Scotlyn, your question "where's the outcry [curiosity, fear, annoyance, speculation, research]" could well be asked about a great many unapproved topics in this age of declining hegemony. For example, that question could easily be queried about vaccine injuries, although very few professionals in that field want to see any unbiased studies happening at all... as in ever. I don’t know if there are anywhere near as many culprits hoping to ignore the recent change in wildfire behavior, nor do I know their professional status. Would starting forest fires in order to scare people into believing that climate change is the next shiny new apocalypse, which they need to pay someone to rescue them from, make one a professional firebug? How about if they were getting their salary from a climate-change-activist job? I mean there’s gotta be some way for firebugs to go professional, doesn't there? But who knows, that may be an unapproved topic in our declining hegemony as well.
It’s so obvious to anyone willing to pay any attention that our age of one-ring-to-rule-them-all-styled hegemony is way back in the rearview mirror at this point. Alas, those who grew addicted to the goodies that vending machine could once offer them can no longer pay much attention to anything except kicking their broken vending machine in the hope that something new may fall out of it. I do believe our PMC quislings may have inadvertently launched a brand new cargo cult. “If you kick Progress, the Great God in the Sky, hard enough, he’s sure to keep delivering us all the vending-machine goodies we demand. So go ahead and kick that failing hegemony harder!”
You know, I think that might be turn out to be the most concise theory yet to explain the entire self-goal of the Ukraine war. “Kick our dying hegemony! Kick it harder! It has to keep giving us goodies, dammit! Build airfields out of vines and coconuts for F-16’s to land on, bringing us Progress’ goodies!” At this point, I’m just happy that our clueless élites are kicking the whole rotten edifice down on their own, whatever mythology they may happen to be using to justify their tantrum of creative destruction.
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Date: 2023-06-15 04:01 am (UTC)It’s so obvious to anyone willing to pay any attention that our age of one-ring-to-rule-them-all-styled hegemony is way back in the rearview mirror at this point. Alas, those who grew addicted to the goodies that vending machine could once offer them can no longer pay much attention to anything except kicking their broken vending machine in the hope that something new may fall out of it. I do believe our PMC quislings may have inadvertently launched a brand new cargo cult. “If you kick Progress, the Great God in the Sky, hard enough, he’s sure to keep delivering us all the vending-machine goodies we demand. So go ahead and kick that failing hegemony harder!”
You know, I think that might be turn out to be the most concise theory yet to explain the entire self-goal of the Ukraine war. “Kick our dying hegemony! Kick it harder! It has to keep giving us goodies, dammit! Build airfields out of vines and coconuts for F-16’s to land on, bringing us Progress’ goodies!” At this point, I’m just happy that our clueless élites are kicking the whole rotten edifice down on their own, whatever mythology they may happen to be using to justify their tantrum of creative destruction.
— Christophe