Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Charles Bukowski has a quote: “We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
There's two quotes(he has many) attributed to Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing; "We are all products of a sexually transmitted disease that's 100% fatal", and; "We are responsible for slaughtering over a 100 million of our fellow humans and the 20th century is still not over"; (around 1970.) Now since then the world population has more than doubled and industrial civilization is now out of human hands. Leviathan indeed. Yep, I'm cynical, and, yep, we're most likely screwed as a species. Industrial civilization needs dismantling. Sorry folks. Happy Thanksgiving.
Historian Barbara Tuchman's. The March of Folly chronicles selected examples of societies acting against their own self interests, often to own annihilation. It's not a pretty picture.
Added to the grief is the realization that many of these examples predate the CIA, corporate media, red state/blue state political spats, and the military industrial complex. So our problems lie deeper than with the usual suspects we know and loath only too well.
On the upside, there have been societies that avoided these base impulses; the downside is, we don't seem headed to being one of them.
New variants of Covid out and about. As the largest mammalian bio-mas, we're the MS Windows environment of the animal kingdom, a target too large to ignore. Earth will be just fine, as a comedian make in jest, or not, when there is enough plastic, we'll be scrubbed off as no longer useful.
Did you catch Jamie Dimon's (CEO of JPMorgan Chase $4 Trillion) latest statement? To the effect: "IF China don't allow us to make money banking in China, Taiwan will be your vietnam!"
Thank you, Caitlin. It is always good to be reminded that we should love each other and flee sectarianism.
I suppose it is also good to be reminded of the good work that Antiwar.com do.
I am with Bukowski. To avoid any existential angst, humans will entertain themselves with endless distractions. Escapism is big on their to-do lists.
There's two quotes(he has many) attributed to Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing; "We are all products of a sexually transmitted disease that's 100% fatal", and; "We are responsible for slaughtering over a 100 million of our fellow humans and the 20th century is still not over"; (around 1970.) Now since then the world population has more than doubled and industrial civilization is now out of human hands. Leviathan indeed. Yep, I'm cynical, and, yep, we're most likely screwed as a species. Industrial civilization needs dismantling. Sorry folks. Happy Thanksgiving.
I'm still alive and that's miracle enough for me.
Historian Barbara Tuchman's. The March of Folly chronicles selected examples of societies acting against their own self interests, often to own annihilation. It's not a pretty picture.
Added to the grief is the realization that many of these examples predate the CIA, corporate media, red state/blue state political spats, and the military industrial complex. So our problems lie deeper than with the usual suspects we know and loath only too well.
On the upside, there have been societies that avoided these base impulses; the downside is, we don't seem headed to being one of them.
I don't blame the sheeple (I too am sheeple). The top want to "keep em separated". Don't ever forget that. THEY play this game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jOk8dk-qaU
New variants of Covid out and about. As the largest mammalian bio-mas, we're the MS Windows environment of the animal kingdom, a target too large to ignore. Earth will be just fine, as a comedian make in jest, or not, when there is enough plastic, we'll be scrubbed off as no longer useful.
https://borgenproject.org/poverty-and-overpopulation/
Did you catch Jamie Dimon's (CEO of JPMorgan Chase $4 Trillion) latest statement? To the effect: "IF China don't allow us to make money banking in China, Taiwan will be your vietnam!"