"I have plenty of hope in humanity as a collective. "
I envy (in a good way) that you feel this way. I'm old. Too negative. But I don't hold a rosey view of homo sapiens any more. I know there is breathtaking beauty and goodness. But in the end, I think evil wins because sociopaths have no boundaries...i.e. the fascism in the USA....nothing stops them from getting what they want.
No - there is more power in good than in sociopaths. They prosper because we let them! Truly, it's up to us to stand for truth and doing the right thing. But few are doing that. I mention chemtrails at my poetry meetings and they douse me in acrimony for bringing something like that up in a poetry group (and every group I've done it in says the same thing). They say, "this is not the place" or "this is not the time" and believe it or not, they've been saying these same things for over ten years! It is ALWAYS the time to save our butts.
So tired of 'this is not the place' or being accused of 'hate politics'. Where is the hate? Look up not down. Love finding my people here. Keep doing you and being you Denise.
Thank you for believing in the power in good, it is our only way to maintain hope and strength to continue our struggle against evil in power. I salute you from our wounded yet beautiful Gaza.
Do you think a different corporate oligarchic outrage would have more impact? Something more globally -- and locally impactful like clearcutting old growth forests and the resulting eco-chaos that action engenders in the nexus of species from soil fungi to insects to larger animals. Perhaps read a passage or two from Sheldrake's "Entangled Life", with the overview: sure it's prose in form, but can't you hear the poetry inherent in the love with which he speaks about natural systems. There are ways to wake up dunderheads in-denial. I urge you to not give up and keep trying -- and commend you for your efforts.
I'm old too and I get what you are saying. But I don't think that evil wins in the end. All those sociopaths might get what they want, but that does not mean they win. They are destroying the earth, they are fomenting hatred. In the end they lose even more than the rest of us because they are the ones that have created this mess. I know there are those that say "we" allowed it because "we" voted them into power. But really, the voters are just blindly going along with what they have been told since kindergarten will get them what they want. Well guess what? They have been told a pack of lies. Evil goes down with the rest of us and they go down knowing that it is because of them that we are going down.
It's the kindergartners that are keeping us in this cycle of horror. I agree with you though, evil doesn't have any long-term prospects. And they are about due for a fall.
I don’t think it is possible to destroy the Earth. It can’t be done by anything created or made by humans. We will most likely wipe ourselves out! The planet will go into hibernation to breakdown everything we did and rejuvenate for a billion years or however long it takes; the oceans will theme with life and the forests and savannahs will be full of wildlife and gargantuan trees. We would register as a footnote in its long existence because as far as the planet is concerned we’ve only been here for all of 30mins!
I couldn’t agree more with you. Actually those sociopaths are already loosing and it won’t be long before we see the change we all deserve. Stay safe and stay strong.
Sadly, I agree with you WITBD. I believe that humanity beyond redemption. The ONLY thing that might change my mind is the establishment of a Palestinian State.
Otherwise, “humanity” needs to go and allow Mother Nature to reset the planet with the rest of our beautiful—-and far superior—- species.
Coming soon to a theater near you, gypsy: The Great Planetary Reset. Starring trees, mycorrhizal fungi, earthworms, lichens, deep ocean vent bacteria/tube worms, AND Charlton Heston as Homo defunctus.
Bless you. A keystone species in every ecosystem. Easily one of the most influential species in human and planetary history. Grammar school science teachers should really emphasize this to kids because it's so critical in developing systems thinking -- sure an individual worm may not be the brightest intellect in the animal kingdom, but as a species in the context of soil ecology, the soil ecosystem, they are bloody brilliant in what they supply to everything else that interacts with and depends on that system.
Sooner or later, gypsy. Only a question of when, I think. Although the god Musk will tell us how astrobiology will allow for the pollution of the rest of the solar system with our caca.
Fearing the power of gangsters, we seek the shelter of another gang - a self-fulfilling expectation that turns society into a glorified protection racket.
The oligarchs may compete with each other viciously, but none of those factions are on our side.
To clear the confusion, think of cattle herders. They may go to great lengths to raid each other's cattle and hate each other because of it, but they are all in complete agreement that the cattle should be owned, not set free.
I refuse to call the ruling class the "elites". They are the Predatory Class. They view the rest of us as a separate species.
After some deliberation, I must opine that the key names missing from Caitlin's roster of Team Miscreant are the gangsters Larry Fink of BlackRock, Salim Ramji of Vanguard and Ron O'Hanley of State Street. Managing Trillions that do NOT get invested in very much having to do with the public good -- public health, infrastructure, dwelling un-affordability aren't areas with big investor returns. Conversely, weapons, fossil fuels, and Pharma get a ton of investment.
Seems to me that all the votable cretins mentioned in the fiasco that is today's USA lose a bit of their relevance when measured against the sheer power of these sociopath capitalists to twist the direction of the society and the planet into loops wrapped around their filthy greedy fingers.
None of the people you mentioned can be voted out; and it's them, the unelected powerbrokers beyond citizen oversight, that are the most wantonly destructive. Elected officials exist for the sole purpose of clearing the way for them.
Well said. Were I a talented artist like Mr. Fish, I'd draw duopoly politicians -- Bernie maybe --sitting up in a giant snowplow, plowing the runways, clearing the way for their private jets to take off to seed investments for those stratospheric profits worldwide.
That would make an excellent --- and realistic --- political cartoon. I've often regretted not being able to draw cartoons, because I've imagined all sorts of socio/political commentary I could make through that medium.
Painfully true. All the bastards that are visible to us are but errand boys for the large concentrations of power lurking in the shadow banking system. This includes Trump and Musk, whose job is to dismantle the Empire's assets in preparation for the Final Enclosure.
We are living through the end of the Age of Nation States.
So "Monstrous Man", right? When the corporations eventually evolve into superorganisms (ala Michael Swanwick's "Vacuum Flowers"), what latin name do you think will be appropriate for them then?
Right now there is a hockey game between US and Canada. People think it shows Pride rooting for their nation. Nationalism is used to con low income young men to fight in bloody massacres. I’m not watching.
One thing that I don't think gets enough attention is just how common psychopathy is. I once thought psychopaths were one-in-a-million mutants like Charles Manson or Ted Bundy. Learning that they're more like 1% of the population opened my eyes. It explained so much about politics and history.
Add in the various malignant narcissists and such on that side of the bell curve, and the number of human predators raises to at least one in twenty. People don't know this, and they need to.
They also need to recognize that these "people" will say whatever they need to in order to get what they want. A psychopathic politician in a red state will talk about lowering taxes, family values, and Jesus. A psychopathic politician in a blue state will talk about lifting up the poor and POCs, equal rights for queer folks, and Karl Marx.
Yeah, I tend to think that anyone who can be successful in politics must have something deeply wrong with them. It's a very abnormal thing to want to do, and they have to be driven. They have to have a mania for seeking power. They are weird people. We shouldn't ever think of them as our friends.
