Eso’s Chronicles 212/ 4
WTFk (4) W= Why?
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Do not be surprised to learn that “Autarky” is among the most despised political systems in the world. I have raised the topic in my blogs a few times or some would say in an endless string of blogs, but the subject is not only despised, but also deemed to be unbelievable and, thus, unmentionable. Thus, try as I might, the readers read and do not get it.

In my previous blog (211), which I titled “All-die-be-die”, I touched on the subject of the President of the U.S., one Adolf and/or Osama Obama, as currently making an attempt to seize the government of the U.S.A. for a self-enclosed group that knows itself as ‘Executives for fascist-socialist-democratic-parliament’. All the words that describe said organization are important, but the first ‘Executive’ is the heart of the ‘the Parliament’. The Parliament legitimates the heart, because without the ‘community’ of ‘senators’--whoever tfk they may be--the heart is but an apparition.

Under “Historical Examples” Wikipedia (above) also mentions the U.S. under Jefferson: “The United States, while still emerging from the American Revolution and wary of the economic and military might of Great Britain, came close to complete autarky in 1808 when President Jefferson declared a self-imposed embargo on international shipping. The embargo lasted from December 1807 to March 1809.^[9]” In addition, the U.S.A. practiced a form of limited autarky as long as it remained under populated (a relative term) and its internal market was large enough to absorb the produce of its farmers, woodsmen, miners, and merchants.

As we see from the above, ‘autarky’ is not an impossible political-economic system as long as the society that practices it is able to discipline itself to exist within its means, and as long as the ‘means’ do not make the above mentioned “self-enclosed group that knows itself as ‘the executive for fascist-socialist-democratic-parliament” become ‘more equal’ than those of the community at-large. Let us note that the conglomerate name is missing the word ‘nation’*, because national sovereignty as well as our planet is meant to go extinct. Also, ‘autarky’ has no problems as a political system as long as humanity still lives in the wood and the farming is at a subsistence level and farmers are not taxed.

Further experimentation with ‘Autarky’ was stopped when the capitalists who emerged as victors of WW2 (led by the so-called ‘industrial-military complex’), thereafter applied the idea of Autarky to the entire globe and, it became known as ‘globalization’. As most people by now know, ‘globalization’ is spearheaded by such as the Bilderberg Group. While ‘globalization’ may sound as a logical next step to some, a little reflection will reveal that it is by no means ‘the last’ step within the philosophy of ‘growth’ and ‘elimination of poverty’. This is probably why the ‘savant’ industrialist Richard Branston is getting so much play with his Virgin Galactic SpaceshipTwo and why those with incomes in the 1%-tile are booking tickets for flights 70 miles above the earth to float in space free of gravity. There is also talk about mining the Moon and Mars.

In the current financial crisis, economic decline, and jobless situation the obvious solution is to eliminate the machine and go back to the horse and a labor intensive society. This is not to say that I am a luddite, but that I think science has overreached itself, and we (and it) are now witnessing its limitations and need to make a retreat informed by intelligence.

We are beginning to hear that while global warming was not necessarily a hoax, we may be in for the reverse: global cooling —and insufficient energy supplies to keep people warm in a the coming glacial age. When I was a child, there were no chain saws to cut down a wood, but two-man saws and a horse to pull the log from the wood. Yet in our age of thousands of ‘savants’ spewing hot air in our universities and parliaments, everyone (including Oscar Obama) appears to have on his-her shoulders the head of a chicken, which having once been bent to the white line on the sidewalk by dreams that the line leads to a mountain of fiat money remains there to this day.

Having as a young man spent several years in the military, I continue to resent the fact (it began to dawn on me in the Korean ‘boonies’) that such young fks as myself were being sacrificed by Capitalist democracy out for a profit. Arthur Miller’s play All My Sons of post-WW2 vintage had not yet been mothballed, and was yet able to raise the consciousness of those of us yet too young and naïve to think of our leadership in critical terms. As I no longer live in the U.S., but have moved to the country of my birth, Latvia, I am reminded of young Latvian men unable to find jobs but as volunteers in the Latvian military. Would I—at my present age (80) allow this man or these two to lead me into war? Answer: Not unless they are the first out of the trench and lead the charge.

