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Climate Disruption, The NHS, Avoidable Harm, Empathy, Homer and Elon Musk

Radical Solutions for Climate Disruption.

Radical means to go to the roots of the problem, to undertake the discipline understand the problem accurately, so that one is best positioned to design solutions for that problem, based on the evidence.

The NHS in England was a radical solution to widespread ill-health amongst the English working class after WWII. It understood that health care poverty was causing millions of cases of chronic ill-health, many tens of thousands of excess deaths annually and it proposed eradicating healthcare poverty.

Climate Disruption.

1. More than 70 years ago Fossil Fuel Wealth-as-Power hid the scientific knowledge the scientists within the Fossil Fuel Corporations had gained which explicitly warned of Climate Disruption, if they continued to extract fossil fuels and use them, pouring more CO2, Methane and other gases into the atmosphere.

2. They did so to enable them to continue to extract Wealth from the economy and build that Wealth as a weaponised political movement, in order to evade responsibility for avoidable harms they refused to avoid, because they did not want to pay the costs of avoiding those harms.

3. They must be held accountable. They must be made to pay the costs of mitigation, and the executives involved must face criminal indictments.

4. Fossil Fuel use must be reduced at pace, and renewables and energy conservation and other mitigating technologies must be invested into at the same time.

5. Money and other resources must be deployed to protect the most vulnerable people from the immediate harms that climate disruption is generating. We have to look after each other. Basic empathy and morality directs this approach.

6. Failure to do all of this will lead to immeasurable avoidable harm to hundreds of millions of people.

7. Democratic systems must be strengthened to ensure Governments can legislate accordingly.

8. Militarism must be dismantled, and warfare ceased in toto, in order to enable state to state mutual aid and co-operation to redirect the wealth and resources wasted by militarism to meet the climate disruption challenges we are facing into the next 50 years..

THAT IS the Radical Solution to meeting the challenges of Climate Disruption, in order to protect people who are being made vulnerable to its adverse impacts.

Elon Musk and Empathy

Elon Musk says empathy is threatening civilisation. He’s wrong. He is that threat. What’s worse though is that his threat is totally consistent with neoliberal economics.

He did say that. And he meant it.

It is the kind of thinking that asserts the right to avoid paying the costs to avoid avoidable harms, which is deemed 'necessary' to maximise wealth extraction 'efficiency'.

That causes real harm to entire populations - the avoidable harms are not avoided - and that harm then generates, understandably so, dissent, resistance and calls for a legislative regulatory approach to counter such deliberate irresponsibility. To use the powers of The State to prevent avoidable harm is a basic duty of care in any genuine democracy.

And that is why the extracted, accumulated and concentrated Wealth is then weaponised as a political force to influence democratic legislators to protect wealth extraction from being held accountable.

Growth and the GDP is a tool to measure how much Wealth can be extracted, more than it is a measure of the health of the economy terms of meeting peoples needs and the Governments ability and effectiveness in preventing avoidable harm.

China imprisons billionaires who try to corrupt Government officials.

The West elects the representatives of Wealth-as-Power into Government.

So yes, from the perspective of Wealth-as-Power, empathy is a weakness; the desire to avoid avoidable harms driven by care and empathy is a threat to their entire system of dominance.

The Problem of Capital as a Political Party.

The problem of Capital is how to extract enough wealth from an economy to convert in to Capital as a political weapon capable of undermining democratic accountability in order to protect wealth extraction.

In short how to get away with massive levels of theft.

Wealth Extraction by definition impoverishes the economy and the population. It is wealth taken away, hoarded and weaponised to enable even more wealth to be taken away and weaponised.

Chinese approach to avoiding avoidable harm.

Chinese Government plans strategically to improve the lives and living conditions - including the shared environment - of all the Chinese people, which includes 53 distinct ethnic cultures, who receive state support, as well as the Han people...

Avoiding avoidable harm has become a core component of Chinese Government strategic thinking and planning.

