Talking About Armageddon: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2021-09-19 at 23:48:54 )

Talking About Armageddon: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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The fact that our world is hurtling toward man-made obliteration on multiple fronts should probably occupy more of our conversational bandwidth than it does.

My basic overall position is that humanity is about to end itself via climate chaos or nuclear war due to global capitalism and oligarchic imperialism, that propaganda prevents people from rising up to stop this, and our only path out is a mass-scale psychological transformation.

If you have ever been curious why I do not write more about this or that subject, it is usually because the above is my area of focus. Everything I write points to this in some way. That is what I do here.

There are a lot of narratives circulating about what is really happening between the United States and China and whether the aggressions are actually as dangerous as they seem, and all of these narratives are rendered moot by the undeniable buildup of United States military weaponry around China.

If you are more concerned about Chinas domestic affairs than your own countrys aggressive foreign policy toward China it is because you have been propagandized. Change your media consumption habits accordingly.

Not even the craziest imperialists want a hot war with China. They would much rather China to bow and be absorbed into the United States-centralized empire as so many other nations before, or to collapse and fragment after a decades-long subversion campaign a la the USSR. In that order.

The empire will happily make life miserable for Chinese people in coming decades to pressure Beijing into accepting that it is in the peoples interests that the PRC kiss the ring.

The problem of course is that China will be resisting these maneuvers in ways that can easily blow up in catastrophic ways. It is entirely possible for any of the planned escalations and proxy conflicts geared toward undermining nuclear-armed China to provoke a response which causes a chain reaction from which there is no return.

A simple miscommunication, misfire or weapons malfunction could do it. In a steadily intensifying "great power competition" that imperialists are saying will likely consume the entire 21st century, that is a lot of chances for something to go catastrophically wrong. We repeatedly came close to this happening in the last cold war.

And none of this insane brinkmanship is necessary.

There is no reason the United States and China can not simply get along and work toward the benefit of the world together. The only obstacle to this is a few western imperialists deciding United States unipolar hegemony must be preserved at all cost.

There is no legitimate reason the life of every terrestrial organism must be gambled over some moronic geostrategic agenda which benefits none of us, just because a few people with too much power got some idiotic ideas between their ears.

Do not consent to the new cold war. They are working so hard to manufacture the consent of the public for this bullshit because they require that consent. So do not give it to them. Fight the unleashing of this omnicidal horror every step of the way.

This is an illegitimate military occupation made possible by a Central Intelligence Agency-backed coup in 1975 and is being escalated in a move that was shoved through without Parliamentary debate. I as an Australian do not consent to this illegitimate occupation.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) September 17, 2021

"Why is there a labor shortage?"

There is not a labor shortage, there is a paying people enough to live shortage.

"So people are not coming to work because they are tired of being robbed by the boss?"

Yep. The problem with capitalism is you eventually run out of other peoples money.

Most of us intuitively understand that our true enemies are the powerful and not other rank-and-file members of the public, and most of us immediately forget this understanding the instant we log on to social media.

You do not own your comrades.

A lot of people will get angrier about a political ally disagreeing with them on one percent of total issues than a political enemy disagreeing with them on 99 percent.

Most people navigate social interactions like novice poker players: they bluff the opposite of whatever hand they are holding. If they feel inferior they act superior. If they feel small they act big. If they feel vulnerable they act invincible. If they feel dumb they act like they are smarter than you. Do not buy into their bluffs. Be gentle.

If you resolve on a deep level to get real with reality, to want the truth at all cost whatever it is, it will turn your life upside down. You will lose careers, relationships, you will experience white-knuckle terror. But you will also give life a chance to astonish you with miracles.

Science tells us that matter and time do not exist in the way our minds perceive them and what we are actually experiencing are our own conceptual models of something that is not actually there.

So, you know, feel free to change your own story in whatever way works for you and start over whenever you want.

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