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Again
this image reveals its iconic nature: originally about the quest for
world peace rendered fruitless by the USian Empire's relentless
aggression, it now becomes a symbol of afflicted Nature and therefore of
oft-thwarted Clotho, Spinner of the threads of life, to whom the late
Tim Buckley once sang,
“If you tell me of all the pain you've had, I'll never smile again.”
Photo by Loren Bliss copyright 1971: Nikon F, 105mm f/2.5 Nikkor, Tri-X
in D-76 for 800 ASA. (Permission granted for non-commercial use with
photo credit and attribution to Outside Agitator's Notebook.) Click on image to view it full size.
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(Yes, there is another damnable OAN schedule change implicit in this text.
Rather than post once per month, as I had proposed, or once per week,
as I did for at least a year, I am now going to post randomly – that is,
whenever I have a photograph to show or something to say and the time
in which to show or say it. My apology for any inconvenience.)
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THE
REALITY OF EVIL, nominally a theological question, has again been
snatched out of the protective obscurity of that comfortably abstract
realm of monasteries and convents and dumped like a steaming,
butthole-reeking pile of shit onto our dinner-tables in the real (and
really injurious world) of realpolitik, and this time the
dumper-in-chief is not some conquest-hungry foreign despot (Kaiser
Wilhelm II as in 1914) or even three such despots (Hitler, Mussolini and
Tojo as in 1941). The people who are shitting all over us are instead
(and far more ominously) a tiny clique of our own fellow citizens – that
semi-invisible circle of inconceivably wealthy, obscenely powerful plutocrats
who own and/or control the United States and all its governments at all
levels and ever-more-openly use its bureaucrats and generals and police
chiefs and judges and politicians, whom they also own, to facilitate
their own morally imbecilic pursuits.
There
is general agreement the consequences are evil – ask for example any of
the innumerable homeless youth who five years ago were normal kids part
of a normal working family living in a normal and normally mortgaged
suburban house until the Great Wall Street Ripoff of 2007-2009
outsourced Dad's job and abolished Mom's job and foreclosed the house
and flung Mom and Dad and their two offspring into the streets and
destroyed their family. Now the kids are throw-away children thrown away
to survive by their own wits because under capitalism (and beyond all
the pseudo-romantic bullshit peddled by Madison Avenue), capitalist
marriage and therefore capitalist family is merely another
profit-seeking, profit-centered capitalist relationship, which means
when there is no more profit to be extracted, the relationship naturally
disintegrates. But here amidst all this manifest evil, seemingly nobody
but the (intellectually shackled and therefore increasingly irrelevant)
Abrahamic clergy dares think about what evil is or where it comes from
or whether it should be spelled “Evil,” proper-noun cap “E,” or
minimized as a lower-case common noun, merely “evil” and therefore of no
greater significance than bad weather, the societal equivalent of a
hurricane or a tsunami.
That's why, when I describe the consequences of capitalism as “evil” –
and especially when I capitalize it as “Evil” (as below in “the U.S.
has become the primary source of Evil on this planet”) – a lot of
secularists are offended. They (legitimately) fear some Abrahamic
subversive is at work, subtly jihading for patriarchy.
But as it says in the Porgy and Bess song, “It ain't necessarily so.”
Yes, I admit the tendency to cite “evil” or “Evil” is often a defining
characteristic of obnoxiously crusading Christians, Muslims and Jews.
But I am none of the above. I regard evil and Evil as purely human
byproducts spawned not by talking serpents but by the genetic flaws in
the tyrannosauric bipeds one finds in board rooms and executive offices.
Moreover, Webster's third definition of evil – “causing harm” – neatly
severs it from religious dogmatism. And if you want to deduce my
beliefs, merely read the sidebar to OAN; then reflect on how,
over the years, I have repeatedly portrayed myself as an agnostic
influenced by Zen, Taoism and First Nations beliefs but mostly leaning
toward paganism – specifically Goddess-centered paganism. I outed my
spiritual self most recently in a minor dispute with an avowed Christian
in a Reader Supported News discussion thread that touched on how USian Empire's methodical destabilization of human society is one if its primary weapons of global conquest.
Deliberately engineering the collapse of human society to suppress our
collective ability to oppose enslavement is indeed Evil, and it is Evil
in the same sense the term was used to describe the depredations of
Hitler. No other label adequately describes the horrors the capitalists –
the One Percenters and their Ruling Class vassals – are knowingly and
with malice aforethought inflicting on us and our planet. As I said on the same RSN
thread, “capitalism IS corruption – the bribery of the masses with the
bright baubles of trinket materialism, all to free the One Percent so
they can amass obscene profit by murdering us and raping our planet.”
And what is corruption but another of the subsets of Evil?
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RSN'S
MOST RECENT discussions on the empire's global destabilization campaign
was probably triggered by an original William Boardman piece that ran a
couple of days earlier about the destabilization of Ukraine.
But
Boardman, who is by far the best of RSN's staff reporters, neglected to
explore the darker aspects of the probable motives for the empire's
ongoing provocation of Russia. Hence my response, here somewhat revised
from its original published form:
Absent
from Boardman's otherwise brilliant analysis of the ever-escalating
U.S. provocation of Russia is the probability its ultimate psychological
driver is the One Percent's truly bottomless terror not just of
Communism but of socialism in any form. While the associated fanaticism
is repeatedly demonstrated by the blank-check support the U.S.
reflexively grants any tyrant who pledges to exterminate socialists –
note again the abysmal human-rights records of the USian satropies – it
is nevertheless difficult to quantify, which is probably why Boardman
omitted it from his text.
