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.
Why? The Oligarchy are at War against Healthy Democracy.
I wrote this as a short explanation : Healthy Governance - if it existed at all - would regulate toxic industry and excessive wealth extraction, and currently the worlds political and economic system is controlled by a toxic industry and excessive wealth extraction oligarchy, who understand that climate change has changed everything - the externalised costs that underpin excessive wealth extraction cannot be allowed to continue to undermine our stability as a species. However they are unwilling to cede their power or change their behaviour, and they are placing the species in great danger.
The SARSCOV2 virus, and indeed Climate Disruption, is telling us that if we do not co-operate and work for each others mutual aid, we are lost.
To carry out such a policy - effective, continued suppression of community transmission of the virus, so that people can work, live, play and not spread the infectious pathogen SARSCOV2 - requires that the State supports the population's Right to Health with economic support, logistical support and local empowerment to operate the find, test, trace, quarantine and isolated treatment.
It also requires that the State works with the population as partners, equals in the effort. Ruling over a population will not deliver the social cohesion necessary to supress the virus.
This means the Finance and Corporate sector must support the people too. Debt relief, mortgage rest, and other measures to abolish poverty are necessary to deal with the virus, and indeed, to deal with climate change, air, land and sea pollution and other system level problems.
All of these are Democratic Socialist Strategies.
The West's Governance systems are dominated by the NeoLiberal Free Market ideology Oligarchy.
They know that if a social(ist) policy to protect the populations Right to Health was enacted and when it succeeds, then the lived experience of a population who saw a socialist policy functioning would bring NeoLiberal Free Market Ideology crashing down to Earth.
The Free Market claim to be the best possible economic system would be seen as the falsehood it is.
The Free Market Fundamentalists have been writing about the collapse of the Welfare State for decades. Welfare systems and Health Care systems do not collapse, they get taken down.
Which is ironic, because by refusing to suppress the virus in the community, they have proved that the NeoLiberal Free Market Ideology cannot protect the people's right to health, and does not support the people in a wide range of important areas.
I wrote a blog exploring a metric for genuinely healthy governance, based on evidence, nurturing community and environment, preventing harm.
"I think of Healthy Governance as being focused on the practical realities of administering a communities shared resources for the equal benefit of all members of that community.
Healthy governance sets the context of governance as operating within the dynamic of a shared responsibility of duty of care for one another. In that regards healthy governance has to be evidence led at all times. Opinion and belief are insufficient to meet the responsibility of duty of care.
Healthy governance sets the global context of governance as nurturing, caring for and stewarding of the habitat within which the community lives and from which that community draws living materials and other resources.
In the case of States, and in relation to healthy Governance we can apply this metric of care to taxation, which is collected from all, in one way or another, by the State, and is therefore a primary community shared resource. Healthy governance will determine that that resource is deployed with wisdom and equity to nurture the whole population."
The Oligarchy refused to take the correct action because they feared that they would lose traction. Democratic regulation of toxic industry which is also a Socialist policy stance, would be next, further reducing Wealth Extraction - they oppose that on every footing. When Greta Thunberg said "I do not want to believe that!..(You are evil) she was on the cusp of the most honest expression of the political truth of our era.
Billionaires funded Cambridge Analytica and Trump and Brexit.
The majority of Covid and Climate misinformation networks are funded by the Wealth Extraction Oligarchy. So too so much of our News Media, Magazines and Publishing Corporations, and then there are their networks of think tanks and a range of NGOs all driving the Oligarchy lobbies...
They know if democratic regulation to meet climate change happens, they will lose the ability to extract wealth by being forced to pay externalised costs.. They prefer war to the lose of that ability to extract the Wealth they need to maintain dominant position in political establishments and legislatures.
This is not a conspiracy, it is not a theory - it is simply describing what is happening.
Brexit is about unilaterally breaking from international treaties, by grooming a population.
For the Oligarchy, the Wealth Extractors Freedom from the 'tyranny' of sensible, evidence based regulatory policy designed to reduce harms caused by industry is their goal.
