This clownshow is a deliberate psychological demoralization operation calculated to destroy the west so that it can be built back into their hell on earth total panopticon tyrannical blueprint. This is the future they have planned for our children. We cannot let them get away with this.
The solution is to get local, get self-dependent, get the common unity back in community by building webs of resilience with your neighbors, get control of your school boards, mayors office, and town councils, get to know your sheriff, get a garden in your lawn no matter how small, a single tomato plant is better than nothing, get a well (water is your most important resource hands down), get ready, get moving, get doing, and if so desired, get God.
Your description of present conditions is spot on but your solution is childish. Local level large scale awakening...is not possible while the criminal brainwash operations, LieFest, misinformation, economic/banking pressures, mind poisoning are going on unabated. Those who are behind all of these nefarious activities, must be identified and removed from any and all commanding positions! Tribal criminals must be removed from government, media, banking, mis-education... In other words the JQ must be solved for the benefit of mankind, not for the benefit of a small but influential gang of criminals, who are the real enemies of mankind!!
I wish you were right, but you are wrong. How would you try to overcome the immense power of the centralised small hat media...control in order to wake up the already heavily brainwashed masses? You can't.
I only see 2 scenarios; 1) The Cabal does something so obvious terrible thing to the people, that would trigger not local, but nationwide uprising, Civil War.
2) The Cabal controlled regime would mindlessly provoke a LOSING war with Russia and/or China, which they are working on right now. They don't seemingly know how weak US military is compared to those two, especially to Russia.
All of the planet-wide madness we've been experiencing was designed and implemented by a hierarchy that resides above the sovereignty of nations, at the very top of the global power structure. One does not simultaneously shut the entire world down over a cold virus - with all administrations using near identical language, policies, and slogans - without first having control of every government on earth. For the sake of simplicity, let's call this higher power the WEF or the 'World Economic Forum'.
This ridiculous Ukraine war is simply the next phase of the global enslavement directive that began in earnest with the lockstep lockdowns in 2020. The end-goal from this deliberate destruction and rebirth of everything is a one-world-government where one entity will own and control everything on this planet, including you. In the WEF's own words: You will own nothing, and you will be happy. Or else.
Here's what happens to a leader who isn't WEF (for lack of a better word) owned and puppet-ed:
Building and stitching together webs of local strength in a global level mass pattern of strength and resilience is the only way forward. This starts locally, neighbor to neighbor and then gains exponential strength from there as first communities then counties the states spread this freedom ringing bell like a benevolent virus. They deeply fear this course of action - it's a resonance frequency of liberation they are terrified of - which is why they:
They do not stand a chance against the united, undivided resolve of even a small percentage of us—and they know it. This is the reason they are frantically fighting and sparing no expense to keep us depressed, oppressed, divided, demoralized, and traumatized. And so we will respond by uniting and taking back what is ours.
"All governments are already one" How can't you see that it is not true anymore!? The Russia-China led BRICS have already threw the economic monkey wrench into the weels of the Western oriented WEF! Russian military alone and especially in a combination with China is an un-movable obstacle for any aggressive Western/WEF military adventure. The struggle for dominance between the Western WEF and BRICS oriented East is going on on every continent and East is winning! More and more countries join the China-Russia block! Economically and population wise Bricks is already a lot bigger than the Western G-7. Due to America's mindless weaponization of the USD and abusing the US lead international financial system, the whole Western system is scrambling. More and more countries are ditching the USD and joining BRICS to avoid US sanctions, blackmails!
You really must be mentally blind not to see this! Your blindness probably caused by Western lying MSM propaganda. Please try to switch to online independent/alt media and not watch/listen to the JewsMedia. You will thank me for this advise, though I won't ask for it.
They all follow the WEF’s digital ID, CBDC, vaccine passport, 15 minute city panopticon fueled nightmare reality they are constructing around us. The war is to get rid of whites, destroy currencies and supply chains in order to make this a reality. This has all been foertold for decades:
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John Coleman – MI6 Whistleblower Book Committee 300
(Page 106) The United States will be flooded by peoples of alien cultures who will eventually overwhelm White America, people with no concept of what the United States Constitution stands for and who will, in consequence, do nothing to defend it, and in whose minds the concept of liberty and justice is so weak as to matter little. FOOD and shelter shall be the main concern.
(Page 107) Rival factions and groups such as Arabs and Jews and African tribes shall have differences magnified and allowed the wage wars of extermination against each other under the eyes of NATO and U.N. observers. The same tactics will be used in Central and South America. These wars of attrition shall take place BEFORE the take-over of the One World Government and shall be engineered on every continent where large groups of people with ethnic and religious differences live, such as the Sikhs, Moslem Pakistanis and the Hindu Indians. Ethnic and religious differences shall be magnified and exacerbated and violent conflict as a means of "settling" their differences shall be encouraged and fostered.
(Page 156) At least 4 billion ‘useless eaters’ shall be eliminated by the year 2050 by means of limited wars, organized epidemics of fatal rapid-acting diseases and starvation
The population of Canada, Western Europe and the United States will be decimated more rapidly than on other continents, until the world's population reaches a manageable level of 1 billion, of which 500 million will consist of Chinese and Japanese races, selected because they are people who have been regimented for centuries and who are accustomed to obeying authority without question.
I see the human ego as a cloak we drape over ourselves to face a world, a biosphere, that is adaptive like all naturally intelligent complex adaptive systems of systems (CASoS), we humans included. But the cloak blocks the direct connection to the larger system, the nourishing knowledge of adaptations that allows us to intuitively feel that pure wholeness unblemished by our narcissistic rubbish, a state of being that aboriginal peoples, close to Nature, could sense clearly.
We need to step into that wholeness and embrace our basic nature as a subsystem of that larger more encompassing whole. Making war may appear to exist in Nature, but the Biosphere and its subsystems have countless other modes of adaptive behavior. Let's try and mimic those instead of this bloody urge to kill kill kill.
Also "War is the continuation of policy with other means." - von Clausewitz
Peaceful negotiations are possible among actors with comparable equivalent military powers. When one organization— country, private corporation, organized crime syndicate, etc. — believes that it has superior military might, it may be inspired to resort to deadly force to take whatever it wants. When the opposition resist, war breaks out.
"Diplomatic efforts to divide spheres of influence failed repeatedly."
"In each of these cases, the spark for war came not from greed or aggression alone, but from the belief that the economic system was closing in against them. It wasn’t the presence of dependence that caused conflict—it was the collapse of hope that such dependence could continue safely."
Interdependence in the Capitalist mercantile system is anathema to its philosophical core. But it is an essential core principle for natural systems, for a CASoS -- for the subsystems in our bodies as a CASoS -- for organisms, including humans (theoretically) as subsystems within the biosphere as giant CASoS. Adaptation in Nature assumes interdependence of its subsystems. In Capitalism, that principle fails miserably, playing second fiddle to mercantilist greed.
Not a bad analogy because cancer cells have decoupled from systemic interdependence, deaf to signals to cease growing. Parasitic? That's debatable because truly successful parasites don't generally kill their host, killing themselves in the process. But deaf and decoupled certainly fits. And in the end, when the immune system is successful in killing them via its Cytotoxic T cells and/or Natural Killer cells, it does so by re-instituting emergency communication, in this case, signaling them to commit suicide (apoptosis) for the good of the larger system.
Parasitic is a perfect analogy. That private capitalism will eventually consume its host and lead to its own destruction simply identifies it as an unredeemable, malignant subspecies that presents an unacceptable danger to all life.
