What’s going on?
There’s talk of Rihanna taking Chris Brown back. If it’s true, what a damn shame. People are saying she’s setting a terrible example to women and men. Women, because she’s showing you should put up with abuse. Men, because she’s showing that men can get away with abusing.If she does return to him, it will just show to me that despite her celebrity, she is a regular woman who can fall victim to an abusing man. Whatever it is in women that make them stay with their abusers, Rihanna is not exempt from it. So Brown is taking anger management classes - whatever, it’s so obvious that it’s because it will help his case in court. Not that they won’t possibly do him good, and that he doesn’t need them. But it’s Rihanna, in my opinion, who needs counselling because of this.
I’m glad anger management classes are an option for abusive men. I do believe that some half-heartedly take these classes though, especially if they’re forced to through the courts. An ex started to show behaviour that’s best described as acting out. He slammed a door in a foolish fit because he disagreed with me about something. When he apologized for it and addressed his actions, he said he needed to take an anger management class. Turns out he was sabotaging the relationship, which ended after that.
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“Reality” tv has become unreal to me. I wonder, are the people on these shows really acting like themselves? I doubt it. I believe they are being scripted by producers to behave in overblown dramatic ways. It’s all about what makes for “good tv”. Take Rock of Love for example, which is nothing but voyeurism. This trailer trash form of entertainment is simple degradation of females. That former Poison heartthrob has a comeback to his career all right, & it’s not music. He found how he could be in the spotlight again. Put a bunch of attention seeking whores on some busses filled with booze & make ‘em fight for him. It’s shameless.
Has tv gone too far trying to shock us? It wasn’t bad enough that the latest Bachelor proposed marriage but then changed his mind - no, he had to change his mind on tv. Mortifying the woman he chose. It’s apparently not good enough tv anymore for these bachelors to realize they don’t want to be with their chosen one. You gotta go one step further and bring on the humiliation, or it won’t be memorable.
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We are seeing the dawn of the new Chinese Empire.
And the sun is descending over the USA Empire, which lasted exactly thirty years, from 1975 to 2005.
Thirty years, which is also the duration of the prior Worldwide Empire, the Soviet Union, which had lasted from 1945 to 1975, the “evil empire”, as the “devil emperor” Reagan used to call it
The previous empire, the German one, had also lasted thirty years, from 1915 to 1945. And the British Empire had dominated the world for thirty years before then, from 1885 to 1915.
Thirty years seems to be the logical duration of modern empires.
So, could the USA have averted the decline of their political, military and economic international power?
Not so. Historically determined processes make the decline unstoppable.
The world economy has been riddled by recurring economic recessions and depressions every tenth year, namely 2011, 2001, 1991, 1981, 1971, 1961, 1951, 1941, 1931, 1921, 1911, 1901, so 10 years seems to be the deadly anniversary for deep-recessions/depressions (and the next is obviously the Deep-Recession Depression of 2011, DRD 2011, culminating on November 11, 2011).
Could the USA have done something different to avoid the coming disaster of 2011? Probably, but nothing so significantly different to avoid the historical necessity of its own decline.
So, what where the accumulated factors, that, compounded and aggregated, sunk the USA.
The USA is a young nation; it was less than two hundred years old in 1975, and for a nation being two hundred years old, is like for a kid being two years old. No experience, no leadership structure, nothing to fall back on, an avant-garde without a back-office.
The USA disregarded the need to be part of a community of nations: this was evidenced by its refusal to adopt the metric system. Ounces, gallons, inches, all this obsolete terminology put the USA at the edge of the planet, and a little tilt would have been enough to topple it. And wars and disasters tilted that weak balance.
The USA disregarded its own people’s need for dignity. No health care system and no dental care, no pension system and no child care, this social vacuum forced people to fill the street with lunatics, without teeth, without education, and, fundamentally, without dignity.
The USA disregarded its own people’s need for equality. The disparity between wealthy and poor, the disregard for numerous families’ economic necessities in term of food and clothing, housing and energy, the neglect of children’s needs, led to a degree of inequality that became, if not politically, mentally intolerable.