To achieve that they must break social democratic solidarity and sow layers of belief based emotionally charged divisions across the available electorates.... when ordinary people hate each other driven by fear, anger, distress, chronic stress, the Oligarchy retain their power.
To protect the Hoard, the Herd must take it on the chin, again and again and again.
Suppressing the virus requires fully resourced pro-social policy, which if the population experienced it, would destroy Neoliberal free market claims about best system.
So we - the ordinary folk with little material power - must pay the price, so that the Oligarchy don’t have to carry the cost of avoiding avoidable harm...
Climate Change isentirely a matter of avoidable harm not avoided - they knew 50 years ago fossil fuel was going to alter the climate and they did nothing. They externalised the costs.
Social belief divisions
Anti-mask, anti-suppression of the virus, Covid Hoax, Lab Virus bio-Weapon, Global Tyranny Conspiracy obsession, pro-Brexit, anti-State, Freedomeers, Woo Woo New Age, Libertarian, Racist, Misogynists, Nationalists, - ,all emotional belief based - are all enrolled through the Oligarchy grooming operation which has found a series of psychometric keys into their emotional hooks associated with quite understandable distrust, anger, fear, knowledge gaps, beliefs, biases....
These different groups are all forming adversarial belief position divisions within the electorate - the available population who are entitled to vote and who, if they voted together could remove the oligarchy political establishment in our legislatures and councils, and instead elect honest, evidence based men and women who would write laws to protect the people from the excesses of the Wealth Extraction Class.
They are not at war with Russia, but with us, their citizens, over Climate Change and Covid.
That's the struggle we are in.
Solidarity and evidence, and grass roots political organisation and action, and the taxation stream of democracies are the powers the grass roots can muster.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
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"You say you hear us, and that you understand the urgency... if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil, and that I refuse to believe."
I have to say, she'd better believe it. We all should, really.
It is not a negative approach to acknowledge harmful behaviour as harmful. It is, in fact, a hugely positive step as it is the first step towards resolving the problems caused by the harmful behaviour.
Our collective, cultural and individual refusal to admit, to acknowledge, to accept and integrate the evidence all around us, to understand what the corruption, the bloody wars, the environmental destruction really means - the evidence that our rulers and their sponsors are engaged in evil behaviours - is our weakest point.
We dare not go there.
We will not be able to generate the international co-operation needed to create and apply adaptive strategies that help meet the evolving dynamics of climate change, that cease harmful toxifying industrial and agricultural practice, that start the processes of repair and recovery until we confront and cease the war mongering. This is clear. All war is evil, all war is abuse of power.
We install eco-lightbulbs hoping that will be enough. We recycle, we re-use, fingers crossed. We hope and we pray. We drive a Tesla car. Faint hope. Delusion.
Everyday evil is not dramatic, it is banal. It wears a suit, a neatly ironed shirt, sports boyishly tousled hair, wears a charming smile to mask lying eyes. Evil is looking at a bank balance or a power advantage and judging that to have more value than a human life, than the environment, than the well being of others. That decision is evil. Adopting that stance and maintaining it is evil.
Evil is normalised.
Evil is normalised, so much so we do not see it. In order to see evil, we must know what it is.
Evil is consciously allowing, enabling or otherwise permitting avoidable un-necessary harm in order to maintain wealth advantage and power disparity over others. Externalised costs are the very definition of evil. Somebody else pays the price.
It is evil to test cosmetic formulations on captive animals in order to assess how much of the toxic compound can be used, or what toxicity levels one can get away with human use of the product.
There is no need whatsoever to use toxic chemical compounds in any products for use by any person, except for profit. Those tests are protecting future profits, rather than protecting human beings. The captive animals bear untold and intolerable suffering, for shareholder gain. That is evil behaviour.
Excellent, honest and insightful interview with MP Clive Lewis, an Afghan War veteran who shows more humane leadership in this segment, than Sir Keir Starmer has shown since he joined the Labour Party.
