It should be noted that the word "apocalypse" comes from the Greek apokalypsis, which means "uncovering", "revelation", or "disclosure". It does NOT mean the "end of the world" and that has been a colossal misinterpretation by Biblical scholars.
And the clarity that the stupid US is trying to fight a 20th century war against a 21st century opponent who knows the power of economic warfare against a crumbling empire.
Yep. Who on here said "You don't mess with people who invented algebra"?
Iran is a highly educated country, with women placed in so many high position jobs, often by more than 50% in jobs that are deemed male dominated in the West. If any country would try to hold them back in tech they're fools, because Iranians will find ways to make cheaper and better operating tech than that other country thinks is special.
It is the "end of the world" for religious hierarchies though, who steal the wealth of the population to put gold roofs on churches, and imagine themselves "holy" for so behaving.
Anamnesia is what PKD called it. The loss of amnesia.
Same with political hierarchies, 'sports' hierarchies, etc etc. Any opportunity available to "game" ANY system will be used in that way eventually - and chronically.
As the so-called "Communist" states showed, controlling society so absolutely as to manage to eradicate those sources of corruption, makes such a society a grey, dull, authoritarian nightmare.
There's no such thing as "utopia", or "perfection", or "heaven", because humans ourselves is why "We can't have nice things".
There's a place for religion and faith when it isn't used for corrupt purposes, and "rubes" are what we all are when we are in over our heads, drowning fast, and naked hope is all we have left.
Personally, I think "Marxism is the opiate of the materialist intelligentsia", with pretty much the same intent as when Marx used the phrase. There is no doubt whatsoever that many "Marxists" see that as the same path to untrammeled power, wealth, fame and indeed sex as the worst so-called "Christian" or other lamestream religious wannabes would.
"Rubes"; "Useful Idiots" - is there much difference irl?
Drumpf in his eagerness to rule the world has been in such a one-eyed hurry he has exposed what so many have known about the US, but were shouted down by those taken in by the glitz. There's nothing glamorous there. I visited it years back but spent most of my time away from Americans, who I found to be extremely rude, service perfunctory, and they thought it okay to point and laugh at someone that knew how to use a knife and fork while eating.
Most of my time was spent with the indigenous people of that stolen land, who invited me into their homes, shared so much because I was open to hearing and learning their history and beliefs. I was adopted by the family I spent most time with and given my native name (that's for me to know) which fit certain happenings while I was there.
When we went to a restaurant together - which had a queue for tables -the waitress called to me that a table was free, her shock on she realising I was with the native group that she kept ignoring was priceless. We did that quite a few times because it gave them so much enjoyment. When they took me along to their places I was never shunned, in fact I was always welcomed, even given the job of judging the winner at one of their switch sexes dress up dance nights. It was hilarious.
So, America has never been on my list of, remotely interesting, places to visit. Maybe the scenery is worth seeing but so much is attached to historical violence and the indigenous are still kept down as much as possible. I would never go back there.
I see what’s happening as Ragnarök, the Norse end of the world. In Ragnarok, the wolf Fenris breaks free from his chains and eats the universe. Fenris represents insatiable greed, lust, corruption, and aggression. Nearly all the world’s governments have been taken over by organized crime, which is the embodiment of Fenris.
This may be Donald's only "positive" personality trait--his overblown ego (along with his vast stupidity) that has helped the empire collapse in front of our eyes.
What is so crazy is this nonsense about Drumof being chosen by Jesus, and this unholy war on Iran being feted as "for Jesus" such blasphemous rubbish has to come back and bite them in the arse.
If they wanted to use prophecy, they should have taken the time to read their bibles, properly then they would have found that a false prophet comes before Jesus, not the other way round. And that means Drumpf IS the false prophet.
It comes down to gatekeeping. The corporate media often had all of the data, they just held it to themselves to protect the system of which they saw themselves part/guardians. Web technologies blew that up. That is why we are seeing tech oligarchs scrambling to ensh!ttify tech and centralize it to reassert a gatekeeping function.
“I’m all for transparency”, said the little boy to the Emperor.
But it’s far worse than us knowing what idiots these people are. They’re being flaunted to us now: “Look at the debased vulgarians we’ve got you to vote for! You keep complaining about them, we’ll keep pulling the strings.”
Liked: 'Garicano’s entire worldview depends on his ability to avoid recognizing the obvious truth: that the so-called “extreme left” has always been correct, and that the empire he worships has always been evil. It’s just having a harder and harder time masking its true nature, because of the very evils it has tried to conceal.'
