Our society is set up to elevate the most miserable and dysfunctional people to the highest positions of influence, which results in their misery and dysfunction being efficiently spread around the world. medium.com/@caityjohnston…
“We are led by the least among us — the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.”
~ Terence McKenna
The term “super-spreader” has been popping up a lot in mainstream news media in reference to President Trump and his habit of hosting of events without social distancing precautions.
It’s an interesting phrase, because it highlights not just the way America’s plutocrat president conducts himself in the midst of a novel coronavirus, but the way he and his ilk live their lives generally as well.
What this means is that those who wind up having the most influence over the most people are the ones who made doing so their highest priority in life.
That’s what the most influential human beings in our world have poured their life’s energy into, generally speaking. Not into personal maturity and healing, but into conquest and power. Everything in our society encourages this. We're trained to value it. caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/08/03/do-…
Which causes a lot of problems, because what our society really needs above all else is healing and maturity. Being a small human in our world is a highly traumatic experience. medium.com/@caityjohnston…
In childhood we’re surrounded by confused giants who move in scary, unpredictable ways and unwittingly pass on to their children a lot of the trauma they picked up from their own childhoods. caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/09/16/fro…
Everyone carries trauma and delusion with them. We would live in a much healthier society if people prioritized becoming a healthy human being: healing their past trauma, becoming conscious of their inner processes, emotionally maturing, and learning to love themselves.
Which of course results in the most unconscious, unhealthy people having the most degree of influence over everyone else. It results in a kakistocracy, where the world’s most miserable and dysfunctional people are elevated to super-spreader points of influence.
And so you wind up with the most powerful government in the world being led by a man who @DrGaborMate once described as “the clearest example of a traumatized politician one could ever see.” medium.com/@caityjohnston…
In a healthy society it would be the exact opposite. We would be encouraged to prioritize the journey into health, consciousness and compassion, and our institutions would provide an abundance of support in that journey.
Here’s hoping we find a way to collectively move out of super-spreader kakistocracy and into health.
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There aren't many arguments for supporting Biden that I can respect, but his pledge to end US support for the mass atrocities in Yemen while Trump vetoes congressional attempts to do so is one of them.
Irrelevant. The one who says he'll stop facilitating the single worst mass atrocity in the world has an innately superior position in this area than the one who openly vetoes attempts to do so. Maybe he will, maybe he won't, but he's better on Yemen.
At the very least it's hard to imagine Biden being WORSE than Trump on Yemen. I have a hard time imagining him vetoing a congressional attempt to end US backing for Saudi butchery there.
Free Assange,
because the world is growing darker
as the bastards flick the lights off
one by one.
Free Assange,
because the sky is filling with death machines
as mothers weep over small tattered bodies
and the news man talks about rude tweets.
Free Assange,
because they are taking everything from us
and we are becoming voiceless, mindless gear turners
who can only argue about who to bomb next.
US Politics Isn’t ‘Polarized’; It’s In Almost Universal Agreement
"They do not allow for any mainstream discussion of *IF* the oligarchic empire should continue to exist; all their issues, arguments and histrionics revolve around *HOW* it should exist." medium.com/@caityjohnston…
When you look at US politics, it appears as though there are two mainstream political factions that very strongly disagree with one another. “Divided” is a word that comes up a lot. “Polarized” is another.
But beneath all the hurled insults and heated debates, these two factions are actually furiously agreeing with one another. They’re agreeing the entire time.
WaPo Publishes Paranoid Screed Cautioning Readers Not To Let Russia Make Them Paranoid
“Russia and other adversaries may not need to hack the election if they can hack something else: our minds,” writes the Washington Post editorial board. medium.com/@caityjohnston…
So begins a crazy, paranoid Washington Post editorial titled “The U.S. may be safe from foreign interference in this election. But what about perception hacking?”, cautioning readers not to let Russia make them crazy and paranoid.
“Perception hacking”. Apparently term this is the latest fad for the elite liberal commentariat in the category of noises one can make with one’s face in order to sound well-informed about Russian influence operations, from the same line as “kompromat”.
"Russia and other adversaries may not need to hack the election if they can hack something else: our minds."
From The Washington Post. Democracy Dies in Darkness.
To be clear, this is not just some insane rando who they allowed a spot in their Opinion section. This is bat shit crazy article is by the Washington Post editorial board. washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-u…
All Russiagate Did Was Advance Pre-Existing Agendas Of The Same Spy Agencies Who Started It
"It was started by the same spy agencies which directly benefited from it. Unless you were born yesterday, this will tell you that we've been conned." medium.com/@caityjohnston…
One of the interesting stories that has gotten lost in the shuffle over Trump's recent Covid-19 diagnosis is the recent allegation that CIA director Gina Haspel has been personally blocking the declassification of documents about Russiagate's origins.
Davis’ claim may be true or false, but it’s worth earmarking for later reference given that we already know that longtime CIA insider Haspel has been actively persuading the US president to roll out cold war escalations against Russia, independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…