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May 16, 2025 ~~Thursday~~ Friday
The rest of the world seems happy the USA is off the "high horse" of progressive, Pale Blue Dot morality values of goodness. To see USA dragged down into the mud of Donald Trumpism.
I lost hope years ago. I have no children. I'm "fighting" for future of people all across the world, but nobody wants this "fight". What people crave is one lone hero, AOC in USA. Not a teacher of change your way of life away from mockery and amusement, it is the Middle East alternate-reality game of Torah, Quran, Bible reformation. Nobody is asking for that. Nobody is asking for Neil Postman's 1985 "Amusing Ourselves To Death", Call Sagan's 1995 "Science as a Candle" values. Not very many people even reference them.
When I lived in Jordan studying this, you do get a sense people enjoy the fiction. They enjoy the comforts of the Quran / Torah / Bible. Just as Star Wars meme people do who never take serious the content of "Power of Myth" book about the USA Great Seal and other serious topics. The USA flag waving, no reformation there, is more the topic, like waving around colors of light saber weapons... flag waving. Not very thoughtful.
It's very grim to face that people are motivated by hate and mockery and not a desire to remove hate. To avoid Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's 1954 equations about hate.
People generally just don't see the children in Palestine and Ukraine are the same children with the same loss of hope / loss of goodness. And only care that it isn't "right now me". Egoism. That in 1954, 10 years after Nazi Germany and Japan in conquest / war, Martin Luther King Jr cane up with the equation: all hate is bad. Hate is bad in a marriage, parenting, neighbors, neighborhood, city, county, nation, world, Period, any time period.
"Most people can't stand up for their convictions, because the majority of people might not be doing it. See, everybody's not doing it, so it must be wrong. And since everybody is doing it, it must be right. So a sort of numerical interpretation of what's right. But I'm here to say to you this morning that some things are right and some things are wrong. Eternally so, absolutely so. It's wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong. It's wrong in America, it's wrong in Germany, it's wrong in Russia, it's wrong in China. It was wrong in 2000 B.C., and it's wrong in 1954 A.D. It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong. It's wrong to throw our lives away in riotous living. No matter if everybody in Detroit is doing it, it's wrong. It always will be wrong, and it always has been wrong. It's wrong in every age and it's wrong in every nation. Some things are right and some things are wrong, no matter if everybody is doing the contrary. Some things in this universe are absolute."
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Calm Before the 2nd Wave Storm
I don't doubt people won't resist, it is what they are resisting since year 2015 that has been what has driven me crazy. People resist goodness, people resist awakening to Kremlin Surkov / Surkovian methods - which means they resist the saturation of LOL mental exploits.
I made a mess of organization and writing, it is dreadful writing, the dreadful hopelessness of the "Nightmare of History" (Joyce). over at: https://lemm.ee/post/64048496
If this path continues, the total mockery in USA continues, there won't be time for feeling hopeless. It is a privilege to feel hopeless - even if it is just me having a "bad day". The people in Palestine since the newest war started October 7, 2023 - have to just keep marching on in non-stop dread. They won't have a public Internet to scream at, their voice isn't heard at all.
“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. October 8, 2013
Rick Roderick:
I mean, in a way, it’s like demanding of yourself that you do what you say… which you want to demand at least of your friends… that they do most of the time what they say they’ll do. But it’s certainly a good demand to place upon, ah, your society, its leaders, and so on. The trouble is – just as I have stated before – we are blocked. We are blocked in a way by an unprecedented structure of what I have called here… sort of… cynical, sceptical reason. To me it’s historically unmatched. I have never read or heard of a period like this one.
Now, I have read about many historical periods. But not one in which you can talk to young people the way you can at the college level today, and find out that they believe… nothing. Want… nothing. Hope… nothing. Expect… nothing. Dream… nothing. Desire… nothing. Push ’em far enough and they’ll say: “Yeah, I gotta get a job. Spent a lot of money at Duke.” That’s not what I am talking about. They hope nothing. Expect nothing. Dream nothing. Desire nothing.
And it is a fair question to ask whether a society that produces this reaction in its young is worthy of existence at all. It really is. It’s worth asking that. Whether it’s worth being here at all. And my criticism of this society couldn’t get more bitter than it is in that case. It couldn’t possibly be.