This is why many say that if we have representative democracy at all, one of the changes should be a new system for picking leaders, that dragoons those deemed best fit by their peers, not volunteers.
At least in a modern state, the upshot would be a strengthening of the administrative bureaucracy, since they would be the only ones with any institutional memory.
"...positive change to our world." Yesssss. Thank you, Caitlin. My takeaway for today:
"These people (Donald Trump...Chuck Schumer...Elon Musk...Hakeem Jeffries...Marco Rubio...Bernie Sanders...JD Vance...Elizabeth Warren...Tulsi Gabbard...Joe Biden ad infinitum) are not your friends. They have some differences, but what they all have in common is that they have all knowingly made careers out of serving the interests of a globe-spanning empire that can only be maintained by nonstop tyranny, abuse, and murder."
"To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal"
"America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests” **
Both quotes from Henry A. Kissinger. Both so true.
I am sure there are so many in this world during the time that Kissinger had influence on foreign matters for the USA who would support those two statements, one being the murdered President Allende from Chile, (if he was alive), the victim of Pinochet who was a stooge for Kissinger.
But so many others as well were included in Kissinger's games in Cambodia, Bangladesh, Cyprus, Argentina, Israel, South Africa and China.
By any measure, Henry Kissinger was a war criminal whose brutal exercise of realpolitik left a trail of blood around the world – an estimated 3 million bodies in far flung places.
The role of all US Presidents.
Just another arrogant American mischief maker and mass murderer. The standard model.
**Someone should kindly (respectfully) tell all the NATO Ukraine supporters that their time is over. They have served their supportive purpose but the USA will pick it up from here.
But thanks for being there, screaming and dancing on the Ukraine and Russian borders, keeping the pot boiling for so long. Poor Scholtz and Starmer and the like. Off you go. All of you. No war today.
Trump. 1. NATO. 0. (…..…."but to be a friend is fatal”)
No war today, the war has gone away
the battleground now bare makes NATO troops despair.
"No war today", it's such a dismal cry
but all those passing by, don’t know the reason why,
How could they know that Trump’s direction means
the end of NATO's warlike hopes, the end of NATO’s dreams.
No more new tanks and guns and weapons by the score
As NATO warriors pack their bags and close their barracks door,
They filled a role for many years, as part of Biden’s bluster
Bur he’s gone now, Hip, hip, hooray , no more dementia cluster.
But watch that Trump, he has a plan we don't know what it is yet
But you can bet your last ten cents, it’s dirty Yankee kismet
it's on a smaller scale (in my opinion) because we don't have the power to enforce bad behaviour around the world that america has, or the number of troops required to man bases all over the world. england's power mad, war hungry bastards are only capable of hanging onto the coat tails of the u.s and making supporting noises. of course, starmer is now planning to send most of our troops to ukraine to prolong that conflict. lunacy reigns
There is no doubt, Jill, that Sir Keir Rodney Starmer is so extreme in all things. A touch of oil and water exampled by his British knighthood / Labor party mix and his Jewish wife hiding in the background. I am certain that even his mother hates him. He loves NATO. Makes him think he is a tough guy.
The next extreme example is Germany’s Scholtz. Something of a latter day Adolph Hitler, apparently with similar ambitions (if the truth was known) He also loves NATO. They haven’t had even a simple skirmish since WWII. It’s humiliating for the German people….or is it just the Scholtz’s of this world?
After lengthy consideration, my suggestion would be to satisfy NATO’s disappointment at not getting a chance to have a NATO / Russian war over Ukraine, thanks to the US playing chicken, (thankfully), to arm them both to the teeth, pick a neutral piece of geography in an unoccupied area in Europe and sit back and watch. Shades of 1939….Adolph and Wiinston #2.
The UK’s King Charlie and all the world’s dignitaries (except the Pope) who recently attended the Auschwitz 80 year memorial shindig, should be invited to watch as well and the event repeated annually. ………. in different locations, naturally.. It could be educational.
Main benefits to all……(serious level low.)
*. A massive opportunity for Hollywood to produce a realtime (but short) movie for world distribution, (profits to go the Palestinians in their ICJ-allocated homeland in America).
* Realtime weapons testing on a grand scale (satisfying all the US militarists and the 86% of Jewish-controlled US politicians) as a background study of new weaponry. All countries welcome, the event managed by the United Nations, giving them something productive to address at last. No authority of course. US veto to still apply to every motion as a mark of respect to Donald Trump.
* Allowing time for Trump City (previously Gaza) to be commenced with ocean views from blocks sold to the WWII Jewish fraternity ONLY, US Presidential son-in-laws and ex-Presidents of Ukraine and any US domiciled Israeli, Jew, Zionist, fellow traveller, Neocon or electoral funder like Adelson and Musk, extremely anxious for a new homeland to avoid a recently proposed (and well supported by decent Americans) investigation called 'Loyalty in the USA’, to be affectionately called McCarthy #2 , #1 being a failed historical event in the 1950’s.
Previous target was Communism, about as insignificant these days as the Zionist-generated “crime" of antisemitism, being promoted by Israelis to hide behind when the real truth is being seen by all around the globe. The truth is called 'ethnic cleansing'. They learned it from Adolph when they were the target. But in actuality, they have learned nothing at all.
* The fair and equal distribution of Israel’s 400 nuclear warheads to every European country, no matter how small, as an equal safeguard for all. Permission for their use for any purpose at all required from all the 700+ members of the European Parliament in Brussels. Observers (not the MSM) expect that such a brief war will be seen by all as a far greater political priority and reason for concern when compared to the removal of unwanted immigrants from Europe, unlikely to progress now.
More advantages for the world, to come. Stay tuned.
PS The UK and Germany can bring all this antagonism to an end by concluding the fantasy NATO war-like alliance….forever…. and by giving peace and harmony a try
People always get mad when I point out that Elizabeth Warren, one of the alleged guiding lights of Democratic Party, was a Republican until her late forties.
Trump was a democrat till he ran for president on the republican ticket.
I don’t think Trump is running anything just like I didn’t think Biden was. If anything Biden showed us that the president isn’t in charge of anything.
The US is run by donors and globalists who tell congress what to vote on and how. Congress doesn’t even write legislation anymore. The globalists’ lobbyists do.
"You don’t have to buy into narratives that Trump presents some dangerous new threat that other US presidents did not."
I'd say that Trump represents the transition of the United States to an open empire. Sure, it was an empire before that, but the pious pretenses and happy horseshit are being dropped.
"A lucid mind looks at all the managers of the US-centralized power structure as part of the same enemy."
Exactly. There's no need to cooperate with or support or vote for the swamp monsters. The only thing you need to do is fight the bastards. Fight them with every ounce of strength that you got! Power to the people--not the corporations and the billionaire/oligarch swindlers!
"Fight the bastards with every ounce of strength you've got" is not a recipe for change. You need an actual plan, which almost certainly needs to start with finding a way to undelude the masses so we are no longer divided into two camps fighting each other.
