawned on me a few minutes ago, while sitting here having a quiet breakfast… This too… Even this… Is the result of capitalism… If you watch the brief Glenn Greenwald segment at the link below,, you can easily see why none of us are immune to its sickness (and I have always considered Chomsky to be one of my “heroes”)… Just being human can make any one of us fall prey to the capitalism disease in some respect, way shape or form. (Sort of in the same way that Israeli Jews committed, and are committing, the same horrendous genocide inhumanity as Nazi Germany... thereby absolutely PROVING the fact that they are not in any manner "chosen people"... no human is... no such fucking thing!... humans fall prey)
"Capitalism has no moral or ethical values - everything is for sale. In such conditions, It is impossible to raise a Nation: people turn into egoists, and sometimes - into thugs."
-Fidel Castro
It's true. Staff a company with mid-level managers and give them bonuses for accomplishing things that further the company's goals, and you have willing participants in society's destruction, even without them doing heinous acts.
Walmart, Amazon, the MIC, Pharma, etc.
People used to joke that the phrase “business ethics” was an oxymoron.
"Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges."
- George Orwell
"The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment-or at least much handicap-to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need."
-Michael Parenti
I have always believed that one cannot become super wealthy without being a backstabbing asshole. The only exception to that rule is inheriting wealth, which often gives rise to privileged assholes.
Exactly.
The Capitalists, through their ownership of capital and means of production, which came from the previous exploitation of workers (or just inherited) , are thereby in a position to further exploit workers.
Look up how many apartments the orange man inherited. Not Earned, inherited.
Only delusional idiots would expect this guy to care about "working people"..
When the means of production (basically all the land, factories, Companies/Corporations, Healthcare, Utility Services) are State owned, the PRIVATE individuals cannot excessively CONCENTRATE the Capital (and therefore power) bc they cannot INHERIT the means of production.
It does NOT mean Socialism will take your PERSONAL Property (like your house).
PERSONAL Property differs from the "Means of production" in that it cannot be used to derive profit (RENT) from it.
Ppl don’t seem to realize the only thing Oligarch (Rentier) Class is capable of is suck out the Interest/RENT from the working people.
That's literally ALL they can do..
That's why they're called RENTIER Class
This is exactly what Capitalism is - insatiable concentration of Capital, for the sake of Capital itself. That's why Greed is one of the deadly sins.
When they say "GREED is nature" don't forget animals don't take more than they can eat. Billionaires have so much money/assets they can't spend in 100 lifetimes.
***
"Wealth is addictive, the rich will eventually destroy society"
-Socrates and friends, about 2400 years ago.
***
"Money is an abstract human happiness, so who is no longer able to appreciate the true human happiness, is completely dedicated to it"
Arthur Schopenhauer
And "those less fortunate" should be changed to "those most ripped off"
"The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle/working class pays all of taxes, does all of the work. "
"The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep 'em showing up at those jobs"
-George Carlin
***
BTW Inflation is in fact a mechanism for transferring wealth from the Middle/lower classes to the Rich.
Remember, Inflation always means that all the goods/services (esp. essentials) are getting more expensive EXCEPT for your LABOR. It is a hidden Tax that the poor pay to the Rich.
***
The Mandrake Mechanism:
youtu.be/rTkzYWCYU3g?t=452
It always gets me when the rich and the US government that they now run entirely, start complaining about giving "free stuff" out to other Americans who live in poverty - i.e. the poor Americans who still work their asses off.
So Capitalists have cleverly flipped the script: poor working class Americans don't deserve anything more than what they get - despite huge productivity gains and working more than ever these last few decades - and anything beyond what the Wealth Class wants to give them is "Free Hand Outs". Meanwhile, any further profits the Rich can make off of the backs of the Working Class - is not "Free" and is completely deserved! Year after year, record breaking profits for corporations are considered "Deserved". But giving back to the labor class is considered handing out "Free stuff".
Note that, without Labor, there is no Capital. The Capitalists and Owner classes could not exist without Labor. Therefore Labor comes first, and is essential.
The Big lie is that the bread crumbs you are given is all that you deserve. That's the Big Lie.
"When they say "GREED is nature" don't forget animals don't take more than they can eat."
Nature has a way of slimming down animals that eat too much, either by putting them on a diet (fat cats catch few mice) or turning them into prey (fat cats are an easy mark for cat eating monsters).
Doesn't appear nature is working that well, here in the US, regarding slim human beings.
They don't live in nature. There weren't too many fat Indians, from what I can tell.
I thought humans were something Nature created. So humans are Aliens?
They don't exactly live natural lives, unless there is something to chasing pieces of green paper that I don't get
I'm pretty sure my Aunt is an Alien.
