I once read an interesting story about the beginning of World War II. At the beginning of the Barbarossa Plan (Nazi attack on the Soviet Union), Nazi Stukas bombed the Brest-Litovsk railway station, from where the railway trains loaded with Soviet ore were to leave for the Third Reich in accordance with the agreements concluded between the two states.
The head of the railway station quickly called Moscow to say that the Nazis were attacking, how could I send the freight trains to our enemy like this ? Stalin was called, who listened to the desperate railway worker and stoically replied, Comrade, you have only one task: to implement the contract under all circumstances, let the trains go !
By the way, I had business relations with the Soviets, back in 1990, they always kept what they promised !
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1.4-5:
In him was life; and the life was 'the light of men.' And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
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The rest of the story you know... The Snake invented 'THE LIE' and desecrated the Godly Truth in Words. And we had to leave Paradise... Like we do when we as child learn to start thinking in words and forgetting the wordless reality that we left behind...
If you are looking for Truth, you have to look through the silences between the words, to see the Reality and Truth below them, which those words are obscuring.
Words can be used to POINT at the Truth, like a finger at the moon, but it requires the listener/onlooker not to look at the finger, but to find that Moon.
Excellent. It appears, since I live in the West, that lying is essential. The lies the US tells are understandable: to turn the truth of their history, settler Colonial, genocidal, slave holding and reliant history into it’s opposite: the greatest nation on the face of the earth ever. But there was European precedent: the Crusades and then the Colonialism that…. Created the US. Without joking, perhaps the root of the habit, centuries of practice to perfect the lie is their clueless god. If he doesn’t recognize the Conquistador piously demanding gold of Caribs as the greed it always was he is thick. Unless he made the duplicity sound: my suspicion. Their God, not mine, is in on the game.
"[Oddly] enough Xi is popular because he is seen as accomplishing Mao’s goals, without those mistakes I mentioned".
I wonder whether perhaps Mao is unfairly condemned. Consider the Herculean task he undertook, and mostly accomplished: to lift half a billion desperately poor people into relative prosperity, while protecting them against the predatory inroads of the USA and the West.
My take is that maybe Mao did the dirty work, leaving Xi with a relatively smooth path to tread. For it seems wholly impossible to transform China in 80 years, as they and their colleagues did, without "breaking eggs". Lots of them. Was it better, I surmise, to get the agony over as quickly as possible and have China emerge proud and strong, rather than let the painful transformation drag on for centuries?
Human intellect and nature being what it is: easier to blame an individual than a people (Putin bad not Russia is bad) ; easier to blame a people than a system (russians bad not communists are bad). Besides democratic socialism is still a major driver of elite driven world order. Simplicity markets better than complexity. Stalin was good when Hitler was bad and then Stalin was bad (not even Russian). Jingoism requires simplicity. Levant is Jewish Homeland describing and in/out of migrations that resemble a tidal pool, when everyone, noone, has a homeland in the levant.
You not only mention the splashing around of confused people in waves they don't understand, but you use sources from under the waves so to say, from history to get a feeling of its importance for those splashing around.
The Father of Lies is The Monster for the last ~4,000 years.
The Children we know today as: ' The Deep States ', yes there are more of them. I would use ' The Tentacles ' in stead of 'Children', showing the strong hierarchy even clearer.
People don't even trust their relatives and shouldn't. People falsely accuse everyone around them. All of this is acceptable as long as you don't involve law enforcement or governments who have a monopoly on violence.
I once read an interesting story about the beginning of World War II. At the beginning of the Barbarossa Plan (Nazi attack on the Soviet Union), Nazi Stukas bombed the Brest-Litovsk railway station, from where the railway trains loaded with Soviet ore were to leave for the Third Reich in accordance with the agreements concluded between the two states.
The head of the railway station quickly called Moscow to say that the Nazis were attacking, how could I send the freight trains to our enemy like this ? Stalin was called, who listened to the desperate railway worker and stoically replied, Comrade, you have only one task: to implement the contract under all circumstances, let the trains go !
