"The obscenely wealthy people who rule our world are destroying it not out of stupidity or spite, but out of unconscious compulsion. A heroin addict doesn’t keep using because they don’t understand that heroin is bad for them or because they hope to overdose one day, they keep using because their addiction is driven by inner pain and psychological forces within themselves which they have not yet brought into consciousness. Becoming a billionaire and becoming a heroin addict are both irrational destructive behaviors driven by irrational internal dynamics. The only difference is that the billionaires are taking the rest of us with them."
This sums the world up all in one nutshell. The morbidly rich have an addiction much like alcoholism, drugs, gambling, porn or whatever. And it's this addiction that will be the death of most of the civilized world someday soon, unless a radical change is made in how humans want to behave with one another. I don't expect them to go down quietly. Most addicts live in denial, most of the time, violently.
They are also fearful that the majority might catch on and discover that all the propaganda they have spent generations creating becomes for naught and if this happens, no safe room, or any other security measures will save them. No matter how opulent one's home may be, if the owner is afraid to leave it, what kind of life is that? As always, only equality for all brings peace and eliminates fear. Such a simple solution the elites cannot even contemplate enough to give it a try to see what happens still staggers me. Old saying in AA. We keep what we have by giving it away.
Plus a billionaire has the fawning approval of his peers, hanger-ons, the media who hold them up as heroes, and plenty of loot to make his life as lavish as possible. A heroin addict has none of these perks (with a few notable exceptions) but is just as driven by compulsions they can’t control and physical dependence.
Bill Gates surpasses all the competition in homeliness and insipid personality. It’s hard to say which of these men - Theil, Gates, Soros, Musk - will outstrip the others in making the first zillion. Insatiable appetite disguised as brilliant businessmen.
“QUESTION… “The inability to grasp the pathology of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults.” What are you talking about?
HEDGES: Because we don’t understand the pathology of the rich. We’ve been saturated with cultural images and a kind of cultural deification of wealth and those who have wealth. We are being–you know, they present people of immense wealth as somehow leaders–oracles, even. And we don’t grasp internally what it is an oligarchic class is finally about or how venal and morally bankrupt they are.…”
“…The rich are different, because when you have that much money, then human beings become disposable. Even friends and family become disposable and are replaced. And when the rich take absolute power, then the citizens become disposable, which is in essence what’s happened. There is a very callous indifference.
I mean, these people–and C.Wrights Mills wrote about this in The Power Elite–they’re utterly cut off. I mean, the only people they ever meet who are members of the working class are people who work for them–they’re gardeners or they’re chauffeurs. They live in self-encased bubbles. They have no real contact with reality. I mean, they don’t even fly on commercial airlines. And yet they have absolute power….”
“….. they will extract more and more and more, because they have no self-imposed limits, without understanding the economic, political, and social consequences of what they’re doing…”
CJ>>"People’s rage against the machine is harnessed by phony billionaire populism and shitlib progressivism so that their political energy can be fed right back into the machine."
AND
CJ>>"People are trained to cheer for foreign rebels who are backed by the CIA and fight to expand the might of the US empire instead of for the groups around the world who are fighting against imperial domination."
The US would have attacked Iran regardless of the outcome in Syria. The relative ease with which Syria fell only makes the decision that much more ironclad.
And no, the US is not interested in re-installing the Shah or whatever. A failed state in Iran serves that United States' and Israel's purposes just dandy.
How does this play out? We already have seen what Iran and their ally Russia is capable of. So Trump and Israel start bombing Iran. Then what? Iran cries uncle, and surrenders? And if Iran decides to defend themselves what then? Are they planning on using nuclear weapons against Iran if Iran fights back? What then? Has any of these bloodthirsty warmongers thought any of this through? Asking for a friend.
Russia has been desperate not to escalate all this time, hell, going back to 2014. Western missiles hitting Russia now and yet Russia does nothing other than continue to hit Ukraine.
