chutzpah

below is a comment i left to a recent common dreams article regarding an israeli war crime whose victim was a dual citizen of america and palestine:

 'If President Trump will not even put America first when Israel murders American citizens, then this is truly an Israel First administration." -from the article

when, if ever, has the american government stood up to israel? this is nothing new. perhaps most outrageously there was the time in 1967 when israeli armed forces attacked and tried to sink an american spy ship in the mediterranean. it’s been speculated that had they been successful, the attack would have been blamed on egypt (a false flag) to provide an impetus to drag america into that israeli war of aggression (the ‘6 day war’) anyhow, the ship was very nearly sunk, over 30 killed, over 170 wounded. the lame and obviously false explanation for the attack (the official narrative) was that it was all a big mistake, and no one was held accountable.

chutpah is a hebrew word, isn’t it? it’s quite apt in relation to israel and zionism. it means ‘extreme self-confidence or audacity’. they’ve always gotten away with bloody murder, war crimes, colonialist abuse of the indigenous population, so why shouldn’t they keep doing so?

the surreal mystery is what gives them such power? how do they get away with such audacious criminality with absolute impunity? what hold do they have over the ‘western’ alliance led by america such that they’re effectively the tail that wags that great big dog? is it just that they have the most money? in a world of perfidy and corruption, are they it’s top dogs, admired and feared by the rest? i’d love to know the answer. i may never know it, but i have hope that some day, the sooner the better, whatever that power is, it will dissipate, and zionism will die in utter disgrace, and that there will finally be some reckoning and justice, some truth and reconciliation.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/settler-violence-west-bank

winners and losers / no easy way out

Arguably the most dystopian aspect of life in modern America is the extremely low regard for scientific facts and opinions held by a great many people including the current ruling political party and it's supporters. Including many of the most 'successful' (wealthy) among us like the current president and his former fan boy and benefactor Elon Musk.

Have u seen Musk in a t shirt with the message 'occupy Mars'? Apparently the purportedly world's richest man thinks colonizing an alien planet whose environment is wholly unconducive to Earth life is no big challenge, which is indicative of his extreme ignorance and hubris.

It's not just Trump and Musk. Apparently a lot of billionaires and the like hold similar views, as do their megamillions of supporters. Oblivious to our existential crisis. Oblivious to a lot of things, and believing a lot of nonsense, like faith based religious claims which are patently absurd. Embracing an irrational world view.

It's too late now, but if there's one fundamental change that theoretically could stop us from destroying ourselves, it would be making sheeple be rational, so as to appreciate science and replace ignorance with knowledge.

Where r magic wands when they're needed?

A good place to start performing this miracle is by attacking religious dogmatism. That would be very upsetting to the lives of a great many sheeple and to the whole society/culture. Not to mention for the fool(s) who would try to lead such an intellectual revolution.

Nobody (virtually) wants to upset the status quo which has made our species so privileged, such wealthy 'winners'. Especially those who have become the biggest 'winners', the mega wealthy. For if scientific facts and opinions begin to receive due respect, everything will radically change, especially for clueless billionaires.

But unless or until such a change is made, we 'winners' will all ultimately be losers, if and when our species goes extinct. As someone who clearly sees this coming and is doing virtually nothing to avert it, arguably I'm worse than the likes of Elon Musk, or no better.

I wish I didn't have to point these things out: if climate disruption makes our planet Earth inhospitable to life as we know it, as scientists have been trying to warn us, we can't all just pick up our lives and colonize Mars or some other planet. Being wildly 'successful' like Elon Musk and Donald Trump doesn't make one wise or intelligent; clearly these men aren't.