Yes Claire, when and if that happens, and I certainly hope it will soon, Crapitalism will prove itself to have been the lousy ultimately unsuccessful parasite, mediocre at everything, even its own major self-feeding via parasitism. As a biologist, I am merely citing the reality that the truly successful parasite in Nature (malaria is a great example) drains and weakens its host, but does not kill it, to keep it around as an energy source. Your scenario would justifiably prove the worthlessness of this economic system at anything but unremitting consumption, as it would ultimately consume itself, which for a natural parasite is sheer biological idiocy. So my point: For all the praise it receives, Capitalism isn't at all deserving; it's a system so gigantically unregulated by feedback controls (as would be any genuine adaptive system) that it would ultimately eat itself. And you and I would undoubtedly both cheer and applaud, although I won't likely live to see it.
BTW is there Communism/Socialism in nature? Yes, it's called cancer! All I see competition for the survival of the fittest, trying to produce the best outcome, which is way much closer to Capitalism. Disclosure I do know what Communism/Socialism is! I lived in it, unlike todays' Western air-headed leftists! They would have a very rude awakening if they would achieve their insane goals!
Why attacking the Capitalist mercantile system without identifying the Tribe who runs and abuses it? Do you want to go back to the 'hunting-gathering', or the oppressive feudalism or the empty shelves communist economic systems? Haven't you noticed that capitalism has created the most prosperous economies all over the world? Haven't you noticed that only the Western, jew-run countries foment animosity, hostile actions all over the world? They are the ones who commit Genocide, mass murder, military threats,economic sanctions, blackmailing...? The rest of the capitalist countries, practically the rest of the none Western-jew controlled nations do not do that! Zio criminality does not equate capitalism! For example Russia and China have clearly capitalistic economies and they are thriving, quickly overcame previous poverty but they did not engage international criminal activities. Their capitalism has been tweaked, optimized for the 99%, not for the 1% as is the case in Jew-run, Western societies, economies!
BTW today's Western economies are capitalist in name only. They've became a monstrous, state run kleptocracy, providing corporate welfare and help to exploit the general public. The solution is a productive capitalism OPTIMIZED for the 99%!!
I don't care what you label it. It does not run like a natural system where feedbacks on resource depletion etc. are prioritized -- just one simple example of many in complex system dynamics. And sure Zionist criminality dominating the West is the vulture above all others, but you are not going so sit back and tell me that Russian and Chinese capitalism -- BRAVO tweaked for the masses [in generale], run consonantly with the system dynamics of the biosphere. We just have not striven to completely get that as a species. Whether we ever will, employ tech in that more parsimonious direction, I do not know.
Apparently you are hiding behind big words and overcomplicated faulty, empty, environmental concepts like "... natural system where feedbacks on resource depletion etc. are prioritized -- just one simple example of many in complex system dynamics." or ".. Russian and Chinese capitalism -- BRAVO tweaked for the masses [in generale], run consonantly with the system dynamics of the biosphere." This is an alarmist, environmental whack job thinking and it has not much to do with real economy, reality other than justifying the destruction of the existing economy and recreating long past poverty! Do you enjoy the rolling black-outs in Spain and Portugal, soon to be everywhere in the crazy West, created by people who "think" like you?
Why you people just can't wait till the environmentally clean fusion power plants come on line, creating abundant and clean electricity, making possible to abandon fossile fuels as energy source, so they can only be used as raw material for chemistry? If we shut down todays' economy for empty-headed environmental craziness, we'll never get there!
How people just unable to comprehend that the so called 'renewable' energy sources available today fall WAYYYYY to short to satisfy modern societies energy needs??
BTW would you be so kind of enlightening me, by describing to me a REAL, not mambo-jumbo description of a "good" economy, which is not capitalism, not communism, not feudalism, not hunter-gatherer, but BETTER than all of the above?! How such a system would work?
Another dreamer who sees fusion around the corner, It's not, friend. I spent enough time at two national labs to get a good feel for where it's really at. Wait ??-- Screw that I'm too old for this shit, frankly. Chuck that notion about fusion-soon the fuck away. You likewise seem to understand little about the complexity of the biosphere and what that means for the unpredictabilty of its dynamics under our pressure -- the failure of big data models confirms that. I'm a biologist, not an economist, but if you're presupposing energy sources that don't exist, there is really nothing to discuss.
The Sun is “environmentally clean fusion power plant … on line, creating abundant and clean electricity, making possible to abandon fossil fuels as energy source…”
You are correct about “…today's Western economies are capitalist in name only. They've became a monstrous, state run kleptocracy, providing corporate welfare and help to exploit the general public.”
Your “The solution is a productive capitalism OPTIMIZED for the 99%!!” sounds like Socialism or “public capitalism”, presuming that a truly democratic government performs the optimization, and regulates against abuse and kleptocracy that you have mentioned.
“The solution is a productive capitalism OPTIMIZED for the 99%!!” does NOT sounds like Socialism, where private enterprises are oppressed and the state owns and fucking up everything!
A true democracy would not allow the government to do that.
Today, major private enterprises and industries control the government. Big Pharma, the healthcare insurance industry, the military-industrial complex, the fossil fuels industries, the major airlines, the automobile industry, Wall Street, are a few examples of that.
The voters have no direct control of those. Congress is responsible but bows to its major donors.
What makes horror films bearable is that you can cover your eyes when the violence becomes too much, or take a bathroom or fridge break during extended fighting scenes. You can remind yourself that this is just fiction and the good people will usually survive somehow and win by the end.
Today’s reality is far less bearable than the most gruesome horror fiction and it doesn’t go away when we cover our eyes. Even worse, it never ends and the monsters keep winning.
I’m not a pessimist by nature and I’m surely no goddamn philosopher, but I am a bonafide empath and I see no decent future for this earth as long as humans inhabit this planet.
Think about it. WE ARE WATCHING A LIVESTREAM GENOCIDE and only one of the poorest and most beleaguered nations in the world is doing one motherfucking thing about it.
Someone please explain to me how this bodes well for humanity.
Gypsy, what gives me hope are the people of Yemen. Sure, Yemenis are flawed just as the rest of us humans - but they are taking a stance and doing something about it when it matters most.
Why are more countries not following the example of Yemen? I wonder if it has something to do with history...
If that was the case (which I think it is not) then why is Yemen not scared of it?
Having nuclear weapons in the MENA region makes no rational sense - as any deployment of such would destroy the 'energy infrastructure and supply lines' that the world depends on for their energy needs.
Chang, Yemen has already been bombed and starved to near oblivion…except their weapons. I imagine the great Yemeni people figure, what the fuck more can they do to us?
As well, it is according to Saree, their MORAL OBLIGATION to assist the Gazans.
It bodes well for us as the internet is here to record the stance of every human and country on earth right now and so when this hellish genocide finally comes to an end one way or another ( it can last forever now can it ), no one will be able to say they didn't know or change their stance as we have a bonafide track record of where everyone stood at this particular moment in history
What I'm getting at is, how will the individuals and nations who stood by and did nothing feel about themselves when all is said and done. Will they not feel like the cowards that they are and the evil shits they truly are? So everyone will know whom they truly are in the coming years and decades and when they start giving birth to children and those grow up ( I'm speaking to the younger generation here), will their children be proud of what their parents did or did not do at this point in time?
Humans are stupidly shortsighted creatures and do not think long term but we all have no choice to be alive until the day we die, and if all goes well, we will have decades more to live on this planet so those that chose silence and complicity with the genociders will be forced to live with their shame and cowardice ND evil all the rest of their miserable lives and I can guarantee you Gypsy, that will be no fun for them at all. Even their own kids and grandkids will have no respect for them, they will be living in a Hell entirely of their own creation
This moment might look like the Zionazis have all the cards, but the years and decades to come will prove to be the worst for their supporters. You can count on that my dearest Gypsy 💕❤️
I think you underestimate our ability to forget , rewrite history and simply not give a fuck. Do the decedents the Nazi, the slave traders, or the conquistadors hate their ancestors? Only this moment matters because what we do or do not will determine how many they kill as we watch. We can applaud the Houthis but I am not hopeful, the decision by the Zionists and its Western protectors to ethically cleanse Palestine was taken long ago, that the process has been dragged out for decades does not change reality. The events of Oct 7 2023 were not an surprise, whether the Zionists had a hand or not does not matter, they have used it as an excuse to supercharge their ethic cleansing campaign and the Western countries provided the arm, the tech and the cover. I pray Trump can destroys the Empire, before they dethrone him.