Um, I’m with you for much of this but you lost me when you included Bernie on your list. He’s not perfect, of course, but he’s been on the right side of lots of things and on the opposite side of the military industrial complex many, many times. He opposed the Iraq war and led numerous attempts to cut arms sales to Israel. He vociferously protested Netanyahu’s invitation to Congress. There are many other examples. If you’re throwing him in with Cory Booker and Chuck Schumer and other sellouts, it makes me wonder if you’re not seeing some of the nuances and exceptions here. Things are not 100 percent one thing and 0 percent the other. That’s too simplistic and too broad of a brush.
Here he is lying to us about how the Ukraine war started. He knows that America has been meddling in Ukraine for decades and Obama’s coup is why Russia had to respond to the events.
Bernie sold out after he saw Hillary rig the primary.
He's an actor like almost all of them. Some aren't because the actors try to fool them too. Look at the way he behaved towards RFK. I'm not a fan of any of them however that was so typically performed and it was obvious RFK was going to be accepted. They just like to go through these motions to keep the audience glued. Eyeballs, that's what they're about, getting as many eyeballs as possible, that way the people are too busy to really understand what is being done to them.
It seems clear to me that Caitlin has been lacking in nuance for a few years now. She's writing an us vs. them narrative and asking us to pick a side. I like her a lot as a person, and I really enjoyed her writing a few years ago, but her writing as of late feels like she's spent too much time on Twitter engaging in rhetorical debates with fascists.
She's had glimpses of being able to humanize the swamp creatures and empire managers in the past, but lately her writing seems to rely on black and white caricatures. I mean, I don't disagree with her general assessment of the system we're living under and the US-centrallized empire, it's a horror show, but I do disagree with the need to moralize and separate people into the soulless vs. the morally enlightened.
People are much more complex than Caitlin's current writing gives credit. I believe it ultimately serves to create more division and separation whereas much of her earlier writing served to energize and heal. This isn't a judgement of her as a person, I think she's probably just too close to the suffering and is unable to empathize with those currently doing harm, but my belief is we actually need that if we're going to move forward, because people with power or influence need to understand the ways in which their souls are being harmed through their participation in this madness.
Call me a fool, but I believe every human being is capable of change, and I believe there are seeds of love in even the most hardened sociopath. Watering those seeds may be impractical in many cases, but they're there. In every sociopath is an inner child who was not nurtured and empathized with properly and is screaming. They've long since drowned out those screams with rushes of power and substances, but we're playing into their preferred self-conception if we think they're beyond saving and their current existence works well for them.
...'she's probably too close to the suffering and is unable to empathise with those doing the harm'. This sounds like a character critique, an analysis of personality. I'm proud to stand one hundred per cent with someone who is closer to the sufferers than those inflicting the harm.
It's an observation, not a critique, and it comes from my attempting to empathize with Caitlin. It's very difficult to not lapse into hatred and judgement when you take in a lot of suffering, and especially if you face criticism and hatred from groups that are doing harm or supporting harm doers. Now, some people might say hatred of the oppressor is justified and that it's desirable. I disagree, and I don't think that makes me an enemy of the oppressed. It simply stems from my belief that empathy at all levels is the way forward. We need to understand how monsters are made. Simply identifying them as evil to be condemned is a very conservative, old fashioned fire and brimstone approach. It's a bit of old time religion dressed up with modern jargon.
When humans are properly nurtured, loved, and educated, they generally don't choose to become evil and violent people. Instead, these people come about amidst larger historical cycles of violence and trauma stemming from dominator cultures propagated through empires. I think we need broader understanding of those factors. Of course, at the same time, we need to place proper boundaries around these violent and harmful people and systems, and for that, we need solidarity.
We need to find some way to move forward that still recognizes the humanity in people doing harm instead of constructing another in group and out group while at the same time protecting people and subduing harm doers (as non-violently as possible). It's the only way to end the cycle of violence.
Ask yourself, when you read my post, did you question whether I was on your side? Did you feel hatred towards me as a result of deciding that perhaps I am not on your and Caitlin's side? Your language implies it. The idea that you are standing with Caitlin implicitly assumes that I am not and that we are separated by a line in the metaphorical sand. That is the very thing I am looking to shed light on. I see Caitlin as my sister. I see you as my sibling, too. And the same is true for even the most hate-filled harm doers, because I could have easily ended up like them if I had been raised differently, experienced different traumas, and exposed to different environments, people, and media at sensitive ages.
Thank you, fair points. I have been using very similar language you, stemming from similar sentiments, in an interaction with someone else who seemed reactive. And I like that you have come at this with compassion and integrity. I agree with you regarding empathy. My own personal difficulty and on a wider social level, is that I have met those who really don’t wish to change. Monsters sometimes quite enjoy their monsterhood. I can see how they are made, I can understand them, but my desire to help them change has sometimes caused me to be subjected to them so I do now see a difference in those who wish to change from causing suffering and those who really do not. I can see the whole person in context of course, I can see how the monsters were formed, I know our society encourages their growth by rewarding the greedy and undervaluing the carers, but I do need to recognise the moral choice that some people make to cause harm. I apologise for reacting rather than responding and I value that you have helped me check myself. I do agree that empathy and understanding, are vital. I also believe that nurturing needs to be elevated in our society. And all people need an equal, flourishing start in life.
I really appreciate that you took the time to read and listen to what I said. It means a lot. I often try to connect to those who disagree with things I write, but I usually expect misunderstanding or being ignored, so receiving your response this morning was a pleasant surprise.
As for your points, yes, it's quite complex and I understand what you're saying. First of all, I believe that if anyone is actively being harmed, their first priority should be to get to safety, whatever that means for them. I'm very sorry to hear that you've been subjected to harm from your attempts to help the monsters you've encountered. I think that, if we are able to help them, it should be from a place of collective strength.
As for whether they want to change, well, most of the times no, but there's an asterisk there. I see most of them as addicts whose drug of choice is power. Like any addiction, it's still ultimately a trauma response at its root. And like any addiction, while it may provide many benefits to them, it doesn't actually truly serve them. It's a coping strategy, but it's maladaptive. So yes, dominators will get rushes of dopamine from their ability to dominate, and they will seek out these experiences desperately, as it is one of the only things in their lives that provides any kind of pleasure or satisfaction, given their inability to love, connect, appreciate beauty, etc.
Ultimately though, I believe their inner world is characterized by deep self-loathing and pain. They've long since numbed that out, but it's still there, and I believe it's possible to bring presence to that. Here's where I have some faith in the power of collectives to do things that individuals cannot. I believe that there is a kind of power to collective intentionality and presence, and I also believe that there is something like collective fields, network effects from clusters of human consciousness that even sociopaths can connect to under the right conditions. Their ability to receive this would likely be conditional on their addiction being interrupted in some way, but I do think it's possible.
