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we're all actors on the world stage... some of us are just "hollywoodian extras"....Collapse can happen in mostly three ways: sudden, progressively or change in sustainability. For many it seems that the Western civilisation is collapsing and someone in Joe Biden’s administration is working hard to make sure the entire human species goes down with it. There are counter-currents hopefully and what we might see is a realignment of greater human purpose in a senseless world. From the arm-wrestling between the Anglo-Saxons and the Rus via the Galicians of Ukraine, to the Jews designing their new country stolen from the Arabs — namely the lowly appreciated Palestinians in their own Muslim world, and the birth of a freer alliance called BRICS, we are in the midst of change. This change is not bringing the collapse of the Western civilisation, but a reduction in its influence. The collapse could happen should the West try to maintain its full influence. Meanwhile, some people like Jordan Peterson are trying to salvage the furniture of the traditional Western culture, against the new conceptual wave, wokeism, that to some extend has damaged the perception of whom we are. Without being too dramatic, our Western narrative had been tightly controlled by a philosophically faulty, yet strong, system, which had become efficiently perverse in exclusivity. There were a few voice raised against the current, but they were too few to disturb the main stream. Some of these voices were powerful enough such as The Female Eunuch Germaine Greer that promoted a necessary barrage to stem the flood — with feminism. She was not the first female to row against the paternalistic system, but got attention by her very challenging manner. The gay and lesbian “community” long struggle to be accepted became the next fighter against the main stream. They got some solace when their rights became enshrined in most Western societies — but drunk with such success, they pushed on with overexposure via wokeism and trans-kiddism which hopefully are dying in the bum, so to speak. Meanwhile, other voices are pushing for freedom against the anglo-Saxon (English/American) control of the affairs of the world. As Dugin, the common sense philosopher simply puts it, “creating a decolonized mindset and shifting from Western-controlled narratives”. The Western narratives have been the controlling mechanism that prevented freedom in the East to flourish on its own terms. Slavery, exploitation, superiority, cultural infiltration, scientific industrialisation, the we-know-best attitude has polluted and nearly destroyed the Eastern flavours apart from the spices. Here, one cannot pass, the greater actor of our time: VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH PUTIN. PUTIN has been the “bête noire” of the West. By all means he tried to be friend rather than an enemy of the West, but the West — completely deluded by economist philosophers such as Francis Fukuyama, who promoted the idea that the West had won the contest forever, when it had only won the first round — rejected the offer and still wanted to impose control over all. For the last 24 years, the West has been unable to fathom who PUTIN is… I will rephrase this: WE’VE BEEN TOLD HE’S THE DEVIL, A MURDERER, A BAD PERSON, A DANGER TO WORLD PEACE, A WHATEVER NASTY BEAST… yet our real OWN NASTY power in the guts of the West’s controlling room (say the Pentagon for sake's) would know he is a very clever GOOD man fighting like SUPERMAN for truth and justice the Russian/Eastern way. AND WE ARE THE JOKERS… (Okay, it’s in Spiderman… I know). So, the idiots in charge of the Pentagon/White House are pushing PUTIN’s patience, with “crazies”. The West has somehow calcified — becoming an old arthritic dog trying to stay on top, while the East has become adaptable and rejuvenating.