Capitalism avoids paying the costs of avoiding avoidable harm in order to maximise wealth extraction efficiency, and then weaponise Wealth to adversely influence Govern to protect Wealth Extraction efficiency, at great costs to citizens and our shared environment. Warfare is a tool of foreign policy. Warfare is always a matter of refusing to avoid avoidable harms.

The choice is stark - have more billionaires or prevent avoidable harm.

Greek Gods and Civilisation.

Every patriarchy cult creates its sets of 'gods' or 'spirits' in its own behavioural image, and then deploys the myths to explain the naturalness of their atrocious behaviour.

Freud and Jung stooped so low as to cite these as archetypes of human behaviour, rather than as examples of the culture of patriarchal violence that they really are.

Egalitarian cultures do not build monuments to power. Egalitarian cultures do not permit rapists to get by unscathed.

The word 'civilised' is a condom, a protective sheath word, masking solid truth disclosure, the STD most feared by Power Hierarchies.

There has never been an evolutionarily healthy Power Hierarchy.

Power Hierarchies are dysfunctional cults.

Both Homer's Oddessy and Nolan's epic takes on it are manospherical attempts at high art, and they both fart abuse as a normative behaviour from start to finish.

At least we have satire.

And then there is satire, at pace. Since the 2000s, understanding the inter webs, and computers as creative tools of visual, topic and written arts, I saw a future where any pseudo artistic or political defecation would be satirised as soon as it was released.

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Belfast Riots : Our species thrivival and evolution is correlated with alloparenting.

Our species thrivival and evolution is correlated with alloparenting.

Alloparenting is the primary behavioural distinction between hominin and primate species, and is closely associated or correlated with the enlarged forebrain which enables emotional self regulation, creativity, third mind awareness....

Alloparenting—the care of offspring by individuals other than biological parents—is a defining hallmark of human evolution. By allowing mothers to share the immense energetic burden of raising altricial (helpless) infants, with the adolescent and adult community, alloparenting enabled our ancestors to better regulate birth intervals and evolve exceptionally large brains, laying the foundation for modern human societies.

Egalitarian approaches are rooted in care and empathy.

The affiliative and reward systems that support biological parenting are also active in alloparents. The Neurobiological Causes and Effects of Alloparenting highlights how alloparental caregiving triggers neurobiological bond formation, ensuring vulnerable infants receive high-quality care even if biological parents are temporarily absent.

Alloparenting mitigates against concentration of power notably the absence of hierarchy systems and patriarchy common in egalitarian societies

Books I have read that have informed me in this issue.

1. Mothers and Others :  written by Sarah Bluffer Hrdy 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1c84czb

"Mothers and Others is a brilliant work on a profoundly important subject. The leading scientific authority on motherhood has come through again." -E. O. Wilson

Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of engaging and understanding each other. How such singular human capacities evolved, and how they have kept us alive for thousands of generations, is the mystery revealed in this bold and wide-ranging new vision of human emotional evolution.

Mothers and Others finds the key in the primatologically unique length of human childhood. If the young were to survive in a world of scarce food, they needed to be cared for, not only by their mothers but also by siblings, aunts, fathers, friends-and, with any luck, grandmothers.

Out of this complicated and contingent form of childrearing, Sarah Hrdy argues, came the human capacity for understanding others.

Mothers and others teach us who will care, and who will not.

Elon Musk's statement that 'The greatest weakness of Western Civilisation

is Empathy' which clearly resonates with Wealth-as-Power is indicative. Israeli Zionist indoctrination is the deliberate weaponisation of their own children.

Mothers and Others is an easy read.

From its opening vision of "apes on a plane"; to descriptions of baby care among marmosets, chimpanzees, wolves, and lions; to explanations about why men in hunter-gatherer societies hunt together, Mothers and Others is compellingly readable. 

But it is also an intricately knit argument that ever since the Pleistocene, it has taken a village to raise children-and how that gave our ancient ancestors the first push on the path toward becoming emotionally modern human beings.

2. Father Time : written by Sarah Bluffer Hrdy 

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691238777/father-time

It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn’t it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber-stamped this venerable division of labor: mammalian males evolved to compete for status and mates, while females were purpose-built to gestate, suckle, and otherwise nurture the victors’ offspring.

