Dead End Amerika

Here is a great link for all those ‘Yanks’ that despise the word ‘socialism’ , which discusses & exposes just how many are on ‘welfare’, as well as the timely demise of John McCain and even the Pope and the Vatican Bank, without ever losing focus on his most poignant point :- Our Kids ..

https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2018/08/bathwater/

Classy bit of journalism / blogging that ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ which moved Balky , and fits perfectly with something Balky had already done >>

Balkydj sent his first ever tweet, yesterday >> (had the account for years but was hugely sceptical, lol: however, finally after celebrating the death of John McCain and his oven fried chips, suddenly something inspired Balky, given the volumes of sycophantic outpouring, even from Ocasio-Cortez >> silly girl should stick to what she knows about >> see link )

At least Trump was not sycophantic , (before going off to play golf), he tweeted respects and prayers for the family, without to mention McCain, quite specifically , so Balky thought
“Fair do..” , Balky will say it for you Don >>

@realDonaldTrump:
” The Tempest is thankfully finally abating: ‘Tis no longer true that:-

“Hell is empty and all the Devils are here..” Act 1 Scene 2 John McCain is down & out Dancing with the Devil & his war-mongering fake fighting malicious spirit is burning in Hell !

#STOPWeaponisingWeatherWTC7 ”

Balky implying, let us be rational in thought: surely Trump knows that the WTC7 based SEC investigation into ENRON, MONSANTO & GEC Geo-Engineering of the weather & commodity markets for profit & experimentation with HAARP (in order to create baron dried out land & to buy up farmers on the cheap for GMO production, afterwards), was going down, when ENRON went bust as the USA’s second largest Corporation: and Trump must also surely know more than a little about the nature of fire in a Steel Frame High Rise construction, like WTC 7 .. which never even got hit by any aircraft.

So, Balky got carried away for a moment with twattering whataboutery and added ..

@realDonaldTrump

“Until you respect Physics and the fact that WTC 7 collapsed 100% surely as a consequence of Controlled Explosions, you may as well reserve your own place in Hell & look forward to joining John McCain !

You owe it to our Kids: Science commands integrity=
#Simples ”

Greetings from the Balkans,
Peace for our children,
(& of mind, for us ‘oldies’) ..

Hell is no longer empty ..

McDrain the Swamp .. and think on this: would you like to join John McCain in Hell ?
For all eternity ?? 😉

This looks very interesting!

While in Live Line Syria; again courtesy of SyrianPerspective.com:

“Daniel Rich

All Class: Syrian First Lady, while fighting her own cancer, Visits Children’s Cancer Hospital – Link to Fort Russ

Excerpt: “She’s in the trenches, not in an ivory tower. She’s with the poor and the sick, not the neoliberal, neo-capitalist muckety-mucks. She’s in Syria, with Syria, for Syria, of Syria and by Syria. Not the West. Not the Gulf. She’s a revolutionary, not a princess.”

It’s not a simple problem of free market capitalism because that just doesn’t exist in Britain or probably anywhere else.
What we actually have is crony capitalism, parasitic finance capitalism, a looting kleptocracy. Call it what you like. Call it corporate welfare, fascism, call it fried chicken if you want. But it’s nothing remotely resembling free market capitalism.

In the 1970s, Finance made up 2% of the US economy. That’s when they actually made things. Now it’s 40%. Another 17% is “healthcare”, ie price gouging by the drugs and insurance monopolies. This is 3 times what Britain spends on healthcare. A US ambulance journey is billed at $5,000. They charge $750 for a pill that costs a few cents to produce. These grossly inflated monopoly prices contribute to the figure given for the US GDP. If anything like sensible, justified prices were charged instead, the US GDP would be a lot lower. About another 6% is “defence”, war, with fighter aircraft that don’t work turned out at $400 million each.

