"Don't interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake"
-- Napoleon Bonaparte.
To be honest, the Global West is on a suicidal path and their plight doesn't deserve my attention - not even one second. The power of reason that built the West already left them a long time ago, giving way to illusionism as a way of life. I've come to the conclusion that they're living a "repetition compulsion" blindness. They delude themselves that they're the masters of the universe and are exceptional...
The reality is that they have no clue of how the intrinsic order of the universe works. It's unfortunate but "Whom the Gods must destroy, they first make MAD".
I let Napoleon teach them a lesson.
Turkey, Moldava, Georgia, Serbia, Finland, Sweden, etc... who are lining up to join sinking ships are run by fools. They don't understand history and they're geopolitically blind. We've reached the end of a civilizational cycle and some "leaders" can't even see the obvious. The 1492-2022 period marked the Western hegemony on the planet, which is now OVER, and some people will realize it only when they see them crumbling one by one in the near future.
But maybe I should go further back to 'The Duellists', thinking of the USA and Russia. Of course, 'Black Hawk Down' was Scott's historical misstep. Maybe he'll make up for it with a Napoleon sequel wherein there are only two actors reflecting on politics and war. Of course, that would be Joaquin Phoenix and the oldest tortoise in the world having a conversation on St Helena Island. If only, countries would be more introspective, and use that to guide their leaders.
I think the original - America - actually was designed that way. Elections are the perfect [controlled] cover for controlled candidates that create controlled governments. And then you make it the world's police force and export democracy until fiat dollars overtake that. Then you force democracy in every mousehole with financial problems, rescuing dear old Dad (Britain, France) from their colonial issues and sanction anything that resists. Democracy is just a screen disguising the always been there control.
Even at local level, here in South Africa, people get a mayor they never knew existed. Party lines, party lines, bias, bias, fear, fear, anger, anger... always losing.
It's the way it is supposed to work. For them. Classic inversion. Makes you wonder if it was the same classically, or if they "fixed" it over the intervening centuries before bringing it back for a rerun.
The manipulation probably became organised when humans created the first city. Since then, only the marketing plans have changed. Life is mostly about who has power and who doesn't.
"Don't interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake"
-- Napoleon Bonaparte.
To be honest, the Global West is on a suicidal path and their plight doesn't deserve my attention - not even one second. The power of reason that built the West already left them a long time ago, giving way to illusionism as a way of life. I've come to the conclusion that they're living a "repetition compulsion" blindness. They delude themselves that they're the masters of the universe and are exceptional...
The reality is that they have no clue of how the intrinsic order of the universe works. It's unfortunate but "Whom the Gods must destroy, they first make MAD".
I let Napoleon teach them a lesson.
Turkey, Moldava, Georgia, Serbia, Finland, Sweden, etc... who are lining up to join sinking ships are run by fools. They don't understand history and they're geopolitically blind. We've reached the end of a civilizational cycle and some "leaders" can't even see the obvious. The 1492-2022 period marked the Western hegemony on the planet, which is now OVER, and some people will realize it only when they see them crumbling one by one in the near future.
I rewatched Director Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner' last night, in anticipation of his 'Napoleon' coming out later this year - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIsfMO5Jd_w
But maybe I should go further back to 'The Duellists', thinking of the USA and Russia. Of course, 'Black Hawk Down' was Scott's historical misstep. Maybe he'll make up for it with a Napoleon sequel wherein there are only two actors reflecting on politics and war. Of course, that would be Joaquin Phoenix and the oldest tortoise in the world having a conversation on St Helena Island. If only, countries would be more introspective, and use that to guide their leaders.
This doesn't seem very democratic to me.
Democracy is a less used ideology than most people think. Most of us live under some grade of dictatorship.
Democracy is now D€M0¢π@¢¥. And the most malleable word in the history of language itself.
Like your spelling and agree: Self-proclaimed D€M0¢π@¢¥ies are no democracies at all, just like self-praise is no praise.
I think the original - America - actually was designed that way. Elections are the perfect [controlled] cover for controlled candidates that create controlled governments. And then you make it the world's police force and export democracy until fiat dollars overtake that. Then you force democracy in every mousehole with financial problems, rescuing dear old Dad (Britain, France) from their colonial issues and sanction anything that resists. Democracy is just a screen disguising the always been there control.
Even at local level, here in South Africa, people get a mayor they never knew existed. Party lines, party lines, bias, bias, fear, fear, anger, anger... always losing.
It's the way it is supposed to work. For them. Classic inversion. Makes you wonder if it was the same classically, or if they "fixed" it over the intervening centuries before bringing it back for a rerun.
The manipulation probably became organised when humans created the first city. Since then, only the marketing plans have changed. Life is mostly about who has power and who doesn't.