Murti Bing (5)
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To begin,
I suggest that the reader take a glance at the following links:
Now that the reader knows (I presume) what
I am about to drive at:
I would add
that the analysts leave out “the horse”. What is so clearly missing from the perspective
of one who is 80 years old is THE HORSE. In my youth the horse was ubiquitous,
though ‘tiger’, ‘panzer’, and T-34 tanks had arrived, and having their turrets
blown off by munitions exploding in their innards, nevertheless took control of
the future of society.
President Putin in his recent Valdai speech emphasizes
Russian nationalism as the main ingredients that will enable Russia Russia
“…the main
thing that will determine success is the quality of citizens, the quality of
society: their intellectual, spiritual and moral strength. After all, in the
end economic growth, prosperity and geopolitical influence are all derived from
societal conditions. They depend on whether the citizens of a given country
consider themselves a nation, to what extent they identify with their own
history, values and traditions, and whether they are united by common goals and
responsibilities. In this sense, the question of finding and strengthening
national identity really is fundamental for Russia
Where I differ is
when it comes to the definition of “societal conditions”. I would rename it “societal
character”, which stems from the same sources, re: ‘economic growth,
prosperity…’ From my perspective, Putin is as mesmerized by the ‘dream time’ of
our post-industrial era as the Hamas ("Islamic Resistance Movement"): http://rt.com/op-edge/assad-responsible-conflict-escalation-hamas-441/
spokesperson from Lebanon
It is the phrase “high living standards”
that is the fishbone that sticks in my throat in the same way as Putin’s
mention of the word ‘prosperity’ (above), and my ex’s note from her retirement
paradise in Mexico, where she has escaped not to pay me back 50K, she promised
from her home sale, and surrendered her ambition to become a writer for the
benefit of entertaining a retired English barister: “…rain rain rain lately....today looks clear......we're
off to a horse race today....” What is the difference
from going to the races and running to become the Tibetan beauty queen? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjZfnylMZtc
All of the
above are apparently—each in their own way—wedded to the myth of ‘economic
growth’—with emphasis on the word ‘growth’—which is one of the chief tenets of
“Western-style ‘democrsatic’ liberalism”.
But when you
think of it, has ‘economic growth’ not ceased to be a positive and become
a major negative long ago? Even the casual observer, the writer with no political axe to
grind, has long noticed this negative in ‘growth’. Last night, before retiring,
and praying for the Fairy Queen to delay for a week my winning the 15 mil Euro
Jackpot, because I gave my last buck, literally, to a young mother (lying
through her teeth) who did not have the money to buy clothes for her
kindergarten age young son, I continued to read a book that I had bought in a
bookstore (probably in London) some years ago. I do not remember what caused me
to buy it. The book is called “Vertigo” and is by W.G. Sebald, a German, who
relocated to England Vienna Danube .” After getting off the train, they visit “Burg
Greifenstein, a medieval fortress”. Sebald writes: “I had first visited the
castle in the 1960s, and from the terrace of the restaurant had looked down
across the gleaming river and the waterlands, on which the shadows of evening
were falling…. Currents of air were stirring the tops of the trees, and stray
leaves were riding the breeze so high that little by little they vanished from
sight. At times, Ernst was very far away. For minutes on end he left his fork
sticking upright in his pastry. In the old days, he observed at one point, he
had collected postage stamps, from Austria ,
Switzerland
Seabald is not
making a major rant against ‘growth’, but when you read what he writes with
empathy, it makes one think that that moment on the Greifenstein terrace might indeed
have been a ‘propitious moment’ to depart from the living. The same goes for
President Putin’s observation about ‘economic growth’. Apparently Putin has
never bent his ear to all the fk-ng ‘greens’ (myself among them), who have been
telling him that the Earth and the majority of humankind no longer can take the
sht from power-zonked ‘leaders’. Does Putin really think that his word carries the
weight of a believability pill, i.e. ‘murti bing’ http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-the-captive-mind/chapanal001.html
? Or is his mind Russian mind ‘captive’, too?
Albert
Edwards, another writer, insists
that: “What is not generally appreciated is that once a central bank starts to
use monetary expansion as a cure-all it is extremely difficult for it to stop.
This is the basic reason the Fed has not pursued the idea, and why it most
probably never will. Fiat Money Quantity is now hyper-inflating. It currently
requires a $3.6 trillion contraction of deposits to return this measure of
currency quantity back to trend. This accurately sums up the problem facing the
Fed. We must understand they are in an almost impossible position that dates
back to their monetary response to the banking crisis. Not even Paul Volcker
could have got us out of this one. Once the addiction to weak money hits this
pace there is no solution without threatening to bring down the whole system.”
So a ‘guest post’ at ZeroHedge a few days ago.
What such
posts (contrary to the drift of their argument) continue to support is a
capitalist agenda), even as they acknowledge that the ‘the Industrial Age’ has
entered its terminal stage. A monster death toll, concentrated on urban areas
is soon likely to afflict our planet and ego maniacal ‘capitalist culture’. The
rural areas, too, are unlikely to escape the catastrophe, if only because
planet Earth may soon be visited by an ice age. Whereas a half a century ago
many areas of the world could heat their homes with wood burning stoves, most
woods that are near farming homes have been cut to pay off the debt to the ECB
and the old European capitalist elite
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