People tend to needlessly overcomplicate things. I find that the perennial mindset does a lot to simply things. In short, there are archetypical forms that are ever-present in the world. The veneer can change, but the essence of much of our life remains the same. So, once you learn the essence of things, you essentially adopt a system of heuristics that you can then apply to shine light on any confusing situation.
Excellent distillation. If only more people could face up to it.
I agree that there's little prospect of rebellion by the people here in the US against the Oligarchy (and to simplify your formula even further i see the security state, the political class, and corporate class as one Oligarchy but functioning as a criminal cartel, both nationally and internationally). This will continue until the cartel finally exhausts the nation it preys upon and we have a collapse. Indeed, collapse seems to be the next stage the oligarchs aim for in order to better implement a fully totalitarian society. Here is where the people may finally rebel and a strong man emerge. In a best case scenario, multiple strongmen will emerge to carve up the US into various states or regions where differing degrees of freedom exist and people can sort themselves to taste.
After so much uproar by the Strelkovists, Putin ordered the inevitable. +300,000 current reservists mobilized starting today.
Still, Russian Defence Minister Shoigu said that almost 25 million people in Russia meet these requirements of the partial mobilization, the country has “a huge mobilization resource.”
“So you can understand that this mobilization, partial mobilization, is 1%, a little more, 1.1%, maybe of the total mobilization resource,” the head of the Defense Ministry said.
Now what is Strelkov going to worry about? How is he going to keep himself relevant? What will it be his new shtick? That's currently the most pondered question among armchair analysts.
Breaking news: Donetsk and Luhansk referenda this weekend???
Well, if it was ok for Kosovo [as the UN said], then it will be ok for Luhansk and Donetsk.
Apparently, it's a done deal.
Can we expect Zelensky to authorize the SBU [the notorious Ukrainian Secret Police] to use fear and terror to intimidate the people of the Donbass so they will be afraid to vote?
Referendum in DPR:
The referendum on the entry of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) into Russia will be held on September 23-27.
This was reported in the People's Council of the Republic on September 20. (Izvestia)
Referendum in LNR:
"The head of the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR) Leonid Pasechnik signed the law on the referendum on joining Russia.
First Deputy Chairman of the People's Council of the LPR Dmitry Khoroshilov said that the referendum will be held from September 23 to 27.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that in case of holding referendums, negotiations with Russia will be permanently terminated. (from Kommersant)
The law signed by Mr. Pasechnik states that the referendum "is held in order to realize the universally recognized right of the people to self-determination."
The referendum will be organized in a secret ballot format, and participation in it "is free and voluntary."
The decision adopted at the referendum is "generally binding" and will enter into force from the date of its publication.
"Foreign citizens, stateless persons, foreign organizations, international organizations and international public movements are not entitled to carry out activities that hinder the preparation and conduct of a referendum, as well as in other forms to prevent participation in voting," the document says.
Foreigners can be accredited as observers if they have an invitation and an entry permit."
If these referenda go through [the people vote for it and the Russian Duma approves], then the Ukis will have to stop shelling and killing civilians in Donetsk and Luhansk as these republics will then be Russian territory and they will be killing Russian citizens.
If the world hasn't changed that much, then we're not so much oppressed by the elite as much as having chosen to lag far behind them. Effectively what it all comes down to is how much land, resources, etc. you've amassed and trained your children to train your grandchildren to hold. The difference between you (collective) and the elite is that they have the resources and you don't. But even on a local level, at least for me, this seems obvious. Powerful families in my area have land, produce food and sell it. Only *then* do they begin to turn their focus on governing if they so choose.
QE2's death made that obvious: Big Red forced to drop his military gear for the funeral brought into sharp relief that he's only two kills from the throne of England, if he wants it. As we have chosen "muh democracy" or "an oligarchy if you can keep it" instead, we remain largely in a near-feudal state while looking up to nerds with computers as our overlords, because they look scarier with the VR glasses on. But that's a choice.
If we turn our focus inwards, it's not nearly as dire a situation as it could be. Of course, we grow miniscule amounts of food ourselves and hoard grains in our little family collective, so it's not gloating, but it may as well be.