The ability to forget and rewrite history is embedded in humans and I don't see that ever changing
The difference now is the internet doesn't forget like we do and we have a living reminder of all the stances of people's and nations of the world on record which we have never had on this planet before, ever
So the only way we are going to be able to "forget" about this or rewrite it will be to tear down the whole entire edifice of the internet. And considering how intertwined it has become to the functioning of modern society, I doubt that will happen
So yes, I believe the internet is that big of a revolutionary deal and our innate ability to want to forget and rewrite history cannot happen again as long as the internet exists which will show be the Archive of the stances all people and nations took at this point in history
The coming years and decades will be a painful one for all zionist supporters, I guarantee you
I hope you are wrong, I do not look forward to living in such a vengeance world. Peace , mutual respect , dignity for all life is a my preferred from of justice.
I`m not convinced that the Internet has or will fundamentally change human behavior, the ability for the two way flow information between so many is unprecedented, but a single person’s ability to retain and determine false from true has it limitations. Perhaps you have not grasped how much censorship is occurring, but then how can anyone know what has been censored unless its exposed? The Internet has not increased humanities willingness to reason, perhaps in someways it has reduced it, as so many are willing to accept whatever the read or see on line. How does one actually know what is real what was fabricated?
Consider that immensity of knowledge which has been digitized, has made print almost obsolete. That primarily its corporations and governments which retain and store the knowledge , sadly Google dropped its "Do no Evil" corporate rule long ago Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Facebook, and all others never had such a rule. Thus information can and will be easily manipulated, information in the cloud is not written in stone, it can be so easily erased, altered, and censored you never know,.
I digress from the primary subject, not that we have covered "Information" adequately, but let’s return to the subject of punishment for criminals. Firstly the Zionists do not see themselves as criminal, if we look at how nations have treated the Zionists regime for decades already, well I simply do not see any great major change unless there is change on mindset in the golden billion, the other 7 Billion of this planet are not blind but they do not have much a state in the game, thus far, so below I add the following thoughts , which I shared with another earlier today..
I don’t know if justice is even possible. What I believe is more important is finding ways to live together based on shared values. It may seem like a simple wish, but in my opinion, it is our greatest challenge, because at the heart of all this evil lies an age-old ideology: the belief in racial superiority. It is the philosophy upon which Europe’s "garden walls" stand. It is the Nazi doctrine of the master race. It is American exceptionalism. It is the Zionist belief in being the "chosen people." We`ve have been tolerating, even promoting systems of blatant injustices for decades.
As much I despise American policies, I do not wish for vengeance against Americans, I wish they would open their eyes and become aware of what their government is doing in their name, and same with all Vassal states citizens. Forgive me , it was a long rant, but I appreciate if you read it.
What you're implying is that there should be no judgement or repercussion for the Gaza genocide and the American imperialism that has affected billions of us. So we should just skip repercussions for their evil act and shrug it all off and learn to live in harmony together and the victims of their evil should just put on their big boy pants and learn to live with their oppressors in harmony when they have not received justice?
That's an incredibly foolish, naive and quite frankly evil proposition in itself. Grow the fuck up please and put yourself in the Gazan people's shoes
If your wife and kids have been bombed to smithereens right in front of your eyes and your other relatives as well, would you be so quick to want to skip justice and repercussion aspect for the isrealis and americans?
Well I`m not most intelligent, certainly am ignorant of much, but I do know what civil discord is. So enjoy you anger and try not become totally blind and dumb that you lose your humanity, you seem to lost already your civility .
I think this narrative is wrong in two places. First of all, do ALL humans have the potential for compassion and enlightenment? Sociopaths, those at the far end of the spectrum, may completely lack empathy, compassion, the ability to care about others. The cause is likely a combination of genes and upbringing, but regardless, it seems to me that, at least possibly, some humans are no more able to "get it" on the importance of everyone else than a colorblind person is to know what "red" is--they may lack the brain structures necessary for caring. I'm not sure this is the case but there's evidence for it.
Secondly, you begin by mentioning a reader who suggests that the world may be better without humans, and then say that we've done nasty things "since the dawn of civilization"--but humans have been on this Earth for perhaps a million years depending on when you want to start calling us "human","at least 100,000 years--and the dawn of civilization is only maybe 10,000 years ago! So the problem is not "humans," it's "civilization" or "civilized humans." It's possible to examine this proposition by looking at uncivilized humans, the few who remain today and accounts of those studied by civilized people over the last few hundred years. And what do we see?
Indigenous peoples almost universally exhibit respect for the rest of creation, rules about harvests to keep it sustainable, rules to keep people from aggrandizing themselves and accumulating wealth and power. So the nastiness is not inevitable "human nature." Or rather, most of us have a wide variety of behaviors as potential, and cultures encourage some and suppress others; the aggressive, violent, short-sighted culture that now dominates the world is increasingly sociopathic. It elevates sociopaths to prominent positions. Human survival likely requires overthrowing this culture--which has to be done mostly by the people within it, notably the "white" people. For that to happen,the main thing we need is a whole lot of public education, including the work Caitlin does so well. Most people are at least somewhat aware of the horrors bearing down on us. What they are NOT aware of, what is most needed for the kind of revolution we need to have a chance, is that Another World is Possible. People are doing little about the real problems, and getting caught up instead in escapism or the false struggle between the Red Team and the Blue Team, because they are not aware that there is a POSSIBILITY of our creating a world where they and their children could thrive--without having to deprive someone else.
I did not say indigenous people are immune to sociopathy--I suspect that it arises in every culture and place. I've heard that some indigenous societies dealt with a person, if all else failed, thus--the men would take him on a "hunting expedition" and return without him. Are indigenous GROUPS immune to developing sociopathic cultures? Your New Guinea example suggests not. But the link did not impress me; I've read that Chagnon was a racist whose findings are questionable, and the author clearly is coming from a perspective that looks at the world in terms of competitive strategies. But nature is a mic of competition and cooperation, and "who wins' is not the only way to look at the world.
If you read the link, the bad guy was not taken on a hunting trip, but was made leader of the tribe. People *wanted* to be around him *because* of his fearsome reputation. There are plenty of other examples of less than noble indigenous. Dan Everett also provides a whole book of examples. I also mentioned New Guinea.
Chagnon's biggest sin was in not telling WEIRD types who wanted to romanticize indigenous life what they wanted to hear.
sociopath - a person compelled to continually re-offend the criminal code, aka a recidivist. These people are not lacking in empathy and typically have familial or friendship ties.
psychopath - a person completely lacking in empathy, who sees his fellow humans as pawns to be manipulated for his own gain by feigning empathy. Psychopaths are not necessarily law-breakers.
I'm old school, so I go by these definitions still. I do think that some fall on a sliding scale, having elements of both mental abnormalities.
Thank you Caitlin. Your words bring deep tears to my eyes. I woke up in 2011 and have never been able to stomach the sleeping pills since then. All this time I have watched others resistance to the truth transition to acceptance and understanding. Maybe that’s only a few but change takes time just as Nature shows us. I am definitely a dedicated reader of yours and when you post these particular insights I feel revived again. It’s not a matter of if, but when. And there is no one-size-fits-all pill to magically stop us from collectively killing ourselves, but we can change the culture when we live by Universal truths as individuals and truly start to “tend to the garden”🌷❤️🥰
Like you Sunny Ann, I too have noticed how after confronting us with the truth, Caitlin brings out her "insight" articles as if to dissipate our hatreds and bring us back to sanity, to an understanding of human nature in its myriad forms. Where we can feel a loving kindness for ourselves and by extension to others.
