We live in a superorganized civil environment. The level and nature of superorganization defines the common denominator. E.g.: the moment the first American company in market sector X moved operations to China, the rest in that sector were faced with a choice: follow suit or go out of business. Nobody was going to pay $300 for a pair of tennis shoes when they can get comparable quality AND the brand name for $60.
The same principle applies in ALL political circles and endeavors. He who stoops, gains advantage. This phenomenon is readily observable along the historic line. WWI, for example, marked a sea change in the very nature of war. Machineguns, large artillery, aircraft, and the turning of backs on the notions of "honorable warfare" altered the picture of war at a fundamental level and in an extensive manner. Versailles, the ultimate result of that bloodbath, set the tone for the coming war, which was 10x as horrific. All-out war, no matter who gets hurt.
That all given, and further given the fact that Eye-Ran was taken over by violent Islamic revolution in 1979, and has since that time pretty well daily declared "death to America", not to mention their nuclear weapons aspirations, and you have an enemy who is hiding no hint of his intentions. The bar has been set and we in America have been faced with a choice: act or be acted upon.
If I'm walking down a deserted Manhattan street at 2AM and someone I don't know walks toward me and tells me he is going to kill me, if I cannot run away, I'm not waiting to see whether he's serious. He gets shot... multimple times, end of story. This is the most basic survival sense in action. And so it is with Eye-Ran. To stand on normative ideals in the face of an enemy vowing to destroy you implicitly with nuclear weapons is suicidal at best.
Do I like the huge military state that America has built? Not a whit... not on principle so much as the practicalities that revolve very much around the impossible expenses of acquisition and operation, and far more so the utterly non-trustworthy nature of the moral degenerates and nitwits who are in control of those intstituions.
And make zero mistake on this point: without the degree of military superorganization that we have developed, Russia would have lain waste the American countryside long, long ago. China would have had no reason not to take measures against us in a very direct fashion. We'd have been consumed ages ago. This is the nature of things in the human world. Rail against it all you like. Wave your normative ideals until you turn blue. Do so on a national level even. It changes no whit of the landscape. All we can change are the ways in which the superorganism is managed and in that regard great improvement is possible. But to walk away from the powers that superorganization confers is to take both knees and beg the competition - the ENEMIES - to slit your nation throat from ear to ear.
This is the shitty reality of human existence today, and it is so because on the average, human beings are a shitty breed. We don't mind our own business. We are endless hypocrites. We tend toward objective criminal acts and attitudes. Our ideals are always mitigated with excuse upon excuse as to why we are forced to violate others without cause, employing synthetic causes that constitute a great steaming pile. We are consumed with Fear, Avarice, Ignorance, and Lassitude. We are miserable creatures who habitually tolerate the intolerable in ourselves, as well as others.
These are the basic reasons why Trump's attack on Eye-Ran was necessary. We are shit heads. Eye-Ran are shit heads. Ukraine and Russia: shit heads. UK: shit heads. France, Germany, Spain, and so on down the line: all shit heads.
The only great surprise in all this is that we haven't let loose the nukes yet... but the day is still young, so there's always hope.
Things are as they are not only because "government" is shit. We are ALL shit. Were it not so, the world would not be what it is. We all had a hand in it. Our parents did. Their parents did. And so on and so forth all the way back to Cain and Abel.
I wish I could say I saw a promising future for humankind, but I cannot in all good conscience. That isn't to say all hope is lost, but only that the good prospects seem rather unlikely at this time. That could all change, of course. Benevolent aliens could land on the South Lawn. Jesus could return, even if he were found to be highly irritated with us. A meteor could set off a near-extinction level event that would leave the human remnant in a position where the luxuries of stupidity in which we now indulge ourselves would disappear in a heartbeat, leaving people with the clear and immediate choice to adapt or perish.
But at this juncture, the most likely future to which our immediate posterity has to look forward is that of ever increased tension, threat, lies, bullshit, pointless anger, and arbitrarily defined and wielded power.
I wish things were otherwise.
Until next time, please accept my best wishes.