But come the twenty-first century, increasing numbers of men are tending babies, sometimes right from birth. How can this be happening?

Real men are empathic nurturers.

Puzzled and dazzled by the tender expertise of new fathers around the world—several in her own family—celebrated evolutionary anthropologist and primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy set out to trace the deep history of male nurturing and explain a surprising departure from everything she had assumed to be “normal.”

In Father Time, Hrdy draws on a wealth of research to argue that this ongoing transformation in men is not only cultural, but profoundly biological. Men in prolonged intimate contact with babies exhibit responses nearly identical to those in the bodies and brains of mothers. 

They develop caring potential that wealth-as-power hierarchies and patriarchy pretended men do not possess.

Wealth-as-Power detests empathy. 

In her quest to explain how men came to nurture babies, Hrdy travels back through millions of years of human, primate, and mammalian evolution, then back further still to the earliest vertebrates—all while taking into account recent economic and social trends and technological innovations and incorporating new findings from neuroscience, genetics, endocrinology, and more. 

The result is a masterful synthesis of evolutionary and historical perspectives that expands our understanding of what it means to be a man—and what the implications might be for society and our species.

The implications are existential.

And given the current enraged violent surge of Patriarchal Wealth-as-Power which Trump, Theil, Musk, Farage, Robinson and many others of the politically agitated billionaire class are presenting and their weaponisation of 'masculinity' as a misogynistic manospheric aggressive nationalistic political movement that is fascistic and divisive, as a campaign to evade accountability for the many harms that we understand from the evidence that Wealth Extraction has caused and is causing (Climate Disruption, Environment Degradation, Warfare, Poverty, Racism) as Wealth-as-Power seeks to over power Governments and countries, the implications are existential.

Northern Ireland Riots Last Night..

In the 1970s the British Army were brought into Northern Ireland on the premise of protecting British Catholic Citizens from British Protestants who were burning the Catholics out of their homes because the Catholics were organising a Civil Rights movement to address the oppression they were under within Northern Ireland. The issue was civil rights, not Fenianism/Republicanism vs Unionism/Loyalism.

History tells us the British Security State and its covert military wing were involved in the Protestant violence, and later on infiltrated the IRA and other militia and ran undercover attacks, killings and bombings, presenting them as from each 'side' presumably to escalate and exacerbate the shituation into a war as a way to crush the Civil Rights Movement.

The British and American Ruling Class saw and still see the Ciivl Rights Movement as a threat. Just as they see Feminism and Socialism as threats. Patriarchy as Wealth-as-Power remains determined to dominate all our lives and to evade being held accountable.

Poverty is a weapon.

The only people who should be ashamed of poverty are those who maintain it as a political and economic weapon.

In England, over one in five adults and a record 31% of children—equivalent to about 4.5 million children nationally—live in relative poverty, defined as having a household income below 60% of the median average, after housing costs are deducted.

Shared parenting by a whole community that has the resources to do that safely and comfortably is a core requirement for psychological health of the people - it takes a village to raise a healthy child.

Poverty is un-natural, it is invented and maintained and in England it is intentionally concentrated, with urban and post-industrial regions bearing the highest burden. The North West has the highest child poverty rate of any English region, with nearly 90% of constituencies seeing at least a quarter of children living in hardship.

Locally, the crisis is most severe in parts of major cities. For example, in the Birmingham Ladywood constituency, a staggering 62% of children live in poverty.

There are no good reasons why a wealthy economy such as England should have long term poverty at such scale.

The agitators like Farage, Trump, Robinson, Peterson, Bannon, Tate and others have been grooming young men and older men from those impoverished communities who they indoctrinate into misogyny, racism and alpa maleism as 'tradition', offering a traditional patriarchal masculinity as a solution, presenting minority groups as scapegoats. This grooming campaign is well organised, well funded, operating globally and is a form of Cognitive Warfare.

Cognitive Warfare

Cognitive Warfare is a systemic targeting of vulnerable people to 'nudge' them into behaviour that can be exploited politically and financially.

