Dear Ron,
Thanks for your email.
I just watched the E. Michael Jones video you sent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
I was not impressed.
It is true that Jones understands the rudimentary truth that the very people made in the same nefarious mold as Donald Trump are determined to profit in whatever way they can.
And consequently, these omnipresent warmongers are eager to go to war.
It is also true that Trump is an isolationist. Even before his election, I openly admired his condemnation of The Iraq War and his (apparent) zeal to impeach George W Bush.
Dear Ron,
Thanks for your email.
I just watched the E. Michael Jones video you sent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
I was not impressed.
It is true that Jones understands the rudimentary truth that the very people made in the same nefarious mold as Donald Trump are determined to profit in whatever way they can.
And consequently, these omnipresent warmongers are eager to go to war.
It is also true that Trump is an isolationist. Even before his election, I openly admired his condemnation of The Iraq War and his (apparent) zeal to impeach George W Bush.
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However, in a much larger -- and immeasurably more meaningful -- matrix, McLuhan pointed out that (in our lifetimes) we have passed an epochal threshold.
On the 21st century side of that threshold, it is "a new ballgame": "To the spoils belongs the Victor."
From now on, the "winners" of wars are likely to be the losers of those same wars as a direct result of their putative "victory."
This "new thing under the sun" is no secret to anyone but self-seeking antediluvians who are fully capable of precipitating nuclear warfare which, in turn, would mean Dark Age collapse-of-civilization and, quite likely, a return to The Neolithic.
However, in a much larger -- and immeasurably more meaningful -- matrix, McLuhan pointed out that (in our lifetimes) we have passed an epochal threshold.
On the 21st century side of that threshold, it is "a new ballgame": "To the spoils belongs the Victor."
From now on, the "winners" of wars are likely to be the losers of those same wars as a direct result of their putative "victory."
This "new thing under the sun" is no secret to anyone but self-seeking antediluvians who are fully capable of precipitating nuclear warfare which, in turn, would mean Dark Age collapse-of-civilization and, quite likely, a return to The Neolithic.
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As Prime Minister Brian Mulroney pointed out: "In politics you need two things, madame. One of them is friends. But what is needed even more than friends is an enemy."
This passion for polarization has always been an immovable object, squatting smack-dab in the center of our human horizon.
I believe -- indeed I hold as self-evidently true -- that our environmental quandary is an essential sine qua-non-crystallization point around which humankind could designate a "common enemy" in order to make common cause in aourradically divided world where every one is hunkered down in their mostly trivial ideological silos.
Trump and all other right wing assholes -- including goddamn mofos like Salvini and Bolsonaro -- are fundamentally wrong, even perverse, EVEN malignantly perverse -- when they play the age-old game of distracting their fellows from "what is essential," rather than getting down to the nuts, bolts and common purpose of working for the restoration of environmental health.
As Prime Minister Brian Mulroney pointed out: "In politics you need two things, madame. One of them is friends. But what is needed even more than friends is an enemy."
This passion for polarization has always been an immovable object, squatting smack-dab in the center of our human horizon.
I believe -- indeed I hold as self-evidently true -- that our environmental quandary is an essential sine qua-non-crystallization point around which humankind could designate a "common enemy" in order to make common cause in aourradically divided world where every one is hunkered down in their mostly trivial ideological silos.
Trump and all other right wing assholes -- including goddamn mofos like Salvini and Bolsonaro -- are fundamentally wrong, even perverse, EVEN malignantly perverse -- when they play the age-old game of distracting their fellows from "what is essential," rather than getting down to the nuts, bolts and common purpose of working for the restoration of environmental health.
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Interrelatedly, I believe that Pope Francis is the most meaningful "politician" on the world stage and that he towers over every political figure who benefits (as all fascists and right wingers do) from the propagation of falsehood and -- what's even worse -- from the swamp of conspiracism.
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Even on infrequent occasions when conspiracy theories contain some measure of truth, the overall context of conspiracism does FAR MORE damage than good by not only dissolving every common value and every possible approach to common purpose, but by arguing that common purpose is anathema. (This anathematization of common purpose is evident in right-wing opposition to the mere thought of two years Obligatory National Service in which EVERYONE (who is not comatose of Hannibal-Lector-crazy) would choose between "the War Corps" or "the Peace Corps" - the latter being defined with such breadth as to include Americorps and other long-standing non-profit organizations such as Catholic Relief Service, Oxfam International and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) (Obviously it will be problematic to define this list, but it is doable even if the actual sausage-making is something no one wants to see.)
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The alternative to government service is not only stasis but what I see as epistemological and political collapse.
Interrelatedly, I believe that Pope Francis is the most meaningful "politician" on the world stage and that he towers over every political figure who benefits (as all fascists and right wingers do) from the propagation of falsehood and -- what's even worse -- from the swamp of conspiracism.