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India plays a “crucial” role in the new global architecture and balance of power, Russian political scientist and philosopher Aleksandr Dugin has said in an interview with RT. This includes creating a “decolonized” mindset and shifting from “Western-controlled narratives,” he added. Speaking on the sidelines of an event hosted by Russia House in New Delhi, Dugin noted that the main challenge in creating a multipolar world is a “philosophical one – restoring our metaphysical identity.” The political scientist recalled Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for Indians to “remove any trace of colonial mindset” as the country, which gained independence from British colonial rule in 1947, progresses toward a new vision and identity. India, he noted, now identifies itself as Bharat – a name that reflects a departure from its colonial legacy. “In no part of our existence, not even in the deepest corners of our minds or habits, should there be any ounce of slavery. It should be nipped in the bud,” Modi stated in 2022 during an address on India’s 76th Independence Day. “We have to liberate ourselves from the slavery mindset, which is visible in innumerable things within and around us.” The Modi government has been implementing regulatory, economic, and social reforms driven by the idea of establishing a distinct identity for “New India,” which is transforming into a developed nation powered by technological innovations. “Colonization is not just political or administrative control; it is also control of mentality,” Dugin stated. “All civilizations should decolonize their minds. In Russia, we too are working on this because our education and humanitarian sciences are totally controlled by Western narratives.” We need to find a way out of this state of colonization of minds to liberate ourselves and help liberate each other by setting an example. We need to stay closer to one another, creating a just, democratic, balanced, and equal world – a new world order based precisely on multipolarity,” the philosopher added. Dugin argued that India, Russia, and China are examples of civilizational states that unite different peoples, cultures, and religions. He asserted that these three countries were instrumental in forming the foundational structure of the BRICS group, which challenges the Western-dominated world order. He emphasized that multipolarity should be based on dialogue among civilizational states, rather than nation-states central to the Westphalian model, and that India’s role in this process is “crucial.” “India could choose a path to include the West in a concert of civilizational states to create a new architecture of the world and a new balance of power,” Dugin suggested, adding that New Delhi could also play a major role in avoiding a “suicidal conflict” between Russia and the US. Similarly, Moscow could broker conflicts between India and China. Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict, New Delhi has maintained strong ties with both Moscow, its traditional partner, and Washington, despite unprecedented pressure from the West to downgrade its relations with Russia. Indian officials argue that the country’s foreign policy is driven by the interests of a nation experiencing rapid economic growth and serving a population of 1.4 billion. Modi has insisted that a resolution to the Ukraine conflict cannot be achieved on the battlefield and has called for solutions through “diplomacy and dialogue.” https://www.rt.com/india/607942-dugin-praises-modis-war-on/
MEANWHILE, JORDAN PETERSON IS TRYING TO PROMOTE THE UNSUSTAINABLE LIES THAST HAVE PROPPED UP WESTERN CIVILISATION:
We Who Wrestle With God: Perceptions of the Divine Paperback – 19 November 2024 What is the true story of our lives-and what should it be? In his newest revolutionary offering, world-renowned clinical psychologist and bestselling author Jordan Peterson guides us through the ancient accounts of rebellion, sacrifice, suffering and triumph that have formed the foundations of the Western world. Drawing on the psychology of religion, mythology and philosophy, he reveals the profound wisdom of the Biblical stories-explaining why we ignore them, today, at our great peril. Adam and Eve and the eternal fall of mankind; the murderous war of Cain and Abel; the cataclysmic flood of Noah, the spectacular collapse of the Tower of Babel; Abraham's terrible adventure, and the epic of Moses and the Israelites- What could such stories possibly mean? How have they helped us make sense of the world, and who we are, for millennia? How can they still guide us in our eternal search for meaning, aim and purpose? Powerfully illuminating and thought-provoking, We Who Wrestle with God brings the reader on an awe-inspiring intellectual journey through the greatest stories ever told. --------------------------- THESE ARE THE GREATEST LIES EVER TOLD.... WE NEED PROPER NARRATIVES WHICH ARE MORE IN LINE WITH TRUE SCIENCES, NOT THE POLITICISED OR WOKEICISED SCIENTIFIC DISTORTIONS....
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PLEASE, MAKE A DEAL WITH PUTIN...
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Why The Oscars Are A Con
By John Pilger
11 February, 2010
Johnpilger.com
Why are so many films so bad? This year’s Oscar nominations are a parade of propaganda, stereotypes and downright dishonesty. The dominant theme is as old as Hollywood: America’s divine right to invade other societies, steal their history and occupy our memory. When will directors and writers behave like artists and not pimps for a world view devoted to control and destruction?
I grew up on the movie myth of the Wild West, which was harmless enough unless you happened to be a native American. The formula is unchanged. Self-regarding distortions present the nobility of the American colonial aggressor as a cover for massacre, from the Philippines to Iraq. I only fully understood the power of the con when I was sent to Vietnam as a war reporter. The Vietnamese were “gooks” and “Indians” whose industrial murder was preordained in John Wayne movies and sent back to Hollywood to glamourise or redeem.
