Bingo! Until the fear of Change becomes dwarfed by the harsh realities of cold and hunger, large demographics will be willfully blind. Hell, people won't even change toothpaste brands unless their teeth fall out. Imagine having to accept we've been "used" as tools from cradle to grave - that's pretty hard to accept.
In the meantime The Great Ponzi Scheme will serve to keep as many as possible content with Games & Circus, until... until it fails, which appears by many measures to be looming.
If the Country were a corporation, which it has become, facing the viability of its illusion and means, which it is - the Board of Directors would very likely select a fast-talking con artist with extensive experience in bankruptcy, dodging creditors, and "acting" tough as CEO to protect the value of their investment. To them, everything else is deemed collateral damage. Sad.
Excellent illustration from 100 years ago. Unfortunately for us, He Still Doesn't Understand. Few things ever change. Tragic.
On a positive note, Heather Marsh's treatise, "Binding Chaos," offers alternative paths for societies. Hopeful.
Spot on. I'm somewhat hopeful that other paths can be tried out. With the potential dangers ahead, it feels like there's never been a better chance - at least in my life - to steer ourselves onto better paths.
There is a good chance we'll find out within a year. I wonder how much longer the music will play in this game of Musical Chairs. What is truly tragic is that the supposed "leaders" of all of our developed societies seem to consider it really is a "game." Daily, we observe things unravelling. It's not for nothing that the federal governments have supplied military-grade armaments and technologies to local police departments.
In Australia, now TPTB are pressing to involve the military in domestic matters, because of, "... their unique capabilities..." One has to wonder about tanks, submarines, fighter jets, artillery, fully automatic weapons, and the like. One has to wonder how a force trained to neutralise and kill is going to interface with a civilian population of their fellow citizens, who may be protesting the actions of an authoritarian, right-wing government.
It beggars belief that anyone outside of the well-to-do class would vote for fascists - much like the example of turkeys voting for Thanksgiving! Yea! bread & circus, movies on demand, tv game shows... woooopeee... Recall Country Joe and the Fish, "C'mon all you brave young men, Uncle Sam needs a helpin hand, got himself in a terrible jam..." Recall how that worked out as well as the subsequent military-industrial inspired conflicts since. And people have the audacity to imagine some of us are merely "grumpy old men." Good grief! (grief being the operative expression!)
I spent two years in combat and I know firsthand what it's like to see and hear young troops writhing and screaming in fear and pain from their wounds. Picking up pieces of people one used to have a beer with uniquely qualifies one to hold forth on the downside of "sacrifice." I wonder what qualifies our politicians to have empathy for those men... Pluuuuuseeee, spare me the false and trite expressions, "... our thoughts and prayers are with you," claptrap! How about a guy who had a "sore foot" couldn't serve in the armed forces, cheered on by a swath of fat old white men over fifty, is ever so keen to send young people into harm's way? Now, that is really pathetic!
Like a great mind once remarked, "Doing the same thing and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity." Really, we seem to never learn from our mistakes... even turkeys deserve more respect - they can't reason and are bred to be victimised. Supposedly, we can reason, yet - we don't! I guess we do really deserve the government we get.