Analyst: an educated person with his head up his ass. (JM) Misanthrope: someone who hates human beings including one’s self.
Astonishes me how blind, willfully so, I suspect, that even the “geopolitical analysts” are.
Time after time they argue that Netanyahoo is in control and bosses Trump around. Those that disagree say that Trump is in control and orders Netanyahoo around (and imply that the rest is just smoke and mirrors to make it look like Israel is a rogue state that the US can’t quite control, which is, of course, utter nonsense).
The truth, as I have pointed out repeatedly, is that neither of them has any real control at all. So who is in control. Well, there are two parts to that.
The proximate rulers are the mega-corporations, the big banks, the war industries, the “intelligence” agencies [six], maybe a few centibillionaires. They view the entire world as theirs to do with as they please.
Their goal is complete dominance, and that all the Earth’s resources (including human labor and maybe even human flesh) exist for their sole use and abuse. And as no one needs even one-millionth of these resources, the net effect of their dominance is waste and destruction on an astronomical scale. Seriously beyond belief. Most humans cannot even begin to grasp the magnitude of the crime.
But of course the power of these bad actors is not truly theirs. It exists only because the vast majority of humans have simply surrendered.
For many, it is because they just want to get on with their lives and their trivial pursuits: getting laid, making little copies of themselves, avoiding doing any real work at their bullshit jobs, getting wasted on the weekends, etc.
For others, however, they want to live vicariously through the big hoarders and wasters. Many humans are impressed — positively — by anyone who can waste enormous quantities of scarce resources. Instead of being disgusted and sickened by it, they are aroused by it.
Power turns them on.
So they push the worst hoarders and wasters — the über-parasite class — up onto pedestals, make “celebrities” of them (a shocking word if you consider what it really means), and then follow them and their antics with pleasure.
That these parasites are destroying (really, just leading the destruction of) the viability of the Earth — especially its ability to support human life, leading to the utter destruction of any future for the species — either escapes them or they get some kind of sick thrill from it.
It’s the reason dystopian fiction is so popular. It is Thanatos writ large, the human death wish.
The upshot is that only a tiny minority of humans are doing anything to make a difference — much, much less than one percent. A few more, less than ten percent I would venture, are trying but are so confused about what to do that they are as likely to hurt as to help.
And the rest — the vast majority of humans? They are, either deliberately or by their failure to act, their apathy, actively helping to destroy everything that they claim to love.
So the real rulers are us. The parasite class “rules” because we have ceded authority to them because, frankly, we just can’t be arsed to govern ourselves. We prefer to remain infantile.
And as I said previously, most are waiting for mommy or daddy to come bail them out — in the form of a sky being, aliens from other planets, a new messiah, a heroic figure, tech ex machina, or whatever. AI, I guess. Anything so that they do not have to give anything up at all, or even risk it.
But I digress. I said that the geopolitical analysts are willfully blind.
Well, consider that they are constantly pointing out that Trump, for example, is doing this or that because he is losing popularity with his base. Charlie Kirk got in trouble because his donor class was pissed at him. Netanyahoo can’t change course or stop the war (not that he wants to) because he’ll go to prison. And on and on and on.
What could that possibly mean but that these “leaders” have no real power.
They have only the apparent power to do as they are told. Proximately by the parasite class. But as the attempts by Trump to militarize US cities (and the decades old efforts to addict people to drugs, porn, violence, comic book movies, fast food, etc. so as to distract and weaken them) prove: they know where the real power lies and they are doing everything they can to ensure that their own delegated power can never be rescinded.
So, really, folks. Give it a fucking rest. Trump and Netanyahoo and all the rest are our tools of self-immolation, because in the end, most of us actually hate ourselves and everyone else.
Good post and Dr. Bob nails the diagnosis. His analysis of power structures, of collective abdication, of people waiting for external saviors—that's sharp and largely accurate. But he stops at diagnosis. He offers no pathway forward, no understanding of why people behave this way, no compassion for the very real forces that keep people trapped in these patterns. It's like a doctor saying "You have diabetes because you're weak and lazy and hate yourself" versus "You have diabetes because our food system is designed to addict you to sugar, your stress responses are dysregulated, and you've never been taught how inflammation works—but here's how we can address the root causes." I completely get the frustration level, but Dr. Bob is venting into the void instead of taking the higher ground and owning the responsibility of his academic status and ability to publish his thoughts, to offer not just another rant in the blogosphere, but hope that has some chance of awakening someone rather than stimulating more anger or defensiveness.
Good post and Dr. Bob nails the diagnosis. His analysis of power structures, of collective abdication, of people waiting for external saviors—that's sharp and largely accurate. But he stops at diagnosis. He offers no pathway forward, no understanding of why people behave this way, no compassion for the very real forces that keep people trapped in these patterns. It's like a doctor saying "You have diabetes because you're weak and lazy and hate yourself" versus "You have diabetes because our food system is designed to addict you to sugar, your stress responses are dysregulated, and you've never been taught how inflammation works—but here's how we can address the root causes." I completely get the frustration level, but Dr. Bob is venting into the void instead of taking the higher ground and owning the responsibility of his academic status and ability to publish his thoughts, to offer not just another rant in the blogosphere, but hope that has some chance of awakening someone rather than stimulating more anger or defensiveness.
Good times create weak men;
Weak men create hard times...
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