That's exactly what I thought too. Then, next thought, what has become of _me_? This horrendous barbarism has changed everything. Dystopian fantasy is now the reality and unfortunately the benchmark for things to come. A freak-melange of the utterly sad and truly horrible.
I never admired those genocidal coward settlers. On the contrary. And they were never brave. Bombing unarmed civilians is not bravery but cowardice. Israel is cancer of humanity.
Unfortunately, when I was younger I fell for it too. I really thought that the shit shown in that movie, Exodus, was true and I even read the book. I’m not proud of it, but I fell for the Israhell propaganda bs like many others. Now, I really see what is happening, has been happening in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria. These monsters really want to make a “Greater Israel” and the hell with the indigenous people who have lived in these regions for eons. Disgusting.😢☮️🇵🇸
Our worthless mainstream media should be reporting this in living color. But nothing... crickets. No wonder so many Americans are ignorant about this genocide.
Americans (and people in ALL other countries) should STOP watching the respective mainstream media of their countries alltogether. When will people realize/figure-out that one of the important purposes/functions of MSM is to propagandize and manage narratives for those in power? (and this was true even before the advent of the internet, TV, radio, etc.). But that also doesn't mean to brainlessly watch independent (and opinionated analysis, etc.) media either without a critical processing of the content.
I resent that because I am now in my '70s and got my political education from my very left-wing parents especially my mother who was an Asian socialist with anarchist leanings . Both my parents were involved in illegal political activity in South Africa between the world wars . Previous generations are not necessarily as stupid as it would be gratifying to think - much was lost by my generation ignoring previous insights !
Thanks a lot. I'm 79 and have stood with the oppressed since I was a teen. Being aged does limit what you can achieve and I've never felt so impotent as in this last year watching this horrific genocide. Many thanks to all the youth who are carrying the flag while risking such a lot at university or in their jobs. We live in a small town now with no support for the cause. If I lived in a city I'd be out manning the barricades with them.
Thankfully there is 'Democracy Now' on PBS, hosted by the wonderful Amy Goodman. The truth is spoken there. Anyone who is not yet watching is urged to tune in.
Resistance types will not like what I have to say here, but there is a reason that Zionists are able to exert power well beyond their numbers: Group solidarity and a willingness to do *whatever* *it* *takes* to advance group goals. This often is violence but not necessarily.
It's the same reason that a few Hells Angels were able to run riot at Altamont while many times their number of concertgoers milled around, got beat up, or ran for their lives. Every Hells Angel knew that his fellow outlaws would support him, whatever the cost, and they were not afraid to hurt or kill anyone who got in their way, nor did they fear any consequences. The hippies, by contrast, were dithering and indecisive, when if they had the Angels' determination and ethos, could have easily disarmed them or worse.
For that matter, if torturing and maiming children who never harmed them in any way is what it takes to advance their goals, then they will do it, without a moment's hesitation.
"Not all the power and money, not all the weapons and propaganda on earth can any longer hide the wound that is Palestine. The wound through which the whole world, including Israel, bleeds."
Powerful. I read Arundhati's "The God of Small Things" many moons ago. I've never seen a writer use as many metaphors and similes in a single novel as she did. It was impressive and beautiful.
G'day Jamenta, I'm actually a little stunned, that volume is in my bookcase. Admittedly it's still on the Waiting To Be Read list but I did flip through a few pages when I found it in a charity shop for $1.
Looks like I need to move it to the top of the list.
Holy hell is upon us. We're in the hands of psychopaths as horrid as any the species has ever produced, armed with ability to surveil almost everyone anywhere and a range of destructive terrors frpm biological to nuclear. Before all else, begin organizing, both yourrself and with othets to try and mitigate surviving neglect and existential threats. And then, if you can throw a wrench into the juggernaut of dystopia, do so.
They also have spiritual powers which they hide like the way Hitler was using Astrology to wage war back then... The 1% are more diabolical than one thinks when you add the spiritual filthy shit they use on top of the physical rot we are seeing from them
We really need strong people of mind, Soul and Spirit to combat these fuckers and if you're not at that Level yet, still do your best to fuck them up in any way you can but please work on leveling up in all those other areas I mentioned cuz I tell ya, if you become too big of a problem and they come at you with their hidden powers, nothing will save you but the Power of your Soul and Spirit.
