Thank you Bela. It’s this incredible prosperity we have in the West that has made us docile, compliant, afraid of our shadows, and ready to let our government do ANYTHING that will protect our lily-white selves (we do NOT want black people included in this, nor Arabs nor Asians. And forget about people from the global south.) from the consequences of our free and easy, extractive, exploitative, consumerist, ignorant paxalled lifestyle. The US population is now the Marie Antoinette of democracy.
Dear Jean ! Thank you for reading my bitter words ! Since I know both worlds well, especially since most of my family lives there, I am interested in doing as much as possible to at least warn you! Although I think that if someone lives in a softened society, where you can get practically anything immediately with a loan, moreover, the government takes care to ensure that the majority of the population has a relatively low level of education, since an educated and intelligent citizen who learns lessons from history is not desirable in today's Western society. I meant it not as an insult, but I know it from the school children of my own family living in the USA. If I look at how many foreign languages the average person in the USA knows, and if I ask who Cicero was, or Demosthenes, but it's enough to ask if he can recite poems that even his grandfather knew from famous poets, the picture is shocking ! However, the uneducated masses who do not recognize the historical connections and parallels are easy to drive under the machine of Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillottin, like an obedient Maria Antoinette (who was a Hungarian royal princess anyway) !
As V.I.Lenin once said, "The movement needs useful idiots !" Be careful guys , that wasn' t a humorous poem ! Well, don't be afraid, I'm not a communist to quote from Lenin, on the contrary, I'm the son of a freedom fighter who likes to know his enemy !
Thank you Belated, great comment. And never worry about being insulting—considering what we’ve done to this world, insult should be the least if our worries. I do want to add one thought to your thoughts tho—I know that Americans are as dumb as a box of hair, but really, if you look at the past 50 years, it’s the “smartest men in the room” that got us here. Plus, West Point grads—the boys who chase after the medals that a good little war will get them—are very well educated, especially in history. The Gallic Wars, the Punic Wars, Napoleon’s wars, Hitler’s wars (and propaganda) etc etc etc. So I’m not so convinced that it’s smart people who avoid wars. And if you look at admirable revolutions over the centuries, it’s Ghandi who lead a bunch of marginalized, uneducated servant class people to passively aggress against a huge empire and get rid of them. It was Dr. King who lead marginalized, poorly educated, oppressed people against the richest most corrupt country in the world and forced concessions from it that allowed black to get a little equity. So I’m not overly optimistic about an educated class being brave and just and fair and smart. I have my own ideas about how to achieve a fair and just society but they are long and very unorthodox, but they begin with undermining the Patriarchy at every opportunity, as in Lysistrata for instance! 😁🤭. And I see it in the young. It’s not a revolution, it’s an evolution and every awful thing in the world appears to be cooperating with that goal. Compassion is the best response, coupled with cooperation. And opps, there goes another $50 billion fighter jet that can’t fly, can’t be repaired and us the corner stone of America’s future “defense”. Ya kinda gotta laugh.
Thank you Bela. It’s this incredible prosperity we have in the West that has made us docile, compliant, afraid of our shadows, and ready to let our government do ANYTHING that will protect our lily-white selves (we do NOT want black people included in this, nor Arabs nor Asians. And forget about people from the global south.) from the consequences of our free and easy, extractive, exploitative, consumerist, ignorant paxalled lifestyle. The US population is now the Marie Antoinette of democracy.
Dear Jean ! Thank you for reading my bitter words ! Since I know both worlds well, especially since most of my family lives there, I am interested in doing as much as possible to at least warn you! Although I think that if someone lives in a softened society, where you can get practically anything immediately with a loan, moreover, the government takes care to ensure that the majority of the population has a relatively low level of education, since an educated and intelligent citizen who learns lessons from history is not desirable in today's Western society. I meant it not as an insult, but I know it from the school children of my own family living in the USA. If I look at how many foreign languages the average person in the USA knows, and if I ask who Cicero was, or Demosthenes, but it's enough to ask if he can recite poems that even his grandfather knew from famous poets, the picture is shocking ! However, the uneducated masses who do not recognize the historical connections and parallels are easy to drive under the machine of Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillottin, like an obedient Maria Antoinette (who was a Hungarian royal princess anyway) !
As V.I.Lenin once said, "The movement needs useful idiots !" Be careful guys , that wasn' t a humorous poem ! Well, don't be afraid, I'm not a communist to quote from Lenin, on the contrary, I'm the son of a freedom fighter who likes to know his enemy !
Thank you Belated, great comment. And never worry about being insulting—considering what we’ve done to this world, insult should be the least if our worries. I do want to add one thought to your thoughts tho—I know that Americans are as dumb as a box of hair, but really, if you look at the past 50 years, it’s the “smartest men in the room” that got us here. Plus, West Point grads—the boys who chase after the medals that a good little war will get them—are very well educated, especially in history. The Gallic Wars, the Punic Wars, Napoleon’s wars, Hitler’s wars (and propaganda) etc etc etc. So I’m not so convinced that it’s smart people who avoid wars. And if you look at admirable revolutions over the centuries, it’s Ghandi who lead a bunch of marginalized, uneducated servant class people to passively aggress against a huge empire and get rid of them. It was Dr. King who lead marginalized, poorly educated, oppressed people against the richest most corrupt country in the world and forced concessions from it that allowed black to get a little equity. So I’m not overly optimistic about an educated class being brave and just and fair and smart. I have my own ideas about how to achieve a fair and just society but they are long and very unorthodox, but they begin with undermining the Patriarchy at every opportunity, as in Lysistrata for instance! 😁🤭. And I see it in the young. It’s not a revolution, it’s an evolution and every awful thing in the world appears to be cooperating with that goal. Compassion is the best response, coupled with cooperation. And opps, there goes another $50 billion fighter jet that can’t fly, can’t be repaired and us the corner stone of America’s future “defense”. Ya kinda gotta laugh.
Not Belated!!! Bela! I hate spellcheck!