With only a few exceptions, I think most people feel good will toward others and want to be helpful when they can. Only a handful of people make the rules and have the power to enforce them no matter what damage they do. Orwell saw it and wrote about it in Animal Farm. The good animals were exploited, lied to, and gave their trust to a man who desired to turn them into slaves. It takes so few to destroy and manipulate others onto submission.
I don’t know what it will take - maybe the Houthis will get their attention- to stop this evil and get help to the people who are left.
About once a year, gypsy 33, I remind everyone that a well managed crowdfunding exercise to provide two nuclear submarines off the coast of New York, just sitting there but armed and ready to act, is the motivation that Americans need. Let the imaginations of the population run riot as to what could happen next, the location of the target for the first nuclear missile, and then the next and on.
MSM would have a field day. Fox may even tell the truth. NYT as well? Not likely.
Could change the climate overnight as the choice of all past Presidents has been to fight their hegemonic wars in other geographies, therefore no threat to the American masses, no sporting fixtures affected, life as normal.
But a threat to the country for the first time? A different story.
Thank you Caitlin Collective for pointing out the ego's role in perpetuating our dominating and competitive tendencies. Our survival strategies also include rigid hierarchy, submission/fawning, and expediency and deception.
All of these are great in dealing with an imminent threat but very problematic and destructive for running a healthy society.
It is our egoic condition that makes us dysfunctional and makes us feel unsafe. The incessant and compulsive thinking and reacting with which we identify, impels us back into our survival brain centers, our imminent threat mode.
This survival mode also makes us rely too heavily on perceiving reality through the filter of hundreds of cognitive biases--which further distort our reality and deepen survival urgency.
As a prosocial species we also favor empathy, collaboration, sharing, nurturing and caring. But these get suppressed on a daily basis by the false sense of danger and lack produced by the egoic condition.
So patriarchy and capitalism and white men etc. are symptoms of humanity's crisis not the root causes. The root cause is the egoic condition and until that is deeply explored the symptoms will keep reemerging in different forms keeping us distracted and trapped.
Wherever we wish to take a stand, we try to do so with equanimity so as not to worsen the egoic condition in ourselves or the other. Sometimes equanimity is not possible or even practical but it along with presence must always be aspired to if we want to deal with root causes and finally build heaven on earth.
I think there’s a great need for dispelling the lies that are orchestrated to sow immobility and acquiescence, but the American society is severely damaged, and seeing the dysfunction and identifying it is but a step. There’s is now an abundance of documentation to cast doubt and suspicion upon the corporate narratives churned out by the popular news media, and the latter are approaching a stage of unintended self-caricature.
What I believe is much more challenging is creating spaces where support for the damaged is made available and has the capacity to grow roots and network. What I’m thinking is that such a project has to be economically sustainable which means that millionaires with a shared vision have to buy in. It’s too much to expect the work-weary, cash-strapped to be the leaders who create humane options for the psychologically and materially challenged. Idealistic doctors are a place to begin fabricating an affordable alternative to the killing state. The space to grow food and educate the public about surviving in a predatory social milieu is essential. Right now, there are two sectors of the predatory state that need to have their missions altered. Prisons are privatized, which is the ultimate waste of human capital for the greed of an individual. Buy the prisons, and turn them into group homes that educate and create ecosystems for human development and survival. The nursing home population are caged according to their incomes. The well off can have palatial quarters, with pampering to denote their station. But all seniors in settings if assisted living, must surrender their pensions and estates to be eligible to NOT be left alone when they are on death’s doorstep. Clearly, none of this can happen if the Surveillance State is positioned to control a population rather than serve it. The two fake parties are corporate bait and switch industries for class warfare that need to be fossilized. The solutions to the libertarian, dystopian present will probably only become apparent when the house of cards begins to collapse.
Well said unwarranted! I like some of your suggestions - especially the 'changes that need to be made to the prison system'. Now, how do we go about implementing such a change? How do we wrestle power away from the PIC (prison industrial complex)?
I think we can’t overtake the profiteers who milk the service sector for every last cent, but the day is not far off when those services will be expenses that humane persons can probably acquire at a discount. Maybe I’m naive, but our present arrangement is a clear grab that nobody wants to challenge because nobody has the energy or the means to fight. Legislative action would probably need to facilitate more public participation in the dealings with the marginalized, but the financialized takeover has to be addressed as a first step to establishing some calm amidst a a run up to civil unrest on an unprecedented scale. I think we’re in for a total societal makeover which will trigger unpredictable changes in people and circumstances.
The self does exist and is the source of everything good. All the horrors you regularly condemn are the products of perverse incentives and soulless machines.
Good luck creating an economic system that doesn't hurt and rob people everyday. Millions of people have tried to find a third way, so just one more person looking. It might be instructive to look at what Capitalists and Communists both agree and disagree on and ask why. Also look at who benefits.
"We’ll sit on the edge of our seats watching made-up tales about psychopathic killers while psychopathic killers rule the world."
I can't watch horror films--particularly about psychopathic killers. I think it's because they just remind me that the world is full of them and we seem powerless to stop them. Watching a live-streamed genocide has possibly desensitized some, but it's made the rest of us hypersensitive to the anguish of others. I'm not sure we can wake up from the nightmare of the Western world without first tearing it all down first.
There are a lot of good human beings right now in my community conferring with each other on how to best fight the utter Trump/ Zionist evil. How about in your community?
This clownshow is a deliberate psychological demoralization operation calculated to destroy the west so that it can be built back into their hell on earth total panopticon tyrannical blueprint. This is the future they have planned for our children. We cannot let them get away with this.
The solution is to get local, get self-dependent, get the common unity back in community by building webs of resilience with your neighbors, get control of your school boards, mayors office, and town councils, get to know your sheriff, get a garden in your lawn no matter how small, a single tomato plant is better than nothing, get a well (water is your most important resource hands down), get ready, get moving, get doing, and if so desired, get God.
Amen.
Your description of present conditions is spot on but your solution is childish. Local level large scale awakening...is not possible while the criminal brainwash operations, LieFest, misinformation, economic/banking pressures, mind poisoning are going on unabated. Those who are behind all of these nefarious activities, must be identified and removed from any and all commanding positions! Tribal criminals must be removed from government, media, banking, mis-education... In other words the JQ must be solved for the benefit of mankind, not for the benefit of a small but influential gang of criminals, who are the real enemies of mankind!!
Childish.... that's a new one.
Attempting to remove those criminals without a platform of strength (local control) is, you guess it, ........
The thought that has gone into this strategy has not been idle.
I wish you were right, but you are wrong. How would you try to overcome the immense power of the centralised small hat media...control in order to wake up the already heavily brainwashed masses? You can't.
I only see 2 scenarios; 1) The Cabal does something so obvious terrible thing to the people, that would trigger not local, but nationwide uprising, Civil War.
2) The Cabal controlled regime would mindlessly provoke a LOSING war with Russia and/or China, which they are working on right now. They don't seemingly know how weak US military is compared to those two, especially to Russia.
All governments are already one.
All of the planet-wide madness we've been experiencing was designed and implemented by a hierarchy that resides above the sovereignty of nations, at the very top of the global power structure. One does not simultaneously shut the entire world down over a cold virus - with all administrations using near identical language, policies, and slogans - without first having control of every government on earth. For the sake of simplicity, let's call this higher power the WEF or the 'World Economic Forum'.
This ridiculous Ukraine war is simply the next phase of the global enslavement directive that began in earnest with the lockstep lockdowns in 2020. The end-goal from this deliberate destruction and rebirth of everything is a one-world-government where one entity will own and control everything on this planet, including you. In the WEF's own words: You will own nothing, and you will be happy. Or else.
