New Issue Of Johnstone: We Are Ruled By Sociopaths Because Capitalism Elevates The Worst Among Us
I publish my work in print form every month in a collection called JOHNSTONE magazine. The new edition is titled “We Are Ruled By Sociopaths Because Capitalism Elevates The Worst Among Us,” and it’s available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version.
In a system which elevates those who are willing to do whatever it takes to make the most money, it is only natural that we now find ourselves ruled by sociopaths. That’s why we’re seeing Pentagon contractor Elon Musk throwing his weight around in a presidential administration that he co-owns with Israeli billionaire Miriam Adelson.
Under capitalism we are ruled by the worst among us, while the living saints of our society toil without recognition in our hospitals, schools and slums. In our status quo systems there is no money in the pursuit of goodness and no goodness in the pursuit of money; it is those who pursue money above all else who wind up on top, and they have no goodness in them.
This, plainly, is unsustainable.
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INSIDE:
Tom Cotton Admits The US Doesn’t Actually Care About Spreading Democracy … 3
They’re Still Slaughtering Civilians In Gaza … 6
They Don’t Just Tell Us What To Think, They Train Us HOW To Think … 8
Fathoms … 10
How To Be Both Happy And Well-Informed … 12
Trump Goes All-In On Stealing Gaza For His Zionist Owners … 14
Only 3 Percent Of Jewish Israelis Think Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing Plan For Gaza Is Immoral … 16
The Nonstop Military Operation Known As Israel … 18
As The Gaza Agenda Moves Forward, The Imperial Narrative Shifts With It … 21
The Tiger Show … 22
Civil Rights Are Being Destroyed Throughout The West In Service Of Israel … 24
The Plan To Ethnically Cleanse Gaza Didn’t Start With Trump … 26
It’s Gross And Cringey To Love A State Like Israel Or The USA … 28
The Gaza Ceasefire Is Being Sabotaged By Israel, By Trump, And By The Media … 30
Israel Admits It Violated The Ceasefire And Hamas Did Not … 32
Washington Drops Ukraine, Israel Backs Down On Hamas Demands … 34
The IDF Didn’t Just Target Hospitals, They Destroyed Individual Medical Machines … 36
There Is No Antisemitism Crisis In Australia. It’s A Carefully Constructed Lie. … 39
I Write About Israel All The Time Because I Have To, Not Because I Want To … 42
Anyone Who Wants The Ukraine War To Continue Is A Monster … 44
Meditations On The Notion That Obama “Never Had Any Scandals” … 46
You Don’t Actually Need To Pick A Team … 48
Israel Pushes New Atrocity Narrative Just As Ceasefire Deadline Approaches … 50
Liberals Hate Socialists Because Socialists Are The Real Thing … 52
Israel And Its Apologists Weaponize Sympathy In Order To Facilitate Genocide … 55
When There’s No Money In The Pursuit Of The Good And No Goodness In The Pursuit Of Money … 58
The Empire At Its Most Honest … 60
They’re Fetishizing The Bibas Kids’ Red Hair To Sell Genocide To White Westerners … 62
All These Israeli Agendas Were Planned Long In Advance … 64
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You smashed me, rocked me, hit my most vulnerable spot with that painting of the detested pumped-up oligarch Musk -- with perfect arrogant expression! My vitriol for the man is exceeded by that for no one else, not even US feckless pols. For me, Musk symbolizes the stupidity of the everyday American jerkwater fool, who wants to idolize the power of "free-enterprise". Problematically, these folks are educated by atherosclerotic professors who cling to academic models of "achievement" that include absurd metrics, which put the critical education of their students' minds at a low priority, metrics that often elevate really good scientists, but just as often uplift charlatans like Tony Fauci. Until educators detach themselves from such traditional BS models and truly tease open some original student thinking that's un-enslaved to such metrics, the "stunted millionaire" delusionals in America and elsewhere will jump through hoops for these sociopaths.
And we see what that has brought us.
The problem is not capitalism (although capitalism has its own problems).
The problem is power.