by Ken Leslie for The Saker Blog
Note: I appreciate that some will find the essay controversial or even uncomfortable reading. I hope though that it can destroy the paralysing trope of Soros bad – everybody else good.
I’d very much like to thank The Saker for deeming this essay good enough to publish. Like many others, I have been engrossed in the mayhem unfolding in the United States over the last week or so. I have felt a sense of relief and hope in what I see as the beginning of the end of the United States as a fundamentally fascist quasi-empire whose criminal record in terms of destruction of innocent lives and countries after 1945 is unparalleled (according to some estimates, 30 million people and 56 countries respectively—highly likely more). More important, I have been heartened by the sense that a new, different America might be possible.
This is not the place to elaborate on why and how the USA arrived at a point at which, many people sense, a restoration of its former power and status is impossible. Here, I want to address something that I have found quite strange, namely, the muted if not completely inimical reaction in many alternative (particularly pro-Russian) media to this momentous event. Here, I will briefly comment on some of the relevant points but will avoid dealing with political and tactical reasons for such a reaction.
1. Why destroy a great country over one dead black man—he was passing a fake cheque!
The country as it is needs to end and be replaced by something else—hopefully better. It was built on a massive genocide of the indigenous human and buffalo populations (despite what some revisionists claim). It was built on the sweat of the black, Chinese and other sources of slave or near-slave labour. It achieved its acme at a time when the rest of the world was laid low by the ravages of war. Since the end of WWII, it has leveraged the disgusting, anti-Christian and anti-human myth of exceptionality to loot, pillage, destroy, and bully innumerable countries and retard progress towards a more equitable and just society. This is not even contentious.
Drunk on anti-communism, Russophobia and a completely undeserved superiority complex, successive US governments have also used this pernicious myth (remember the CIA cut-out Obama?) to anaesthetise their population to the fact that the Potemkin village of American supremacy was starting to crumble as early as 1968. The anaesthetic started to wear off in the early 2000s and now we are finally witnessing the moment of full awakening. The ultimate irony of the situation lies in the fact that great American “patriots” strutting on Twitter are quiet about the fact that their own cherished City on the Hill was born from a bloody rebellion, rioting and destruction—of continental proportions.
This is the main reason for the current confusion—people as thoroughly zombified as an average adult American are utterly incapable of comprehending their predicament and reflecting critically in order to affect positive change. Sure, there will be token gestures of “taking a knee” with protesters, sops to the black community etc. None of this however can reverse the rapid descent into Hades of a country built on iniquity. The pain of the black American is real. Still inchoate despite a number of attempts to articulate it intellectually, it reflects a genuine sense of grievance and desperation. The experience of slavery to one side, it is the constant and uninterrupted campaign by the right-wing whites to behead the black leadership and strangle any genuine attempts by the black community to advance—politically, economically or culturally—that has found its expression in an emotive call to protest.
Sadly, some people think of the black Americans as the lowest of the low. According to this view, they are hardly human and their low caste status is justified because of their low IQ, inherent laziness, affinity for violence, promiscuity etc. Never once do these superior human beings stop to consider that the causality might be reversed—that it is precisely because of the inhuman treatment, cruel uprooting and universal contempt of generations of African Americans that have given rise to the criminality. If I were treated by the police and white people the way that many black Americans are treated, I would rob, loot and kill too. This is not to say that white people are irredeemably racist. As the protests demonstrate, younger generations will not stand for racism of any kind.
It is unthinkable for me to view anybody, let alone an African-American, as a sub-human precisely because my people were enslaved for 400 years and as recently as 1940s, my “race” was considered Untermenschen, not worthy of life or any human consideration. In addition, I do believe in the precepts of Jesus Christ. This makes it easy for me to empathise with black Americans despite the constant poisoning of the well by various COINTELPRO machinations. Until now, there has often been more white outrage on the internet over the abuse of animals than over the deaths of black people. The narratives such as “they shouldn’t have resisted arrest” are no longer allowable and rightly so. This is the end of that argument, no ifs, no buts. Unless we are able to recognise our own exceptionalism, we can never claim to be fully human (or Christian). If you were ever thought of as “lower”, you have no right to look down. And especially if you weren’t! You can’t serve God and Mammon both. I am no better than anybody else, just aware of my own darkness.
2. Raise the bridge, Soros at the gates!
Apart from racial insensitivity, that insidious poison of the mind, another reason for the muted reaction must be the fear conditioned by the alt-right that Soros, Illuminati, freemasons, satanic Bolsheviks, Antifa, Frankfurt School etc. are behind the riots. The reticence is understandable—the malevolent speculator Soros is indeed one of the major criminals of the modern era and it is possible that some of this activity is being sponsored by his organisation. However, this has no bearing on the proper understanding of the situation. Even if all of this were true, and it isn’t, so what? Does it mean that we are prepared indefinitely to endure the whims of a belligerent right-wing regime which has taken the world to the brink of a world war (see e.g. the demented pencil-necked Tom Cotton baying for Chinese and black blood)? If nothing else, the protests have taken away what little domestic and international credibility America had and have crippled its soft power beyond repair. Is this such a bad thing?
The hypocrisy of the current US’s position is delightful. After accusing and sanctioning Russia and China for a long list of non-existent crimes, it has exposed itself for what it is—a shaky plywood fortress built on a land cursed by its extinguished owners. Why not celebrate? If Soros is funding the “left”, do you know who is funding the “right”, namely the ultramontane Bannonites, the crazed Evangelicals and assorted right-wing Zionist cabals? What about Jabba the Hutt Adelson? Has Trump’s election fund of over $100 million dollars (five times larger than Obama’s) come solely from the contributions of patriotic Americans? Perhaps, but I wouldn’t bet on it. The idea that the alt-right regime is in any sense “good” is beyond naïve.
