Mr. Tea
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The Ollie-garchs!Who runs the oligarchy?
The Ollie-garchs!Who runs the oligarchy?
but to beleive that there is a group powerful enough to, for example, draw up long term plans to slow growth, depopulate the earth, impose limitations on travel etc either to combat climate change or under the guise of combatting climate change is not inherently or inevitably anti-semitic in my view, particularly if we take climate change to be real, as i do.
but i dont think the premise is outright insane and there is evidence to support it.
i think this is quite a silly argument. you wouldnt be able to carry it through with any conviction if you attempted to.It's structurally anti-Semitic though. It reproduces the same set of ideas, much as you're trying to disavow it's racist content
yes, this is what we are told and it may well be true but on the other hand we see, to give an example, a century of american hegemony and sustained soft power projection and wealth accumulation and we think, not unreasonably, that this is not acheived by dysfunction but by competence and unity of purpose.The trouble is that all of the institutions that actually approach this level of power and reach are all intrinsically dysfunctional, fractious and flawed.
Maybe such a 'group' (whether it considers itself in such terms or not) exists. Maybe it doesn't and humanity is just too unruly and complex and irrational for such large-scale control to really exist. But even assuming it does exist and does have that power, how would doing that suit them any better than the current setup? Arch-paranoiac you may be, but I think in this instance you're just not cynical enough. There's just far too much money to be made from people buying unnecessary things and making unnecessary journeys, whether that's Corpsey's annual fortnight in Crete or pointless office commutes for jobs that could be done at home. Just look at the pressure from the government for everyone to "get back to the office".but to beleive that there is a group powerful enough to, for example, draw up long term plans to slow growth, depopulate the earth, impose limitations on travel etc either to combat climate change or under the guise of combatting climate change is not inherently or inevitably anti-semitic in my view, particularly if we take climate change to be real, as i do.
yes, this is what we are told and it may well be true but on the other hand we see, to give an example, a century of american hegemony and sustained soft power projection and wealth accumulation and we think, not unreasonably, that this is not acheived by dysfunction but by competence and unity of purpose.
detail is detail. its the trees that obscure the wood.But that's because you have an almost total ignorance of historical detail.
well, im not commited to this narrative. i think it is a valid and logical construction. i think there are problems that arise if you assume it is true.That's the obvious and boring answer, so I can see why you reject it. But I think it's probably the right one.
Right, but suppose, in an alternate time-line, that after being invaded by (primarily) the USA, Afghanistan and Iraq had somehow turned into peaceful, prosperous, liberal, secular democracies, in the Western model. Then someone taking your position about America's imperial ambitions would say, well that was clearly the plan all along.yes, this is what we are told and it may well be true but on the other hand we see, to give an example, a century of american hegemony and sustained soft power projection and wealth accumulation and we think, not unreasonably, that this is not acheived by dysfunction but by competence and unity of purpose.
This is just both-sidising it. Let's you state what you think - or what's entertaining for you to think - without ownershipwell, im not commited to this narrative.