So many of the remaining able bodied children of Gaza have had their parents murdered and their souls amputated. How can they grow up with anything but rage towards those who perpetrated these atrocities against their families and society. When they are old enough, they will resist, fight, seek revenge. And we will read about their “Islamist Terror” in our newspapers and listen to heartless pundits decry their “evil” on our TV. We must educate our fellow citizens about the unfathomable injustice our countries are underwriting.
Your take on this is too positive ! The Israelis don't want any Palestinian Arabs to be left alive - there is no longer any need for them even as servants . The genocide has now been going on for bloody years . Eventually even history books will be edited to erase all traces of Palestinian Arabs - if Israel has its way and NO ONE is stopping them .
That was another heartbreaking thing I heard on a podcast yesterday - the measures taken to obliterate any trace of a culture in Israel prior to the Jewish state - architecture, art, literature, history, everything. When you are losing your home, suffering and dying, you want to believe that some trace of your life remains. I can't stop wondering what goes on in the minds of the people delivering such cruelty. Don't they have families? Surely they are aware of all the children having to undergo surgeries w/o anesthetics, what if it were their kids? What is in Blinken's head when he scrunches up his eyes in his look of sorrow? While everything may be demolished in Israel, w few traces of the Palestinians left, evidence will be in other countries, their story will still be told. Unless the whole world is destroyed. Then there will be nothing left, but then, it won't really matter.
I know huge numbers are trying and those of us who are believers are praying very hard to God . I mean the fact that eg the US and the UK say flatly that there is no genocide so that proper international intervention is not going to happen . In fact the US and UK are supplying weapons to make it more 'efficient' .
We are big enough to feel . . . the exhilaration of life on this strange blue planet and the crushing grief of failure after failure to make things a little better here.
I'm grateful to hear you articulate this, simply because it's damned difficult to feel expansive enough to take it all in and stay balanced.
Here's one way -- I look for uplift from brave Palestinians themselves, like this piece from a Gazan woman about rebuilding Gaza's libraries and her childhood memories of their impact on her life. Bittersweet, but amazing for its optimism and courage in those circumstances.
Thanks for this beautiful tribute to Mohammad Saeed, Caitlin. Words escape me now. I hardly know what I feel. Guilt - I’m here while these atrocities take place and I can’t stop them. Anger - at humanity’s cruelty, at American imperialism, at Zionist and American exceptionalism. Sadness - for the evil we have launched upon the world and for those like Mohammad who our society has made to suffer. Inability to forgive - our politicians can never redeem themselves after this, to knowingly participate in a genocide Canada’s leaders and profiteers should be held accountable. I’m in my 80s so I don’t have a lot of time left and I am selfish enough to relish that - I fear what faces the generations after mine, I think it will make the holocaust and Nazism look mild by comparison. Thanks for your words, as always.
You have fought your good fight Ron and have earned rest. Leave it to us the younglings to take the fight on from here and I swear to you that I especially will make sure the Right side wins.. or Die Trying
I bet there are still people out there wondering how could Germans be what they were from the 1930s on. Even more people never experienced the urge to ask it at all. In fact, most never realized there was such a question.
"Jill Biden unveiled her final White House Christmas decorations as first lady, centered on the theme "A Season of Peace and Light." (From Business Insider)
It's hard. The horror of it all. The sick tragedy of people's lives who are victims to a sadistic savagery one can barely imagine. The lifetime cruelty of dismemberment, disfigurement, blindness - and loss of loved ones. It's hard to make sense of this kind of horror even if one can bear witness to the beauty of the world and life, and the mystery of consciousness. Or even the mystery of the vast reality we find ourselves in, unimaginably vast.
But what avails it if even one soul, such as a Mohammad Saeed has the cruel destiny to live out an entire lifetime on leg stumps and savage poverty and social dislocation? What avails all the beauty in the world if even one soul must live in cruel misery their entire short life? Is life in the end reduced to Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery"? Or the late, great Ursula Le Guin's masterpiece, "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"? Are we to be morally satisfied that this life that is, is rationally acceptable? Is it in the end, all too human to despair? To rage against the unspeakable horror that exists? And then decide, I reject it all?
