Conservatism
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René Magritte Personal values 1952 Commenting on my own essays has never been my favorite activity, because before you know it you land into Ru
[See the full post at: Conservatism]Problem is the Neo-Republican Party. Trump is the diversion that allows the dismemberment of government services to the people. Government can do nothing and it elects people who ensure that is the case. MAGA supporters LOVE the Donald and so addled, have really no judgement. Such tribal responses are of course human; and warlike. The rich people who designed the U.S., gave the Southern colonies an advantage in the electoral college. It persists. The States where extraction is the main industry have an advantage, those more easily controlled by the wealthy. The blame game is entrenched. The scapegoat strategy makes sure there is a majority not at the bottom. Note that the government shutdown delayed work on a solution to the Boeing 737 Max according to the WSJ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/boeings-fixes-to-737-max-software-delayed-by-government-shutdown-report-claims/
The privatization band wagon rolls on. Communities may correct, but Nature’s systems are slower. #FailureOfIntelligence rolls on. Very few in any media have the knowledge and experience to understand what they are reporting about. I’ve attempted to train many cub reporters who were assigned to cover my organization.
Who funds the controllers of the controllers? Competition at the bottom; collusion at the top. The only coordination needed is use of similar playbooks. Protection rackets abound.
Divine Disorder enables progress inspite of cultivated human ignorance. The greatest abuse is to not educate.
Ilargi, you do it very well please do not have the slightest doubt. Sometimes we don’t know how you mange to hold out in the face of the emotional tides that swirl around us all and make it so hard to push against their currents.
You have the singular ability not just to see clearly and articulate what you see beautifully and succinctly but most importantly – you do not bend with the remover to remove.
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BTW, it’s a lovely day in Tasmania.
Best hopes, P.
Yes, the label “Conservative” is now a misnomer, as is the “Labour” party. But one can be anti-Trump without swallowing the media spin.
Donald Trump reminds me of Silvio Berlusconi, there are many similarities. Berlusconi’s “antics”, from the distance of another country, didn’t seem so personally alarming to this reader in Trump’s USA. But when Trump’s actions and policies affect the environmental quality in my home state, I’m alarmed. When Trump’s actions and policies affect the perceived safety of family members and friends, I’m alarmed. And so on.
I imagine that the Automatic Earth posts are written from a distance that allows a certain amount of detachment, like my detachment as I read about Berlusconi’s “antics”.
What does Italy’s Berlusconi like about Trump? His wife (Reuters)
While the center-right leader was ejected from parliament after being convicted of tax fraud four years ago, he has remained the undisputed leader of his party, the country’s third or fourth most popular, depending on the poll.
The flamboyant former prime minister has a history of making politically incorrect comments, many of which seemed to fuel his popularity.
Last month he praised newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron as a “nice lad with a good-looking mother” — widely taken to be a reference to the 39-year-old French leader’s 64-year-old wife, Brigitte Trogneux.
He also raised eyebrows in 2008 for calling U.S. President Barrack Obama “suntanned”. A year later he repeated the quip when talking about the First Lady, Michelle. “They went together to the beach to get a tan because even his wife is suntanned.”
During his last stint in office, Berlusconi was embroiled in a sex scandal involving a teenage nightclub dancer, Karima El Mahroug, who went by the name “Ruby the Heartstealer” and attended “bunga bunga” parties at his mansion near Milan.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-berlusconi-trump-idUSKBN19E1T3
“Berlusconi was Prime Minister for nine years in total, making him the longest-serving post-war Prime Minister of Italy… he was convicted of tax-fraud by the court of final instance, Court of Cassation, confirming his four-year prison sentence (of which three years are automatically pardoned) along with a public office ban for two years. As his age exceeded 70 years, he was exempted from direct imprisonment, and instead served his sentence by doing unpaid social community work. … Berlusconi was the first person to assume the premiership without prior government or administrative offices. He is known for his populist political style and brash, overbearing personality. In his long-time tenure, he was often accused of being an authoritarian leader and a strongman… critics accused him of having pursued only his personal interests, allowing his companies to grow thanks to the policies promoted by his governments, of having mismanaged the state budget, increasing the Italian government debt, of having a huge conflict of interests due to his media empire with which he restricted freedom of information and of being a blackmail leader because of his turbulent private life.”
WikipediaIlargi, Amigo…
I’ve consistently appreciated your insights and analysis since spring 2008, when a friend advised me to take a look.
Why do people who disagree with you still read, and write to you? Are they a little uncertain of the beliefs of their church? Inwardly questioning?If you can’t please everyone, then you’ve got to please yourself.”
