Are we all insane now? No, but in a hypernormalized world, we are well on the way. A whole new path is needed. Nothing is as it was and nothing that worked before will work now.
I recently read something which chimes with much of what you say, but looks at the state the West is now in from a different angle.
Emmanuel Todd, the French demographer and anthropologist who predicted the fall of the USSR when no one else saw it coming, in 2024 published “Le Défaite de l’Occident” - translated into 22 languages already but not into English.
However he outlined the key ideas in the book in a lecture he gave in Budapest earlier this year. You can read an English translation of his talk here 👇
Michael, I finally completed Todd's piece...WOW, what an excellent piece. He really pulls it all together and adds important context to explain the American collapse. I think I may repost it. Thanks.
Insanity: 1) Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, 2) folly, 3) extreme unreasonableness and, 4) behavior and thinking so extreme as to be out of the norm and thus deemed unlawful to be in a special relationship or position of power. So, Mark, we the population may not be insane but Trump, Miller, Noem etc are. . Their thinking and behavior is NOT the norm of the every day person in the USA. This admin has made it so insane … so unreasonable… so out of the ORDINARY that we are ALL living in LIMINOID time now. This is the goal of the fascists. Exhaust us, make us feel insane, fearful and unsafe. Divide us as the admin gathers your millions and your morals… your decency. Your identity even. The identity of our country is now on full display and we all feel the agitation, loss, guilt … the folly of our admin but the inability to make a difference. We do the same thing every day. Judge Napalitano interviews the same people every week and they say the same things over and over. And then those very same ‘same people’ appear on all the podcasts and YouTube’s…. Sachs, Johnson, Ritter et al all repeating themselves over and over. And I think to myself… it has been three months of this…. No 1.5 years of this insanity. No almost 3 years. Ukraine, NATO, Putin, North Korea, China invade Taiwan?, Russia, Zionist Israel, Gaza, Ukraine, Gaza, Yemen, Syria, Iran … on and on and then we realize…. Our fascist government wants ONLY suffering, pain, loss, violence, money, power….. there is no care for the people. We were horrified when Sadam Hossein in Iraq or the Imam’s of Iran, or Assad in Syria reigned through fear… keeping their people on edge. Trump and Noem and Bondi and Miller are no different. They ARE insane. But their insanity can infect us all. Read about post war Italy, France, Germany, Russia…. The night after Gandhi died. The populace bled out… violence, theft, rape, murder, suicide … all the result of a vermin that poisoned a country, a people. Trump and Millet and Bondi, RFK, Noem, Hegseth, now the drink from Fox, Jeannine Pirro or whatever. They are the vermin. The source of all of our sickness. An evil that must be purged now before it is too late.
I simply don't see Trump and his venal little cabal as "the" problem. They are a shit-out product of 'the' problem.
Hell, Biden and his nasty nitwits were every bit as bad as the Trump gang. Think that's an over exaggeration? In only four years they began the war in Ukraine by killing a peace agreement Russia and Ukraine had initialed and went full in with a monstrous genocide that recent reports indicate was fully initiated and goosed on by the CIA. So far, something over a million are Ukrainians dead, close to a half-million Russians dead and who knows how many Gazans and West Bank Palestinians dead in our fully funded and supported genocide. All brought to us by a Democratic party 'liberal' icon, bumbling, drooling Joe Biden.
And Trump lets it all go on and has fully settled himself in Biden's policy outhouse.
Trump/Biden ... Republicans/Democrats ... Elections ... all of them irrelevant. That crap is simply is not 'the' problem and DEFINITELY not the solution.
"Hey, just vote HARDER!!!"
The BBC "Hypernormalization" documentary really explains a lot, providing the matrix within which the two corporate war parties exist and we are all herded and penned like the sheeple we are.
What's the answer? I honestly don't know, but one thing I do know, continuing on with the usual bipartisan dichotomy of American evil not only doesn't work, it doesn't begin to grasp 'the' underlying problem fueling the systematized and institutionalized evil of the American state. Until we properly identify 'the' problem it will just be more of the same on even greater
Thanks for saying what needs to be said. We can't vote our way out of this. You speak to the frustration that I have been feeling with people who think that getting rid of Trump would solve everything. Believing that is just playing into the hands of the narrative-controlling Empire.
So TRUE ! !
i would love to see a president in my life that is anti-Zionist
Me too, but unfortunately, the US is occupied territory.
I recently read something which chimes with much of what you say, but looks at the state the West is now in from a different angle.