Reading your comment, Jamenta, made me ask the question of myself how it is that our readers never comment on what the American people think of all this. I mean, the majority of people. Discarding the numbers representing the majority of Jews (no argument please....the majority support Israel), the politicians, the Zionists, the Christian Zioists, the weak and pathetic managers of places like Universities who have given in to political pressures, what appears to be the majority of police forces, almost 100% 0f the new appointees into Trump's private entourage and the remainder, calculated at over 300 million people.
We know what the elected politicians think, 86% of them at least.They are there in the government in numbers that do not seem to have changed much from before the last election. Safe and secure, well paid and dancing to the dictates of a race of inhumane murderers thousands of miles away in Israel. So they are accounted for, also known as the AIPACers.
But what about the rest?
For anyone reading this question from Jamenta..."to rage against the unspeakable horror.....". Is anyone in America raging, or are they disinterested, being secure and so far away from a single US generated war zone anywhere in the world.
I would be grateful for someone to explain what it would take for the American people, men, woman and children, to rise up against the demented politicians and demand a solution to overcome this genocide, seen daily by many as just another small TV
segment ?
At my age, I have seen hundreds of lovely, respected Americans in social environments and in business and I still don't know. I do not want to ask and obviously they do not want to mention the subject. I do not want to lose their friendship. I just do not want to ask. Yes, that is wrong.
Can someone identify where the majority of Americans stand on this subject based on good data? I am sure there are so many others manylike me who would like to know.
When you base a society on Social Darwinistic values of greed and winner takes all, like we have here in the US, I believe the sociopaths and psychopaths tend to find their way up to the top of the pyramid scheme of power, through the power of money and being connected to the other psychopaths they know who have also found themselves at the top of the money pyramid.
I believe most Americans have some level of empathy, probably more so than the leaders we now have in American corrupted politics, run by money alone. But as Caitlin has often pointed out, Americans have been propagandized to a story that is suitable to the Monied Elites and their psychopathic goals. And the few that do realize they are being lied to daily - by either a Creepy Uncle Biden, or a Golden Tower Trump, they feel pretty powerless to do much about it. And this powerlessness is increasing with increased censorship and social isolation.
But there is also the more existential problem: what is life suppose to be about? Is it really about who can make the most money in 70 80 years? Is about raising a family and hoping you survive for 70 80 years? Is it about painting the next Mona Lisa before you die? What is life about? What is it suppose to be about? Why are you here? Why is anybody here? Is it really just about a savage game of survival and nothing more? Is the rest just some kind of fairy tale we tell ourselves so we can get through all the nonsense (and horror)?
What came first, the chicken or the egg? Irrationality or rationality? Well, we do know the ego does arise from unconscious processes. And as Aniela Jaffe wrote, the most significant event in the science of analytical psychology was the discovery that the unconscious is autonomous. Jung in his final years argued the unconscious was also objective (as opposed to subjective) - akin to field theory in physics.
The majority of Americans were presented the choice of two, Uniparty, candidates who both supported this position. All other options, choices, and candidates, were suppressed.
No one can know what the outcome would have been had there been an actual, democratic, election voted on by an informed public.
nah, they, just like a majority of other europeans and westerners, and even muslims, support it. and then they wash their hands in innocence and hope they managed to deceive their skydaddy.
I don't know any Muslims who support it . If we are not martyring ourselves it is probably because there is no rational hope that us 'subhumans' will ever be allowed to win .
didn't know muslims only martyr themselves if they're allowed to win. i'm also afraid that that is not how the empire game works: you'll never be 'allowed' to win. allah is kinda capitalist, not?
" Jaw dropping savagery". Exactly. World rules by monsters. Pure and simple. They ( zios, politicians, those in israel loving the genocide, etc) don't deserve to be called human. Best solution is ship them off to Mars so they can inbreed there, so the rest of us decent humans with moral values can live in piece together.
The long suffering Palestinians have defined for us what humanity, patience, steadfastness, hope and belief in God means. They are the best of humanity. So much for the " civilised" West?
Caitlin and Tim, Thank you.🙏 We share our sorrow for Mohammad Saeed and the children of Gaza with you and Tim. Your writing and Tim's mellifluous moving rendering of it - incidentally today was the first time I listened to him - took us to a place where our emotional and empathetic distress found a place to weep. You did pour your heart out and for us to open the door of our hearts and offer it to the little boy and countless like him in Gaza - for what it's worth.
