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[recalcitrantphilosopher]

'Navigating the Intellectual Hoax & Structural Collapse of Western Society (Part-1): The Lightbringer, Critical Analysis & Human Civilization at a Crossroads'

--- DiogenesWasRight

This post is to serve as opening commentary in a series concerning the current irreversible decline of decadent Western Society. This coincides with a broader global collapse, as it represents the dominant power distribution on planet 🌍

'Western Society' is to mean ideas extolled and promulgated by White people of European dissent. My historical awareness embeds 'White Supremacy/Superiority' as foundational bedrocks for philosophical ideation and ideological exportation for this culture

I highlight this, as we have a tendency to a say "Western Society" in a way that is nebulous and permits for various persons, social groups, and concepts to be conflated in a manner that distorts history and obfuscates reality

As an example, I do not view Barrack Obama as a part of Western Society. He is a bi-product of Western "culture" as a form of co-optation by White Establishment

In various mythological traditions, there is a "Luciferian" figure that takes esoteric information originating within the Divine Realm and democratizes it, gifting its utility to humans as a gesture of rebellion

In some iterations, the essence of this character is redefined in terms of a powerful, yet, flawed "demiurge" type actor whose real power lies in its penchant and talent for elaborate deception and the projection of authority (e.g. 'Rosemary's Baby)

These dual metaphysical concepts seem to be symbolically equally playing out in contemporary global culture. Specifically, information has never been so widely accessible and, concurrently, the old social order is being critically evaluated and a new consensus Political-Economy is being formulated, albeit in a constant state of flux and violent uncertainty

Currently, there are a few observable phenomena reshaping society:

1. Decentralization of economic/political (hard/soft) power. This is global and we can observe it from the poorly facilitated reconstruction of Syria, to the internal rebalancing of the federalist model in the United States

2. A rapidly evolving multipolar 🌍 that is currently being negotiated between elites. Here, the concept of the 'nation state' model for mass scale political-economic resource redistribution is being redefined , as well as tasked, for relevance and social efficacy

3. An elite Transnational Capitalist (TC) Class has accumulated concentrated wealth that has overtaken the Western Military Industrial Complex and necessarily developed an existence that transcends national borders and demands stability+predictability > traditional methods for volatile world ordering

In this process, the very moral/intellectual foundations of Western ideological perspective is increasingly being relegated to the domain of castigation and rejection as a malevolent artisan (creator god), whose only real contribution is death, destruction, and promulgation of cognitive dissonance

Western Society has existed as system architects for nation-states that preferred unsustainable debt-based models for internal growth that temporarily insulated their societies from the natural Entropy of inflation

Simultaneously, these nations engaged in ruthless resource extraction, from weaker nations, with DEBT as prescriptive means to its own end and positive feedback loop. When these weaker nations were invariably unable to service these debts, "austerity" became the next remedial tool

Where there were attempts by these weaker actors to exercise a modicum of national sovereignty and demonstrate some degree of marginal autonomy, they were met with hyper aggressive militarism

Noncompliant leaders were nuetralized; revolutionaries were killed; millions perished; and entire local economies were artificially wrecked, in order to maintain Western hegemonic influence. This is also the mechanism by which Western elites were able to pacify their local constituencies, in artificially propping up their local economies, at the expense of unwilling benefactors

Yet, this was only temporary. Entropy always wins. And, the Western system is no longer able to maintain the charade of majority prosperity and competing need for majority mass subjugation, as a function of system perpetuation

Here, I engage anecdote

When I was a little human, I believed that people were mostly decent; and that the people on television 📺, even where they made mistakes, always had the best interests of Majority Society in mind when they did X,Y, or Z

As my telomeres shortened, and I was introduced to the emancipating concepts of 'formal education', 'working for a wage' and 'voting', that normative condition was revised to living a simple life and learning as much as I can of the Universe before reintegration

Cynicism? Yes

Still, over time, I came to see that, even, this downward revision of reasonable expectation, as humble capitulation, was not so easy a landing a spot, given the inherent nature of the society within which I resided

My initial assessment was that this $ystem was an anti majoritarian construct that evolved from racist origins. That held constant, my interpretation was that life was "doable", even where it was not "fair"

Wrong 🚫

I eventually came to the rational conclusion, and sobering truth, that I was operating in a $ystem that was not only designed for majority marginalization...it was not designed for ME. Both, as Black person and as one who suffers the chronic condition of "Truth affliction"

This is because Western Society is a culture that, by way of observational output, cause/effect analysis, and outcome based reasoning, can only be theorized to seek permanent White Supremacy as its paramount objective

In addition, the TRUTH is that what little I was able to accomplish, in a rigged system, existed as a mutually-exclusive, collectively exhausted (binary) relationship of parasitic energy harvesting, with my counterparts in weaker nations as life force donor 😐

In broader world society, it is this concept that has fundamentally caused our collective intellectual side eye 👀; and this is due to the simple historical reality that the culture lacks ethical consistency and moral clarity

It has historically lead with diplomacy and altruism, only to end in hypocrisy and reactionary malfeasance. It has promoted peace through words, but has only managed to kill more human beings at an alarmingly increasing rate (unprecedented, historically)

More importantly, it has made "predictability" in International Relations a purely theoretical concept, as power politics and "might makes right" (now, peace🕊️ through strength) reasoning, now, threatens the very fabric of higher institutions it created to promote these ideas

Folks are waking up. But, how did we get here? Even more imperative, how might this human saga of ours, as Collective Consciousness transition, play out, longer-term? 🤔

--- OUR SHARED ORIGINS ---

Africa is universally accepted as the birthplace of humanity. Africa is also the birthplace of, not only, civilization, but, high intellectual, political, AND spiritual society (see Ancient Kemet, Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Moors/Cordoba...)

That history is expansive, epic, complex, multifaceted, and still being evidenced and mapped. The short story involves early Black Africans migrating to Europe and catching a bad break for weather/environment, while, concurrently, those on the African continent enjoyed a relatively hospitable period of good fortune by Mother Nature

In the African instance, those people mastered agriculture and were able to establish sedentary society. This provided the necessary environment for idea incubation. These human beings became builders

They became scholars, philosophers, and doctors. In addition, they became Master bureaucrats that created a social political-economy that blended all of their intellectual achievements into an operationalized spiritual system that, at its core, focused on concepts of maintenance of cosmic balance and continuity (and elevation) of consciousness, as ideological principles

Effectively, introspective philosophical thought was turned into an ideological paradigm that, eventually, became inextricably linked with the day-to-day lives of citizens; and the apex manifestation of these principles were demonstrated in state output (e.g. temple building, road construction, harvesting, goods manufacturing, etc.)

The main idea is that any state expenditure of social surplus was balanced, tempered, and justified by the utility derived from upholding these principles. This included sustainability deference and the elevation of society by willful participatory inclusion. More adeptly.... Each individual in society had a use and corresponding meaningful purpose

(Who doesn't want to maintain cosmic balance and elevate your consciousness, while doing it?)

Meanwhile, across the Mediterranean, we will keep that story short and say they were not doing these things and were dealing with something less like consciousness elevation and more like the Nightmare Matrix simulation. These people of African origin would eventually become modern Europeans

These Europeans (Greeks) would eventually sail across the water to learn from Black Africans in Ancient Kemet (Egypt, and ask Herodatus). Over time, these ppl would basically plagiarize Kemetic society/culture and establish themselves as the foundations for the beginnings of History.

Eventually, their infant Western society collapsed and they forgot themselves, only to be rescued socially, intellectually, and scientifically by more folks from the African Continent. They even helped them usher in that Enlightenment Period everybody loves to talk about, including reminding them who Aristotle was and translating his ideas

Over time, these Europeans morphed into Romans, Portuguese, French, and Britons and decided that they would habitually sail across the water and routinely conquer and enslave those same Africans, as a "thank you" for services rendered 💙😍 This included attempting to erase their achievements from history; making them look like backward savages in need of Jesus Christ, Patrick Swayze Edition

But, that is key to the discussion. These folks dealt with a lot of sh*t

(I've heard stories of roving clans designed for hunting other humans for food)

Where one thinks about it, it makes sense why they developed Viking culture, wrote the first Dark Horror/Fantasy, and gave us wonderful continuity of "life affirming" German philosophy, highlighted by Hegel, that we all enjoy today 🥹

This is important, because this requires "understanding" of alternative culture and reintegration/reconciliation of our shared collective human history.  This is not to obfuscate history or rescind culpability from Western Society for what prevails

When I deploy this awareness, it is to reason the underlying base programming and thought processes that are hardwired into Western Society. In many cases, at the individual unit level, a White person of European dissent may not even realize these inherited predispositions are exercising dominion in the background of their operating system

This is what is valuable to know and dangerous to misunderstand. It also brings us to the present and close

Currently, a dominant White minority has a rapidly receding authority and monopoly of administration of our global village. We can discuss "Thucydides Traps, End of Unipolar Moments, or Post Capitalist Society", all we like

However, my position is that the dominant system architecture that prevails has its origins in subconscious programming of humans that evolved in conditions that can only be reduced to the Natural Scarcity from Hell

The people that we call "Western elites" (and non elites) owe their ancestry to people that dealt with incomprehensible suffering, desperation, while in mental states of psychological vulnerability. This means, first and foremost... survival, at all costs, is always game theory

Thus, my take is that we must realize that the boat ⛵ they steer has no brakes for the unsustainability and anti-societal (majoritarian) output. This is not an insult. They can articulate themselves in whatever superior manner they deem as so. They can talk in calm monotone, while they recite Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes, or Jon Stewart Mill, verbatim

Yet, ultimately, they are a society that developed hyper predatory instincts, under conditions of tremendous scarcity; who are also under numerical threat due to the system they created and it's inability to foster sustainable human development. In addition...they ARE human

As such, they are also built with the same internal understanding of the Golden Rule that we all share. We all know what it is to mistreat someone. We all know that we would not like to be mistreated. They inherently understand that their society has not been very nice to the majority of the people on Earth. Being that Western Society values rationality above all else, the people in this culture have naturally reached conclusions that theorize the people that have been historically marginalized in this system will want some "get back"

For me, that is what is troubling. There is potential for non-Western society to ground their analysis in traditional Western thinking; particularly regarding International Relations and post Enlightenment reasoning

So, one may be tempted to believe that collective humanity may see some temporary turbulence, as a global hegemon recedes, and the nation-state model (a European construct, including the assumption of "national interests" rising to elite levels of output) is tasked

However, there is NOTHING rational about the concept of White Supremacy 🚫🧐 In many cases, per this independent objective observation, it seems as though some Western elites prefer to rank this imperative above all others; including over ideological perspectives predicated upon sustainability and with corresponding policy implementations

Be this the case, there is more than enough cause to believe that we can realistically end up in a 'Nino Brown' scenario, at the end of 'New Jack City'

What's more, the Transnational Capitalist Class is overwhelmingly comprised of those that trace their origins to the very beginnings of Western Society

While the nation-state model may be waning, potentially in its final years of relevance, collectively, this new variation of Western Society may be holding just as many cards; but could still suffer from an intellectual myopism rooted in that same base programming that elevates subjugation, demands compliance, and takes no prisoners

Yes, the "Lightbringer" is on trial 😇 👿

When we collectively indulge the Enlightenment Period and ask ourselves: what have we ACHIEVED", it may become an interesting thought exercise

In an age where we outpaced Natural Scarcity DECADES ago, we suffer historic levels of starvation, homelessness, food insecurity, civil unrest, violent conflict, and internal political instability that threatens the very heart of the (D)emocracy that is supposed to be the ultimate manifestation of rational thought

...we also managed to take the highest contemporary form of our collective scientific knowledge... And blew up Japan

✌🏾💙💯

[recalcitrantphilosopher]

'A Brief History of Reason & Revelation. Spirituality, Material Reality & the Miseducation of Resource Concentration: Or why Patrice Lumumba is the only Hero I've ever had'

--- DiogenesWasRight

Have you ever taken time to ask WHY the 🌍 exists as it does, despite our increased knowledge, technological progress, and us outpacing Natural Scarcity decades ago?

I know the attention span for social media users might not be naturally complementary to how I organize my thoughts; but, I hope you take time to read in full and consider the ideas

Take it; claim it as your own; I don't care. If you're having external conversations about any of this writing, I'll consider it as a personal victory and intrinsic reward 💯

To facilitate dialogue, I would like to pay homage and frame the discussion by way of what might be the 'Greatest Speech of All-time' (abbreviated) to my senses:

SPEECH AT THE CEREMONY OF THE PROCLAMATION OF THE CONGO'S INDEPENDENCE

[ "....Although this independence of the Congo is being proclaimed today by agreement with Belgium...no Congolese will ever forget that independence was won in struggle...It was filled with tears, fire and blood.

We are deeply proud of our struggle, because it was just and noble and indispensable in putting an end to the humiliating bondage forced upon us....That was our lot for the eighty years of colonial rule and our wounds are too fresh and much too painful to be forgotten...

...We have seen our lands seized in the name of ostensibly just laws, which gave recognition only to the right of might...We have experienced the atrocious sufferings, being persecuted for political convictions and religious beliefs, and exiled from our native land: our lot was worse than death itself..." ]

Patrice Lamumba, Democratically elected Prime Minister of the 1st Congolese Republic (1960)

https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/lumumba/1960/06/independence.htm

Patrice Lamumba was not scheduled to speak this day and made this impromptu, freestyle castigation of the Belgian "king's" (Baudouin) preceding speech that attempted to paint the industrial scale mass murder of ~15,000,000 Congolese, at the behest of his uncle Leopold, as a "civilizing mission" that amounted to paternalistic nation building and colonial "genius"

(Yes; dude actually said that shit...at a podium...in a room full of Black Africans.)

This is the speech that signaled to Establishment that Patrice Lamumba would not be turned into a Black puppet leader; and it was this speech that would eventually lead to Belgium/American officials dissolving his body in acid and handing back one gold tooth, only a few years ago.

I often come back to Lumumba in times where I'm uneasy, there is uncertainty, or I feel as though I may be compromising principal in an effort to navigate and survive this predatory system of exploitation and indecency not made for my benefit.

It's in those times that I understand why Malcom X referred to him as "the greatest Black man who ever walked the African continent". I think this is useful and will end with THE GREAT Patrice Lumumba at closing.

But, 1st, is to focus on the history that he died to reconcile and how attempts by Western elites to distort that linear chronology has created an anti-societal social distortion that continues to negatively impact us all.

- WHERE, SO CALLED, "HISTORY" BEGAN -

When I decided to re-educate, a mistake I made was internalizing an insecurity that materialized into full inadequacy at not having exhaustively read all the "classics"; or not being a walking quotation machine for synthetic recapitulation, primarily catering to aesthetic knowledge, as window dressing.

Luckily, I was challenged by someone to more thoroughly, holistically evaluate the origins of some of the person's Michael Parenti referred to as "Gentleman's Historians"; and place their philosophical thinking into a historical context to understand what factors might have allowed for these personal deliberations to be translated to generalizable ideologies.

(*A Gentleman's Historian would be someone who would, likely, self-report as being of high/noble birth, with enough leisure time to record history properly; as opposed to a broke mofo that would, likely, work in servitude tending the "Gentleman's" lands and fuck the shit up, due to lack of time...per Parenti).

When I took a step back, I observed what should have been obvious, in the fact that all of the "required reading" was a product of White 'Intelligentsia' (mainly males) that rarely had anything positive to say, if anything was said, at all, about any other groups of people , historically.

(Although I was cognizant that the genetic allele for phenotypic expression of "Whiteness" is only a few thousand years old)

An even deeper insight (one imported from observing contemporary political parties/politics) was investigating where the competing intellectual/ideological factions of that Intelligentsia actually AGREED.

There were a few consistent ideas for consensus reason:

•  Folks of African dissent (or other older societies) had no usable historical contribution to modern society

• While brutal, Colonialism tended to be treated as a necessary component to the production process that was 'Industrialization' and natural progression toward 'Modernity'

• The corresponding economic logic viewed collective action/output in terms of a production process that viewed all logistical aspects of human endeavor as 'inputs' that rationally, necessarily had to be constantly devalued to achieve maximum social "benefit"

(this is a natural extrapolation and rational argument for the Slavery that arose from Colonialism and, even, modern wage slavery)

• The basis for  understanding the underlying political-economy of "progressive" society began with, and was firmly grounded in, the assumption that collective/individual consciousness is a function of material acquisition ("stuff"), in satisfying individual utility

• Human progress was the result of elite individuals, of superior insight, that concentrated and marshalled resources (including people and by any necessary means) in a way that made "productive" what was typically "idle", in the public domain of mass consciousness

• Lastly, modernity, and rational thought, itself, were necessarily the product of 'Enlightenment' thinking; which was the product of Greek high society and Roman imperial conquest, as idea incubator and operationalizing agent, respectively and combined

To summarize in a quick, less than eloquent statement:

"Human understanding starts with stuff; what we have is the result of the superior rationality of White elites; and what we know is the result of the Western society that gave it to us" 🥹

- THE ARROW OF TIME & THE GENTLEMAN'S HISTORIAN -

An interesting thing happens where one cross references Western elite thinkers, even where their general ideas may compete. For instance, folks may call themselves 'Marxists', but Marx, himself, would not have identified with the slogan and might have been something closer to an 'Anarchist'.