In the past, the millionaire class like Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, were absolute swine and robber barons who treated their work force like dirt and committed every crime in the book. But there was at least something to show for their activities, car factories, steel mills, oil refineries, railroads. The current global billionaire class of 2,300 people is essentially parasitic. It creates nothing of value. People like Philip Green take over businesses like Top Shop or BHS, using borrowed money and loading those companies down with debt, paying themselves or their Monaco based wife a “special dividend” of £1,200 million without contributing a penny in tax. Then they bleed those companies white and run them into the ground, and walk away with everybody who works there losing their jobs and losing their pensions – and the taxpayer is left to pick up the bill. There are countless other examples, like the Glazier brothers and Manchester United. One of the richest men in the world is Carlos Slim, who has a monopoly on telephone services in Mexico. Mexico has the most expensive telephone network in the world. This is not a aberration, it is the norm. The money that is made is all financial manipulation, with nothing of value to show for it. This applies to Internet tycoons like Gates – their businesses are the product of public research and investments (largely by the military), subsidies and tax breaks. They were left to harness the rewards.

In the US, just 3 mega tycoons own more than the bottom half of the population, 160 million people. In Britain, we have levels of inequality not seen since the times of Charles Dickens. The end result is an unstable, dysfunctional system which has lost all legitimacy and credibility and is prone to collapse at any time. People no longer have any stake in a system which is blatantly skewed in favour of a tiny fraction of the 1%. The current order is like a house of cards that can come down in an instant without any warning. The US has a debt burden of $250 trillion, and a derivatives mountain several orders of magnitude greater. It is divided economically, politically, socially, racially, culturally. This goes a long way to explain upheavals like Trump, Brexit, Catalonia, and election results in one country after another, though ruling elites persist in chasing phantoms like Russian plots and skulduggery.

It’s a philosophical, as much as an information, war. So we get the truth out and the quarter of the one percent lose their power base. Over 400 years of capitalism, we may then find to our cost that we have internalised the imperialisms and psychology of what has become a seductive and ubiquitous power. Cartesian materialism is a weapon of mass destruction: the Enlightenment Project is an absolutist disembodied classism, racism, and sexism waiting to act out its sectarianism through us (if we let it). It is an alienating way of objectified being …the subjectified antimony of PoMo was no better and no worse …so where to go next if the reversion to Enlightenment values is a reversion to their inhumane principles of power?

“[M]an is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end” is how Foucault put it. Modern ‘man’ (and it is a patrilineal descent) is a personally constructed psychology invented and maintained by power. A good example of the invention is Darwin. As the late Stephen Jay Gould was keen to point out: much of that which was attributed as ‘Darwinism’ – particularly Social Darwinism – came from Herbert Spencer and a succession of lesser later commentators. And this happened not just historically: he anticipated the “Bell Curve” (the manual of pseudo-racist intellectual determinism and apologia for the “cognitive elite”) by 15 years when he wrote the “Mismeasure of Man”. E O Wilson, Dawkins, Dennet, Harris, Pinker, Hicks, and my personal favourite, Jordan Peterson …are some of the modern ideologues who tell us that is determined to be the way it is: because we were related to lobsters …or some other fishy pseudo-psychology like that.

Judging from Peterson’s >25mn YouTube hits – mostly from red pill males who have lost their micro-imperial mojo to third wave feminazis (other brands of authentic and radical feminism are still superior and still available – says the self-censoring male!) and PoMo fluid genderists – there is a social spiritual void that needs filling. Well, returning to the Enlightenment instrumentally rationalised sectarian dualisms that gave us the exceptional and indispensable apartheid terrorist Disunited States of Amerika is no progression …except that perhaps they now have empowered the next wave of imperial corporate terrorisers. Neat, huh?

So if both objectivism and subjectivism are extremised modes of being: what is left to try? The 2,500 year old Middle Way of Buddha, Vasubandhu and Nagarjuna? Well, yes and no. In the hundred years or so that Buddhism has come to the West it has been absorbed for its psycho-therapeutic value. The Ab-Fab caricature is of Eddi chanting “NamoRyohoRengeKyo” with a phone in each hand, and her secretary Bubble passing her memos. Buddhism is diminished and denatured as a therapy, it is a radical liberational praxis that defies all Western sectarian boxed-definitions.