What makes you think that Iran is anything special?
You don't listen to crap but you just heard it somewhere? Are you for real ? And you're pretty sure you are right because you heard it somewhere? ROFL! Thank you for the laughs Jenny.
Our founding document of 1776 promises a democracy...based on the requirements of equality and consent of the governed (a good definition of genuine democracy) being essential for just and legitimate rule. The Constitution with a very different group of people, uniformly anti-democratic, undermined the founding principles allowing an enslavery oligarchy to rule until the Civil War ended that and the financial oligarchy, which rules today, took over the rule of anti-democratic rule. There is nothing in our founding document about a constitution (which undermined democracy in 1787) but a promise of democracy...never realized. It's time to complete the American Revolution and create the democratic republic we were promised.
Dale Ruff, the US was NEVER a democracy. It was always an oligarchy/plutocracy from the very beginning hiding behind the facade of a "democracy" and trying desperately to pass off as one. Again, this depends on what definition of "democracy" you use. Democracy apologists always keep changing the definitions and meaning of democracy to keep the illusion alive.
Here are some reasons why the US was NEVER a democracy:
(1) Democracy and capitalism are not compabitble, and the US has ALWAYS been a Capitalist system from the get-go (imperial expansion, genocide of the natives, slave system, etc.)
(2) Reading Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" and studying REAL US history should convince anyone that the US was NEVER a democracy. Think about the slave trade, imported migrant labor building the railroads, cotton plantations, no right to vote and the battle over suffrage for blacks, asians, women, people without property, etc. Think about all the laws and rules and systems designed to protect and codify the minority class (1%) in power, all the laws and rules designed to preserve the wealth of the 1% minority, all the systems designed to maintain the status quo, all the mistreatment and exploitation of minorities and "others" by the priveleged, the Japanese internment camps, the grossly unequal quality of health care, education, housing access, etc. and on and on. EVERYTHING about US HISTORY (and its actions to this day - including all the wars, imperialism and different forms of colonialism) CONTRADICT the "US is a democracy" narrative outright.
The majority of Democrats, according to a poll reported in the Jerusalem Post, think Israel is committing genocide but they have no power. The policies of the government aren't the will of the people, as you yourself have stated. and so the best we can do is have our reps, who do have a voice, to challenge the existing policies, which you have already dismissed. I am not here to defend the USA if that means the government and its policies; I stand with Sanders and AOc, who see genocide and seek to halt US shipment of arms. Why don't you?
We have long been an oligarchy. The country was founded by rich slave holders who had a few good ideas, but most of the constitution they created has been dismantled by the security state.
The Constitution written by slave owners undermined the democratic principles of the Declaration of Independence. It is the Constitution itself, with its anti-democratic institutions (Electoral College, states with 3% the citizens of California having twice as many Senators, etc) that needs to be changed. At the root of our lack of democracy is the Constitution itself.
>>"At the root of our lack of democracy is the Constitution itself."
Yes, I agree! But even if it is changed, will it be enforced?
Currently, the Constitution is violated every day and is interpreted in ways that are favorable to the "power elite" and the ruling classes/oligarchs/global corporations. So, if the Constitution is NOT being enforced (or followed) appropriately in its current form, what makes you think that a CHANGED Constitution (one that may be even more inconvenient to the PTB) will be enforced?
Constitutional changes are NOT ENOUGH. Enforcement is a crucial element of the process. And unfortunately, the enforcers ARE the "power elite".
A human world driven by irrational addictive behaviors. To my fellow humans: don't you ever bloody criticize Nature, the biosphere (sans us) in my presence; not a single bacterium of it. Its logic kicks our sorry arses.
“We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.”
Although, I'm not sure if Alan would include billionaires. They seem to be an anomaly of nature.
At 81 yo and widowed, for eight years I've been assiduously downsizing my life and footprint (cash savings? stocks? owning 'things'? what are they?). I tell my two daughters (56, 53) "I came into this world naked, and I'm perfectly okay with and desirous of leaving it naked."