In a way, the intention here would be for them to own and face their pain. While this would be an act of compassion stemming from the knowledge that they will have to face their pain in order to heal, it would not be a pleasant process and it would only be possible by generating enough compassion and spaciousness in the collective field: they'd never be able to do this on their own. I've seen the power of network effects when it comes to weaponizing hatred, but there is still a lot to explore in terms of what network effects and emergence can do when large numbers of humans come together to generate compassion energy.
Another way to think about this though is to ask yourself, would any amount of power or pleasure be enough to give up your loving relationships for? If the answer is no, is that just because you'd feel guilty if you did? Or is it because you value the love in your life more than you value power or pleasure? I think the extent to which one would consider trading love for power is the extent to which their ability to experience love is injured. So if there was any part of you that thought "well, maybe if I could be guaranteed constant extreme pleasure up until death..." or something similar, that's not something to feel shame about, but a place of woundedness to be curious about.
The point is that the parts of us that can genuinely experience love would not trade it for the world, and quite often, we are willing to sacrifice ourselves in service of it. Again, not simply because we'd feel shame otherwise, but because we recognize its supreme value. In that sense, the monsters are missing out and their lives are not "working well" for them. That is what they like to believe, and we don't do them any favors by repeating the lie they tell themselves.
The thing that's confusing is that much of their suffering is occurring beneath the surface. However, simply because it's hidden in the subconscious, does that make it not real? I don't believe so. I think when we accept that story, we accept the delusion that abusers are selling themselves on, that their path was the easier one. We should dispel it and no longer buy into their story. Instead, we should lay bare their suffering, the suffering that has been there the whole time, and force them to own it. If we can meet it with compassion, great. But that isn't our job, especially if we were on the receiving end: our first priority should be generating compassion for ourselves. However, I don't believe we lose anything, and it may actually help us develop compassion towards ourselves (as well as avoid the same fate) by recognizing the great suffering one would have to experience in order to reject love and choose a path of soul death.
Well said, and I do agree with all your sentiments. Prisons for example, tend to generate the worst not best behaviours. Torture, isolation and exclusion bring all humanity to its lowest level. We need more places of nurturing, we need to elevate nurturing, and we need to encourage understanding.
And I heartily agree that the movement for change needs to be collective. No one person can heal the world. We must unite for positive change.
For a much shorter version of my comment, what I am saying is actually just following the title of this piece to its logical conclusion. You don't actually have to pick a team! You can be on the side of humanity as a whole and include everyone in your sphere of empathy. I think it gets us closer to collective liberation than more tribal division does, and this is actually what the sociopaths fear most.
Most of my adult life when it comes to voting, especially in the general election, I’ve been told to vote for “the lesser of two evils.” Well my friends, there is no lesser of two evils. There is only the evil swamp monsters the Washington D.C. establishment puts before us every four years. I no longer believe in the lesser of two evils. I vote 3rd party now and try to tell others about the real evil that is going on in Gaza(genocide of Palestinians), Ukraine( ethnic cleansing and shelling of ethnic Russians in the Donbas region) among other atrocities in this world. I’m so done with this evil empire.😢☮️🇵🇸
I'm propaganda proof, thanks to Caitlin and a few others. But I was actually born spotting lies when hearing them. That's one reason there's hope in BRICS which has the opposite philosophy of the empire. The empire has no grasp on what is the basis of BRICS where all countries, no matter the size are equal to all others. And the empire has no control over it whatsoever.
The left/right paradigm is an illusion of choice; both sides of the aisle corrupt, two wings of the same bird bowing to the globalists aka Zionists, Freemasons, Elites, etc. (many names to create confusion) dba the UN/WHO/WEF.
The UN is not the humanitarian, peacekeeping entity it masquerades. The UN, with its library/publishing house Lucis [Lucifer] Trust, is the one world government of the NWO.
Zionists control every aspect of this world; politics, government incl. all world governments and leaders, judiciary, commerce, finance, science, technology, medicine, agriculture, education, and media (news, entertainment).
The Zionists want their NWO, one world government/currency/religion, mass worldwide depopulation (GMOs, famine, 5G, HAARP, geoengineering, pharma, vaxx, biowarfare, pandemics, war, etc.); and absolute control over humanity (ID2020, nanotech, graphene oxide, 5G).
The Gaza Strip is a narrow, 25-mile stretch of land set against the Mediterranean Sea. The Zionists want the Port of Gaza with its strategic location and abundant offshore oil reserves and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem for the building of the Third Temple.
Watch the site of the Dome of the Rock, the Temple Mount, which was the location of the first two Temples of Jerusalem. The Dome of the Rock, at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount, is the Islamic shrine which was built in the 7th century. The Zionists want this site on the Temple Mount for the building of the Third Temple where their messiah, the Antichrist aka the Beast, will declare himself god.
Every agenda, psyop, orchestrated event, DOGE, Stargate, 15-minute cities, weaponized weather, fake (or bioengineered) bird flu, mRNA nanotech, etc. is to usher in the AI governance and absolute control over humanity of the NWO.
UN Agenda 21/2030, WEF Great Reset, NWO Georgia Guidestones
have held for a very long time now that one should go o the polling booth accept a voting paper and write of some thing like 'Voting is a farce in this system and I only voted so that you the Scrutineer could read and maybe reflect on them before throwing my voting slip into the rubbish. Maybe hopefully you will smile an tell your fellow scrutinise and maybe one of them will think to themselves there might be something in that. A fare flung hope but it something and that is better than nothing. Multiply a hundred time and still statistically insignificant.. But might have chance of a few copying it next time . And then the few become more and soon it may even become statistically significant. It is A BIT BETTER THAN STAYING HOME AND A LOT BETTER THAN CASTING A VALID VOTE
"I have plenty of hope in humanity as a collective. "
I envy (in a good way) that you feel this way. I'm old. Too negative. But I don't hold a rosey view of homo sapiens any more. I know there is breathtaking beauty and goodness. But in the end, I think evil wins because sociopaths have no boundaries...i.e. the fascism in the USA....nothing stops them from getting what they want.
No - there is more power in good than in sociopaths. They prosper because we let them! Truly, it's up to us to stand for truth and doing the right thing. But few are doing that. I mention chemtrails at my poetry meetings and they douse me in acrimony for bringing something like that up in a poetry group (and every group I've done it in says the same thing). They say, "this is not the place" or "this is not the time" and believe it or not, they've been saying these same things for over ten years! It is ALWAYS the time to save our butts.
So tired of 'this is not the place' or being accused of 'hate politics'. Where is the hate? Look up not down. Love finding my people here. Keep doing you and being you Denise.
Thank you for believing in the power in good, it is our only way to maintain hope and strength to continue our struggle against evil in power. I salute you from our wounded yet beautiful Gaza.
Do you think a different corporate oligarchic outrage would have more impact? Something more globally -- and locally impactful like clearcutting old growth forests and the resulting eco-chaos that action engenders in the nexus of species from soil fungi to insects to larger animals. Perhaps read a passage or two from Sheldrake's "Entangled Life", with the overview: sure it's prose in form, but can't you hear the poetry inherent in the love with which he speaks about natural systems. There are ways to wake up dunderheads in-denial. I urge you to not give up and keep trying -- and commend you for your efforts.
