AM I JUST A CYNIC? Re: Man of God Declaration

Let me remind the reader: a “cynic” is actually a disappointed idealist. Which means that the original issue is idealism, a philosophy that views the contents of the mind as more real than the material realm. Idealists, like I was most of my life, figure that if only we do so and so, in accordance with such and such beliefs, will everything be perfect.

Instead, as I have learned the hard way, “It’s a process.” It’s always a process. There’s no end point. And thank goodness! Imagine if time. just. stopped! As long as we are alive in these bodies, we will always be both thinking and acting, and usually, we have a great deal of trouble aligning the two in a way that makes sense for more than a nanosecond!

So. To begin:

Several people sent this Declaration of People of the United States for Global Peace and Prosperity to me last night, and I couldn’t bear to read through it then. I picked it up again this morning, and did read through it; and although my own published work often needs more thorough copy editing, you’d think such an important Declaration would have been at least copy-edited with a fine-toothed comb. Instead, even with a cursory reading I couldn’t help but notice a few incomplete sentences, as well as extra and/or mispelled words. You’d think “Man of God”  — who is, apparently, a group of people —would at least get these relatively minor linguistic matters correct in this apparent quest to use language legal enough and precise enough to confuse most of us as to what it’s really all about.

But maybe we can get the gist of it?

Here’s how reader Rose summed it up, at my request:

My personal take is that an ‘inner’ group has apparently focused on what I am personally translating as violations of  Constitutional  freedoms accorded to US citizens and guaranteed by the US Constitution, citing three paradigms as recent proof of violations of the Constitution.*

U.S. Military Pawn Wakes Up to the Game

The following article was originally posted to reddit in 2015! Would that more young men and women whom the U.S. Military recruited by either catering to their indoctrinated idealism and/or offering enlistment bonuses up to $40,000 would wake up in time to save their own lives from the required CV vaccine, the near-inevitable PTSD — not to mention death (from combat or vaccine), or limbs blown off, faces disfigured . . .

You Grow Up Wanting to be Luke Skywalker, then you Realize You’ve Become a Stormtrooper for the Empire

As we head into the 20th anniversary of 9/11, let us also remember that less than one month later, on October 7, 2001,  the U.S. officially began what is now distinguished as its “longest war,” the 20-year Afghanistan War, a war that the Biden administration has supposedly now backed out of in a manner even more ignominious than that of our hasty, chaotic exit from the Vietnam War.

As usual, it’s high time to ask: why were we there in the first place?  Well, of course, it’s not We the People who wanted to be there. It never is. But We the People are complicit, in that we have gone along with (via employment, consumerism, etc.) what has de facto been the economic engine of this country,  headed up by the MIC (Military Industrial Complex) and the Big Banks which need their forever wars in order to continue developing, testing and funding more and more complex and intricate weapon systems to equip both sides of any war for fun and profit (and population reduction, since replaced by the Covid Con). Oh yeah, and in the case of Afghanistan, those poppy fields funded C.I.A. black ops.

Instead of creatively using our god-given freedom, and our astonishingly infinite imagination, this nation made destruction its founding purpose? In case you think that question either absurd or cynical, are you aware that some claim that the U.S. has been at war 93% of the time?

In this context, please remember: extremely long-cycled Pluto, (248 years) the planet of Death and Rebirth, is now making its very first return to the degree it occupied when the U.S. was born, in 1776. Over these next five years we will learn whether this agonizing, apparently accelerating, dying process of the U.S. will ignite rebirth, resurrection. And the answer to this question will depend upon whether or not we can learn from the near-constant warmongering of the first cycle of Pluto.  I.e., Can we learn from our mistakes? Can we, as a sovereign nation, begin to learn the right use of Plutonian Power, to serve the life force rather than obliterate it? 

Remember: President Trump was determined to stop the forever wars. No wonder Big Gov, Big Tech, Big Media, etc. hated him with a passion.

Please read, in order, the following three essays for their increasingly expansive perspectives on Afghanistan.

Pepe Escobar

BLOWBACK: The Taliban Target U.S. Intel’s Shadow Army

John Pilger

Afghanistan: The Great Game of Smashing Nations

James Howard Kuntsler

The Game In Review

And then you might want to pay attention the various ways the forever warmongering U.S. is now being humiliated by the scruffy Taliban. And not just by parading with our military vehicles, and then, supposedly, sending them to Iran, but this, too:

Kabul: Mementos of American soldiers who left Afghanistan are being sold at a very meagre rate in the Kabul markets. The medals, clothing, gear, tools, knives and electronic items, which were left by the US soldiers at the Kabul airport, are being sold at very cheap prices at nearby shops.