You grow tired. Realize it was all very short, and not much really was ever in your control. What was it about? Was there really anything worth believing in? Some hokey horror filled mirage and nothing more?
a lovely thought. Twould be even lovelier in actualization. Billionaires almost by definition form an exclusive cohort and nature doesn't understand completely disconnected pods.
there's more than just the few obvious traumatized eye-catching billionaires. there's also the anonymous three or for layers below them and old generational wealth concentrations and even slightly less wealthy ideologues who all have a vested interest in maintaining the millenia old world order and system.
"The US hates al-Qaeda, then loves al-Qaeda, then hates al-Qaeda, then loves al-Qaeda. They split up, they get back together, they split up again. “We were on a break!” “We were not on a break!” Will they or won’t they? Keep watching and find out!" I can't believe Taylor Swift hasn't written a song about this already.
I think billionaires are unconscious of their irrationality. They are under the impression that their wealth has given them God like powers. You see it clearly with Musk everytime he opens his mouth. Gates is convinced he is right about his techno fix everything approach. Theil is confused about everything but think he brings a good poker face to the table. Bezos, likes to move levers out of the public eye. Ultimately their sensibilities are so far removed from ordinary folks that they begin to see themselves as a different species.
Thanks once again for being a light of reason and sanity in this insane world. I saw your name mentioned, regarding your article about the young boy with the rollerblade in Gaza, in Charles Eisenstein's most recent Substack. You are reaching many people who really appreciate your efforts. I hope that mention will bring even more here to read your valuable insights.
Hi Joy. Just saw your name pop up here. I've been blocked on Substack since last fall, after posting God's Problems, which you were the main to commenter.
What a perfect sentence! "People’s rage against the machine is harnessed by phony billionaire populism and shitlib progressivism so that their political energy can be fed right back into the machine."
Do Israel Supporters (not just Zionists) realised that Bibi and his extremist cabinet are basically omnicidal maniacs? You know, the types that if things do not go their own way they would drag the entirety of the world with them to nuclear damnation? I can say the same thing about Biblical Doomers as well.I doubt this suicidal "Samson Option" will be just for the middle east.
Absolutely insane if they bomb Iran Russia will back it as it already does and China might also get involved.
Trump is showing once and all for he is no more than a fake populist/shit disturber in a den of insane war mongers.
As Scott Ritter has pointed out Trump has a short attention span and zero understanding of international politics. He is a failed president even before his inauguration.
The amerikkkan P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. class confuse impunity with invincibility. They hence taunt confrontation. They know they are empty vessels of low class and pretend their own significance. Anything "over there and far away" simply has no 'reality' - is an abstraction. Little wonder they are excellent cohorts for the genocidal maniacs in ISISRAELHELL.
Thanks. The whole paradigm is crumbling. I've been blocked on Substack on my main account for pointing out the flaws in monotheism is that ideals are not absolutes. So now I'm stuck just using the phone. See if God's Problems comes up on search.
Also Why Culture is not Reality, for a more extended outlook.
A few previous statements by Trump and Vance about bombing Iran (Oct 2024)...
OCT 1: Asked whether he'd “support or oppose a preemptive strike on Iran by Israel,” JD Vance says: “Look, it is up to Israel what they think they need to do to keep their country safe, and we should support our allies wherever they are when they're fighting the bad guys...”
OCT 4: Trump, “They asked [Biden], ‘What do you think about Iran? Would you hit Iran?’ And he goes, ‘As long as they don't hit the nuclear stuff.’ (...) The answer should have been hit the nuclear first and worry about the rest later...”
OCT 24: Trump says that Netanyahu calls him on the phone “quite a bit”; that he thinks Netanyahu is in a “very good negotiating position” where Israel can either “fight” Iran or “make a deal”; and that he (Trump) would “use force” to stop Iran from getting nukes.
