The Great Discontent
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[See the full post at: The Great Discontent]Way to go, Ilargi! It’s a little eerie how in sync we are with our worldviews.
Like you, it can be a bit disheartening when I find that others cannot see what I see, and I’m not claiming to have x-ray vision or infallibility. In fact, it’s insane at how well the establishment has been able to prop things up while concealing the underlying rot.
Even for those that have the desire and the time to try and make sense out of current world events, they may not have the necessary mental equipment and training for the job – abilities like system thinking and synthesis. This was made clear to me while serving on a jury many years ago. Because a large settlement was at stake, each legal team brought in hired guns, who overwhelmed the jury with large amounts of conflicting data and testimony. Afterward, I was startled to find that almost every member of the jury was confused and unable to make heads or tails of the case – they didn’t know who or what to believe. That was when I realized that the average person out there is completely helpless before the media propaganda machine, which as we know, both misinforms and leaves out most of the pertinent information needed to draw valid conclusions.
The Great Unraveling
Then all that’s left will be the very rich and the very poor.
It’ll be back to the Middle Ages. Just with 20 times as many people. And with over half the wildlife gone, and the arable land, and 80% of insects gone since 1980 alone.
The very rich will be lonely when 80% of the poor population has been reduced to fertilizer.
Definition of liberalism
1 : the quality or state of being liberal
2a often capitalized : a movement in modern Protestantism emphasizing intellectual liberty and the spiritual and ethical content of Christianity
b : a theory in economics emphasizing individual freedom from restraint and usually based on free competition, the self-regulating market, and the gold standard (see GOLD STANDARD sense 1)
c : a political philosophy based on belief in progress, the essential goodness of the human race, and the autonomy (see AUTONOMY sense 2) of the individual and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties
specifically : such a philosophy that considers government as a crucial instrument for amelioration of social inequities (such as those involving race, gender, or class)
d capitalized : the principles and policies of a Liberal (see LIBERAL entry 1 sense 6b) party
MWWell done Ilargi; I found I could not define liberalism so I looked it up.
Stricktly speaking, the definition doesn’t really describe the actuality of what has been done with liberalism or rather in the name of such.
This is where we need to connect many dots and be well informed so as to have context.
Obviously, those in the west, have totally lost control of that which controls their lives. The best that can be hoped for is to find a place less totalitarian.
Who’d a thunk that place could be a military junta; a place I now reside, with far more personal freedom than in the U.S. at present. Very little police presence (double edged sword) and those police I do have contact with are very friendly and helpful.
Here, the government does fear the people.
The only viable and healthy relationship one can have with any government…“the Gilets Jaunes are saying…that there is too much liberalism.”
Neoliberalism or neo-liberalism is the 20th-century resurgence of 19th-century ideas associated with laissez-faire economic liberalism and free market capitalism. Those ideas include economic liberalization policies such as privatization, austerity, deregulation, free trade and reductions in government spending in order to increase the role of the private sector in the economy and society. These market-based ideas and the policies they inspired constitute a paradigm shift away from the post-war Keynesian consensus which lasted from 1945 to 1980.
“Privatization” as it’s actually practiced involves privatization of profits and socialization of losses. “Austerity” doesn’t eliminate corporate welfare benefits. “Deregulation” is similarly skewed to benefit large corporations. “Free trade” doesn’t exist without functioning free markets that enable price discovery and allow failing banks to fail. “Reductions in government spending” somehow exempts military spending and corporate welfare.
Again, it’s not about the term (neo)liberalism….
In many ways it is about the term, in the sense that misuse (deliberately untruthful use) of language has serious long term damaging effects on communities of human beings. It virtually always results in one segment of humanity unfairly gaining the upper hand over another; the antithesis of fairness and equality. Inverted misleading terms like neoliberal are used to deceive and hide (secret) the activities of conniving sociopaths. The actual social results of groups hiding under the umbrella of neoliberalism are extreme “rightwing” fascistic totalitarianism; any reasonable definition of liberalism includes a modicum of fairness to the underprivileged in society. These days, it seems as if a Hitler on steroids won the war. We must not forget that in the peri-WWII years, approximately 75,000 scientific and propaganda Nazis were admitted into the US to help “advance” our military and intelligence departments; many of their activities were engineered to be kept secret, including their illegal sources of funding. Recently a major German paper had an article comparing the EU and Germany with the Third Reich. And most ironically, Israel and its treatment of the Palestinians and obvious striving to be the “chosen ones” via multiple avenues of deceit, would make the National Socialists drool with envy. What we are seeing now with Trump, the GJ movement and Brexit is that a pain threshold has been reached with many people consequent to the massive greed-theft manipulation of the globalist rightists. People are showing that their human dignity is harder to steal than their material possessions. We can only wonder if India, China and Russia, in their mimicry of Western “economic” algorithms to achieve the “good life”, have already imbibed a fatal dose of the neoliberal poison.
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