It is fitting that the sorrow and anguish is unbearable because we weren't able to stop any of the horror happening to the most vulnerable among us.
Gaza is just the tip of the iceberg. Have you ever seen a child under five die of hunger and/or a curable disease, Caitlin? This year, in 349 days, 7,272,000 have died, 20,837 per day, 868 per hour, 14 per minute, one every four seconds. Less than a dollar a day would have been enough for each of them to keep them alive. These are the effects of the economic system we have accepted, the freedom we boast about, … https://www.worldometers.info
Not just his legs. I’m guessing that rollerblade is hiding what’s left of a blown-off arm, as well.
Oh shit you're probably right.
That's exactly what I thought too. Then, next thought, what has become of _me_? This horrendous barbarism has changed everything. Dystopian fantasy is now the reality and unfortunately the benchmark for things to come. A freak-melange of the utterly sad and truly horrible.
I used to admire the brave Israelis. Now I don't.
I never admired those genocidal coward settlers. On the contrary. And they were never brave. Bombing unarmed civilians is not bravery but cowardice. Israel is cancer of humanity.
“Brave IsraHellis”?
Put down the fuckin crack pipe.
I admired them because I believed the propaganda when I was younger. Now I see them for what they are.
You're not alone. They did a world class PR job on the whole world, much of which is still hoodwinked. Good for you and all of us who've come around.
I agree with you. I used to be pro Israel too, but like you, now I see them for what they really are.
Unfortunately, when I was younger I fell for it too. I really thought that the shit shown in that movie, Exodus, was true and I even read the book. I’m not proud of it, but I fell for the Israhell propaganda bs like many others. Now, I really see what is happening, has been happening in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria. These monsters really want to make a “Greater Israel” and the hell with the indigenous people who have lived in these regions for eons. Disgusting.😢☮️🇵🇸
Not brave! Evil, sadistic cowards!
Yeah, I thought that too. Feck’s sake! That poor bairn.
You’re right. The boy only has one hand.
Our worthless mainstream media should be reporting this in living color. But nothing... crickets. No wonder so many Americans are ignorant about this genocide.
Americans (and people in ALL other countries) should STOP watching the respective mainstream media of their countries alltogether. When will people realize/figure-out that one of the important purposes/functions of MSM is to propagandize and manage narratives for those in power? (and this was true even before the advent of the internet, TV, radio, etc.). But that also doesn't mean to brainlessly watch independent (and opinionated analysis, etc.) media either without a critical processing of the content.
Protest outside mainstream media. Make these so-called Journalist feel uncomfortable and ask them do they feel complicit in genocide!
How exactly do you think getting people to stop watching the MSM is going to come about?
Lol Joy: the people who watch MSM are old folks who’re croaking off. Well soon be rid of ‘em 😉
I resent that because I am now in my '70s and got my political education from my very left-wing parents especially my mother who was an Asian socialist with anarchist leanings . Both my parents were involved in illegal political activity in South Africa between the world wars . Previous generations are not necessarily as stupid as it would be gratifying to think - much was lost by my generation ignoring previous insights !
Good on you, Rukshana Afia.
I second Indu. I'm close enough to 73 to see the gate.
Thanks a lot. I'm 79 and have stood with the oppressed since I was a teen. Being aged does limit what you can achieve and I've never felt so impotent as in this last year watching this horrific genocide. Many thanks to all the youth who are carrying the flag while risking such a lot at university or in their jobs. We live in a small town now with no support for the cause. If I lived in a city I'd be out manning the barricades with them.
If we all do what we can.....
Thankfully there is 'Democracy Now' on PBS, hosted by the wonderful Amy Goodman. The truth is spoken there. Anyone who is not yet watching is urged to tune in.
Resistance types will not like what I have to say here, but there is a reason that Zionists are able to exert power well beyond their numbers: Group solidarity and a willingness to do *whatever* *it* *takes* to advance group goals. This often is violence but not necessarily.
It's the same reason that a few Hells Angels were able to run riot at Altamont while many times their number of concertgoers milled around, got beat up, or ran for their lives. Every Hells Angel knew that his fellow outlaws would support him, whatever the cost, and they were not afraid to hurt or kill anyone who got in their way, nor did they fear any consequences. The hippies, by contrast, were dithering and indecisive, when if they had the Angels' determination and ethos, could have easily disarmed them or worse.
