Greetings good citizen, 'Futurism' is (and appears to have always been) a brief phenomenon. For short periods of time, usually during periods of swift technological advance OR persistent social turmoil, open speculation regarding the future of mankind comes back into vogue, again briefly. [Because current management knows it isn't good for the public to spend time pondering how things might be 'different'.]
Not to kick you in the shins or anything but it's your persistent lack of attention that has brought about this cess-pit that has been manufactured for us by the agents of the oligarchs. {How ironic is it that the oligarchs themselves aren't paying attention either?}
I'll admit it was the current election cycle that inspired me to take a quick step back and ponder, even briefly, what is must have been like to live during the 'Whiz-Bang' times. It was literally a 'mini-renaissance'. What caused the sudden surge in ideas that had been (and continue to be, suppressed) for so long?
Well, good citizen, today's title is 'trends' and like the prophetic book of the Seventies, Mega-Trends [which accurately predicted (if not actually drove) the push towards 'globalization'; despite trade already being global for many centuries prior, but we are all aware the public is gullible.]
We will take a moment to examine some current 'trends' mostly because they are more than a little 'disturbing'. One of my earliest memories is JFK's assassination. History shows the USA was in trouble, management-wise long before that but having that as my first significant childhood memory affects your mindset.
Different people attach different significance to this historic event. I'll share what that event has come to mean to me. It represents the death of the 'Party of Jefferson'.
To me, there haven't been any Democrats [capital D] since they laid JFK to rest. Sure, we have had 3 (nominally) 'democratic' presidents since but none of them, including the parties current candidate, espouse the historic Democratic values that historically gave Democrats a three to one edge over the status quo minded Republicans.
The current 'media made' front-runner isn't a Democrat at all and neither was her husband, the man responsible for the second global economic meltdown. [But it's okay, he was just 'doing what he was told'...]
Let's lift the war club once again to bash the opposing team as well. The 'clown car' filled with platitude spouting ego-maniacs isn't what we traditionally called 'The Party of [bad} Ideas' anymore either. [It's no secret that both parties take their marching orders from the oligarchs!]
It's an oxymoron to point out that the Republicans have only one idea and it can fix EVERYTHING (even when it can't!)
Over the decades since the "Reagan Revolution" [Reagan's election is the first real proof that the oligarchs had stopped pretending that they kept their hands out of politics and, thanks to Dick Nixon, had put together a media monopoly that answered only to them...it's all there if you bother to look but no, you're too busy looking for terrorists...or commies or commie terrorists...or commenting on what your facebook friends ate at the latest choke & puke...
But I digress.
Let me get this off my chest. I find it deeply disturbing that NOBODY, in the past six election cycles has demand proof the winner of any contest went the way the media reported it.
Is the media the problem? ABSOLUTELY!
Given the depth of 'public dissatisfaction' with the (obvious) oligarchy how can the two front runners both be members of the same reviled One Percent?
People may be, er, ignorant but they aren't THAT STUPID!
So, if is smells like a rat and it scurries like a rat and it steals like a rat, how many of you think it's a Cat? Because that's what you're being 'sold', that the results of our 'secret balloting' can't be known. Or worse, can't be questioned.
The combined 'failure' to act responsibly or to hold the criminals accountable rankles even more when there is no hope of derailing the criminal control of what passes for our government.
Which is to say, those mini-renaissances are over until we cowboy up and take back control of our justice system. We can't build a future with those who 'have all THEY want and want no more' running things.
Yeah, what I'm saying is we could all use some more 'whiz-bang' in our lives instead of the opposite...[aw crap!]
Probably one of the disappointing aspects of both A brave New World and 1984 is they both end with the bad guys winning...because history shows the 'merciful' get what ask for when they fail to make hard choices.
And that's the 'root' of the problem, good citizen. Nobody wants blood on their hands, even when it's 'necessary'.
Thanks for letting me inside your head...I apologize for the disturbing nature of this post but you can't preach about doing the right thing if you won't take a stand.