Here's what happens to a leader who isn't WEF (for lack of a better word) owned and puppet-ed:
https://tritorch.com/tanzania
Building and stitching together webs of local strength in a global level mass pattern of strength and resilience is the only way forward. This starts locally, neighbor to neighbor and then gains exponential strength from there as first communities then counties the states spread this freedom ringing bell like a benevolent virus. They deeply fear this course of action - it's a resonance frequency of liberation they are terrified of - which is why they:
They do not stand a chance against the united, undivided resolve of even a small percentage of us—and they know it. This is the reason they are frantically fighting and sparing no expense to keep us depressed, oppressed, divided, demoralized, and traumatized. And so we will respond by uniting and taking back what is ours.
"All governments are already one" How can't you see that it is not true anymore!? The Russia-China led BRICS have already threw the economic monkey wrench into the weels of the Western oriented WEF! Russian military alone and especially in a combination with China is an un-movable obstacle for any aggressive Western/WEF military adventure. The struggle for dominance between the Western WEF and BRICS oriented East is going on on every continent and East is winning! More and more countries join the China-Russia block! Economically and population wise Bricks is already a lot bigger than the Western G-7. Due to America's mindless weaponization of the USD and abusing the US lead international financial system, the whole Western system is scrambling. More and more countries are ditching the USD and joining BRICS to avoid US sanctions, blackmails!
You really must be mentally blind not to see this! Your blindness probably caused by Western lying MSM propaganda. Please try to switch to online independent/alt media and not watch/listen to the JewsMedia. You will thank me for this advise, though I won't ask for it.
They all follow the WEF’s digital ID, CBDC, vaccine passport, 15 minute city panopticon fueled nightmare reality they are constructing around us. The war is to get rid of whites, destroy currencies and supply chains in order to make this a reality. This has all been foertold for decades:
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John Coleman – MI6 Whistleblower Book Committee 300
(Page 106) The United States will be flooded by peoples of alien cultures who will eventually overwhelm White America, people with no concept of what the United States Constitution stands for and who will, in consequence, do nothing to defend it, and in whose minds the concept of liberty and justice is so weak as to matter little. FOOD and shelter shall be the main concern.
(Page 107) Rival factions and groups such as Arabs and Jews and African tribes shall have differences magnified and allowed the wage wars of extermination against each other under the eyes of NATO and U.N. observers. The same tactics will be used in Central and South America. These wars of attrition shall take place BEFORE the take-over of the One World Government and shall be engineered on every continent where large groups of people with ethnic and religious differences live, such as the Sikhs, Moslem Pakistanis and the Hindu Indians. Ethnic and religious differences shall be magnified and exacerbated and violent conflict as a means of "settling" their differences shall be encouraged and fostered.
(Page 156) At least 4 billion ‘useless eaters’ shall be eliminated by the year 2050 by means of limited wars, organized epidemics of fatal rapid-acting diseases and starvation
The population of Canada, Western Europe and the United States will be decimated more rapidly than on other continents, until the world's population reaches a manageable level of 1 billion, of which 500 million will consist of Chinese and Japanese races, selected because they are people who have been regimented for centuries and who are accustomed to obeying authority without question.
Yes. And keep the western civilization.
So. Anarchism. That always was a huge part of the solution.
What else is there? Relying on someone else is ALWAYS fools errand. You do not seem to me to be a fool Helcar
I see the human ego as a cloak we drape over ourselves to face a world, a biosphere, that is adaptive like all naturally intelligent complex adaptive systems of systems (CASoS), we humans included. But the cloak blocks the direct connection to the larger system, the nourishing knowledge of adaptations that allows us to intuitively feel that pure wholeness unblemished by our narcissistic rubbish, a state of being that aboriginal peoples, close to Nature, could sense clearly.
We need to step into that wholeness and embrace our basic nature as a subsystem of that larger more encompassing whole. Making war may appear to exist in Nature, but the Biosphere and its subsystems have countless other modes of adaptive behavior. Let's try and mimic those instead of this bloody urge to kill kill kill.
War prevails when commerce fails.
https://medium.com/@askar.muhammad.adrian/when-trade-fails-war-follows-unless-hope-holds-86ba74cb06af
Also "War is the continuation of policy with other means." - von Clausewitz
Peaceful negotiations are possible among actors with comparable equivalent military powers. When one organization— country, private corporation, organized crime syndicate, etc. — believes that it has superior military might, it may be inspired to resort to deadly force to take whatever it wants. When the opposition resist, war breaks out.
Perfectly illustrative . . . and I quote:
"Diplomatic efforts to divide spheres of influence failed repeatedly."
"In each of these cases, the spark for war came not from greed or aggression alone, but from the belief that the economic system was closing in against them. It wasn’t the presence of dependence that caused conflict—it was the collapse of hope that such dependence could continue safely."
Interdependence in the Capitalist mercantile system is anathema to its philosophical core. But it is an essential core principle for natural systems, for a CASoS -- for the subsystems in our bodies as a CASoS -- for organisms, including humans (theoretically) as subsystems within the biosphere as giant CASoS. Adaptation in Nature assumes interdependence of its subsystems. In Capitalism, that principle fails miserably, playing second fiddle to mercantilist greed.
If there is a version of private Capitalism in Nature, it is cancer — a parasitic growth that eventually consumes its host.
Not a bad analogy because cancer cells have decoupled from systemic interdependence, deaf to signals to cease growing. Parasitic? That's debatable because truly successful parasites don't generally kill their host, killing themselves in the process. But deaf and decoupled certainly fits. And in the end, when the immune system is successful in killing them via its Cytotoxic T cells and/or Natural Killer cells, it does so by re-instituting emergency communication, in this case, signaling them to commit suicide (apoptosis) for the good of the larger system.
Parasitic is a perfect analogy. That private capitalism will eventually consume its host and lead to its own destruction simply identifies it as an unredeemable, malignant subspecies that presents an unacceptable danger to all life.
Yes Claire, when and if that happens, and I certainly hope it will soon, Crapitalism will prove itself to have been the lousy ultimately unsuccessful parasite, mediocre at everything, even its own major self-feeding via parasitism. As a biologist, I am merely citing the reality that the truly successful parasite in Nature (malaria is a great example) drains and weakens its host, but does not kill it, to keep it around as an energy source. Your scenario would justifiably prove the worthlessness of this economic system at anything but unremitting consumption, as it would ultimately consume itself, which for a natural parasite is sheer biological idiocy. So my point: For all the praise it receives, Capitalism isn't at all deserving; it's a system so gigantically unregulated by feedback controls (as would be any genuine adaptive system) that it would ultimately eat itself. And you and I would undoubtedly both cheer and applaud, although I won't likely live to see it.
Better to read my post above! You are not in reality!
Sure, okay. Yours is the ONLY reality. I already get that. Hosanna.
You have just described Communism/Socialism!
BTW is there Communism/Socialism in nature? Yes, it's called cancer! All I see competition for the survival of the fittest, trying to produce the best outcome, which is way much closer to Capitalism. Disclosure I do know what Communism/Socialism is! I lived in it, unlike todays' Western air-headed leftists! They would have a very rude awakening if they would achieve their insane goals!
Why attacking the Capitalist mercantile system without identifying the Tribe who runs and abuses it? Do you want to go back to the 'hunting-gathering', or the oppressive feudalism or the empty shelves communist economic systems? Haven't you noticed that capitalism has created the most prosperous economies all over the world? Haven't you noticed that only the Western, jew-run countries foment animosity, hostile actions all over the world? They are the ones who commit Genocide, mass murder, military threats,economic sanctions, blackmailing...? The rest of the capitalist countries, practically the rest of the none Western-jew controlled nations do not do that! Zio criminality does not equate capitalism! For example Russia and China have clearly capitalistic economies and they are thriving, quickly overcame previous poverty but they did not engage international criminal activities. Their capitalism has been tweaked, optimized for the 99%, not for the 1% as is the case in Jew-run, Western societies, economies!
