How come I’m always the last one to know?
The story of my life, really.
P.S. David Grayling is taking a well-deserved sabbatical. He may return in another guise or as he really is. Time will tell.
In the meantime, take care of yourselves! And thanks for your support.
Golding, in the Lord of the Flies, encapsulated the human condition perfectly!
Friends, when I started Dangerous Creation (was it a thousand years ago?), I hoped that I would find some answers to the world’s problems. I really thought there were answers, that, if we worked at it, we could make things better, find peace and harmony. Silly me!
Of course, there are answers. It’s just that the answers are not very satisfying or they are impossible to implement. After thousands of posts and infinite discussions on DC, what is the answer to the human dilemma, the bizarre human condition?
Answer: There is none. We humans ARE the problem, will always be a problem, to ourselves and every other living specie while we inhabit the earth.
I have certain disturbing images in my mind, the golden pistol of Gaddafi; the image of Gaddafi, his bloody face, his pleading protests that, “This is not right!” He was right. We are supposed to live in a world with laws, with legal systems and procedures.
Primitive humans made up elaborate, fanciful stories to explain their innate evil.
Even today, most humans still find it virtually impossible to accept the truth about themselves.
It’s funny, isn’t it. Prior to the advent of humans there was no evil on planet earth.
All forms of life did their own thing as nature intended: they procreated, protected their young, killed other things for food, fought off rivals, competed for mating rights, etc.
But no other life form had the kind of brain that could allow them to sit down and plan how to kill others of their kind, how to invent new weapons that would give them an advantage, enable them to destroy whole cities. No other life form embraced greed as their raison de etre. No other life form developed cruelty and torture and turned it into an art form. No other life form enslaves as humans do or carries out rituals like burning witches or sacrificing virgins to some mythical being.
If you think about the amount of evil in our world, we humans have little to be proud of. It seems that each human is born with evil already there. Whether it emerges depends on the circumstances we are born into.
Gaddafi was killed last night and according to report, it was not a pretty death, and not according to the images I saw, images caught on a cell phone. Wild animals could not have done worse.
Are you filled with fear? Do you long for a peaceful world that is harmonious and free?
Do you wish the earth was filled with love, with caring, with compassion, just like me?
If most folk are like us, why do we allow evil warmongers to call the shots, run the show?
If we don’t change their paradigm soon, our world will be gone. And no one will ever know!
“The Earthlings are fighting again, Commander. Radioactivity levels are rising. Carbon pollution is up…”
“I know, Sir. These stupid humans never seem to learn anything. A trip to Earth would be an absolute waste of time in my view…”
“That’s true but who wants to travel through space for years to see a mob of depraved, greedy, moronic lowlife endlessly killing and raping each other and destroying their planet? We can do nothing for them. It’s in their genes!”
“…Sonium therapy, you say, Sir. It would be wasted on them. They are only fit to be kept in cages. They are little better than wild animals! Besides, their intelligence is barely measurable.”
“…Sir, I’ll check again in another millennium. They’ll probably be extinct by then. It’ll be no loss I assure you! Yes, it’s a shame. Enjoy your peace sauna and the love-in.”
“Thanks, Sir. I will! Soon as I go off duty. You’re right. We’re so lucky we’re not Earthlings.”
Like this bird-eating spider, America will devour the world!
Friends, the following except from an article by David Armstrong on ICH caught my eye. It was entitled Dick Cheney’s Song of America. It made me sick! An excerpt follows:
“The Plan is for the United States to rule the world. The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination. It calls for the United States to maintain its overwhelming military superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on the world stage. It calls for dominion over friends and enemies alike. It says not that the United States must be more powerful, or most powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful.”
If you substitute ‘Germany’ for ‘United States’, it could’ve been written by Hitler. And like Hitler, the U.S. poses as great a threat to the world as Hitler would have if the madman had succeeded in achieving his objectives.
The insanity of America is as great as that of pre-WW2 Germany. The danger it poses is greater because it is more powerful and it will kill anyone or crush any nation that opposes it. It will ignore international laws, believing that might is right. It will claim that God is on its side, that it was born to rule.
It will use torture, rendition, horrific weapons, FEMA camps, assassination, whatever it takes.
The U.S. will even kill its own citizens if they dissent. It will stop at nothing.
Big Brother is here!
We must destroy him before we become his slaves.