Compendium Of Best Pax Posts About Conspiracies And Conspiracism
Even on infrequent occasions when conspiracy theories contain some measure of truth, the overall context of conspiracism does FAR MORE damage than good by not only dissolving every common value and every possible approach to common purpose, but by arguing that common purpose is anathema. (This anathematization of common purpose is evident in right-wing opposition to the mere thought of two years Obligatory National Service in which EVERYONE (who is not comatose of Hannibal-Lector-crazy) would choose between "the War Corps" or "the Peace Corps" - the latter being defined with such breadth as to include Americorps and other long-standing non-profit organizations such as Catholic Relief Service, Oxfam International and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) (Obviously it will be problematic to define this list, but it is doable even if the actual sausage-making is something no one wants to see.)
"Proposal For Two Years Obligatory National Service"
The alternative to government service is not only stasis but what I see as epistemological and political collapse.
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Getting back to the particulars of Jones' interview with Iranian TV…
He says that Hillary would have gone to war with Russia right out-of-the-gate.
I call BULLSHIT.
In fact, I call putrescent, fetid bullshit.
For better or worse, Hillary and Bill are globalists, and they know with crystalline clarity that any hot war with Russia will spell the end of the planet's livability.
Getting back to the particulars of Jones' interview with Iranian TV…
He says that Hillary would have gone to war with Russia right out-of-the-gate.
I call BULLSHIT.
In fact, I call putrescent, fetid bullshit.
For better or worse, Hillary and Bill are globalists, and they know with crystalline clarity that any hot war with Russia will spell the end of the planet's livability.
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I also think Jones' assertion that Pompeo and Bolton were put in Trump's cabinet by wealthy people who want war may be (on some level) marginally true.
However it is revealing that Jones himself goes on to say (in so many words) that Trump's undying passion for greedy acquisition is why he "agreed" to the assignation of these two assholes. After all, Trump's unfailingly base intincts continually fall prey to every deadly sin but sloth. But at bedrock he wants Adelson‘s money, or ANYBODY’s money -- because Malignant Messiah, like all other conservative assholes who now reside on the diabolically mendacious "side of the aisle," believe that The Human Project and The American Experiment are all about grabbing as much money as possible.
I also think Jones' assertion that Pompeo and Bolton were put in Trump's cabinet by wealthy people who want war may be (on some level) marginally true.
However it is revealing that Jones himself goes on to say (in so many words) that Trump's undying passion for greedy acquisition is why he "agreed" to the assignation of these two assholes. After all, Trump's unfailingly base intincts continually fall prey to every deadly sin but sloth. But at bedrock he wants Adelson‘s money, or ANYBODY’s money -- because Malignant Messiah, like all other conservative assholes who now reside on the diabolically mendacious "side of the aisle," believe that The Human Project and The American Experiment are all about grabbing as much money as possible.
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That is all I have time for Ron.
Next Wednesday I leave to winter over in Oaxaca and will return the United States of Barbaria on April 1st.
Wishing you all good things!
Pax et amore
Alan
PS I will conclude by expressing my belief that there are significantly more good people than bad people in what is commonly called "the deep state," and that there are significantly more bad people in the Trump Administration than good people. A fundamental teaching of Christianity is that we are not perfect people -- that we continually revert to "the dark side." I also have vanishingly little doubt that if our central government collapses under the corrosive influence of those who would deconstruct it, that the replacement government will be much worse, in part because those people -- spearheaded by solipsist Donald J. Trump -- are ABSOLUTELY convinced they are right.
That is all I have time for Ron.
Next Wednesday I leave to winter over in Oaxaca and will return the United States of Barbaria on April 1st.
Wishing you all good things!
Pax et amore
Alan
PS I will conclude by expressing my belief that there are significantly more good people than bad people in what is commonly called "the deep state," and that there are significantly more bad people in the Trump Administration than good people. A fundamental teaching of Christianity is that we are not perfect people -- that we continually revert to "the dark side." I also have vanishingly little doubt that if our central government collapses under the corrosive influence of those who would deconstruct it, that the replacement government will be much worse, in part because those people -- spearheaded by solipsist Donald J. Trump -- are ABSOLUTELY convinced they are right.
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The people who would adamantly refuse to codify teaching the following view in our K-12 public school curriculum are ALL -- every single one of them -- aligned on "the right side of the aisle." And they are aligned on the right side of the aisle because they are always "absolutists" and almost always "theocrats."
The people who would adamantly refuse to codify teaching the following view in our K-12 public school curriculum are ALL -- every single one of them -- aligned on "the right side of the aisle." And they are aligned on the right side of the aisle because they are always "absolutists" and almost always "theocrats."
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They're Taking It All"
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