You can’t blame a single group of thinkers. They think this way, but they are adaptable.

Look, the CIA is a serious set of people who cannot be trifled with. But they are adaptable, as are any group of humans.

We change the woeld by insisting that humans must be free. But also, free from. Free from truly nefarious actors who only want control.

Maybe CIA people are against that. Maybe that’s why they do what they do.

I get that you’re in favor of Iranian policies to execute 30,000 or more people who just wanted more rights for women and daily life.

You believe that because your rights have never been seriously questioned, so why would anyone else’s be?

Human beings love and desire freedom. You live in a quasi-authoritarian state, so this shit seems normal to you, and you are not offended by it.

To you, peace means give me the things I want, and all is well.

You don’t stop to imagine what you are missing out on. Like these women and their male supporters in Iran.

Just talk about shit. The articles are there, read them if you want. Stopped doing that years ago because it’s just a scam.

This is not a defense of Islam. It is a statement about literature.

In the category of wisdom, you basically have two camps. One says repression leads to stronger outcomes. The other says liberation does so.

It really doesn’t have anything to do with literature. This culture or that culture can say, here is our guiding light.

But the literature of Islam, directly connected to Koranic teaching, seems, from a medieval perspective, to favor women. That’s why it’s so ironic.

You say that with a shocking detachment. You are living here right now. Wake up to its immenence.

In the country of the United States, nobody is going to eff with us, because we have nuclear weapons. You can’t just fly in here and do your bidding. We will make your life a living hell.

Not every country has this deterrent. They depend on rules-based order, which is being left, by and large, because each country has become afraid.

It is this fear which is driving a madness, which is pushing us to the brink. But one believes in love. I believe we can push past this utter chaos in our thinking. Because we must, but also because we want to.

You have it in reverse, limited resources actually causes excess population. When there’s nothing else to do, people f*ck.

Of course famine and political pressures which lead to that, are a factor. However, the real resource is cultural, it’s mental, it’s ‘potential’. It’s freedom to create something new and interesting.

When theology and politics collude, there is an integral degradation of mental resources. People stop thinking, and become drones, bots, npc’s. They are stripped of their potential. They react in a variety of ways, one of which is the enslavement of women for the function of reproductive activity—which we might owe a debt of gratitude toward.

Summarily, the darkness born of ideological theology (as opposed to cultural theology, which binds people together informally), leads to population booms, and as a product of last resort, people reproduce as a means of coping, without the accompanying intention of reproduction…

The most stable demographic regions of this world are also the least economically developed. As an example.

Thank you for the reply. With all due respect to our elder, one would argue this doesn’t entirely have to do with education, as such.

Americans have long been socialized to be ‘doers’ of things, not thinkers. So while our European counterparts in the West were still critically thinking, we were building skyscrapers and dune buggies. It’s a difference in kind, not in degree.

However, we literally couldn’t build a skyscraper anymore without immigrants from other, less coddled cultures. We have fallen into a trap of ‘safety-ism’. A Buddhist concept of ‘do no harm’ (ahimsa) denuded of its cultural significance.

If one adds this cultural dimension stripped of raw ‘doer’ mentality to the incumbent anti-intellectual nature of our culture, we are left not only with unthinking people, but gutless people as well.

The idea is that this strange combination is infantilizing the humans within its grip, and stripping them of their moral and experiential character—character producing morality based on experience.

Thank you. Danka shoen, for your reply. Spent several months in Germany, and this does not (as yet) apply your rigid but complex and beautiful culture.

The concept mentioned here is that bad education is infantilizing kids—not simply miseducating, but specifically coddling and preventing them from growing up.

Further, the theory included herein is that, by doing this ‘coddling’ and ‘teaching to a test’, rather than seeking true education, experimentation, and maturation, we are holding minds in a perpetual childhood, which is reflected in physical appearance.

That is the radical idea presented. That by feeding kids alphabet soup for 18 years, they do not physically mature either. They become stunted, much the same way a malnourished person (during childhood) does not reach their full growth potential. But it’s a face and eyes thing, rather than a height thing.

There is no stopping a war once it has begun, other than victory for one side or the other. It simply doesn’t matter how or why the US went to war with Iran anymore. It happened. That is the reality; will leave it to Historians to tell us ‘why’.

Living in the present, the ball moving forward, efforts must be made to either accept defeat quickly, or make decisive moves toward victory.

Taking the second option will include boots on the ground. There is no need to count your chickens before they hatch—nobody can predict how many lives must be offered on the altar of anti-Islamic totalitarianism and human rights (if these are goals worth pursuing, which isn’t the point, militarily).

