Sad truth, your article, and here we are living in a time when 30 percent of the US population is misinformed who the monsters are, and actually led by the monsters. The November election is truly momentous, even if we are more likely than not cooked by climate change. I fully expect some form of violence if the Orange Lunatic doesn't win, or if the heinous college electorate is close (likely). I'd prefer not to finish my life worrying about brown shirts at my door or feeling it's too dangerous to call out the truth in writing here. Thank you for the ample historical examples. It CAN happen here and is damn close.
The United States of America which thinks it is an enlightened democracy, has been bombing, starving, and burning alive two million men, women, teenage boys and girls, children, infants, and the unborn. During a year-long siege of Gaza with virtually no one let in or out. Including doctors. This is now, today, not in medieval times or the future. Our bombs, jets, and poisonous chemicals = we did it. We dropped the bombs. We fired the weapons. We destroyed the ecology of Gaza and the Mediterranean Sea. Nothing can grow there for decades or even hundreds of years. The USA. With some pitiful help from the perpetually unhappy and misunderstood poor zionists of Israel, god bless their hearts. My point is that it’s not that our future is violent, it is that the so-called West is violent today. So imagine the future when global warming kicks in and biodiversity loss (again our fault). Hunger games anyone??
Similar has been done to a very long list of countries, effectively the entire Global South. The West has largely united & designated the USA as its thugs since WWII, likely as a byproduct of Herrenvolk social democracy, though it had an extensive history of atrocity prior to that.
True, if you remain passive and wait for it all to unfold.
I feel like I've been screaming into the wind on this ... IT DOES NOT HAVE TO UNFOLD THIS WAY for you or your immediate community, if you are prepared to do the community building work, NOW. People passively read these posts, shrug and move on, because community building is hard.
But, you can create a future where you stand shoulder to shoulder with your neighbours, against a hostile world. Your choice.
NPR Market place just had a genius economist on saying that productivity is the measure of how much you can produce in a given amount of time and the less time it takes the better. Not why I'm responding but there's your problem. Excuse me, OUR problem.
A suggestion for your must see page is On The Beach which I didn't see. I might have missed it. "The day after" I haven't been able to watch again. Threads was even worse. I've always wondered what my reaction would be seeing the mushroom cloud rising. Considering the response of the nation to 911 even one nuclear weapon is unimaginable. What is really unimaginable is that climate change may be worse since it will be slower and worldwide. The ones running things don't care. They know they'll be dead by the time it gets really bad.
This was a really good post. I had a very close friend who survived Auschwitz and heard some of these stories first hand. He had the delight of meeting Josef Goebbels. Animals have an overwhelming need to survive any way possible. Humans are animals. Humans like to think they are above animals. Thank religion (and science) for that belief.
Don't feel like you're screaming into the wind. You're attempting to out scream 20 plus years of hardcore non stop programming from the government and media. Also consider trying to build a "community" in a large city like New York. Erasing community and family has been one of the main goals of the propaganda machine.
The same technique used for training soldiers to demonize the enemy are being used to fracture us society. Sow the seeds of mistrust. Use issues like gay marriage, abortion, gender equality and so on to separate people. The result is that the more issues there are the more society becomes separated. For instance, some may approve of gay marriage but be against abortion and vice versa. Usually in these issues there is no central position in peoples minds. The current election is a perfect example. It's also what is now termed "binary thinking". How much of a role have computers played in bringing about binary thinking. Most polls, questionnaires are limited to yes or no answers of some type. The result of the limitations of digital computer programming.
Read "Psychological Operations by Goldstein" a US air force publication for psyops written in the 70s. The methods used today are all in there but now vastly enhanced by computer technology.
It's why there is no community or family.
The Amish have been largely immune to this. Can you imagine non Amish people building a house or barn then hand carrying it to where it will reside?
I just watched a movie called "Threads" which portrays what Sarah has written about. If you are squeamish and prone to nightmares you should probably skip it. Free on YouTube.
