06-02-2018, 02:21 AM
(06-01-2018, 11:57 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(06-01-2018, 08:33 PM)TheNomad Wrote:(05-31-2018, 10:00 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(05-31-2018, 07:41 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: Perhaps we are experiencing an unusually mild 4T?
I thought such possible in the late 1990s, when the Crisis era could have been more a cultural phenomenon than one with potential for great ruin.
The extreme polarization in American political life, the intense inequality of economic results, and the utter ruthlessness of one side of the political spectrum suggest otherwise.
Remember: the weather before a severe blizzard can be freakishly balmy and gentle. I have seen April blizzards that follow several days of temperatures around 70F. The disruptive April blizzard is still possible. A sharp cold wave overtakes some warm, humid weather, and the juiced air becomes the source of what can be the biggest snowstorm of the whole winter. That's Michigan.
You said... The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
Isn't this shocking. To me it just completely represents the Boomer culture-war. Because I truly believe a huge majority of those who voted for the current president or got him into office did so on a culture war against the other side and nothing more. They didn't want him so much as they did not want another non white bred liberal type or Progressive person. That's the destructive Behavior of Boomer culture wars. They would rather elect someone who lives in an alternate reality and is the opposite of what they don't want. Isn't that sick?
Those are the deceived red boomers. They have always been sick. The aware and true blue boomers need to get going and help get things on the right track again, in an alliance with the blue millennials and Xers. That's quite simple. If you just want to be left out, and accept whatever comes, that's your choice. That's THE choice, and the only choice. Support the resumption of progress, or accept the decay.
um o god the large text..... i used my tablet and must have freaked out, sorry
I'm not sure I agree with this. At one time I would say I agree the "blue" side must prevail. But I now understand that side is as fully corrupt as the other. I would say it would be better, but not a transformative better. I don't trust anyone in politics above a certain age to not be entrenched and mired in all the processes which make them beholden to the detroyers which I view as a Corporatocracy.
Some people may really be offended by my views that right now we are being overtaken by the very things the OLD wars said we were fighting for. We were fighting against things like communisim and socialism and other ISMs all in the name of economic alleged freedom, capitalism and all that good stuff(?). By the 1960s America became overrun by hyper-capitalism and psychopaths (that is not an exaggeration or hyperbole). There is a fundamental problem with capitalism. Many will just say it is the best system by which t govern a large entity, and I may agree with that. However, we must acknowledge we have been turned into The Consumer Civilization making us to glut ourselves on everything material. Others produce it, we buy it, and the corporation thrives with outright overt plots to exploit each and every one of us.
This isn't even about politics. People should come to finally understand this. NOT about politics at all. Voting is a hijacked system, the "party" system is completely rigged in every way. In what way? The Corporation purchases their will and that was fine back in the last saeculum when Americans made things for Americans and took pride in what they made, they wanted to succeed but not on the backs of the disconnected consumer or the slave-system of production in 3rd world nations.
The way Mom & Pop companies balanced this evil co-opt is they saw the same consumers often throughout generations. They actually interacted with who they purchased products FROM. There was a sort of relationship between seller/buyer/consumer that is utterly obliterated by faceless corporations and board members who never know the slave farms they buy from, never know the consumers they sell to, and have no other expectation than to acquire wealth at all cost..... and that's what a business is FOR - it exists to make money, sure. But when the "executives" and "purchasers" retract more and more from the consumer, the opportunity to exploitation is beyond obvious.
This mentality in business began with the military where war profiteers and mega families built wealth on the back of the slave soldier who assumes the physical face of war while the corporation simply operates to create parts and material to sell FOR the war. If you have a business that is red, white and blue with a hardon for death which creates wealth, that model will soon seep into non-military corps and into big box corps who follow the same immoral rule to make wealth while paying the employee as little as possible with as little benefits and force responsibility onto people who have no business having such responsibilities and do not receive anywhere near the kind of pay required for such responsibilities.
The Corporation then removes Mom & Pop to further remove itself from any humanity.... which allows it to treat employees and consumers as farm hogs. They don't have to personally deal with anyone. There's ONE manager in a Walmart superstore and 100+ minimum wage employees. And the employees are encouraged to go to the government for benefits under the guise they are underpaid.
How is that American? Is that what we fought for destroying nazi germany and axis powers? Because as far as I'm concerned every war since that one has been wholly manufactured and a lie, based on lies and deception, everyone JUST NOW finally admits Tonkin was a staged event, but we are never ahead of the curve. Then, every store you visit is a big box store where no one knows the consumer, don't care about their families and it is totally impersonal ALLOWING and FEEDING this culture of exploitation and hyper-capitalism.
So, if you think voting or a certain political party is going to right THAT wrong, I strongly doubt it.