I'm old too and I get what you are saying. But I don't think that evil wins in the end. All those sociopaths might get what they want, but that does not mean they win. They are destroying the earth, they are fomenting hatred. In the end they lose even more than the rest of us because they are the ones that have created this mess. I know there are those that say "we" allowed it because "we" voted them into power. But really, the voters are just blindly going along with what they have been told since kindergarten will get them what they want. Well guess what? They have been told a pack of lies. Evil goes down with the rest of us and they go down knowing that it is because of them that we are going down.
It's the kindergartners that are keeping us in this cycle of horror. I agree with you though, evil doesn't have any long-term prospects. And they are about due for a fall.
I don’t think it is possible to destroy the Earth. It can’t be done by anything created or made by humans. We will most likely wipe ourselves out! The planet will go into hibernation to breakdown everything we did and rejuvenate for a billion years or however long it takes; the oceans will theme with life and the forests and savannahs will be full of wildlife and gargantuan trees. We would register as a footnote in its long existence because as far as the planet is concerned we’ve only been here for all of 30mins!
I couldn’t agree more with you. Actually those sociopaths are already loosing and it won’t be long before we see the change we all deserve. Stay safe and stay strong.
It's not about good v evil. At no point in world history has one gained an upper hand against the other. They coexist symbiotically.
Sadly, I agree with you WITBD. I believe that humanity beyond redemption. The ONLY thing that might change my mind is the establishment of a Palestinian State.
Otherwise, “humanity” needs to go and allow Mother Nature to reset the planet with the rest of our beautiful—-and far superior—- species.
Coming soon to a theater near you, gypsy: The Great Planetary Reset. Starring trees, mycorrhizal fungi, earthworms, lichens, deep ocean vent bacteria/tube worms, AND Charlton Heston as Homo defunctus.
I love my earthworms, Vin. They along with bees are a gardener’s best friend. I dig ever so carefully so as not to harm them!
Bless you. A keystone species in every ecosystem. Easily one of the most influential species in human and planetary history. Grammar school science teachers should really emphasize this to kids because it's so critical in developing systems thinking -- sure an individual worm may not be the brightest intellect in the animal kingdom, but as a species in the context of soil ecology, the soil ecosystem, they are bloody brilliant in what they supply to everything else that interacts with and depends on that system.
Vin, I love you for many reasons, but at the top is your knowledge and appreciation for the natural world 🙂
Your steadfast defense of Nature against any suggestions of human encroachment or abuse are inspirational to me, gypsy dear.
I hope so Vin, I hope so!
Sooner or later, gypsy. Only a question of when, I think. Although the god Musk will tell us how astrobiology will allow for the pollution of the rest of the solar system with our caca.
I agree. Human nature is the problem.
As for the solution . . . well, I get the impression from one wise old commenter that what we need to do is to put cats in charge . . .
Feral Finster for leader of the world! 😻
? Lots of things stop them.
Fearing the power of gangsters, we seek the shelter of another gang - a self-fulfilling expectation that turns society into a glorified protection racket.
The oligarchs may compete with each other viciously, but none of those factions are on our side.
To clear the confusion, think of cattle herders. They may go to great lengths to raid each other's cattle and hate each other because of it, but they are all in complete agreement that the cattle should be owned, not set free.
I refuse to call the ruling class the "elites". They are the Predatory Class. They view the rest of us as a separate species.
After some deliberation, I must opine that the key names missing from Caitlin's roster of Team Miscreant are the gangsters Larry Fink of BlackRock, Salim Ramji of Vanguard and Ron O'Hanley of State Street. Managing Trillions that do NOT get invested in very much having to do with the public good -- public health, infrastructure, dwelling un-affordability aren't areas with big investor returns. Conversely, weapons, fossil fuels, and Pharma get a ton of investment.
Seems to me that all the votable cretins mentioned in the fiasco that is today's USA lose a bit of their relevance when measured against the sheer power of these sociopath capitalists to twist the direction of the society and the planet into loops wrapped around their filthy greedy fingers.
None of the people you mentioned can be voted out; and it's them, the unelected powerbrokers beyond citizen oversight, that are the most wantonly destructive. Elected officials exist for the sole purpose of clearing the way for them.
Well said. Were I a talented artist like Mr. Fish, I'd draw duopoly politicians -- Bernie maybe --sitting up in a giant snowplow, plowing the runways, clearing the way for their private jets to take off to seed investments for those stratospheric profits worldwide.
That would make an excellent --- and realistic --- political cartoon. I've often regretted not being able to draw cartoons, because I've imagined all sorts of socio/political commentary I could make through that medium.
Painfully true. All the bastards that are visible to us are but errand boys for the large concentrations of power lurking in the shadow banking system. This includes Trump and Musk, whose job is to dismantle the Empire's assets in preparation for the Final Enclosure.
We are living through the end of the Age of Nation States.
They are a separate species. I call them homo immanis. I wrote a big long series about this.
So "Monstrous Man", right? When the corporations eventually evolve into superorganisms (ala Michael Swanwick's "Vacuum Flowers"), what latin name do you think will be appropriate for them then?
homo ludens!
Apt.
Right now there is a hockey game between US and Canada. People think it shows Pride rooting for their nation. Nationalism is used to con low income young men to fight in bloody massacres. I’m not watching.
One thing that I don't think gets enough attention is just how common psychopathy is. I once thought psychopaths were one-in-a-million mutants like Charles Manson or Ted Bundy. Learning that they're more like 1% of the population opened my eyes. It explained so much about politics and history.
Add in the various malignant narcissists and such on that side of the bell curve, and the number of human predators raises to at least one in twenty. People don't know this, and they need to.
They also need to recognize that these "people" will say whatever they need to in order to get what they want. A psychopathic politician in a red state will talk about lowering taxes, family values, and Jesus. A psychopathic politician in a blue state will talk about lifting up the poor and POCs, equal rights for queer folks, and Karl Marx.
https://ponerology.substack.com/
Yeah, I tend to think that anyone who can be successful in politics must have something deeply wrong with them. It's a very abnormal thing to want to do, and they have to be driven. They have to have a mania for seeking power. They are weird people. We shouldn't ever think of them as our friends.
This is why many say that if we have representative democracy at all, one of the changes should be a new system for picking leaders, that dragoons those deemed best fit by their peers, not volunteers.
The Athenians did that for a while.
At least in a modern state, the upshot would be a strengthening of the administrative bureaucracy, since they would be the only ones with any institutional memory.
I think it was Lord Acton who said that those who seek power are the least deserving of it.
Pertinent point.