What's more, the historical threads of justification that allowed for him to reach his conclusions, his "empirical preference" is not so nice. The German philosophical tradition that he built upon is highly cynical/skeptical of the human condition, and tends toward invalidation.

Marx, himself, for instance, validated Colonialism, effectively, as a brutal means to a productive end (Consequentialism). In addition, the reasoning concedes paramount consideration for placing the Material 🌍 > that which may go unseen (ie, the 'spiritual').

So, the idea that a person should relegate themselves to placing primacy upon a 9-to-5 slave wage might carry more weight than the introspective belief that human beings are driven, internally, by something that cannot be quantified, as a matter of spiritual consciousness.

One of the "Gentlemen's Historians" Michael Parenti might cite, actually, began as something of an ideological "go-to" for me, in John Stuart Mill (JSM). He would be considered a Utilitarian and would, alongside his mentor, who was further "left", ideologically, have been the Bill Clinton/Ralph Nader (respectively) of their day.

But, like Marx, an "observational paradox" (some might say hypocrisy) arises, when it comes to understanding "how we got here" and evaluating "right vs wrong", as ideological consensus.

Here is an composite extract on JSM, derived from aggregated sources:

• [ Mill's Theories on Empire: As a lifelong employee of the British East India Company, Mill famously argued in On Liberty and Considerations on Representative Government that the principles of liberty and self-governance did not apply to societies he deemed "backward" or "barbarous." He supported colonial despotism as a temporary measure to elevate indigenous populations to a "higher stage" of civilization. This Eurocentric ideology is heavily criticized by modern scholars as a justification or "whitewashing" of colonial exploitation. ]

The late 18th and early 19th centuries are interesting, b/c this, so called, "Enlightenment" thinking begins to be bifurcated into areas for rational operationalized productivity and areas for normative altruism...but, never taken together, as a matter of general principle or practice 🤔

In fact, upon personal investigation, these "civilizing" missions of colonial expansionism, as paternalistic "nation building", I learned that the justification for these endeavors ran counter to the actual historical RECORD; particularly, where it pertained to the actual origins of humanity and organic evolution of human civilization.

As an example, when Napoleon was out, potentially, trying to compensate for a lacking in other areas, France made its way to Northern Africa and came to possess what is known as ancient Kemet (Egypt)...and they, immediately went into historical revisionist mode.

The Romans may have eradicated populations and spiritual/religious sects that would easily demonstrate high African civilization; but, information was still preserved in a manner that would not allow for Humanity to internalize an impossible belief.

Mainly, that the African continent can be the birthplace of Humanity, but with no corresponding civilization worth documenting 🤨 When people, like Mills, who never apologized for Empire got to Ancient Kemet, one might see where this could be problematic.

This is another composite extract to contextualize the issue:

• [ Historiography of Ancient Egypt: The "whitewashing" of ancient Egypt is a separate academic discourse. Postcolonial and Afrocentric historians argue that traditional Western Egyptology deliberately severed Ancient Egypt from its African/Nubian roots, often to fit a Eurocentric narrative of civilizational progress. These critiques of Eurocentrism in classical history are conceptually linked to the broader imperial ideologies that Mill championed. ]

It's this 18th/19th century agenda and prerogative:

• Materialism

• Accumulation

• Resource concentration

• Historical revisionism

• Eurocentric ideology

• Cynicism on human motivation

that brought in the 20th Century filtered, prepackaged historical narrative (which flowed into all major areas for discipline and discourse) that shaped how our conscious minds perceive reality; and how our unconscious minds, as a collective, channel our unquantifiable human potential into one material direction, or another.

- MONOPOLIZING THE EDUCATION SYSTEM & HOW TO CO-OPT THE POLITICAL-ECONOMY -

This is a sample of select writing of prominent, temporally prolific author/"historian", H.G. Wells, in order to give you a feel for what was being promulgated by Western Elite Intelligentsia at the time:

• The Idea of a League of Nations (1919)

• The Way to the League of Nations (1919) 

• A Short History of the World (1922) (New and Rev Ed. 1946)

• A Short History of Mankind (1925)

• The Outline of History (1920)

• The New Teaching of History: with a reply to some recent criticisms of the Outline of History (H. G. Wells) (1921)

• The Science of Life (1930) – with Julian S. Huxley and G. P. Wells

• The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1931)

• The Salvaging of Civilization (1921)

• Phoenix: A Summary of the Inescapable Conditions of World Reorganization (1942)

I'll leave it to you to investigate into how rapidly H.G. Wells was made "required reading" at major university's and where these ideas might overlap with contemporary sanctioning bodies, such as the General Education Board.

However, alongside other ideas from folks, like Herbert Spencer or Margaret Sanger, this is simply a little taste of what was going down, at the time; and how some of the Enlightenment thinking evolved alongside my assumption of Western Eurocentrism, as the history that was articulated as "concensus" was being crafted.

So, let's take John D. Rockefeller as the ultimate manifestation of the "forward thinking" elite mind (this is why he's historically referred to as a "Captain of Industry").

Is it a far stretch of the imagination to see how these ideas might fit a particular narrative scheme that would lend itself favorably to his private enterprise?

It's common awareness that Rockefeller (with other wealthy elites of the day) disproportionately influenced the entirety of Western education in a way that one could determine to have, fundamentally, shaped our Collective Consciousness in a way that is still active to this day (do you hear school bells?).

This is especially relevant with the curriculums that were monopolized and co-opted for higher education. This included every critical discipline for professional expertise and administration, including:

• Medicine

• Pharmaceutical

• Economics

• History

• Political Science

• Sociology

One recurring theme of note, in exaltation of the indispensable presence of the forward thinking elite individual (who typically is homogenous with regards to demographic traits) is the perpetuation of mythology that says our historical progress is the result of conflicts over resources and that private property and resource concentration are our natural progression.

Thus, the very idea that we poor, inferior masses are apable of organizing ourselves is anethema 🚫

In addition, it assumes that the only collective drive has been undertaken with a mindset, and underlying intellectual assumptions, of a Rockefeller; with no other opposing ideological preference present to offset this thinking or, historically...move society forward.

So, if you were a trade unionist, student unionist, Feminist or Civil Rights movement participant, Marxist guerilla fighter, anti imperialist insurgent, socialist land reformer, etc., yeaaah...you were kinda "just there" and didn't really matter, or do much to shape our shared historical narrative

But, what does this MATTER, right❓

At the end of the day, maybe elite individuals are all that truly matter?

Maybe it's possible that matter is all that "matters" and the material 🌍 is all that shapes Collective Consciousness?

Could it be possible that we are all only little pleasure 🎁'$ of utility maximization with no intrinsic higher motivation and self worth, outside of 'Game Theory' and 'Nash Equilibriums'?

Well, permit me to end where I began; by way of my rational logic on why the personhood and short-lived experience of the great Patrice Lumumba made such an intrinsic impact on how I introspectively view existence, at a philosophical level.

- THE SPIRITUALITY THAT DRIVE PATRICE LAMUMBA & HOW THAT RELATES TO YOU -

Using the Western Eurocentric "history" that's been peddled, my synthesizing Malcom X's effusive description of Lumumba might seem like hyperbolic rhetoric, designed as a "feel good" story for "a people with no history" and no historical contribution to global society. But, it's not 🚫 and it's not simply about Black people 🚫

Like Patrice Lumumba, Malcom X had an accurate understanding of African history; and it is, exactly, this history that Lumumba refused to let Western society euphemistically reimagine. THIS is what prompted the speech that got him killed.

However, at the 💙 of this historical rebuke of historical revisionism and, truthfully, White supremacy lies not a philosophical disposition; but, a generalizable "human" story fit for ideological consensus, where one permits an honest evaluation of history and entertains alternative assumptions on the Human Condition and Collective Consciousness.

As much as the historical revisionism that evolved our contemporary world has an innate disdain for Black African culture and society (as well as other historically marginalized cultures), there is a paramount consideration that transcends, even, the artificial construct that is "race".

This was constructed by modern Europeans, in order to comport with the ideological preferences that evolved Imperialism and Capitalism from their nascent beginnings in the old colonial political-economic structures.

In order to develope as $ystem that can manifest a conscientious indifference in our Collective Consciousness that can, literally, consume the life essence of a human being and hand another apathetic human being back a slight modification on 1st iPhone, as "justification"...you have to have willing participants that are only able to ground their reasoning in the material world.

You may say that I talk "crazy". Fine.

However, where we review what is happening in the "Democratic Republic" of Congo, today, is this not commensurate with some of what I previously detailed? Where might he have drawn his ideas to understand what was, yet, to be? It, assuredly, did not come from Cambridge or Oxford 🚫

Take time to review the supply chain for the smartphone that you have in your hand, right now, and reflect upon the person and history of Patrice Lumumba.

Read his writings and seek to evidence some of the same "forward thinking", in predictive analysis, that we might attribute to Steve Jobs taking 1950s ideas and figuring out a way go the opposite direction of 'Star Trek'.

Ancient African Spiritual Science is unique, b/c, before all religions that we know today came into being, it was 1st. And, it was the 1st to offer that the world of the unseen (spiritual) is accessed by way of human consciousness; which, in turn...manifests the reality that we observe and inhabit. Not the other way around 🚫

You don't need to develop yourself by way of your labor. You don't have to seek external validation from others to determine yourself worth. In fact, under that spiritual system, your physical body was only temporary and ripe for transmutation into another form, on elevation of your consciousness. This means you always had a direct connection to whatever you construe as being "divine"... Not John Locke and private property 🚫

That's a very powerful, and potent, intellectual alternative. It's one that, reasonably, would not allow for an employee to abide by the grim realities behind their company's supply chain logistics, or tolerate the disconnect between their company's market capitalization vs their revenue share, as take-home pay.

In Ancient Kemet, while the Spiritual Science, like (D)emocracy, may have began with the process of mass indoctrination; there is variation in how administrative business was facilitated and what Mass Society got, in exchange, for participation, as Opportunity Cost.

There was Inequality, but not rampant Poverty or Homelessnes. A Pharaoh or Priest did not rule/govern the political economy by "divine right". They were responsible for maintaining cosmic balance and a large part of that responsibility entailed maintenance of their society, by way of sustainable development of the people. This included materially, intellectually, and spiritually (which would have been taken as one and the same).

So, what am I getting at❓

It's simple. At the end of the day, despite the wars, brutality, racism, manufactured hatred and crises, political or religious divisions, etc.... it all reduces to "intellectual argument". This is where Patrice Lumumba looms large.

Folks who care should invest time in learning what was actually DONE to him and those that supported or thought like him. The Belgian and U.S. elites did not simply kill him and dissolve his body in acid.

They tortured him over the course of car rides, plane trips, and over days, in an alcohol induced frenzy that made, even, some of the co-conspirators sick to their stomachs, after they were able to testify.

What's more, the International Community, including the United Nations, KNEW what had happening and simply turned the other way, failing to save the life of a democratically elected Head-of-State of a U.N. Member.

(is this historical narrative sounding somewhat familiar?)

My understanding is that Lumumba refused to plead for his life, beg for mercy, reconsider the trade agreements that had previously been forced upon him, or, even, show an ounce of fear, as his murderers were communicating to him what they were going to do to his person.

In fact, he simply attempted to appeal to the, so called, "rationality" of the "elites" in the room to think ahead and understand the consequences of what they were doing.

This matters, b/c it demonstrates something the people killing him would not be able to comprehend, no more than the ancient Greeks would have been able to comprehend the complex Spiritual Science of their Ancient Kemetic teachers; which formed the template for their own religious pantheon, eventually, evolving into the Philosophy we are told originated with Western thinking.

Despite what a "captain of industry" might project onto the consciousness of Lumumba using Game Theory or assuming the defiant leader only operated from the space of utility maximization, there was, obviously, something that motivated the African martyr on a level that a Henry Kissinger would only be able to "describe", not "understand".

And, believe it, or not, that's the part of ourselves that actually "matters" and, truthfully, holds society together.  There is nothing rational, in a Western traditional sense, about what motivates us as human beings, as opposed to our animal nature.

What modern society tries to convince you is that only the latter exists. But, is there anything, at all, rational about Consumerism; or that we still murder children and tolerate Man-made Scarcity, in an age of abundance, b/c of recommendations from old books that we KNOW were edited for historical convenience?

Whenever we mobilize our human potential and aggregate resources in a given direction, it's ALWAYS under the influence of aspects of ourselves that we can't quite quantify or define by way of purely rational logic. If we were all this selfish and solely grounded in material acquisition and consumption...how would we be able to form any type of society?

This is what made Patrice Lumumba's demise so violent. Like many powerful minds, his very existence eradicated the revisionist historical narrative and the myopic, cynical assumptions on The Human Condition. He was highly intelligent, overly capable, and supremely confident in himself. So much so, that he understood that to break would be validating his intellectual opposition.

So...He refused to break.

And, guess what...I'm sitting here writing out a Tumblr post, using him as my intellectual base, to this day.

WHY?

B/c the world that Western society has constructed has proven him prophetic and made his gruesome death THAT much more powerful and salient. He had it all right. It just took time for the rest of us to catch up this "forward thinking" Captain-of-Sprituality.

What else, save his alternative view and reasoning, do we have to move society forward from our contemporary collective malaise...OPENAI and NVIDIA stock❓

When in personal doubt, I like to think it was this historical TRUTH that gave him the courage and temerity to see things through to the end; both, as psychological resilience and moral compass.

When I take time to self reflect and fail to resemble Patrice Lumumba with a dedicated moral and intellectual consistency...I take a step back and re-evaluate

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[recalcitrantphilosopher]

China and Russia agree joint statement on Further Strengthening Comprehensive Strategic Cooperation and Deepening Good-Neighbourliness and F

Among the 40 agreements concluded during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s May 19-20 successful state visit to China the most comprehensive

This is not being sufficiently, thoroughly emphasized or explained by Western media; but, if you aren't following...Russia and China just put folks on NOTICE 😌

I also placed the 2022 Joint Statement in the comments for comparative analysis.

EXCERPT:

[ This year marks the 30th anniversary of both sides’ declaration of their determination to develop a strategic partnership of cooperation for the 21st century based on equal trust and equality, and the 25th anniversary of the signing of the China-Russia Treaty of Good-neighbourliness, Friendship and Cooperation.

 The Treaty of Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation inherits and promotes the long-standing tradition of China-Russia exchanges, follows recognised principles and norms of international law, and lays a long-term legal foundation for the development of contemporary China-Russia relations. It not only fully demonstrates the long-standing good-neighbourly friendship and the willingness to develop intergenerational friendship between the peoples of both countries, but also concretely embodies the common values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom for all humanity.

The basic principles of bilateral cooperation established in the China-Russia Treaty of Good-Neighbourliness, Friendship and Cooperation have stood the test of time and still hold significant practical significance today. The bilateral relationship is characterised by non-alignment, non-confrontation, and non-targeting of third countries....]