Twenty years of war upon Afghanistan, so much violence, nothing to show for it except the prospect of more violence.
Honest history in all our schools would go a long way towards preventing the grass roots population from being manipulated or groomed into accepting war as a tool of State policy, and would undoubtedly help to reduce Xenophobia, Racism and Misogyny.
Hypocrisy
Blair, a proven liar and war criminal walks free, on a generous state pension, whilst Julian Assange, an honest journalist, rots in a prison cell, held under false charges.
Afghanistan never needed the USUK or NATO to guide it's progress.
As Naomi Aldort wrote: "Our children do not need us to shape them, they need us to respond to who they are."
The same applies to sovereign countries. Conquest, NeoColonialism, and the urge to force other cultures to adopt the culture of a dominating State is a negative malign influence, and undermines global efforts at peace and co-operation.
The truth about the Establishments hatred of Corbyn is this : the evidence of the past 20 years implicates a significant cohort of the English Establishment, as war criminals, who prosecuted those awful horrific wars, and who knew what they were doing was both amoral and illegal, though it did enable a massive transfer of wealth from ordinary tax payers to already obscenely wealthy oligarchs who donated heavily to the politicians, buying influence. That is evil behaviour.
Lowkey has a spot on take here.
That is a dishonourable legacy.
Evil is human action, human behaviour, more, nothing less. That means it is tractable, it is something we can confront, challenge and impede, and indeed prevent. Here Rory Stewart lays out a perspective that criticises the action of one American president, without taking the whole into consideration. He even suggests maintaining a foreign military presence in other people's lands is a virtue. It is not a virtue.
"Biden can't say the Afghans are cowards. He left them behind."@RoryStewartUK tells @OliDugmore western leaders have only themselves to blame for the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/qJEPY77no1
It is an evil. But Stewart's eloquence masks the evil, by pointing at just one aspect of the evil. He is correct that the way this withdrawal has been handled has exposed Afghanistan's civilian population and civil infrastructure to greater risk than need be - but he does not acknowledge that the USUK/NATO presence in Afghanistan is also a much greater evil.
The unexciting banality of everyday evil.
War is almost always about someone making a killing.
$10,000 of stock evenly divided among America’s top five defence contractors on September 18, 2001 — the day President George W. Bush signed the Authorization for Use of Military Force in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks — and faithfully reinvested all dividends, it would now be worth $97,295.
"Several commentators address this dynamic in the 2005 documentary “Why We Fight,” about a warning that President Dwight Eisenhower issued about the military-industrial complex. Former CIA contractor and academic Chalmers Johnson states, “I guarantee you, when war becomes that profitable, you’re going to see more of it."
Concentrated Wealth is the most powerful political collective among the developed nation states.
War is not cheap.
The political power of Concentrated Wealth is based upon externalising costs.
Somebody else pays the price. Leveraging power to dump the costs onto others is evil.
Boris Johnson's behaviour evil. Read a list of his decisions that burdened others with the cost of his egoic avarice.
Tony Blair's behaviour is evil. There were no WMD in Iraq, and even if there had been, the War of Aggression against Iraq would still have been amoral, and illegal.
Jacob Rees-Mogg behaviour is evil. Food banks are indeed graciousness, yet the policies that created the need were one's he pursued, with others for a decade. Uplifting indeed!
The behaviour of Taliban 1.0 was evil. Theocracy always is.
The behaviour of the Saudi Regime are evil. Theocracy always is. Others pay the price.
The behaviour of the Vatican is Evil. Theocracy as a political hegemon always is. They protect their power at immense cost.
The grooming of 'Incels' as a violent political misogynist movement is evil. Grooming always is.
behaviour of NATO is evil. War is dishonour on every measure. Nobody wins in war. War is a losers enterprise.
Nigel Farage's behaviour is evil. Grooming always is. Exploiting vulnerabilities in other people is evil.
Keir Starmer's behaviour is evil. Sending children into schools, to spread the virus, in spite of the available evidence proving that it was unsafe to do so. No ifs, no buts.