If liberalised from the totalising extremisms of duality: what is left? The pure and embodied experience of a universal humanity. All conceptualised dualisms are defunct. There is no mind-body sectarianism. There is no mind-matter (subject-object) sectarianism. There is no absolute-relative sectarianism. Even the universal cultural-givens lose their rigidity, and thus their power to hold and determine. The spatio-temporal strictures (three-dimensionality, distance, event-causality, disembodied mind, objective morality, instrumental reason) that define and contain both the subject/self conditionality and society are undermined as extremised. Thus they entail one dimensional caricatures of the full richness of the subjectified or objectified experiential.

[Even the Sartrean “essence precedes experience” as a Cartesian inheritance collapses].

Whoah, back up BigB: did you just say time and space do not exist? No, and yes: they are embodied metaphors that rationalise our enacted experience of …well, something I would not be able to convey without ontological metaphorical language. [see Lakoff and Johnsosn: Philosophy in the Flesh]. But space-time and causality are are independent pre-given absolutes that continually exist whether we experience them or not? Only, are they? Is that not just an imposed objectified and determinant extreme view that Dawkins or Peterson might validate with experiments on locusts or cod-psychology? And if we internalise such a view, do we rationalise the consequences: particularly the concretisation of the externally determined status quo?

I maintain they are powers entrapment and hold over our psychological autonomy: that are not imposed (necessarily) by violence (though they entail an exported and thus distanced violence in a bourgeois society) …they are imposed and policed by consensus. Which, to a social species, the threat of cultural ostracisation is a more powerful violence than violence.

So we find ourselves perhaps unconsciously kowtowing to the imperialism of an absolutised dualism for fear of our freedom, to paraphrase Paulo Freire. Or aversively, we are forced to an opposite, but mirror, subjectivised extreme. Either way: we are “condemned” to believe and act from a subject/self conditionality we no longer really believe in; we know or suspect is sectarian; we know is instrumental and subject to dominance and agency of oppressors and manipulators (and we may unconsciously extend the dominance/submissive conceptual duality with our own instrumental agency); we find ourselves so grounded in the dominant hegemonic capitalist culture, that even though we may be aware of its imperial oppressions, we find it difficult to make a decisive clean break …especially if we must do it on our own.

This is the modern cultural aporia: which is not a state that can be rationalised by the same Cartesian mechanist-materialist deterministic thinking that produced the irresolvable aporia in the first place. The aporia dissolves in the praxis of the Middle Way. But first we must liberate the liberational from the relegation to a mere psycho-therapeutic salve for the False. If we can dissolve the Gordian Knot of our current cultural and sub-cultural aporia – a new society of mutual aid and spiritual community arises …the Sangha of society that Cartesian materialism negates. Only there is no arising or cessation of that which transcends conceptualisation …maybe, only the waiting for the cognitive recognition, embodiment and enaction of the Real?

Kevin Zeese has a tax plan. It used to be on the internet. Now I can’t find it. Except:

What do you think is the most urgent problem facing your jurisdiction?
“The most urgent problem facing our nation is ending corporate control of government, as that is at the root cause of the war in Iraq, the lack of health care for all, the rich-poor divide and stagnant wages for most families. My tax plan makes the first $100,000 federal income tax-free, a 22 percent raise. I want to restore civil liberties and prevent terrorism with sensible foreign policy. I want to end our addiction to fossil fuel for our environment, economy and national security as part of a 21st-century economy. I favor an immediate, rapid, responsible withdrawal from Iraq.”

The central issue is that capitalism is assumed to be totally natural – the very air we breathe. This inevitably leads to pure fatalism. Many think there is no alternative. Indeed – they may not even think about it at all. Capitalism is simply presupposed.