Cognitive warfare is a modern strategic concept that treats the human mind as a battlefield. It aims to alter what targets—civilians and military personnel alike—perceive, how they interpret information, and how they behave. By attacking rationality and group cohesion, adversaries can achieve strategic goals without direct militarised physical violence. It does nor replace militarised violence, it operates as an adjunct to militarised violence, and is as often aimed at home populations as it is at populations of perceived adversaries.

In this case The Manosphere targets boys and men who are genuinely relatively deprived, under educated, impoverished, and are rightfully resentful of their shituation as they see wealth being taken away by billionaires whilst their lives are littered with low wages, high rents, petty crime and layers of abuse, and who also feel aggrieved that the more comfortable middle classes look down on them... this is a bonfire fuelled by inequity, quite deliberate inequity.

The groomers know exactly what they are doing.

This is very much what is going on in Northern Ireland and England in 2026 - this time it is immigrants, rather than Catholics, who are being used as scapegoats and targets. The political objective of all of this is to divide a population that is under duress by an oligarchy system, in order to prevent connected, humane, community oriented solidarity ever emerging as a political movement. A movement that would hold Wealth-as-Power accountable and prevent it from causing more harm.

The British Ruling Class prefer chaos to being held accountable. They always have.

Anyone who reads history in detail, from the perspective of survivors of organised violence in colonised lands would understand this. Fortunately the Ruling Class document their covert action in a variety of ways which historians pore over decades after the events being examined. In Northern Ireland this was called collusion.

Indoctrination is a weapon

|ndoctrination is a process where adults tell children what to think, what to feel, what to believe, how to behave, it is a process that use sanctions, punishments and other tools to enforce those instructions upon the child, to discourage independent examination, to punish dissent and uses rewards to groom the child to internalise that set of beliefs or values or assumptions and those then become part of the child's sense of self. It is a form of colonisation of the child's mind, body, psyche.

The Israeli State and the Israeli people at large are an example of where this kind of cultural behaviour can take a society.

Colonialism in the America's was driven by this dynamic - successive generations of children were indoctrinated to believe they were superior humans to others, who were deemed inferior, less than human and therefore could be exterminated to make way for the fully human group.

Indoctrination can be intentional and direct or circumstantial and indirect.

Traumatised adults can inadvertently pass on their unresolved coping mechanisms, which children can pick up subconsciously.

Marketing exploits both of these dynamics. Political indoctrination, propaganda are everywhere in modern life.

These practices totally undermine alloparenting, and they thwart our natural evolutionary development as a nurturing social species.

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Why Wealth-as-Power is pushing the anti-democratic Alpha Male ideological grooming of rage bait

Why is Wealth-as-Power is pushing the anti-democratic Alpha Male ideological grooming of rage bait?

Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHQAfk_5Ekk - Why are TechBro Billionaires curating bigotry?

Since 2016 and Brexit, I have been writing blog polemics laden with solid evidence and references, describing the malign influence of American, Canadian, Australian and British Mining, Oil, Military Industrial and Tech Wealth-as-Power on all our legislatures (Lobbying) and on our electorates (Ideological Grooming, Cognitive Warfare).

Climate Disruption, Warfare, Environmental Degradation, Poverty and the privatisation of the commons are all proven to be extremely harmful, to the global population - the harms were foreseen and the Wealth-as-Power grouping refused to avoid the avoidable harms. They pushed ahead, caused vast harm. They are culpable, and thus they are liable.

Voters in Democracies must hold them accountable. And soon.

I have written about the existential threat this Wealth-as-Power political force is facing were it to be held accountable for the harms caused and being caused by the exploitation at the core of Wealth-as-Power's success and dominance, by democratically elected and mandated Legislatures.

The same people I have been warning about always point at Putin and Russia.

Most people seem, own the face of it, to prefer to cast Putin and Russia and Islam as the most imminent threats - I think we fall for that because it is less a challenge to aim there than it is to take on the forces of Wealth-as-Power that we all now work for in order to pay our mortgages and rent.

The same people I have been warning about fully endorse and support Israel and its genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

Solidarity is our only way through this, and it will not be easy.

We really ought to be using the term 'Climate Disruption' because it is more honest.

