Their Similarities Matter
More Than Their Differences: Notes From The Edge
Of The Narrative Matrix
If people really understood just how much
suffering and destruction is unleashed by US
foreign policy, they’d stop making such a big
deal about the minor differences between two
political parties who always come together to
support the most destructive US foreign policy
decisions.
Neville Roy Singham’s
Wikipedia page is now a mirror of
the NYT piece.
None of this was accidental. This was a
blatant imperial narrative management
operation. There will be more. The New York
Times is a shitty militarist propaganda rag
that somehow wound up setting the news
agenda for the entire western world.
If people really understood just how much
suffering and destruction is unleashed by US
foreign policy, they’d stop making such a
big deal about the minor differences between
two political parties who always come
together to support the most destructive US
foreign policy decisions.
The human suffering caused by the minor
differences in domestic policy between
Democrats and Republicans is dwarfed by the
suffering caused by foreign policy
bipartisanship by orders of magnitude. The
ways they are the same are
vastly more significant than
the ways in which they differ.
The main misconception about US
presidents is that they are proactive
leaders when they’re really
reactive facilitators. They’re not
proactively leading the government in
accordance with their vision and ideology,
they’re responding to and facilitating the
various needs of the empire from year to
year. That’s what the empire managers in
their administrations are doing with their
daily intelligence and national security
briefings: explaining to them what the needs
of the empire are on that day and what must
be done to facilitate those needs, using
whatever language will make a given
president receptive.
The main difference between US presidents
often comes down to the narratives that the
empire managers who they surround themselves
with will use to explain why they need to
advance the interests of the empire.
Progressive president? You need to kill
Syrians to advance human rights.
Conservative president? You need to kill
Syrians to protect national security.
Presidents who are unfamiliar with the
workings of the empire surround themselves
with empire managers who understand how to
keep the gears of the imperial machine
turning, and those empire managers explain
what needs to be done in ways that the
president will listen to.
This is a big part of what keeps the
empire moving the same way from
administration to administration. Every
president is being “advised” (read:
directed) by DC swamp monsters who all went
to the same universities and moved through
the same revolving door employment circles
of government agencies and think tanks and
party politics and military-industrial
complex advising/lobbying and media
punditry, who all understand what’s required
of the US president to facilitate the
perpetuation of US unipolar planetary
hegemony.
These swamp monsters are part of the
permanent government structure that stays in
place regardless of the comings and goings
of electoral politics, and they’re always
balls deep in literally every presidential
administration, no matter how rebellious or
anti-establishment that president pretends
to be. That permanent government structure
is why the large-scale movements of the
empire don’t change when a president is
replaced by a new president of an opposing
ideology; America’s official elected
government may have changed, but its real
government did not.
NATO leftists are like “I STRONGLY oppose
the US empire and its warmongering, BUT we
need to completely 100% support the US
empire’s nuclear brinkmanship in Ukraine and
scream at anyone who talks about everything
the US empire did to provoke and prolong
this war.”
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All major international conflicts and
negotiations ultimately boil down to the US
working to stop the rise of China and China
working to circumvent those efforts. Middle
east policy, Russia policy, Africa policy,
Australia policy, Latin America policy; it
all ultimately comes back to China.
That’s why it’s silly when right wing
“populists” act like antiwar heroes for
saying the US should stop warmongering with
Russia and the middle east in order to focus
on China — it’s all about China.
It’s all the same agenda. They’re not on
different sides from the Democrats.
This was all set in motion decades ago
when the US
established a policy of ensuring that no
other rival superpowers emerge after the
fall of the Soviet Union.
None of which would necessarily be a
problem if the US was a force for good in
the world, or even just a force for good in
the world relative to China. But that
plainly is not the case.
So now we’re rapidly accelerating toward
a horrific global conflict, all to ensure
the continued domination of a power
structure that demonstrably makes the world
a much worse place than it would be if
powerful governments just got along with
each other.
The hope seems to be that China just taps
out before it comes to hot war — that it
just lets itself be absorbed into the
US-centralized power structure like empire
managers have been hoping it would for
decades. But China doesn’t look ready to
tap. It seems intent on retaining its
national self-sovereignty.
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It’s so stupid how we keep talking
excitedly about the possibility that there’s
non-human intelligence out there in the
universe while our own oceans are full of
giant-brained whales whose inner lives we
know nothing about, and who are being driven
to extinction by human activity.
The inner lives of cetaceans are complete
mysteries to us. We have no idea what
they’re doing with those brains or what
their minds are like from the inside. The
sperm whale has the largest brain in the
animal kingdom. It doesn’t take 9 kilograms
of brain matter to make a tail go up and
down. Yet there’s almost no curiosity about
what they’re using it for, and we’re killing
them all off with pollution, ship
collisions, ocean netting, overfishing and
sonar while looking to the stars for
intelligent life. It may end up being the
case that we kill off a high level of
non-human intelligence right in front of us
before we even understand it.
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