If Russians are responsible for their governments, we are responsible for ours. True, anyone who votes in an election is engaging and endorsing that very system. We will inevitably end up with the same blood on our hands. We are accountable. They rule by us (If you are a voter that is). That's Dumbocracy and Freedumb!
When the Capitol Hill 'rebels' went up with their placards and fake 'anger' to confront power..lol... they achieved nothing because they are in truth powerless like the Extinction Rebellion and the BLM and the rest of the peaceful 'protesters' through history. They are powerless for the reasons stated so well in this article.
It is only the threat of relentless and implacable violence that power understands. This is why we still have human wars...why Putin's dove like patience ran out of options and violence, the limited SMO, was the only thing left for him to to bring about negotiation and peace. It seems he misjudged the west and its ability to be reasonable and rational and now we have something more akin to a full war in Ukraine and maybe soon Europe (judging by Poland's desire to become NATO's next proxy). However, to become implacably and relentlessly violent one must give up the very humanity that causes you to feel enraged at the injustice and corruption of power. By this process we (as humans) invariably become the very thing we hate.
If Americans with all their weapons and their beloved second amendment (put in place to defend the nation from tyranny i.e. 'The right to bear arms shall not be infringed' in order to defend the 'Free State' and can't find it in themselves to march on the tyrants with their ample weaponry, it means in effect all they are doing is feigning protest. But also by seeking power to overthrow power we become power and it 'does belong to man to direct his own steps'. We are not designed to rule over each other.
We can enjoy the echo chambers of outrage as long as we might and change nothing. You can't find the solution if you are still part of the problem. Seeking to 'take control' 'change the system' is nothing but more of the same.
To be part of the solution we need to know what the solution is. This is where politicians always score over protesters...what do you want? How can it be done? Are these solutions or just new problems?
Perhaps the solution lies somewhere else entirely.
Not voting at all is exactly what the military, industrial and political complex wants you to do. Neuter yourselves.
Instead, citizens need to vote for new candidates with a new humanitarian ideology. Will that happen in one of the most psychologically and politically controlled countries in the world?
I understand this reasoning. But as implicit in your answer and many articles by Caitlin Johnstone, the whole system is gamed to make sure if you vote or if you don't vote you will get the same outcome.
I have watched Britain vote in and out governments all my life and yet each of these governments represent the exact same interests which shall not be challenged; NATO, US hegemony, Petro-chemical interests, big Pharma etc. Why is this system so unbreakable? I believe it is an inherently spiritual problem.
If my livelihood relies on the arms industry and I am talking about workers in a factory making weaponry (Knowing my work will maim or kill people) will I give it up? Can I? If my wage is derived from tobacco products (that will give people cancer) will I give that up? Most people will answer no.
They may reason it is the government's responsibility to provide alternatives, a government that is equally beholden to the revenues and the benefits from those industries and so it goes on. Who would make that change? Only someone who has come to the realisation of what they are doing and its consequences as wrong and they must take responsibility as an individual to act on a troubled conscience enough to walk away.
Who determines that making weapons and cigarettes is wrong? What is the standard to which we may all agree, because that is the only way we can be saved from ourselves and our destructive behaviour.
What is humanity without God? Without God what is morality? (I am not talking about religion and its terrible hypocritical record here) What defines yours or my humanity? Is there a standard to which all can and will adhere?
The criticisms are clear and easy to point out. The human solutions elude us or are unrealistic, impractical or just plain wishful thinking. Unless there is a God and we can appeal to that superior authority. If not, we must accept the futility of man doing the same thing over and over again (6000 years of human history repeating) and each time expecting a different outcome; which was Einstein's definition of insanity. But whereas cave men had clubs and spears we now have human extinction weapons.
'...so that they would seek God, if they might reach for him and really find him, although, in fact, he is not far off from each one of us.' Acts 17:27
It feels like we are not so far removed from a quasi- consensus that our government(s) are legitimate. The simple idea that has been parroted and sold as a self-evident truth, that taxes are bad, that lowering taxes is good, that everyone wins...this was the ultimate sellout of the old, pre-Clinton DP, and the complicity of a purchased and owned SCOTUS.
Clinton obliterated any possibility of the DP ever reclaiming its root issues, so here we are, unrepresented, angry and ever more inclined to be wowed by empty lies. If we don’t commit to small steps, local involvement and a long-game, collective approach, I think we wait for the next huckster, or an economic collapse that will devastate all but the top 1% of the top 1%. Doing something small now > waiting for something big.