For that matter, if torturing and maiming children who never harmed them in any way is what it takes to advance their goals, then they will do it, without a moment's hesitation.
Probably, they can't stand it. But it will live on, and eventually it will come out of the shadows and sit with them.
Yup, for the vast majority of the Amerikan Dumbshit....Ignorance is bliss,,,,
From Arundhati Roy:
"Not all the power and money, not all the weapons and propaganda on earth can any longer hide the wound that is Palestine. The wound through which the whole world, including Israel, bleeds."
Powerful. I read Arundhati's "The God of Small Things" many moons ago. I've never seen a writer use as many metaphors and similes in a single novel as she did. It was impressive and beautiful.
G'day Jamenta, I'm actually a little stunned, that volume is in my bookcase. Admittedly it's still on the Waiting To Be Read list but I did flip through a few pages when I found it in a charity shop for $1.
Looks like I need to move it to the top of the list.
Arundhati is like reading Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise", or a Michael Ondaatje novel. Very luxurious writing style that is best read slowly.
I read it too and loved it.
Like Irish writers. The Indian writers have the same understanding of good writing and spirituality.
Holy hell is upon us. We're in the hands of psychopaths as horrid as any the species has ever produced, armed with ability to surveil almost everyone anywhere and a range of destructive terrors frpm biological to nuclear. Before all else, begin organizing, both yourrself and with othets to try and mitigate surviving neglect and existential threats. And then, if you can throw a wrench into the juggernaut of dystopia, do so.
They also have spiritual powers which they hide like the way Hitler was using Astrology to wage war back then... The 1% are more diabolical than one thinks when you add the spiritual filthy shit they use on top of the physical rot we are seeing from them
We really need strong people of mind, Soul and Spirit to combat these fuckers and if you're not at that Level yet, still do your best to fuck them up in any way you can but please work on leveling up in all those other areas I mentioned cuz I tell ya, if you become too big of a problem and they come at you with their hidden powers, nothing will save you but the Power of your Soul and Spirit.
Best be getting prepared for that now
So many of the remaining able bodied children of Gaza have had their parents murdered and their souls amputated. How can they grow up with anything but rage towards those who perpetrated these atrocities against their families and society. When they are old enough, they will resist, fight, seek revenge. And we will read about their “Islamist Terror” in our newspapers and listen to heartless pundits decry their “evil” on our TV. We must educate our fellow citizens about the unfathomable injustice our countries are underwriting.
Your take on this is too positive ! The Israelis don't want any Palestinian Arabs to be left alive - there is no longer any need for them even as servants . The genocide has now been going on for bloody years . Eventually even history books will be edited to erase all traces of Palestinian Arabs - if Israel has its way and NO ONE is stopping them .
That was another heartbreaking thing I heard on a podcast yesterday - the measures taken to obliterate any trace of a culture in Israel prior to the Jewish state - architecture, art, literature, history, everything. When you are losing your home, suffering and dying, you want to believe that some trace of your life remains. I can't stop wondering what goes on in the minds of the people delivering such cruelty. Don't they have families? Surely they are aware of all the children having to undergo surgeries w/o anesthetics, what if it were their kids? What is in Blinken's head when he scrunches up his eyes in his look of sorrow? While everything may be demolished in Israel, w few traces of the Palestinians left, evidence will be in other countries, their story will still be told. Unless the whole world is destroyed. Then there will be nothing left, but then, it won't really matter.
“No one”? That “no one” does not include us.
I know huge numbers are trying and those of us who are believers are praying very hard to God . I mean the fact that eg the US and the UK say flatly that there is no genocide so that proper international intervention is not going to happen . In fact the US and UK are supplying weapons to make it more 'efficient' .
I said that NO ONE is stopping Israel's genocide - has anyone reading this seen any signs of such a thing ?
We are big enough to feel . . . the exhilaration of life on this strange blue planet and the crushing grief of failure after failure to make things a little better here.
I'm grateful to hear you articulate this, simply because it's damned difficult to feel expansive enough to take it all in and stay balanced.
I believe we have to. We owe it to those who cannot.
