The Psychology of a culture is revealed and perpetuated in how they relate to and treat their children and in how they relate to and treat the most vulnerable people within their society. Heal that and we can heal everything.
Every Organised Warfare State is one the wrong side of History.
Vast Wealth that deploys imposed poverty is on the wrong side of History.
Patriarchy, Misogyny, Racism, White Supremacy, Hindi Supremacy, Supremacy, Xenophobia of any kind is all on the wrong side of History.
Genocide has always been a business model for Empire.
We live within a Bully Cult and at some point we all need to acknowledge that and then build the solidarity required to dismantle The Bully Cult.
Facts matter - we all work for and provide money to the Bully Cult and we do most of the tasks it needs to survive.
We could stop doing that.
Game over.
All of us, together.
It's known as Solidarity.
It is possible.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
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"Non-political, strictly neutral, doesn't matter if you're good or brutal."
Right. In this line, the indeed acknowledge that some of the States being represented in the contest are indeed brutal. And that that does not matter.
The writers outed the competition, thinking they were protecting the conception.
We all know who they are referring to as brutal, States represented in the completion, and certain States banned from the competition. The whiff of hypocrisy is pungent. Every state engaged in warfare ought to be excluded from such a peace bringing song contest.
War does not bring peace.
War does not bring peace, we know this : not in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Congo, Sudan, Kashmir or Palestine. The end of World War II did not bring peace to Congo, Vietnam, Korea, it did not bring peace to South Africa, Cuba, South America. War never brings peace. Peace is so much more than mere ceasefires. Peace is the dismantling of militarism, the redirection of our efforts towards healthy relationships at all levels of society, the adoption of the duty of care to avoid all known avoidable harms as the core of a healthy society.
Supporting one side in a war, arming one side or both in a war does not bring peace. Paying for those arms trades through Swiss bank accounts does not bring peace.
I do not know who wrote the lyrics or the music. Their video does not list any credits.
If I was either, the lyricist or the music writer/arranger I would not want anyone to know I had any part in it. And I would not want a single cent of the royalties. Blood money. I am a song writer and producer. Largely unknown and unremarkable. I do know my craft, and its purpose as a folk roots musician.
Here is the song, 'Made in Switzerland', written with a Latin American beat.. (cultural appropriation?)
The majority of comments on the video are familiar to those who know the bot farm linguistic turn of phrase.
Hazel Brugger and Sandra Studer sung this song, and presented the competition.
Youtube video of the song 'Made in Switzerland'
the Lyrics:
Made in Switzerland
on television every year
in Switzerland
And now you finally understand
that like the Swiss, Eurovision
is unpolitical -
strictly neutral!
Doesn't matter if you're
good or brutal!
Welcome but with decency!
and so sparks of fire
and crazy lightning make
the staging far more frightening!
The song goes on to claim Switzerland invented Democracy and other wildly self aggrandising claims.
How frightening is the crazy bombing of Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank?
It doesn't matter, because good or brutal, Eurovision welcomes you! Here's a tiktok I made on this, juxtaposing the song and a recent Palestine Solidarity March in Cork, Ireland.
Lead commercial sponsorship for the Eurovision is an Israeli luxury hair and beauty product manufacturer, by the name of Moroccan Oil.
Moroccan Oil is made from the nut of the Argan Tree, which previously was only grown in Morocco, where for centuries it has been tended, harvested and processed by women's collectives.
There is a mythical story which tells us that the nut was traditionally fed to goats, and the post goat nut was then processed, using a complex process, to create the Argan Oil. It is a myth, a fabrication.
One manifestation of the world’s increased interest in argan oil is the development of a kind of mythology surrounding goats climbing into argan trees to harvest the fruit.
You’ve probably seen photos of this elsewhere, and there is some truth to the matter.
Goats are fans of argan fruit—and the leaves and any other food they can find. Left to their own devices, they’ll eat whatever is on the ground. When that’s gone, they’ll happily climb into the trees to find more, bounding out onto branches that bend under their weight.
The popular myth has it that oil producers rely on the goats to “process” the fruit through their digestive tracts and that nuts collected from goat manure are easier to open.
While it’s true that gathered nuts are indeed used in production, most argan oil is produced from fruit that matures and falls from the tree on its own.
In fact, goat herders and orchard guards work hard at keeping the goats away from trees with unripened fruit to ensure they don’t consume future harvests before they’re ready.
Unfortunately, this myth has led to the practice of forcing goats into trees along major roads for the benefit of passing tourists, with the worst offenders even chaining goats to branches for days. (If you visit, steer clear.) source : Curious Story
Morocco, long proud of this unique Beauty Oil, had a ban on exporting the tree, to protect their indigenous production. An understandable precaution.
Some years ago, in 2003 we are told, some clever Israeli's took cuttings, tress and nuts from Morocco, breaking Moroccan Law, and they created hybrids which are now grown on stolen Palestinian land, processed there and sold as Moroccan Oil. Colonial beauty.
I made a short TikTok about this.