If Russians are responsible for their governments, we are responsible for ours. True, anyone who votes in an election is engaging and endorsing that very system. We will inevitably end up with the same blood on our hands. We are accountable. They rule by us (If you are a voter that is). That's Dumbocracy and Freedumb!
When the Capitol Hill 'rebels' went up with their placards and fake 'anger' to confront power..lol... they achieved nothing because they are in truth powerless like the Extinction Rebellion and the BLM and the rest of the peaceful 'protesters' through history. They are powerless for the reasons stated so well in this article.
It is only the threat of relentless and implacable violence that power understands. This is why we still have human wars...why Putin's dove like patience ran out of options and violence, the limited SMO, was the only thing left for him to to bring about negotiation and peace. It seems he misjudged the west and its ability to be reasonable and rational and now we have something more akin to a full war in Ukraine and maybe soon Europe (judging by Poland's desire to become NATO's next proxy). However, to become implacably and relentlessly violent one must give up the very humanity that causes you to feel enraged at the injustice and corruption of power. By this process we (as humans) invariably become the very thing we hate.
If Americans with all their weapons and their beloved second amendment (put in place to defend the nation from tyranny i.e. 'The right to bear arms shall not be infringed' in order to defend the 'Free State' and can't find it in themselves to march on the tyrants with their ample weaponry, it means in effect all they are doing is feigning protest. But also by seeking power to overthrow power we become power and it 'does belong to man to direct his own steps'. We are not designed to rule over each other.
We can enjoy the echo chambers of outrage as long as we might and change nothing. You can't find the solution if you are still part of the problem. Seeking to 'take control' 'change the system' is nothing but more of the same.
To be part of the solution we need to know what the solution is. This is where politicians always score over protesters...what do you want? How can it be done? Are these solutions or just new problems?
Perhaps the solution lies somewhere else entirely.
Not voting at all is exactly what the military, industrial and political complex wants you to do. Neuter yourselves.
Instead, citizens need to vote for new candidates with a new humanitarian ideology. Will that happen in one of the most psychologically and politically controlled countries in the world?
I understand this reasoning. But as implicit in your answer and many articles by Caitlin Johnstone, the whole system is gamed to make sure if you vote or if you don't vote you will get the same outcome.
I have watched Britain vote in and out governments all my life and yet each of these governments represent the exact same interests which shall not be challenged; NATO, US hegemony, Petro-chemical interests, big Pharma etc. Why is this system so unbreakable? I believe it is an inherently spiritual problem.
If my livelihood relies on the arms industry and I am talking about workers in a factory making weaponry (Knowing my work will maim or kill people) will I give it up? Can I? If my wage is derived from tobacco products (that will give people cancer) will I give that up? Most people will answer no.
They may reason it is the government's responsibility to provide alternatives, a government that is equally beholden to the revenues and the benefits from those industries and so it goes on. Who would make that change? Only someone who has come to the realisation of what they are doing and its consequences as wrong and they must take responsibility as an individual to act on a troubled conscience enough to walk away.
Who determines that making weapons and cigarettes is wrong? What is the standard to which we may all agree, because that is the only way we can be saved from ourselves and our destructive behaviour.
What is humanity without God? Without God what is morality? (I am not talking about religion and its terrible hypocritical record here) What defines yours or my humanity? Is there a standard to which all can and will adhere?
The criticisms are clear and easy to point out. The human solutions elude us or are unrealistic, impractical or just plain wishful thinking. Unless there is a God and we can appeal to that superior authority. If not, we must accept the futility of man doing the same thing over and over again (6000 years of human history repeating) and each time expecting a different outcome; which was Einstein's definition of insanity. But whereas cave men had clubs and spears we now have human extinction weapons.
'...so that they would seek God, if they might reach for him and really find him, although, in fact, he is not far off from each one of us.' Acts 17:27
Is it time to reach out?
It feels like we are not so far removed from a quasi- consensus that our government(s) are legitimate. The simple idea that has been parroted and sold as a self-evident truth, that taxes are bad, that lowering taxes is good, that everyone wins...this was the ultimate sellout of the old, pre-Clinton DP, and the complicity of a purchased and owned SCOTUS.
Clinton obliterated any possibility of the DP ever reclaiming its root issues, so here we are, unrepresented, angry and ever more inclined to be wowed by empty lies. If we don’t commit to small steps, local involvement and a long-game, collective approach, I think we wait for the next huckster, or an economic collapse that will devastate all but the top 1% of the top 1%. Doing something small now > waiting for something big.
Your comment is simply excellent... Regards!