Iran War Collapses U.S. Neoliberal Economy
Yanis Varoufakis is more informed on these matters than either of us.
Today, it’s easy to see that the US is a mafia state, and a large part of the easiness comes from the fact that ‘we’ already hated this particular Don.
It’s much harder to see that it has been so for our entire lives, at least since the ambitious capos knocked off the Kennedy godfather.
Vietnam was the same thing, except that the escalation there was committed by neoliberal Democrats.
In the election of 1964, my blue dears would have said that a vote for LBJ was necessary in order to save us from the stark raving insanity of Barry Goldwater.
Which illustrates quite nicely that at the level of war and peace and imperialism and the self-justifying economic interests of the technocratic class, you never have a real choice, and ‘democracy’ is a sham.
Because “we have to bomb the village and kill everyone who lived there ..
in order to save it”.
Then as now.
Brother Yanis also dismantles the neo-feminist argument for the war, the same dopey logic that would have had us staying in Afghanistan for another 20 years in order to save the ladies, had crazy Joe not done the one partly-good thing in his four years.
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It froze just barely last night, but in a week the weatherpeople are calling for high temperatures above ninety up here on the Plateau, setting not just daily records, but gifting us with the historically highest temperatures in any March ever.
We’ve broken things, and not just each other. I won’t care if you want to insist on telling me about the inevitable upward climb of civilized progress, so long as you don’t care if I quietly and politely laugh in your face.
Yes, I own two internal combustion engines, and a furnace, and a gas stove too, and I have no intention of giving them up. Not while combined, they have the carbon footprint of about one jet flight which I refuse to board. Damn me for my hypocrisy if you must, but don’t think for a minute that I won’t feel entitled to run those judgments backwards as well as forwards, either.
The Sun Also Rises.
Alright. Enough of that shit. I walked today.
And part of the reason I walked was the born fruit of my first truly AI-assisted meditation, and
that part can wait until midnight.