Sad truth, your article, and here we are living in a time when 30 percent of the US population is misinformed who the monsters are, and actually led by the monsters. The November election is truly momentous, even if we are more likely than not cooked by climate change. I fully expect some form of violence if the Orange Lunatic doesn't win, or if the heinous college electorate is close (likely). I'd prefer not to finish my life worrying about brown shirts at my door or feeling it's too dangerous to call out the truth in writing here. Thank you for the ample historical examples. It CAN happen here and is damn close.
The United States of America which thinks it is an enlightened democracy, has been bombing, starving, and burning alive two million men, women, teenage boys and girls, children, infants, and the unborn. During a year-long siege of Gaza with virtually no one let in or out. Including doctors. This is now, today, not in medieval times or the future. Our bombs, jets, and poisonous chemicals = we did it. We dropped the bombs. We fired the weapons. We destroyed the ecology of Gaza and the Mediterranean Sea. Nothing can grow there for decades or even hundreds of years. The USA. With some pitiful help from the perpetually unhappy and misunderstood poor zionists of Israel, god bless their hearts. My point is that it’s not that our future is violent, it is that the so-called West is violent today. So imagine the future when global warming kicks in and biodiversity loss (again our fault). Hunger games anyone??
Similar has been done to a very long list of countries, effectively the entire Global South. The West has largely united & designated the USA as its thugs since WWII, likely as a byproduct of Herrenvolk social democracy, though it had an extensive history of atrocity prior to that.
True, if you remain passive and wait for it all to unfold.
I feel like I've been screaming into the wind on this ... IT DOES NOT HAVE TO UNFOLD THIS WAY for you or your immediate community, if you are prepared to do the community building work, NOW. People passively read these posts, shrug and move on, because community building is hard.
But, you can create a future where you stand shoulder to shoulder with your neighbours, against a hostile world. Your choice.
NPR Market place just had a genius economist on saying that productivity is the measure of how much you can produce in a given amount of time and the less time it takes the better. Not why I'm responding but there's your problem. Excuse me, OUR problem.
A suggestion for your must see page is On The Beach which I didn't see. I might have missed it. "The day after" I haven't been able to watch again. Threads was even worse. I've always wondered what my reaction would be seeing the mushroom cloud rising. Considering the response of the nation to 911 even one nuclear weapon is unimaginable. What is really unimaginable is that climate change may be worse since it will be slower and worldwide. The ones running things don't care. They know they'll be dead by the time it gets really bad.
This was a really good post. I had a very close friend who survived Auschwitz and heard some of these stories first hand. He had the delight of meeting Josef Goebbels. Animals have an overwhelming need to survive any way possible. Humans are animals. Humans like to think they are above animals. Thank religion (and science) for that belief.
Thanks for the education.
Take care and keep writing.
I think you are correct.
Margi-
Don't feel like you're screaming into the wind. You're attempting to out scream 20 plus years of hardcore non stop programming from the government and media. Also consider trying to build a "community" in a large city like New York. Erasing community and family has been one of the main goals of the propaganda machine.
The same technique used for training soldiers to demonize the enemy are being used to fracture us society. Sow the seeds of mistrust. Use issues like gay marriage, abortion, gender equality and so on to separate people. The result is that the more issues there are the more society becomes separated. For instance, some may approve of gay marriage but be against abortion and vice versa. Usually in these issues there is no central position in peoples minds. The current election is a perfect example. It's also what is now termed "binary thinking". How much of a role have computers played in bringing about binary thinking. Most polls, questionnaires are limited to yes or no answers of some type. The result of the limitations of digital computer programming.
Read "Psychological Operations by Goldstein" a US air force publication for psyops written in the 70s. The methods used today are all in there but now vastly enhanced by computer technology.
It's why there is no community or family.
The Amish have been largely immune to this. Can you imagine non Amish people building a house or barn then hand carrying it to where it will reside?
I just watched a movie called "Threads" which portrays what Sarah has written about. If you are squeamish and prone to nightmares you should probably skip it. Free on YouTube.
I highly recommend Threads, but it is Depressing with a capital D.
It's the first video on my "Mandatory Viewing" page. https://www.collapse2050.com/mandatory-viewing/
As counterpoint, here is what is happening on the ground in North Carolina:
https://open.substack.com/pub/chuckturtleman/p/we-are-safe-in-western-nc?r=fjrpt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web