By the way, I had business relations with the Soviets, back in 1990, they always kept what they promised !
'Americans love this word “trust”. We use it all the time. Mostly because we are so unreliable - and everybody lies'.
Exactly! My favourite is when someone concludes a statement with "Fact!" All that does is tell me they are actually quite unsure of their ground.
Dmitri Orlov made a similar observation once in a Web interview.
"Americans tend to keep talking about freedom and democracy, in much the same way as people who are infested by lice keep talking about cleanliness".
Exactly Tom...
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Cassandra
Here's the worst one of all:
In God We Trust
Trust to do what? Or be what? It means nothing.
Don't seek for Truth in Words...
While we were in Paradise, Truth was in words...:
King James John 1.1:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1.4-5:
In him was life; and the life was 'the light of men.' And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
-
The rest of the story you know... The Snake invented 'THE LIE' and desecrated the Godly Truth in Words. And we had to leave Paradise... Like we do when we as child learn to start thinking in words and forgetting the wordless reality that we left behind...
If you are looking for Truth, you have to look through the silences between the words, to see the Reality and Truth below them, which those words are obscuring.
Words can be used to POINT at the Truth, like a finger at the moon, but it requires the listener/onlooker not to look at the finger, but to find that Moon.
Cassandra
Excellent. It appears, since I live in the West, that lying is essential. The lies the US tells are understandable: to turn the truth of their history, settler Colonial, genocidal, slave holding and reliant history into it’s opposite: the greatest nation on the face of the earth ever. But there was European precedent: the Crusades and then the Colonialism that…. Created the US. Without joking, perhaps the root of the habit, centuries of practice to perfect the lie is their clueless god. If he doesn’t recognize the Conquistador piously demanding gold of Caribs as the greed it always was he is thick. Unless he made the duplicity sound: my suspicion. Their God, not mine, is in on the game.
"[Oddly] enough Xi is popular because he is seen as accomplishing Mao’s goals, without those mistakes I mentioned".
I wonder whether perhaps Mao is unfairly condemned. Consider the Herculean task he undertook, and mostly accomplished: to lift half a billion desperately poor people into relative prosperity, while protecting them against the predatory inroads of the USA and the West.
My take is that maybe Mao did the dirty work, leaving Xi with a relatively smooth path to tread. For it seems wholly impossible to transform China in 80 years, as they and their colleagues did, without "breaking eggs". Lots of them. Was it better, I surmise, to get the agony over as quickly as possible and have China emerge proud and strong, rather than let the painful transformation drag on for centuries?
I agree entirely.
Human intellect and nature being what it is: easier to blame an individual than a people (Putin bad not Russia is bad) ; easier to blame a people than a system (russians bad not communists are bad). Besides democratic socialism is still a major driver of elite driven world order. Simplicity markets better than complexity. Stalin was good when Hitler was bad and then Stalin was bad (not even Russian). Jingoism requires simplicity. Levant is Jewish Homeland describing and in/out of migrations that resemble a tidal pool, when everyone, noone, has a homeland in the levant.
As for "communists are bad", have you ever spoken to an American? 8-)
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Great article Julian...
You not only mention the splashing around of confused people in waves they don't understand, but you use sources from under the waves so to say, from history to get a feeling of its importance for those splashing around.
Cassandra
Trust but verify is an oxymoron wrapped in a sophistry. That must be why politicians like it. If you have to verify everything then there is no trust.
So....who are the children of the father of lies?
Well, Crush,
The Father of Lies is The Monster for the last ~4,000 years.
The Children we know today as: ' The Deep States ', yes there are more of them. I would use ' The Tentacles ' in stead of 'Children', showing the strong hierarchy even clearer.
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Cassandra
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People don't even trust their relatives and shouldn't. People falsely accuse everyone around them. All of this is acceptable as long as you don't involve law enforcement or governments who have a monopoly on violence.
Excellent.
"If someone comes, it's 'sex'"
best quote of the Clinton era (I forget who said it) :-)