Likely a slow and methodical push across the Iraqi-Iranian border with joint-Allied Western troops, trained in the tactical necessities thry have chosen to undergo (not sending in peasant cannon-fodder), and sizing vast territory by use of force while arming and supply Iranian dissidents with means to defend themselves and become strategic partners in the cause of their own potential freedom, is a thoughtful approach.

The outcome is impossible to predict, as similar allied efforts on the other side could coalesce as well, though at current outset seems unlikely as there is little to actually gain by extending the power of a failed and unpopular Messianic cult of extremists who only ever cause trouble and create conditions worthy of constant pushback by trading partners.

Please give examples of satellite technology during Antiquity … Will accept oracle’s, magical devices we can no longer make sense of, and supernatural mental powers…

Regardless, Athens and Sparta were similar cultures, ethnographically. A better analogy would be Brittish Empire vs. American Colonies… Reconquista resulting in Ferdinand and Isabella overthrowing the Iberian Islamic Caliphate, or Andalus.

Due to virtual geological isolation, the likely downfall for the US oligarchy would be a sharp and violent civil war. They could afford to lose a variety of foreign adventures, in our highly technological world, without actually falling.

The only way to beat/conquer the Russian identity is to exhaust it. History has not found a way of doing this. As yet.

Russians who go abroad and/or spend a lot of time among people in the West come to see a different way; one which they often and ultimately embrace, only to never return to their home country.

But we all know that ‘travel’ is not a cure for identity crisis. People travel and often learn nothing. Even those in the West.

The thing that brought the Russian culture to overthrow the Czarist rule was not a magical political theory that was absolutely amazing, but cruel oppression and ignorant government institutions for years on end, as they watched a burgeoning elite embrace and benefit from European values. Revolution often finds merely convenient means and theories, as an escape route.

If we assume the Czarist impulse which bled into the Soviet system will never be satiated in its hunger for expansion, all we can do is what one’s older, wiser brother does to its enraged younger brother: put your hand on his forehead, extend your arm, and let him swing away.

Otherwise you have to beat him to a pulp. But usually younger brothers don’t have nuclear arsenals.

The will of the oppressed is often defeated by the will of the oppressor. It is such a beautiful inclination most people have that by doing nothing and continuing in our consumeristic tract, simply disagreeing, that human beings in distant cultures will just slowly align with ours.

The basic framework of human progress has been militant. It’s disgusting. However, doing nothing and expecting everything is nearly as disgusting as militarism.

Perhaps there is a world where people constantly exert their efforts non-violently to overcome a distant foe of unrighteousness. We just don’t live in that world…

As we have it, there are four main divisions in society, brahminical (priestly), kshatriya (warrior), vaishya (business and farming), and supra (helpers and delinquent [like oneself]).

The only thing one could say to your beautiful upheaval is that, the world has known countless instances where unfortunately violence has been the cure.

We can look closely at WWII Germany, whose victims were largely Jewish, but also included homosexuals and other dissidents. We can look at the American Civil War, which was waged for a variety of reasons but whose final goal was the elimination of cattle slavery.

We can see Western militariam as a whole as an act of women’s liberation.

One is unable to see this world as it is without aggressive means to produce change we needed.it has been a slow process, but the world has come, largely, to see it our way, especially on the front of women’s liberation–simply can’t see it as occuring any other way.

One believes that we are nearing your strategy, and our hopelessness must ultimately include it, because this force and violence cannot proceed into the distant future. Obviously, peace is the last and final and holy destination.

Thanks for your reply, it hit very deeply.

Oh Beloveds, One is a pacifist to the core. But one lives in an environment where most people are packing death colts. You have no idea. They have so many weapons that you could hardly understand. They have placed their faith in these firearms. They love them, believe in them as though God himself authorizes them.

They should be challenged. Live by the deadly weapon, die by one. It is the calculation of their own savior.

Thus it is no diminishment to require them to send their children into battle, since they have collectively chosen the sword.

And if we must do damage, let it be to the one nation which is so eternally corrupt and debased so as to deny a single argument I favor of them—none of you will regard these demoniacal individuals as worthy of running a country. Not one.

Could not make a coherent argument. Tries shaming ritual. Fails.

Are you 62 or older? Buenos dias

White man. Slept next to a biracial black-asian man for 12 years. Diverse group of friends. Enjoyed both soul food, and food from Seoul.

Wealth stratification remains the main problem. Use of identity politics and DEI and race-guilt is a method employed by the elites to divide us.

Keep digging into the past, and utilizing emotional manipulation to further the cause of the true dividers and one will discover the dystopia unimaginable even to MLK.

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