Does the oligarch's willingness to suffer criminals make them 'better' than us or are they fearful that a lack of mercy will be returned 'in kind'?
I suspect it's the latter that (occasionally) stays their bloody hand.
Gegner
Not to kick you in the shins or anything but it's your persistent lack of attention that has brought about this cess-pit that has been manufactured for us by the agents of the oligarchs. {How ironic is it that the oligarchs themselves aren't paying attention either?}
I'll admit it was the current election cycle that inspired me to take a quick step back and ponder, even briefly, what is must have been like to live during the 'Whiz-Bang' times. It was literally a 'mini-renaissance'. What caused the sudden surge in ideas that had been (and continue to be, suppressed) for so long?
Well, good citizen, today's title is 'trends' and like the prophetic book of the Seventies, Mega-Trends [which accurately predicted (if not actually drove) the push towards 'globalization'; despite trade already being global for many centuries prior, but we are all aware the public is gullible.]
We will take a moment to examine some current 'trends' mostly because they are more than a little 'disturbing'. One of my earliest memories is JFK's assassination. History shows the USA was in trouble, management-wise long before that but having that as my first significant childhood memory affects your mindset.
Different people attach different significance to this historic event. I'll share what that event has come to mean to me. It represents the death of the 'Party of Jefferson'.
To me, there haven't been any Democrats [capital D] since they laid JFK to rest. Sure, we have had 3 (nominally) 'democratic' presidents since but none of them, including the parties current candidate, espouse the historic Democratic values that historically gave Democrats a three to one edge over the status quo minded Republicans.
The current 'media made' front-runner isn't a Democrat at all and neither was her husband, the man responsible for the second global economic meltdown. [But it's okay, he was just 'doing what he was told'...]
Let's lift the war club once again to bash the opposing team as well. The 'clown car' filled with platitude spouting ego-maniacs isn't what we traditionally called 'The Party of [bad} Ideas' anymore either. [It's no secret that both parties take their marching orders from the oligarchs!]
It's an oxymoron to point out that the Republicans have only one idea and it can fix EVERYTHING (even when it can't!)
Over the decades since the "Reagan Revolution" [Reagan's election is the first real proof that the oligarchs had stopped pretending that they kept their hands out of politics and, thanks to Dick Nixon, had put together a media monopoly that answered only to them...it's all there if you bother to look but no, you're too busy looking for terrorists...or commies or commie terrorists...or commenting on what your facebook friends ate at the latest choke & puke...
But I digress.
Let me get this off my chest. I find it deeply disturbing that NOBODY, in the past six election cycles has demand proof the winner of any contest went the way the media reported it.
Is the media the problem? ABSOLUTELY!
Given the depth of 'public dissatisfaction' with the (obvious) oligarchy how can the two front runners both be members of the same reviled One Percent?
People may be, er, ignorant but they aren't THAT STUPID!
So, if is smells like a rat and it scurries like a rat and it steals like a rat, how many of you think it's a Cat? Because that's what you're being 'sold', that the results of our 'secret balloting' can't be known. Or worse, can't be questioned.
The combined 'failure' to act responsibly or to hold the criminals accountable rankles even more when there is no hope of derailing the criminal control of what passes for our government.
Which is to say, those mini-renaissances are over until we cowboy up and take back control of our justice system. We can't build a future with those who 'have all THEY want and want no more' running things.
Yeah, what I'm saying is we could all use some more 'whiz-bang' in our lives instead of the opposite...[aw crap!]
Probably one of the disappointing aspects of both A brave New World and 1984 is they both end with the bad guys winning...because history shows the 'merciful' get what ask for when they fail to make hard choices.
And that's the 'root' of the problem, good citizen. Nobody wants blood on their hands, even when it's 'necessary'.
Thanks for letting me inside your head...I apologize for the disturbing nature of this post but you can't preach about doing the right thing if you won't take a stand.
Does the oligarch's willingness to suffer criminals make them 'better' than us or are they fearful that a lack of mercy will be returned 'in kind'?
I suspect it's the latter that (occasionally) stays their bloody hand.
Gegner
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