BTW today's Western economies are capitalist in name only. They've became a monstrous, state run kleptocracy, providing corporate welfare and help to exploit the general public. The solution is a productive capitalism OPTIMIZED for the 99%!!
I don't care what you label it. It does not run like a natural system where feedbacks on resource depletion etc. are prioritized -- just one simple example of many in complex system dynamics. And sure Zionist criminality dominating the West is the vulture above all others, but you are not going so sit back and tell me that Russian and Chinese capitalism -- BRAVO tweaked for the masses [in generale], run consonantly with the system dynamics of the biosphere. We just have not striven to completely get that as a species. Whether we ever will, employ tech in that more parsimonious direction, I do not know.
Well said my friend : )
Apparently you are hiding behind big words and overcomplicated faulty, empty, environmental concepts like "... natural system where feedbacks on resource depletion etc. are prioritized -- just one simple example of many in complex system dynamics." or ".. Russian and Chinese capitalism -- BRAVO tweaked for the masses [in generale], run consonantly with the system dynamics of the biosphere." This is an alarmist, environmental whack job thinking and it has not much to do with real economy, reality other than justifying the destruction of the existing economy and recreating long past poverty! Do you enjoy the rolling black-outs in Spain and Portugal, soon to be everywhere in the crazy West, created by people who "think" like you?
Why you people just can't wait till the environmentally clean fusion power plants come on line, creating abundant and clean electricity, making possible to abandon fossile fuels as energy source, so they can only be used as raw material for chemistry? If we shut down todays' economy for empty-headed environmental craziness, we'll never get there!
How people just unable to comprehend that the so called 'renewable' energy sources available today fall WAYYYYY to short to satisfy modern societies energy needs??
BTW would you be so kind of enlightening me, by describing to me a REAL, not mambo-jumbo description of a "good" economy, which is not capitalism, not communism, not feudalism, not hunter-gatherer, but BETTER than all of the above?! How such a system would work?
Another dreamer who sees fusion around the corner, It's not, friend. I spent enough time at two national labs to get a good feel for where it's really at. Wait ??-- Screw that I'm too old for this shit, frankly. Chuck that notion about fusion-soon the fuck away. You likewise seem to understand little about the complexity of the biosphere and what that means for the unpredictabilty of its dynamics under our pressure -- the failure of big data models confirms that. I'm a biologist, not an economist, but if you're presupposing energy sources that don't exist, there is really nothing to discuss.
OH, never hides and doesn't need to. Every word has meaning.
The Sun is “environmentally clean fusion power plant … on line, creating abundant and clean electricity, making possible to abandon fossil fuels as energy source…”
You are correct about “…today's Western economies are capitalist in name only. They've became a monstrous, state run kleptocracy, providing corporate welfare and help to exploit the general public.”
Your “The solution is a productive capitalism OPTIMIZED for the 99%!!” sounds like Socialism or “public capitalism”, presuming that a truly democratic government performs the optimization, and regulates against abuse and kleptocracy that you have mentioned.
“The solution is a productive capitalism OPTIMIZED for the 99%!!” does NOT sounds like Socialism, where private enterprises are oppressed and the state owns and fucking up everything!
A true democracy would not allow the government to do that.
Today, major private enterprises and industries control the government. Big Pharma, the healthcare insurance industry, the military-industrial complex, the fossil fuels industries, the major airlines, the automobile industry, Wall Street, are a few examples of that.
The voters have no direct control of those. Congress is responsible but bows to its major donors.
What makes horror films bearable is that you can cover your eyes when the violence becomes too much, or take a bathroom or fridge break during extended fighting scenes. You can remind yourself that this is just fiction and the good people will usually survive somehow and win by the end.
Today’s reality is far less bearable than the most gruesome horror fiction and it doesn’t go away when we cover our eyes. Even worse, it never ends and the monsters keep winning.
I’m not a pessimist by nature and I’m surely no goddamn philosopher, but I am a bonafide empath and I see no decent future for this earth as long as humans inhabit this planet.
Think about it. WE ARE WATCHING A LIVESTREAM GENOCIDE and only one of the poorest and most beleaguered nations in the world is doing one motherfucking thing about it.
Someone please explain to me how this bodes well for humanity.
Gypsy, what gives me hope are the people of Yemen. Sure, Yemenis are flawed just as the rest of us humans - but they are taking a stance and doing something about it when it matters most.
Why are more countries not following the example of Yemen? I wonder if it has something to do with history...
Chang, I believe it has more to do with IsraHell’s Samson Option.
If that was the case (which I think it is not) then why is Yemen not scared of it?
Having nuclear weapons in the MENA region makes no rational sense - as any deployment of such would destroy the 'energy infrastructure and supply lines' that the world depends on for their energy needs.
Chang, Yemen has already been bombed and starved to near oblivion…except their weapons. I imagine the great Yemeni people figure, what the fuck more can they do to us?
As well, it is according to Saree, their MORAL OBLIGATION to assist the Gazans.
Buh-bye, Ben Gurion airport.
We need MORE Yemens in this world. Desperately!
I love you both and that gives me hope knowing I am in a world shared by you : )
It bodes well for us as the internet is here to record the stance of every human and country on earth right now and so when this hellish genocide finally comes to an end one way or another ( it can last forever now can it ), no one will be able to say they didn't know or change their stance as we have a bonafide track record of where everyone stood at this particular moment in history
What I'm getting at is, how will the individuals and nations who stood by and did nothing feel about themselves when all is said and done. Will they not feel like the cowards that they are and the evil shits they truly are? So everyone will know whom they truly are in the coming years and decades and when they start giving birth to children and those grow up ( I'm speaking to the younger generation here), will their children be proud of what their parents did or did not do at this point in time?
Humans are stupidly shortsighted creatures and do not think long term but we all have no choice to be alive until the day we die, and if all goes well, we will have decades more to live on this planet so those that chose silence and complicity with the genociders will be forced to live with their shame and cowardice ND evil all the rest of their miserable lives and I can guarantee you Gypsy, that will be no fun for them at all. Even their own kids and grandkids will have no respect for them, they will be living in a Hell entirely of their own creation
This moment might look like the Zionazis have all the cards, but the years and decades to come will prove to be the worst for their supporters. You can count on that my dearest Gypsy 💕❤️
I think you underestimate our ability to forget , rewrite history and simply not give a fuck. Do the decedents the Nazi, the slave traders, or the conquistadors hate their ancestors? Only this moment matters because what we do or do not will determine how many they kill as we watch. We can applaud the Houthis but I am not hopeful, the decision by the Zionists and its Western protectors to ethically cleanse Palestine was taken long ago, that the process has been dragged out for decades does not change reality. The events of Oct 7 2023 were not an surprise, whether the Zionists had a hand or not does not matter, they have used it as an excuse to supercharge their ethic cleansing campaign and the Western countries provided the arm, the tech and the cover. I pray Trump can destroys the Empire, before they dethrone him.
The ability to forget and rewrite history is embedded in humans and I don't see that ever changing
The difference now is the internet doesn't forget like we do and we have a living reminder of all the stances of people's and nations of the world on record which we have never had on this planet before, ever
So the only way we are going to be able to "forget" about this or rewrite it will be to tear down the whole entire edifice of the internet. And considering how intertwined it has become to the functioning of modern society, I doubt that will happen
So yes, I believe the internet is that big of a revolutionary deal and our innate ability to want to forget and rewrite history cannot happen again as long as the internet exists which will show be the Archive of the stances all people and nations took at this point in history
The coming years and decades will be a painful one for all zionist supporters, I guarantee you
I hope you are wrong, I do not look forward to living in such a vengeance world. Peace , mutual respect , dignity for all life is a my preferred from of justice.
