Maybe you will like this reply. It supports your main-line.
I found it because Alexander Mercouris in his last (live) video via The Duran voiced a part of this famous speech, from which i quote the most important parts:
The greatest anti-war speech that Britain has ever heard in the House of Commons:
John Bright 23rd of February 1855 on the war against Russia in the Crimea... (parts)
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"We are at war with the greatest military Power, probably, of the world, and that we are carrying on our operations at a distance of 3,000 miles from home, and in the neighbourhood of the strongest fortifications of that great military empire.
Some who have told us that we were in danger from the aggressions of that empire, at the same time told us that that empire was powerless for aggression, and also that it was impregnable to attack.
Noble Lord the Member for the City of London stated, upon a recent occasion, that the preponderant power of Russia in the Black Sea should cease, and that Russia had accepted it with that interpretation.
An uneasy feeling exists as to the news that may arrive by the very next mail from the East. I do not Suppose that your troops are to be beaten in actual conflict with the foe, or that they will be driven into the sea; but I am certain that many homes in England in which there now exists a fond hope that the distant one may return—many such homes may be rendered desolate when the next mail shall arrive.
The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the first-born were slain of old, to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two sideposts of our doors, that he may spare and pass on; he takes his victims from the castle of the noble, the mansion of the wealthy, and the cottage of the poor and the lowly, and it is on behalf of all these classes that I make this solemn appeal.
I would ask, I would entreat the noble Lord to take a course which, when he looks back upon his whole political career—whatever he may therein find to be pleased with, whatever to regret—cannot but be a source of gratification to him.
By adopting that course he would have achieved a high and nobler ambition; that he had returned the sword to the scabbard—that at his word torrents of blood had ceased to flow—that he had restored tranquillity, and saved this country from the indescribable calamities of war.”
You need to hire a copy editor. Sentences like this confuse your arguments, distract and insult readers and inspire no confidence. "To prove it, one must first they to disprove it." "Jesus got crucified anything." "A good example might be the Allied invasion of Russian in 1918— the Western attempt to subvert and break up the Russian Federation after the collapse of the Soviet Union," (muddled history) You have some original and interesting insights, that deserve not to be undermined by sloppy or non-existent copy editing.
I agree, somewhat. Julian with all his self-admitted faults, unearths so many nuggets, I overlook them all. People will quibble. The NYT has good proofreaders but bad journalists.
Let them quibble until Julian chooses/finds a way to fix the flaws.
For those who are curious about dyslexics, they include not just writers but lots of others. Richard Bransom is one. Da Vinci. Picasso. Einstein. Here are the characteristics:
Here are the basic abilities all dyslexics share:
They can utilize the brain’s ability to alter and create perceptions (the primary ability).
They are highly aware of the environment.
They are more curious than average.
They think mainly in pictures instead of words.
They are highly intuitive and insightful.
They think and perceive multi-dimensionally (using all the senses).
From now on I will think of myself as a dyslexic. The only ‘fail’ I give myself is that I think that I think in words - Logos. Maybe Logos is pictogrammatic?
Thank you for your forbearance. Oddly enough a lot of writers are / or were dyslexics. Fitzgerald was one. But he had Maxwell Perkins. https://www.magicaliam.com/the-perceptual-problem-associated-with-dyslexia/ I also have left-right perceptual issues as my father did. Interestingly, however, I read about 3 or 4 times faster than most people. OK, OK...I am a genetic misfit!!! But you guys are tremendously helpful and I am grateful for your tolerance.
When I wrote my comment about your need for copy editing, I did so because of my personal experience. I've never thought of myself as dyslexic because I do fine with reading. But I know I'm a terrible speller (my high school English teacher said I was the "most creative speller" she had ever encountered in her teaching career, though she gave me As for my content). I'm also prone to typos and missing words and find effectively editing copy for such errors very difficult, time-consuming and frustrating. Fortunately, during my professional career as a staff writer for a large daily newspaper I always had the backup of good copy editors. (This was in the days when newspapers had copy editors who did more than just run copy through spell-check. Not that I don't personally love spell-check.) Starting from a young age, I always looked down on spelling, arbitrary gramatical rules and other such details as symptoms of lower order intellects having little to do with higher order pursuits such as creativity, abstract reasoning, synthesis and analysis, acute observation, all the stuff that makes good writing interesting and valuable. I still believe that, but, older now, realize that these minor conventional niceties, if not attended to, will distract the great majority of readers and can cause them to miss or discount what I'm trying to express. That's just the reality of how most people, including the smart and curious people we are trying to reach, judge the many writers clamoring for our scarce attention. Why devote attention to a writer whose copy indicates carelessness, perhaps not only in spelling, punctuation and typing, but also in facts, attribution, thought and analysis. What normally goes through your mind when you see a careless error in the writing of someone you don't know much about, don't have independent reason to believe is credible and worthwhile? Communication is tough enough without self-inflicted distractions.
