Elections Are Like A Toy Steering Wheel For Babies: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2023-06-23 at 00:21:39 )

Elections Are Like A Toy Steering Wheel For Babies: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

Voting in a western "democracy" is like that bit in the opening intro of The Simpsons when Marge is driving with the baby and the baby has a toy steering wheel. The baby thinks she is driving the car but it is just a fake toy to keep her busy and let her feel like she is participating.

All the worst atrocities in human history have been perpetrated or permitted by the government of the people who perpetrated them. None of the worlds most evil people are in prison. The law is not there to protect you from bad people, it is there to protect bad people from you.

That is why you should always, always, always be distrustful of all efforts to extend the law and expand government power over you. It is not happening because your government wants to help you. Your government is not your friend.

Republicans push war with China while sometimes acting as skeptics on Russia warmongering, Democrats push war with Russia while sometimes acting as skeptics on China warmongering. This creates the illusion of opposition while giving the war machine everything it wants.

Which happens to be the job of the two-party system: creating the illusion of having a democratic choice between two opposing parties while ensuring that both parties advance the same overall agendas.

The best advice I can offer about United States-China tensions is to ignore the words and watch the actions. Ignore what officials say about wanting peace and supporting the One China policy, and just watch all the United States war machinery that is being rapidly added to the areas surrounding China.

The United States empire is better at international narrative manipulation than any power structure that has ever existed in human history, but what they can not spin away is the concrete maneuverings of solid pieces of war machinery, because they are physical realities and not narratives.

Donald Trumps recent comments about taking Venezuelas oil are another good illustration of the real reason major factions of the imperial blob dislike Donald Trump. It is not because he is "anti-war" or "fighting the Deep State" (he is not) - it is because he is a sloppy empire manager who makes the machine look as ugly as it is and can not be trusted to keep the quiet parts quiet.

Gotta hand it to the empire for successfully duping rightists into believing anti-communism is somehow an anti-establishment position and not the exact same pro-establishment position that was propagandized into their parents, their grandparents, and their great-grandparents.

"Oh you are an anti-establishment rebel are you? What does that look like in practice?"

"Hating communism, being mean to people whose sexuality is different from mine, and voting Republican."

"Ah. So pretty much just being a conservative and supporting the establishment, then?"

It is actually kind of adorable how the Pentagon has gotten so comfortable sucking out funds for killing Russians that it is now at a point where it just goes "Oh hey look, we just found a few billion dollars lying around on the ground! Oh well, might as well throw it at Ukraine!"

Many people who are suspicious of our ruling power structures hold an assumption that our world is being micromanaged by a shadowy cabal of elite "Them"s whose sinister plans dictate every major event in our world, but it really does not work like that.

Conspiracies among the powerful happen of course, but most of the ugly things we see are more the result of a blind confluence of mutually reinforcing forces like capitalism, the United States empires push for unipolar hegemony, war profiteering, and partisan politics.

It would probably actually be better for us if the world really was being tightly controlled by a small cabal of elites instead of being blindly driven by a convergence of unthinking power interests, because at least such a cabal would not be imperiling their own lives by pushing nuclear brinkmanship and environmental destruction like a bunch of idiots.

Inner work is a social responsibility for everyone who is capable of it!!

Humanitys evolutionary and historical heritage has left us all full of trauma and dysfunction, and if you have got the time and resources to help clear your share of that from our species you really should.

I am not saying you have to spend years in the Himalayas, or even go to therapy if that is not where it is at for you, but you ought to do something to bring consciousness and healing to your inner processes rather than just letting unconscious conditioning pilot your whole life.

It also happens that working on yourself and clearing your unconscious bullshit will make you a lot happier and lead to much wiser decisions and a much better life. So there is really no reason you should keep coasting along and still be the same person ten years from now that you are today!

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