I`m not convinced that the Internet has or will fundamentally change human behavior, the ability for the two way flow information between so many is unprecedented, but a single person’s ability to retain and determine false from true has it limitations. Perhaps you have not grasped how much censorship is occurring, but then how can anyone know what has been censored unless its exposed? The Internet has not increased humanities willingness to reason, perhaps in someways it has reduced it, as so many are willing to accept whatever the read or see on line. How does one actually know what is real what was fabricated?
Consider that immensity of knowledge which has been digitized, has made print almost obsolete. That primarily its corporations and governments which retain and store the knowledge , sadly Google dropped its "Do no Evil" corporate rule long ago Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Facebook, and all others never had such a rule. Thus information can and will be easily manipulated, information in the cloud is not written in stone, it can be so easily erased, altered, and censored you never know,.
I digress from the primary subject, not that we have covered "Information" adequately, but let’s return to the subject of punishment for criminals. Firstly the Zionists do not see themselves as criminal, if we look at how nations have treated the Zionists regime for decades already, well I simply do not see any great major change unless there is change on mindset in the golden billion, the other 7 Billion of this planet are not blind but they do not have much a state in the game, thus far, so below I add the following thoughts , which I shared with another earlier today..
I don’t know if justice is even possible. What I believe is more important is finding ways to live together based on shared values. It may seem like a simple wish, but in my opinion, it is our greatest challenge, because at the heart of all this evil lies an age-old ideology: the belief in racial superiority. It is the philosophy upon which Europe’s "garden walls" stand. It is the Nazi doctrine of the master race. It is American exceptionalism. It is the Zionist belief in being the "chosen people." We`ve have been tolerating, even promoting systems of blatant injustices for decades.
As much I despise American policies, I do not wish for vengeance against Americans, I wish they would open their eyes and become aware of what their government is doing in their name, and same with all Vassal states citizens. Forgive me , it was a long rant, but I appreciate if you read it.
I'm sorry but you're being incredibly naive
What you're implying is that there should be no judgement or repercussion for the Gaza genocide and the American imperialism that has affected billions of us. So we should just skip repercussions for their evil act and shrug it all off and learn to live in harmony together and the victims of their evil should just put on their big boy pants and learn to live with their oppressors in harmony when they have not received justice?
That's an incredibly foolish, naive and quite frankly evil proposition in itself. Grow the fuck up please and put yourself in the Gazan people's shoes
If your wife and kids have been bombed to smithereens right in front of your eyes and your other relatives as well, would you be so quick to want to skip justice and repercussion aspect for the isrealis and americans?
Well I`m not most intelligent, certainly am ignorant of much, but I do know what civil discord is. So enjoy you anger and try not become totally blind and dumb that you lose your humanity, you seem to lost already your civility .
I think this narrative is wrong in two places. First of all, do ALL humans have the potential for compassion and enlightenment? Sociopaths, those at the far end of the spectrum, may completely lack empathy, compassion, the ability to care about others. The cause is likely a combination of genes and upbringing, but regardless, it seems to me that, at least possibly, some humans are no more able to "get it" on the importance of everyone else than a colorblind person is to know what "red" is--they may lack the brain structures necessary for caring. I'm not sure this is the case but there's evidence for it.
Secondly, you begin by mentioning a reader who suggests that the world may be better without humans, and then say that we've done nasty things "since the dawn of civilization"--but humans have been on this Earth for perhaps a million years depending on when you want to start calling us "human","at least 100,000 years--and the dawn of civilization is only maybe 10,000 years ago! So the problem is not "humans," it's "civilization" or "civilized humans." It's possible to examine this proposition by looking at uncivilized humans, the few who remain today and accounts of those studied by civilized people over the last few hundred years. And what do we see?
Indigenous peoples almost universally exhibit respect for the rest of creation, rules about harvests to keep it sustainable, rules to keep people from aggrandizing themselves and accumulating wealth and power. So the nastiness is not inevitable "human nature." Or rather, most of us have a wide variety of behaviors as potential, and cultures encourage some and suppress others; the aggressive, violent, short-sighted culture that now dominates the world is increasingly sociopathic. It elevates sociopaths to prominent positions. Human survival likely requires overthrowing this culture--which has to be done mostly by the people within it, notably the "white" people. For that to happen,the main thing we need is a whole lot of public education, including the work Caitlin does so well. Most people are at least somewhat aware of the horrors bearing down on us. What they are NOT aware of, what is most needed for the kind of revolution we need to have a chance, is that Another World is Possible. People are doing little about the real problems, and getting caught up instead in escapism or the false struggle between the Red Team and the Blue Team, because they are not aware that there is a POSSIBILITY of our creating a world where they and their children could thrive--without having to deprive someone else.
I'd agree with you concerning sociopaths, but the idea that indigenous people are immune is not borne out by the facts.
https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/the-game-how-delusions-can-make-people
New Guinea has some of the highest homicide rates on the planet.
I did not say indigenous people are immune to sociopathy--I suspect that it arises in every culture and place. I've heard that some indigenous societies dealt with a person, if all else failed, thus--the men would take him on a "hunting expedition" and return without him. Are indigenous GROUPS immune to developing sociopathic cultures? Your New Guinea example suggests not. But the link did not impress me; I've read that Chagnon was a racist whose findings are questionable, and the author clearly is coming from a perspective that looks at the world in terms of competitive strategies. But nature is a mic of competition and cooperation, and "who wins' is not the only way to look at the world.
If you read the link, the bad guy was not taken on a hunting trip, but was made leader of the tribe. People *wanted* to be around him *because* of his fearsome reputation. There are plenty of other examples of less than noble indigenous. Dan Everett also provides a whole book of examples. I also mentioned New Guinea.
Chagnon's biggest sin was in not telling WEIRD types who wanted to romanticize indigenous life what they wanted to hear.
I still like to pretend though : )
The original definitions were:
sociopath - a person compelled to continually re-offend the criminal code, aka a recidivist. These people are not lacking in empathy and typically have familial or friendship ties.
psychopath - a person completely lacking in empathy, who sees his fellow humans as pawns to be manipulated for his own gain by feigning empathy. Psychopaths are not necessarily law-breakers.
I'm old school, so I go by these definitions still. I do think that some fall on a sliding scale, having elements of both mental abnormalities.
Thank You Caitlin
Thank you Caitlin. Your words bring deep tears to my eyes. I woke up in 2011 and have never been able to stomach the sleeping pills since then. All this time I have watched others resistance to the truth transition to acceptance and understanding. Maybe that’s only a few but change takes time just as Nature shows us. I am definitely a dedicated reader of yours and when you post these particular insights I feel revived again. It’s not a matter of if, but when. And there is no one-size-fits-all pill to magically stop us from collectively killing ourselves, but we can change the culture when we live by Universal truths as individuals and truly start to “tend to the garden”🌷❤️🥰
Like you Sunny Ann, I too have noticed how after confronting us with the truth, Caitlin brings out her "insight" articles as if to dissipate our hatreds and bring us back to sanity, to an understanding of human nature in its myriad forms. Where we can feel a loving kindness for ourselves and by extension to others.
I listen to ghost stories at night. People say, "doesn't that scare you?" Er, no. Reality is way more frightening.
With only a few exceptions, I think most people feel good will toward others and want to be helpful when they can. Only a handful of people make the rules and have the power to enforce them no matter what damage they do. Orwell saw it and wrote about it in Animal Farm. The good animals were exploited, lied to, and gave their trust to a man who desired to turn them into slaves. It takes so few to destroy and manipulate others onto submission.
I don’t know what it will take - maybe the Houthis will get their attention- to stop this evil and get help to the people who are left.
SW,
What it will take is called revolution, and not many cowardly Amerikkkans seem interested in anything but their own self-preservation.
I’m well-armed and ready.