In your comprehensive list of absolution for 'culprits' you mention one last group: "Nor just good ol’ psychopaths out for themselves, feeding off chaos."
Yes, but psychopathy is probably genetic so what if genetic mutation created a spike in the population of psychopaths who then, for psychopathic reasons, promoted only their own genotype, (after all, they would recognize each other by traits) through the ranks of all organizations, from school-boards all the way to the Halls of Democratic Power like Parliaments and Senates. And what if they did this until almost ALL power was in their hands?
Democracies would of course be particularly vulnerable as they rely on a dumb form of good will and good intention as well as a cult-like trust in being "The Best System in the World!" Which would explain why the psychopaths never quite made it to absolute power in Russia, China and Iran. Civilizational states - civilization itself, based in family, being an antidote to the Divide and Rule policy of the psychopath, by now, monolithic cult.
Kurt Vonnegut warned against just such a spike in the population of psychopaths and what it prophesied for the future of the Collective West. For this warning and almost all his writing he was practically banned in an early case of deplatforming. That he survived as an author was a result of the USA still being an, at least somewhat, civilizational state in the 1950's.
I have to stop now, before I bore everyone, and I have chores.
Conspiracy looks like the violent sound of thunder spooking the cattle into a stampede.
Thoughtless reaction is so natural yet this was never learned in school , however I was taught humans had overcome this with the rational bearing civilization brings.
Lessons being learned now for all to see about the emergence of thought.
Your first paragraph describes "Projection", a habit of hypocrites. The Anglo-Zionist sphere is extremely hypocritical and perfidious.
Thank you for these insights.
Maybe you will like this reply. It supports your main-line.
I found it because Alexander Mercouris in his last (live) video via The Duran voiced a part of this famous speech, from which i quote the most important parts:
The greatest anti-war speech that Britain has ever heard in the House of Commons:
John Bright 23rd of February 1855 on the war against Russia in the Crimea... (parts)
-
"We are at war with the greatest military Power, probably, of the world, and that we are carrying on our operations at a distance of 3,000 miles from home, and in the neighbourhood of the strongest fortifications of that great military empire.
Some who have told us that we were in danger from the aggressions of that empire, at the same time told us that that empire was powerless for aggression, and also that it was impregnable to attack.
Noble Lord the Member for the City of London stated, upon a recent occasion, that the preponderant power of Russia in the Black Sea should cease, and that Russia had accepted it with that interpretation.
An uneasy feeling exists as to the news that may arrive by the very next mail from the East. I do not Suppose that your troops are to be beaten in actual conflict with the foe, or that they will be driven into the sea; but I am certain that many homes in England in which there now exists a fond hope that the distant one may return—many such homes may be rendered desolate when the next mail shall arrive.
The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the first-born were slain of old, to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two sideposts of our doors, that he may spare and pass on; he takes his victims from the castle of the noble, the mansion of the wealthy, and the cottage of the poor and the lowly, and it is on behalf of all these classes that I make this solemn appeal.
I would ask, I would entreat the noble Lord to take a course which, when he looks back upon his whole political career—whatever he may therein find to be pleased with, whatever to regret—cannot but be a source of gratification to him.
By adopting that course he would have achieved a high and nobler ambition; that he had returned the sword to the scabbard—that at his word torrents of blood had ceased to flow—that he had restored tranquillity, and saved this country from the indescribable calamities of war.”
This is the link to the whole speech:->https://www.cobdencentre.org/2010/08/the-angel-of-death-has-been-abroad/
This is the link to the Video->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNxQWo5CbGE
Cassandra
Wow! More! Just more! I am adding links to this to send to people who do not get it. That is a large crowd!
You need to hire a copy editor. Sentences like this confuse your arguments, distract and insult readers and inspire no confidence. "To prove it, one must first they to disprove it." "Jesus got crucified anything." "A good example might be the Allied invasion of Russian in 1918— the Western attempt to subvert and break up the Russian Federation after the collapse of the Soviet Union," (muddled history) You have some original and interesting insights, that deserve not to be undermined by sloppy or non-existent copy editing.