I agree with your premise, but not with this example "don't forget animals don't take more than they can eat." There are many examples, but here are two: Watch what happens, especially during the great migration, when lions kill as many wildebeest as they can. They will hunt another even when they have just killed one.
And, take a look at bears, especially during the salmon runs, when at some point they resort to high-grading, in which they eat only the heads, skin and roe, leaving the rest, which will nourish the gulls, and the forest. I have this thing about accuracy, even when it must seem tangential, and also about not attributing false characteristics to animals.
I wonder if we'd all be better off if we'd characterize the workers who'd struggled and died in the Labor movement as martyrs -- just as Palestinians do their dead. For example, the key year of 1886 in the US, when thousands struck and hundreds died in defense of human rights is sloughed off in standard histories as "Knights of Labor". But it was a year of martyrdom for human rights and against oppression by rich oligarchs. Perhaps it'd emphasize that we're all potential martyrs to this diseased system.
Being a martyr might be memorable, but dying is the part that doesn't sound very appealing. When you're dead, you're dead right?
Only cogent response I can think of is to put myself in someone else's shoes — in this instance, in the position of being a descendant of one of the dead. I'd feel a shitload better and more justified about my progenitor being portrayed nobly as having died for a just cause, rather than as an afterthought of some rich a-hole's whim. Otherwise your premise of dead is dead holds true, which kind of sucks.
Yeah it does suck. But man, there have been a lot of brave souls out there. That's for sure.
You hit the nail on the head, as it were.
Excellent description of capitalism. Socialism is the cure. So how to establish the cure is the question.
Sadly, I think we have past the easy transformation into Socialism. Strange hearing people saying they are against taxing the rich, they provide the jobs, they one day will be rich : (
I have more in common with a houseless quadriplegic than Mush, Gates, or the Anti-Christ
Thiel. The arrival of Reagan may have been the signal of the end. If the Air-controllers, flight attendants, rail-workers, port workers had joined together to say no. The world would be a far different place in my dreamy, privileged self deluded bubble. : (
Bernie was afraid of the movement he started. He had no idea people would come together IF offered a venue to do so. Fuck you Bernie you traitorous monster giving hope to people and then " Joe Biden is a friend of mine he would make a great President" on the debate stage in South Carolina. Fuck you Bernie, BTW, I hope you are reading this, the book you sent me autographed after donating 4800$ to your two campaigns, I burned that book, the only book I have ever burned. Fuck You Traitor!
I have a personal email written by Bernie on AOL from 1990 having been introduced by a mutual friend teaching in Vermont. I keep that email to remind me we are in this without politicians. I never thought I would think it let alone write it.
Fuck You Bernie. Free Palestine and free ourselves.
Fuck you Bernie. Sounds like I blame Bernie for everything, YEP.
Can I move into your self-deluded bubble?
I would love that : ) The nation of Caitlin : ) I worn you I am a coffee snob.
What does that mean? We can only have your kind of coffee in our bubble? As long as it's light roast, fairtrade, organic coffee I'm fine with that.
https://justcoffee.coop/ I do prefer darker roast having less caffeine : )
That's it, I' moving out of your bubble, don't like dark roast. Tho your source is much like mine, highergrounds trading company.
I have so many questions. Let’s start with an easy one. “Who decides who gets what?”
Great question, the structure works IF you have unions of working people. There are no unions in the u.s. police, teachers, nursing with only teachers and nurses demonstrating power by shutting that sh it down. The major unions back the owners as seen by the farce that was the railroad workers pretend strike. Today they still don't have sick leave ha. There is a reason the u.s. Gov. used it's Air Force to bomb coal miners striking. Working people have power when they come together.
I liked my own comment, so few people know history of labor, Eugene Debbs running for President from F U C K ING prison. The bit of history people call me a liar for repeating During the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain, U.S. Army bombers dropped bombs on striking coal miners in West Virginia after federal troops arrived to end the conflict. When people doubt, I say stay ignorant and nothing will change. Blank stares. The 1% are counting on us trying to save our family and friends. I paid several months of my Sons friends rent, she and her Daughter, Grandson where about to be evicted. Why because the hospital she works at owned by a fucking private equity co. only allows her now 34 hrs. a week.
My solution, a General Strike named Shut That Shit Down!
Free Palestine and we free ourselves. Shut that Shit Down!
Who is our Eugene Debbs, Fidel, Che, I cry as I write this.
Fuck you Bernie! Shut That Shit Down!
Elon Musk?