I use the word murder advisedly, because what Hollywood does brilliantly is suppress the truth about America’s assaults. These are not wars, but the export of a gun-addicted, homicidal “culture”. And when the notion of psychopaths as heroes wears thin, the bloodbath becomes an “American tragedy” with a soundtrack of pure angst.
Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker is in this tradition. A favourite for multiple Oscars, her film is “better than any documentary I’ve seen on the Iraq war. It’s so real it’s scary” (Paul Chambers CNN). Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian reckons it has “unpretentious clarity” and is “about the long and painful endgame in Iraq” that “says more about the agony and wrong and tragedy of war than all those earnest well-meaning movies”.
What nonsense. Her film offers a vicarious thrill via yet another standard-issue psychopath high on violence in somebody else’s country where the deaths of a million people are consigned to cinematic oblivion. The hype around Bigelow is that she may be the first female director to win an Oscar. How insulting that a woman is celebrated for a typically violent all-male war movie.
The accolades echo those for The Deer Hunter (1978) which critics acclaimed as “the film that could purge a nation’s guilt!” The Deer Hunter lauded those who had caused the deaths of more than three million Vietnamese while reducing those who resisted to barbaric commie stick figures. In 2001, Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down provided a similar, if less subtle catharsis for another American “noble failure” in Somalia while airbrushing the heroes’ massacre of up to 10,000 Somalis.
By contrast, the fate of an admirable American war film, Redacted, is instructive. Made in 2007 by Brian De Palma, the film is based on the true story of the gang rape of an Iraqi teenager and the murder of her family by American soldiers. There is no heroism, no purgative. The murderers are murderers, and the complicity of Hollywood and the media in the epic crime in Iraq is described ingeniously by De Palma. The film ends with a series of photographs of Iraqi civilians who were killed. When it was order that their faces be ordered blacked out “for legal reasons”, De Palma said, “I think that’s terrible because now we have not even given the dignity of faces to this suffering people. The great irony about Redacted is that it was redacted.” After a limited release in the US, this fine film all but vanished.
Non-American (or non-western) humanity is not deemed to have box office appeal, dead or alive. They are the “other” who are allowed, at best, to be saved by “us”. In Avatar, James Cameron’s vast and violent money-printer, 3-D noble savages known as the Na’vi need a good guy American soldier, Sergeant Jake Sully, to save them. This confirms they are “good”. Natch.
My Oscar for the worst of the current nominees goes to Invictus, Clint Eastwood’s unctuous insult to the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Taken from a hagiography of Nelson Mandela by a British journalist, John Carlin, the film might have been a product of apartheid propaganda. In promoting the racist, thuggish rugby culture as a panacea of the “rainbow nation”, Eastwood gives barely a hint that many black South Africans were deeply embarrassed and hurt by Mandela’s embrace of the hated Springbok symbol of their suffering. He airbrushes white violence – but not black violence, which is ever present as a threat. As for the Boer racists, they have hearts of gold, because “we didn’t really know”. The subliminal theme is all too familiar: colonialism deserves forgiveness and accommodation, never justice.
At first I thought Invictus, could not be taken seriously, then I looked around the cinema at young people and others for whom the horrors of apartheid have no reference, and I understood the damage such a slick travesty does to our memory and its moral lessons. Imagine Eastwood making a happy-Sambo equivalent in the American Deep South. He would not dare.
The film most nominated for an Oscar and promoted by the critics is Up in the Air, which has George Clooney as a man who travels America sacking people and collecting frequent flyer points. Before the triteness dissolves into sentimentality, every stereotype is summoned, especially of women. There is a bitch, a saint and a cheat. However, this is “a movie for our times”, says the director Jason Reitman, who boasts having cast real sacked people. “We interviewed them about what it was like to lose their job in this economy,” said he, “then we’d fire them on camera and ask them to respond the way they did when they lost their job. It was an incredible experience to watch these non-actors with 100 per cent realism.”
Wow, what a winner.
https://countercurrents.org/pilger110210.htm
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PLEASE, MAKE A DEAL WITH PUTIN...
YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.
“It’s hard to do cartoons without Shakespeare in Hollywood…”
Gus Leonisky