Vilify and suppress instincts of compassion, empathy, shared experience, collaboration. Applaud and reward the survival traits of selfishness and competition. This is visible in every organised facet of global society - education, media, sports, law, policies etc etc.
It’s a miracle that anyone comes off that assembly line in any way rounded.
This essay is indeed a refinement, yes a crystallization, of perhaps a dozen or more recent offerings from BBM, Karim particularly.
If where I reside is the norm throughout the Western bloc, the policies followed by the political players are uniformly against the opinions and interests of the populations being defrauded.
Despite the obvious impotence of all western societies to affect substantial changes of leadership, this essay is invaluable for naming the core problem of the western status quo.
From Berlin to Baltimore, from Karlsruhe to Kent, the jackals are in charge, and the public is perhaps more animated and engaged than anyone can fathom.
A friend forwarded this article to me, and it arrived in my inbox minutes after BBM’s email arrived.
This is the terrain of the silent wave of millions who refuse to be comfortable as the looters ride roughshod over their patches. To my mind, this is where the battle must proliferate. Everyone needs to name the problem as precisely as Karim has laid it out.
It’s time for the idea that cannot be quashed by guns or muscle to have its day.
Think about it, as I said to someone else, we have been shamed to feel and express love. In a culture of psychopathy, our humanity is deemed a thing of shame....Pathetic even....
The amount of times I had been shamed as a young boy for showing "weakness" because I expressed emotion or I cared for someone.... It's really sick when you think about.
The very first trans-national corporation was the East India Company. Prior to that, all organizations, in an England rooted in Christianity, were not-for-profit. However, when it became clear that there was huge wealth that could be plundered from the Indian "sub-continent", then the company was given special dispensation to make as much profit as possible for its shareholders... Subsequently, India was rapaciously looted, whilst countless millionaires were made overnight in England.
That model has been followed by the corporate world ever since. The psychopathic corporation is a tool of empire, is fueled by rampant greed and its modus operandi is war and criminality. This is crystal clear in the complicity of over 60 trans-national corporations aiding, abetting and participating directly in the genocide of Palestinians in order to loot them of their fossil fuel wealth. The collective noun for such legalized crime syndicates should be "a conspiracy of corporations".
All of them operate according to a shared set of corporate legislation and for the same purposes: to loot natural resources from vulnerable populations in order to enrich the criminals and to build a global empire in the process. Ultimately, it is the central banks, creating currency out of thin air, that provide subsidies and finance for this breadth and depth of corporate criminality. National debts are imposed on populations to keep them yoked to the corporate war machine.
It's a hierarchy of abuse from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) down through "national" (privately-owned) banks, central and local governments, psychopathic corporations and their internal, departmental hierarchies. This matrix of organized crime is what the military industrial complex (MIC) looks like in the 21st century. Combine that with technological advances which enable the MIC to track and trace everyone who owns a "SMART" phone, as well as spy on us in our own homes via the panopticon that is the internet of devices.
Their aim is to impose a technocratic gulag for the masses which relies on a "kiss-up, kick-down culture". Currency is used as the carrot and blackmail, threats and coercion are used as the stick. If we all refused to abuse each other, this destructive, toxic system would collapse and we would save ourselves from their dystopian empire. Therein lies hope for a sane and healthy future...
Vilify and suppress instincts of compassion, empathy, shared experience, collaboration. Applaud and reward the survival traits of selfishness and competition. This is visible in every organised facet of global society - education, media, sports, law, policies etc etc.
It’s a miracle that anyone comes off that assembly line in any way rounded.
This essay is indeed a refinement, yes a crystallization, of perhaps a dozen or more recent offerings from BBM, Karim particularly.
If where I reside is the norm throughout the Western bloc, the policies followed by the political players are uniformly against the opinions and interests of the populations being defrauded.
Despite the obvious impotence of all western societies to affect substantial changes of leadership, this essay is invaluable for naming the core problem of the western status quo.
From Berlin to Baltimore, from Karlsruhe to Kent, the jackals are in charge, and the public is perhaps more animated and engaged than anyone can fathom.
A friend forwarded this article to me, and it arrived in my inbox minutes after BBM’s email arrived.
This is the terrain of the silent wave of millions who refuse to be comfortable as the looters ride roughshod over their patches. To my mind, this is where the battle must proliferate. Everyone needs to name the problem as precisely as Karim has laid it out.
It’s time for the idea that cannot be quashed by guns or muscle to have its day.
Think about it, as I said to someone else, we have been shamed to feel and express love. In a culture of psychopathy, our humanity is deemed a thing of shame....Pathetic even....
The amount of times I had been shamed as a young boy for showing "weakness" because I expressed emotion or I cared for someone.... It's really sick when you think about.
In a nutshell you’ve distilled The West’s overarching own goals - one doubling down after another. We need to build our love not crush it like fools.
Absolutely. And love has been so ridiculed in capitalism, that it successfully makes men feel shame and "weak."
This is what psychopathy culture does to you, it makes you feel ashamed of your humanity.
i love this!
Thanks! -K.
HIERARCHIES OF ABUSE
The very first trans-national corporation was the East India Company. Prior to that, all organizations, in an England rooted in Christianity, were not-for-profit. However, when it became clear that there was huge wealth that could be plundered from the Indian "sub-continent", then the company was given special dispensation to make as much profit as possible for its shareholders... Subsequently, India was rapaciously looted, whilst countless millionaires were made overnight in England.
That model has been followed by the corporate world ever since. The psychopathic corporation is a tool of empire, is fueled by rampant greed and its modus operandi is war and criminality. This is crystal clear in the complicity of over 60 trans-national corporations aiding, abetting and participating directly in the genocide of Palestinians in order to loot them of their fossil fuel wealth. The collective noun for such legalized crime syndicates should be "a conspiracy of corporations".
All of them operate according to a shared set of corporate legislation and for the same purposes: to loot natural resources from vulnerable populations in order to enrich the criminals and to build a global empire in the process. Ultimately, it is the central banks, creating currency out of thin air, that provide subsidies and finance for this breadth and depth of corporate criminality. National debts are imposed on populations to keep them yoked to the corporate war machine.
It's a hierarchy of abuse from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) down through "national" (privately-owned) banks, central and local governments, psychopathic corporations and their internal, departmental hierarchies. This matrix of organized crime is what the military industrial complex (MIC) looks like in the 21st century. Combine that with technological advances which enable the MIC to track and trace everyone who owns a "SMART" phone, as well as spy on us in our own homes via the panopticon that is the internet of devices.
Their aim is to impose a technocratic gulag for the masses which relies on a "kiss-up, kick-down culture". Currency is used as the carrot and blackmail, threats and coercion are used as the stick. If we all refused to abuse each other, this destructive, toxic system would collapse and we would save ourselves from their dystopian empire. Therein lies hope for a sane and healthy future...
Dutch East India company started it all.https://bettbeat.substack.com/p/the-tiny-country-that-never-got-credit
Okay, the East India Company was the first for profit corporation IN ENGLAND.
No doubt they copied the Dutch.