This goes double for WTFk Obama—unless he first signed an oath that given a failure to lead Latvia (member of NATO) to victory, he will—like Stalin ought to have done—fulfill a promise to fall on his sword or resign from the presidency.

*José Manuel Durao Barroso : “So now is the time to rise above purely national issues and parochial interests and to have real progress for Europe. To bring a truly European perspective to the debate with national constituencies.” I.E.: get rid of nationalities and replace them with a globalized citizenry.

Eso’s Chronicles 211/ 3
"All-Die-Be-Die" (3)
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Democracy no longer works.

Still, oppose the statement as many times as one will, it always comes out the same thing: Democracy has been captured by Capitalists who make it work for among their own closed circle of fascist-social interests; but… democracy does not work for anyone outside this circle, except perhaps extreme ‘human rights’ groups such as Pussy Riot. Indeed, the President of the U.S., Adolf Obama has managed to run around ‘democracy’ in circles, by proclaiming that a congressional vote against a war in Syria is against the will of his advisors and himself, who, having been elected to the office of the President of the United States of America may henceforth pretend to be an African king of the old times.

This of course raises the question of what to do about a dysfunctional democracy? So far, most political observers have considered such steps as Presidential impeachment or even an open rebellion against the Executive Branch of government. For his part, Adolf Obama has pushed his supporters to try and betray the ‘black prophetic tradition’ that belongs to him as a matter of birthright.

In an insightful column at truthdig.com, writer Christ Hedges, following an interview with Cornel West succinctly describes President Adolf Obama’s reasons for betraying the most profound of traditions of his race: “This tradition, which stretches back to Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass, has consistently named and damned the cruelty of imperialism and white supremacy. It has done so with a clarity and moral force that have eluded most other critics of American capitalism.”

In a typical (religious) ‘convert’ fashion, Obama has supported fascist-democracy with a vehemence that was not intended by the Founding Fathers  of America. While—as everyone with minimal political education ought to know—political changes seldom occur without differences of opinion, Adolf Obama has used his election to the office of President of the U.S.A. to squelch with violence those opposed to his prerogatives as ‘commander-in-chief of the U.S armed forces’ by supporting those who would bolster, not limit, the Constitution of the United States in favor of military authority. This, among other things, is notable in the militarization of domestic police and the increasing violence with which the police resolves issues of social discipline. One recent example is the killing of a 107 year old man in Arkansas.

Also, in a typical (religious) convert fashion, Osama Obama has ignored his most ancient cultural tradition where the African kings, like the mythological Gods of creation, almost all died by their own hand at the end of their reign. This was to atone for the human wrongs they had done while they were performing their duties in the land of the people they were born to rule.

Instead, Osama Obama has adopted the no less ancient African slogan of "All-Die-Be-Die" that was recently resurrected by a Ghanaian presidential candidate as his election warmongering election slogan. Though I do not know the origin of the phrase, one Ghanaian writer equates it with ‘queue sera sera’ or what will be, will be. In other words, though death is inevitable, it need not be feared, because it is part of our being and, if you will, part of the gift of life. Like it or not, we must resign to it.

On the other hand, I suspect that "All-Die-Be-Die" as adopted by Obama is a neo-Christian inversion of a very ancient tradition, in which the only office of government that people could conceive of was that of the sacrificial king. I wrote blog 210 on the subject, and you may want to look it up to more thoroughly understand why today’s obsessive ‘democracy’ was not always so persuasive a form of government. If fact, Obama is a perfect example of why ‘democracy’, as practiced by him. is a perfect example of hedonism in our day.

Lest my analysis disturbs the NSA spies, I hasten to ad that such hedonism is not limited to the U.S. ‘king’, but is practiced by most heads of hegemonic powers, re: China and Russia; even though in this particular instance they are on the defensive.