We Can Do Anything ... Yet Are No Longer Capable Of Coordinating Anything Except Looting One Another

  (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)

Many of the images listed here are of ongoing protests against austerity.

A friend from Ukraine writes: "There are some very good people living in Kiev who are choking in the insane tornado of corruption and violence. Breaks my heart."

In parallel, a friend from Bulgaria writes: "Turned out BG antigovernment protests [Nov, 2013] were kidnapped by the opposition, .. which is the same as the government :-(
.. So now we are waiting the misery to make all Bulgarian people go out and protest. 2 million young already left the country during the last 20 years. Mostly old are left. Old people don't protest, or do they??"

Other contacts, from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Spain, Portugal and Greece have all sent similar emails - about most of their talented people and/or youth simply leaving, or becoming a lost, unemployed generation. And our coping methods in the USA are not much better.

Will Europe survive this? Will we?

That such stupidity could re-occur, in the 21st Century .... is simply unbelievable! 

How is this happening?

Humans can't possibly be this selectively stupid ... can they?

Sadly, I think yes. I still routinely meet highly "educated" and/or experienced people in Washington DC - from all kind of professions - who truly believe that we should simply return to the gold standard, stop welfare, stop immigration ... yada, yada. Every blind person groping every context is increasingly certain of their view on parsing a human context, the vast majority of whose operations they are not even aware of, let alone understand!

Millions of specialist plumbers, programmers, PhDs, Engineers, Physicians, Bankers .... even priests, you name it .... and 99% of them are so narrowly informed so as to be more trouble than their talents are worth.

In the midst of all this talent, we need to remind ourselves that organized teams can do amazing things ... yet we somehow find ourselves no longer capable of coordinating anything except looting one another?

The trivial, distracting details DO NOT MATTER. We first need to decide to stop being this stupid.

Then, as always, anything is possible. All we need to do is simply remind ourselves that coordinated teams, especially whole electorates, can accomplish truly amazing things.

If it doesn't have to be this way, then it won't ... as soon as people decide that it doesn't have to be this way.

Please stop all the preaching and protesting, which only trigger defense mechanisms (exactly what the worst frauds WANT to hide behind). Then please start PATIENTLY engaging all the disconnected people, on what desired outcomes they'd like to see happen. Only by patiently going over the actual operations, context and finally data ... can all people get on the same wavelength, and work well together.

What we're doing now simply isn't working. We're smarter than this. There is ALWAYS a better way, but only if we're willing to look for one, and are then persistent and patient enough to avoid useless argument.

The few frauds who want to see us all arguing are the very idiot savants who pursue their looting strategy of divide & conquer. 

Do NOT let the idiot savants conquer us! 

We can be smarter than them, but ONLY if we choose to act more intelligently.

Our Struggles Start With Semantics. And Quickly Scale Up To "ParadigmAntics."

Commentary by Roger Erickson

At either scale, we just don't enjoy their antics. Here's yet another case in point.

A color-blind MICC clown school is accidentally* putting on a tragedy.

Invisible War - Depleted Uranium and the politics of radiation

This is worse than semantics. It's "paradigmantics" that are rather reminiscent of our ongoing lunacy over fiat currency operations, expressed by a Orthodox clown school attended by fiat-blind Luddites who can only see gold.

However, in this latest case of paradigmantics, yet another crop of idiot savants have THEIR heads up THEIR asses, obsessively fixating ONLY on distributed radiation from depleted uranium used in military arms.

Meanwhile, reality is trying to get their attention, and is literally screaming that it's the heavy-metal toxicity of uranium isotopes that's catastrophic, absolutely REGARDLESS of the radiation half-lives!

"Nonsense," the idiot savant replies. "There's too little radiation to be a threat!"

Cue distributed "BMHOTKs!"

A few experts are publishing in specialty journals, about the newly recognized phenomenon of "paradigmantics," but the bulk of the populous doesn't even grasp that the entire MICC clown school is metaphorically color-blind, and has a view cluttered by the confines of their own asses. That's paradigmantics in action! It runs by it's own peristalsis, so it literally doesn't matter what anyone says, because whole groups have cognitive momentum which traps their interpretation of literally any communication, sucks agility out of it, and molds it into pre-ordained ideological stools ... er .. talking points. No matter what goes in, what comes out is only their prior paradigm.

While the MICC clowns & some initial opposing activists are arguing about the impact of DU (depleted uranium), another phenomenon is slowly developing beneath everyone's noses. The bulk of the populous is starting - subconsciously at first - to define DU as "depleted unity," and nervously looking around for the exits.

So the clown tragedy show goes on, to it's toxic finale. The MICC clown sees ONLY weak radiation, and goes on with their act, oblivious to the red blood of other performers, slowly drying to black.

The audience is just beginning to be horrified, and a stampede for the exits could occur at any second.

* What if it's NOT unwitting?

ps: Clown, audience disconnect.

      Clown:     "If you think semantics is confusing, just ask yourself, what's a semaphore?"

      Audience: "Look, we're hungry. 1%, can you spare us our own paradigms?"