China's system of socialism seems to be working well, although it is still based on capitalistic growth, with increase in production to provide jobs, energy and food, though the state owns the banks. It may help even out wealth among the people but it is certainly not the cure to humans living on a finite planet with rampant human-made climate change. Only a global degrowth economy can cure this. We have it within our power to do this and to pull the legs of the villain at the same time. It's not as glamorous as calling for a revolution, but is achievable and effective and less destructive to the vulnerable in society.
Marx would be proud. I have read, Marx warned, Stalin, Lenin, and Trotsky they would fail not having gone through Capitalism. Capitalism does have to end or we see what happens as the 1% try to hold their wealth in declining means. We are the Colonized.
I think we are already at the beginning of chaos, Harry. The light will come but people need to "grab the man's' legs" to empty the pool.
"This motto drives the otherworldly pronouncements to their flocks and wage-slaves who attend church, that the Lord prefers them where they are in the conditions in which they find themselves; because even as a baby you are responsible for not being born wealthy… as the errant Senator Grassley has put it, “You’d all have a million dollars if you’d stop spending your money on booze, women, and gambling.” The capitalists’ holy motto, “God helps those who help themselves”, is a brilliant masterstroke which lets you know that they are favored for “helping themselves”. “God gives the money to the capitalists” (a Reverend Doctor) because He loves them, and trusts them; and I knew a Lutheran Pastor who proclaimed in 1990, “I refuse to preach the Gospel of Jesus for less than $30,000 per year [that’s not including perks).” You are simply a low person, “Oh Lord! Heaven knows! We belong way down below… Oh Lord! Tell us so! We belong way down below!” (The Pretty Reckless). So in this rich man’s heaven, the following occurred in Salt Lake City:"
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/i-dreamed-i-saw-joe-hill
Will the word Guillotine become Anti-Semitic? What we did to the Palestinians will be done to us. There is no doubt. I wonder if anyone in Mexico understands they are the next Venezuela?
With 38.3 Trillion in debt, the Fed can not even borrow more than a few 10s of billions at the long end 10-30 yr. so the continued ever climbing need for more and more short debt will collapse the financial markets of all kind. The AI bubble explosion is 5x the size of the Com. Backed Sec. failure. All of this chaos is about the 1% saving themselves. Will 1789 become Anti-Semitic?
A variation on and illustration of the overall theme... Recently attended a health care conference. HR 1, ya know, the Big, Beautiful, (Further) Budget-Busting Bill came up, specifically its Medicaid "reforms" with work requirements. It was interesting to get some of the details, but come the Q&A I had to ask, "With these work requirements, aren't we just seeing latter day Poor Laws of 1834, when one's sorry lot in life was due to moral failing, for which you had to pay in order to get help? And all this while as a society, or a government, we just crossed the threshold of a $1+ TRILLION per year Penta-gone budget? And therefore haven't we crossed another threshold, on the road to becoming a failed state, financially, morally?"
A woman came up to me afterwards and thanked me for having asked the question.
“This motto drives the otherworldly pronouncements to their flocks and wage-slaves who attend church, that the Lord prefers them where they are in the conditions in which they find themselves; because even as a baby you are responsible for not being born wealthy… as the errant Senator Grassley has put it, “You’d all have a million dollars if you’d stop spending your money on booze, women, and gambling.” The capitalists’ holy motto, “God helps those who help themselves”, is a brilliant masterstroke which lets you know that they are favored for “helping themselves”. “God gives the money to the capitalists” (a Reverend Doctor) because He loves them, and trusts them; and I knew a Lutheran Pastor who proclaimed in 1990, “I refuse to preach the Gospel of Jesus for less than $30,000 per year [that’s not including perks).” You are simply a low person, “Oh Lord! Heaven knows! We belong way down below… Oh Lord! Tell us so! We belong way down below!” (The Pretty Reckless). So in this rich man’s heaven, the following occurred in Salt Lake City:”
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/i-dreamed-i-saw-joe-hill
Well said! Do you think the globocaps are also within grabbing reach? I'll be the first one!
https://youtu.be/m6ERxQJio7E?si=Ov9MUD83jBYHOT4A
Here's your movie in song by Jesse Welles.
