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nebrisThis Meme is making the rounds Dear Elizabeth Warren, Please Run For President. I commented:
"In order to run she'd have to sell her soul to the Corporate State. They're the only ones with the cash to fund a Presidential campaign. [Obama and Mittens *each* spent a Billion Dollars in 2012] We get better service out of her in the Senate.
Yes, I said "Obama and Mittens *each* spent a Billion Dollars in 2012."
That's the Financial Primary that chooses candidates before the voters cast a single ballot.
Elizabeth Warren is not going to save us.
Bernie Sanders is not going to save us.
And Hillary most certainly is not going to save us.
The Game is far too thoroughly rigged at this point for any single leader to save us.
I'll repeat two things I've said over and over again....
"All politics is local." ~'Tip' O'Neill
Which is why, in the end, democracy fails. Because humans are, as a rule, 'provincial', which is a socio-cultural way of saying that they are primarily concerned with their own immediate sphere of interest, tend to ignore everything outside of that sphere and react with fear/anger whenever the larger sphere impinges. That prevents most humans from thinking 'globally' or even 'nationally'.
This is why Leaders are *required*. The People, by their nature, cannot lead themselves.
TO DEFEAT THE CORPORATE STATE TAKES PATIENCE AND GUILE
“Do not expect to defeat The Corporate State at the ballot box. Big Money can power its way through almost any election cycle. That is not however a call for Revolution. Big Money can power its way through those as well and rather unpleasantly.
Instead it must always be remembered that by its conscienceless and rapacious nature, the thing sows the seeds of its own destruction. Therefore what is required is both the ability to survive its collapse *and* to have another functional structure extent to replace it. Anything else is empty rhetoric.”
This is why said 'Leaders' - a group of them is necessary - will need to be Very Patient and Very Disciplined. True Change will take at least two generations to create "another functional structure to replace it." Otherwise, The System will be able to simply co-opt whatever movements that manifest."
Friend: Michael - I must have hope. Human beings must have hope.
Michael Varian Daly: Hope is a trap. Every time hope fails us, we get beaten down even more. What is required are realistic goals and the Willingness to pursue them no matter what.
Without realistic goals, hope is merely self delusion, the thing that leads us to the showers at Auschwitz.
Friend: name them....
Michael Varian Daly: I have already outline my goals. They scare most people.
But in general terms, what one needs is a practical Ideological Framework that will engage a Beginner Cadre to move things forward during the early days aka 'the hard times'.
Said Framework must in turn serve a Greater Goal, a Profound Goal, one which provides both a Mundane and Spiritual motivation for people to be willing to sacrifice in order to achieve it.
And one must accept that one will not see the end of this thing, that one will likely barely even see the beginning. This is especially hard for Americans. We have been primed for Instant Gratification and for 'Closure'. Such a mindset traps one in 'the here and now' and blocks one off from The Future.
The positive value of 'being in the moment' is to see with clarity where one actually is in said moment and understand its true nature. One is not supposed to move in to that 'moment' and remain there. It is merely a station upon a journey.
Friend: Where do I find them?
Michael Varian Daly: I have one paradigm. There are others. Beyond my own paradigm, I cannot tell you. You have to Seek. Just make sure you're not doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome.
And investing in Liz or Bernie et al is very much 'doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome.'
Friend: I know - I don't invest in them but I thank God for them. But I DO invest in repealing Citizens United and McKucheon as that is where the big money is taking us down. You may be right Michael and I suspect you are. We are very much like Rome in it's last days. But I will not stand idly by.
And you told me you wouldn't comment on my political posts unless I asked!
...so I volunteered to delete them all. This is the epitome of the American 'liberal' mindset, just as fear driven and unwilling to listen as the Baggers, just in their own way.
I expect she will do absolutely nothing different and be frustrated when she gets the same results.
"In order to run she'd have to sell her soul to the Corporate State. They're the only ones with the cash to fund a Presidential campaign. [Obama and Mittens *each* spent a Billion Dollars in 2012] We get better service out of her in the Senate.
Yes, I said "Obama and Mittens *each* spent a Billion Dollars in 2012."
That's the Financial Primary that chooses candidates before the voters cast a single ballot.
Elizabeth Warren is not going to save us.
Bernie Sanders is not going to save us.
And Hillary most certainly is not going to save us.
The Game is far too thoroughly rigged at this point for any single leader to save us.
I'll repeat two things I've said over and over again....
"All politics is local." ~'Tip' O'Neill
Which is why, in the end, democracy fails. Because humans are, as a rule, 'provincial', which is a socio-cultural way of saying that they are primarily concerned with their own immediate sphere of interest, tend to ignore everything outside of that sphere and react with fear/anger whenever the larger sphere impinges. That prevents most humans from thinking 'globally' or even 'nationally'.
This is why Leaders are *required*. The People, by their nature, cannot lead themselves.
TO DEFEAT THE CORPORATE STATE TAKES PATIENCE AND GUILE
“Do not expect to defeat The Corporate State at the ballot box. Big Money can power its way through almost any election cycle. That is not however a call for Revolution. Big Money can power its way through those as well and rather unpleasantly.
Instead it must always be remembered that by its conscienceless and rapacious nature, the thing sows the seeds of its own destruction. Therefore what is required is both the ability to survive its collapse *and* to have another functional structure extent to replace it. Anything else is empty rhetoric.”
This is why said 'Leaders' - a group of them is necessary - will need to be Very Patient and Very Disciplined. True Change will take at least two generations to create "another functional structure to replace it." Otherwise, The System will be able to simply co-opt whatever movements that manifest."
Friend: Michael - I must have hope. Human beings must have hope.
Michael Varian Daly: Hope is a trap. Every time hope fails us, we get beaten down even more. What is required are realistic goals and the Willingness to pursue them no matter what.
Without realistic goals, hope is merely self delusion, the thing that leads us to the showers at Auschwitz.
Friend: name them....
Michael Varian Daly: I have already outline my goals. They scare most people.
But in general terms, what one needs is a practical Ideological Framework that will engage a Beginner Cadre to move things forward during the early days aka 'the hard times'.
Said Framework must in turn serve a Greater Goal, a Profound Goal, one which provides both a Mundane and Spiritual motivation for people to be willing to sacrifice in order to achieve it.
And one must accept that one will not see the end of this thing, that one will likely barely even see the beginning. This is especially hard for Americans. We have been primed for Instant Gratification and for 'Closure'. Such a mindset traps one in 'the here and now' and blocks one off from The Future.
The positive value of 'being in the moment' is to see with clarity where one actually is in said moment and understand its true nature. One is not supposed to move in to that 'moment' and remain there. It is merely a station upon a journey.
Friend: Where do I find them?
Michael Varian Daly: I have one paradigm. There are others. Beyond my own paradigm, I cannot tell you. You have to Seek. Just make sure you're not doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome.
And investing in Liz or Bernie et al is very much 'doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome.'
Friend: I know - I don't invest in them but I thank God for them. But I DO invest in repealing Citizens United and McKucheon as that is where the big money is taking us down. You may be right Michael and I suspect you are. We are very much like Rome in it's last days. But I will not stand idly by.
And you told me you wouldn't comment on my political posts unless I asked!
...so I volunteered to delete them all. This is the epitome of the American 'liberal' mindset, just as fear driven and unwilling to listen as the Baggers, just in their own way.
I expect she will do absolutely nothing different and be frustrated when she gets the same results.
