The health of the public was never at issue. The health of the Republic was never at issue. It was only necessary for the carefully kept ignorant public to THINK that they were being cared for and cared about. This, so that public opinion could be enlisted in the service of “exerting authority,” “exercising power”, and preparing the populace to “sacrifice for the Common Good” which, as usual was the good of the power-flexers only.
This is the same technique used in the run-up to declaring war. The bulk of the U.S. Boomer generation had made a lot of trouble when they were last herded towards “sacrificing” themselves on the altar of Vietnam. So a new bunch of crunchy organic carrots had to be hung out in from of the Big Shtick. Like, say, “the Common Good™” (while the actual commons were stolen and censored) “Safety & Health™” (while poisonous bioweapons were deployed on civilians and military alike) “Effective $cience™” (while ignoring all aspects and teachings of genuine science as practiced for thousands of years) and, “Technological Progress™” (meanwhile devastating the small business pillars of the economy and allowing the nation’s infrastructure to rot: from clogged ports to falling concrete condos, to pockmarked highways, water and electrical utility services left to rot unmaintained, unsafe bridges, and destroying all stable and reliable networks of communications based on copper wire telephones and independent news organs)
Those are just a few among many other brand names of New Commerce and Global Peace. Which are the Stage Names of the homely concepts of Money and Power. Money for Me and Power for Mine. War take foremost, devil take hindmost, and if there’s mercury in the fish and the vaccines, you peasants can just suck on it.
If public health and well-being and actual national security were at issue, well, there would be a genuine medical and health promotion national service instead of a money machine for insurance moguls.
There would be sincere and active diplomacy to dissuade all parites from engaging in biological warfare and a moratorium on development of bioweapons.
There would be genuine efforts to research alternative modes and methods of care while freely sharing the results of this health-giving research with the whole world as an inducement to rise above the level of beastly death-mongering by tinkering with microbes.
There would be money spent to bring clean water to women in every village and sanitary trenches dug by American tractors anywhere the work was wanted.
There would be neighborhood clinics at every fire station in the nation, supplied with ample cheap medications, staffed with 24-7 shifts of qualified medical personnel all working not for profits snaffled up by Business Majors and Hospital Admins, all striving to make care services scarce, low quality, and costly by excessive centralization of facilities, equipment, forcing punishing workloads on caregivers in the name of “efficiency” and underpaying everyone except the CEOS.
There would be a grateful-to-the-gods attitude about the wealth America once rolled in and a sense of noblesse oblige towards other peoples and towards the Earth. There would be pride in being of service to others and a sense of honor to uphold.
Money and Power could be tools to get a good job done instead of ends in themselves. But that can only take place when there is awareness of a reality beyond mortality and the plane of physical existence. So, I cannot look for that in the ruling classes as currently constituted. I suppose I could pray for that kind of awakening among them Is it not said that with God all things are possible?
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branchandroot
Re: When would you comply?
Date: 2024-02-29 06:02 am (UTC)This is the same technique used in the run-up to declaring war. The bulk of the U.S. Boomer generation had made a lot of trouble when they were last herded towards “sacrificing” themselves on the altar of Vietnam. So a new bunch of crunchy organic carrots had to be hung out in from of the Big Shtick. Like, say,
“the Common Good™”
(while the actual commons were stolen and censored)
“Safety & Health™”
(while poisonous bioweapons were deployed on civilians and military alike)
“Effective $cience™”
(while ignoring all aspects and teachings of genuine science as practiced for thousands of years) and,
“Technological Progress™”
(meanwhile devastating the small business pillars of the economy and allowing the nation’s infrastructure to rot: from clogged ports to falling concrete condos, to pockmarked highways, water and electrical utility services left to rot unmaintained, unsafe bridges, and destroying all stable and reliable networks of communications based on copper wire telephones and independent news organs)
Those are just a few among many other brand names of New Commerce and Global Peace.
Which are the Stage Names of the homely concepts of Money and Power. Money for Me and Power for Mine.
War take foremost, devil take hindmost, and if there’s mercury in the fish and the vaccines, you peasants can just suck on it.
If public health and well-being and actual national security were at issue, well, there would be a genuine medical and health promotion national service instead of a money machine for insurance moguls.
There would be sincere and active diplomacy to dissuade all parites from engaging in biological warfare and a moratorium on development of bioweapons.
There would be genuine efforts to research alternative modes and methods of care while freely sharing the results of this health-giving research with the whole world as an inducement to rise above the level of beastly death-mongering by tinkering with microbes.
There would be money spent to bring clean water to women in every village and sanitary trenches dug by American tractors anywhere the work was wanted.
There would be neighborhood clinics at every fire station in the nation, supplied with ample cheap medications, staffed with 24-7 shifts of qualified medical personnel all working not for profits snaffled up by Business Majors and Hospital Admins, all striving to make care services scarce, low quality, and costly by excessive centralization of facilities, equipment, forcing punishing workloads on caregivers in the name of “efficiency” and underpaying everyone except the CEOS.
There would be a grateful-to-the-gods attitude about the wealth America once rolled in and a sense of noblesse oblige towards other peoples and towards the Earth. There would be pride in being of service to others and a sense of honor to uphold.
Money and Power could be tools to get a good job done instead of ends in themselves. But that can only take place when there is awareness of a reality beyond mortality and the plane of physical existence. So, I cannot look for that in the ruling classes as currently constituted. I suppose I could pray for that kind of awakening among them Is it not said that with God all things are possible?