This is a comment on Caitlin's current and preceding posts:
Chatbots of De-Generative De-Evolution
Earth’s few gentle and decent people with higher consciousnesses and consciences are under constant siege by the simplistic prick and cunt brains with mere animal awareness instincts who constantly generate the dystopian absurdities of life. The dominant money-driven prick and cunt brains have had the beastly cunning to invent the oppressive money-making concepts of pseudo intelligence. At the end of the present 3500-3600-year cycle, one of history’s countless, they again lead the Homo species into processes of degenerative de-evolution. Self-centered, self-righteous and driven by base instinctive animal urges that translate into survival delusions of “the strong”, they believe they make history. But what they really make is another trash-heap of lost lessons, meanings and oblivion. Their money-driven AI products, “flagship” chatbots, are another series of digested and controlled trash-in-trash-out word, image and sound mincers to further stupefy the billions. In an ongoing paranoia of inverted “value politics”, they form the filthy criminal polity establishments that most of the tribal populace has been brainwashed to admire. And they all profess one or another “religion”. Clearly, the Homo or Homo-like species on Earth have degenerated similarly in the past cycles. Some of the fragmentary proofs are remnants of pre-ancient pyramids, temples, underwater cities, interspaced over the geological time with cave paintings and primitive tools, human footprint fossils of millions of years ago, flash frozen mammoths in now cold regions and whale bones on mountain peaks. Even a total imbecile would suspect that wars, mass murders and genocides make no sense because all people eventually perish equally in the natural cyclic catastrophes of our local cosmic space. But the filthy prick-and-cunt-brained establishments and the science whores funded by them won't come to such a naked ethical truth. Every past cycle witnessed a zigzag mental degeneration of the Homo species. Whatever would begin with a cathartic promise as a sobering renewal after a catastrophe soon again tumbled down a deep dark valley of mental eclipse, and so up and down, and up and down different gradients until the final vertical cliff fall into a bottomless abyss like the proverbial lemmings. More frequently than not, however, not even a brief period of sobering catharsis occurred with a new cycle. A cycle came and went with negligible mindset differences relative to terror, hate and mass murder. The cycles are not limited only to the Holocene or the past 14 000 years but to all Homo species history. Proofs of no cathartic sobering lessons drawn at the start and into “our” present cycle, which now "culturally" involves the so-called West, were the "deep dark valley" mental de-evolutions even during and regardless of the cosmic upheavals ravaging Earth: BCE’s Egypt’s slavery system, Exodus and subsequent butchering of Palestine tribes (ca 1400 BCE), Babylonian and Assyrian invasions of Judea, bloody invasions by the ancient Greece and Rome with their slavery systems, to mention but a few such “achievements”. Contrary to whoring official interpretations, none of those were carriers or spreaders of any “civilization” but of savage mass murder, oppression through poverty, and terror. The same in CE’s Middle Ages and passim to the present. And look at how many of us "in our time" remain enthusiastic about those sadistic criminal empires and enterprises. In officially induced mental distortions, we find them so “impressive” and “entertaining”, so “progressive” and even so “spiritual”. An apparent cherry on top that history is the legacy of ancient criminal Rome's legal system, the wellspring and bedrock of our laws! Hey, people of the 21st century! - We have not journeyed far at all, except back into the constancy of cyclic degenerative de-evolution, constancy of the usual mass paranoia now “supercharged” with AI Chatbot support. If, indeed, there are any superconscious Spirits of the Earth and the Sun, do we as an intelligent species give them any grounds to like us?
The villian is not seen as a villian, that is why people support capitalism and the "logic of being an exploiter" exist. The insane answer to not everyone can be an exploiter is that you do need to out compete everyone to become the exploiter. It isn't about everyone becoming a landlord or business owner. The villian is just someone manipulating everyone else into playing a game. I guess like Jigsaw or something? My point here is that this is a popular game to play and so many believe in playing it. That's the problem and why it exists and persists. People don't want to change the system that exploits them either because they can't or don't know how if they want to. In the pyramid horror movie no one is thinking about solving the problem, they are only thinking about themselves, that is the problem.
This commentary on capitalism is an indicator that true democracy and capitalism cannot coexist; thus America’s boast of “democracy” is an illusion that has destroyed nation states forced to ingest such toxicity.
Just like Glenn Greenwald states in his segment (see ScheerPost link below), I too, was mystified by the Noam Chomsky-Jeffrey Epstein connection (or friendship, perhaps?… though I don’t know if there was really a friendship there), until it dawned on me a few minutes ago, while sitting here having a quiet breakfast… This too… Even this… Is the result of capitalism… If you watch the brief Glenn Greenwald segment at the link below,, you can easily see why none of us are immune to its sickness (and I have always considered Chomsky to be one of my “heroes”)… Just being human can make any one of us fall prey to the capitalism disease in some respect, way shape or form. (Sort of in the same way that Israeli Jews committed, and are committing, the same horrendous genocide inhumanity as Nazi Germany... thereby absolutely PROVING the fact that they are not in any manner "chosen people"... no human is... no such fucking thing!... humans fall prey)
https://scheerpost.com/2025/11/16/glenns-thoughts-on-chomsky-epsteins-baffling-relationship/
Thanks for sharing that clip with Glenn trying to make sense of it.
Oh, of course Joy.