Empire is very good at utilizing their BS dialectic. They drop something which is often generally reviled, considered dangerous and unacceptable, but they use this as a hook upon which they build their alternative thought frameworks. Here is a simple example of a hook - hate speech. There was a time, not too long ago, when we took the freedom of speech very seriously and understood that the principle applies to all speech (perhaps less so in German speaking countries where certain speech had been outlawed). Without the freedom for the kind of speech which we find objectionable the freedom of speech loses its essential quality. Now introduce the toxic concept of “hate speech” and start censoring what they define as “hate speech” (an elastic concept). Soon they graduate to “misinformation”, “disinformation”…; the very concept of freedom of thought and speech evaporates over time. The persistent gradual push in a desired direction(s) over time overwhelms us and destroys us. We seem to have no anti-dote to this. Any resistance is painted and labeled in the most undesirable light. Any criticism of Israel becomes Anti-Semitism, and who wishes to be Anti-Semite (or racist, bigot,…)? They are systematically disarming us. I feel that what you are describing is an integral part of this process. Relentless attack on foundational principles works! Here in the US, the younger people seem much more receptive to the idea of limiting speech, or trading our most cherished rights for elusive nonsense of defending our “democracy”, our “freedoms”, in a constant fight against extremists, terrorists and pathogens.
Perhaps Jefferson was correct, but if we, as a people, we were eternally vigilant in defense of Liberty, this wouldn’t have been allowed to happen. The imperial parasite acts just like any other parasite - it relies on fooling the host of its nonexistence. This worked in the US for a period from about the end of Civil War till now; we have now entered the terminal stage where the parasite is no longer interested in keeping the host alive but it wishes to devour it!
The parasite has been working hard on China. The Western Capital has built up China just like British Oligarchical Capital helped build up the US. In the process they’ve created American Oligarchy in sync with British Oligarchical Capital, diverging their interests from the interest of the people of the US. They are using the exact same methods to capture China. Will they be successful? Only time will tell, but if I were a betting man, I would put my money on Western Oligarchy’s eventual success. Only the Peoples of the West can put a stop to this oligarchical imperial project because they will be the greatest losers of all. The Western Oligarchy knows this and that is why they are waging an Omniwar against the people of the West. We must be diminished in ways we are unwilling to imagine. After KOVID it is hard to imagine how so many people still can’t discern the intent, and the extents to which they are willing to go. They will sooner take a subservient vassal role to Chinese Oligarchy than side with peoples of their own domain, for whom they hold the utmost disdain.
We have been modified in a most profound way. How else to explain our tolerance of criminals who are trying to kill our children and their offsprings? Our behavior is utterly abnormal. Humans have historically found themselves under circumstances which they could not change, but they have never lied to themselves like they are presently doing. A good example is human slavery. Slaves could hardly change their circumstances and a many accepted their slavery as a given, but vast majority kept the idea of freedom alive within them. In a way, one is not a true slave until one internalizes the logic of slavery. In today’s humans I no longer see this innate human capacity. The Parasite has convinced us everything is normal and there is nothing we can do, anyway.
People cannot pay attention to what they are doing, being distracted by the rise in heat of the planet, rise in heat of politics and wars worldwide, rise in the heat of fear and rage, the rise of crime against family members against women and children as tempers of loose cannons flare, triggered by all manner of heat. On major urban/ suburban highways such as where I live, car crashes occur morning noon and night, drivers move in between dense traffic at, I guesstimate, 90 mph, tailgating at high speeds. The behavior of psycho drivers has become so normal, I take it as a sign of the times, a sign that I experience in my world. People blast their Latin or hip hop beat from their cars with such volume it makes my hatchback door jump. I keep myself covered in travelling mercies. People are losing their minds with fear and rage whether they know it or not, sensing that the rising temps and the 5g EMFs and pandemics are coming harder and faster.
Govt leaders worldwide are unable to keep the peace and the powerless push back against authority with unfocused useless rebellion, not realizing that leadership is increasingly powerless to manage the destructive forces.
Unfortunately govts continue to hang their hats on income from the machinery of war to fund rentier economies where most people do not own property and many or most are living on subsidies, hand to mouth or addicted and homeless and the wealthy pay their bills with income from investments over which worry keeps them up at night.
Mankind's compulsion to destroy, to murder, to destroy Creation and one another makes even the religious person ask "where are you, God?'