The USA’s disregard for the validity of logic, drowned by religion, statistical lies, and media fraud, led to the gap between the establishment and the people. The people finally understood that the establishment had fooled them, and that the establishment was not on the people’s side.
The USA’s disregard for the power of reason, fed by the worship of ignorance, anti-intellectualism, and crass selfishness, caused reason and rationality to be left behind, succumbing under the pressure from superstition, cabala, astrology, and other pseudo-sciences.
In the USA, the domination of science over philosophy, of formulas over knowledge, controlled by the rocket scientist and by the atomic developers, who established a regime of cult of the authority. No one without a double Ph.D. in superior sciences had any relevance any more in the USA.
The USA’s worship of aggression over compassion, of violence over passion, fed by a cult of guns and wars, of armies and warriors, of misplaced pride and suffocated diplomacy, choked any artistic, poetic, or any form cultural opposition to imperialistic expansion and control.
The USA’s trick of creating and financing a thesis, and then creating and financing also an antithesis to that first thesis, followed by the same USA’s intervention as a synthesis of the thesis and the antithesis, this formula, that had worked so well during World War Two and during the Cold War, allowing the creation of the USA Empire, was a deficient technique once the Empire has been established. While creating an Empire requires form over substance, maintaining an Empire requires substance over form, real content, ethics, and not only esthetics.
The USA’s trite philosophy (the old formula of the Roman Empire) “bread and circuses” even in the USA led to more and more violent like sports, boxing, steroid football, meth baseball, race-car-crashes, where the gladiators, neo-Spartacuses, rebel, and the circuses remain empty, and the people start understanding that the fun is over.
The USA’s reliance on religion, gods of any kind, obscurantism, voodoo, and home-schooling led to new and unexpected difficulties in reaching the masses in order to change direction when needed. Televangelists and preachers in the final years of the USA Empire had acquired more control of the masses than the politicians themselves.
The USA’s religious mistrust for planning the economy, under the belief that “planning the economy” is equal to “playing god”, gradually eroded USA’s ability to undertake major projects, like electromagnetic levitation or circular accelerators. Even the basic infrastructure, that required major planning and significant levels of National investments, was in disarray, including freeways, waterways, aqueducts and bridges.
The USA’s legislative system, where laws where passed without any chance of implementation, generated a nearly anarchic society, where any kind of enforcement was sporadic, erratic, and randomized. Endless and numerous laws could strike anybody at anytime, without equality and with uneven results of justice.
The USA’s judicial system, based on case law, made it possible for the wealthy upper class to always be able to find a law that protected from being punished from a certain action or decision. Often ad-hoc smaller cases were generated in the judicial system, in appearance insignificant, in order to be used for larger cases.
The USA’s tax laws and taxation systems were gigantic and abstruse, with endless sub-categories, exceptions, loopholes and inconsistencies. Not even the governmental taxation authorities believed any more in the system of laws, or had any trust in their own abilities.
The USA military establishment had become its own purpose, a leviathan too large to go anywhere, and too large to be fed. Towards the end of the Empire, it started eating itself in order to feed itself, in a frenzy of self-cannibalism doomed to failure.
The USA’s policy of favoring alcohol and alkaloids, whether legal or illegal, as a government policy, led to the creation of a nation inside a nation (the dark nation of those favoring tobacco, alcohol, heroin, and cocaine, versus the clear nation of those who felt that these substances should be placed under national governmental control).
The USA’s hypocritical waste of resources in dividing the nation between those who go in-and-out-of-jail, and those who derisively point the finger at those who go in-and-out-of-jail, as if being out of jail in itself would be an achievement. Such a situation definitely lowered the standard of what was to be considered an achievement: “you are good if you are out-of-jail”.
The USA’s corps of journalists had no standards, and refused standards, and had actually a true contempt for professional standards, where the need to have a journalistic career, equivalent to the need to feed one’s family trumped the value of professional standards. A pen-for-hire situation, in all spheres of media.