Meanwhile
the empire's relentless drive toward war with Russia remains
incomprehensible until we recognize the implications of the fact the
Russian population has, within its living memory, experienced the
differences between capitalism and socialism. And though today the
Russian people tolerate capitalism as a necessary evil, there is no
question they remain fiercely committed to the humanitarian benefits of
socialism. That is why they rejected the “economic genocide” of
Wall-Street-ally Yeltsin's disaster capitalism for Putinism,
which has been as dramatic a change for post-Soviet Russia as the New
Deal was for the depression-crippled United States. That is also why the
Communist Party – in recognition of its economic doctrine of “from each
according to ability, to each according to need” – remains the nation's
second largest political organization.
Were
the Russian preference for socialism to again become the pivotal
element in Russian policy, as it was during the Soviet era, such a
development – particularly given the exemplar of capitalist malevolence
that is global austerity – could easily expand into an unprecedented
drive for international revolution. The ever-worsening misery the
capitalists' insatiable greed is deliberately inflicting on workers
everywhere is the one truly irrefutable argument for socialism. Were
there still a Soviet Union to evoke it, the ultimate global victory of
socialism – if not of Marxist-Leninist Communism per se – would be assured.
Hence
we can be sure the greatest fear of the USan Empire is the resurrection
inside Russia of a state consciousness comparable to that of the Soviet
Union, but – especially since capitalist psychological warfare has not
yet robbed the Russians of their ability to learn from experience –
without the U.S.S.R.'s ideological and administrative handicaps that
made it relatively easy prey to Wall Street's economic warriors. Hence
too the U.S. response: not only destabilization of the Russian state,
but – via a third world war – the extermination of all those Russian
people whose lives bear witness to the humanitarian superiority of
socialism. Which, surely not coincidentally, is exactly the response
proposed by Hitler, whose colleagues, through their One Percent
connections, became the paramount influences
in shaping postwar USian foreign policy. And the Russians, politically
astute as they are, are surely aware of what intentions now obtain in
the wholly owned Wall Street subsidiary of Washington D.C.
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THE EMPIRE'S GLOBAL campaign of deliberate destabilization was also the core topic
of a Robert Parry report RSN reprinted from Parry's Consortium News. But
Parry – superb reporter that he normally is – nevertheless deftly
dismisses this geopolitical “madness” as if it were merely an anomaly
rather than the new national norm of world conquest it has become. Hence
my reply, this too revised from its original form:
Despite
my huge respect for Parry's reportorial and analytical skills, I fear
he remains in bondage to his original notions about the (allegedly)
benevolent nature of United States, a captivity proven by his failure to
recognize the irremediable magnitude of the Nazi-like malevolence that
has become its defining quality. Nor does he see the broader truth of
U.S. capabilities and intentions as demonstrated by the intentional
destabilization first of the Middle East, now of Europe and eventually
of all human society.
To
arrive at this admittedly horrendous view of USian capabilities and
intentions, we must consider five facts, which inevitably lead us to
three (obvious and therefore undeniable) conclusions:
The
facts are (1)-the breathtakingly manipulative, astoundingly long-range
planning capability demonstrated by capitalism in controlling and
predicting human behavior; (2)-the obvious application of this
capability to global politics; (3)-the ideology of the One Percent,
particularly as expressed by Ayn Rand and Adolph Hitler, in which
politics and economics are mutually sustaining endeavors; (4)-the
exposed intentions of the One Percent, which include the imposition of
“disaster capitalism” (Naomi Klein) and the radical reduction of the
human population (Paul and Anne Ehrlich; and (5)- the One Percent's
total ownership of government and mass media, by which it exercises
hitherto unimaginable control over every aspect of USian life and,
increasingly, over every aspect of human life everywhere on this planet.
Thus
– and here is where Parry seems blinded by the residue of a
no-longer-sustainable patriotism – it is only logical to conclude what
was formerly considered unthinkable: that (6)-the destabilization
inflicted on the Middle East and now on Europe was foreseen (much as the
psychological consequences of marketing are foreseen); that (7)-the
resultant chaos, especially the resurrection of European fascism, was
also foreseen and is itself intentional, and that (8)-its long-range
purposes – in compliance with the internationalization of Nazi foreign
policy achieved by Ayn Rand economics – are threefold. Reasoning from
events already underway, these are (A)-forcible population reduction
(whenever possible in a “coincidental” manner intentionally rendered
difficult to document as genocide), of which the drowned corpse of little Alan Kurdi is surely an ultimate archetype; (B)-imposition of “disaster capitalism” – that is, the de facto
fascism of zero-tolerance One Percent rule – on the entire planet,
Europe most assuredly included and, as a result, (3)-the imposition of
an Ayn Rand (Neocon) version of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich to ensure
the One Percent and its descendants survive the forthcoming
environmental apocalypse with sufficient slaves to maintain the obscene
comforts to which they have long been accustomed.
When
one factors in all the variables – especially the USian repetition of
destabilizations – no other hypothesis is plausible. As I said at the
beginning, the U.S. has become the primary source of Evil on this
planet. And it is still acting out the policy of economic jihad first
publicly acknowledged during the Vietnam War: “we had to destroy the
village (or the planet) to save it (from socialism).”
LB/8-14 September 2015
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