Empire is very good at utilizing their BS dialectic. They drop something which is often generally reviled, considered dangerous and unacceptable, but they use this as a hook upon which they build their alternative thought frameworks. Here is a simple example of a hook - hate speech. There was a time, not too long ago, when we took the freedom of speech very seriously and understood that the principle applies to all speech (perhaps less so in German speaking countries where certain speech had been outlawed). Without the freedom for the kind of speech which we find objectionable the freedom of speech loses its essential quality. Now introduce the toxic concept of “hate speech” and start censoring what they define as “hate speech” (an elastic concept). Soon they graduate to “misinformation”, “disinformation”…; the very concept of freedom of thought and speech evaporates over time. The persistent gradual push in a desired direction(s) over time overwhelms us and destroys us. We seem to have no anti-dote to this. Any resistance is painted and labeled in the most undesirable light. Any criticism of Israel becomes Anti-Semitism, and who wishes to be Anti-Semite (or racist, bigot,…)? They are systematically disarming us. I feel that what you are describing is an integral part of this process. Relentless attack on foundational principles works! Here in the US, the younger people seem much more receptive to the idea of limiting speech, or trading our most cherished rights for elusive nonsense of defending our “democracy”, our “freedoms”, in a constant fight against extremists, terrorists and pathogens.
Contrary to parts of the US, most Europeans seem fine with these severe restrictions on liberties and freedoms, as if they (we) learned nothing.
Large percentage of Americans are behaving in similar fashions.
Sadly, you're correct about this.
I suppose that Jefferson was right about the Tree of Liberty.
Perhaps Jefferson was correct, but if we, as a people, we were eternally vigilant in defense of Liberty, this wouldn’t have been allowed to happen. The imperial parasite acts just like any other parasite - it relies on fooling the host of its nonexistence. This worked in the US for a period from about the end of Civil War till now; we have now entered the terminal stage where the parasite is no longer interested in keeping the host alive but it wishes to devour it!
Well, if the parasite is moving on--what's next? Will it be China?
The parasite has been working hard on China. The Western Capital has built up China just like British Oligarchical Capital helped build up the US. In the process they’ve created American Oligarchy in sync with British Oligarchical Capital, diverging their interests from the interest of the people of the US. They are using the exact same methods to capture China. Will they be successful? Only time will tell, but if I were a betting man, I would put my money on Western Oligarchy’s eventual success. Only the Peoples of the West can put a stop to this oligarchical imperial project because they will be the greatest losers of all. The Western Oligarchy knows this and that is why they are waging an Omniwar against the people of the West. We must be diminished in ways we are unwilling to imagine. After KOVID it is hard to imagine how so many people still can’t discern the intent, and the extents to which they are willing to go. They will sooner take a subservient vassal role to Chinese Oligarchy than side with peoples of their own domain, for whom they hold the utmost disdain.
We have been modified in a most profound way. How else to explain our tolerance of criminals who are trying to kill our children and their offsprings? Our behavior is utterly abnormal. Humans have historically found themselves under circumstances which they could not change, but they have never lied to themselves like they are presently doing. A good example is human slavery. Slaves could hardly change their circumstances and a many accepted their slavery as a given, but vast majority kept the idea of freedom alive within them. In a way, one is not a true slave until one internalizes the logic of slavery. In today’s humans I no longer see this innate human capacity. The Parasite has convinced us everything is normal and there is nothing we can do, anyway.
De-legitimise the state?
So Germany is making EU-membership and working for an "ever closer union" a crime then?
Ah, it’s projection for me and rules for thee.
People cannot pay attention to what they are doing, being distracted by the rise in heat of the planet, rise in heat of politics and wars worldwide, rise in the heat of fear and rage, the rise of crime against family members against women and children as tempers of loose cannons flare, triggered by all manner of heat. On major urban/ suburban highways such as where I live, car crashes occur morning noon and night, drivers move in between dense traffic at, I guesstimate, 90 mph, tailgating at high speeds. The behavior of psycho drivers has become so normal, I take it as a sign of the times, a sign that I experience in my world. People blast their Latin or hip hop beat from their cars with such volume it makes my hatchback door jump. I keep myself covered in travelling mercies. People are losing their minds with fear and rage whether they know it or not, sensing that the rising temps and the 5g EMFs and pandemics are coming harder and faster.
Govt leaders worldwide are unable to keep the peace and the powerless push back against authority with unfocused useless rebellion, not realizing that leadership is increasingly powerless to manage the destructive forces.
Unfortunately govts continue to hang their hats on income from the machinery of war to fund rentier economies where most people do not own property and many or most are living on subsidies, hand to mouth or addicted and homeless and the wealthy pay their bills with income from investments over which worry keeps them up at night.
Mankind's compulsion to destroy, to murder, to destroy Creation and one another makes even the religious person ask "where are you, God?'