Power and Compassion
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Harris&Ewing “Slaves reunion DC. Ages: 100, 104, 103; Rev. Simon P. Drew, born free.” 1921 Time to tackle a topic that’s very hard to get right, and t
[See the full post at: Power and Compassion]As Doug Noland in his Credit Bubble Bulletin noted yesterday, “In a tiny subsection of the analytical world, analysis is becoming more pointed and poignant.”
https://creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com/2015/08/weekly-commentary-money-and-spheres.html
It bears noting that while the devolution and decay of our highly centralized and energy dependent world progresses, along the lines that Nicole and others understand they must, the ways that this will play out on social, cultural/political level can’t be predicted exactly. It should go without saying however that the events in Europe are not surprising to us but simply revealing. Revealing how as the pie gets smaller the losers will be selected or assigned their roles. How things are playing out on the social cultural/political level.
Hat’s off to Raul for his tiny efforts in Greece but they amount to a finger in the dyke or maybe a teaspoon in the ocean of what is to come. We all must become Don Quixote’s in our own way and understand that we are simply that. Individuals doing little things against forces too large to change or alter. (Admittedly I do little or nothing at all now)
In addition to Noland’s “pointed and poignant” I think tragic should be added.
Time to tackle a topic that’s very hard to get right, and that will get me quite a few pairs of rolling eyes. I want to argue that societies need a social fabric, a social contract, and that without those they must and will fail, descend into chaos. Ilargi
That picture says it all, no?
Cheers and kudos for going after this truth.
The U.S. is a failed experiment from which no meaningful lessons will be/have been learned.
That it failed is not as important as the lessons not learned and thusly not applied; alas, it is now too late and the detritus following is toxic and deadly…This is the Kali Yuga…the age of discontent and quarrel. It’s all part of a grand cosmic plan that will take the next 400,000 years to play out. It’s all predicted in the Vedas. The Vedas describe a means to perfectly order society known as “varn-ashram.” If we had any sense we would study these ancient texts. Maybe when things get really desparate somebody will realize we had the answers all along. We just have too much pride and hubris to think we can learn from 5000-year-old wisdom.
My forefathers were … “Individuals doing little things” …
Therefore, I’m not a refuge
Therefore, I’m not a big game hunter
Therefore, I’m here
It wasn’t luck
It was subconscious loooong term survival planning
I’m trying to find survival options for the end of fossil fuel in 100 years.
Best option, don’t have descendantsRaul,
It is interesting that you bring up a passage in Scripture. In the Dark Ages, bibles were only kept by popes, bishops, and priests, and they tended not to even read them. With the Reformation, bibles were distributed to the common people, such that they could, for themselves, read what God had to say. After that came the Renaissance. I have thought many times that we are into another Dark Age, and falling deeper into it. The ironic thing is that we have more bibles in the hands of the common people than ever before. The problem is that few actually read them, or they attempt not to discern what the passages actually say. Matthew 4:4 is a relevant passage. Here are a couple more:
Matthew 6:24. “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.”
Luke 20:46-47. (Here Jesus admonishes the religious leaders of that day.) “Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted in the marketplaces and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. They devour widows’ houses and for show make lengthy prayers. Such men will be punished most severely.”
Jesus didn’t mince words.
One of the links Ilargi posted says that the majority of the “refugees” are from Syria, Afghanistan and Eritrea. One of the commenters said: “They are not refugees. They are young, overwhelmingly male, economic migrants.” Take a look at the picture of Calais at the link on the article by Patrick Kingsley of the Guardian (where are the families, the children?):
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/31/migrants-calais-resettlement-europe
I was reading about Eritrea:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea
“The real GDP (2009 est.): $4.4 billion, and the annual growth rate (2011 est.):14%. However, worker remittances from abroad are estimated to account for 32 percent of gross domestic product. Eritrea has an extensive amount of resources such as copper, gold, granite, marble, and potash. The Eritrean economy has undergone extreme changes due to the War of Independence. In 2011, Eritrea’s GDP grew by 8.7 percent making it one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Eritrea’s population increased from 3.2 million to 6.4 million between 1990 and 2014.”
32% of Eritrea’s GDP is from worker remittances from abroad. In twenty-four years, the population has doubled! Approximately 50% of the population is Muslim/50% Christian.
“All Eritreans between the ages of 18–40 must complete a mandatory national service, which includes military service. This national service was implemented after Eritrea gained its independence from Ethiopia, as a precautionary means to be protected against any threats on Eritrea’s sovereignty, to instill national pride, and to create a disciplined populace. Eritrea’s national service requires lengthy, indefinite conscription periods, which some Eritreans leave the country in order to avoid.” The country was at war with Ethiopia from 1998 to 2001 over a border dispute, but that has since ended. In fact, the following article (“What’s Behind the Surge in Refugees Crossing the Mediterranean Sea”) says: “Eritreans overwhelmingly cite military conscription as their reason for leaving home.” In fact, during the first four months of 2015, 26,000 Africans (mainly young men) made the journey to Europe, and that is just the beginning.
There is no civil war in Eritrea. They are slightly larger than Iceland (population of 329,000) as far as square miles, and yet have a population of 6.4 million people. These are “economic” immigrants. The Syrians are predominantly staying in Turkey (2 million of them) and few are making the journey to Europe, perhaps because they lack the fees to pay the smugglers. These are the true refugees.
So Patrick Kingsley (at the top link) says that Europe, with a population of 740 million, should easily be able to handle a million people. Patrick, why would it ever just stop at a million? What are you going to do when the numbers increase to 10 million, 20, 30?
The West is trying to overthrow Syria’s government (and arming terrible people in order to carry out their wishes), and because of that innocent citizens are killed or forced from their homes. Pressure should be put squarely on the shoulders of the U.S. government (and their NATO puppets) to stop their senseless wars. We should be on the phone to our government representatives, but instead we just put our hands in our pockets and say, “Gee, what’ll we do with the refugees?” Meanwhile, their country is destroyed, and for what?
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