@egalitarianlovesongs https://innerbeautymag.com/en/2018/11/23/carmen-tal-happiness-is-a-choice/ Moroccanoil has been the Official Sponsor of Eurovision for the past 3 years, cementing both the brand's reputation as an authority in hair trends, as well as bringing a real link between fashion, music and hairdressing Mortocan Oil is an Israeli haircare brand owned by Israeli, Carmen Tal. Moroccan Oil obscures its manufacturing and origins. It poses as a moroccan brand, however its products are all manufactured in Isreal. #relatable#humanity#share♬ original sound - Trader Barry fx
I have to admit I have long disliked the Eurovision Song Contest, on artistic grounds, as a folk musician also rooted in electronic dance music and underground arts over a 35 year 'career'. I am wholly opposed to music being used and weaponised as a political propaganda tool and a wealth extraction practice.
Music, folk music in particular, must serve the needs of the people, must tell our stories, our trails and tribulations, our struggles, our loves, our kindnesses and our shared humanity.
Music can and is used for many purposes: weddings, funerals, community celebrations, for joy and for grief, and importantly, folk music has a rile to play in building humane solidarity so as to inspire and fire up the natural urge to make peace through challenging oppression, confronting the violent, dismantling their status.
It cannot do so when harnessed to political warfaring states and their objectives.
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'Get off your Land' (see below) is a song of mine, about the Palestinian struggle, citing the long history of Zionism as a weapon of the British Empire that replicates the Plantation of Northern Ireland by the British in the 1600s, with the same patterns emerging of a population which holds an internalised religious identity that also includes a sense of entitlement to colonised lands, an identity passed from one generation to the next, exploited by the colonial overlords, weaponising people, parents and children, with rabid justifications for extremes of violence, for centuries. In the song I note the deployment of British Government irregular combat units, known as The Black and Tans, tasked with the oppression of civilians in reprisal for resistance to the colonial domination, from Ireland to Palestine, in 1922.
Geopolitical long term strategy.
Being Irish, and well read, I have a different understanding of this aspect of history than most British people I have met, in my 45v years of living in London, the majority of whom appear to be timidly yet proudly unwilling to admit the horrors of their own ruling class, let alone be energised to hold the English Ruling Class accountable.
Tony Blair walks free, a very wealthy man, one who ought to be in a cell at The Hague, for his War Crimes. We have the evidence.
I wrote this song 'Get Off Your Land' in 2020, produced this version in 2021, and am appalled to see its predictions so horrendously fulfilled. I am disgusted at the British and American and German State Governments enabling of a genocide, standing as staunch duplicitous allies in the international domain, arming Israel for commercial gain. I am similarly nauseated by their deliberate fuelling of war in Ukraine. Russia's invasion is odious, illegal and amoral, that is clear. And yet the slaughter on the fields of South Eastern Ukraine is not entirely the responsibility of the Russians. World War One demonstrated the odious practice of throwing fresh troops to a well defended frontline, to murder and ben murdered in their hundreds of thousands. I fail to see the benefits to Ukrainian civil society in such wholesale slaughter.
Here is Mitch McConnell extolling the many virtues of exacerbating the Ukraine-Russian war, in less than two minutes.
Mitch McConnell's honesty regards the benefits of the Ukraine War is instructive.
The Civil War that plagued the Donbas for 8 years prior was egged on by outsiders, as a means of 'weakening Russia'. Some spoke of making this 'Russia's second Afghnaistan'. Rather than de-escalate, the USUK have exacerbated that shituation, leading to today, where estimates suggest a million have murdered each other, most gruesomely, egged on by US, UK and Germany, whose arms industry dividends are bloated with tax payers cash.
So here's my song about Palestine. 'Get Off Your Lands'
All in all, the competing warring states dynamic and its patriarchy, who curate racism, misogyny, xenophobia and many other forms of bigotry in order to weaponise ordinary people against each other, is a pox upon humanity. It does matter of you are good or brutal. It matters very much.
Our children's futures are on the line. It does matter of you're good or brutal. Genuine neutrality is a stance of non-violent resistance to violence, a direct confrontation with the bullies, with the intent to hold the bullies accountable, as part of the process of making a genuine long term peace that leads to entire populations being nurtured rather than exploited.
We must build solidarity strong enough to hold the war makers accountable, all of them, no matter which state they represent.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
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All is born of Woman, no Harm shall be done to the Children
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Blinne Nessa Áine Ní GhrálaighKC is an Irish barrister who has worked in England and Ireland. She specialises in human rights and international law.
Wealth-as-Power is a Cult of Entitlement to Violence.
She represents the United Nations here, at the International Courts of Justice, on the case of Israel and its legal obligations regarding Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.
Israel faces accusations of breaking international law by refusing to let aid into the Gaza Strip
Everyone ion the worldwho has a mobile phone sees the evidence every day.
The Western Powers who are allies of Israel, who have been supplying weapons and other supports to Israel since 1948 (and before to the Zionist Colonial Enclave) are now finally revealed for what they really are. Wealth-as-Power has removed the velvet glove of concessions to the working peoples, and is stamping down with the steel fist, incrementally.
