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TPC #285 Stoop Talk

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I think it's probably a good thing when our idols get knocked off the pedestals we put them on. Chomsky. Bernie. The Dalai Lama. It's not healthy to elevate others to a lofty status above ourselves instead of seeing them as normal human beings who are as capable of error as anyone else.

Reading by Tim Foley.

It's Good When Idols Get Knocked Off Pedestals

The Biden administration has signed off on both F-16s for Ukraine and attacks on Crimea using US-made weapons. Both of these moves have drawn dire warnings from nuclear-armed Russia, and both would have been unthinkable a year ago.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Biden Okays F-16s For Ukraine, US Weapons To Attack Crimea

Many people turn to conservatism and religion because they perceive — correctly — that mainstream culture is a fraudulent sham bereft of meaning and authentic values. Their solutions are misguided, but their reasons arise from a perception of a very real problem. 

It isn't actually necessary to turn to religion or conservatism to find depth, meaning and groundedness; depth, meaning and groundedness are always abundantly accessible. But nothing about western culture makes this obvious, especially in the mainstream.

Turning to religion and conservatism as a solution to the degradation of mainstream culture is just replacing the modern systems of mass-scale thought control with the old ones. It's a completely maladaptive solution to the problem, but you can't ask people to just keep participating in a worldview that feels like it's sucking your soul out of your body 24/7. You need to offer them something nourishing and authentic. Nothing in mainstream liberal culture offers this; it's self-evidently phony, soulless and vapid.

This isn't something the left can just dismiss. There needs to be something on offer which meets these needs better than both mainstream culture and the regressive belief systems which caused so much suffering in the past.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Escaping The Prison Of Mainstream Culture

There are no adults behind the wheel of the vehicle that's driving us toward World War Three. We're on a bus that's being driven straight toward a cliff, and it's being driven by infants. If we survive this it will not be because of the experienced leadership of western governments, but completely in spite of it.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Everything's Getting Way More Dangerous And Way More Stupid

The biggest impediment to free speech is people's belief that they have it. Not censorship. Not refusal to platform critical voices. Not the war on journalism. It's the fact that most people are propagandized into saying what the powerful want them to say, and don't know it.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Propaganda Restricts Speech More Than Censorship Does

US politicians from both parties agree: the deficit doesn't really matter. In their bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling, Biden and Republicans agreed to boost military spending to $885 billion, while making it more difficult for the poor to receive food stamps and welfare.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QUygZa2Eyx4

Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/06/02/debt-ceiling-us-military-food-stamps

How a US debt trap in Argentina is fueling inflation, dollarization, far right: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1BRx90DhYWM

US makes up c 40% of global military spending, 10x Russia, 3x China: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/05/02/us-military-spending-russia-china

Debt ceiling hypocrisy: US boosts military budget while restricting food stamps for poor

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Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.