One must first try to disprove it. My bad. Thank you. I will fix it.
I agree, somewhat. Julian with all his self-admitted faults, unearths so many nuggets, I overlook them all. People will quibble. The NYT has good proofreaders but bad journalists.
Let them quibble until Julian chooses/finds a way to fix the flaws.
For those who are curious about dyslexics, they include not just writers but lots of others. Richard Bransom is one. Da Vinci. Picasso. Einstein. Here are the characteristics:
Here are the basic abilities all dyslexics share:
They can utilize the brain’s ability to alter and create perceptions (the primary ability).
They are highly aware of the environment.
They are more curious than average.
They think mainly in pictures instead of words.
They are highly intuitive and insightful.
They think and perceive multi-dimensionally (using all the senses).
They can experience thought as reality.
They have vivid imaginations.
https://www.dyslexia.com/about-dyslexia/dyslexic-talents/dyslexia-8-basic-abilities/ These characteristics put them in one part of the autism spectrum.
From now on I will think of myself as a dyslexic. The only ‘fail’ I give myself is that I think that I think in words - Logos. Maybe Logos is pictogrammatic?
Thank you for your forbearance. Oddly enough a lot of writers are / or were dyslexics. Fitzgerald was one. But he had Maxwell Perkins. https://www.magicaliam.com/the-perceptual-problem-associated-with-dyslexia/ I also have left-right perceptual issues as my father did. Interestingly, however, I read about 3 or 4 times faster than most people. OK, OK...I am a genetic misfit!!! But you guys are tremendously helpful and I am grateful for your tolerance.
When I wrote my comment about your need for copy editing, I did so because of my personal experience. I've never thought of myself as dyslexic because I do fine with reading. But I know I'm a terrible speller (my high school English teacher said I was the "most creative speller" she had ever encountered in her teaching career, though she gave me As for my content). I'm also prone to typos and missing words and find effectively editing copy for such errors very difficult, time-consuming and frustrating. Fortunately, during my professional career as a staff writer for a large daily newspaper I always had the backup of good copy editors. (This was in the days when newspapers had copy editors who did more than just run copy through spell-check. Not that I don't personally love spell-check.) Starting from a young age, I always looked down on spelling, arbitrary gramatical rules and other such details as symptoms of lower order intellects having little to do with higher order pursuits such as creativity, abstract reasoning, synthesis and analysis, acute observation, all the stuff that makes good writing interesting and valuable. I still believe that, but, older now, realize that these minor conventional niceties, if not attended to, will distract the great majority of readers and can cause them to miss or discount what I'm trying to express. That's just the reality of how most people, including the smart and curious people we are trying to reach, judge the many writers clamoring for our scarce attention. Why devote attention to a writer whose copy indicates carelessness, perhaps not only in spelling, punctuation and typing, but also in facts, attribution, thought and analysis. What normally goes through your mind when you see a careless error in the writing of someone you don't know much about, don't have independent reason to believe is credible and worthwhile? Communication is tough enough without self-inflicted distractions.
In your comprehensive list of absolution for 'culprits' you mention one last group: "Nor just good ol’ psychopaths out for themselves, feeding off chaos."
Yes, but psychopathy is probably genetic so what if genetic mutation created a spike in the population of psychopaths who then, for psychopathic reasons, promoted only their own genotype, (after all, they would recognize each other by traits) through the ranks of all organizations, from school-boards all the way to the Halls of Democratic Power like Parliaments and Senates. And what if they did this until almost ALL power was in their hands?
Democracies would of course be particularly vulnerable as they rely on a dumb form of good will and good intention as well as a cult-like trust in being "The Best System in the World!" Which would explain why the psychopaths never quite made it to absolute power in Russia, China and Iran. Civilizational states - civilization itself, based in family, being an antidote to the Divide and Rule policy of the psychopath, by now, monolithic cult.
Kurt Vonnegut warned against just such a spike in the population of psychopaths and what it prophesied for the future of the Collective West. For this warning and almost all his writing he was practically banned in an early case of deplatforming. That he survived as an author was a result of the USA still being an, at least somewhat, civilizational state in the 1950's.
I have to stop now, before I bore everyone, and I have chores.
Conspiracy looks like the violent sound of thunder spooking the cattle into a stampede.
Thoughtless reaction is so natural yet this was never learned in school , however I was taught humans had overcome this with the rational bearing civilization brings.
Lessons being learned now for all to see about the emergence of thought.