'Peace is more than the absence of war' - Arudhuti Roy.

Peace is when justice and accountability is in place in ways that prevent further avoidable harm. Accountability is not punishment. It is healing and recovery of human relationships in ways that prevent further harms being caused.

“Peace, Inc., is sometimes as worrying and War, Inc. It's a way of managing public anger. We're all being managed, and we don't even know it. The IMF and the World Bank, the most opaque and secretive entities, put millions into NGOs who fight against "corruption" and for "transparency." They want the Rule of Law--as long as they make the laws. They want transparency in order to standardise a situation, so that global capital can flow without any impediment. Cage the People, Free the Money. The only thing that is allowed to move freely--unimpeded--around the world today is money, capital.”

― Arundhati Roy, Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations

Regarding the matter of 'Climate Change' I think it is a deliberate euphemism- it is way too easy to conflate 'climate change' with 'natural change' as a linguistic cognitive warfare move.

Wealth as Power - The Cognitive Warfare Techbro Group

Wealth as Power Cult(ures) have dominated humanity for a mere 10,000 years

Every morning a new day starts, and with each day, new potentials and possibilities are made.

I write because I believe in us humans as a healthy humane species. I know that biology does not generate 'naturally' unhealthy species. I know that biology generates species whose behaviour nurtures the shared environment, at every level, building incremental fecundity into the habitat.

Climate Denialism is Cognitive Warfare.

Racism and Misogyny are also Cognitive Warfare operations.

The Chiefs of Staff and High Command of the Cognitive Warfare of Climate Disruption Denialism are the Fossil Fuel Billionaire Shareholders.

The Fossil Fuel Billionaires and others are funding well organised insdustrialised operations at scale to target ordinary people with Cognitive Warfare content.

So when ordinary people deny Climate Disruption, it is because they have become weaponised, through exposure to cognitive warfare.

https://dwylcorneilius.blogspot.com/2022/01/why-oligarchy-are-at-war-against.html

The Fossil Fuel and Mining Oligarchy knew about Climate Disruption 70 years ago. Their own Scientists confirmed it. The Shareholders decided to deny the Science because they wanted to keep drilling, producing, maintain and increase consumption, in order to amass ever more Wealth as Power. Their Power is maintained in large part by their deployment of Vast Wealth as a political weapon.

That makes them culpable for the avoidable harms they chose not to avoid.

That culpability also makes them liable for the costs of the harms caused, and other ancillary costs associated with all of this.

The role of healthy governance is to avoid all avoidable harms.

They KNOW this.

They understand that if any Democratic Legislature upholds, enforces or passes Laws to hold them accountable that they will lose their Wealth and more importantly, they will lose the Political Power as a Ruling Class Lobby.

This they have chosen to not cede. They perceive being held accountable as an existential threat, as a life or death issue. This is immature, of course. we are dealing with immature yet very, very powerful people.

They are therefore waging an all out war against Democratic Accountability and Legislative Regulation of their Industry and their Wealth as Power.

It is not greed for money.

Most of us ordinary people do not understand this because we are still fixated on the idea of Greed for Money as the driving force of Wealth Hierarchies, rather than the matter of Wealth as Power, Wealth as a Ruling Lobby that dictates to entire populations on how society is to be run. In their interests, not matter what the costs to ordinary people and our shared environment.

This war is a war against all of us, irrespective of our cultural, religious and political leanings. They want war, we want healing and recovery. We do not want or need to harm them as persons. We do not need to go to war. War is disgusting. War is Hell on Earth.

Solidarity is the only power we can exert. This the Fossil Fuel Billionaire Shareholders know and that is why they spend so much energy on dividing us.

Solidarity is non-ideological, it is grounded in humane care and the logic of empathy.

Solidarity is grounded in loving healthy empathetic relationships.

When we build a rational solidarity, a humane solidarity as persons who seek to meet one another's needs for optimal healthy human existence, their ability to divide us and remain dominant over and above us, at our expense, is over.

This is something that we can do, and indeed it is both our duty and moral obligation to all our children to make sure this is what we do, together.