The USA economists constitute another profession without a profession, where anybody and everybody can proclaim himself an “economist” without any qualifications and without any conscience. Most “economists” became tools-for-hire in the hands of National, State, County, and City politicians where facts were set aside in favor of false ideas and perverted ideologies.
The USA’s sense of idealism, where the believe that if you profess an idea it actually turns into reality, was the culmination of a progress of superstitions that could never reach a status of real world or be passable under the scrutiny of even a simple worldview. The USA had lost its contact with matter and with reality.
The USA’s tendency of establishing and accepting principles without any form of validation, where allies were created and subsequently destroyed, where competition was generated and later annihilated, where monopolies where destroyed and then recreated, where collusion was favored and then condemned, where virtual irrationality finally triumphed.
The USA’s inability to cope with secret societies and sects, separatism and parochialism, where in the name of the most absurd mottoes and nearly insane frivolous tendencies, entire power-houses were allowed to thrive in visible contrast to the public interest, and often even subverting laws and regulations. Piracy clubs, motorcycle gangs, anti-medicine movements, gun worshipping, etc.
The USA’s obsession with dogs and other pets, which reached the astounding figure of one hundred millions in the whole country, led to the prioritization of services and welfare to dogs over humans, to the needs of pets over the needs of the USA’s own citizens, with dog hospitals and dog cemeteries.
The USA’s obsession with cosmetics and cosmetic surgery, where in particular the woman is subjected to a massive media bombardment in order to increase her consumption of cosmetic products and her utilization of cosmetic surgery facilities: more than fifty percent of medicine doctors in the USA prioritize cosmetic surgery over health related surgery.
The USA’s obstinate refusal to adopt a one-child-policy, the policy of limiting the size of families to one child per couple. The pediatric health-care system had collapsed under the pressure of too many children, and the pre-natal and child-care systems were practically non-existent in their chronic insufficiency. The educational systems was also grossly insufficient under the heavy population pressure of too many children, were some families had, irrationally, even three children per couple.
The USA’s glorification of food, part of the Roman imperial policy of “bread and circuses” adopted by the USA, as a way to reduce mental depression in particular in children and women, with the result of achieving exactly the opposite result, namely increased mental depression due to increased obesity and lowered self-esteem due to social dysadaptation.
The USA’s intellectual backwardness in its ability to deal with anything more complex than dualism. Black/white, win/lose, Blue team/Red team, anything more complex than a party of two, or a win/lose situation was well beyond the mental capacity of the average USA citizen, and the various USA governments favored that kind of mental atrophy.
The USA gun-ownership, gun-usage, and gun-protection laws generated a sense of fear in the population, which in turn created an atomization of society into its small components, and often even splitting the family in a downward spiral of abuse and domestic violence, triumphant under the aggressive family symbol of the gun.
The USA’s governments’ concerted policy geared toward minimizing the fear for real-risks, costly for the administration (like hurricanes), and maximizing the fear for non-existing risks, a non-cost for the administration (like bird-flu), led to severe errors in handling natural recurring calamities, and consequential social disruption.
The USA always accepted the concept of poor, poverty, and the poor, as if it were a conditions dictated by the gods, or a real social necessity. In the logic of the USA administrations, in order to have “rich” people you have to have a compensating amount of “poor” people, so the concept became accepted and fostered, we no efforts made to mitigate, equalize, or eradicate poverty.
The USA governments were unperturbed by the reports of the national media that there actually was real “hunger” in the country, as that concept was traditionally linked with the third world countries of Africa. The presence of soup-kitchens and food-banks (where even military families received assistance) left politicians and economist completely indifferent.
In the USA gradually the concept of “homeless” became accepted and well tolerated, with very little consideration for the negative effect that homelessness has on the individuals and families affected by it, and on society as a whole in terms of dignity and respect. The international credibility of the USA kept declining with the increase of the statistics related to homelessness.