Most of my weekly acquaintances appear to be Liberal Democrats, who appear to prioritize privatization over universal government provision of human rights/essential services. They tend to avoid acknowledging any major systemic harm caused by privatization, deregulation, austerity, Zionism, and imperialism, and even appear genuinely stressed when these topics are initiated. These appear the Australian mode, the ubiquitous Lab/Lib/Nat/PHON voters. I imagine that the inconvenient truths being highlighted in their minds by 2026's fuel crisis will come as a painful cognitive dissonance. We typically have to go through several stages of grief (including denial, anger, and negotiation) before achieving genuine emotional acceptance of inconvenient truths. It tends to take most practitioners many years to train ourselves to usefully scale down our excessive car, meat, and other consumerism habits. So I predict tough times ahead for the wise adapters, and more perverse subsudues for those who refuse to adapt. We are capable of coming out of this fuel crisis as a leaner, greener, and more honest persons, or as the unprepared, self-deluded, petrol-addicted persons we used to be, unprepared to suffer worse restrictions next time this lesson is repeated, in an even worse financial and climate position. 'Stand up, look around, and then Scale right Down to' ( a lower fuel usage lifestyle) now, and avoid the rush.
Many Americans have been too comfortable for too long to really see the suffering our governments cause, in other countries and here at home. Now they are feeling some pain, too. Time to WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
After five decades of activism in 'Liberal' pressure groups in the West and my time living in two war zones, the occupied six counties of Ireland and apartheid destabilized Mozambique, I've learned 'the hard way' that liberals can't be trusted, they constitute the epitome of a 'counter revolutionary.' Under pressure they will always side with the hegemon, either directly, or by default, when not speaking out for the oppressed.
Let's not lose sight of the reality that all this warmongering is grinding the living planet into dust", GMP.
No ecosystem can survive relentless attack, and that's what we have with the Zionist axis and their 'forever wars'.
It should be noted that the word "apocalypse" comes from the Greek apokalypsis, which means "uncovering", "revelation", or "disclosure". It does NOT mean the "end of the world" and that has been a colossal misinterpretation by Biblical scholars.
We are witnessing apocalypse this very moment.
And the clarity that the stupid US is trying to fight a 20th century war against a 21st century opponent who knows the power of economic warfare against a crumbling empire.
Yep. Who on here said "You don't mess with people who invented algebra"?
Iran is a highly educated country, with women placed in so many high position jobs, often by more than 50% in jobs that are deemed male dominated in the West. If any country would try to hold them back in tech they're fools, because Iranians will find ways to make cheaper and better operating tech than that other country thinks is special.
It is the "end of the world" for religious hierarchies though, who steal the wealth of the population to put gold roofs on churches, and imagine themselves "holy" for so behaving.
Anamnesia is what PKD called it. The loss of amnesia.
There will always be rubes for those religious hierarchies to fleece, however.
Same with political hierarchies, 'sports' hierarchies, etc etc. Any opportunity available to "game" ANY system will be used in that way eventually - and chronically.
As the so-called "Communist" states showed, controlling society so absolutely as to manage to eradicate those sources of corruption, makes such a society a grey, dull, authoritarian nightmare.
There's no such thing as "utopia", or "perfection", or "heaven", because humans ourselves is why "We can't have nice things".
There's a place for religion and faith when it isn't used for corrupt purposes, and "rubes" are what we all are when we are in over our heads, drowning fast, and naked hope is all we have left.
Personally, I think "Marxism is the opiate of the materialist intelligentsia", with pretty much the same intent as when Marx used the phrase. There is no doubt whatsoever that many "Marxists" see that as the same path to untrammeled power, wealth, fame and indeed sex as the worst so-called "Christian" or other lamestream religious wannabes would.
"Rubes"; "Useful Idiots" - is there much difference irl?
Drumpf in his eagerness to rule the world has been in such a one-eyed hurry he has exposed what so many have known about the US, but were shouted down by those taken in by the glitz. There's nothing glamorous there. I visited it years back but spent most of my time away from Americans, who I found to be extremely rude, service perfunctory, and they thought it okay to point and laugh at someone that knew how to use a knife and fork while eating.
Most of my time was spent with the indigenous people of that stolen land, who invited me into their homes, shared so much because I was open to hearing and learning their history and beliefs. I was adopted by the family I spent most time with and given my native name (that's for me to know) which fit certain happenings while I was there.
When we went to a restaurant together - which had a queue for tables -the waitress called to me that a table was free, her shock on she realising I was with the native group that she kept ignoring was priceless. We did that quite a few times because it gave them so much enjoyment. When they took me along to their places I was never shunned, in fact I was always welcomed, even given the job of judging the winner at one of their switch sexes dress up dance nights. It was hilarious.
So, America has never been on my list of, remotely interesting, places to visit. Maybe the scenery is worth seeing but so much is attached to historical violence and the indigenous are still kept down as much as possible. I would never go back there.
The US was founded as an apartheid state and like its imitator, Israel, had no right to exist from the onset.
