John doe
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‘Kiev’
will lose it’s war, even in winning it’s battles. For the west to win, allies to US interests must be drawn in to the situation. Putin needs only to remain aloof, for economics and the cold of Russian winter to allow dissenting internal Ukrainian political pressures to grow.but we’re simply not interested in helping people make money, we want to help who have little, not lose it.
Fiat money is no way to preserve one’s wealth, and all else, at the moment, is speculation, but other than speculation in gold I see no surer thing to bet on, particularly if you can expect a long life to make that speculation more assured and find no need to sell it till it does glow brightly. lol!
Insertable bits are definitely not kings of all that may be surveyed but merely what they survey . The keystroke made, the burger flipped but never how life could be lived.
I was in to Vancouver for an overnight stay, first in several years, last being just before the 2008 episode. It never struck me, till now, just how insertable and part-like people had become under the newly anointed corporate kings and Queens. Watching, from my hotel bedroom downtown, the day starts with a frenetic activity of machine parts reinserting themselves after their period of downtime. Bikes and cars the two main means of reinsertion are for a brief period ubiquitous. As the system reboots these become rarer with merely the odd late, or replacement part passing. Next the greaser parts start moving about 10 am, these are the bits that the machine needs to grease it’s wheels of commerce and are commonly called consumers. At one time they might have been considered to be citizens but that was in the time before global corporatism.
That was just my impression that morning, but it seems to have stayed and these past few days I have been left increasingly wondering that ‘they’ allow themselves to be used so.
Myself I am old enough to predate the brave new new corporate world and currently live in a secluded universe that allows the freedom that most under that thrall of amalgamated rule have never known. If the machine were to stop what indeed will all those parts do. Keystrokes and burger flipping are not skills easily transferable to a life outside the machine. When there is no cry of ‘long live’ after the shout goes up that the king is dead, how will those parts function? What will they do when the kingdom and so their horizon explodes?