When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
The political narratives of the media have about as much to do with whatever it was AE was supposed to be about as the price of tea in China.
Where is the examination of the complete collapse of the peak oil narrative, or delay if you will. And along with it the collapse or delay of Nicole’s energy economics narrative. With the resultant guarantee of the further concentration of power and wealth of those already at the top and more importantly the extension of the atmospheric CO2 increase. If the liberals are mean to the fascists, in service of the neoliberals, is irrelevant.
The main questions become if and when climate change will become catastrophic for billions of humans and or the political economies of the world. Also, when will oil production or consumption peak and then how steep will the slope be. Bleeding again into climate change. Or perhaps if the debt based monetary system is going to dislocate, with or without some large scale change in fossil fuel supplies. Note in both cases, climate and monetary, I say if.
Let’s not forget the alteration of human minds and societies by the harnessing and control of information and let’s not discount the advance of let’s call it a trans-human future now unfolding as a dream or possibility.
These thing are not amenable to daily updates.
Wow! The last label I would give you is conservative. I like your idea of seeing yourself in the role of telling the stories people don’t want to hear – I think this is the first step in the process of social change, although the person telling the story will have to endure slings and arrows. Thank you for doing what you do.
I frequent a fair number of alternative news and blog sites. Over time I have stuck with those where I find the content to be intellectually compelling. Some of the sites are hosted by people who, in my opinion, are educationally and intellectually waaaaaaaaaay above average. I find that to be the case at TAE.
The one thing that I would wish for at ALL of the sites that I visit, especially the ones that I highly respect like this one, would be the elimination of the words [and their derivatives], FACT, REAL, KNOW, and TRUE.
My position is that knowledge is an illusion and that truth is a weapon used by some in an attempt to influence or control the opinions of others.
I believe these things to be true because the brain is completely isolated from the external environment and does hear sound or see light or feel or taste or smell. The brain “hears about” external stimuli as bio-electrical nervous chatter that it receives from sensory nerves and organs. It cannot possibly “know” anything about the Universe. To imagine that a 3-pound chunk of meat could possibly “know” anything strikes me nowadays as at least illogical and probably absurd.
Of course, these are only my opinions. I could be wrong.
Hi Raul. This morning I log on and see this piece by you, and it bemused me.
I once had a brother and an uncle argue, between themselves, as to whether I was conservative or liberal. As you can imagine, one of them was liberal and the other conservative (at least they thought so), and each thought I was the opposite of them – the liberal thought I was conservative, and vice-versa. They even placed a bet upon what they thought my answer would be when they put the question to me, which they did, and then “all bets were off.” Because I told them they were both wrong.
Although I was not anarchist at the time, I was heading in that direction. Requiring evidence over opinion, acceptance over judgment, fact over ideology, justice over oppression, community over profit – these disjunctive concepts cannot be reconciled by those conditioned by the MSM and its corporate overlords. Calling me (or you) conservative/liberal falls on the wrong side of that ledger because understanding cannot occur when you believe that you already know.
Although I do not comment often, I read your blog pretty much every day, and have for years. (I met Nicole several years ago, and all here applies to her too.) In fact, you are one of my first check-ins. I have never perceived you to be conservative or liberal, which is one reason why I continue to read your work. Your heart seems, to me, to be in the right place. Hence you cover the financial repression of neoliberalism, the destruction of our biosphere, and reject the patently false and ridiculous narratives regarding, for example, Russia-gate. That doesn’t make you a Trump supporter. It makes you considered and honest. There is so little of that these days.
On the evening of July 21, 2016, I lay in my sweltering unconditioned van, trying to rest before our cross-country, non-stop, 2800-mile drive home from Cleveland. NPR (National Propaganda Radio) carried Trump’s acceptance speech live, and I recall thinking, “Well, this should be interesting.” I was not there to support Trump (or anyone but the homeless we fed at the communitarian church that gave us a place to flop), but because we thought the convention might turn out to be as exciting as the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. We arrived to find, instead, 20,000 cops from the Secret Service down to city beat cops, and I took hundreds of photos of cops and more cops surrounded by people taking pictures of cops and more cops. By that time, the DNC’s corruption had been exposed, and I had enough information to make it apparent to me then that the U.S. political system would only continue to become more absurd. I was correct that hot night in Cleveland.
It has been a balm, since then, that other people – yourself and TAE included – have been steadily available to confirm that I am not the only one to perceive this farce for what it is. The criticisms are not about you; the criticisms are about the people making them. Stay true to what you do, keep doing your good work, and the false narratives will die the deaths they deserve, as it finally appears is happening with the Russian collusion narrative.
Peace. Out.
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