"The obscenely wealthy people who rule our world are destroying it not out of stupidity or spite, but out of unconscious compulsion. A heroin addict doesn’t keep using because they don’t understand that heroin is bad for them or because they hope to overdose one day, they keep using because their addiction is driven by inner pain and psychological forces within themselves which they have not yet brought into consciousness. Becoming a billionaire and becoming a heroin addict are both irrational destructive behaviors driven by irrational internal dynamics. The only difference is that the billionaires are taking the rest of us with them."
This sums the world up all in one nutshell. The morbidly rich have an addiction much like alcoholism, drugs, gambling, porn or whatever. And it's this addiction that will be the death of most of the civilized world someday soon, unless a radical change is made in how humans want to behave with one another. I don't expect them to go down quietly. Most addicts live in denial, most of the time, violently.
They are also fearful that the majority might catch on and discover that all the propaganda they have spent generations creating becomes for naught and if this happens, no safe room, or any other security measures will save them. No matter how opulent one's home may be, if the owner is afraid to leave it, what kind of life is that? As always, only equality for all brings peace and eliminates fear. Such a simple solution the elites cannot even contemplate enough to give it a try to see what happens still staggers me. Old saying in AA. We keep what we have by giving it away.
Plus a billionaire has the fawning approval of his peers, hanger-ons, the media who hold them up as heroes, and plenty of loot to make his life as lavish as possible. A heroin addict has none of these perks (with a few notable exceptions) but is just as driven by compulsions they can’t control and physical dependence.
Bill Gates surpasses all the competition in homeliness and insipid personality. It’s hard to say which of these men - Theil, Gates, Soros, Musk - will outstrip the others in making the first zillion. Insatiable appetite disguised as brilliant businessmen.
SW. You can 'rail' against the super rich for hours on end BUT where exactly does this get you?
USA/UK are now terrorist organizations Europe too in a smaller way.
What you really need to do is understand how this has come to pass?
Go back in History.
Also I think what you have to now IMAGINE (especially in the USA) is that YOUR so-called Democracy has been taken over by moneyed Zionists.
Are you willing to live in a country owned by Zionism?
Chris Hedges on the pathology of the super rich:
DECEMBER 5, 2013
https://therealnews.com/chedges1112raipt2
“QUESTION… “The inability to grasp the pathology of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults.” What are you talking about?
HEDGES: Because we don’t understand the pathology of the rich. We’ve been saturated with cultural images and a kind of cultural deification of wealth and those who have wealth. We are being–you know, they present people of immense wealth as somehow leaders–oracles, even. And we don’t grasp internally what it is an oligarchic class is finally about or how venal and morally bankrupt they are.…”
“…The rich are different, because when you have that much money, then human beings become disposable. Even friends and family become disposable and are replaced. And when the rich take absolute power, then the citizens become disposable, which is in essence what’s happened. There is a very callous indifference.
I mean, these people–and C.Wrights Mills wrote about this in The Power Elite–they’re utterly cut off. I mean, the only people they ever meet who are members of the working class are people who work for them–they’re gardeners or they’re chauffeurs. They live in self-encased bubbles. They have no real contact with reality. I mean, they don’t even fly on commercial airlines. And yet they have absolute power….”
“….. they will extract more and more and more, because they have no self-imposed limits, without understanding the economic, political, and social consequences of what they’re doing…”
Chris is brilliant. It is a shame he was infected with TDS and Christian Fascism Fear. I hope he gets better.
I dont condone smear campaigns of honest journalists.
Chris Hedges is a an award winning journalist with decades of experience in international politics and a degree in divinity. He writes from knowledge.
If you want to stoop to conducting a smear campaign, do it under your OWN comment, not a as a fake “response” to my comment.
""The obscenely wealthy people--"
Is that like being obscenely BLACK ?
Or is that racists for this political class?
CJ>>"People’s rage against the machine is harnessed by phony billionaire populism and shitlib progressivism so that their political energy can be fed right back into the machine."