[recalcitrantphilosopher]

Temporary energy/spirit mobilization for today

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[recalcitrantphilosopher]

Rationalizing an Irrational System not fit for Human Consumption: The ONLY Way to [Make it make sense]'

--- DiogenesWasRight

I would be nice for Tumblr to have a Grid View for ease of external review of prior posts. That said, I'll be brief in these prose and hope that you mifht invest time/attention in reading those prior postings for fuller thoughts on individual concepts put forth in the video

I've studied a lot of "stuff", both, formally and of my own independent intellectual volition. Unequivocally, I can objectively state that formal training yielded nothing of substantive merit > Common Sense Reaon (CSR) and natural intuition 🚫...just add books 📚

In fact, I spent a majority of my energy within formal settings for "learning" engaging in efforts to navigate the politics of institutional bureaucracies, personal egos, personality cults, and the pressures of "group think"; in resistance to covert proselytization and more overt systemitic indoctrination

As disconcerting and painstakingly psyche-shattering as this life experience has been, it is, precisely, at this critical juncture for Critical Thinking that my actual "Learning" was facilitated and introspectively internalized

What I discovered, as a counterintuitive mode of logic, was that my time had NECESSARILY been wasted, so to speak, as I was forced into systems not only not designed for ME; but, summarily, dedicated to having me internalize introspective condition which says Rationality governs our 🌍 and status-quo power distributions/elite hierarchies are natural outgrowths/reflections of this assumptive reasoning

Thus, where I might engage critical analysis of a given event or deploy historical evaluation as a methodology for understanding contemporary affairs, it is possible for me, based upon assumption, to offer a rational explanation for what exists and view any observable individual as a "rational actor"

To this degree, I agree (in limited capacity). To this day, I, typically, refrain from using terms, such as, "Crazy" or "Stupid" as automatic go-to conclusions for manifesting explanations for the world that I observe; particularly where I am offering thoughts for critical scrutiny

However, there is implicit, defacto reasoning in being so conservative (or gracious) in seeking to offer a rational explanation for any, and all, independent observations for human social transaction and resource allocation methodology

... we're, effectively, saying "THIS is the best we can do", from a rational perspective

For ~500 years, majoritarian 🌍 Society has been told that rational thought has won the day and the inconsistencies/perils of irrationality have been pushed to the periphery of useful intellectual thought/civil social organization; if not relegated to the primitive past ways of older societies forced into compliance with rational modernity, outright

If this is valid...what does this SAY of our little global village and, more acutely, our shared Collective Consciousness?

If I assume that folks aren't stupid or "cray, cray" and that I live in a world where rationality sweeps the Grammys/Oscars; then, how should I, normatively, reflect upon our Collective Action potential and collective decision making capacity, when I try to make sense of global affairs? 🤔

As an example, when I objectively observe affairs, I see one intellectual "faction" telling me that a Republican POTUS/Party are facilitating an expanded Genocide that is unraveling Western Empire (and destabilizing the planet, in the process) and threatening to destroy the "Rule of Law" and "Rules-based Order"...yet failing to take to task a Democratic POTUS/Party that started the shit...what am I to THINK (emphasis on this word)?

Where is the rationality regarding this line of reasoning?

More importantly, when I survey this landscape for human productive output, factoring in the tremendous technological progressive adaptivity we have demonstrated since the, so called, Enlightenment, my mind tends to want to use the term "MEDIOCRITY", when I compare what actually exists to a random 'Star Trek' episode 😌

Maybe I'm wrong? It's possible

The one thing I do know is that I have attempted to do the best that I could with what I was given. And, as I assume we are all "rational" actors with the same base level propensities/proclivities, my mind wants to believe that those we reward and allow to be elevated to elite spheres of influence/institutional levels of potency are, fundamentally, SUPERIOR in these areas of rational adeptness and capability?

Holding this altruistic assumption constant, what TYPE of human beings, rationally speaking, have evolved our human civilization to this current juncture; and what rational ideological perspective can be given "credit" for justifying the evolving?

What rational conclusion explains the rational thought of the rational actors that enjoy administration of rational planet 🌍?

If I were a malevolent sociopath with a dedication to perpetuating collective misery and malaise, would a purely rational world prevent me from disproportionately influencing affairs and asserting my dominion?

Could any of the rational world be explained by way of my existence?

Is this a result of our "best and brightest" "cream [rising] to the top", as a function of our collective rational thought?

Maybe I should stop thinking, independently, and leave it up to them?

In any event, surely, there's no way to improve upon what exists...rationally speaking?

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[recalcitrantphilosopher]

'Why Black Awareness Matters (BAM) & why (D)emocracy will not save YOU 🚫: Using the Black Experience to understand World Affairs & how this may save the Planet'

#diogeneswasright

John Henrik Clarke is an intellectual hero that I wish I had come across earlier in life; because the nature of his existence would have provided me the necessary mental filters to be able to withstand elite psychological manipulation, projection, and general warfare consistent with long-term subjugation/marginalization of Black people, in particular; but, also, people of color, in general

Recently, at the United Nations, 2 high profile Western countries, a compromised South American nation, coupled with an esoteric number of 52 abstentions, sent a political message that "We don't give a f*ck"; as they overtly opposed the collective common sense of the majority of planet Earth 😂

That's cool. A part of me believes that this is simply more manufactured political theater, designed to generate a response and stoke division. But, we'll go with the "Prima facie" aspect and keep it moving. This can be the backdrop

I'm writing this with the intention of taking my introspective philosophical awareness on the collective experience (and consciousness) of Black people; in order to generate generalizable IDEOLOGICAL thought on why the 🌍 exists as it does and what potential pitfalls our global collective consciousness may be making, as we engage necessary 'Apocalypse' and internalize long overdue 'Revelation'

My observational analysis is that the world is being intentionally "broken" by minority factions; in order that something new manifests and by way of a "Creation from Destruction" process that has its philosophical roots in thought processes that predate antiquity (albeit misunderstood and intentionally distorted)

Some of our Marxist friends (who don't dig Capitalism and like tearing down sh*t) will associate this with 'Thesis + Antithesis = Synthesis'. For folks who choose not to throw the baby out with the bath water, you may recognize the concept as Joseph Schumpeter's "Creative Destruction", in intellectual rescue of Capitalism's inherent inability to self-reflect, self-adjust, and, ultimately, self-correct

At the end of the day, irrespective to ideological/political preference, my determination is that we are at an intellectual "end times" and the system cannot correct itself 🚫 We are all being tasked with the marginal responsibility of determining how our collective consciousness will exist, concurrently, with our conscience and conscious awareness of our evolving Human Condition

Here, I believe the historical evolution/treatment of people of African descent is useful understanding for general Critical Thinking purposes; as well as for normative marginal adjustment for Global Society. I'll begin with discussing the macro world Political-Economy and end by importing that former idea

--- DONALD TRUMP, WESTERN DECADENCE & THE MACRO SCHEME ---

If you've read previously, my evaluation is that Western empire has outlived its traditional usefulness, as White supremacist imperialism, using nation states as primary tools for resource accumulation, has given way to a modified version of itself in the form of Transnational Capital (Globalists) (TNC)

What concerns is that Western culture/electorates are falling into the cyclical trap of Elite impetus➡️Elite manufactured crisis➡️Elite remedy➡️Elite impetus, in perpetual positive feedback loop of "CRAZY"

Yet, again, resources have been artificially diverted, from the laboring classes, in the direction of the non-productive classes, representative of hereditary capital accumulation. Yet, AGAIN, an individualized personality cult is at the center of collective debate and mass arbitration of "good vs bad/right vs wrong". This is simplistic reduction of our collective malaise and ahistorical reasoning, resisting holistic interpretation of how we got here

Last time, it was a Black dude in a suit (who basically grew up around white people), with no substantive political record to be scrutinized (Empty Suit), but saying all the right words

THIS time, it's a White dude, born from privilege, with, originally, no substantive political record to be scrutinized (Empty Suit) and saying, inexplicably, every WRONG word imaginable, in defiance of making America "great", dominant strategies, and widely accepted Common Sense reason

I have routinely stated that the purpose to the existence of Donald Trump is to deconstruct Western empire, by way of controlled demolition of America 🇺🇸, in elite renegotiation of territory, terms, and power distribution with the, now, dominant block of non Western factions of BRICS Nations, as well as the "developing world", in a larger sense

I maintain that this transition began with COVID, carried on through the Ukraine war and Gaza genocide, and is currently culminating with the Israel/U.S. illegal war of aggression with Iran. After this, America, as we knew it and has been mythologized, will be no more

In America, there seems to be 2 competing factions and ideologies:

1). Those that want to hold on to an old status-quo, post World War II capitalist hegemony via the Military Industrial Complex and

2). Those that, like Julius Caesar and Franklin Roosevelt, see the writing on the wall and understand the necessity to adjust to the new multipolar world order of decentralized authority/regional collective sovereignty (although they are definitely not siding with poor folks, politically 🥹)

The Europeans and Gulf Nations will have to get in where they fit in. The continent of Africa 🌍 will be forced to cooperate, integrate, or be consumed, piecemeal, by stronger nations seeking resource access and territorial control.  This is where Globalist TNC has the potential to dominate the planet and our human existence. This definitely does not bode well for the domestic population of America

--- WHAT IS "DEMOCRACY" & HOW DO WE KNOW WHEN ITS WORKING? ---

When I evaluate Western democracies vs countries like China, Russia, or Iran, I see divergence that does cater to the idea that our planetary administration is factionalized; with defacto output that involves blends of authoritarian (D)emocracy with general participatory inclusion. This blend will obviously vary, depending upon geographic location

However, I do observe where my textbooks have some salvageable content, where I evaluate this output for "national interests", as theorized to be at the center of elite decision making for countries. In America, this concept has always been a farce with a myopic historical application. This simply does not occur 🚫 Private property and individualism are elevated to levels of deference that, effectively, REWARD the very negative character traits that theoretical (D)emocracy is supposed to mitigate

Now, Russia has oligarchs (that the United States helped create) and I'm pretty sure Vladimir Putin ain't broke. BUT, what can be inarguable is that, from a national security and general welfare perspective, Russia conducts its affairs in a way that ensures that its society can sustainably perpetuate itself. It doesn't embed a conscientious drive to make debt/wage slaves of her population, for instance

In China, the CCP runs the show; but they have a sophisticated administration style that is more "democratic" than people understand. Regardless to how one may feel, China has lifted more people out of poverty than any civilization in history and they subordinate their capitalist elites to the general welfare and what is good for the Chinese people. Jack Ma does not negotiate with, let alone dictate to, the CCP.  In America, a President has to take what Jeff bezos says into account, or they could get obliterated by the 'Washington Post', at minimum

America is collapsing, primarily, under the strain of a false belief in the concept of democracy and false awareness on what it has taken for America to maintain its existence for 250 years. There has never been any serious attempt to hold political elites ACCOUNTABLE for what they promise. There is never sincere effort to evaluate "what is said vs what is done", or a simple Cost/Benefit Analysis with regard to discretionary resource allocation ($pending)

There is only ever hyper-focus on the hyper-reality of individualization and personality cults (in truth, America is simply a giant cult situated upon smaller cults) and a mediocre resignation to a false idea that "this is how business is done and this is the best we can do"... And, we simply keep voting in ⭕s

The problem is that we should know better, by now, with Revelation that originated in the 1960s Civil Rights era and, politically, galvanized in the collective response to the Vietnam conflict of the 1970s. This gave us the Jimmy Carter Administration, which effectively consisted of a coalition of marginalized demographics and socially conscious citizens that all managed to, rightfully, converge varying political aims on sustainable conservation of the Environment, itself. The fundamental base for our economy and ultimate adjudicator of affairs of Supply and Demand

Black people demonstrated the hypocrisy of Western Society, going back as far as fighting in World War II against Nazi Germany. They demonstrated it, again, in fighting to get a right to vote that they had possessed since post Civil War Reconstruction. This paradox of social distortion/compliance was epitomized, as Black soldiers participated in perpetuation of White supremacist capitalist imperialism in Vietnam

In other words, we all saw how the system works; where the system breaks down; and how it, ultimately, only benefits a minority at the expense of majority populations and collective sustainable development of our Global Society. This is why the experience of Black people is useful. It is through that lens, of the most historically marginalized population on the planet, that we can, best, understand how to use Critical Thinking to assess the system

--- BLACK AWARENESS MATTERS (BAM) ---

Going back to our United Nations vote, A Black person should, ideally, be the greatest critical thinker on the planet. They should also be the most CONFIDENT person on the planet. Empirical history is on their side.  If there is a negative consequence, they have experienced it. If there is a system failure, they can correctly identify it

What's more, the fact that they descend from people that have experienced ~500 years (more, if you count West Asian invasion of Africa) of the most brutal, hypocritical application of post "Enlightenment" "reason", and still maintained... should see them LEADING global society, not holding attention for the performative aesthetics of bureaucratic voting 😐

If our collective Global Village were smart, they would understand why this makes sense and seek to empower and elevate Black people, so that collective empirical history (wisdom) has the greatest potential for mass transmission and operationalization. Black people have only survived, because they learned to encode knowledge/wisdom in human beings. This is intellectual resistance, as survival mechanism. For instance, this wisdom KNOWS that there is nothing "evil" about the concept of 'Socialism' and that this goes hand in hand with a desire for sustainable development of a society

Not only was this encoded in Black people, it was, prior to Colonialism, intertwine with the pursuit of scientific knowledge and Truth that benefited society, as a whole. This manifest bureaucratic administration that subordinated the State to the General Welfare; and the human beings that governed elite institutions subordinated themselves to maintenance of these principles and empowering individuals to nurture their inner selves, by way of day-to-day spiritual calibration

This calibration was facilitated in every aspect of their existence and social transaction, including their work. Individuals did not work to serve a master. They worked to maintain balance and order by way of becoming the best version of themselves. Their work had a purpose and elites were not there to subjugate them. They existed due to meritocracy and their ability to strengthen their society by way of maintaining order and balance

The issue is that Black people are human beings; and, unfortunately, humans are hardwired to take tremendous amounts of punishment and endure significant amounts of hardship, before the strain forces a new collective "Synthesis". This is why, no matter where one observes, the conditions for Black people are, largely, similar

However, we can take that idea and generalize it, as we all have been conditioned, over 500 years, to engage in mediocre thinking and belief sets originating with minority impetus. Collective Global Society has permitted a minority population to structurally degrade our social integrity, while fiscally and morally bankrupting us all

This has happened, because we never reconciled the historical existence, and contributions, of Black people and have failed to honestly, holistically place Black people in a correct historical context that INFORMS. Until that happens, we will continue to see holocausts committed by holocaust survivors and a global culture that cannot, even, cooperate on areas where Mother Nature is telling us "Time Out"

My HOPE is that Black people organize, themselves, and, from that example, demonstrate the type of leadership that does not require people raising their hands at a United Nations for justification and acknowledgement. They will simply gravitate towards a superior idea, naturally. Then, hopefully, we won't have to look at genocide on our smartphones, while the makers of the phone profit from it

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[recalcitrantphilosopher]

'Progeny of the Enlightenment: Elite Western Society & Post WW2 World Ordering'

--- DiogenesWasRight

---THE PERILS OF PLAGIARISM---

When the ancient Greeks learned at the feet of the Black African scientific priesthood of Kemet (present day Egypt), a great mistake in their plagiarism (the Enlightenment) was not fully understanding the "spiritual" aspect of the Spiritual Science of the Kemetic Philosophy system

In taking what they could understand and could be superimposed onto their limited belief structure, normative ideology was lost in translation. In particular, the idea that there is a divine essence in all things and, thus, there can be no true earthly "Masters"  was omitted from thought processes

In addition, as the purpose was for "re-integration" of that micro aspect of the divine "self" into the higher macro essence (Source), there was an inherent deference to the Divine Order that implicitly understands that one can only ever achieve "balance" of opposing forces, in reconciliation of paradox. Mastery is impossible. My opinion is that this nuanced, but major, oversight paved the way for the contemporary 🌍 Order we observe, today

---WHEN THE "ENLIGHTENED" GO ASTRAY---

The "Great" Wars of the early 20th Century were not "world" wars 🚫 They were colonial European capitalist wars between people who were likely cousins.  That means a minority of White people couldn't get along and decided that everyone else had to participate in making Plato look stupid for advocating on their behalf. The progenitors of the, so called, "Enlightenment" gave Julius Caesar the "JFK" treatment for politically aligning himself with poor folks...so, what more could've been expected?

However, majoritarian 🌍 Society was promised "no more" and we were told that rationality had finally prevailed via "the struggle" of so many Ghosts of German Philosophers Past. But, what did we receive from these benevolent stewards of elevated consciousness and superior reason?