Jacinda Ardern's behaviour is not evil. She places empathy at the centre of her policy decision making.
Donald Trump's behaviour is evil. The art of the steal, the grift, the con, the grooming of vulnerable people.
Obama's behaviour as an American President prosecuting multiple wars is evil. Drone warfare expanded, killing more and more civilians. Funding violent militia in Libya and Syria. Supporting war against Yemen. And he is charming, urbane has a wide smile. So what?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's behaviour is not evil. Empathy for the vulnerable modulates her policy deliberations. She seeks to prevent harm.
Darren Grimes behaviour is evil. Grooming other people through their vulnerability always is.
Noam Chomsky's behaviour is not evil. He has always spoken truth to Power, properly researched and ruthlessly accurate, he has never faltered.
Katy Hopkins's behaviour is evil. Grooming always is.
Patrick Fagan's behaviour is evil. Grooming always is. A psychologist who misuses his knowledge to exploit vulnerable people.
Gabor Mate's behaviour is not evil. He presents the evidence of socially induced trauma's adverse affects on vulnerable folk, to raise awareness and suggest ways to recovery and prevention. He does this diligently.
Most ordinary folk, most of humankind are not evil.
Most of us ordinary folk are caught in the cross fire of systemic evil, and most of us are trying out very best to get by, doing the best we can by ourselves and their families. Most of us ordinary people are innocents thrust into this mess by accident of birth. There's also a significant cohort who are actively trying to counter evil, attenuate the impacts of evil, a constituency of helpers and protectors and healers and pragmatic activists.
And yes, there are evil folk among us too.
The US and UK Military Command (one could argue - all military commands) are, at best, at a rather long stretch, and I am being really, really generous here, decent enough people who are manipulated by evil people, if not evil in and of themselves.
If, at best, they are decent people manipulated by evil, then they are not that intelligent, they are not that brave, they are not really courageous nor are they worthy of their status. They enable the evil rather than challenge the evil. Whose freedoms do they wage war for?.
These people and these powerful hierarchy of violence organisations are all examples of liars and lies that are institutionalised to permit avoidable harms to happen, which do not prevent harm at source, which do so for their personal and institutional gain.
I do understand that for combat veterans this is a huge problem.
Imagine the trauma of extensive violent combat, tour after tour of shocking violence, carrying that, enduring that because you believe you were serving a decent cause? But it was a lie.
To admit that you were manipulated and groomed into performing the most horrific acts of violence, repeatedly, under the pretence that they were fighting for 'freedom' would be too much to bear, alone.
To turn to civilians who praise 'the sacrifice of our brave men and women' and say 'you are being misled by really evil people' who misled me and convinced me to do intolerable harm to others, my hands are bloodied, my spirit is tainted, my mind seared with agonising violence, my heart is broken.
To say to civilians, to those who love you, that your praise is a denial of what really happens, your concept of our bravery is a lie, your desire to believe in that lie no longer protects us - that is too much to bear.
For us civilians to hear that, to bear the burden with the combat veterans, to accept some shared responsibility for that immense sorrow, to admit that our brothers and sisters never fought for our freedoms, to admit we too were manipulated and exploited, and to understand that we too must sit with the trauma, the pain, the sorrow, the grief and then we must resolve to take action to prevent this from ever happening again.
That is courage above and beyond anything we know of.
There is immense grief here. Immense loss. Unspeakable pain and sorrow, masked by stoic perseverance and resilience, obscured by coping and mere survival - all of which is exploited wilfully by really evil people and really evil organisations.
If the Taliban are evil, they are no more or less so than the USUK and NATO organisations they have been waging war with for the past 20 years,
The only way to cease war is to wage peace, and peace is more than the absence of war.
Peace can only start with the absence of lies. We must face the truth, which is simple, complex and is also complicated. None of this will be easy. Doing nothing is not easy either.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
Thank you for reading this blog.
"Do what you love, it is your gift to universe."
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