I'm a year older than you, Julian, born just days before Schickelgruber (sp?) took up his trusty Walther and saved us all a lot of expensive court costs along with the hangman's fee. You can therefore say that I arrived just in time to give an adios to the Teutonic empire's nightmare and a bienvenido to the bigger American corporate fascist Disneyland version of the same. Since I like to provoke friendly conversation, do you or any readers here know if Wagner men sport specific items of apparel? Patches for hats and shirts, for example? If so, are they available for purchase?
I work on Twitter and that means working with headlines only, but always with pictures and links to sources about which the headlines in the Tweet speak.
I am ActuallyAutistic (+76 in February and look also much younger) and i am very good in researching and building a non-verbal 3D-map of complex information in my head (I was an IT-nerd for 40 years).
But i am terrible in making a readable story from it. Which you evidently are not.
The sources on which you rely, happen to be mine too. So you must have this Truth-finding ability of mine too.
I will Tweet about your posts from now on with some headlines for my 11.000 followers on twitter.
Julian, I have to say as a new reader, its very concerning to me how much you cite Russian state-owned media like RT or Sputnik, or known Russian propaganda outlets like SouthFront that have ties to Russia's FSB.
In the quest for reliable information, the Russian government has huge incentives as part of its information warfare campaign to push its narratives about the war in Ukraine. Their state-owned media and groups linked to Russian intelligence apparatus are not credible sources whatsoever.
Your partnership with SouthFront, recording for them regularly, is even more concerning. Either you have stumbled unknowingly into a media partnership with them hoping to grow your brand, or you are working for them and being paid to knowingly rebroadcast Kremlin propaganda. I can only hope it is the former, not the latter.
FYI, mon ami, I'm Irish and Catholic, practicing, not the Biden/Pelosi variety. I hate Nazism, not Nazis. If the latter are mass murderers, I want them to swing. One need not to be a Jew to know evil. That tells you something about yourself.
To culture, good and bad are some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, while it nature, it's the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental, the 1/0 of sentience.
That's because it's the function of culture to synchronize the body politic into one larger social organism. Yet organisms exist in ecosystems. The synchronization is balanced by harmonization.
While the West is determined to synchronize the world into one large social organism, it creates the effect of harmonization around the rest of the world, as they see it to their benefit to function as a larger ecosystem, trading value around effectively and not have it spiral into that black hole in the center.
The thought control runs deep. Remember democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family as godhead. To the Ancients, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god. Basically tribalism. The Romans adopted a monotheistic sect as state religion around the time the Empire was solidifying out of the ashes of the Republic. Essentially validating The Big Guy rules.
(Though the original strength of Christianity was as a story of renewal. The young god reborn in the spring, as a consequence of the old Greek religions having become set in stone, as Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus. Tradition and authority versus rebirth and renewal. Which was the basis of the Trinity. The young god born of the old sky god and earth mother. Which couldn't be canceled, so had to be obscured, since the Catholic church was the Eternal Institution. At least until Martin Luther tried pushing the rest button again.)
Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.
Ideals are not absolute. A culture founded on the premise is inherently conflicted, as the multitudes of ideologies to rise in the shadow of monotheism all assert their ideals to be supreme and leave no stone unturned to prove it.
Morality is not an absolute. Obviously. It is learned and earned the hard way. Karma. What goes round, comes round. Emergence.
Funny, only the other day I was wondering who was the voice of South Front! You do it very well.
I'm a year older than you, Julian, born just days before Schickelgruber (sp?) took up his trusty Walther and saved us all a lot of expensive court costs along with the hangman's fee. You can therefore say that I arrived just in time to give an adios to the Teutonic empire's nightmare and a bienvenido to the bigger American corporate fascist Disneyland version of the same. Since I like to provoke friendly conversation, do you or any readers here know if Wagner men sport specific items of apparel? Patches for hats and shirts, for example? If so, are they available for purchase?
Thank You Julian.
I work on Twitter and that means working with headlines only, but always with pictures and links to sources about which the headlines in the Tweet speak.
I am ActuallyAutistic (+76 in February and look also much younger) and i am very good in researching and building a non-verbal 3D-map of complex information in my head (I was an IT-nerd for 40 years).
But i am terrible in making a readable story from it. Which you evidently are not.
The sources on which you rely, happen to be mine too. So you must have this Truth-finding ability of mine too.
I will Tweet about your posts from now on with some headlines for my 11.000 followers on twitter.
Keep up the good work !
OccupySchagen
From Schagen, (North-)Holland, The Netherlands.
" .... this is not to say that individual Russians or Wagnerites have NOT done some bad stuff— just as American and Brit soldiers did in WWII .... "
Please justify this statement with reference to British soldiers.
Or withdraw the slur.
Thank you.
Julian, I have to say as a new reader, its very concerning to me how much you cite Russian state-owned media like RT or Sputnik, or known Russian propaganda outlets like SouthFront that have ties to Russia's FSB.
In the quest for reliable information, the Russian government has huge incentives as part of its information warfare campaign to push its narratives about the war in Ukraine. Their state-owned media and groups linked to Russian intelligence apparatus are not credible sources whatsoever.
Your partnership with SouthFront, recording for them regularly, is even more concerning. Either you have stumbled unknowingly into a media partnership with them hoping to grow your brand, or you are working for them and being paid to knowingly rebroadcast Kremlin propaganda. I can only hope it is the former, not the latter.
FYI, mon ami, I'm Irish and Catholic, practicing, not the Biden/Pelosi variety. I hate Nazism, not Nazis. If the latter are mass murderers, I want them to swing. One need not to be a Jew to know evil. That tells you something about yourself.
"I am "multipolar". "
To culture, good and bad are some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, while it nature, it's the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental, the 1/0 of sentience.
That's because it's the function of culture to synchronize the body politic into one larger social organism. Yet organisms exist in ecosystems. The synchronization is balanced by harmonization.
While the West is determined to synchronize the world into one large social organism, it creates the effect of harmonization around the rest of the world, as they see it to their benefit to function as a larger ecosystem, trading value around effectively and not have it spiral into that black hole in the center.
The thought control runs deep. Remember democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family as godhead. To the Ancients, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god. Basically tribalism. The Romans adopted a monotheistic sect as state religion around the time the Empire was solidifying out of the ashes of the Republic. Essentially validating The Big Guy rules.
(Though the original strength of Christianity was as a story of renewal. The young god reborn in the spring, as a consequence of the old Greek religions having become set in stone, as Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus. Tradition and authority versus rebirth and renewal. Which was the basis of the Trinity. The young god born of the old sky god and earth mother. Which couldn't be canceled, so had to be obscured, since the Catholic church was the Eternal Institution. At least until Martin Luther tried pushing the rest button again.)
Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.
Ideals are not absolute. A culture founded on the premise is inherently conflicted, as the multitudes of ideologies to rise in the shadow of monotheism all assert their ideals to be supreme and leave no stone unturned to prove it.
Morality is not an absolute. Obviously. It is learned and earned the hard way. Karma. What goes round, comes round. Emergence.
Good article, Julian but would be even better without the typos.