My $.02 for today, which is worth a negative $.087 if you factor in current inflation rates…
Yes, now they’ve come for the weather service, and the oceanic and atmospheric administration. They’re always coming for Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Somewhere in there, they came for FEMA. Going after FEMA and setting it up to fail didn’t start with the Texas floods…think back to Hurricane Katrina – “you’ve done a helluva job, Brownie.” This all looks like money-grabbig politics, but I contend it is also about population control. There are larger and larger outlays of money for the social safety net because the society has gotten larger.
So, in the eyes of capitalist oligarchs, one way to keep the profit margin up is to reduce the size of the society. That’s been tried before, and it’s failed every time because it’s not that we don’t want the population as a whole to decrease, we just don’t want it to decrease by eliminating white people, or fat people, or mentally ill people, or any kind of imperfect people. If those people cannot reproduce, because they are dead from things like measles and overdose, death in childbirth, or mass shooting well, that’s two or more birds with one stone.
This has never been about politics; it’s about power and control. It’s about the last person standing. Ever since the WHO said that white people would be a numeric minority by 2045, slow-motion genocide across the globe has become the “new world order.” The cradle of all civilization (Africa) has been stricken and, and for a while had the pole position in new and emergent killer viruses (e.g. Ebola, Hemorrhagic Fever). Ground Zero for more recent pandemics has now shifted to Asia, the most populated region on the planet., and now we have corona viruses and HIV. The only one that MIGHT have started in the U.S. was the Spanish Flu, but there is still a bit of disagreement about that.
Regardless, the capacity to inflict suffering is new. For a minute, I thought maybe the level of cruelty and sadism was new, but it’s not. What kind of sadistic and twisted minds could think up and implement a system to transport people as cargo, in the bowels of ships, and justify the whole thing by dehumanizing the subjects of the transport? The same sick and twisted minds who devised a macabre accounting system that designated enslaved people as property that was equivalent to 3/5 of a person. The same minds that could develop an involuntary breeding practice for enslaved people to produce enslaved children, who were then cruelly ripped from their mothers’ arms to be sold as livestock. That would be the same sadistic and twisted minds who dehumanize immigrants on a daily basis, lose immigrant children in the system, and house children in cages without their parents.
We get to see the results of our staggering capacity to inflict suffering in full color, live, in real-time. And still, we are giddily enthralled by our ability to make ourselves comfortable, even at the expense of others. I would like to believe there will be a reckoning, but I don’t know that. At this moment, the forces of deceit and guile, the lure of greed and control, appear to be winning. We come to the serpent again and again, lusting after a different apple that brings forth a different outcome but alas, we are bound to ego and power, two sides of the coin of illusion. We are addicted to the notion that we are in control of all circumstances, but we are merely chained to the mouth of the volcano that cannot contain the expanse of our darkness. Some believe we are returning to the beginning, others say we are moving toward the end. None of us know of what we speak, and that itself is the darkness.
Perhaps the light can only be seen when it is allowed to blaze freely, flow unbridled, unrestricted by creatures who deny their limitations. Sentience, including free will, is not a contract but a covenant, neither payment nor gratuity. It is without beginning or end, unless we choose otherwise. To manifest cruelty and suffering is to choose otherwise.
The Sound Hole 