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RE: The Daily Meme #392!

in #utopia4 years ago

Back a few years ago on the Disqus platform when people could have their own websites on there there was a guy who ran a website called Headline News. It was a middle east news site but initially it had very few people interacting and most nights he'd just be on there talking about middle east stuff by himself. He was usually online when I was, late in wee hour mornings so I started poking about with him. Eventually he made me a moderator but I never really moderated anything but I did most up a lot of main stream media stuff. He challenged me to look outside the mainstream and learn about the middle east. I did. I came away from that experience deeply depressed. I'd find myself sitting at Subway eating a sandwich looking out over the produce section and thinking about people who lived on muddy hillsides with makeshift tents. People living in bombed out buildings, children unable to go out and play. Or a whole host of other ills in the world. I started questioning everything I was doing in comparison to the suffering of people across the globe. Like how can I be out here planting flowers to beautify my yard when people were living in fear or without proper housing or food. As time went on I also learned that not only was I powerless to do anything about it even if I had the power to stop it it wouldn't stop for long. I came to realize that behind the enemy was another enemy waiting to fill the vacuum if I was no longer their enemy nor they mine.

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Rule by force is the disease, who and how are symptoms.™

As long as people accept the bullies calling the shots, this is what we get.

I know, lol, I got a good giggle out of a video I watched earlier today with a guy named Jack Maxey being interviewed. I am going to do a post on some of the things he said later this week when I don't have the grand kids (spring break) to attend to. At the end he said when asked if he thought the US was or could go into a civil war over all that is/has transpired, his reply was this:

For all the tough guys with their bellies hanging out banging away on your AR15's it's not going to be two armies with muskets across the Potomac, its going to be a take down of the entire system, all electrical grids going to stop, block access in an out of cities, people are going to riot, there's going to be tens, maybe hundreds of millions people die so that's not a cool idea. I think what needs to be done is to recognize we don't need bubba with his M16's to save America because we have the means to do it, we got the constitute, use it. Let's stop with this I am a tough guy nonsense running around with fatigues because your not #1 and your not going to accomplish squat.

He went on to say that people like to say that the likes of Soros and Klaus is the force behind all the trouble. That's two guys. Just how hard could it be to take out two guys. Seems like a way easier route to take than starting a civil war that will kill millions of people. (That's not his exact quote on that part, but it was a pretty humorous reply about tough guys with bellies hanging out running around with AR15's.)

Ukraine right now is a perfect example of what he's talking about.

This 'revolution' will be fought in the few cubic centimetres between our ears.
Gene Sharp is the modern master of the genre.
He passed not long ago.

This 'revolution' will be fought in the few cubic centimetres between our ears.

That's a great line.