AND
CJ>>"People are trained to cheer for foreign rebels who are backed by the CIA and fight to expand the might of the US empire instead of for the groups around the world who are fighting against imperial domination."
The above 2 says it all. Thank you Caitlin!
Kamala
can probably doo
this on cue.
https://x.com/tonykarlin/status/1869075013313478781
The US would have attacked Iran regardless of the outcome in Syria. The relative ease with which Syria fell only makes the decision that much more ironclad.
And no, the US is not interested in re-installing the Shah or whatever. A failed state in Iran serves that United States' and Israel's purposes just dandy.
How does this play out? We already have seen what Iran and their ally Russia is capable of. So Trump and Israel start bombing Iran. Then what? Iran cries uncle, and surrenders? And if Iran decides to defend themselves what then? Are they planning on using nuclear weapons against Iran if Iran fights back? What then? Has any of these bloodthirsty warmongers thought any of this through? Asking for a friend.
When it comes to USA and Israel we all need a nuclear deterrent.
The US is convinced that Russia can be pushed around indefinitely. To be fair, they are probably right.
This is because the US sees Russian forebearance, not as reasonablemess, but as contemptible weakness.
"The US is convinced that Russia can be pushed around indefinitely. To be fair they are probably right."
2nd sentence says it all but backtracking on your first sentence?
When Zionism comes to the USA (which has already happened in my opinion) what is going to happen to the anti-Zionist people?
??
Russia, at a minimum, needs to decide whether it is fighting a war in Ukraine or not.
We may not have to wait for Trump.
Russia has been desperate not to escalate all this time, hell, going back to 2014. Western missiles hitting Russia now and yet Russia does nothing other than continue to hit Ukraine.
What makes you think that Iran is anything special?
I think Russia just made an agreement with Iran a few days ago.
Link?
I don't have one. Just heard it SOMEWHERE. I don't listen to crap so I am pretty sure I am right.
You don't listen to crap but you just heard it somewhere? Are you for real ? And you're pretty sure you are right because you heard it somewhere? ROFL! Thank you for the laughs Jenny.
So NATO missiles can hit Russia on a daily basis, but Iran is a bridge too far?
One thing is for sure. If we do start bombing Iran, it won't be because we voted for it.
You'd think 'Democracy' would let the people have a say in matters of war. Maybe we're not an actual Democracy.
>>"Maybe we're not an actual Democracy."
We never were a democracy - it always was an illusion.
100%. America was supposed to be a Constitutional Republic. Instead, it's an oligarchy.
Our founding document of 1776 promises a democracy...based on the requirements of equality and consent of the governed (a good definition of genuine democracy) being essential for just and legitimate rule. The Constitution with a very different group of people, uniformly anti-democratic, undermined the founding principles allowing an enslavery oligarchy to rule until the Civil War ended that and the financial oligarchy, which rules today, took over the rule of anti-democratic rule. There is nothing in our founding document about a constitution (which undermined democracy in 1787) but a promise of democracy...never realized. It's time to complete the American Revolution and create the democratic republic we were promised.
Dale Ruff, the US was NEVER a democracy. It was always an oligarchy/plutocracy from the very beginning hiding behind the facade of a "democracy" and trying desperately to pass off as one. Again, this depends on what definition of "democracy" you use. Democracy apologists always keep changing the definitions and meaning of democracy to keep the illusion alive.
Here are some reasons why the US was NEVER a democracy:
(1) Democracy and capitalism are not compabitble, and the US has ALWAYS been a Capitalist system from the get-go (imperial expansion, genocide of the natives, slave system, etc.)
