Due to the fact that we’ve had very poor leadership the US has engaged in what amounts to a series of self inflicted wounds over a very long period of time.
Instead of leading by example and being a source for inspiration the US is looked upon with disdain.
Unfortunately it doesn’t look like that trend is going to change anytime soon.
And this is truly a shame because instead of working cooperatively with everyone else on the planet to try to solve the problems that we all we’ll be bumping heads with most everyone while racing down a rat hole.
Yes, the Arrogant West is rather busy. Gruesome Gavin Gruesome Newsom is sabotaging the homeless residences, forcing those eyesores off of publically visible settings further into dark back alleys and more sketchy situations, since the scrotum scrotus approved that supreme violation of sovereignty of poor folks without addresses.
Foreign policy has become a domestic consideration because the domestic policy has been so bad, no bread nor circuses, only Carlos fentanyl and satanTony Blinken, shitty guitaristos both.
Can the Arrogant West find a way to sabotage Lula Brazil and take the B outta brics? Shouldn't they change it to V for Venezuela, Vrics, or P for pabeda, which means victory, but they won't change the acronym
The ideologues who control US politics are convinced, with righteous fervor, that they are more moral than everyone else. They believe that gives them the right to control everyone else. But if for some reason there is something or someone they can't control, then they will condemn it as evil and destroy it, so that it has no chance of becoming a threat against them.
More control and more destruction, that is all that we have to look forward to.
The problem is, there is no way the West is going to go down with kicking, and that is my worry. There will be a world war before they allow this to happen IMO
My latest substack talks about Putin's isolation :)
American exceptionalism is simply a strain of white supremacy.
The mindset you need to understand of white supremacy is this: they are not equal, they are BETTER than everyone else. Its their birthright as they see it.
And simply living on equal terms is viewed by them as an unacceptable humiliation - theft of their birthright to lord it over everyone else. They would rather tear everything down, than to live in a world where they dont excercise economic, political and military control of every region of the world(in their parlance, "full spectrum dominance")
So what can you expect here. Think of how the Rhodesians and the Boers responded when the Africans grabbed for equality: massive and brutal wave of murderousness. That's what you can expect as the rest of the world reaches for equality.
Because what most of the world sees as normal parity, they see as an existential declaration of war on them.
It doesn't get more narcissistic than this, but the rest of the world needs to wake up to what is in the heads of these people who on the surface seem well spoken, have a big vocabulary and degrees from well known universities. You think they are polished, but really they are high tech-big ticket klansmen. Rampaging around the world on horseback, torching anything they dont own, and shooting anyone who doesn't bow down to them, is what they have already been doing for a while now, as their imperial control unravels:
Glenn, are you really advocating a turn to religion as a corrective for societal problems? Mysticism and its requirement of faith ("a firm belief in something for which there may be no tangible proof") are dead-ends for human liberation. Witness the use of the Jewish faith in Israel to perpetrate a genocide. And you and Jay seem to be in favor of the use of women as breeding stock under the cover of the Christian doctrine "go forth and multiply." Catholic priests have preyed on children for a large chunk of its history condoned and enabled by the church heirarchy.
The nationalism that has developed across the globe causes each state to prop up an elite that competes with other elites promulgating deadly competition which may soon lead to a nuclear holocaust. And in the process it relegates the rest of humanity to be chattel to those elites.
Commenter Kevin Flynn suggests "working cooperatively with everyone else on the planet." Internationalism is a much better idea than further division into warring faiths. Human creativity is being hobbled by capitalism, despite the rise of moguls-in-waiting like Mr. Martin.
Spirituality, belief in a higher order that connects everyone, and a higher purpose, is essential.
There has been about 3-400 years of capitalist money-worshipping and consumer narcissism of the self, and it should be clear by now, that was a very wrong way. Wrong the stability of the planet, of which we are only a small part. The nationalism you speak of has operated mainly in that broken framework. Increasingly so now.
Yes, humans need to think beyond ourselves individually and beyond the present moment, in order to gain perspective and find the rationality and sensibility that is completely absent in current economic, social and political systems.
I would go further and say it precisely this dogmatic insistence on clinging on to the failed neoliberal framework, of capitalist money-worshipping and consumer narcissism of the self, that is a major factor in the tectonic shift we see - the separation of the Euro-colonial axis, from the rest of the world.
Whew, you're a mess of tired old memes, shibboleths, and narratives. They just keep coming, one after another.
Your kind of thinking will always dismiss the most essential factor underlying all human activity since the advent of consciousness. You will always deprecate it as being beneath your pseudo-intellectual dignity. So here it is...
Morality morality morality, it's all and always about morality. Believe it or not, like it or not, that's the Eternal Truth.
Wonderful observation of the persistent strength in a sovereign economic model. Worthy of a being a Norwegian in the finest sense .
Thank goodness for Norway’s fringe geography to bring us brilliance once again.