---INCENTIVIZING PSYCHOPATHY AS INTELLECTUAL RESPONSE---

Well, after Japan was sacrificed as a science experiment (they, literally, used 2 different fusion methodologies), so a compelling Oppenheimer movie could be made, later; and they executed a group of people for Genocide, upon another group that would go on to use updated technology to genocide, themselves...new institutions were created to make everything BETTER 😃

What's more, these smart folks realized that 🇩🇪/🇺🇸 had managed to militarize their industrial bases, effectively, overnight and with only the minimal amount of "Yes We Can/Make Germany Great, Again" propagan...I mean "Public Relations".  That Keynes fellow even did some Trigonometry/Algebra that said Public Spending makes sense in a crisis of Time and Speculation

Please believe that made some "patriotic" citizens, dutifully commiting their private enterprise to the war efforts, very happy (Glücklich in Deutsch), when someone made the logical leap that there exists a type of public spending that always creates its own (D)emand...provided sh*t doesn't get out of hand AKA "real"

Some of their names are still with us, today

---FINANCIALIZATION & COMMODIFICATION OF HUMANS---

Yet, Entropy does exist and its little brother, Inflation, is always with us. So, speculation re-"entered the chat". Now, the enlightened global stewards had already constructed coordinated transnational cooperative institutions that would prevent the cats/kittens who skipped kindergarten from inducing the need for more of the Oppenheimer lecture series

As we, now, know, those were DESTINED to succeed; so, they took their hot streak and decided to create a $ystem of payments/transactions/settlements that would leverage the United States' military dominance, as a catalyzing agent for STABILITY (B/c "Thomas Hobbs and Alexander Hamilton").  The problem was that Rick James was, yet, to be birthed to keenly inform us all that "cocaine is [indeed] a helluva drug"...mostly consumed by the Enlightenment crowd 🤔

[Below: "You're BLACK...wtf are you doing, dude?"]--- Signed by a Vietnamese, circa 1970's

That drug abuse came in the form of myopic misuse of monopoly of the global financial standard and annual increases in Military "Defense" Spending, to protect the global hegemon against threats by those who put their countries too close to the hegemon's bombs. Totally rational

But, that type productivity gets expensive; and inflation naturally invited speculation on the ability for the hegemon to service its maturing debt obligations. So, in the 70s, Santa Claus and Poppa Smurf left Mordor and took a magical journey to China and Saudi Arabia to work something out (B/c there was not enough "One True Ring" to to around)

SN: How are China and Saudi Arabia looking, these days?

It was here that the enlightened brilliance of the 'Buy Now; Pay Never' economy would be born; as Enlightened Empire dodged a bullet and was able to recycle ♻️/reinvent itself as "Gallagher" with a credit card 💳, in bringing more enlightened civilization to the remainder of the 🌍 that, apparently, never existed prior to ~500 years ago

They even managed to figure out a means to create money, for enlightened elite use, that doesn't need to circulate in the economy for real production immediately. It can be passed around between Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, and a couple of hedge funds about 1 Million times, before it finally reaches a McDonald's employee... Who has to give it right back to them to pay the rent they can't afford 😐

---1000 YEARS OF EMERGING MARKETS WITH NO EMERGENCE; SELF-CANNIBALIZATION & THE PONZI SCHEME OF EMPIRE---

So, yeah, that's worked out very nicely for us all. The Enlightenment folks kindly, non violently left their colonies in tanks, only to improve upon their divinely inspired wisdom and return with Banks.  Simultaneously, they convinced their former pupils that it was in their best interests to wait for THEM to give a green light for internal industrialization, as they necessarily focused on export led growth. The COOL part about these growth models is that it was a WIN-WIN for EVERYbody

The Masters got to enjoy the benefits of industrialization, as their currencies naturally appreciated against their former students; while the latter enjoyed all of "trickle" down from economics that saw their natural resources exported for pennies on the Dollar, for every new job created (B/c Ronald Reagan said: "...at least it's better than what they had")

The ISSUE is that our enlightened elite were so busy improving upon the conditions and material standards of living of the majority of us global citizens, in these mutually beneficial Student/Teacher joint partnerships...they over estimated the resilience of their local economies and the ability for their domestic constituencies to finish college and purchase a 🏠 with only Pay Day Loans and routine participation in Draft Kings 🤔

And, as in prior iterations of our enlightened elite led society... We're back to figuring out what to do with inflation (that doesn't include more Oppenheimer, with a side of Planned Parenthood and germs that didn't exist, until they existed). What's more, as before, these economic issues aren't relegated to the domain of people of European dissent

Now, the students have to worry about the inflation issues of the masters, as their own currencies are affixed to DEBT that is denominated in the currencies of the enlightened types that caused the inflation. That means it takes more of their local currency to service the debt owed to their benevolent masters

What's fun for everyone is that we need those student economies to remain stable, since they have younger populations and will be experiencing the only relevant growth that can reliably progress Global Society foward

So, what have been the ramifications?

- We've got folks of European dissent that 😭'd over genocide of White people (for 50 years), actively subsidizing one, now, that a tan is involved...as their most prominent nation hosts the World Cup ⚽ (can't make this sh*t up)

- We have a Western White supremacist empire violently attempting to reinvent itself, as Transnational Capital (Globalists) decommission it and force it offline (Technocratic feudalism on deck)

- We have to fight inflation and try to "create jobs" Artificial Intelligence/Automation are rendering irrelevant

- Despite massive political-economical change, in only 100 years, including Computer and Digital Ages, Africa's relationship to Western nations has not changed, in nearly 1000 years

Turn on the news and ask yourself:

What has 🌍 Society actually ACHIEVED, since the, so called, Enlightenment?

And, might I add: "Ha"

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[recalcitrantphilosopher]

Navigating the Intellectual Hoax & Structural Collapse of Western Society (Part-8): Divine Completion, New Beginnings & Collective Dissolution of the Matrix'

--- DiogenesWasRight 

There are 7 prior posts concerning the ideas in the headline. I'm ending this series on #8, as a nod to my esoteric friends out there and, also, b/c I find this symbolically apropos

To place it into some context, the imagery should, normatively, capture and reflect the previous posts as a visual summary of ideas, designed for scrutinizing the Western social order

At present, we are:

1). Watching racist elite Western civilization, by way of America and with sycophantic allegiance by Europeans 🇪🇺 , violently project outward, in neo colonial response to the ~88% of the 🌍 population that is no longer weak

2). Observing a Western oriented United Nations suffering institutional/political paralysis, as the very Western nations that created it actively work to destroy it by way of the biased Foreign Policy of that ~12% collective population

This includes subsidizing a regional genocide in West Asia (Africa, in ancient pre colonial mapping); destabilizing the African continent; and revival of pre-World War II colonial hegemony of South America

I opened by theorizing that a global mass consciousness shift is currently taking place, as Western Society is collapsing under the weight of its own hypocrisy, in contradiction of its own altruisms and unrealized virtues

This began with understanding pre-colonial ancient civilization as a civilizing force for early European culture and as a catalyzing agent; rescuing that culture from the Dark Ages and birthing modern Western philosophy

Subsequent this, I discussed how introspective Western philosophy became generalized consensus "ideology" for mass exportation; particularly focusing on how those older civilizing societies have faired, as Western logic, regimes, and institutions have come to dominate the 🌍 Political-Economy

My reflection focused on exactly WHY this system has, effectively, cannibalized itself by creating the illusion that humans can defy Entropy; as we engaged collective action/resource allocation methodologies, summarily, in violation of common sense economic reasoning and at odds with laws on technological adaptation/progress

My hope is that those generous with their time/attention have considered some of the thinking and, themselves, introspectively contemplated why the 🌍 exists as it does and what are the realistic implications for what we currently observe, in natural logical extrapolation

There are a few incontrovertible ideas that should be consistent:

• The nature(s) of the Social Contract and Nation-state model are consciously, and unconsciously, being renegotiated and will not exist in their traditional capacities

• Transnational Capital (TNC) (and those that own it) has overtaken Western nation-state models by way of Financialization of market economies, which has rendered the traditional Military Industrial Complex system for capitalist expansion less efficient for its purposes. Thus, there is a need for weak nations and global stability, for better predictive ability

• The evolution of the Social Contract/Nation-state will necessitate Decentralization of Authority; and this will force more localized cooperation and collective sovereignty that will be in direct conflict with the increased influence of borderless TNC

• The demise of a Western dominated 🌍 order and reconstitution of the nation-state model will be tumultuous; but will, concurrently, offer great opportunity for enhanced political participation, democratized decision-making, and more localized economic self sufficieny, as responsibilities for day-to-day survival are shifted from elite institutions to less formal majority populations

My perspective is that that the last ~3 years of International Relations and  geopolitical developments have set the stage for a global transition away from Western empire.  Here, there will manifest a new social organization that will see Black/Tan/Indigenous folks finally able to take ownership of their societies and elevate/promulgate their own cultural awareness and historical wisdom

However, this will be in the face of aggressive conservative reactionary pushback and will require much sacrifice and intellectual/spiritual resolve; as we override centuries of self-loathing, fear/apathy, and artificial scarcity projected by elite minorities, onto majority populations, and originating with Dark Age survival mentality

In the meantime, be safe; be conscientious; and don't be STUPID

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[recalcitrantphilosopher]

'Navigating the Intellectual Hoax & Structural Collapse of Western Society (Part-7): Voting will NOT save You. Global Transformation & disconnecting from Systems of Insanity'

--- DiogenesWasRight 

[ For trees to grow in Brooklyn, seeds need to be planted. I'm asking if "you feel me?" and the crowd left me stranded ]

--- Talib Kweli, 1998

So, America has done the unthinkably STUPID thing and opened a war front with Iran (weakening its military footing in other key strategic areas), as the Europeans sellout their local populations to the Military Industrial Complex...on behalf of 🇮🇱?

The "Epstein Class" has done this. Ok, then

America has initiated the process of its final collapse. The Petro Dollar mechanism, built into the U.S. Dollar hegemony system, will dissolve to the ether. Western nations will become even more criminally violent, as they externalize, and their internal societies will face internal conflicts, due to reactionary politics, declining fertility rates, and decreased productivity. Stop there 🛑

Whether our collective chooses to acknowledge this reality, or otherwise, our shared human society is undergoing a transformation of, both, political-economy and shared consciousness

And, irrespective to the failings of those that currently own and administrate our planet, the TRUTH is that we are being given a choice and afforded an opportunity to finally take control, as a majoritarian collective, to determine what comes next. In any eventuality, the new 🌍 society that arises will be, summarily, of our collective decision-making...It will not be "b/c elites"

The focus of my thoughts, herein, cater to accepting the positive, as is, global environment that we reside in; and, concurrently, understanding what will be necessary for decent, sustainable humanity to survive and proliferate

But, 1st, is to reflect upon how we arrived to this unnecessarily critical juncture; and whether we can develope ideas that can explain the current world and why society exists as it does

If you're currently wondering why the, supposed, "best and brightest" elevated to elite "leadership" levels seem as though Rick James and Henry Kissinger started a consulting firm, it's b/c Western elites have had you voting in ⭕s for ~40 years (give or take) 🤔

I have recommended, for 3 years, now, that the existence of Donald Trump was to serve elite Transnational Capital by overseeing controlled demolition of old, outmoded U.S. empire and the nation-state model, in general

I think it's safe for me to conclude that I was correct

Honestly, nothing of the previous U.S. POTUS Administrations, going back to Jimmy Carter, make much sense, outside of viewing affairs from this elite theorist lens for critical analysis

(*Obama set the stage and table for Trump; and Joe Biden could've prevented everything. He chose not to alter the status-quo. We don't need to discuss Clinton and anyone named "Bush")

What's more, it seems general Western Society (White elites) have determined that a new global order, favoring multipolarity and majoritarian preference (Black and Tan folks) is anethema and must be resisted, at all costs...even if the 🌍 must burn 🔥

This is not Democrats vs. Republicans. This isn't Labor vs. Conservatives. This is not, truly, even Liberals battling White Nationalism 🚫 What we suffer is White supremacist globalism, in the form of Transnational Capital, at odds with majoritarian society and laying bare a racist, colonialist mindset that has always been at the center of Western policy/perogative

I recall 20, or so, years ago, when I was 1st introduced to ideas of Geopolitics/Political-Economy, the dominant concept promulgated by Western academia/elite "intelligentsia" was that Western intellectual culture had, effectively, settled ALL debates for resource allocation/normative ideological preference

America was the rightful hegemon; we could all give Thomas Hobbs his props; and we could all look forward to a new "Liberal" World Order of collective peace/prosperity 🥹 In fact, we were told the European Union 🇪🇺 would, eventually, rise to an even greater height and co-lead with the United States; as a glorious, permanent Western empire stewarded human civilization to an end to History

Going back, since managing to drop nuclear bombs on Japan, these descendants of the African-inspired "Enlightenment" have managed to:

• Continually, routinely marginalize Black/Tan and Indigenous populations; particularly within Western, so called, "(D)emocracies"

• Destroy industrial bases within Western nations (how are those munitions needs going, these days?); while, simultaneously, embracing financialized "free" market economic models

• Disconnect the Real Economy from artificially inflated equities markets; by way of monopolized cheap credit access and unsustainable debt-financed GDP "growth" (much of which is anti-societal in nature)

• Systematically repress weaker, resource rich nations; while, simultaneously, depressing their organic economic growth (the relationship of Africa to Western Nations has not changed in nearly 1,000 years)

• Destroy Southeast Asia; ravage South America, manufacture famine/civil war in Africa; set West Asia back 3 decades; and conduct covert military operations, designed to overthrow foreign governments, too numerous to mention

Now, ask yourself...how many of US have benefitted from these strategic arrangements?

What's even more telling is that Western elites have elected to engage in an elaborate psychological operation that would have us conclude that Liberal Democracy/Capitalism are solely responsible for our collective gains; while providing Russia/China/Iran as foundational evils that are the source of all our collective malaise

The political theater 🎭 has become so sad, that we, now, see the Europeans behaving more sycophantically reprehensible than, even, U.S. Democrats; as they allow America/Israel to eviscerate the Western Liberal Order THEY created, in favor of colonial militarism that is cannibalizing their own societies. They have even allowed their own pipelines to be destroyed, in favor of U.S. foreign policy, just so they can pay MORE for energy

So, here we are. A minority of sociopaths have hijacked our elite institutions, as we, now, observe small cadres of people, on opposite ends of Political/Ideological/Moral positions from the majorities they govern, executing policy not in keeping with popular sovereignty or common sense. This extends to every model for social organization, from kingdoms to constitutions

We have been forced to participate in systems of manufactured scarcity; designed to reinforce fear, induce desperation, and divide majorities. This unsustainable psychological operation has, inevitably, led us to the brink of, yet, another global catastrophe of capitalist inhumanity and Western expansionism

--- CAN WE PREVENT SOCIAL DESTRUCTION? WHAT DO WE DO, NEXT? ---

Israel/America are currently conducting a genocide in West Asia. America has outsourced a proxy war against Russia to the Europeans. Currently, all of Western Society is engaged in a campaign to destabilize the planet, in order to prevent those in what is known as the "Global South" from taking their rightful places as primary movers for International Relations

I have a cynical view on the ability for mass society to self correct. However, while our trend seems irreversible, I do theorize that there is room to alter our trajectory and landing spot, in risk mitigation and pragmatically navigating uncertainty of elite origins

We can't escape multipolarity. Yet, alongside this condition will be a naturally occuring decentralization of authority. It is HERE that I believe there will be small, brief entry points for collective sovereignty and solidarity, provided we are correctly attuned to reality and keenly astute in how we identify these opportunities

We are seeing this decentralization and forced collective rebalancing being played out, at elite levels, as the old global order has died. I think it's self evident, by now, that we are no longer in a United Nations "kumbyeya" society. The only people screaming "International Law" are the ones in the least position to be able to administer it

As America recedes and undergoes collapse, regional trade agreements are being enacted, with concurrent military reciprocity pacts, between nations forced to finally fend for themselves and against external threats, real or perceived

Dependant nations are having to secure new energy/food sources; reorganize their economies/currencies to be more amenable to regional integration; and engage these transactions in a way that can only function where there is mutual trust and a reasonable expectation for compliance that doesn't require military force

Well, as these nations are forced to rebalance, in this era of death of empire, they will be less responsive to the collective needs of internal majorities. This will be a non-negotiable reality.  However, it is because of this social faltering, at elite institutional levels, that we, as majoritarian collectives, may find areas for using decentralization to our advantage

For instance, in America, when you hear "we'll give that (social responsibility) back to the states"...we should be cheering. 🥳 🎉 In fact, we shouldn't stop there. We should embrace decentralization at as local an operational level as is humanly possible

For me, a nation should be for collective defense and settling disputes between constituent members. A nation should not be a printing press/piggy bank for elites; which is the unfortunate basic reality of our current nation-state models (in Western nations)

Power, as a function of marginal, individualized day-to-day decision making, should be atomized to reasonable levels that makes sense. It doesn't mean we DIVORCE our individual logic from collective social responsibility or deference to methodologies for sustainability. It simply means we should stop yielding individual power to inefficient agencies designed for social distortion

I look at the drive for national, collective sovereignty by the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, and become inspired. These countries suffered, historically, at the hands of Western colonial powers, decade after decade (despite gaining Independence). They, finally, saw an opportunity to manifest their desires for local autonomy, as the traditional Western powers became weaker, due to multipolarity

They localized their food production; nationalized their natural resources; focused on local industrialization that catered to internal necessities; and used common sense/back to basics policy implementations that understood true sovereignty can only be achieved, where you can facilitate the basic requirements for human existence (no external intervention)

