I'm sure many do but why is it that we speak to authority on things we know little about and additionally haven't looked at from outside of our own perspective. Outside of our own comfort zone and our own bias?
Because it is difficult to do so I imagine. We aren't exactly taught to do this unless you've had a scientific or perhaps a historian's training? I don't know, maybe some other disciplines too (philosophy maybe)? What I mean is to take a problem and to work out all the angles and to analyse what it is that needs solving (or doesn't) and to come up with a strategy (or strategies preferably) to tackle it, if it is in your remit to do so.
I cannot solve the world's problems nor can I work out how they came about nor who is right and wrong (if there has to be a right and wrong). I can just make the sweeping statements as all others do about how to go about things but I find that often I am on the minority side of such things. Let's take Ukraine as an example. I think I said just after it started what on earth are we all doing and why aren't the powers that be investigating how to mediate and find a peaceful solution. It's like me going in against a professional boxer and expecting to win. I might last a few rounds but I'd be permanently damaged and for what purpose?
Not a great analogy I'll agree. But here's the upshot of all of this. Where is the money going, what happened to all the equipment? Who's profiting from all of this? But worse than that is the cost in human lives, the misery and the pain, the long term damage to the countries involved. It seems no one cares about that and happily the supporting governments pour our taxes into the killing of our fellow citizens in the name of progress and democracy. Where's the diplomatic effort been hiding?
The sh1tshow between the EU and USA is an interesting place to observe the demonstrable in your face nationalism on display, the flexing of muscle and the flashing of cash but what are you all doing? Sort it out FFS. Surely we don't think that it is in our gift to sort this out? I see we've signed off more billions in loans when we don't really have and still it's going to be a US/Russia settlement as we are all too busy looking at our belly buttons and playing one-up-man-ship to each other in some bizarre ghoulish game.
As mush as we try to be relevant our country and our economy are going through the cramp and pains of stagnation and deterioration but are we doing anything about it? No, we are racing to the bottom and have bough a few shovels so that when we get there, to the bottom, we can start to dig further! We've lost sight of our car crash even though to act now they could at least prevent it or make the impact worse. No they've pushed their foot on the accelerator of death!
Not all, but many Facebook friends are "Standing with the Ukraine" but are they willing to send their children there? Are they f**k! Of course they don't want that but their present stance is exactly that. In the Mike Tyson's "Everyone has a plan until they get hit!" world, what are these normally sane people actually proposing to do? They appear to have TDS driving their actions and how he has managed to get under their skin is still a mystery to me.
My friends are now experts in international politics, US politics, socio-economic theory and so on. I miss the good old days when they were experts on virology and microbiology but not so good on logic, figures and statistics (which they still aren't).
So when I say that we do not see through all of this I mean that stuff goes on way above our pay-grade and I imagine way above those of the EU who's socialist experiment is now exposed and who present themselves globally as crying weak twats. They are being played and manipulated so that they dance to a tune that they are not fully aware of the origin nor the underlying melody, which they think is theirs but is in fact written and used carefully by another actor. Every step choreographed to make it look like they are exercising free will and in defiance to the tunes author and composer.
Maybe we will realise where our place is in all of this. For the moment it feels like they are the little bullied child in the playground left with the threat that "My dad's bigger than your dad" My friends are busy changing profile pictures to flags and candles in the hope these will make a difference other than to mark them out for the virtue signalling they gravitate towards. Quoting a Democratic party source or a X thread as justification for a continuation of war along with all the other stuff you can do. My favourite is quoting the BBC News as proof of a point they are making not understanding that that institution is currently going through it's death throes and is approaching it's own bunker of failure in the not too distant future.
Asked whether I saw the Brits / Golden Globes / Oscars etc etc ad nauseam I am delighted to say that I haven't seen these now for decades I think. If you want to see what is wrong in the world and you have a particularly good stomach for such things, then just look at the sort of people it attracts, the false images of those who pretend to be someone else as a profession telling you how to live your life whilst they prance about and proclaim world politics from their position of being, well, actors. Yea, right. If you see through that charade, imagine what the rest of the world show is like.
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