Yes. So true and so heartbreaking. And maddening. As we have both lived thru these events you’ve described ( are you really in your 70’s? ) I’m sure we’ve been looking for the “cause” of this spiral down into our present ugly state for many years. Myself, I blame Truman with commissioning the CIA which lead to the security state doing most of the things you’ve described. Including elevating Israel (cynically) so we could have a bulwark against the Arabs in the Middle East as we went in to take over British oil interests. And of course who were those criminals but the glorious winners of the WW2, hailed by Europe as heroes. So it goes back a long ass way. And yet is no different from the killing off of the Natives, the importing of slaves, the oppression of women in a new constitutional state for “free men” etc etc etc that goes back to the very foundation of my country. In the end, I think its just patriarchy in a new toga, throwing out the monarchies and using a new excuse—free men—to make war in order to get rich and be dominant and be “elite”. And we have followed that nightmare, calling it a dream, to its bitter end, winding up with tools of war that could end life on this planet and tools of convenience that are ending life on this planet. We need a new paradigm and I think it has to be Mother Earth based, with lots of personal spiritual growth, and lots of cooperative sentiments and ideals. But it’s gonna take a miracle to get there. In the meantime, eat cake and keep the fires burning. The Phoenix is bound to rise from them sometime.
Yes. So true and so heartbreaking. And maddening. As we have both lived thru these events you’ve described ( are you really in your 70’s? ) I’m sure we’ve been looking for the “cause” of this spiral down into our present ugly state for many years. Myself, I blame Truman with commissioning the CIA which lead to the security state doing most of the things you’ve described. Including elevating Israel (cynically) so we could have a bulwark against the Arabs in the Middle East as we went in to take over British oil interests. And of course who were those criminals but the glorious winners of the WW2, hailed by Europe as heroes. So it goes back a long ass way. And yet is no different from the killing off of the Natives, the importing of slaves, the oppression of women in a new constitutional state for “free men” etc etc etc that goes back to the very foundation of my country. In the end, I think its just patriarchy in a new toga, throwing out the monarchies and using a new excuse—free men—to make war in order to get rich and be dominant and be “elite”. And we have followed that nightmare, calling it a dream, to its bitter end, winding up with tools of war that could end life on this planet and tools of convenience that are ending life on this planet. We need a new paradigm and I think it has to be Mother Earth based, with lots of personal spiritual growth, and lots of cooperative sentiments and ideals. But it’s gonna take a miracle to get there. In the meantime, eat cake and keep the fires burning. The Phoenix is bound to rise from them sometime.