Another Reality
488 ViewsSteve Lendman has a couple of articles worth reading (his last two entries, I don’t have a direct link). The real world where assassins and murderers operate, and the American human rights abuse.
There is no doubt that most of us live on entirely different realities. What we perceive, see, hear and even feel is very much different then what others see, hear and feel. There is a shadowy world inhabited by hordes of goons and their victims that lies beneath ‘our’ daily reality.
This layering of worlds, one laid on top of the other, is actually very deep, with multiple levels. What we “normal” people perceive and react to, is very much different to what other people at other levels are perceiving and reacting to.
I don’t suppose this is really news if you’ve read much. But we often don’t think about it, because we’re stuck in our own bubbles of reality. This isn’t really news either, but now that I’ve reminded you of these two points, here’s what I’m driving at: What do you suppose is going to happen as our collapse deepens with these other layers? Where do those people go? What do they do? Essentially, what becomes of them and how does it relate to the rest of us?
Does their reality go away? Does their very different worldview and lifestyle actually disappear? Or does it continue? Who are their next victims, their next targets?
If this doesn’t terrify you, it should, because these are the kinds of people (who don’t really qualify for that distinction) you are up against. And if you didn’t catch it, these are the kinds of people who are operating in government right now, including Obama himself.
A lot of us would really, really like to see an entirely different world come forth as a result of the collapse, but let’s be honest here, would it? How? They’re not concerned about resource shortages, or climate change, or environmental collapse. Their world view doesn’t even include these concepts.
What do you actually do with pathological killers who are promoted to high positions of office and power? What “makes them go away” like they should?
Another point I’m trying to make is there really are a lot of absolutely crazy people in the world. Pathological killers, sociopaths, homicidal maniacs. What do you suppose happens when they’re no longer restrained by a society that collapses?
It’s quite possible that, like now, these individuals and groups will actually be employed as much as they are destroyed, with the former being more true then the latter. I’m betting that more mercenaries and killers will exist in the future then less, and that this will be very widespread, even if disorganized.
We’re not looking ahead to a future that is going to be free of violence, where the Earth is respected and nourished as it nourishes us, but to a future that promises only more of the same as today, only far, far worse. We’re actually a long, long ways away from what many of us dream of, we’re actually generations away.
Now here is something not entirely unrelated, Herr Bush criticizes Obama policies and actions. You’re supposed to absolutely forget that these policies and actions were initiated under Bush in the first place, but now that I’ve reminded you of this fact, remember what Lendman said regarding torture in his articles linked above.
What’s going on here is the same BAU model, smokescreens and bullshit and obfuscation of the facts and evidence, anything and everything to keep the people uninformed, or ill-informed, off-balance and divided. I well realize nothing is going to change this for a very long time. This is “their” reality too — very much different then mine.
June 18th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Admin, you pose some good questions.
One thing that will probably happen, more than it already exists, is that, newly unemployed goons will find employment with the likes of Blackwater, or whatever their latest name is. And maybe Blackwater will (if not already) derive much or all of their income from illicit activities. After all, if the CIA can do so for decades, why not an outfit like Blackwater? So that would solve the issue of money to fund hired killers and other mercenaries.
So, yeah, it is crazy to let one’s guard down, just because it appears collapse is speeding up dramatically.
On a related note, something I’ve been waiting to hear for several years was posted online a day or two ago. If I can find it, will post link here.
A meeting of a representatives from some of the more influential countries on the globe was convened recently, and the topic of discussion was the USDollar and how to replace it as a major world currency, etc., and basically how to gradually phase out their buying of our bonds, notes, etc., and basically just by-passing the U.S. There were countries such as Russia, China, etc., there, and the U.S. asked to be allowed to attend but WAS DENIED ADMISSION. Sounds like everyone is finally getting some kahunas. One key thing we all need to know is what will be the timeline for their logistics?
If people have anything of any value they need to buy, better buy it now before the price either goes through the roof, or it is just unavailable (more likely scenario).
June 18th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
An article at http://globalresearch.ca entitled “DE-DOLLARIZATION: Dismantling America’s Financial-Military Empire” tells of above-mentioned meeting(s). The article is lengthy, so I excerpted a couple of paragraphs below:
“What may prove to be the last rites of American hegemony began already in April at the G-20 conference, and became even more explicit at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 5, when Mr. Medvedev called for China, Russia and India to “build an increasingly multipolar world order.” What this means in plain English is: We have reached our limit in subsidizing the United States’ military encirclement of Eurasia while also allowing the US to appropriate our exports, companies, stocks and real estate in exchange for paper money of questionable worth.
