Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Hi I'm a very serious news reporter. The Russians are controlling our thoughts with Facebook memes and scrambling our brains with invisible ray gun attacks. In other news, capitalism is working fine and our wars defend freedom and democracy. The government never lies. Here's Bob with the weather.
"It's hilarious that people still think the Democratic Party cares about winning elections. That's not its job, children. That's not why the Democratic Party exists. The Democratic Party exists to kill leftward progress in the world's most powerful nation. That's all it cares about doing."
Yet "leftists" continue to vote for Democrats. The Democratic Party needs to be completely and utterly destroyed and replaced by a party responsive to its base. No more super-delegates. No more propaganda against antiwar candidates.
In the 1854-55 Congressional elections, eight (count 'em) different political parties elected at least one House member. The GOP was the 5th largest delegation, with 13 members. Neither Democrats nor Whigs had an outright majority, so a No Nothing was elected Speaker of the House. People keep saying they want a 3rd choice, but few people ever vote for one.
Did you notice Joe Biden's main communications posture upon taking the presidency? "Aw shucks" contrition. Why would a prez adopt a contrition posture at the outset? people (taking Trump's lead) call this "contrition", as "sleepy joe biden".
Joe is contrite, because he knows he ain't delivering a damn thing to his base, and he's contrite to the maga hats for "stealing their election". Heck, he even stole the DNC primary! He was running a solid 4th when Pelosi's boy Clyburne, put a stop to everything and called it for ..... sleepy joe.
Let's go Brandon! Pelosi too.
And what about our system: Trump started focussing "oppo" research on Biden WELL BEFORE DNC primaries even began, with all its' players! Trump KNEW the tag "sleepy" would apply! So rigged is the game. So rigged. Insiders (Like Trump) know even a year in advance.
Yes…. I will send an article to someone that reveals things they’d never hear on the evening news…. cognitive dissonance often freezes them from responding and delving into the implications, the layers and layers of implications. They just move on in their heads toward the safety of cognitive ease.
The times when they do react and briefly allow for the fact that things are that bad, if I sense they can handle it I’ll tell them that things are actually much much worse… but if their frame of reference for “worse” has been the election of an authoritarian buffoon then I realize I can’t force people to see clearly….
I have to remain in the state of presence so that I can continue to see clearly… and so that I can accept that greater devolution and dissolution and collapse will likely be required before greater openings for the growing consciousness can emerge…. and from this expanded consciousness, this presence, where I surrender to the movement of dissolution, I am also permitting life’s other movement to grow in me, the impulse to care and help and spread awareness.
"So what do we do? The only thing we can do in such a situation: work tirelessly to spread awareness. To spread awareness to other people, and to spread awareness within ourselves. To facilitate awakening, collectively and as an individual. It's the only thing that ever leads to healthy change."
I have been trying to do so, but without enough focus, without enough force. Your writing is inspiring me week after week to do better. Here's what is resulting: https://vimeo.com/mboezi/sunday-080221
Thank you sincerely, Caitlin. The Internet feels like yelling at the void sometimes, and I wanted to show you evidence of your impact.
It's kind of magical as an outsider watching democrats gain full power and seeing how they handle issues overwhelmingly popular, not only with their own base, but with independents and republicans as well. They either give them half-hearted lip service, quietly strip them away, or ignore them entirely. Then they and their media bobbleheads rewrite reality and act as if none of that just happened and chalk up their well-deserved losses to those same wildly popular policies. Rinse and repeat. It's all very remarkable watching well-behaved adult human beings act out these pantomimes and be taken seriously by millions of other adult human beings. Disgusting as well.
What to do? Thanksgiving is coming up. What better time to bring up the madness which surrounds us? And if it devolves into a romcom-worthy screaming match, at least you can hold your head high knowing that you spoiled everything for something worthwhile, and not the idiocy of the past like whether candidate A was wearing an appropriately pro-American lapel pin or the efficacy of White House blowjobs.
Besides a massive strike and ruining Thanksgiving I see no other way forward.
Please start articulating a distinction between what I call sociopathic capitalism and free market economies. "Capitalism" is a Marxist moniker for a rigged and structured sociopathic free market. If not, people wind up getting mesmerized by the notions they have about socialism (which affected me for many decades, I will admit).
It turns out that the "socialism" they refer to is Scandinavian and the fact is that Scandinavian countries are NOT socialistic, They are free market economies with a moral, socialist inspired conscience.
Then we have the past year where all our wannabe socialists are dragged into the far left corner of neo Marxism, and don't even realize how out of control they have become. Nor how stupid or intellectually indolent.
So please keep raving on about the need for a morally responsible social/ economic / political system, and even a transcendental one, but please get the definitions and nomenclature right, because that's a major lapse in our cultural understanding of many of these issues
Remember Warren at the Primary "Debate" trying to punk Sanders in front of CNN's miraculously live, mysteriously well placed mic? Harris' BAD Biden or Tulsi's BAD Harris' (awakened by snippets of FACT?) Seemed lots LESS revalatory than DNC LLC's Super-Spreader Tuesday (murdering, lifelong, loyal Black Democrats to CRUSH M4A, GND, BLM, $15/hr, etc!)
What has struck me so is that there's basically no one on the planet that understands what they're doing, not a single person, and all the people that think they're being successful at controlling us or dominating us, they're completely and utterly clueless. Didn't get it, still don't, never will. In a sense I think the miracle is then necessarily there, beyond our own desires for control, but obviously it doesn't mean that there won't be huge amounts of suffering along the way.
"It's hilarious that people still think the Democratic Party cares about winning elections. That's not its job, children. That's not why the Democratic Party exists. The Democratic Party exists to kill leftward progress in the world's most powerful nation. That's all it cares about doing."