I see what’s happening as Ragnarök, the Norse end of the world. In Ragnarok, the wolf Fenris breaks free from his chains and eats the universe. Fenris represents insatiable greed, lust, corruption, and aggression. Nearly all the world’s governments have been taken over by organized crime, which is the embodiment of Fenris.
Definitely an unveiling of the hidden truth.
And may the perpetrators of Empire hang from lampposts across the nation.
In a horrific way, Trump was the right person at the right time to expose all this due to his humongous ego
This may be Donald's only "positive" personality trait--his overblown ego (along with his vast stupidity) that has helped the empire collapse in front of our eyes.
What is so crazy is this nonsense about Drumof being chosen by Jesus, and this unholy war on Iran being feted as "for Jesus" such blasphemous rubbish has to come back and bite them in the arse.
If they wanted to use prophecy, they should have taken the time to read their bibles, properly then they would have found that a false prophet comes before Jesus, not the other way round. And that means Drumpf IS the false prophet.
Anybody looking at The Orange One and go “yup Jesus chose him” is truly delusional. And I’m sure Trumpo is laughing at them behind their backs
The truth has to be revealed so that we can heal, as hard as it is to witness. The deep inner work is being done outwardly now.
This is the one thing Trump has done - Shown the world just how ugly the Empire is. The world is staring at the bare bones and it’s nasty.
Oh yes thanks Caitlin
“May the lies and obfuscations continue to unravel. May the truth continue to reveal itself.”
Only then can we heal … otherwise we keep putting bandaids over abscesses.
100 percent correct, Caitlin!
It comes down to gatekeeping. The corporate media often had all of the data, they just held it to themselves to protect the system of which they saw themselves part/guardians. Web technologies blew that up. That is why we are seeing tech oligarchs scrambling to ensh!ttify tech and centralize it to reassert a gatekeeping function.
The Empire doesn't care, as long as it can rely on naked force, carrot and stick.
“I’m all for transparency”, said the little boy to the Emperor.
But it’s far worse than us knowing what idiots these people are. They’re being flaunted to us now: “Look at the debased vulgarians we’ve got you to vote for! You keep complaining about them, we’ll keep pulling the strings.”
Amen.....
Thank You Caitlin
We black people have clearly seen it and so have millions if not billions of others in the global south, for over 100 years Caitlin.
Yes the problem is cultural.
Liked: 'Garicano’s entire worldview depends on his ability to avoid recognizing the obvious truth: that the so-called “extreme left” has always been correct, and that the empire he worships has always been evil. It’s just having a harder and harder time masking its true nature, because of the very evils it has tried to conceal.'
Most of my weekly acquaintances appear to be Liberal Democrats, who appear to prioritize privatization over universal government provision of human rights/essential services. They tend to avoid acknowledging any major systemic harm caused by privatization, deregulation, austerity, Zionism, and imperialism, and even appear genuinely stressed when these topics are initiated. These appear the Australian mode, the ubiquitous Lab/Lib/Nat/PHON voters. I imagine that the inconvenient truths being highlighted in their minds by 2026's fuel crisis will come as a painful cognitive dissonance. We typically have to go through several stages of grief (including denial, anger, and negotiation) before achieving genuine emotional acceptance of inconvenient truths. It tends to take most practitioners many years to train ourselves to usefully scale down our excessive car, meat, and other consumerism habits. So I predict tough times ahead for the wise adapters, and more perverse subsudues for those who refuse to adapt. We are capable of coming out of this fuel crisis as a leaner, greener, and more honest persons, or as the unprepared, self-deluded, petrol-addicted persons we used to be, unprepared to suffer worse restrictions next time this lesson is repeated, in an even worse financial and climate position. 'Stand up, look around, and then Scale right Down to' ( a lower fuel usage lifestyle) now, and avoid the rush.
Many Americans have been too comfortable for too long to really see the suffering our governments cause, in other countries and here at home. Now they are feeling some pain, too. Time to WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
They have been brainwashed for more than 80 years and there are no indications they will wake up any time soon.
After five decades of activism in 'Liberal' pressure groups in the West and my time living in two war zones, the occupied six counties of Ireland and apartheid destabilized Mozambique, I've learned 'the hard way' that liberals can't be trusted, they constitute the epitome of a 'counter revolutionary.' Under pressure they will always side with the hegemon, either directly, or by default, when not speaking out for the oppressed.
Let's not lose sight of the reality that all this warmongering is grinding the living planet into dust", GMP.
No ecosystem can survive relentless attack, and that's what we have with the Zionist axis and their 'forever wars'.
https://kevinhester.live/2025/08/26/war-in-the-east-war-in-the-west-war-up-north-war-down-south-every-where-theres-war-environmental-carnage/