You are almost there, but you're missing the last piece in the puzzle of how to shift the political evolution of the human species. Take the time to read this book and you will see the way forward to a winning strategy.
Regards, CC Lum
Synopsis
BioPlatonism: Is It Too Late to Stop the Human Extinction Trajectory?
Neuro-biologically speaking, Aristotle’s political animal has evolved as an interaction among three distinct cerebral networks. In the case of mankind, as well as a range of other species, we have come to associate the workings of these three neuro networks with the behavioural expressions of a will-to-dominate, a will(ingness)-to-submit and, lastly, a will-to-help&give. These archetypical political personalities then are quite familiar to us as the self-interested power seeker, the ever-compliant subject and the selfless altruist. Political life, past and present, has overwhelmingly been shaped by the interactive dynamics of the first two sets of this neurological wiring, with rare (but inspiring) behavioural manifestations of the will-to-help&give.
Advances in neuroscience and nanotechnology have given us an empirical foundation for understanding this will-to-help&give as the neurobiology of morality, thus solving one of the oldest questions of philosophy… what is morality? But plugging this old hole in philosophy is the least of the benefits to be had from this neurobiological breakthrough. With our rapidly expanding understanding of the biological wellspring and neural flow of morality we (as a species) are on the immediate frontier of being able to fundamentally alter and manage the three politically salient neuro networks driving political behaviour and all human social life, redirecting our evolutionary trajectory away from self-inflicted extinction and toward social sustainability at all levels. Let me hasten to say that the track of this transformation doesn’t need to be about a genetic makeover of the human brain (though that is very much the prescribed course of those presently occupying the hegemonic high-ground). Rather it is about using the nano-technological “insights” (e.g., MRI, et.al technologies) of neuroscience to inform the restructuring of political systems around designs that screen for morally intelligent (common-good serving) leadership and screen against (self-serving) hegemonic personalities.
There is much talk these days of a “Great Reset” for humanity to finally make our species sustainable. As it stands, that reset is in the hands of the same hegemonic political psychologies that have dominated human social (dis)order from the Stone Age to the Nuclear Age. Clearly humanity first needs a fundamental reset of political design, opening paths for morally intelligent leadership. Tragically, neuroscience is presently (and rapidly!!) being weaponized for the final subjugation of the humankind by the same will-to-dominate forces that reduced the rest of the animal world to states of being known as livestock… or game-to-hunt…or just natural curiosities to entertain us or ignore (until they get in the path of the domination-minded humans). But within the same neuroscience there is the opportunity to develop human-serving, rather than human-subjugating, political designs.
The aim of BioPlatonism is to provide an evolutionary narrative of politics as a unifying focal point for practical political action/strategy…AND to lay the theoretical foundations for a truly scientific paradigm of politics, which is integral-consilient with the natural sciences (firstly, evolutionary biology-psychology) and informed by the timeless aspirations of the humanities.
To read the full text go to https://cclum.net. Please forward this synopsis to your email lists and cross-post on your blog site, social media networks or Internet forums.
Rurik i just now today read this. You are correct. I will not go into too much detail but for me the full wlae up to what you are writing here for me began on 09/11/2001 when the US attacked itself. That followed by the model state health emergencies act folllowed for many years by the bs table top exercises realizing all along l this was a slow grab for more and.more.power. lo and behold the 2020 bs that most.of the country and sadly most of.my.so called family and friends believed to be "real".
"That’s pretty much the triad of power thats running the West."
Those parties are just agents implementing goals decreed from higher up. There's an invisible power structure using corporate financialism and banking that's actually calling the shots. Squandering resources on climate gewgaws and promoting unrestricted immigration, orchestrating monotone media policies, as well as cutting off Russian energy to Europe, are policies whose destructive potential should have been noticed and discussed at the outset. Nevertheless, they came into being pretty much undebated under some general umbrella of desirable "liberal values". Neither those who now pass for "leaders", nor the masses, originated these ideas.These policies were decreed, justified and amplified along the way by a steam of compliant news propaganda .