Believing in ancient 'holy' books and embracing the dogmatic worldviews they espouse, as seems to be the common denominator among all of the world's most ignorant sheeple and powerful political parties, is a recipe for disaster, for our near term extinction. As is the forlorn hope that an omnipotent benevolent God exists who can and will save us from our own folly if we all pray hard enough for His intervention. There is no easy way out of this predicament for me or u or anyone.

jane fonda commencement speech

 caught the last few minutes of this on c-span. i thought it was quite good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPYKI67KOy8

zionists crying wolf(!)

a couple of days ago u.s. president trump ordered planes to bomb nuclear facilities in iran. this followed an unprovoked attack from israel using american supplied weapons on iran. as usual, the justification for such 'pre-emptive' attacks is to prevent a 'terrorist' nation from acquiring nuclear weapons. however, much like the case with the iraq invasion in 2003, this 'threat' is wholly contrived and used to conceal the surreal reason why the zionist alliance of israel and the u.s. are constantly threatening to go to war in western asia when they aren't in fact doing so: to eliminate any and all opposition in the region to their hegemony.

this recently published article from jeff sachs exposes this pattern going back for decades. below is an excerpt followed by the link to the whole article:

Since 1992, Netanyahu and his supporters have claimed that Iran will become a nuclear power “in a few years." In 1995, Israeli officials and their US backers declared a 5-year timeline. In 2003, Israel’s Director of Military Intelligence said that Iran will be a nuclear power “by the summer of 2004.” In 2005, the head of Mossad said that Iran could build the bomb in less than 3 years. In 2012, Netanyahu claimed at the United Nations that “it’s only a few months, possibly a few weeks before they get enough enriched uranium for the first bomb.” And on and on.

This 30-year-plus pattern of shifting deadlines has marked a deliberate strategy, not a failure in prophecy. The claims are propaganda; there is always an “existential threat.” More importantly, there is Netanyahu’s phony claim that negotiations with Iran are useless.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/netanyahu-war-on-iran

doom is still in the cards

Since starting this blog the vast majority of my posts have been about some aspect of dystopia, the horribleness of our culture and especially of government and rulers or 'authorities'. Of course, the prospect of a great mass extinction of species and near term human extinction is arguably of much greater importance. Because our culture is so myopic, long term prospects get short shrift, if attended to at all. I myself only think of doom infrequently and fleetingly, but never forget that just because it's out of mind doesn't mean it's out of the picture. Understanding and come to grips with the many ways in which civilization is unsustainable, i've known for a long time that it's days are numbered and almost certainly far fewer than most sheeple, even those few with a rudimentary understanding themselves of it's unsustainability, might suppose.

most sheeple have no idea how imminent and fated the collapse is. but there were a few over a decade ago who followed and participated in a blog titled NATURE BATS LAST that were well aware of it and thought it important enough to ponder and discuss at length. Below is an essay from that time / blog  by a writer whose view of the fundamental problem and potential solution, horrific as it is / was, is shared by me. Here's a snippet from it, followed by the link to it:

The vast majority of civilized humans believe civilization to be a good thing, and see it as something to be protected, nurtured, and preserved. I strongly disagree with this point of view. To me, that is like saying you want to save the patient and the cancer, too.

https://guymcpherson.com/on-the-acceptance-of-near-term-extinction/

psychedelic therapy / the war on consciousness

 i so want to experience a psychedelic trip in a therapeutic setting. i believe it would make me much happier and more likable. less depressed by dystopia and doom.

just read a lengthy article that was published by the new yorker magazine over 10 years ago, authored by michael pollan, who has also written a couple of books about psychedelics. article titled THE TRIP TREATMENT, specifically dealing with psychedelic use to treat anxiety about dying in the terminally ill. then watched a short video in which one of these psychedelic patients talks about his experience, which is the first link below:

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/video-magic-mushrooms-healing-trip

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/trip-treatment

of course, psychedelics have long been prohibited by the dogmatic puritanical hypocritical and corrupt government that rules over me and my fellow americans. of course, many other governments are similarly oppressive. in the link below, a 'banned tedtalk', graham hancock decries this prohibition / oppression. it's aptly titled 'the war on consciousness':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0c5nIvJH7w

standing up to fascism

Masked Agents Snatch NYC Mayoral Candidate In Chilling Video

as shown in this video, at least a few rather prominent americans are trying to stand up to the authoritarian thugs who work as immigration law enforcement officers in this time of fascism under a president who openly aspires to be a dictator and who, like others like him in the past, demonizes some particular minority group and persecutes them. will their courageous resistance be enough to stop or deter such madness? i doubt it, but am glad they're trying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WsvzqpsJpM