...Stanley Kubrick's (old) New and Different Dream
Capitalism Successfully Sabotaged the Communist Dream...
because the Communists never dreamed of abandoning 'Luxury'
...but can Trump now De-Systemize (de-globalize) and more importantly, de-politicize the Capitalist System and return it to its more natural form (aka 'Commerce') whilst retaining the dream of MATERIAL luxury?
Commerce NOT Capitalism
De-Commodification of Land, Labour, Capital, & Information
Sovereign National Culture(s) NOT Politics NOT Multi-culturalism
The world is global. Accept it. Diversity is strength. Equity is ethical. Inclusion is the ONLY solution to the problems of dualism and ego.
ReplyDeleteCapitalism is the primary engine of greed. Ignorance is the driver of delusion. The two BIGGEST problems facing humanity are ignorance and greed. And tRump and MAGA represents both in spades
"I would prefer NOT to."
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DeleteThe politics of Mrs. Grundy on Social Media 24/7 is the problem. It forces every conversation and social interaction into tribal group-think Us vs. Them mode.
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DeleteWhat do you think it means when the Hebrew/ Christian/ Islamic Holy Books speak of "The Fall"?
DeleteWhat Nietzsche was talking about when he wrote "Beyond Good & Evil"?
"Order" is a strength. And Humans HATE to take "orders".
DeleteAs the Left says, "ALWAYS Anti-Fascist!"
DeleteOlam Hazeh (the present world) is often contrasted with Olam Ha-Ba. In Olam Hazeh, Godliness is hidden, allowing for free will, while in Olam Ha-Ba, Godliness is fully revealed. Gan Eden (heaven or paradise) is also sometimes seen as a place between Olam Hazeh and Olam Ha-Ba
...so humanity shall dwell in "The Fall" FOREVER!
Sorry, gotta go find another Snake now...
...maybe HE can lead me back to Gan Eden.
DeleteTribal group-think is EXACTLY what tRump and MAGA does. And they do it well. But remember, the arch of the moral universe bends left. Ultimately empathy, compassion, and love will defeat the ignorance and greed of the right.
ReplyDeleteBy the way. I didn't create the duality of left- right. Nor did I understand it for years. But it has become clearer lately.
Pride is not a virtue. I found this out through experience. tRump and MAGA are very prideful.
Pride is a virtue. Hubris (excessive pride) is the vice. Meden agan.
DeleteAmour de soi not amour propre (Rousseau).
I'm absolutely fine with whatever anyone chooses to accept as their spiritual foundation and beliefs. I simply do not accept the dogma of Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. Nor do I believe in a Creator or Personal god.
ReplyDeleteConsciousness and awareness are primary, and quantum mechanics and quantum physics will, I believe solve the hard question of Consciousness. Which could very well turn out to be beyond concepts.
It is not beyond the realm of possibility that the universe itself is conscious. And science is recognizing this possibility today. Not yet discovered realites will move humankind closer to understanding our universe and our place in it.
We like to think we are in control. And so we act as if we are. Which simply causes the dissatisfaction and suffering we experience in this impermanent life.
Namaste...
I don't believe in Panpsychism. I do, however, believe in order and biological intelligence, both necessary elements in combatting entropy.
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DeleteKnowledge continues to expand. Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Physics will continue to change how humankind views reality.
ReplyDeleteEverthing compounded (having no independent essence/nature) is ultimately impermanent. As such the universe as it is known today will likely cease to exist. Only to be "reborn". Probably billions of years from niw.
Maybe. I'm just thankful for the now...
DeleteYes. The present (nowness) is the only relevant time. The past us dead and the future never arrives. We can only live in the now.
ReplyDeleteYet most either mind frollick in the past or imagine romp in the future. Ignoring the nowness where phenomena actually unfolds.
...yes many mind frolick into the past and imagine imposing inter-generational social justice formulas in the present and upon future generations.
DeleteBut hey, bad karma yesterday, bad karma today, bad karma tomorrow... it's not Justice, it Just-Is
Nope. It's the ignorance and obscurarions of the ego and the self centeredness and selfishness that is the problem.
ReplyDeleteBTW, it's the conservative agenda and the ignorance of the past that tRump and MAGA support.
Things Democrats aren't subject to... BWAH!
DeleteDemocrats - The Sam Bankman-Fried's family of "effective altruism". Got Bitcoin?
The long-con is definitely the best-con.
DeleteThere is no good or best con. A con is not truth, nor does it carry any integrity.
ReplyDeleteTell that to George Soros, grand pubah financier of the Democratic Party and global Open Society greedy capitalist and author of "The Alchemy of Finance".
DeleteWhen George Soros famously shorted the the pound sterling in like '92 or whatever, which led to him writing "The Alchemy of Finance" where he said that "Alchemy is not interested in truth like the scientific method, it's interested in operational success." The method he said that they used to do the Alchemy of Finance was reflexivity. The idea is that you start jinning up an idea and make the idea become true because everybody starts talking about it and believing it in a particular way. So "the current thing" takes place in a reflexive environment (often Social Media).
...it isn't interested in "integrity". It's interested in a particular result.
Delete,,,it's a "noble lie".
DeleteLike in the secular civic religion of which the US Constitution is "the Bible"... If only the founders had outlawed slavery at the outset, then it would have been "perfect"...let's make them the scapegoats for slavery and now WE can become perfect, just so long as we continue to remember and sacrifice and atone for our "original sin" we can redeem our civic religion... just"believe".
Delete...or as we sayin Baltimore, "B'lieve, Hon!!"
DeleteAs I said, there is no good or bad con. A con is a con, not truth. As such it does not have any integrity. MAGA is a con created by the world's greatest con artist, Donald J. tRump.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet his is a con that appeals to 2 of the 3 current worldviews, the worldview of the post-modern PMC elite Left being totally discredited through self-identitarian over-reach. Their 'atonement' racial crusaderism falling miserably flat.
DeleteIt may have been alchemically "useful" to George Soros for cracking open former communist European economies, but it has proven lethally toxic to all truly "democratic" societies such as ours.
DeleteHence the guilt-pride 'strategy' applies not only to America, but to all European "colonialist" cultures, especially those with more recent racialist "sins" like the former Nazi Germany.
Delete..."woke" wielded as a dialectical weapon by the PMC.
Delete...to "commoditize" land, labour, capital, and now INFORMATION for capitalist exploitation.
Deletea neo-colonialist strategy. To colonize the "minds" of the world's con-sumers.
Delete....to keep them on a technofeudal lord's cloud-serf plantation
Delete..and prevent them from becoming PRO-sumers (Alvin Toffler, "The Third Wave")
pro·sum·er
/prōˈso͞omər/
noun
1.
an amateur who purchases equipment with quality or features suitable for professional use.
"the magazine is aimed at the prosumer who uses a $10,000 camera to make home movies of his dog"
2.
a prospective consumer who is involved in the design, manufacture, or development of a product or service.
"a panel of prosumers weighed in on the plans for the new shampoo"
tRump is disliked by and has little respect from the majority of Americans and te rest of the world community.
ReplyDeleteExcept for the authoritarian asshole regimes of the world.
The post-WWII consensus was unsustainable. $36t+ of US debt is unsustainable. George Soros Open Society playground and absorption of former USSR assets and commodification of labour and land and information is over.
DeleteIt's better to be feared than loved.
...and America WILL be FEARED!
DeleteBullshit. America WILL BE laughed at, and for very goid reason.
ReplyDeleteCreating Fear in people and nations is but the ignorance personified by tRump the the a$$ and Felon as well as other world authoritarian a$$holes.