Here's one way -- I look for uplift from brave Palestinians themselves, like this piece from a Gazan woman about rebuilding Gaza's libraries and her childhood memories of their impact on her life. Bittersweet, but amazing for its optimism and courage in those circumstances.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/12/14/gazas-libraries-will-rise-for-the-ashes.
Thanks for this beautiful tribute to Mohammad Saeed, Caitlin. Words escape me now. I hardly know what I feel. Guilt - I’m here while these atrocities take place and I can’t stop them. Anger - at humanity’s cruelty, at American imperialism, at Zionist and American exceptionalism. Sadness - for the evil we have launched upon the world and for those like Mohammad who our society has made to suffer. Inability to forgive - our politicians can never redeem themselves after this, to knowingly participate in a genocide Canada’s leaders and profiteers should be held accountable. I’m in my 80s so I don’t have a lot of time left and I am selfish enough to relish that - I fear what faces the generations after mine, I think it will make the holocaust and Nazism look mild by comparison. Thanks for your words, as always.
You have fought your good fight Ron and have earned rest. Leave it to us the younglings to take the fight on from here and I swear to you that I especially will make sure the Right side wins.. or Die Trying
Uaifo, I am 70 years old and I’m right behind you.
One thing my age has taught me is to FEAR NOTHING!
Yeah it is true that as you get older you get bolder !
We pick up our skate and crawl on.
Very true.
Glad to have you on my side Gypsy, very glad 😊🤠
Not a chance. We are all in this together. Age is not an excuse to abandon one’s responsibility, nay obligation, to the future.
I echo your sentiments.
I bet there are still people out there wondering how could Germans be what they were from the 1930s on. Even more people never experienced the urge to ask it at all. In fact, most never realized there was such a question.
This is how.
"Jill Biden unveiled her final White House Christmas decorations as first lady, centered on the theme "A Season of Peace and Light." (From Business Insider)
PEACE AND LIGHT" ? Insanity.
Hypocrisy on full display
She knows perfectly well what she is doing.
She does not care.
It's 'peace and light for the worthy' , I guess .
Bucking fitch
And every year, the White House murders the most beautiful tree they can find for their own selfish pleasure.
The frustrated rage, the heartbreak.
It's hard. The horror of it all. The sick tragedy of people's lives who are victims to a sadistic savagery one can barely imagine. The lifetime cruelty of dismemberment, disfigurement, blindness - and loss of loved ones. It's hard to make sense of this kind of horror even if one can bear witness to the beauty of the world and life, and the mystery of consciousness. Or even the mystery of the vast reality we find ourselves in, unimaginably vast.
But what avails it if even one soul, such as a Mohammad Saeed has the cruel destiny to live out an entire lifetime on leg stumps and savage poverty and social dislocation? What avails all the beauty in the world if even one soul must live in cruel misery their entire short life? Is life in the end reduced to Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery"? Or the late, great Ursula Le Guin's masterpiece, "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"? Are we to be morally satisfied that this life that is, is rationally acceptable? Is it in the end, all too human to despair? To rage against the unspeakable horror that exists? And then decide, I reject it all?
Reading your comment, Jamenta, made me ask the question of myself how it is that our readers never comment on what the American people think of all this. I mean, the majority of people. Discarding the numbers representing the majority of Jews (no argument please....the majority support Israel), the politicians, the Zionists, the Christian Zioists, the weak and pathetic managers of places like Universities who have given in to political pressures, what appears to be the majority of police forces, almost 100% 0f the new appointees into Trump's private entourage and the remainder, calculated at over 300 million people.
We know what the elected politicians think, 86% of them at least.They are there in the government in numbers that do not seem to have changed much from before the last election. Safe and secure, well paid and dancing to the dictates of a race of inhumane murderers thousands of miles away in Israel. So they are accounted for, also known as the AIPACers.
But what about the rest?
For anyone reading this question from Jamenta..."to rage against the unspeakable horror.....". Is anyone in America raging, or are they disinterested, being secure and so far away from a single US generated war zone anywhere in the world.
I would be grateful for someone to explain what it would take for the American people, men, woman and children, to rise up against the demented politicians and demand a solution to overcome this genocide, seen daily by many as just another small TV
segment ?
At my age, I have seen hundreds of lovely, respected Americans in social environments and in business and I still don't know. I do not want to ask and obviously they do not want to mention the subject. I do not want to lose their friendship. I just do not want to ask. Yes, that is wrong.