Yet "leftists" continue to vote for Democrats. The Democratic Party needs to be completely and utterly destroyed and replaced by a party responsive to its base. No more super-delegates. No more propaganda against antiwar candidates.
In the 1854-55 Congressional elections, eight (count 'em) different political parties elected at least one House member. The GOP was the 5th largest delegation, with 13 members. Neither Democrats nor Whigs had an outright majority, so a No Nothing was elected Speaker of the House. People keep saying they want a 3rd choice, but few people ever vote for one.
Did you notice Joe Biden's main communications posture upon taking the presidency? "Aw shucks" contrition. Why would a prez adopt a contrition posture at the outset? people (taking Trump's lead) call this "contrition", as "sleepy joe biden".
Joe is contrite, because he knows he ain't delivering a damn thing to his base, and he's contrite to the maga hats for "stealing their election". Heck, he even stole the DNC primary! He was running a solid 4th when Pelosi's boy Clyburne, put a stop to everything and called it for ..... sleepy joe.
Let's go Brandon! Pelosi too.
And what about our system: Trump started focussing "oppo" research on Biden WELL BEFORE DNC primaries even began, with all its' players! Trump KNEW the tag "sleepy" would apply! So rigged is the game. So rigged. Insiders (Like Trump) know even a year in advance.
Yes…. I will send an article to someone that reveals things they’d never hear on the evening news…. cognitive dissonance often freezes them from responding and delving into the implications, the layers and layers of implications. They just move on in their heads toward the safety of cognitive ease.
The times when they do react and briefly allow for the fact that things are that bad, if I sense they can handle it I’ll tell them that things are actually much much worse… but if their frame of reference for “worse” has been the election of an authoritarian buffoon then I realize I can’t force people to see clearly….
I have to remain in the state of presence so that I can continue to see clearly… and so that I can accept that greater devolution and dissolution and collapse will likely be required before greater openings for the growing consciousness can emerge…. and from this expanded consciousness, this presence, where I surrender to the movement of dissolution, I am also permitting life’s other movement to grow in me, the impulse to care and help and spread awareness.
"So what do we do? The only thing we can do in such a situation: work tirelessly to spread awareness. To spread awareness to other people, and to spread awareness within ourselves. To facilitate awakening, collectively and as an individual. It's the only thing that ever leads to healthy change."
I have been trying to do so, but without enough focus, without enough force. Your writing is inspiring me week after week to do better. Here's what is resulting: https://vimeo.com/mboezi/sunday-080221
Thank you sincerely, Caitlin. The Internet feels like yelling at the void sometimes, and I wanted to show you evidence of your impact.
It's kind of magical as an outsider watching democrats gain full power and seeing how they handle issues overwhelmingly popular, not only with their own base, but with independents and republicans as well. They either give them half-hearted lip service, quietly strip them away, or ignore them entirely. Then they and their media bobbleheads rewrite reality and act as if none of that just happened and chalk up their well-deserved losses to those same wildly popular policies. Rinse and repeat. It's all very remarkable watching well-behaved adult human beings act out these pantomimes and be taken seriously by millions of other adult human beings. Disgusting as well.
What to do? Thanksgiving is coming up. What better time to bring up the madness which surrounds us? And if it devolves into a romcom-worthy screaming match, at least you can hold your head high knowing that you spoiled everything for something worthwhile, and not the idiocy of the past like whether candidate A was wearing an appropriately pro-American lapel pin or the efficacy of White House blowjobs.
Besides a massive strike and ruining Thanksgiving I see no other way forward.
Please start articulating a distinction between what I call sociopathic capitalism and free market economies. "Capitalism" is a Marxist moniker for a rigged and structured sociopathic free market. If not, people wind up getting mesmerized by the notions they have about socialism (which affected me for many decades, I will admit).
It turns out that the "socialism" they refer to is Scandinavian and the fact is that Scandinavian countries are NOT socialistic, They are free market economies with a moral, socialist inspired conscience.
Then we have the past year where all our wannabe socialists are dragged into the far left corner of neo Marxism, and don't even realize how out of control they have become. Nor how stupid or intellectually indolent.
So please keep raving on about the need for a morally responsible social/ economic / political system, and even a transcendental one, but please get the definitions and nomenclature right, because that's a major lapse in our cultural understanding of many of these issues
Remember Warren at the Primary "Debate" trying to punk Sanders in front of CNN's miraculously live, mysteriously well placed mic? Harris' BAD Biden or Tulsi's BAD Harris' (awakened by snippets of FACT?) Seemed lots LESS revalatory than DNC LLC's Super-Spreader Tuesday (murdering, lifelong, loyal Black Democrats to CRUSH M4A, GND, BLM, $15/hr, etc!)
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/11/michael-hudson-is-this-the-end-of-the-unreformable-democratic-party.html
What has struck me so is that there's basically no one on the planet that understands what they're doing, not a single person, and all the people that think they're being successful at controlling us or dominating us, they're completely and utterly clueless. Didn't get it, still don't, never will. In a sense I think the miracle is then necessarily there, beyond our own desires for control, but obviously it doesn't mean that there won't be huge amounts of suffering along the way.
In defense of Dr. Fauci
Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lex-fridman-podcast/id1434243584?i=1000540919852
#238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Lex Fridman Podcast
Vaccine is More Dangerous than COVID-19 https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-the-vaccine-is-more-dangerous-than-covid-19-dr-peter-mccullough/5759522?utm_source=pocket_mylist
Vaccine is More Dangerous than COVID-19 https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-the-vaccine-is-more-dangerous-than-covid-19-dr-peter-mccullough/5759522?utm_source=pocket_mylist