“The artificially maintained unipolar system,” Mr. Medvedev spelled out, is based on “one big centre of consumption, financed by a growing deficit, and thus growing debts, one formerly strong reserve currency, and one dominant system of assessing assets and risks.”2 At the root of the global financial crisis, he concluded, is that the United States makes too little and spends too much. Especially upsetting is its military spending, such as the stepped-up US military aid to Georgia announced just last week, the NATO missile shield in Eastern Europe and the US buildup in the oil-rich Middle East and Central Asia. “
June 18th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Linda,
Check out my first post at this Survival Acres article and you’ll find two links addressing exactly what you say is going on - a gathering of nations with the express purpose to delink their trade from the dollar. The Hudson article does a great job of explaining why this is going on. Hedges on Common Dreams does a great job of explaining what might be the outcome of this delinking.
http://survivalacres.com/wordpress/?p=1773
June 18th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
John,
You are so right on as usual.
The way I see this playing out, we will be in the Dark Ages again, with feudal warlords running rampant over the countryside - raping and pillaging and taking whatever they want. The incentive will be simply a place to sleep,some food, and a share of the spoils. Not unlike the current social structure in say, rural Afghanistan today….
Religion (ritual?) will be the only constraint. Expect every strain and variant, from the insane to the ludicrous (baby sacrifice, blood rituals, self-flogging - Apocalypto stuff).
It will be quite horrible - disease run rampant, no anathesia, no drugs (healing herbs, but even these will be in short supply). Vast swatches of the land will be desert. Oasis will become survival islands where plenty of blood will be shed.
The goons will exist (probably survive - Dickless Cheney will likely declare himself the Emperor). Not a pretty picture. No nirvana. Plenty of hunger and starvation. Whoopee!
June 18th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Anyone want to read up on the illegal wiretapping and the O”bomb”a position, now that he is pontiff potentate, check out Glen Greenwald’s increadible article on Common Dreams:
www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/18-11#comment-1230750
From link:
“Yesterday, when asked about ways to increase accountability for eavesdropping crimes via judicial action, Obama’s Attorney General pronounced the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to be “settled law” and said that the President — his “boss” — has shown no interest in re-visiting it in order to subject past abuses to judicial review. Amazingly, revelations of surveillance abuse lead Congress to do only one thing: eliminate oversight and increase surveillance powers further.”
June 18th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
@Admin: What do you suppose happens when they’re no longer restrained by a society that collapses?
They get killed, right on the spot.
Right now they are protected by the powers that be - the law, and those of conscience and principle that will not aggress another.
But, in the absence of governmental law the protection will be gone and the aggressors will be (eventually) dealt with.
This is not to say the raptors won’t have their day, they will, because there are lots of butterballs running around begging to be victimized, and victimized they will be after the collapse. But after the butterballs are all gone, the raptors will be seeking to quench their thirst and it is then they will finally get their just reward.
Leviathan is a drunken coward, stumbling headlong into its future and the best anyone can do is try to stay out of its way as it falls flat on its face dragging all down with it.
Onward….
June 18th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
My expectation is just the opposite. They will kill with impunity and protection.
Perhaps eventually they’ll be killed off as you say, but history shows too many examples that the vicious are the victorious.
Leviathan may be a coward, picking on defenseless country after defenseless country, but that doesn’t mean they’re not in the shadows killing and assassinating and satiating their bloodlust. These murderers are going to wind up somewhere, and in someone’s employ.
June 19th, 2009 at 7:42 am
I think ghostsniper might be right on this one. Nature shows us that predators cannot expand beyond the basic support level provided by their prey. Wipe out too many of the herbivores, and the carnivores that live off of them die too, or start feeding on one another.
With little left to steal, and few left to kill, they will instead prey upon each other. They will have the means and desire to do so, and only the others will have anything left of ‘value’. Medieval Europe was constantly racked by lords waring with one another for perceived personal gain, after all. There is no honor among thieves.
June 19th, 2009 at 11:52 am
There is plenty of prey left.