10-23-2020, 04:27 AM
(10-22-2020, 07:37 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 22-Oct-2020 World View: Clear as mud
Guest Wrote:> So this is all clear as mud.
> The youthful protesters in Thailand and Hong Kong are
> pro-democracy. The people of Taiwan are (mostly)
> anti-communists. The youthful protesters in America are
> pro-communism. Apparently, the youthful protesters in America
> don’t know much about the communism they support because they
> don’t talk to the youthful protesters in Thailand and Hong Kong or
> they would have learned a thing or two about the horrors of real
> life with commusocialism authoritarian rule.
> The South Koreans are mixed up about who they would support,
> depending on who does what first. The Vietnamese, Philippians,
> Japanese and several other countries are in grave danger from the
> Chinese racists attacking them in the South China Sea and the US
> would defend them if China attacks them but if Biden wins, who the
> Communist Party loves, then we might just let China do what it
> wants so all those countries will be devastated and then the whole
> world will hate us for not defending them. But the whole world
> hates us now, according to Obama, because Trump is our President.
> Turkey and Russia hate each other for various reasons, Russia
> likes Syria and Iran but Russia also likes Trump who hates Iran
> and Syria except that everyone hates Isis so we’ll all be cool
> together and get rid of those mf’s because they are likely to
> start a war somewhere and nobody wants a war. India and Pakistan
> hate each other and are near war at their border and India and
> China hate each other and are near war at that border. India and
> Iran like each other and don’t like the countries between them,
> but Iran hates America and India loves America. There is a Milk
> Tea Alliance between India and Taiwan that pisses off China so,
> since Pakistan likes China, India is likely to be attacked on two
> fronts. But if Biden wins, even though we love milk and tea here
> in America, we probably won’t help defend India because Biden
> loves China and he does not like milk or tea, even though he likes
> milkshakes, that’s not the same thing as milk because it’s made
> from ice cream. You can fact check that. But Biden also loves
> Iran, because they hate America and he does too.
> But Europe, who the Democrats think did such a wonderful job of
> locking down their countries to get rid of the coronavirus, are
> now resurging with the stuff and their economies are trashed. In
> America, we are getting back on our feet but the resurgence of
> coronavirus is all Trumps fault because he banned travel from
> China and Europe and listened to the CDC for guidance but then he
> killed 200,000 Americans with a virus that China unleashed on the
> world but the Democrats think that Trump did it because they don’t
> believe anything bad about the Chinese and they believe all kinds
> of bad lies about Trump.
> Africa countries owe too much money to all the other countries on
> Earth to really be on anyone’s side. Anyway, they hate each other
> so much and they kill each other so much that it’s not hard to
> just forget about them. I don’t know all that much about South
> America except that every country there is liable to be overthrown
> every now and again so who knows when or where that will happen. I
> have heard that Chile is wonderful because the government is open
> about UFO’s and tells the people the truth about them. I don’t
> know if their government tells the people the truth about anything
> else. There is so much lying going on everywhere that I think no
> one knows how to tell the truth anymore.
> I think I would really like to move to Greenland because the ice
> is melting there and there should be some really fertile and rich
> soil underneath it all. I think there are about a thousand people
> who live there and I’m sure they are like me, they just want all
> this bad stuff in the world to go away.
> But since I can’t move to Greenland, I really do appreciate this
> website that helps me at least know why the world is in such
> shambles and to prepare for it to get worse…then it will get
> better. Because that IS what happens according to Generational
> Dynamics. That’s the world I’m looking forward to. Thank you,
> John!
That's a pretty good summary of the world. Thanks.
The "youthful protesters in America" are not just too stupid to
understand communism. In almost all cases, they're too stupid to even
understand second grade math.
But what's this about UFOs in Chile?
America has plenty of equivalents of "Beavis and Butthead", and considering that those types are Generation X and are largely in their forties and fifties, they still vote. They may now have been culled for self-destructive stupidity (think of the Darwin Awards that mock people who make catastrophic errors that kill themselves), but they never learned much. I can imagine "Beavis and Butthead" as Trump supporters because Trump supporters believe in one of the most hare-brained ideologies ever brought forth.
Stupidity is hardly an asset for getting ahead in life in any system. America has, if anything, and over-educated proletariat that sees itself doomed to an economic order of trickle-down economics that allows people to pay too much for what they get or to pick up what people slough off as they go to the nursing home, die, or can't afford to pay storage on their stuff.
Neoliberal economics has created an economic order in which a few people who own the assets or administer access to opportunity in bureaucratic organizations whose power over people results from economic concentration and vertical integration can take just about everything that they want. Such prosperity as those elites have offers "trickle-down" ideology but a reality of rigid control of access to the goodies of a bourgeois society. People are welcome to commit themselves to debt, and as economic opportunity increasingly concentrates in a few areas of monstrous rents, anyone not part of the entrenched elite simply gets squeezed like the prey of a constrictor snake. Unlike the prey of a constrictor snake, the human victims of our system see no end of its misery as the snake suffocates the prey and stifles the circulation of blood. Human survivors get to be exploited in a system that resembles bad social orders in science-fiction nightmares (the Planet Mongo of Flash Gordon serials, the Romulan and Klingon Empires of Star Trek, First Galactic Empire of the Star Wars series),
I recognize that Donald Trump differs from tyrants like Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, Trujillo, Mao, Assad, and Castro in failing to get the "Dictator's Playbook" right; Trump failed to crush or co-opt his opposition to establish a monopoly clique before culling his "court" of flunkies. Mercifully we still have some semblance of democracy, and that can be enough to end the disaster that is Donald Trump -- if not the consequences of a nasty man sowing divisions and bungling the response to COVID-19. Donald Trump differs from "Berzelius Windrip" of Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here only in being a big landlord instead of a druggist.
One need not be a Marxist to think Donald Trump terribly wrong, or to recognize the sleaziness of our economic order.
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.