The USA children receive very little respect and very little protection. They are left abandoned to the whimsical desires of their owners, in a status of slave-owner, where all abuses are tolerated and encouraged. Autism, dyslexia, attention deficit disorders, schizophrenia and other social maladies erupted in pandemic fashion in the USA as a result of the neglect or home-schooling of children.
The USA fostered the social aberration of home-schooling, in order to save on public expenditures and reduce taxation, in a misplaced effort to keep the population happy with no services and low taxes. Children became isolated, family relations became strained, dissolution and divorces became endemic, and the traditional social cohesion of the family disintegrated under the pressure from various forms of incest and bestiality.
The USA revealed and obsession with ceremonial irrationality, in the form of public prayers, baptism, funerals, religious weddings, military and civil service burials, etc. The “In god we trust, so help me god, god save the USA” mentality became the escape from all forms of realism, in an official frenzy of demonizing, exorcism, and deliverance from evil.
The USA official accepted philosophy was manichaeism, the constant conflict between good and evil, between heaven and hell, between gods and devils, where the USA was always placed in heaven on the side of the good next to the gods, and everyone else was seen as always being a threat to that illusory privileged position.
The nearly sacred preservation of existing privileges in the USA took precedence over any other issue, even when in visible contrast with democratic principles and egalitarian laws. The concept of entitlement, precedence, and legitimacy was socially divisive and fundamentally unjust, generating and feeding resentment and dissent.
The reliance on the banking system in the USA, as expected to resolve even social conflicts and to solve all problems, was evidenced by the pomp of bank building, resembling churches and cathedrals, with high ceiling and sophisticated bureaucracy. Form over substance, covering up the hollowness of cross-transactions and mutual-investments, was only a time-bomb in a general climate of social disarray.
The USA lacked a system of representation for the working class. Over ninety percent of the people declared themselves as middle-class (republicans or democrats), because the working class did not have a representation neither in congress nor in the senate. The existing political parties in reality only represented the interests of the top twenty percent of the population.
The USA ha an infatuation with principles, principle here, principle there, in principle, because of principle, our principles, etc etc, only to hypocritically break any principle as soon as opportunities so suggested. This breaking-principles behavior became actually the national policy, were principles were equally revered and despised, and that policy spread all the way down even to level of the family and of the individual.
The USA had a fundamental inability for dialog. In its primitive Manichaeism, the philosophy of dualism, the two cannot be reconciled, but one of the two has to prevail, win-lose, me-in-you-out, your-death-my-life, and no form of dialog was ever undertaken or understood.
The USA preached within the country and internationally the importance of “the-USA-way-of-life”, which was in essence a life based on exploitation, deceit, and fraudulent behavior. You give, I take. Just me. You do not really need it. Let me do it, I know better. The USA way of life was just purported to give a few USA citizens a better standard life than any other individual, at the expense of everybody else on the planet.
The irrational principle in the USA of trusting the gurus and executives of the financial systems to fix the problems that they themselves had caused or helped to cause. The USA Empire was based on the action of a few financial emperors (banking, oil, insurance) who always maintained the royal principle “After me, the flood”.
Nobody in the USA was ever forced to resign, does not matter how serious or insane their mistakes had been. This tragic fact holds true both for public and private service, for directors, managers, chiefs, bosses, pilots. Of course, the phrase “To the best of my abilities” means very little in terms of competence or qualifications.
USA’s infatuation with beer, pushed by the large alcohol conglomerates, led to its demise. Beer everywhere, in public, in private, a cult, a social necessity, similar to the vodka of the old soviet empire, beer to kids, to pregnant women, to diabetics, to morbidly obese characters. An Empire that was running on beer.
The USA has failed in caring for its colonies, like Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Guam, and similar. Maintaining disintegrated colonies fosters secession and stagnant economies, non-productivity and poverty, that, in the case of the USA, has tainted even mainland USA.
In the USA a more recent massive popular frenzy surrounding tattoos has taken the nation by storm. Tattoos, previously confined to sailors and inmates, has now reached colleges and banks, with consequential visible consequences over the psyche of the population, who lacks self-respect and an even basic sense of dignity.