Due to the fact that we’ve had very poor leadership the US has engaged in what amounts to a series of self inflicted wounds over a very long period of time.
Instead of leading by example and being a source for inspiration the US is looked upon with disdain.
Unfortunately it doesn’t look like that trend is going to change anytime soon.
And this is truly a shame because instead of working cooperatively with everyone else on the planet to try to solve the problems that we all we’ll be bumping heads with most everyone while racing down a rat hole.
Yes, the Arrogant West is rather busy. Gruesome Gavin Gruesome Newsom is sabotaging the homeless residences, forcing those eyesores off of publically visible settings further into dark back alleys and more sketchy situations, since the scrotum scrotus approved that supreme violation of sovereignty of poor folks without addresses.
Foreign policy has become a domestic consideration because the domestic policy has been so bad, no bread nor circuses, only Carlos fentanyl and satanTony Blinken, shitty guitaristos both.
Can the Arrogant West find a way to sabotage Lula Brazil and take the B outta brics? Shouldn't they change it to V for Venezuela, Vrics, or P for pabeda, which means victory, but they won't change the acronym
The ideologues who control US politics are convinced, with righteous fervor, that they are more moral than everyone else. They believe that gives them the right to control everyone else. But if for some reason there is something or someone they can't control, then they will condemn it as evil and destroy it, so that it has no chance of becoming a threat against them.
More control and more destruction, that is all that we have to look forward to.
The problem is, there is no way the West is going to go down with kicking, and that is my worry. There will be a world war before they allow this to happen IMO
My latest substack talks about Putin's isolation :)
https://open.substack.com/pub/newsnewsnews/p/the-loneliest-man-in-the-world?r=7g4be&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Fantastic analysis as always, Glenn. Thank you.
American exceptionalism is simply a strain of white supremacy.
The mindset you need to understand of white supremacy is this: they are not equal, they are BETTER than everyone else. Its their birthright as they see it.
And simply living on equal terms is viewed by them as an unacceptable humiliation - theft of their birthright to lord it over everyone else. They would rather tear everything down, than to live in a world where they dont excercise economic, political and military control of every region of the world(in their parlance, "full spectrum dominance")
So what can you expect here. Think of how the Rhodesians and the Boers responded when the Africans grabbed for equality: massive and brutal wave of murderousness. That's what you can expect as the rest of the world reaches for equality.
Because what most of the world sees as normal parity, they see as an existential declaration of war on them.
It doesn't get more narcissistic than this, but the rest of the world needs to wake up to what is in the heads of these people who on the surface seem well spoken, have a big vocabulary and degrees from well known universities. You think they are polished, but really they are high tech-big ticket klansmen. Rampaging around the world on horseback, torching anything they dont own, and shooting anyone who doesn't bow down to them, is what they have already been doing for a while now, as their imperial control unravels:
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/
Glenn, are you really advocating a turn to religion as a corrective for societal problems? Mysticism and its requirement of faith ("a firm belief in something for which there may be no tangible proof") are dead-ends for human liberation. Witness the use of the Jewish faith in Israel to perpetrate a genocide. And you and Jay seem to be in favor of the use of women as breeding stock under the cover of the Christian doctrine "go forth and multiply." Catholic priests have preyed on children for a large chunk of its history condoned and enabled by the church heirarchy.
The nationalism that has developed across the globe causes each state to prop up an elite that competes with other elites promulgating deadly competition which may soon lead to a nuclear holocaust. And in the process it relegates the rest of humanity to be chattel to those elites.
Commenter Kevin Flynn suggests "working cooperatively with everyone else on the planet." Internationalism is a much better idea than further division into warring faiths. Human creativity is being hobbled by capitalism, despite the rise of moguls-in-waiting like Mr. Martin.
Spirituality, belief in a higher order that connects everyone, and a higher purpose, is essential.
There has been about 3-400 years of capitalist money-worshipping and consumer narcissism of the self, and it should be clear by now, that was a very wrong way. Wrong the stability of the planet, of which we are only a small part. The nationalism you speak of has operated mainly in that broken framework. Increasingly so now.
Yes, humans need to think beyond ourselves individually and beyond the present moment, in order to gain perspective and find the rationality and sensibility that is completely absent in current economic, social and political systems.
I would go further and say it precisely this dogmatic insistence on clinging on to the failed neoliberal framework, of capitalist money-worshipping and consumer narcissism of the self, that is a major factor in the tectonic shift we see - the separation of the Euro-colonial axis, from the rest of the world.
Whew, you're a mess of tired old memes, shibboleths, and narratives. They just keep coming, one after another.
Your kind of thinking will always dismiss the most essential factor underlying all human activity since the advent of consciousness. You will always deprecate it as being beneath your pseudo-intellectual dignity. So here it is...
Morality morality morality, it's all and always about morality. Believe it or not, like it or not, that's the Eternal Truth.
Which morality? Divine or empirical.