Can someone identify where the majority of Americans stand on this subject based on good data? I am sure there are so many others manylike me who would like to know.
When you base a society on Social Darwinistic values of greed and winner takes all, like we have here in the US, I believe the sociopaths and psychopaths tend to find their way up to the top of the pyramid scheme of power, through the power of money and being connected to the other psychopaths they know who have also found themselves at the top of the money pyramid.
I believe most Americans have some level of empathy, probably more so than the leaders we now have in American corrupted politics, run by money alone. But as Caitlin has often pointed out, Americans have been propagandized to a story that is suitable to the Monied Elites and their psychopathic goals. And the few that do realize they are being lied to daily - by either a Creepy Uncle Biden, or a Golden Tower Trump, they feel pretty powerless to do much about it. And this powerlessness is increasing with increased censorship and social isolation.
But there is also the more existential problem: what is life suppose to be about? Is it really about who can make the most money in 70 80 years? Is about raising a family and hoping you survive for 70 80 years? Is it about painting the next Mona Lisa before you die? What is life about? What is it suppose to be about? Why are you here? Why is anybody here? Is it really just about a savage game of survival and nothing more? Is the rest just some kind of fairy tale we tell ourselves so we can get through all the nonsense (and horror)?
jamenta, Glad to see you back, fighting fit and ready to do battle!
Yeah, I'm like a bad penny. Always reappearing. Thanks.
Humans are masters of rationalization.
But the irrational also exists in humans. We dream every night. And maybe dreams are messages from the deep.
The relationship of Rationalization to rationality is tenuous at best, unless Squealer or Ayn Rand were masters of formal logic.
What came first, the chicken or the egg? Irrationality or rationality? Well, we do know the ego does arise from unconscious processes. And as Aniela Jaffe wrote, the most significant event in the science of analytical psychology was the discovery that the unconscious is autonomous. Jung in his final years argued the unconscious was also objective (as opposed to subjective) - akin to field theory in physics.
you recently had an election. the vast majority of americans agree that palestinians should be wiped from the face of the earth.
The majority of Americans were presented the choice of two, Uniparty, candidates who both supported this position. All other options, choices, and candidates, were suppressed.
No one can know what the outcome would have been had there been an actual, democratic, election voted on by an informed public.
nah, they, just like a majority of other europeans and westerners, and even muslims, support it. and then they wash their hands in innocence and hope they managed to deceive their skydaddy.
I don't know any Muslims who support it . If we are not martyring ourselves it is probably because there is no rational hope that us 'subhumans' will ever be allowed to win .
didn't know muslims only martyr themselves if they're allowed to win. i'm also afraid that that is not how the empire game works: you'll never be 'allowed' to win. allah is kinda capitalist, not?
" Jaw dropping savagery". Exactly. World rules by monsters. Pure and simple. They ( zios, politicians, those in israel loving the genocide, etc) don't deserve to be called human. Best solution is ship them off to Mars so they can inbreed there, so the rest of us decent humans with moral values can live in piece together.
The long suffering Palestinians have defined for us what humanity, patience, steadfastness, hope and belief in God means. They are the best of humanity. So much for the " civilised" West?
Exactly !
Caitlin and Tim, Thank you.🙏 We share our sorrow for Mohammad Saeed and the children of Gaza with you and Tim. Your writing and Tim's mellifluous moving rendering of it - incidentally today was the first time I listened to him - took us to a place where our emotional and empathetic distress found a place to weep. You did pour your heart out and for us to open the door of our hearts and offer it to the little boy and countless like him in Gaza - for what it's worth.
It is fitting that the sorrow and anguish is unbearable because we weren't able to stop any of the horror happening to the most vulnerable among us.
Fuck Isreal & America
Gaza is just the tip of the iceberg. Have you ever seen a child under five die of hunger and/or a curable disease, Caitlin? This year, in 349 days, 7,272,000 have died, 20,837 per day, 868 per hour, 14 per minute, one every four seconds. Less than a dollar a day would have been enough for each of them to keep them alive. These are the effects of the economic system we have accepted, the freedom we boast about, … https://www.worldometers.info
There's almost nothing to say about this.
I feel pretty much like you do. What can any decent person say when the words aren't there to express it?
In another context but I think equally valid a famous British feminist said "Deeds not words !"