Where they are not able to produce something internally, they engage in regional trade with each other and reorganized their economies so that they are complementary and non-extractive. What's more, they reinforce these arrangements by way of military pacts designed to secure borders and prevent any negative external intervention by old colonial masters

This base logic can be synthesized, imported, and operationalized at any level of coordinated social organization. Local communities can learn to become more self-reliant. Communities can learn to engage in mutually beneficial economic transaction with each other. Local communities should be policing themselves with agents taken from members of the community

- Why should your local community face food/energy shortages, simply because a minority population, in a micronation, decided to illegally invade a country that produces a considerable amount of oil? 😐

- Why should the value of your local currency be divorced from your real local productivity; being made dependent upon the speculative awareness of institutional investors and wealthy communities half the world away? 😐

- How did society evolve and sustain itself prior to Western dominance? More importantly, WHY is every meaningful determinant for sustainable life and upward mobility objectively WORSE than the prior generation? 😐

We currently have debt burdens that outpace Ancient Kemet and the Bronze Age. We suffer wealth inequality that we have not seen, since the days of JP Morgan (the actual person). In fact, the cost to intermediate the economy was actually LESS expensive than when JP Morgan intentionally wrecking the global economy. True story

All of this is to, humbly, say that, NOW, is the time to, not only, explore alternatives....but, to realistically envision that a better, more humane society can be manifested

Global society is in for great pain, mass upheaval, and tumultuous collective renegotiation of terms. This is unavoidable. Yet, this will be our greatest collective opportunity for resisting elite institutional/social monopoly, since the parent to the neofedalism we enjoy, today, gave way to constitutions and the nation-state model

Society has an opportunity to reject the thought processes that have led to the modern horrors that we are, only, now, opening our eyes to, ideally, engaging, in remedial redress. Here is the hope that we have the courage to face issues and develop organic strategies that survive legitimate processes for scrutiny

We should not fool ourselves into thinking that Midterm Elections in the United States will "make it all better" 🚫 We already tried trusting elite remedies, for sicknesses created by elites, with the Obama Administration. Enough is enough. Let's see a different movie 🍿🎥🎬

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[recalcitrantphilosopher]

'Navigating the Intellectual Hoax & Structural Collapse of Western Society (Part-6): A (D)emocracy that never existed & an Epistemology of Structural Analysis & Manufactured Consent'

--- DiogenesWasRight

If you are finally waking up to a new reality that understands Western theoretical (D)emocracy is merely a procedural mechanism for mathematical tally; and that this procedural tool has not delivered the global prosperity, security, and collective enlightenment, as was normatively opined... congratulations 😃

If you reached a conclusion that Economics + Politics require equal intellectual acumen/acuity and that one cannot be materially divorced from the other, as a function of individual + collective well-being... even better

(5th Dimension's, 'Aquarius' plays in background) 😲🎵🎶

The esoteric crowd advised that 2024 was to mark human beings beginning a mass consciousness shift in awareness/understanding; as our collective consciousness traversed vast chasms of ubiquitous hypocrisy/contradiction, in forced reconciliation of cognitive dissonance

I think I'll end with this idea for today's mental exercise; but, I'd like to begin by framing discussion using my ideological template (and hero), in areas of political-economy/critical analysis, Michael Parenti, as focal point and tribute

In particular, I would like to emphasize thought by juxtaposing his public intellectual existence/disposition with that of Noam Chomsky, whose name is making rounds, in light of his hypocritical/contradictory friendship with Jeffery Epstein

I'm of the mind that they are useful for comparative understanding of how public consciousness engages critical thinking by way of their divergent methodologies/delivery styles. For the sake of internal discourse, I'll separate thought into silos of "Critical" (Parenti) vs. "Structural" (Chomsky) analysis, as vehicles for understanding

My hope is to generate thought and manifest insight into how/why mass society continually plays into the hands of, and reinforces, Western establishment, even when coming from a standpoint of aggressive critique and rightful (but, performative) criticism

--- NOT A CHILDREN'S GAME ---

There are 3 main ideas to the Monopoly Game:

• Monopolists use 💰 as a tool

• Monopoly is a war of attrition

• 1 individual wins; Society loses

So, as a collective ...we shouldn't play 🚫

Both Parenti and Chomsky would come to the simple conclusion that our resource allocation methods, and corresponding elite institutional apparatus, is summarily monopolized by minority interests

But, their prescriptive remedies for corrective, transformational engagement will lead us to an intellectual fork in the road. One road has lead us to routine dead ends

I'm observing, so called, "progressives" warn us of the crisis of democracy and oligarchy, NOW, all of a sudden, that the Donald Trump occupies the White 🏠

My question is simple

HOW did We get here?

From a 🌍 standpoint, my contention is that our collective malaise began decades ago. It started with the nacient beginnings of Late Stage Capitalism (70s Neoliberalism) and a superstitious conflation of capitalism + democracy

Over time, theoretical democracy became its own justification, as opposed to a mere procedural tool. The "liberating" forces of capitalism were assumed to naturally flow from this practice, as they shared a common philosophy of a marketplace for ideas

Using this reasoning, the concept of the nation, via capitalistic democracy, became the ultimate form of collective expression; without careful reflection upon the nature of resource/wealth accumulation, or that some people are historically "more equal than others"

Structurally, Chomsky might offer that we indulged special deference to "free" market principles and assumed nation-states reflect the dominant national interests of the collective; and, thus, strategically engaged International Relations with this logic as foundational pillar. Parenti would agree

However a nation has no interests 🚫, Ppl do; and how folks are treated/behave within a capitalist economy and how a political democratic society holds individuals accountable makes all of the difference. Going a step further, what "accountability", even, looks like will be the more critical factor

This is where Chomsky and Parenti diverge from one another

--- ISSUES WITH STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS ---

Structural analysis is a very useful strategy for understanding political-economic life. For instance, we can use this to evaluate 🇨🇳 and 🇺🇸 as models for resource allocation

In America, regardless of political era, the game has typically remained the same; with a focus on elevation of individualism and a reinforcement mechanism that is private property. Ironically, the anti democratic corporate model is the primary means by which democracy is operationalized, by way of resource accumulation

Here, disproportionate ability to potently impact/manipulate political controls is celebrated, as elites naturally rise through economic transactions; while, simultaneously, it is dismissed as a reality, in theoretical assumption that democratic processes naturally correct for, and cancel, these power imbalances

However, it is empirically observed that the national interests have yielded disproportionate benefits to a minority; who have been able to disproportionately evade loses, as true costs have, historically, been socialized with the majority, in externality

The only slight variation has been the degree to which the "more equal" have engaged policy that tacitly benefits a majority; albeit being representative of something that element of society truly cares nothing for

In China, we observe a more sustainability matters focus that has embraced market based systems for collective output; but, the key difference is that Chinese elites use this as a tool for "liberating" themselves from tedious, unnecessary micromanaging/decision making

The Chinese political elite subordinate the business class to the Communist Party political structure. As such, they do not discount the political distortion capability of liberalized free market ideology; and they take measures to ensure that the private interests move with deliberation that is in keeping with collective well-being and the general welfare

Structurallly, both, Parenti and Chomsky can arrive at a useful capitalist critique of Western democracies and how they administer market economies. However, only the critical analysis of Parenti can allow for a Chinese administration style that internalizes a preference for "accountability"

Structural analysis allows me to say that globilization created a transnational capitalist class (TNC) that used their wealth to buy political controls, which coerced political elites into adopting financialization of market economies

These hooked us all on unsustainable debt-financed growth (much of which was destructive/counterproductive). This, effectively, created parallel economies of Working Class productivity (real economy) vs Leisure Class wealth creation (stocks/bonds)

Technology has made us exponentially more productive; while, concurrently, necessities for daily survival have become exorbitantly, immorally more expensive, as a result of the Leisure Class being able to drive up the price for the real economy, by way of mass exclusion, in the paper economy for wealth creation

The Monopoly Game has allowed a minority of us to create real monopolies that reinforce themselves by way of how the system operates. This is what democracy in Western society has accomplished. We keep voting, or telling folks to vote; but we never take evaluative stock of what has been accomplished and WHO has benefited?

More importantly, structural analysis only permits for a useful "how", when discussing where the system breaks down. Yet, Chomsky rarely speaks to where minority elite actors intentionally undermine the general welfare, realistically, reducing their behavior to self-interested human base drives, operating on a more unconscious level

He'll simply assume a cynical position on the human condition and tell us how a given system, either, enhances, or mitigates, the negative consequences, as a result. But, the idea that these people can, and do, collude and work to undermine majorities is critically left out of the narrative

What's more, the idea that these folks have the ability to secretly meet, should have made it past kindergarten, and should, realistically, KNOW better, has always been reduced to the domain of "conspiracy theory", when a person, like Michael Parenti, is calling people out and naming names

In these instances, Noam Chomsky has consistently told us to "move on", "this is counterproductive ", or "it doesn't really matter", where TRUTH, transparency, and ultimate accountability are required/preferred. From JFK and magic bullets, to supporting NATO illegally deconstructing Yugoslavia, to dismissing reasonable 9/11/COVID critical analyses as "conspiracy theory", folks in the Michael Parenti camp (me) have always gotten a lecture in pragmatism

From a Noam Chomsky framework, SOMEthing is wrong...but nobody ever DOES anything wrong

For me, this is by elite design. Nothing ever changes, where pragmatism is favored > accountability 🚫 Ask the Chinese. As example, when THEIR bankers engage fraudulent behavior that threatens society, there is a thorough investigation and they are held accountable. Sometimes, there are executions

For elite Western establishment, having a highly respected public intellectual, like Chomsky, offer critique, with no real intellectual "teeth", is a very useful tool. And, even, here, there is rarely any substantive solution offered...Other than to "keep voting for Democrats" 😨

It reduces to complaining, which does nothing to positively augment the system and caters to elite minority interests. What good is a democratic society that never holds anyone accountable and refuses to make absolute truth the most important ingredient to the (D)emocracy cake 🎂?

--- MASS CONSCIOUSNESS & THE ILLUSION OF (D)EMOCRACY ---

On top of of this great mass consciousness shift (or, was it a time skip? 🤔), 2024 was supposed to be the "greatest democratic year" in Human History. 50% < of 🌍 population was eligible to vote in "free and fair" elections

Starting that year, we were reminded that Majority Rule is a concept that has, yet, to be operationalized, since Ancient Athens proved Socrates right (however he existed)

Catastrophe struck. We pleaded for handouts from impotent leadership, whose primary loyalty lies in servicing elites. We saw human made conflict/crisis manufactured by the "more equal" crowd; while we were all holding our damn mouths open, in review of the general democratic backslide taking place all over the planet

We were forced to suffer impotent leadership and institutional "paralysis", as a function of dogmatic overreliance on systems created to reinforce the status-quo dominance of the system architects

While we were busy begging for morality/decency to prevail, in addition to survival, our technological capacity passed a critical threshold for a nacient transition to transhumanism. Yes, "we have the technology"...but, we also reside within confines of a Neo-feudal dark age

Every fundamental pillar for human base survival has seen ALL corresponding support systems for equitable operational distribution go ⬇️📉:

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BUT, We have plenty of (D)emocracy 😁

For ~40 years, we went to vote in "ends justify means" ⭕'s that led to a failure of critical thinking, in evaluation of what is "SAID" vs what is "DONE"...&, here, we stand

On the cusp of a new type of human civilization that, seemingly, has no real intellectual space for humans, by way of social solidarity. If this is a new shift in the way our collective interprets reality, as our esoteric friends offer...how will this shake out? 🤔

Western Society told us that we had undergone a, so called, Enlightenment Period. However, it seems that this missed those that, supposedly, did the enlightening. In addition, the benefits from this improved evolutionary state seem to have been relegated to only a few of us... who just so happen to look the same

If this is a new age of consciousness, then, doesn't it behoove us to get the simple stuff RIGHT, as we go onward and upward?

Will it finally be 🆗 to marry the  objective, yet, imprecise benefits of structural critique with the common sense heuristic of critical thought + accountability?

Michael Parenti was always compelling, because he never shied away from being a holistic caller outer of elite tomf*ckery. He could engage sophisticated structural analysis; while grounding his final output in a no nonsense manner that didn't allow for subtle intellectual obfuscation of reality

Parenti would never watch Bernie Sanders be overtly cheated from becoming President of the United States...and, subsequently, tell you that "lesser of two evils" pragmatism demands voting for the offending Party in THREE consecutive elections (*Bernie is also guilty of this)

Parenti would say "stop 🛑 everything" and do nothing, until guilty culprits have been identified, isolated for, and held accountable. There is no point to "move[ing] on" to the same plantation, owned by the same slave masters. Only on a plantation does this make sense

Parenti would survey the contemporary landscape and ask:

Is this why we engage collective action? Should our social surplus go to achieving these ends?

He'd remind that, just b/c inequality naturally exists, doesn't mean we should endure inequality of reason, which promulgates Natural Scarcity outpaced decades ago

Chief among all, he'd take the structural pragmatism of Chomsky, and intellectual dismissal by way of conspiracy theory label, and demand that we balance this on the back of HISTORY

History observes the reality that minority elites collude wherever there is space/opportunity. If this is NOT the case...what else explains their continued existence?

Maybe this is the final shift of consciousness that we are all collectively undertaking? A shift that dutifully indulges all possible explanations and, correspondingly, reasonably accommodates all potential realities?

Nothing of the 🌍 is consistent, save that we, and our collective consciousness, are changing, as a species

Here, Michael Parenti would defy the low-key elite reinforcement of Noam Chomsky, by interjecting that "class" conflict/elite agenda do exist; and he would supplement the previous declaration by offering, in addendum:

"...and, we are all in collective struggle"

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[recalcitrantphilosopher]

(*please do take time to watch the videos, as they place a great deal of the thoughts/prose into wider context)

'Navigating the Intellectual Hoax & Structural Collapse of Western Society (Part-5):  From Feudalism to Now. Nationalism, White Supremacy & the Political-Economics of Mental Enslavement'

--- DiogenesWasRight

🥹 The Majority was fooled

- It thought (D)emocracy existed. It does not

🥹 The Majority was fooled

- It thought Capitalism had silenced some inclusive participatory intellectual debate of "free" market transaction and idea exchange. It did not

🥹 The Majority was fooled

- It thought that those ideas, somehow, flowed from one another in some mystical process that only required unwavering trust/belief. They do not

🥹 The Majority was fooled

- It thought the systems it participated in were pure constructs of mass consciousness and, thus, legitimate and designed to benefit the Majority. They are not

Now, here the Majority stands. A mass consciousness finally having to reconcile CENTURIES of Cognitive Dissonance, as it peers into a void that manifests at the intersection of uncertainty and absurdity

It is a wonderful time to be alive 🫡

The previous post concerned the parasitic, predatory nature of Western Society and stewardship/preservation/deployment of knowledge, as a historical narrative

I would like to, briefly, discuss this through a lens of understanding "Nationalism" and how that relates to fragmentation of majoritarian preference and reasoning

In particular, there is focus on "the $ystem" and understanding how mass 🌍 society was convinced to adopt methodologies that have only managed to produce Bronze Age inequality (and higher death tolls), since Feudalism gave way to modernity (Mercantilism, Capitalism, Globalism)

The underlying assumption, as constant, will be that the common thread between all of our mass scale economic models/tools, irrespective of post Western Roman collapse, is a conscious (and unconscious) base drive of White Supremacy

This White Supremacy drive can conveniently conceal itself within nationalist ideology and rhetoric; and is flexible/malleable enough to be presented (and misinterpreted) as working for multiple types of demographic/political sub majorities; while, simultaneously, promoting the idea that "National Interests" are always elevated, as a result of constant internal democratic, "free" market competition

1st, this is my loose interpretation of History

--- WHAT WENT DOWN AFTER WESTERN ROME ---

Ancient Rome fractured and disintegrated. Late stage, it had an expansive geographical footprint; it was taxing the hell out of everybody (damn near pets); they were dabasing/counterfeiting the currency (due to inflation); instigating conflict after conflict; constantly infighting in self defeating factionlism; and wealth was diverted from productive areas of the economy (farmers/slaves) to the non-productive elite classes

Some "Goths" came along to help them with "Alternative Dispute Resolution" and that was that. This ushered in the Dark Ages that, I believe, never truly gave way to the Enlightenment. This saw a fragmented society of roving hordes, plague, destabilizing climate change, famine, constant scarcity, and tremendous population decline

It was in these conditions that the modern Western psyche and collective consciousness (and unconsciousness) was birthed and incubated

Black Africans, ethnic Arabs, and Muslims came to the rescue and helped Western Society civilize itself; giving way for folks, like John Stewart Mill, Thomas Hobbs, David Ricardo, Malthus, John Locke, Hegel, and Marx to tell everyone else how the hell to live (How did that work out for the Majority)

But, in between there was Feudalism

We must realize the conditions that these Europeans, of African dissent, found themselves in, post Roman collapse. It was constantly dark/wet/cold. They were scared. Everybody was sick and/or dying. There was no law. Uncertainty always trumped > Predictability

So, the European majority naturally gravitated to a minority with concentrated, readily accessible resources, including food and shelter. Most importantly, these minority actors could offer protection from street gangs of the day (hunting humans for food). Only, this came at a price. So, the majority traded the only thing that they had of any value...themselves

This ushered in a multi-generational, economics based social contract centered around labor and land ownership that saw majority populations work in long-term (mostly life) agrarian contractual subsistence production that only made land owners prosperous (Lords)

--- FROM LORDS OF THE MANOR TO CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY---

In the feudal system, folks (peasants) worked the land, generation after generation, to feed/shelter themselves and gave the surplus to the Lord for market sale. A simple example would be making a contract for a fixed amount of 🐔 and 🥚s 

When (if) the contract was fulfilled, the Lord sells his goods in the market and the peasants keep just enough to survive and keep working (Black folks in the U.S. should understand this model from the history of sharecropping)

But, over time, technology improved; working people became more productive; peasants began to trade with each other;  and people started playing around with this thing called "money" 💰

Once that happened, the Lord found himself in a bind. He was getting paid in 🐔 and 🥚s; while trade and money velocity were moving the economy faster than he could supply product to market and this product was being devalued, as the economy was transacting ever more swiftly

All the common person need be sure do was pay what was owed to the Lord on time. After that, they had the flexibility to trade or store the value of their labor in the form of money, in order to mitigate the effects of inflation. The Lord didn't have this option 🚫

There is a long story here; but the short one is that, as the velocity of money increased, with increased trade/transaction of real goods/services, those able to channel their natural talents/skills toward some highly specialized endeavor found themselves getting wealthier and wealthier

This began the error of the itinerant merchant and, ultimately, would evolve the era of the business class. This undid the system of fuedalism; but it did not necessarily undo aristocracy and nobility as primary movers on planet Earth. They simply became corporations and banks, as the elite class tends to synthesize information and adapt very quickly

--- REINVENTING FEUDALISM ---

That brief historical summary brings us to the present, effectively enough. For the sake of time/reading, my hope is that the informational graphics will tell a great deal of the "structural" story; or, at least, point one in a direction of where to go to gain added awareness on these topics

More importantly, one would, ideally, evaluate those concepts and juxtapose those ideas with contemporary political-economic life and engage comparative analysis

For instance, where we review some of the fundamental principles to Mercantilism, can any of these concepts be observed today? Did any of them ever cease to be practiced; based not on popular sentiment, but on objective independent determination?

Taking time to go through that interrogative discovery helps to enlighten ourselves in the way of determining, and coming to psychological grips with, WHY the Majority has, objectively, taken several steps backwards, since feudalism?

From a contemporary standpoint, it's interesting. Majority society is finally understanding that a small group of persons OWN our systems. They don't merely participate. They're figuring out that some of us have the luxury of working at elite national levels, while holding multiple passports

They're realizing that people are so wealthy that they can afford to lose $70,000,000 on a documentary and not lose any sleep 😴 These humans cooperate in their minority circles and negotiate everything from funding fundamentalist insurgencies in targeted nations, to internet conspiracies designed to psychologically manipulate mass society

Yet, the Majority is still participating in the systems, as though continuing to engage the status quo, with minor tweaks, is going to avail itself to abrogating these conditions. It makes no sense 🚫

In America, this is especially acute and more pronounced. American empire (and wider Western Society) is being deconstructed for the benefit of transnational capitalists. Many U.S. citizens still refuse to acknowledge this reality, even though it's blatantly discernible with only the minimum amount of critical thinking. We are in the midst of a free-for-all, as global power is decentralized and nations are forced to follow suit

Debt-to-GDP is unconscionable. Household debt is exorbitant. Federal/state outlays/expenditures > revenues. Military Spending is favored > Social Spending. The industrial base has been gutted and globalization makes domestic labor less attractive to investors

Corporations focus SOLEY on shareholders, share price, and market capitalization. They don't concern themselves if what they produce is actually beneficial to society, or not. They don't care if the nature of their existence fundamentally violates the principles to collective action, in labor/pay transaction with their workers. They don't care if they siphon the social surplus by way of tax avoidance and regulatory capture

There's nothing going on, save for infighting; and, in the midst of this turmoil, you hear constant argument/resignation that revolves around state "responsibility"; whereas previous political debate use to center upon state "rights". This is not by accident

While this all transpires...people are still talking about "voting" as the remedy. Why? What has mathematically tallying binary choices produced, since feudalism? We say we're "fighting for the soul of the nation" 🙄; giving no thought to the idea that a souless demon may already own a contract for it

White/Black. Republican/Democrat. Gay/Straight. Conservative/Liberal. When, exactly, has our collective vote manifested in some clearly discernible national interest? Or, conversely, what does the end product of our voting process SAY about our national interests? Honestly answering these questions should help us understand our place in affairs

For instance, Black Americans seem to be in a non strategic holding pattern for potent action. Ironically, Black folks may be suffering from the worst form of cognitive dissonance. Historically, innately, Black people know that the prevailing system is simply not designed for them to thrive or foster their upward mobility

For Black America, every negative economic statistic is egregiously disproportionately observed, when compared to their white counterparts. Wrongful killings of Black people is disproportionate, as a segment of the wider the population. Functionally, Black people were integrated into a Constitutional system that originally did not include them

Now, that White people have began the process of factionalizing and fighting among themselves...Black folks simply do not know what to DO 🤔😐 Yet, Black people in America still hold on to some sense of nationalistic belonging, if not full allegiance. This is where the White Supremacy angle comes into play

Black Americans should be the best economists, social contract thinkers, political analysts, and socially optimal policy constructors. Why?...Because they know EXACTLY where the intellectual system logic breaks down, materially, and at marginal levels of existence

This is intuitive; and this holding pattern is precisely observed, as Black Americans know that White Supremacy is the prime objective of our system architects. If that were not the case, our national interests would not be so at odds with the domestic, ground level results

The problem(s) is that Black folks have a long learned experience with doing more with less; doing until you can do better; and taking what is given (after long, hard struggle). So, Black people are also susceptible to a capitulation mentality that mimics the psychological makeup of a European peasant in a system of feudalism

White people are similar, but different. Christianity/Colonialism convinced White people that Black people are sub human and, thus, expendable inputs in a production process. Post U.S. Reconstruction convinced poor White people that they were better than poor Black people, simply by way of birth. This is where modern capitalism got its legs and hit the ground running

This prevented White folks from demanding the maximum amount of liberty and economic equality; while, concurrently, allowing the new capitalist class to drive down the price for collective labor in a way that took the best aspects of the feudalist system and merged it with an economic/political system that shifts as much externality/burden to the laboring class, as is realistically possible... Including food/shelter

You keep working people as close to subsistence level as possible; while you take that additional surplus value and purchase political power. This political power allows you to create monopolies that reinforce the status quo. Like the Monopoly Game, if people routinely participate in monopoly systems, they're always playing "catch up" in the money game...They have no entry point for political competition

Basically, they're in a similar position to our feudal Lord. Stuck with paper 💰 that's constantly being devalued; while the wealth generating economy is leaving them behind, day by day. Only a FOOL plays that game; and that is the ultimate manifestation of Mental Slavery

The problem the elite class, now, have is that they no longer have any means for passifying people with material benefits that might induce continued participation. Now, all they have is violence. The ability to deploy violence on dissent; and the ability to allow target demographics to displace their frustration/hate/anger onto others, in the form of violence (Minnesota, Palestine, Venezuela). Obviously, this will be unsustainable

In America, this is manifesting White Nationalism. But, White Nationalism is inherently at odds with the natural inclination for the transnational capitalist class. White Nationalism requires common identity. It requires common cause. It requires belonging. It requires solidarity

At the end of the day, White Nationalism will make demands and demand that its interests manifest at the national level. This is me telling you that White Supremacy is a minority game

This is where our collective awareness should focus. Transnational Capital may be antagonistic to interests of White Nationalism; but, it's summarily, intentionally aligned with White Supremacy. Take a random sample of billionaires in America. Do you think this is by accident?

I could make the successful argument that capitalism is simply a technological manifestation of conscious/unconscious White Supremacy. From Hegel and his "struggle", to Marx justifying colonialism and theorizing that conflict is inevitable, to Henry Kissinger blowing up Southeast Asia and, then, referring to their economies as "basket cases"...the fundamental drive is consistent

These ideas were manifested in a Dark Age of scarcity that invited cynicism, embraced nihilism, and rewarded individual power > social cohesion. What's more, it birthed a collective psychology that gained the ability to invalidate the better aspects of our Human Condition; while validating the most abhorrent and decadent. From 'Grim Fairy Tales', to 'Saw' movies

It's not that life HAS to be this way 🚫 That's simply what the dominant power distribution prefers. This is White Supremacy; a dillusuinal sickness that is preventing the Majority from making progressive strides forward...and finally removing ourselves from the Dark Age and into a true Enlightenment phase and Knowledge Society

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[recalcitrantphilosopher]

'Navigating the Intellectual Hoax & Structural Collapse of Western Society (Part-4): Knowledge Society, Systems & dealing with Societal Predators'

--- DiogenesWasRight

Western Society, and the elite Anglosphere, have serious issues of decadent culture, unsustainability, and a total lack of intellectual credibility. Stop 🛑

I saw a mini documentary concerning Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, recently. There was a "sustainability matters" narrative component, where they told the story of a town that lives with crocodiles 🐊

There was a drought and a croc came to their village. Instead of killing it, they followed it to water and the village was saved. From then on, the villagers learned to live alongside the animals and have, partially, domesticated them, using them as proxy for environmental awareness

They took knowledge and deployed it, from a standpoint of security of self, with a dedication to living in peaceful existence with nature and themselves

- No unnecessary crocodile killing ☠️🚫

- No need to feed your neighbor's child to the crocodiles because you're bored

- No attempts to weaponize the crocodiles to increase your share price and maintain control of the village

The goal was to improve the well-being of society and do what made sense. Now, those same global citizens have elected to deal with different predators, in rejection of Western exploitation

My opinion is that their historical legacy can serve as a lesson for our us all; as they deal with the ramifications/implications for reconnecting with their history, in resistance to a malicious cycle of Western predatory colonial methodology. I'll conclude with them as final thought

--- CONTEMPORARY WESTERN SOCIETY & A HISTORICAL LOOK BACK ---

America is about to bookend its inevitable social/political collapse with two genocides & slavery in between

In the meantime, U.S. (and global) society is finally being forced to reason, in the most incomprehensible, incompetent manner possible, that Western economic/political elites have created a system of sadistic, degenerate, and exploitative predation that is summarily bankrupt, morally and politically

This is the progress we've accomplished with only Squid Game & a bad Superman movie 🎬 to show for it

Such is our society

I had intended for this to read slightly differently; but the recent release of the Epstein files, coinciding with the retreat of the U.S. fleet from potential war with Iran, broadened my perspective and thought process

From this enhanced perspective, it becomes clear that Western Society is crumbling because Western Europeans were given too much power, too quickly, and too much information; without the proper time to fully understand and reflect upon what was being absorbed, culturally, intellectually, and, yes, spiritually

I don't indulge romanticizing History, or glorifying empires, cultures, or socities as a function of comparative analysis. For instance, I promote Pan African concepts and critically embed the historical transmission effects of Slavery, Colonialism, and Imperialism into much of my reasoning calculus for critical analysis of Western culture

However, what I do not indulge is historical revisionism 🚫

As an example, I can submit to you that the narrative of 'Sundiata' manifests what could be theorized to be one of the earliest demonstrations of a "Charter" system (Kurakan Fuga), in galvanizing his alliance that would, eventually, form the empire of Mali

(*It established social, political, and economic order, promoting human rights, peace, and the prohibition of slavery)

Similarly, I could point to the tale of Queen Amanirenas 👸🏾👑, and her resisting violent colonial invasion by Augustus and Rome (post Cleopatra soap opera); forcing the aggressive belligerent to negotiate one of the earliest examples of an international peace treaty (cuz, they damn sure couldn't whoop Kush. Js)

In addition, and most importantly, I could stay with her same story and, also, reflect upon her thorough philosophical understanding, strategic execution, eloquent delivery, and judicious deployment of the African spiritual principle of Ma'at; whereby truth, morality, and justice are elevated in society, in maintenance of Cosmic Balance

In the case of Amanirenas, she didn't have to "sell" her people on the need to go to war with Rome. She also didn't necessarily reference Rome as being "wrong" for invading, or Augustus as an unequivocally "evil" human being. She simply referred to them as "arrogant" and out of line with Ma'at

This is to say that she understood that conquest and nation building is not the domain for an easily delineated "good" girls vs. "bad" guys dichotomy for mass consumption. After all, Kush didn't rise to prominence via voluntary capitulation of the territories it absorbed

In addition, it had to resist a long period of occupation by Ancient Kemet (Egypt), who, despite romanticized mass awareness, looked upon Kush the same way Europe looks upon the African Continent (in fact, that's where they learned how to do it). This was through ruthless violence

But, once Kush was in a position of regional authority/dominance, wider "hegemonic" influence was never achieved. This can be said of more than a few great African civilizations

They opted for integration and creating economies/alliances of mutual benefit/reciprocity that would induce iterative cooperation and act as natural barriers to increased hostilities

I will quickly point out that these individuals, and the socities they led, were not purely peaceful, did not represent the height of human civilization, and, in many cases, displayed final output that flew in the face of the previously stated altruistic ideas

However, there IS an enlightened pragmatism and proclivity for refinement of the human condition, in seeking to create intellectual space for concepts, such as, decency, social solidarity, and cooperative integration of independent self-interests that is absent from elite decision making in traditional Western frameworks

This dedication allowed for integrative society and knowledge "transmission", not destruction and revision 🚫 To understand why this is key is next

--- BACK TO THE FUTURE ---

If we take a West Asian country, like the United Arab Emirates (UAE), for example, we see a very small country, with a small population, disproportionately (perniciously, in the case of Sudan/Yemen) impacting geopolitical affairs in a way that would make you think they believe they're old school Great Britain

In that same way, they have, also, managed integration into the global economic/political architecture in a manner that, objectively speaking, is highly strategic and rationally pragmatic. To me, their "nation" acts more like a combination of JP Morgan/Raytheon/Exxon, as they function as hub/intersection for global wealth/power dynamics

Thus, despite how I introspectively feel about their destructive interventionism on the African Continent 🌍, there is a thread of this old African wisdom, in International Relations, that is at 💙 of how they strategically engage...the problem is that they strategically engage with sociopaths/psychotics whose ways they adopted

The issue with adoption of these ways is that they originate with a society that incubated and inculcated predatory behavior, as a staple for how business is transacted and how insulation from external threat is achieved/maintained

Being that "power" consolidation is reasoned to reinforce the ability for genetic preservation, it's accumulation (and resource methodologies) becomes a means AND end. When that becomes the dominant mindset, anything perceived as "weaker" than yourself (by whatever arbitrary evaluative standpoint) will inevitably be relegated to a status of "less than"; and, at that point, it becomes easy to justify any elitist, predatory activity, from sexual behavior, on up to International Relations

When power accumulation is all that matters...WHY care about someone, or a group, that does not have it?

You have necessarily embraced Materialism and, as such, higher order thinking, enlightened self-interest, and abstract spiritual fulfillment will be lost on you.