"...positive change to our world." Yesssss. Thank you, Caitlin. My takeaway for today:
"These people (Donald Trump...Chuck Schumer...Elon Musk...Hakeem Jeffries...Marco Rubio...Bernie Sanders...JD Vance...Elizabeth Warren...Tulsi Gabbard...Joe Biden ad infinitum) are not your friends. They have some differences, but what they all have in common is that they have all knowingly made careers out of serving the interests of a globe-spanning empire that can only be maintained by nonstop tyranny, abuse, and murder."
From Robert…"nonstop tyranny, abuse, and murder."
"To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal"
"America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests” **
Both quotes from Henry A. Kissinger. Both so true.
I am sure there are so many in this world during the time that Kissinger had influence on foreign matters for the USA who would support those two statements, one being the murdered President Allende from Chile, (if he was alive), the victim of Pinochet who was a stooge for Kissinger.
But so many others as well were included in Kissinger's games in Cambodia, Bangladesh, Cyprus, Argentina, Israel, South Africa and China.
By any measure, Henry Kissinger was a war criminal whose brutal exercise of realpolitik left a trail of blood around the world – an estimated 3 million bodies in far flung places.
The role of all US Presidents.
Just another arrogant American mischief maker and mass murderer. The standard model.
**Someone should kindly (respectfully) tell all the NATO Ukraine supporters that their time is over. They have served their supportive purpose but the USA will pick it up from here.
But thanks for being there, screaming and dancing on the Ukraine and Russian borders, keeping the pot boiling for so long. Poor Scholtz and Starmer and the like. Off you go. All of you. No war today.
Trump. 1. NATO. 0. (…..…."but to be a friend is fatal”)
No war today, the war has gone away
the battleground now bare makes NATO troops despair.
"No war today", it's such a dismal cry
but all those passing by, don’t know the reason why,
How could they know that Trump’s direction means
the end of NATO's warlike hopes, the end of NATO’s dreams.
No more new tanks and guns and weapons by the score
As NATO warriors pack their bags and close their barracks door,
They filled a role for many years, as part of Biden’s bluster
Bur he’s gone now, Hip, hip, hooray , no more dementia cluster.
But watch that Trump, he has a plan we don't know what it is yet
But you can bet your last ten cents, it’s dirty Yankee kismet
Anthony Bourdain said that you cannot go to Cambodia and not want to strangle Kissinger with your own bare hands.
I agree. Luckily Putin will see through the lies after years of dealing with the US
just like, on a smaller scale, the u.k.
I don't think it is on a smaller scale in the UK
it's on a smaller scale (in my opinion) because we don't have the power to enforce bad behaviour around the world that america has, or the number of troops required to man bases all over the world. england's power mad, war hungry bastards are only capable of hanging onto the coat tails of the u.s and making supporting noises. of course, starmer is now planning to send most of our troops to ukraine to prolong that conflict. lunacy reigns
Sorry I didn't really understand your comment.
I agree mostly but I think that there is more going on UK than anyone knows.
Eg: Where did Starmer come from/who backed him to be Labour Minister?
Something 'fishy?'
there's definitely a very strong smell of fish.....
There is no doubt, Jill, that Sir Keir Rodney Starmer is so extreme in all things. A touch of oil and water exampled by his British knighthood / Labor party mix and his Jewish wife hiding in the background. I am certain that even his mother hates him. He loves NATO. Makes him think he is a tough guy.
The next extreme example is Germany’s Scholtz. Something of a latter day Adolph Hitler, apparently with similar ambitions (if the truth was known) He also loves NATO. They haven’t had even a simple skirmish since WWII. It’s humiliating for the German people….or is it just the Scholtz’s of this world?
After lengthy consideration, my suggestion would be to satisfy NATO’s disappointment at not getting a chance to have a NATO / Russian war over Ukraine, thanks to the US playing chicken, (thankfully), to arm them both to the teeth, pick a neutral piece of geography in an unoccupied area in Europe and sit back and watch. Shades of 1939….Adolph and Wiinston #2.
The UK’s King Charlie and all the world’s dignitaries (except the Pope) who recently attended the Auschwitz 80 year memorial shindig, should be invited to watch as well and the event repeated annually. ………. in different locations, naturally.. It could be educational.
Main benefits to all……(serious level low.)
*. A massive opportunity for Hollywood to produce a realtime (but short) movie for world distribution, (profits to go the Palestinians in their ICJ-allocated homeland in America).
* Realtime weapons testing on a grand scale (satisfying all the US militarists and the 86% of Jewish-controlled US politicians) as a background study of new weaponry. All countries welcome, the event managed by the United Nations, giving them something productive to address at last. No authority of course. US veto to still apply to every motion as a mark of respect to Donald Trump.
* Allowing time for Trump City (previously Gaza) to be commenced with ocean views from blocks sold to the WWII Jewish fraternity ONLY, US Presidential son-in-laws and ex-Presidents of Ukraine and any US domiciled Israeli, Jew, Zionist, fellow traveller, Neocon or electoral funder like Adelson and Musk, extremely anxious for a new homeland to avoid a recently proposed (and well supported by decent Americans) investigation called 'Loyalty in the USA’, to be affectionately called McCarthy #2 , #1 being a failed historical event in the 1950’s.
Previous target was Communism, about as insignificant these days as the Zionist-generated “crime" of antisemitism, being promoted by Israelis to hide behind when the real truth is being seen by all around the globe. The truth is called 'ethnic cleansing'. They learned it from Adolph when they were the target. But in actuality, they have learned nothing at all.
* The fair and equal distribution of Israel’s 400 nuclear warheads to every European country, no matter how small, as an equal safeguard for all. Permission for their use for any purpose at all required from all the 700+ members of the European Parliament in Brussels. Observers (not the MSM) expect that such a brief war will be seen by all as a far greater political priority and reason for concern when compared to the removal of unwanted immigrants from Europe, unlikely to progress now.
More advantages for the world, to come. Stay tuned.
PS The UK and Germany can bring all this antagonism to an end by concluding the fantasy NATO war-like alliance….forever…. and by giving peace and harmony a try
People always get mad when I point out that Elizabeth Warren, one of the alleged guiding lights of Democratic Party, was a Republican until her late forties.
Hillary Clinton was a Republican until she was about 20.
Leon Panetta was a Republican until he was 33.
Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan were Democrats.
Tulsi Gabbard was a Democrat until kicked out of the party for suing Hillary for libel.
Trump was a democrat till he ran for president on the republican ticket.
I don’t think Trump is running anything just like I didn’t think Biden was. If anything Biden showed us that the president isn’t in charge of anything.
The US is run by donors and globalists who tell congress what to vote on and how. Congress doesn’t even write legislation anymore. The globalists’ lobbyists do.
Yep.
I'm on team-compassion.
The only actual divide is awake vs asleep
Or, as Don Miguel Ruiz put it, the real battle is between TRUTH and LIES.
Quite true!
"You don’t have to buy into narratives that Trump presents some dangerous new threat that other US presidents did not."
I'd say that Trump represents the transition of the United States to an open empire. Sure, it was an empire before that, but the pious pretenses and happy horseshit are being dropped.