(2) Reading Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" and studying REAL US history should convince anyone that the US was NEVER a democracy. Think about the slave trade, imported migrant labor building the railroads, cotton plantations, no right to vote and the battle over suffrage for blacks, asians, women, people without property, etc. Think about all the laws and rules and systems designed to protect and codify the minority class (1%) in power, all the laws and rules designed to preserve the wealth of the 1% minority, all the systems designed to maintain the status quo, all the mistreatment and exploitation of minorities and "others" by the priveleged, the Japanese internment camps, the grossly unequal quality of health care, education, housing access, etc. and on and on. EVERYTHING about US HISTORY (and its actions to this day - including all the wars, imperialism and different forms of colonialism) CONTRADICT the "US is a democracy" narrative outright.
BUT are the American people waiting for someone else to do their job for them?
NOT many people in the Eastern World support the USA.
Yes you can put your endless bases in the Philippines/Taiwan etc against China.
What you have started USA is: Build up of Nuclear Weapons in every country.
How does that work?
The majority of Democrats, according to a poll reported in the Jerusalem Post, think Israel is committing genocide but they have no power. The policies of the government aren't the will of the people, as you yourself have stated. and so the best we can do is have our reps, who do have a voice, to challenge the existing policies, which you have already dismissed. I am not here to defend the USA if that means the government and its policies; I stand with Sanders and AOc, who see genocide and seek to halt US shipment of arms. Why don't you?
AOC......she doesn't give a dam. She goes where the wind blows.
We have long been an oligarchy. The country was founded by rich slave holders who had a few good ideas, but most of the constitution they created has been dismantled by the security state.
The Constitution written by slave owners undermined the democratic principles of the Declaration of Independence. It is the Constitution itself, with its anti-democratic institutions (Electoral College, states with 3% the citizens of California having twice as many Senators, etc) that needs to be changed. At the root of our lack of democracy is the Constitution itself.
>>"At the root of our lack of democracy is the Constitution itself."
Yes, I agree! But even if it is changed, will it be enforced?
Currently, the Constitution is violated every day and is interpreted in ways that are favorable to the "power elite" and the ruling classes/oligarchs/global corporations. So, if the Constitution is NOT being enforced (or followed) appropriately in its current form, what makes you think that a CHANGED Constitution (one that may be even more inconvenient to the PTB) will be enforced?
Constitutional changes are NOT ENOUGH. Enforcement is a crucial element of the process. And unfortunately, the enforcers ARE the "power elite".
YOU voted for these people!
A human world driven by irrational addictive behaviors. To my fellow humans: don't you ever bloody criticize Nature, the biosphere (sans us) in my presence; not a single bacterium of it. Its logic kicks our sorry arses.
Reminds me though of a quote by Alan Watts:
“We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.”
Although, I'm not sure if Alan would include billionaires. They seem to be an anomaly of nature.
At 81 yo and widowed, for eight years I've been assiduously downsizing my life and footprint (cash savings? stocks? owning 'things'? what are they?). I tell my two daughters (56, 53) "I came into this world naked, and I'm perfectly okay with and desirous of leaving it naked."
You grow tired. Realize it was all very short, and not much really was ever in your control. What was it about? Was there really anything worth believing in? Some hokey horror filled mirage and nothing more?
Control ? Maybe not . Anything worth believing in ? Yes absolutely !
Exactly where I am now and have been for sometime.
a lovely thought. Twould be even lovelier in actualization. Billionaires almost by definition form an exclusive cohort and nature doesn't understand completely disconnected pods.
What else should we expect from these countries led by war-mongering psychopaths?
there's more than just the few obvious traumatized eye-catching billionaires. there's also the anonymous three or for layers below them and old generational wealth concentrations and even slightly less wealthy ideologues who all have a vested interest in maintaining the millenia old world order and system.
Very true.
"The US hates al-Qaeda, then loves al-Qaeda, then hates al-Qaeda, then loves al-Qaeda. They split up, they get back together, they split up again. “We were on a break!” “We were not on a break!” Will they or won’t they? Keep watching and find out!" I can't believe Taylor Swift hasn't written a song about this already.
I don't watch much football, but I hear Taylor Swift is really fast.