This is how a person can destabilize a country, indiscriminately butcher it's people, take the children for sex trafficking and organ harvesting...and, then, go home to play with THEIR children

Now, take that idea and understand that this logical framework has permeated nearly every aspect of contemporary Western society, particularly at elite levels, for CENTURIES

It's created an elite global culture of using knowledge as a weapon for subversive subjugation and commodity for monopoly and supply restriction, inevitably, driving up the price to survival for most of us; while reducing the "weak" to procedural inputs and throwaway variables for increased knowledge awareness/concentration

Many of these type of elite actors have been called "Doctor" or "Professor"

--- KNOWLEDGE & THE SYSTEM ARCHITECTS ---

As a human being that was educated in these systems, I've come to understand how sick Western culture has evolved to be. This is glaring, where it pertains to being stewards of knowledge; in particular, with what elites and predatory Western colonial /capitalist expansionism have done to planet 🌍

We've spent 2000 years ingesting whitewashed cultural appropriation, so called "History", that made us think "progress"; when, in fact, we've been in intellectual Dark Ages

It erased the sustainable progress of Black and Indigenous people, who birthed it into being; while, simultaneously, convincing us it was 🆗 to parasitically feed off their suffering, as long as GDP went up

No wonder the global South gravitates toward 🇨🇳/BRICS 🤔Those older societies were BUILDERS. Western predatory intellectualism has opted for development via economics of destruction, so that it looks good on 📜

That is why Burkina Faso (also, Mali, Niger, etc) are fascinating contemporary observations and welcomed deviations from a beyond outdated/outmoded status quo

They are holistically reflective of the history and social transaction that has been previously discussed. This includes colonialism, slavery, Neo-colonialism, and general anti societal predatory resource/power accumulation

What's more, this part of the 🌍 once represented the pinnacle of human intellectual achievement and knowledge concentration. It was a knowledge that was readily shared (with those that merited) and aided in the creation of inclusive society, including Jews, Muslims, Christians, and Women. In fact, manufacture of manuscripts and translation of scholarly text became "Big Business"

Imagine watching an episode of 'MTV-Cribs' and, instead seeing overpriced clothes...you saw a LIBRARY 📚 🤔

Well, in antiquity, that's how the "well-to-do" flexed their wealth. A Knowledge Society; not one that pays MIT graduates to train A.I. to kill unwanted populations in another country, just so you can get a slight modification on your next iPhone, at a premium

But, THIS is the logic of Western Society and the time has finally come to where the nihilistic absurdity has reached a disgustingly obvious denouement of arrogance, unsustainability, and ruthless anti societal psychopathy

Now, it's consumed it's own. To the point the economy can no longer sustain average people. When you think about it and review what this culture has done to human beings with the knowledge it was gifted...it's insane sadism

To think it was done to people that pulled it out of the 1st Dark Age is even crazier. It even got them to kill each other, from ethnic conflicts to Drill Music 😐

Yet, as recent developments/revelations demand, the parasitic, self-indulgent nature of those that have controlled 🌍 society is being laid bare and, it seems, we have all been on the menu via our own participatory ignorance

But that is the modus operandi of a predator, truly, in a position of weakness. The only way to get folks to let you feed on them, instead of leading them to water 🌊, is by making them forget themselves

...& their collective Histories

✌🏾💙💯

[recalcitrantphilosopher]

Navigating the Intellectual Hoax & Structural Collapse of Western Society (Part-3): System Evolution, the Political-Economics of Apocalypse & a Conspiracy Theory of Truth in Plain Sight'

--- DiogenesWasRight

The entymology of the word 'apocalypse' does not have its origins in categorical description of wanton violence and chaotic destruction. As human beings go, it's concerned with our consensus collective consciousness, as this relates to reasoning and revelations of Truth from the unseen realm of the Divine

A 'conspiracy theory' is a phrase coined by the CIA (when it was openly called "Civilian", not "Central", Intelligence), in order to discredit folks for having the temerity/audacity to ask questions that might cater to "accountability" and how the hell tax 💰💵 was being utilized

When we break it apart, a 'conspiracy' is simply, at minimum, two people coordinating/collaborating in secret. A 'theory' is generated by using agreed upon systematic logic and evidence to explain reality by way of assumption

I proudly call myself a Conspiracy Theorist 🥹 and I believe we reside in Apocalyptic times of never before experienced revelations of Truth

Thus, for this component to the general narrative of Western structural decline, I would like to see if a theoretical framework can be developed that can assume as valid (not necessarily true) a conspiracy for marginalization of the majority, by engaging critical evaluation of history and the political-economy of our resource distribution

This will be carried out in two parts:

1). Understanding the social/political systems/realities of Western Society with a focus on America as the primary hegemonic tool for resource distribution

2). Understanding the corresponding economic system that has governed resource redistribution with a focus on theorized objectives and corresponding outcomes

Embedded assumptions:

• We collectivize to make the individual existence of the average human better off, instead of the inefficient/ineffectual pursuit of pure individual liberty, so that our collective success can create the maximum individual liberty that is reasonably possible

• There are NO "stupid" people operating at elite spheres of political influence and economic resource distribution (e.g., Professors, Analysts, Money Managers, Historians, etc) as far as being able interpret information, reference history, and facilitate publicly mandated business via traditional democratic political controls

My critical thinking posits that it should be no revelation as to WHY our global village is in structural collapse

🇺🇲, 🇪🇺, & general Western society, are in a state of permanent decline. This is due to our 🌍 collective adopting systems predicated on faulty assumptions, originating with a minority of folks on a material/intellectual defensive

Predatory regimes assuming Natural Scarcity/Zero Sum Logic were forced on populations as, both, remedy & foundational justification. As the 🇺🇲 Empire rose, our economic and political hierarchies created summarily unnecessary conflict b/t ideas like:

• Fascism

• Socialism

• Capitalism

• Democracy

But, realistically, there isn't a global citizen among us that has experienced the pure forms of these ideas, per organized social output and justified coercive authority called "government". For instance, if we take China ⛩️🇨🇳 and apply these ideas, what might we uncover?

Let's look at it through a lens of (D)emocracy. It's easy to give China failing marks, when compared to a major Western Industrialized nation. China is not a democracy. Full stop 🛑

However, my introspective philosophical deliberation prefers to focus less on "process", by way a formal mathematical tally, and caters more to participatory inclusion in final output and defacto compliance by the absence of nonviolent aggression toward the government.

What do I mean?

Well, I think it's not an overstatement to theorize that Western Society is at a critical crossroads of hypocrisy and contradiction, where Democratic principles are at issue. Thousands of ppl go to jail in the U.K. for "thought crimes". Germany disallows Palestinian solidarity protestation. Today is Jan. 29th, 2026 in America...I opine you simply to turn on the news 🤐😶‍🌫️

While these travesties of democracy are being witnessed, these governments are presiding over Bronze Age (Ancient Egypt) level debt burdens; numerous asset bubbles; runaway inflation; homelessness; unconscionable poverty and wealth inequality; mass social divides; civil unrest; and historic disapproval ratings/mistrust of government and elite institutions

Routine polling has shown that there exists a vast chasm between the preferences and hierarchical imperatives of Western elites and their constituencies

There has been ample research conducted that has demonstrated a lack of meaningful participatory inclusion by the average citizen, where their collective interests intersect with the interests of elite minority elements. In addition, this research has offered that policy outcomes overwhelmingly favor the minority Western elite economic class (I will find the studies and place into comments)

If I compare that contemporary situation to a country, like China, I opt for outcome based reasoning and evaluation of "what REALLY goes down", in the CCP, realistically, being able to hold that society together

That culture is more authoritarian, per theoretical democracy and conceptuality of direct political controls/formal administration. But, what routinely gets lost in thought processes is the reality that...there are over one BILLION Chinese people

That's to say that it's functionally impossible to keep that many people pacified and docile, unless your final administrative output is actually working "for the people". It can't work any other way. Those people might legitimately disagree with some of what the CCP finally enacts

However, my assumption is that Chinese people are more sensitive to their shared history of Western colonialism/subjugation; as well as more politically pragmatic than their typical Western counterparts. They understand what China was like when the West had control and they can also turn on any CNN/BBC news broadcast for comparative analysis (and a 😂)

That's because they have reconnected with their old history and returned to being a society of "Builders". There will always be room for improvement, but they continually improve. Not only do they improve their lives, they objectively have a net positive effect on the existences of other societies

(*SN: There is an irony that U.S. political elites hate China, effectively, for holding up their end of the deal and playing the game to perfection)

Meanwhile, in addressing the aforementioned malaise found in Western democratic nations, elites are seemingly gearing us all up to fall back to the preferred tool of intellectual obfuscation, and economic wealth redistribution, in times of domestic instability...in W-A-R

This brings us to America and system evolution

--- THE TRUMAN CROWD ---

In 🇺🇲, there has only ever existed the authority of White elites & "might makes right". As such, economic systems became intertwine with the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) model for capitalist expansionism and the domestic political-economy

This has its to roots in cross Atlantic White Supremacy and an America first (and foremost) mentality. In this process, some populist, progressive gains we're permitted; as long as they didn't threaten status quo architecture. That which did was ruthlessly sanctioned (foreign and domestic)

This is what I call the "Harry Truman Crowd" and, provided you are not a believer, just ask anyone, from JFK, to a Black revolutionary, to a leftist political leader in South America

These folks have been "equal opportunity" stewards of "we run sh*t". However, there has been a fundamental shift and change from the Truman way of thinking/doing business

After WW2, Western elites renegotiated territorial boundaries, power distributions, institutional participation, and military subordination that ultimately culminated with dominant hegemony and global administrative authority being transferred to America

This allowed for Western Society to rise from the ashes of, yet, another cyclical phase of self-destruction/cannibalization and recycle ♻️ itself in a continuum; albeit with the added bonus of crowning a yearly champion in competive Hot Dog Eating

Loosely, briefly it went something like this:

•America had the dominant (damn near only) potent industrial base and domestic infrastructure capacity

•America set a fixed amount of 💵 to a fixed amount of gold 🪙 and every participating country (and you had better participate) would set their local currency to the $Dollar

This provided 🌍 stability via price stability. Long-term contracts could be formalized and predictably regulated. Capital flows encountered less resistance and saw decreased barriers. America could use its new Reserve Currency Status to take advantage of this Artificial Dollar Demand and reinforce its military, by exporting the inflation to other countries that had excess Dollars, after international transactions (see Investopedia)

Most importantly, as White people (the West) had simply transferred administration of general empire, without suffering total dissolution, they were able to modify existing colonial regimes to suit the times and, effectively, keep the ball rolling with an increasingly "banks > tanks" Modus Operandi (Developing Nations and Neo-colonial debt traps)

So, some well-intentioned White folks wrote some books 📚 that didn't make it to Harvard, Yale, or the Chicago School; some Black folks that told us to "Learn from History/Do the right thing/and don't be stupid" died prematurely; and a U.S. President was given early retirement; in responsible and inclusive public intellectual discourse

However, expansionism is always unsustainable and, eventually, there existed exponential Dollar Demand > the actual above ground supply of gold...so, folks got nervous. How much was a Dollar actually WORTH?

Inflation was literally killing folks and the U.S. "free" market economy was experiencing something that classical economics said wasn't supposed to be able to occur, at the same time. Everybody was unemployed, prices were high, and what little money people had didn't go very far. The confidence in the U.S. and, thus, the Dollar was a precarious situation for collective discovery, at best

Then, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger and crew had a bright idea 💡 Instead of real gold, they'd set the Dollar to the liquid variety (🛢️) and, concurrently, get China to embrace low wage labor supply; in order to grow the 🌍 economy (and get technological exchange), restore confidence and long-term investment in the U.S. EQUITES (stocks/bonds) market (not, necessarily in normal people), and create a Credit Economy that, now, gave the MIC the Entropy defying credit line from Hell 😈🤩

But, the problem is this has exacerbated speculation on the Dollar and within, so called, "market" economies, in general. Over time, we financialized our economies and Globalists, who prefer weak nations, overtook the MIC. This gave rise to a Transnational Capitalist Class that has no allegiance to borders, or outmoded militarist models, per efficiency drives and the need for broad based global stability

Now, Western nations are in retreat (externally & domestically) & Decentralization is the trend, in a multipolar 🌍 Yet, corporate power is undertaking steps to concentrate authority, as nations will inevitably become weaker and will no longer be able to service their citizenry

Look at 🌍 growth rates. BRICS/Gulf Nations (ideally Africans) will be running the show. No matter what Western elites SAY to you...productivity will NOT be substantively found in these Western economies

Decentralization will also be an internal phenomena for intellectual awareness, as federal budgets face debt reckoning and they toss responsibility back to sub national units, whose budgets are fixed.  This is what's troubling. This is where corporate activity must be acutely taken into account and to understand why this could be theorized to be the case is the next section

--- WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT ---

Since the 1970s...how has U.S., or global, society IMPROVED, in quantifiable objective terms or qualitative discovery?

We, now, have a POTUS that tells us he will undue 40 years of deindustrialization and offshoring of manufacturing by:

•Hyper-aggresive tarrif policy

•Kidnapping Heads-of-State

•Expediting global diversification away from the Dollar, by way of sanctions and threatened land annexation

•Presiding over mass civil unrest not seen, since the 1970s

It's not quantum physics 🚫 No reasonable international investor would be falling over themselves to invest in America, at present. Recall, my premise is that Transnational Capital (TC) is already staging America for decommission; as multipolarism becomes the norm and national borders become more of an obstacle to that elite class

If you are TC, or understand the nature of its existence, does it NOT make logical sense to theorize that recent Executive policy, by the POTUS, might cater to that previous ambition?

We live in an age where people are realistically talking of our species being on the brink of a Transhuman experience. Do folks really understand what this entails?

At a time when the gentleman that pioneered Artificial Intelligence (including winning a Nobel Prize that actually MEANS something) is plainly telling us "it's over" for traditional labor; and where artificial consciousness is being trained in virtual reality and uploaded into synthetic bodies to do work...what are we REALLY talking about?  😳

When political elites tell us that we can "revive manufacturing" and "increase productivity", how will this be achieved and who will benefit?

Truthfully, the countries America bombed in the 60s/70s are the ones that are experiencing reasonable growth and manage to routinely out compete U.S. labor for Foreign Investment. There is more than poetic justice, here

For me, this is what's problematic with prevailing narratives for mass consumption by Western elites; particularly in the U.S.

NONE of the rational justification for doing x, y, or z makes any sense, when you trace the logic. Yet, we, as a collective, still continue to engage these systems and performative rhetoric as though they are legitimate

While there is a "feeling" that something isn't right by our majority, this hasn't galvanized into consensus sentiment. It seems our collective simply refuses to "follow the 💰"

How we utilize and understand the existence of our money 💰 is likely a good place to start. The collective consciousness of our global village was hijacked, along with Collective Sovereignty, where it pertains to the application of our money 💰 for operational kinetic activity

Somewhere around post (⬅️supposed) colonialism, we evolved systems that auto validated the Enlightenment Period and granted as an unchallenged "given" the reasoning of those global citizens that necessarily did the hijacking

This led to a 2nd colonization, as to the general mindset of the majority population of 🌍 There was a manufactured consciousnes shift that relied upon manufacturing consent. This logic implied:

• Diminishing Returns in economics is independent of the Entropy Rule (there is no idea space for the reality that contraction is always necessary and inevitably occurs)

• All productions in an economy represent the collective reasoning of FULLY informed participants

• The "expert" was to be exalted & never to be called into question by those not of perceived equal social status

• As long as you have 💰, you are a superior, simply by way of conflating wealth accumulation with intellect and acumen

The reality is that these assumptions are invalid; and 💰 has evolved to become a reality warper far beyond the abilities of Doctor Strange

Our 💰 supply has seen productivity generate wealth for a minority; wealth that channels inflation into "free" markets that exclude a majority, by way of the artificial price mechanisms 💰 transmits

For nearly 20 years, folks have had <$500 for unexpected emergency. Concurrently, while Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a "thing" for elites, the unfortunate truth is that most of us will not play in the S&P 500 domain

People should understand what it means to take the aggregated lived experience and outcome potential of millions of individuals...and assume a straight line

If the line is straight, there is some unchanging factor that can be construed as constant. When we are discussing something, such as a stock market index, it should be understood that this is necessarily reducing individuals to a natural average, as far as everyday life is at issue

In our collective indoctrination, we have been conditioned to believe that a stock market moving in a positive direction implicitly assumes that the marginal standard of living for individuals, and the General Welfare, are traversing, lockstep, with the same directionality. However, empirical analysis, and common sense, tells us that this is far from reality

For instance, we might revisit some of the Austerity policies immorally visited upon our global neighbors in Cyprus/Greece and be placed into a fugue state, in understanding what it means for an international bank (IMF) to take 1 Euro from your bank account and give back to you a few cents

Yet, from an American perspective, if we were to evaluate our own situation, from the perspective of something like Purchasing Power, and review back to monetary policy post 9/11 (low interest rates)...how much difference would that policy be, when juxtaposed to European austerity, after Dollar/Euro conversion?

We continually hear "Core Inflation" in the news and there is scarce genuine dedication extended to informing the general public on what this assumes and how this does, or does not, relate to their well-being and upward mobility

Excluding Food/Energy from metric evaluation only tells people who already have money (and plenty of it) how to move, strategically, at quick glance. They can justify the use of the tool by screaming "volatility" all they like. However, to me, it's simply another elite methodology that has more of its roots in exclusionary ideology, as opposed to efficacious metric observation

But, that's just me

Still, our collective is held hostage by lack of awareness, lack of understanding, lack of inclusion, and an inability for there to be an honest discourse surrounding, exactly, how our economic systems function and are administered, as far as social efficacy is that issue

Yet, 🌍 Society is reduced to holding our collective breath, everytime a handful of bond holders misplaces their cocaine 😐

And, what is it that we have gotten in exchange for forcibly being made to participate in this exclusionary system of price discrimination and information asymmetry?