"A lucid mind looks at all the managers of the US-centralized power structure as part of the same enemy."
Exactly. There's no need to cooperate with or support or vote for the swamp monsters. The only thing you need to do is fight the bastards. Fight them with every ounce of strength that you got! Power to the people--not the corporations and the billionaire/oligarch swindlers!
"Fight the bastards with every ounce of strength you've got" is not a recipe for change. You need an actual plan, which almost certainly needs to start with finding a way to undelude the masses so we are no longer divided into two camps fighting each other.
Keep reading my Substack for the "recipe for change", Mary.
Well said!
Um, I’m with you for much of this but you lost me when you included Bernie on your list. He’s not perfect, of course, but he’s been on the right side of lots of things and on the opposite side of the military industrial complex many, many times. He opposed the Iraq war and led numerous attempts to cut arms sales to Israel. He vociferously protested Netanyahu’s invitation to Congress. There are many other examples. If you’re throwing him in with Cory Booker and Chuck Schumer and other sellouts, it makes me wonder if you’re not seeing some of the nuances and exceptions here. Things are not 100 percent one thing and 0 percent the other. That’s too simplistic and too broad of a brush.
Bernie voted for the Libya War and he’s voted to give Israel more weapons for its genocide going back to 2014.
And now he’s full of Russia Gate nonsense and calling Trump a traitor for trying to stop the war.
https://x.com/SenSanders/status/1892379144186392725
Here he is lying to us about how the Ukraine war started. He knows that America has been meddling in Ukraine for decades and Obama’s coup is why Russia had to respond to the events.
Bernie sold out after he saw Hillary rig the primary.
Indeed. Sanders always sold-out when it counted. If he'd had a backbone when he was rolled (twice) things would certainly be different now.
He's an actor like almost all of them. Some aren't because the actors try to fool them too. Look at the way he behaved towards RFK. I'm not a fan of any of them however that was so typically performed and it was obvious RFK was going to be accepted. They just like to go through these motions to keep the audience glued. Eyeballs, that's what they're about, getting as many eyeballs as possible, that way the people are too busy to really understand what is being done to them.
Sanders throws himself in with monsters like Biden and Schumer. Nobody holds a gun to his head.
It seems clear to me that Caitlin has been lacking in nuance for a few years now. She's writing an us vs. them narrative and asking us to pick a side. I like her a lot as a person, and I really enjoyed her writing a few years ago, but her writing as of late feels like she's spent too much time on Twitter engaging in rhetorical debates with fascists.
She's had glimpses of being able to humanize the swamp creatures and empire managers in the past, but lately her writing seems to rely on black and white caricatures. I mean, I don't disagree with her general assessment of the system we're living under and the US-centrallized empire, it's a horror show, but I do disagree with the need to moralize and separate people into the soulless vs. the morally enlightened.
People are much more complex than Caitlin's current writing gives credit. I believe it ultimately serves to create more division and separation whereas much of her earlier writing served to energize and heal. This isn't a judgement of her as a person, I think she's probably just too close to the suffering and is unable to empathize with those currently doing harm, but my belief is we actually need that if we're going to move forward, because people with power or influence need to understand the ways in which their souls are being harmed through their participation in this madness.
Call me a fool, but I believe every human being is capable of change, and I believe there are seeds of love in even the most hardened sociopath. Watering those seeds may be impractical in many cases, but they're there. In every sociopath is an inner child who was not nurtured and empathized with properly and is screaming. They've long since drowned out those screams with rushes of power and substances, but we're playing into their preferred self-conception if we think they're beyond saving and their current existence works well for them.
...'she's probably too close to the suffering and is unable to empathise with those doing the harm'. This sounds like a character critique, an analysis of personality. I'm proud to stand one hundred per cent with someone who is closer to the sufferers than those inflicting the harm.
It's an observation, not a critique, and it comes from my attempting to empathize with Caitlin. It's very difficult to not lapse into hatred and judgement when you take in a lot of suffering, and especially if you face criticism and hatred from groups that are doing harm or supporting harm doers. Now, some people might say hatred of the oppressor is justified and that it's desirable. I disagree, and I don't think that makes me an enemy of the oppressed. It simply stems from my belief that empathy at all levels is the way forward. We need to understand how monsters are made. Simply identifying them as evil to be condemned is a very conservative, old fashioned fire and brimstone approach. It's a bit of old time religion dressed up with modern jargon.
When humans are properly nurtured, loved, and educated, they generally don't choose to become evil and violent people. Instead, these people come about amidst larger historical cycles of violence and trauma stemming from dominator cultures propagated through empires. I think we need broader understanding of those factors. Of course, at the same time, we need to place proper boundaries around these violent and harmful people and systems, and for that, we need solidarity.
We need to find some way to move forward that still recognizes the humanity in people doing harm instead of constructing another in group and out group while at the same time protecting people and subduing harm doers (as non-violently as possible). It's the only way to end the cycle of violence.
Ask yourself, when you read my post, did you question whether I was on your side? Did you feel hatred towards me as a result of deciding that perhaps I am not on your and Caitlin's side? Your language implies it. The idea that you are standing with Caitlin implicitly assumes that I am not and that we are separated by a line in the metaphorical sand. That is the very thing I am looking to shed light on. I see Caitlin as my sister. I see you as my sibling, too. And the same is true for even the most hate-filled harm doers, because I could have easily ended up like them if I had been raised differently, experienced different traumas, and exposed to different environments, people, and media at sensitive ages.
Thank you, fair points. I have been using very similar language you, stemming from similar sentiments, in an interaction with someone else who seemed reactive. And I like that you have come at this with compassion and integrity. I agree with you regarding empathy. My own personal difficulty and on a wider social level, is that I have met those who really don’t wish to change. Monsters sometimes quite enjoy their monsterhood. I can see how they are made, I can understand them, but my desire to help them change has sometimes caused me to be subjected to them so I do now see a difference in those who wish to change from causing suffering and those who really do not. I can see the whole person in context of course, I can see how the monsters were formed, I know our society encourages their growth by rewarding the greedy and undervaluing the carers, but I do need to recognise the moral choice that some people make to cause harm. I apologise for reacting rather than responding and I value that you have helped me check myself. I do agree that empathy and understanding, are vital. I also believe that nurturing needs to be elevated in our society. And all people need an equal, flourishing start in life.
I really appreciate that you took the time to read and listen to what I said. It means a lot. I often try to connect to those who disagree with things I write, but I usually expect misunderstanding or being ignored, so receiving your response this morning was a pleasant surprise.
As for your points, yes, it's quite complex and I understand what you're saying. First of all, I believe that if anyone is actively being harmed, their first priority should be to get to safety, whatever that means for them. I'm very sorry to hear that you've been subjected to harm from your attempts to help the monsters you've encountered. I think that, if we are able to help them, it should be from a place of collective strength.
