It seems like the change first has to happen with the people. Arguably, the illusions at this point can be relatively easily removed, or better said, with the way things are going, people will not have the luxury to believe in some cartoonish good guys vs. bad guys narrative for much longer.
The Truth: all these seemingly disparate tribes, from the Russian people to the Chinese to the average US Democrat or Republican, ALL are threatened by the same common tribe. The change happens when the many different tribes realize that they’re all threatened by the same common enemy, a very old oligarchical system which has been most recently incarnated as an Anglo-American slime mold constituted by an alliance of finance, surveillance and narrative-media-social control.
It may be big and bad, it may be clever, but it’s certainly not wise, and the universe is not exactly on its side.
The devil always overplays his hand.
I recently translated a poem which reminds us of this, Schiller’s “The Ring of Polycrates”—a ballad on fate, fortune and the gods.
Well all are now threatened with extinction by fossil fuel caused catastrophic globa lwarming (or boiling as it has now been updated to). And it not mythical devils who play this hand but the 'devil' of not keeping people sufficiently informed .
It seems like the change first has to happen with the people. Arguably, the illusions at this point can be relatively easily removed, or better said, with the way things are going, people will not have the luxury to believe in some cartoonish good guys vs. bad guys narrative for much longer.
The Truth: all these seemingly disparate tribes, from the Russian people to the Chinese to the average US Democrat or Republican, ALL are threatened by the same common tribe. The change happens when the many different tribes realize that they’re all threatened by the same common enemy, a very old oligarchical system which has been most recently incarnated as an Anglo-American slime mold constituted by an alliance of finance, surveillance and narrative-media-social control.
It may be big and bad, it may be clever, but it’s certainly not wise, and the universe is not exactly on its side.
The devil always overplays his hand.
I recently translated a poem which reminds us of this, Schiller’s “The Ring of Polycrates”—a ballad on fate, fortune and the gods.
https://www.thechainedmuse.com/post/the-ring-of-polycrates-by-friedrich-schiller
Well all are now threatened with extinction by fossil fuel caused catastrophic globa lwarming (or boiling as it has now been updated to). And it not mythical devils who play this hand but the 'devil' of not keeping people sufficiently informed .