Prevailing economic regimes have seen many priced out of exclusionary markets. These are not relegated to 📜 markets for speculative wealth creation. Our global village has seen many priced out of, even, the market for procreation; as the cost to maintaining a family has ⬆️ in lockstep with the 💰 supply

Look around. EVERY meaningful support system on the 🌍 is in structural decline. Ironically, these distortive effects have brought, even, European nations back to reality; as "heat domes" bring the intellectual 🐔s of information asymmetry home to roost

We live in a 🌍 that has the capacity to sustain us all. We possess technological capability that outpaced Natural Scarcity decades ago. 💰 is a transmission mechanism for information and should reflect organic, inclusive participatory growth. Not this dumb sh*t

Meanwhile, those lucky few of us that have had access to utilization of these economic systems (particular inexpensive credit used to stimulate growth) have had the entire planet to choose from, in generating new wealth

For these ppl, the U.S. was not a nation. It was an enforcement/intimidation mechanism and ultimate backstop for wealth preservation; since Artificial Dollar Demand always prompted eventual investment in U.S. asset classes. That does not mean that the average U.S. citizen benefited from this arrangement

However, if you are a wealthy person that looks at the world and, instead of nations, sees spheres of influence and zones for investment...what do you care?

If municipal services are strained and state pension funds are blowing up due to unfunded liabilities, are you concerned with whether the U.S. government tells its citizens to "f*ck off...Ukraine and Israel need us", instead of directing that social surplus towards its own taxpayers?

When the Dollar collapses, and America alongside it, would YOU stay and ride out the domestic situation with your fellow countrymen; or push a button and move your wealth to another geographic location holding up the ✌🏾sign?

This brings us to close

--- WHAT WOULD SHERLOCK DEDUCE? ---

The people that have administration of our planet and have created system architecture that allows for the "ownership" of society are well aware of the information that is contained, herein, and then some

My goal was to offer simple concepts and straightforward ideas to generate independent thought that might evaluate society from a intellectual peak of common sense

These people are not stupid. While unintended consequences may manifest, there are no "accidents" at these elite institutional and political levels of resource allocation. These folks have ample history to draw upon and multiple independent reservoirs of highly trained interpretive awareness to tap

From what has been previously discussed and laid out, if you were a person that wanted to enhance your individual well-being by way of intellectual subversion of the majority...does this history and system WORK for you?

Most important of all, does the initial theory, based upon historical understanding, system understanding, and embedded assumptions help us to explain the 🌍 we observe, today?

If not, thank you for hearing me out. If so, my assessment that we live within Apocalyptic times seems valid. As this is the case, it means that we will have no excuse for complaining about "what comes next"

All is being revealed

✌🏾💙💯

[recalcitrantphilosopher]

Navigating the Intellectual Hoax & Structural Collapse of Western Society (Part-2): Nihilism, Consequentialism, & Deadly Truth Distortion'

--- DiogenesWasRight

So, nihilism and greed, in a post American hegemonic 🌍, are destroying Sudan❓

Ok, then 😐

Part-1 of this discussion focused on assessing where global society is, as a mass consciousness, and taking evaluative stock of Western led society and culture that has enjoyed primary administration of the planet for the past ~500 years

Now, is to briefly indulge some of the ideological drives and philosophical underpinnings that evolved the culture and are extolled and promulgated as "right reason"

I've read SO many articles/essays concerning the death/demise of the, so called, "Liberal" Order, since the 2016 elections

I laugh each time...as if things were so "orderly" and the international system was being administered equitably and justly, with a net positive effect on the majority population

It reminds me of the innundation of "Lessons learned" white papers, proliferated by think tanks, and nigh exponential "Mistakes were made" statements, from elite podiums, subsequent immoral, hyper destructive Western interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya (Syria on deck)

One wonders why so many supposedly "smart" people manage to get it wrong so often; particularly where there is ample historical evidence that allows for, even, lay persons and novice awareness to reach a priori conclusions that say: "don't do THAT" 😨

Then, after the unnecessary, easily anticipated damage has been done, lives have been lost, and societies/economies have been irrevocably negatively impacted...we get more Western intellectual prescriptive medicine? 😳

Western culture is logic defying in that regard

It creates problems, blames victims, &, then, says: "Whatever will you do without us"?

This "culture" rewards human beings for anti societal behavior. This is fundamentally due to a nihilistic culture that elevates idea invalidation > Truth

We can frame the discussion using core Principles of Philosophy. Humanbeings have evolved systems for reason that we can reduce to:

Metaphysics

• The nature of knowledge

Epistemology

• Knowing & how we understand

Logic

• How we structure reasoning

Ethics

• Our values & morals after the fact

Philosophies are individual introspective considerations. Once individuals work thru the system above, we develop collective ideology. My introspection simplifies this to:

How do we go about knowing Truth, so that we can use critical thinking to develope culture?

The Western tradition is an intellectual culture that likes to get "cute", when reaching conclusions

It prefers the aesthetic "art" of argument & the non-productive ability to argue two sides of the exact same set of facts. This fosters subjectivity & actively perpetuates cognitive dissonance (holding psychological space for two competing ideas)

This is the only way to achieve perpetual wars; rationally argue for bankrolling live stream genocide; intellectually prop up capitalism, despite its track record and inherent nature; and unsustainably embed an anti-societal neoliberal reasoning calculus that glorifies the very worst aspects of our human condition

For instance, let's take the current European Union (EU) Chief and EU Foreign Minister as examples of my previously articulated points for introspective consideration

When I was younger, I was always told that men and women have variable qualities that, ideally, compliment each other, when brought together in unison. In particular, that women are nurturers, caregivers, and better suited for interpersonal relations and resolving any corresponding conflicts

As I pursued formal education, I found these normative assumptions formally incorporated into, not only, my academic curriculum; but, commercially packaged in the strategic consultation service provisioning of the guy teaching my course

Dude literally had a line that said: "let women LEAD", as a sales pitch and capitulatory gesture to the neo feminist crowd that might adopt these principles in their hiring practices for elite executives

My response was that diversity is one thing (and fine by me); but that the logical methodology used to justify the position did not quite jive with the reality of historical observation 🚫

When I'd ask him, or anyone else, to explain Hillary Clinton's foreign policy, cutthroat political mentality (famously admonishing the female President of Princeton for resigning from her post, as Clinton's top Aid), or her routine dismissal and political dog whistling regarding the real political critiques by her Black liberal base...*crickets*

Similarly, I asked for evaluation of Victoria Nuland, in Barack Obama's Administration and as Hillary Clinton's Under Secretary, in destabilizing Ukraine and telling the EU to: [f*CK off]", when they actually showed some temerity and took exception to U.S. intervention in the Region...*nada*

Then, I went to the oldie, but goodie, in Madeline Albright, who famously said that she was perfectly fine with between 500,000 - 1,000,000 dead Iraqi children as the "[price for (D)emocracy", after U.S. intervention and indiscriminate killing

(At this point, we were, both, likely counting down the days until the end of the semester)

Grounding ourselves in contemporary times, we are literally watching two intelligent, seasoned, Western educated females, occupying two of the most influential institutional positions in the 🌍...tell us that we are NOT seeing the Genocide on our smartphones

WHY is this and HOW has this managed to come to pass?

The reason is simple. Like many of us, these two women have been trained in and mastered the art of dealing in cognitive dissonance. They would have US believe that malicious, disproportionate, and asymmetrical military response equates to a "self defense"

Concurrently, we are also to believe that they are dutifully upholding the fundamental tenants of the Liberal Order and that, effectively, "this is the best (D)emocracy can do"; even though they lead, or influence, advanced institutional apparatus that was designed to prevent exactly what they call "defense" and that I call " genocide"

What's more, they've internalized the condition of deferring to the ideological perspective of Consequentialism. As women, they assurely understand, on some base level, what the mothers in Palestine are enduring, even if they do not fully empathize

Still, from an "ends justifies means" perspective (the most prevalent form of Consequentialism)... it's all good 🥹

WHY? Because, there is a pernicious system in place that allows them to obfuscate reality and evade culpability, by way of technicality and placing the needs/realities of functioning in "the system" > legal/moral consistency

However, in truth, it simply reduces to:

•Might makes right

•Worry about yourself

This is the nihilism of the prevailing Western Liberal Order. It reduces every aspect of human existence and social transaction to another form of Consequentialism, in marginal utility maximization (Utilitarianism)

It assumes we are all selfish pleasure boxes that have no ability to place alternative modes of thinking and methodologies above our own individual selfishness

Basically, the system architects of our global social order theorize that there is never such a thing as saying: "WE can do better". There is only the "I" and executing oneself in a manner that is consistent with elevation of the individual in the given moment

Obviously, this has not worked out as a dominant strategy for the majority of the people on Earth 😐

A reasonable society reconciles with itself and makes progress. The only way to prevent this is to convince people to atomize their thoughts in a way that disassociates from a CONSENSUS reality check

When we can say "it depends" for everything, on margin, then we never get anywhere. What should we EXPECT?

Progressive society and culture cannot be sustained this way

Ironic, for a Western society that, so, prides itself on pure rational thought and efficiency, it developed SLAVERY economies that, ironically enough, were only sustained by way of INEFFICIENT cyclical destruction of other societies, in unsustainable positive feedback loops of insanity

This has been the preferred resource allocation methodology, up until most recent global transition to a multipolar 🌍 and increasingly decentralized system for authority

We should view this as opportunity to get it right and FINALLY create the reasonable society that has only ever existed in argumentative theory; and as intellectual musings of those that would have us internalize the dogmatic gospels of political rhetoric...instead of believing our own lying eyes

✌🏾💙💯

[recalcitrantphilosopher]

Dr. Anderson is accomplished, possessed of acute economic/historic accumen, and has worked in Presidential Administrations...but, he's not prominently featured in mass collective consciousness as a leading thinker on Black American Political-Economy (or, in general) 🤔

WHY is this, exactly? Until we can begin having these organic, honest collective discussions, we will continue to play into the hands of those who marginalized Black ppl and our majority population, in general.

Tell the Truth. Be consistent. ✌🏾💙💯

[recalcitrantphilosopher]

'Class, Race, Western Society & Sleepwalking into the Apocalypse: Understanding how We got here & WHAT is driving the Bus'

--- DiogenesWasRight

I've had conversations with folks of the introspective position that current events are affairs to be relegated to simple matters of class warfare

Thus, "History matters" of White supremacy becomes hyperbolic rhetoric for these human beings

My response is this naive logic only holds, where there is the PERCEPTION of equity between groups

THEN, and only then, a Glen Ford might say:

["Don't go to 😴, just b/c you got a Black President"]

The idea being that it's a myopic exercise to think "all is well", at the intersection/confluence of our social surplus & elite institutional bureaucracy, simply due to optics

THAT is the point where it becomes imperative to keenly understand exactly who is able to disproportionately marshall resources via political controls; irrespective to the skin color of a given mid-level manager (e.g., politicians or executives)

This $ystem is so exploitative & socially corrupt that the irrational racism deployed by elites to subvert society, & reinforce White supremacy, is not enough

... they've got to go full on 'Ozymandius' style Fascism on us

Here, the strategy has been twofold:

1). Convincing a majority of White ppl that they are superior by way of mere birth & w/o having to prove anything. This makes them value their whiteness as a commodity & divorces them from commonalities with people of color, who also occupy their same socioeconomic class

2). Convincing that same class of Black/Tan folks that they are inherently IN-ferior 24/7, 365 days a year, right up until election season; when you trot out every celebrity/politician of color you can find to tell them how great the $ystem is and that they've finally "made it" 🙄

Meanwhile, elites are busy printing 💰, rolling over debt, & concentrating wealth; while privatizing gains with a minority (who tend to look alike) & socializing losses

That's the "class" story

Still, even before we entertain dialogues on elites, capitalism, or neoliberal fascism, the reality check is that racism IS structurallly embedded in the 💜 of the $ystem

This is by design & doesn't always manifest as overt violence

It began with UNWARRANTED projection of inferiority onto Majority populations that are, ironically, responsible for most of our collective human achievements

The pervasiveness of this extends to several areas:

-Political

-Economic

-Intellectual

-Philosophical

Ancient African history informs us well on this strategic social distortion, as mass psychological operation

Black Africans had created high intellectual, spiritually conscious civilization before Greeks had organized themselves into city states

Black Africans taught the early Greek philosophers, including providing them the space/opportunity to "graft" their civilization altering scientific spirituality onto a Greek culture in a state of infancy

(ask Herodatus) - See 'Ancient Kemet'

Black Africans & Arabic speaking ppl with a tan rescued Europe from its own self inflicted Dark Age &, effectively, retaught them their own Western tradition

(alongside the useful strategy that says taking baths are not a pathway to hell) - See 'Moors'

Time passed, trade routes shifted, & Western culture became militarily dominant. These societies eventually conquered the societies that effectively taught them ways and means

The key difference between the Western methodology, & the older variants, was in the way of "knowledge preservation" & "continuity"

Those older cultures may have ruthlessly conquered weaker societies; but useful/relevant information was always preserved & society tended to drastically improve, regardless of geographic location

Unfortunately, Western culture did not do (and has not done) this in its most recent predominance & hegemonic influence 🚫

Once Western society had the reigns...it immediately went into History "Whitewash" mode, as it sought to inflict perpetual imperial monopoly on the 🌍

In doing so, it was necessary to have the majority ppl of color internalize this ahistorical inferiority complex, in order to make them feel Colonialism was doing them a favor

It was also necessary to get the White majority of poor folks on board, so that they could point to the perpetual strife of these intentionally marginalized ppl as a sign of backwardness that needed civilization & demanded subjugation

In academic talk, this is euphemistically referred to as "paternalism" by Western society

For me, it's difficult listening to those who have disproportionately benefited from violent Western expansionism LECTURE or pontificate

Western culture has stolen everything & proven nothing. It's a society that destroys other civilizations to prop itself up

It's a culture of "na-na-na-na-na" to ppl whose blood, sweat, & tears were unduly extracted in construction of that society

Everyday I turn on the news, I watch hundreds of tan folks killed, in Western industrialized death machines, that likely have Free Energy & a couple of cures for Cancer floating around their populations, somewhere

They're never going to have the opportunity to overestimate their intelligence and their achievements

It's a chimera of a traveling salesman/preacher trying to tell you that you need the extended warranty to get into Heaven 😐

In addition, this pernicious $ystem has gotten a majority of us to hate our human condition, work against our collective social well-being, & unsustainably destroy the goddamn PLANET as reward...Yay

What are we REALLY talking about, at this point?

More importantly, and succinctly:

Western Society...WHY are we listen to YOU?

[recalcitrantphilosopher]

'Navigating Controlled Demolition of America & Structural Decline of Western Society: Distorted Reality & Regression to Crazy'

---DiogenesWasRight

America has been intentionally deconstructed

Part-1 of this #twighlightzone discussion focused on contradictions of reason & the efficacy/legitimacy of the nation state model, as a reasonable tool for collective action/sovereignty

Now, is critical thinking on what this means for the #americanhorrorstory that is this nation's Comedy Central Bread & 🎪 collapse

I'll keep-it-100 & articulate that Americans may be LEAST prepared for the technological economic & political shifts that will soon happen

This culture is too use to enjoying insulated lives, at the expense of global citizens in our global village

It is also not use to taking responsibility for maintenance of what liberty & freedom does exist, as a result of prior struggle

(see Barack Obama)

The human beings in countries like China, Russia, or on the 🌍 Continent understand, very well, that #capitalismkills

Their collective consciousness also possesses an intellectual awareness on the nature of the social contract & legitimate authority that is vastly different than traditional Western rhetoric

In the case of China, it can be reasonable to say that national interests (ie, what's actually best for the majority) manages to be embedded in finalized political output

In the U.S....not so much

The libertarian ferver for property rights is so exalted, that it crosses the Rubicon of Hedonism and traverses a plane to outright SADISM

That's what's troubling

Its citizens are so enamoured with the WASP Work Ethic & "rugged individualism" that the mathematical reality check simply doesn't register

Thus, they end up yielding, both, the economy and political controls to owners of the capitalism monopoly game

The results?

Spending cuts 🎯 poor folks; while Military Spending is STILL not up for debate, morally or fiscally 😐

In the meantime, that minority #monopoly element are reconfiguring the corporate state to make it so that they don't have to export the American dream of exploitation

That can be done in-house 🇺🇸