As for whether they want to change, well, most of the times no, but there's an asterisk there. I see most of them as addicts whose drug of choice is power. Like any addiction, it's still ultimately a trauma response at its root. And like any addiction, while it may provide many benefits to them, it doesn't actually truly serve them. It's a coping strategy, but it's maladaptive. So yes, dominators will get rushes of dopamine from their ability to dominate, and they will seek out these experiences desperately, as it is one of the only things in their lives that provides any kind of pleasure or satisfaction, given their inability to love, connect, appreciate beauty, etc.
Ultimately though, I believe their inner world is characterized by deep self-loathing and pain. They've long since numbed that out, but it's still there, and I believe it's possible to bring presence to that. Here's where I have some faith in the power of collectives to do things that individuals cannot. I believe that there is a kind of power to collective intentionality and presence, and I also believe that there is something like collective fields, network effects from clusters of human consciousness that even sociopaths can connect to under the right conditions. Their ability to receive this would likely be conditional on their addiction being interrupted in some way, but I do think it's possible.
In a way, the intention here would be for them to own and face their pain. While this would be an act of compassion stemming from the knowledge that they will have to face their pain in order to heal, it would not be a pleasant process and it would only be possible by generating enough compassion and spaciousness in the collective field: they'd never be able to do this on their own. I've seen the power of network effects when it comes to weaponizing hatred, but there is still a lot to explore in terms of what network effects and emergence can do when large numbers of humans come together to generate compassion energy.
Another way to think about this though is to ask yourself, would any amount of power or pleasure be enough to give up your loving relationships for? If the answer is no, is that just because you'd feel guilty if you did? Or is it because you value the love in your life more than you value power or pleasure? I think the extent to which one would consider trading love for power is the extent to which their ability to experience love is injured. So if there was any part of you that thought "well, maybe if I could be guaranteed constant extreme pleasure up until death..." or something similar, that's not something to feel shame about, but a place of woundedness to be curious about.
The point is that the parts of us that can genuinely experience love would not trade it for the world, and quite often, we are willing to sacrifice ourselves in service of it. Again, not simply because we'd feel shame otherwise, but because we recognize its supreme value. In that sense, the monsters are missing out and their lives are not "working well" for them. That is what they like to believe, and we don't do them any favors by repeating the lie they tell themselves.
The thing that's confusing is that much of their suffering is occurring beneath the surface. However, simply because it's hidden in the subconscious, does that make it not real? I don't believe so. I think when we accept that story, we accept the delusion that abusers are selling themselves on, that their path was the easier one. We should dispel it and no longer buy into their story. Instead, we should lay bare their suffering, the suffering that has been there the whole time, and force them to own it. If we can meet it with compassion, great. But that isn't our job, especially if we were on the receiving end: our first priority should be generating compassion for ourselves. However, I don't believe we lose anything, and it may actually help us develop compassion towards ourselves (as well as avoid the same fate) by recognizing the great suffering one would have to experience in order to reject love and choose a path of soul death.
Well said, and I do agree with all your sentiments. Prisons for example, tend to generate the worst not best behaviours. Torture, isolation and exclusion bring all humanity to its lowest level. We need more places of nurturing, we need to elevate nurturing, and we need to encourage understanding.
And I heartily agree that the movement for change needs to be collective. No one person can heal the world. We must unite for positive change.
For a much shorter version of my comment, what I am saying is actually just following the title of this piece to its logical conclusion. You don't actually have to pick a team! You can be on the side of humanity as a whole and include everyone in your sphere of empathy. I think it gets us closer to collective liberation than more tribal division does, and this is actually what the sociopaths fear most.
if bernie wants to regain credibility, he'd have to quit the senate and start his own party or something like that.
Some years ago, I watched a very interesting and informative video about Bernie Sanders by Ryan Dawson.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/pp9Mg7c8aTok/
If you really want to know about Bernie, I suggest that you watch it.
Most of my adult life when it comes to voting, especially in the general election, I’ve been told to vote for “the lesser of two evils.” Well my friends, there is no lesser of two evils. There is only the evil swamp monsters the Washington D.C. establishment puts before us every four years. I no longer believe in the lesser of two evils. I vote 3rd party now and try to tell others about the real evil that is going on in Gaza(genocide of Palestinians), Ukraine( ethnic cleansing and shelling of ethnic Russians in the Donbas region) among other atrocities in this world. I’m so done with this evil empire.😢☮️🇵🇸
I'm propaganda proof, thanks to Caitlin and a few others. But I was actually born spotting lies when hearing them. That's one reason there's hope in BRICS which has the opposite philosophy of the empire. The empire has no grasp on what is the basis of BRICS where all countries, no matter the size are equal to all others. And the empire has no control over it whatsoever.
The need to spell out something so obvious speaks volumes about the Western world...
The left/right paradigm is an illusion of choice; both sides of the aisle corrupt, two wings of the same bird bowing to the globalists aka Zionists, Freemasons, Elites, etc. (many names to create confusion) dba the UN/WHO/WEF.
The UN is not the humanitarian, peacekeeping entity it masquerades. The UN, with its library/publishing house Lucis [Lucifer] Trust, is the one world government of the NWO.
Zionists control every aspect of this world; politics, government incl. all world governments and leaders, judiciary, commerce, finance, science, technology, medicine, agriculture, education, and media (news, entertainment).
The Zionists want their NWO, one world government/currency/religion, mass worldwide depopulation (GMOs, famine, 5G, HAARP, geoengineering, pharma, vaxx, biowarfare, pandemics, war, etc.); and absolute control over humanity (ID2020, nanotech, graphene oxide, 5G).
The Gaza Strip is a narrow, 25-mile stretch of land set against the Mediterranean Sea. The Zionists want the Port of Gaza with its strategic location and abundant offshore oil reserves and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem for the building of the Third Temple.
Watch the site of the Dome of the Rock, the Temple Mount, which was the location of the first two Temples of Jerusalem. The Dome of the Rock, at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount, is the Islamic shrine which was built in the 7th century. The Zionists want this site on the Temple Mount for the building of the Third Temple where their messiah, the Antichrist aka the Beast, will declare himself god.
Every agenda, psyop, orchestrated event, DOGE, Stargate, 15-minute cities, weaponized weather, fake (or bioengineered) bird flu, mRNA nanotech, etc. is to usher in the AI governance and absolute control over humanity of the NWO.
UN Agenda 21/2030, WEF Great Reset, NWO Georgia Guidestones
have held for a very long time now that one should go o the polling booth accept a voting paper and write of some thing like 'Voting is a farce in this system and I only voted so that you the Scrutineer could read and maybe reflect on them before throwing my voting slip into the rubbish. Maybe hopefully you will smile an tell your fellow scrutinise and maybe one of them will think to themselves there might be something in that. A fare flung hope but it something and that is better than nothing. Multiply a hundred time and still statistically insignificant.. But might have chance of a few copying it next time . And then the few become more and soon it may even become statistically significant. It is A BIT BETTER THAN STAYING HOME AND A LOT BETTER THAN CASTING A VALID VOTE