That you are my friend in all ways : )
About once a year, gypsy 33, I remind everyone that a well managed crowdfunding exercise to provide two nuclear submarines off the coast of New York, just sitting there but armed and ready to act, is the motivation that Americans need. Let the imaginations of the population run riot as to what could happen next, the location of the target for the first nuclear missile, and then the next and on.
MSM would have a field day. Fox may even tell the truth. NYT as well? Not likely.
Could change the climate overnight as the choice of all past Presidents has been to fight their hegemonic wars in other geographies, therefore no threat to the American masses, no sporting fixtures affected, life as normal.
But a threat to the country for the first time? A different story.
Thank you Caitlin Collective for pointing out the ego's role in perpetuating our dominating and competitive tendencies. Our survival strategies also include rigid hierarchy, submission/fawning, and expediency and deception.
All of these are great in dealing with an imminent threat but very problematic and destructive for running a healthy society.
It is our egoic condition that makes us dysfunctional and makes us feel unsafe. The incessant and compulsive thinking and reacting with which we identify, impels us back into our survival brain centers, our imminent threat mode.
This survival mode also makes us rely too heavily on perceiving reality through the filter of hundreds of cognitive biases--which further distort our reality and deepen survival urgency.
As a prosocial species we also favor empathy, collaboration, sharing, nurturing and caring. But these get suppressed on a daily basis by the false sense of danger and lack produced by the egoic condition.
So patriarchy and capitalism and white men etc. are symptoms of humanity's crisis not the root causes. The root cause is the egoic condition and until that is deeply explored the symptoms will keep reemerging in different forms keeping us distracted and trapped.
Wherever we wish to take a stand, we try to do so with equanimity so as not to worsen the egoic condition in ourselves or the other. Sometimes equanimity is not possible or even practical but it along with presence must always be aspired to if we want to deal with root causes and finally build heaven on earth.
👍❤️ So cogently expressed - thank you!
It is my pleasure. I've been sharing this with small groups for some years and perhaps it's time to reach out a little more.
I think there’s a great need for dispelling the lies that are orchestrated to sow immobility and acquiescence, but the American society is severely damaged, and seeing the dysfunction and identifying it is but a step. There’s is now an abundance of documentation to cast doubt and suspicion upon the corporate narratives churned out by the popular news media, and the latter are approaching a stage of unintended self-caricature.
What I believe is much more challenging is creating spaces where support for the damaged is made available and has the capacity to grow roots and network. What I’m thinking is that such a project has to be economically sustainable which means that millionaires with a shared vision have to buy in. It’s too much to expect the work-weary, cash-strapped to be the leaders who create humane options for the psychologically and materially challenged. Idealistic doctors are a place to begin fabricating an affordable alternative to the killing state. The space to grow food and educate the public about surviving in a predatory social milieu is essential. Right now, there are two sectors of the predatory state that need to have their missions altered. Prisons are privatized, which is the ultimate waste of human capital for the greed of an individual. Buy the prisons, and turn them into group homes that educate and create ecosystems for human development and survival. The nursing home population are caged according to their incomes. The well off can have palatial quarters, with pampering to denote their station. But all seniors in settings if assisted living, must surrender their pensions and estates to be eligible to NOT be left alone when they are on death’s doorstep. Clearly, none of this can happen if the Surveillance State is positioned to control a population rather than serve it. The two fake parties are corporate bait and switch industries for class warfare that need to be fossilized. The solutions to the libertarian, dystopian present will probably only become apparent when the house of cards begins to collapse.
Well said unwarranted! I like some of your suggestions - especially the 'changes that need to be made to the prison system'. Now, how do we go about implementing such a change? How do we wrestle power away from the PIC (prison industrial complex)?
I think we can’t overtake the profiteers who milk the service sector for every last cent, but the day is not far off when those services will be expenses that humane persons can probably acquire at a discount. Maybe I’m naive, but our present arrangement is a clear grab that nobody wants to challenge because nobody has the energy or the means to fight. Legislative action would probably need to facilitate more public participation in the dealings with the marginalized, but the financialized takeover has to be addressed as a first step to establishing some calm amidst a a run up to civil unrest on an unprecedented scale. I think we’re in for a total societal makeover which will trigger unpredictable changes in people and circumstances.
The self does exist and is the source of everything good. All the horrors you regularly condemn are the products of perverse incentives and soulless machines.
A poem in Irish and English (below).
Musica Universalis
An cumadóir Ostarach Giúdach
Alban Berg
(An gá Giúdach a rá?
An gá Ostarach a rá?)
Tosnaigh arís . . .
An cumadóir
Alban Berg
(An gá cumadóir a rá?)
Is cuma má b'Ostarach é
Is cuma má ba Ghiúdach é
Is cuma má ba chumadóir é
Go deimhin, níor Ghiúdach in aon chor é
ach ó dhein sé staidéar faoi Arnold Schoenberg -
ba leor sin!
Tháinig mé ar ghrianghraf d'Alban Berg
agus é ar leaba a bháis
baineadh siar asam.
Glacaim leis gurb é fórsa na beatha ionainn
a iompaíonn in aghaidh íomhánna an bháis sinn.
Íomhánna lán de bheatha is d'fhuinneamh
a bhíonn timpeall orainn
an t-am ar fad.
Nuair a fheicimid íomhá an bháis
cúbaimid siar uaithi
ach amháin, ar ndóigh, más ilíomhánna iad
cuir i gcás iad siúd a chailltear in Gaza, gan chall
Phrioc feithid Alban Berg
agus dá dheasca sin
fágadh neascóid ar a dhroim
a dhein nimhiú ar a chuid fola
Na mairbh in Gaza
cén nimh a mharaigh iad?
An bhfuil frithnimh ar fáil?
P.S. Tá astaróideach sna flaithis a ainmníodh in ómós do Berg
thuas ansin áit éigin, ag foghlaim Cheol na Sféar.
Cá bhfuil na hastaróidigh in ómós do shlua na marbh in Gaza?
Musica Universalis
The Austrian Jewish composer
Alban Berg
(Do we need to say Jewish?
Do we need to say Austrian?)
Start again . . .
The composer
Alban Berg
(Do we need to say composer?)
It doesn't matter that he was Austrian
It doesn't matter that he was Jewish
It doesn't matter that he was a composer
In fact, he wasn't Jewish at all
but since he studied under Arnold Schoenberg -
that was enough!
I came across a photo of Alban Berg
on his deathbed
I was taken aback.
I suppose it's the life force within us
that automatically rejects images of death.
Surrounded as we are
by images of life and liveliness
on seeing an image of death
we shrink from it
unless, of course, the image is multiplied daily on our screens
as in the spectacle of those who die needlessly in Gaza.
Alban Berg died from the bite of an insect
resulting in
a furuncle (or boil) on his back
which lead to blood poisoning
The dead of Gaza
What is the poison?
What the antidote?
P. S. There's an asteroid in the heavens named after Berg
up there somewhere, learning the Music of the Spheres!
Where are the asteroids to honour the Gazan dead?
Gabriel Rosenstock
Good luck creating an economic system that doesn't hurt and rob people everyday. Millions of people have tried to find a third way, so just one more person looking. It might be instructive to look at what Capitalists and Communists both agree and disagree on and ask why. Also look at who benefits.
"We’ll sit on the edge of our seats watching made-up tales about psychopathic killers while psychopathic killers rule the world."
I can't watch horror films--particularly about psychopathic killers. I think it's because they just remind me that the world is full of them and we seem powerless to stop them. Watching a live-streamed genocide has possibly desensitized some, but it's made the rest of us hypersensitive to the anguish of others. I'm not sure we can wake up from the nightmare of the Western world without first tearing it all down first.
There are a lot of good human beings right now in my community conferring with each other on how to best fight the utter Trump/ Zionist evil. How about in your community?
Guess no one finds these pictures funny. Even in a nightmare, one should be able to laugh, maybe esp. in a nightmare. That might wake you up.