For millions of Palestinians it is already too late. For millions of Congolese it is already too late. And so on.
This calls for solidarity and for a general strike, aimed at all supports and all the supporters and defenders of Israel, within the USUK and EU.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
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*a flow chart laying out my partial understanding of trauma cults, hierarchy and egalitarian cultures.
*you might have to click on the image and export it to another tab to read the detail
I was asked this question, which I think is a really good question, by Rumi Mohideen
"the juxtaposition of opulent wealth & abject poverty in developing, 3rd world countrries or Northern industrialised countries, if there is any difference, & why you think so."
That is a really good question, Thank you for asking it.
Here is my answer -
I think there is no real difference - mostly because the Northern States and their Wealth Class colonised most of the Earth and imposed their industrial economics upon the rest of the world, and have maintained their dominant position by violence and corruption. They erased almost all egalitarian cultures, prevented smaller nations from independent development.
When the British Empire met the other Empires, it was a meeting of competing Wealth-As-Power Cults. And at that time the Empire Cults were not the majority of cultural expressions across Earth's peoples.
I don't hold much respect for any Wealth-as-Power Cult, past or present, because I know that they depended upon and still depend upon exploitation of populations and shared environment, and because I know that they refuse to avoid known avoidable harms, and because I understand their psychologies as being dysfunctional, anti-evolutionary and a dead end in the long, long play of human evolution. I also understand that they curate bigotry as a weaponisation of human minds and bodies to divide the populations they exploit because they certainly understand the inequity of their dominance and most certainly fear being held accountable, as they see that as punishment, when in fact it is a healing opportunity.
The only possible pathway to holding them accountable is mass solidarity of the exploited population grounded in evidence rather than belief, whose objective is to craft a healthy governance system that meets the needs of people and environment as a unitary system, that is safe for people and the shared environment and all that lives as part of that environment, in the long, long term - it must be sustainable in ways that mimic and reflect how biological living systems thrive.
The Wealth-as-Power Cultures are not evolutionary, they are lethal to natural biological evolution.
I have read widely on anthropology, neuroscience, child development, evolutionary psychology, environmental sciences, history, archeology and warfare.
Everything I have learned tells me that wealth-as-power cults are profoundly traumatising and dangerous.
I do feel, very strongly, that when enough of us understand this, and form humane solidarity as a practical and determined organisational movement we can successfully push back and regulate the wealth-as-power cultism and eventually dismantle it. I am quite sure it will be very difficult. However, I suggest the alternative is even more difficult. It is likely lethal. For all of us.
Most of us are good decent people, and most of us want a healthy future for all our children and their children into the future.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
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It takes almost no effort to submit to a violent hierarchy, to get by. That said the distress of living under a violent hierarchy generates chronic stressors that make life still very difficult indeed, with reasonable cause of anxiety, sadness, despair all of which require great effort to manage.
It takes immense effort to stand up to a violent hierarchy, in order to thrive well.
That effort is made less of a burden when the majority of the population take it on as their task. This is a numbers game, We do have the numbers.
We need to de-numb ourselves, and that will require we care more for each other, even for strangers in our midst.
The Fossil Fuel Industry and their allies understand that, given that they knew about Climate Disruption some 70 years ago, and kept quiet about it in order to continue to extract wealth and build their political power, that they are culpable for that action, for not avoiding known avoidable harms.
Being culpable they are also liable, criminally and in civil courts, for indictments and reparations.
The only force that could hold them accountable is a democratically elected legislature that would uphold the law, institute regulation, and hold them accountable.
They therefore have embarked on a campaign to disrupt democratic governance across all democracies, to prevent any government from holding them accountable.
They also understand that if the vast majority of ordinary people understood this in these clear, evident based terms, that they would indeed elect legislators to hold the fossil fuels industry accountable(and others) accountable for the avoidable harms they have caused and are causing, as crucial step in preventing further abuse of Power.
Hence the emotive nature of certain narratives and the curation of scapegoating bigotry to sow fear, hatred, reactionary dynamics and thus to divide the populations.
Let me put it another way…
A problem that is correctly understood is half way towards being solved.
The Problem - Fossil Fuel Industry knew it would cause Climate Disruption 70 years ago, and ignored the science in order to extract more wealth and build more political power.
Once ordinary people understood this they started to demand accountability.
The only force that can hold the fossil fuel industry accountable are democratic Governments elected by citizens to pass legislation to uphold the Law, and to regulate the Fossil Fuel Industry and hold it accountable for known avoidable harms not avoided. Criminal and Civil litigation being the mechanism to do this.
The Fossil Fuel Industry understands this problem accurately.
The Solution : Disrupt every existing democracy so that no democratic government anywhere can hold the Fossil Fuel Industry accountable.
That strategy is being pursued, and it hurts us all.
Here's the solution to that problem: We ordinary people have the numbers and when we stand together in political and socio-economic and cultural solidarity to elect decent, honest evidence grounded legislators to our legislatures, we can support them as they use the powers of the State, the Courts etc to hold the fossil fuel Industry to account for the known avoidable harms they refused to avoid.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
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