This is a Libyan rebel in Sirte. He carries his gun and guitar as if they have equal value. The gun is for killing while the guitar provides the music for love songs. It seems as if the man is confused as to what his role is.
This is a scene from Sirte (thanks to Reuters) or, more correctly, what is left of Sirte. The battle there rages on with heavy casualties on both sides.
Armaments and munitions are used freely which makes lots of money for the war industries while the fighting opens many doors for warmongering imperial powers.
This may only be a mask but, to me, it symbolizes the change in the psyche of the man in the top photograph. The guitar is gone and now there is only the gun and a lust for blood.
The V-sign is not symbolic of a win for mankind, but a win for the dark forces which reside within most men. It is a win for those deranged souls who see human progress being linked with endless war.
It is a win for those who hate peace, for those who make money from war, for those who love killing and conquest, for those who would be happy if every man had a gun and war was made the national sport.
It is a win for the infinitely greedy, for the insatiable oligarchs and corporations, for power-crazed politicians, for psychopaths within and without the military, for conscience-lacking morons everywhere.
“When will they ever learn, when will they ev-er learn?”
Some of the American Wall Street protesters!
One of New York’s finest enthusiastically clubbing dissenters!
In America, a protest movement has begun. Why it has taken so long, I don’t know but that it’s underway is the important thing. Whether it will last is another thing given the brutality shown in the lower photograph.
Desertpeace (see links) has many more photographs like the ones above which the MSM will never show. They are well worth a look.
I have written hundreds of comments on ICH and many, many posts over the years urging the American people to stand up to their warmongering imperial Government and the insatiable Oligarchs and Greed Merchants who’ve been calling the shots since Vietnam. It is heartening to think that my words may have played some tiny part in the beginning movement.
The question of this post is pertinent to what may well happen in America. And if the police can’t get rid of the protesters, will the army be called in as has been the case in many Middle Eastern countries? And will tanks and missiles eventually be used against American citizens who are protesting the Evil Empire that their country has become?
Of course, the police, in theory, are supposed to uphold the law. But what if the laws are unfair and enable the rich to exploit other classes? The rich of course would want the laws that enable them to become ultra-rich to remain and be vigorously enforced. They would, wouldn’t they! That’s the type of people they are.
People across the world are being screwed by the rich. We want the screwing to stop, want the obscenely rich and financial institutions and corporations to pay their fair share of tax. We don’t want them flaunting their wealth in our faces while paying no tax. We want to stop them fleecing gullible people many of whom end up homeless or bankrupt.
The would-be Iranian assassin.
Shalit, held captive for five years by the Palestinians held captive since 1947!
Friends, there are a couple of things going on in the world that may be connected and may have dire consequences.
The first is the strange case of an alleged, fanciful plot by Iran to murder the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. in the U.S., a plot uncovered by the FBI (which has a proud record of ‘arranging’ things).
The top photograph shows the would-be assassin, one called Manssor Arbabsiar, an Iranian. This foiled plot has caused the U.S. to say that Iran will be held accountable and there is talk of sanctions and other consequences, etc. Biden has been huffing and puffing in his usual pedestrian way.
Of course, the U.S. threatening Iran is not unusual but that it has occurred at this time is passing strange, given the turmoil in the Middle East. According to Reuters, Tehran said the allegations threaten stability in the Gulf — where Saudi Arabia and Iran, the biggest regional powers, are fierce rivals and Washington has a huge military presence.
The other things that caused my warning light to come on was the sudden release of Shalit by Netanyahu after 5 years of negotiations.
Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement hold signs aloft while demonstrating on Park Avenue outside the apartments of the ultra-rich during a march on the East side of New York!
Friends, finally some of the things I’ve been talking about for years are beginning to happen. People everywhere need to take it to the rich, invade their enclaves, embarrass them, make them feel guilty.
They’ve had it too good for too long at our expense. They’ve been helped along the way by a variety of capitalism-loving Governments and armies of cunning tax lawyers.
It’s time that the Reign of the Rich was brought to an end. It’s time that everyone shared in the earth’s riches, not just a mob of unscrupulous Oligarchs and corrupt politicians and murderous military brass and corporate crooks and obscene billionaires.
I wish the protesters well and I hope they take things and distribute them to the poor, literally!
Maybe the meek will finally inherit the earth rather than a cabal of pretentious, exploitative lowlife!