Just to demonstrate, try to explain how it came to be that all major investment companies suddenly and nearly simultaneously required corporations to adopt ESG policies as a condition for getting credit. And why PayPal floated the idea of confiscating funds as a form of censorship. Explain whose interest shackling companies in this way can serve. It's a pure power grab by some opaque governing structure calling the shots, and they're not benevolent.
Your picture is too complicated for me! But as an explanation for the basic dynamics behind the wranglings between the various Earth-bound power groups, it is good.
However, it has already been discovered that Earth-bound leaders are being affected by off-Earth groups. And it appears that many of those groups simply want us to remain unaware of their existence and function, and that we are trapped here as spiritual beings. For the trap to work, we must not be allowed to travel too far beyond Earth orbit, unless we are carefully monitored. We must also not be allowed to become too spiritually sophisticated. Yet this unveiling is occurring as we speak, so there is alarm amongst the off-worlders and a sort of blind slow-motion run to lock us down without it becoming too obvious.
Whether or not you consider the above scenario more or less complicated than more Earth-based explanations, it seems at this point to be necessary for full understanding. In particular, this off-world interference extends to Putin and his group. I believe that they are taking actions without blinking that they would not have even entertained a few years ago.
Yes, all the petty wrangling between the various power groups on Earth makes for interesting news and discussions. But we can only stop there if we wish it to continue indefinitely.
Again I disagree, no one is truly in control so breaking things down to various blocks of the power structure doesn’t work for me. When dealing with structures of society human nature and again beliefs play a overwhelming role. It’s the “roadblock” liberals are hopelessly trying to eliminate; the fact that nobody really gives a shit about their vision, people will play along with their subversion, race to bottom but that’s where it stops.
As for “defeating” them it’s not as simple as rallying people and identifying the problem. The masses don’t respond well to agendas. Again the masses are all about human nature. Identifying the problem for them will always be their own unhappiness and the solution is someone who wants to fix it. The problem is with our side is we gave up trying to obtain power. The sheep will follow.
Excellent distillation. If only more people could face up to it.
I agree that there's little prospect of rebellion by the people here in the US against the Oligarchy (and to simplify your formula even further i see the security state, the political class, and corporate class as one Oligarchy but functioning as a criminal cartel, both nationally and internationally). This will continue until the cartel finally exhausts the nation it preys upon and we have a collapse. Indeed, collapse seems to be the next stage the oligarchs aim for in order to better implement a fully totalitarian society. Here is where the people may finally rebel and a strong man emerge. In a best case scenario, multiple strongmen will emerge to carve up the US into various states or regions where differing degrees of freedom exist and people can sort themselves to taste.
A thoughtful, well-written framework for analysis. It's not Plato's Republic, but it;s not hundreds of pages, either!
On the one hand, it all seems so bloody obvious to me now.
On the other, it took me years to understand.
After so much uproar by the Strelkovists, Putin ordered the inevitable. +300,000 current reservists mobilized starting today.
Still, Russian Defence Minister Shoigu said that almost 25 million people in Russia meet these requirements of the partial mobilization, the country has “a huge mobilization resource.”
“So you can understand that this mobilization, partial mobilization, is 1%, a little more, 1.1%, maybe of the total mobilization resource,” the head of the Defense Ministry said.
Now what is Strelkov going to worry about? How is he going to keep himself relevant? What will it be his new shtick? That's currently the most pondered question among armchair analysts.
Opening relevant paradigm questions. Good! Could we talk?
Breaking news: Donetsk and Luhansk referenda this weekend???
Well, if it was ok for Kosovo [as the UN said], then it will be ok for Luhansk and Donetsk.
Apparently, it's a done deal.
Can we expect Zelensky to authorize the SBU [the notorious Ukrainian Secret Police] to use fear and terror to intimidate the people of the Donbass so they will be afraid to vote?
Referendum in DPR:
The referendum on the entry of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) into Russia will be held on September 23-27.
This was reported in the People's Council of the Republic on September 20. (Izvestia)
Referendum in LNR:
"The head of the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR) Leonid Pasechnik signed the law on the referendum on joining Russia.
First Deputy Chairman of the People's Council of the LPR Dmitry Khoroshilov said that the referendum will be held from September 23 to 27.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that in case of holding referendums, negotiations with Russia will be permanently terminated. (from Kommersant)
The law signed by Mr. Pasechnik states that the referendum "is held in order to realize the universally recognized right of the people to self-determination."
The referendum will be organized in a secret ballot format, and participation in it "is free and voluntary."
The decision adopted at the referendum is "generally binding" and will enter into force from the date of its publication.
"Foreign citizens, stateless persons, foreign organizations, international organizations and international public movements are not entitled to carry out activities that hinder the preparation and conduct of a referendum, as well as in other forms to prevent participation in voting," the document says.
Foreigners can be accredited as observers if they have an invitation and an entry permit."
If these referenda go through [the people vote for it and the Russian Duma approves], then the Ukis will have to stop shelling and killing civilians in Donetsk and Luhansk as these republics will then be Russian territory and they will be killing Russian citizens.
If they do that, watch out.
If the world hasn't changed that much, then we're not so much oppressed by the elite as much as having chosen to lag far behind them. Effectively what it all comes down to is how much land, resources, etc. you've amassed and trained your children to train your grandchildren to hold. The difference between you (collective) and the elite is that they have the resources and you don't. But even on a local level, at least for me, this seems obvious. Powerful families in my area have land, produce food and sell it. Only *then* do they begin to turn their focus on governing if they so choose.
QE2's death made that obvious: Big Red forced to drop his military gear for the funeral brought into sharp relief that he's only two kills from the throne of England, if he wants it. As we have chosen "muh democracy" or "an oligarchy if you can keep it" instead, we remain largely in a near-feudal state while looking up to nerds with computers as our overlords, because they look scarier with the VR glasses on. But that's a choice.
If we turn our focus inwards, it's not nearly as dire a situation as it could be. Of course, we grow miniscule amounts of food ourselves and hoard grains in our little family collective, so it's not gloating, but it may as well be.
You are almost there, but you're missing the last piece in the puzzle of how to shift the political evolution of the human species. Take the time to read this book and you will see the way forward to a winning strategy.
Regards, CC Lum
Synopsis
BioPlatonism: Is It Too Late to Stop the Human Extinction Trajectory?
Neuro-biologically speaking, Aristotle’s political animal has evolved as an interaction among three distinct cerebral networks. In the case of mankind, as well as a range of other species, we have come to associate the workings of these three neuro networks with the behavioural expressions of a will-to-dominate, a will(ingness)-to-submit and, lastly, a will-to-help&give. These archetypical political personalities then are quite familiar to us as the self-interested power seeker, the ever-compliant subject and the selfless altruist. Political life, past and present, has overwhelmingly been shaped by the interactive dynamics of the first two sets of this neurological wiring, with rare (but inspiring) behavioural manifestations of the will-to-help&give.
Advances in neuroscience and nanotechnology have given us an empirical foundation for understanding this will-to-help&give as the neurobiology of morality, thus solving one of the oldest questions of philosophy… what is morality? But plugging this old hole in philosophy is the least of the benefits to be had from this neurobiological breakthrough. With our rapidly expanding understanding of the biological wellspring and neural flow of morality we (as a species) are on the immediate frontier of being able to fundamentally alter and manage the three politically salient neuro networks driving political behaviour and all human social life, redirecting our evolutionary trajectory away from self-inflicted extinction and toward social sustainability at all levels. Let me hasten to say that the track of this transformation doesn’t need to be about a genetic makeover of the human brain (though that is very much the prescribed course of those presently occupying the hegemonic high-ground). Rather it is about using the nano-technological “insights” (e.g., MRI, et.al technologies) of neuroscience to inform the restructuring of political systems around designs that screen for morally intelligent (common-good serving) leadership and screen against (self-serving) hegemonic personalities.
There is much talk these days of a “Great Reset” for humanity to finally make our species sustainable. As it stands, that reset is in the hands of the same hegemonic political psychologies that have dominated human social (dis)order from the Stone Age to the Nuclear Age. Clearly humanity first needs a fundamental reset of political design, opening paths for morally intelligent leadership. Tragically, neuroscience is presently (and rapidly!!) being weaponized for the final subjugation of the humankind by the same will-to-dominate forces that reduced the rest of the animal world to states of being known as livestock… or game-to-hunt…or just natural curiosities to entertain us or ignore (until they get in the path of the domination-minded humans). But within the same neuroscience there is the opportunity to develop human-serving, rather than human-subjugating, political designs.
The aim of BioPlatonism is to provide an evolutionary narrative of politics as a unifying focal point for practical political action/strategy…AND to lay the theoretical foundations for a truly scientific paradigm of politics, which is integral-consilient with the natural sciences (firstly, evolutionary biology-psychology) and informed by the timeless aspirations of the humanities.
To read the full text go to https://cclum.net. Please forward this synopsis to your email lists and cross-post on your blog site, social media networks or Internet forums.
Thank you for reading.
Rurik i just now today read this. You are correct. I will not go into too much detail but for me the full wlae up to what you are writing here for me began on 09/11/2001 when the US attacked itself. That followed by the model state health emergencies act folllowed for many years by the bs table top exercises realizing all along l this was a slow grab for more and.more.power. lo and behold the 2020 bs that most.of the country and sadly most of.my.so called family and friends believed to be "real".
Have you ever heard of the National Justice Pary?
"That’s pretty much the triad of power thats running the West."
Those parties are just agents implementing goals decreed from higher up. There's an invisible power structure using corporate financialism and banking that's actually calling the shots. Squandering resources on climate gewgaws and promoting unrestricted immigration, orchestrating monotone media policies, as well as cutting off Russian energy to Europe, are policies whose destructive potential should have been noticed and discussed at the outset. Nevertheless, they came into being pretty much undebated under some general umbrella of desirable "liberal values". Neither those who now pass for "leaders", nor the masses, originated these ideas.These policies were decreed, justified and amplified along the way by a steam of compliant news propaganda .
Just to demonstrate, try to explain how it came to be that all major investment companies suddenly and nearly simultaneously required corporations to adopt ESG policies as a condition for getting credit. And why PayPal floated the idea of confiscating funds as a form of censorship. Explain whose interest shackling companies in this way can serve. It's a pure power grab by some opaque governing structure calling the shots, and they're not benevolent.
When the right adopts wokenism, it is over.
Your picture is too complicated for me! But as an explanation for the basic dynamics behind the wranglings between the various Earth-bound power groups, it is good.
However, it has already been discovered that Earth-bound leaders are being affected by off-Earth groups. And it appears that many of those groups simply want us to remain unaware of their existence and function, and that we are trapped here as spiritual beings. For the trap to work, we must not be allowed to travel too far beyond Earth orbit, unless we are carefully monitored. We must also not be allowed to become too spiritually sophisticated. Yet this unveiling is occurring as we speak, so there is alarm amongst the off-worlders and a sort of blind slow-motion run to lock us down without it becoming too obvious.
Whether or not you consider the above scenario more or less complicated than more Earth-based explanations, it seems at this point to be necessary for full understanding. In particular, this off-world interference extends to Putin and his group. I believe that they are taking actions without blinking that they would not have even entertained a few years ago.
Yes, all the petty wrangling between the various power groups on Earth makes for interesting news and discussions. But we can only stop there if we wish it to continue indefinitely.
Again I disagree, no one is truly in control so breaking things down to various blocks of the power structure doesn’t work for me. When dealing with structures of society human nature and again beliefs play a overwhelming role. It’s the “roadblock” liberals are hopelessly trying to eliminate; the fact that nobody really gives a shit about their vision, people will play along with their subversion, race to bottom but that’s where it stops.
As for “defeating” them it’s not as simple as rallying people and identifying the problem. The masses don’t respond well to agendas. Again the masses are all about human nature. Identifying the problem for them will always be their own unhappiness and the solution is someone who wants to fix it. The problem is with our side is we gave up trying to obtain power. The sheep will follow.