Emmanuel Todd, the French demographer and anthropologist who predicted the fall of the USSR when no one else saw it coming, in 2024 published “Le Défaite de l’Occident” - translated into 22 languages already but not into English.
However he outlined the key ideas in the book in a lecture he gave in Budapest earlier this year. You can read an English translation of his talk here 👇
https://open.substack.com/pub/emmanueltodd/p/diverging-populisms?r=7zux5&utm_medium=ios
Michael, I finally completed Todd's piece...WOW, what an excellent piece. He really pulls it all together and adds important context to explain the American collapse. I think I may repost it. Thanks.
Thanks for the link
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Thank you - it is indeed a US genocide and — moronic Christian Zionists outnumber Jewish Zionists….
Insanity: 1) Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, 2) folly, 3) extreme unreasonableness and, 4) behavior and thinking so extreme as to be out of the norm and thus deemed unlawful to be in a special relationship or position of power. So, Mark, we the population may not be insane but Trump, Miller, Noem etc are. . Their thinking and behavior is NOT the norm of the every day person in the USA. This admin has made it so insane … so unreasonable… so out of the ORDINARY that we are ALL living in LIMINOID time now. This is the goal of the fascists. Exhaust us, make us feel insane, fearful and unsafe. Divide us as the admin gathers your millions and your morals… your decency. Your identity even. The identity of our country is now on full display and we all feel the agitation, loss, guilt … the folly of our admin but the inability to make a difference. We do the same thing every day. Judge Napalitano interviews the same people every week and they say the same things over and over. And then those very same ‘same people’ appear on all the podcasts and YouTube’s…. Sachs, Johnson, Ritter et al all repeating themselves over and over. And I think to myself… it has been three months of this…. No 1.5 years of this insanity. No almost 3 years. Ukraine, NATO, Putin, North Korea, China invade Taiwan?, Russia, Zionist Israel, Gaza, Ukraine, Gaza, Yemen, Syria, Iran … on and on and then we realize…. Our fascist government wants ONLY suffering, pain, loss, violence, money, power….. there is no care for the people. We were horrified when Sadam Hossein in Iraq or the Imam’s of Iran, or Assad in Syria reigned through fear… keeping their people on edge. Trump and Noem and Bondi and Miller are no different. They ARE insane. But their insanity can infect us all. Read about post war Italy, France, Germany, Russia…. The night after Gandhi died. The populace bled out… violence, theft, rape, murder, suicide … all the result of a vermin that poisoned a country, a people. Trump and Millet and Bondi, RFK, Noem, Hegseth, now the drink from Fox, Jeannine Pirro or whatever. They are the vermin. The source of all of our sickness. An evil that must be purged now before it is too late.
I simply don't see Trump and his venal little cabal as "the" problem. They are a shit-out product of 'the' problem.
Hell, Biden and his nasty nitwits were every bit as bad as the Trump gang. Think that's an over exaggeration? In only four years they began the war in Ukraine by killing a peace agreement Russia and Ukraine had initialed and went full in with a monstrous genocide that recent reports indicate was fully initiated and goosed on by the CIA. So far, something over a million are Ukrainians dead, close to a half-million Russians dead and who knows how many Gazans and West Bank Palestinians dead in our fully funded and supported genocide. All brought to us by a Democratic party 'liberal' icon, bumbling, drooling Joe Biden.
And Trump lets it all go on and has fully settled himself in Biden's policy outhouse.
Trump/Biden ... Republicans/Democrats ... Elections ... all of them irrelevant. That crap is simply is not 'the' problem and DEFINITELY not the solution.
"Hey, just vote HARDER!!!"
The BBC "Hypernormalization" documentary really explains a lot, providing the matrix within which the two corporate war parties exist and we are all herded and penned like the sheeple we are.
What's the answer? I honestly don't know, but one thing I do know, continuing on with the usual bipartisan dichotomy of American evil not only doesn't work, it doesn't begin to grasp 'the' underlying problem fueling the systematized and institutionalized evil of the American state. Until we properly identify 'the' problem it will just be more of the same on even greater
scales and scope of brutality and destruction.
Thanks for saying what needs to be said. We can't vote our way out of this. You speak to the frustration that I have been feeling with people who think that getting rid of Trump would solve everything. Believing that is just playing into the hands of the narrative-controlling Empire.
Oh, c'mon Aunty Jean, just vote harder! Truly, the whole electoral process is nothing more than a game show on a television network of horrors,
Oh, yeah. The frustration is real.