ROTFL!!
I think billionaires are unconscious of their irrationality. They are under the impression that their wealth has given them God like powers. You see it clearly with Musk everytime he opens his mouth. Gates is convinced he is right about his techno fix everything approach. Theil is confused about everything but think he brings a good poker face to the table. Bezos, likes to move levers out of the public eye. Ultimately their sensibilities are so far removed from ordinary folks that they begin to see themselves as a different species.
Thanks once again for being a light of reason and sanity in this insane world. I saw your name mentioned, regarding your article about the young boy with the rollerblade in Gaza, in Charles Eisenstein's most recent Substack. You are reaching many people who really appreciate your efforts. I hope that mention will bring even more here to read your valuable insights.
Hi Joy. Just saw your name pop up here. I've been blocked on Substack since last fall, after posting God's Problems, which you were the main to commenter.
What a perfect sentence! "People’s rage against the machine is harnessed by phony billionaire populism and shitlib progressivism so that their political energy can be fed right back into the machine."
Do Israel Supporters (not just Zionists) realised that Bibi and his extremist cabinet are basically omnicidal maniacs? You know, the types that if things do not go their own way they would drag the entirety of the world with them to nuclear damnation? I can say the same thing about Biblical Doomers as well.I doubt this suicidal "Samson Option" will be just for the middle east.
So they say. Sampson took many with him to the underworld.
I am honestly dumbfounded that the world's most obvious death cult is controlling America like a Marionette.
Absolutely insane if they bomb Iran Russia will back it as it already does and China might also get involved.
Trump is showing once and all for he is no more than a fake populist/shit disturber in a den of insane war mongers.
As Scott Ritter has pointed out Trump has a short attention span and zero understanding of international politics. He is a failed president even before his inauguration.
The amerikkkan P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. class confuse impunity with invincibility. They hence taunt confrontation. They know they are empty vessels of low class and pretend their own significance. Anything "over there and far away" simply has no 'reality' - is an abstraction. Little wonder they are excellent cohorts for the genocidal maniacs in ISISRAELHELL.
The feedback loops need circuit breakers, or it all goes spiraling into the vortex in the center.
The Ancients devised debt jubilees as circuit breakers to the feedback loop of compound interest and here we are, stuck in the same doom loop.
Sometimes the reason history repeats itself is because we didn't learn the lesson the first time.
Well said! And you made a VERY important point about "debt jubilees". We NEED to BRING THEM BACK!
Thanks. The whole paradigm is crumbling. I've been blocked on Substack on my main account for pointing out the flaws in monotheism is that ideals are not absolutes. So now I'm stuck just using the phone. See if God's Problems comes up on search.
Also Why Culture is not Reality, for a more extended outlook.
A few previous statements by Trump and Vance about bombing Iran (Oct 2024)...
OCT 1: Asked whether he'd “support or oppose a preemptive strike on Iran by Israel,” JD Vance says: “Look, it is up to Israel what they think they need to do to keep their country safe, and we should support our allies wherever they are when they're fighting the bad guys...”
https://substack.com/@decensorednews/note/c-71060896
OCT 3: Trump says that it'd be "crazy" for Israel not to target Iran's nuclear facilities
https://substack.com/@decensorednews/note/c-71410395
OCT 4: Trump, “They asked [Biden], ‘What do you think about Iran? Would you hit Iran?’ And he goes, ‘As long as they don't hit the nuclear stuff.’ (...) The answer should have been hit the nuclear first and worry about the rest later...”
https://substack.com/@decensorednews/note/c-71454663
OCT 24: Trump says that Netanyahu calls him on the phone “quite a bit”; that he thinks Netanyahu is in a “very good negotiating position” where Israel can either “fight” Iran or “make a deal”; and that he (Trump) would “use force” to stop Iran from getting nukes.
https://decensorednews.substack.com/p/trump-bibi-calls-fight-iran-nuclear-weapons