The USA, in addition to pop soda and childish cartoons, is known for chewing-gum. Everywhere one can see people chewing gum, in offices, in restaurants, in schools, a nation of ruminants, where bodily functions receive more attention than intellectual values.
The general infatuation of the USA with the rite of golf, at all levels of society, reveal the narrow mental ability of the USA nation, where lawyers and bankers, next to truck-drivers and car-mechanics, waste water and time on the silly accomplishment of following a ball into a tin can. Some empires failed even without golfing, but golf definitely contributes to a fast deterioration of any empire.
Gradually mathematics and algebra left the USA. Retaining culture and education is a hard task, and the USA Empire definitely failed on the front of geometry and trigonometry. USA youth has no idea what you talk about when you mention a second-degree equation, or a parable.
Like the collapse of the Boer Empire, the USA’s Bantu-States of American Indians created a formula of internal disintegration, separatism, and racism, which no Empire can survive. The USA Empire could not be an exception to this, as the government fostered the Bantu-State mentality by favoring Indian reservations and vicious gambling.
The failure of the USA to understand the need for a unifying equal national ID, an identification document issued to all persons within the nation so as to ensure transparency and trust, lead to the proliferation of infiltration, sabotage, and secrecy, all Rasputinian factors that swiftly topple empires.
The democratic elections in the USA were a farce, with poor representation, poor participation, and, worst, no secrecy. Having to declare your affiliation in advance of the election is in reality an imperial public poll, and not a popular secret scrutiny.
The total failure of USA military space programs, culminating in tragedies like the Challenger, 1986, and the Columbia, in 2003, just before the end of the Empire, leave irreversible bleeding wounds in the side of an empire, where trust is lost and credibility becomes negative. Megalithic economic, political, and military failures doom an empire.
The USA, like every other imperial power, in trying to tackle an impossible enemy, that actually was no even an enemy, failed militarily and diplomatically, and the protracted war against Afghanistan made it impossible for the USA to survive as an Empire. Only invading and occupying Switzerland would have been more deleterious for the USA.
The USA Empire was led, and misled, by secret societies, without social responsibility and without public conscience: Rotary, Lions, Odd Fellows, Elks, Moose, Free Masons, Skull and Bones, Chebols, Fraternities, Templars, Knights, Friars, Torah, Golden Dragons, Hells Angels, Trusts, Cartels, Monopolies, everything dirty, everything secret, market manipulations and insider deals.
The clownish USA presidential electoral process and the farcical election, often riddled with irregularities, lead often to the nomination of a joker-like executive, that gains very little international respect. Most empires have indeed been led by jokers or eunuchs, with consequential logically expected predictable outcomes.
There is a false belief in the USA of having a separation of powers, while in reality the judicial power is nominated by the executive power and is financed by the legislative power. The judicial is an irrelevant body, rubber-stamping electoral fraud and wrongful warmongering.
In the USA, repeated transfers of wealth from the Government to the banking system caused a contemporaneous transfer of political and decisional power to private financial institutions, weakening the political structure, and making it often ineffective. In Nazi Germany similar transfers of wealth to the private industry complex helped to finance the brutal invasion of neighboring countries.
What does it mean when one says “the USA”? It is the few against the many, the unresolved silent passion for fascism, still present in the USA since the Nineteen-Thirties, the USA nobility-without-nobility, the opportunism and expediency of sacrificing what one believes is true for what one believes is profitable.
The USA chose the individual over society, and even in doing so, it destroyed the individual, without even favoring society. Nothing led to nothing. And now silence will fall once more over the Great Plains, with the buffalo once more slaughtered. And soon the plains will see new life, in the form of red-and-gold dragons vomiting fire and tactical anti-matter weapons, anti-matter weapons that the war-mongering USA itself failed to develop during its own Empire.
The USA Empire is not going to resurrect. The USA will have to undergo a process of reconstruction, starting from the basic social needs of public health, public education, basic housing, and public safety, where public means will have to be raised through sufficient and equalizing taxation to enable the government to meet those public needs.
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