Does the fact that nefarious agents always co-opt any meaningful human activity mean that we must forego the fight against obvious injustice? What’s wrong with giving America a taste of the Bolshevik medicine? If the “patriots” are anything like the fat, bearded or steroid-soaked rednecks with AR-15s I see daily on the internet, more power to Soros (and I have been following his criminal activity since the mid-90s). It could be argued that the alt-right has turned Soros into the ultimate scarecrow that successfully distracts from their own evil. If the reason for silence has to do with Russia, again, what is the problem? Russia has gone through three West-inspired tragedies in less than 100 years. If it has not learned the lessons of history, our support for Trump will not help much.
Before I continue, let me emphasise that US Democrats are as far from a true “left” as it is possible to get. The Overton window of the American political discourse has shifted to the right so much that known warmongering murderers and racists such as Hillary Clinton (“black super thugs”) are considered to be of the left. As discussed on this site ad nauseam, the US political scene is a parasitical corporatist duopoly. I am not interested in the flavour of this travesty (patronisingly liberal or patriotic and God-fearing) because both are massive cons specifically promulgated to give the plebs a sense of hope. This is now unravelling and with it, the capacity of the dark empire to harm the world. Why are we not raising a glass? Does anybody here think that the narcissistic racketeer Trump who has sanctioned Russia and China to death, incited a war against Iran and Venezuela, and is now threatening to move nuclear weapons to Poland, A MAN OF PEACE? The time has come to shed such illusions and acknowledge that we were wrong. The most charitable explanation for his failure is that compelled to renege on his campaign promises by the advanced imperial decay, Trump has accelerated the destruction of the fabric of the US society (some say deliberately) and exposed its dark racist and imperialist underbelly. Which brings me to the next point.
4. We must all cheer for Team Murrica!
The fact that the majority of US citizens are completely in thrall of the grand lie, I take for granted. What is more puzzling and troubling is the sense that the desperate and dirty struggle of the US regime to save itself from the justifiable wrath of its own people is somehow our struggle. For over 70 years we have been conditioned to think of America as a unique and irreplaceable Shangri-La whose destiny touches us all. We have spent a large amount of time and best years of our youth in that America of the mind that includes many great things but is ultimately a chimera built on lies with a single intent—to perpetuate the empire without having to resort to the force of arms.
Those living in the USA will say—oh, but it’s not like that, this place is really great. To that I reply—it might have been once and briefly but the unresolved internal contradictions (hello Karl) have sucked out its elan vital, destroyed its cohesion and sense of purpose. Wake up! The world is tired of the bullying, killing and racketeering perpetrated by the trillionaire parasites infesting the Wall Street, the Silicon Valley and the military-industrial-intelligence complex—the three fasciae.
Whether their chosen puppet is Trump or Biden is less important, if at all. For the United States to have any future as a coherent entity, it must first renounce its evil imperialist present and revisit some of the more humane and peaceful modes of existence based on peaceful co-existence. The first people that spring to mind here are Franklin Roosevelt and Henry Wallace (so hated by the “patriots”) but also a number of black intellectuals who have pondered this difficult question. The first step though is the eradication of the deep systemic racism which still blights the landscape. I have no doubt that African Americans deserve better—and this does not mean money but genuine respect. And, what is equally important, in the coming together of the young people of different races, I see a germ of a more hopeful future. Which leads to…
5. Those soy-fed white SJWs have no idea how privileged they are!
A typical reaction to the unprecedented participation of white youth in the protests is met with a lazy alt-right trope: pampered middle-class millenials and Generation Xers are playing at class struggle blah blah. Yet, the response has been so overwhelming that it cannot be explained away by empty generalisations. The young generation in America and the West feels cheated. Decades of lies and empty promises have left most young people helpless and hopeless. They are drowning in student loan debt and mostly have no hope of owning a home or holding a steady job. The typical right-wing injunctions to “get on your bike” or “learn to code” are largely meaningless when you realise that few privileged hustlers who produce nothing useful hold around 70% of the country’s wealth.
Why should a young person work their entire life for slightly more than a pittance in order to increase the profits of a malignant corporation? Why enter the corporate rat race when one can be happy with very little provided the society is based on humane values? Why should they spend years learning a skill or getting a degree only to be immediately removed from the queue and replaced by the cheaper H1b import? I would argue that the young are much smarter than we old f***s give them credit for. They understand the fundamental injustice of the present system and refuse to perpetuate it. Rather than a sign of stupidity, it is a mature and largely rational estimate of the situation. They cannot be lulled into obedience by the slimy appeals to freedom, family and second amendment issued daily by warmongering lechers and paedophiles hiding behind God and homeland.
It is this sense of hopelessness that has awakened empathy for the suffering of others. Yes, some might be selfish and deluded but even in their awkward attempts to embrace their black brothers and sisters, they are saying a loud NO to the system that has betrayed them all. They reject the divisive rhetoric of the fake left (race before class) and fascist right (implicit segregation, racial inequality). Instead of criticising them, it might be a good idea for us to move aside and hope that they are capable of rectifying the errors of their ancestors.
Oh, and FBI has just stated that there has been no Antifa presence at the protests so far.
Ken Leslie is an independent researcher based in the UK with some experience in post WWII history and geopolitics
“Russia has gone through three West-inspired tragedies in less than 100 years. If it has not learned the lessons of history, our support for Trump will not help much.”
Our support? It’s not clear to me who is “our” in the context here?
vot tak is inaccurate when he states that ; ” Russia has gone through three West- inspired tragedies in less than100 years”. It was not the West ; but Talmudic Yiddish Jews at the Core of Christian Russia’s travails ; which started in 1918. This same Group are now engaged in fomenting the current Troubles being visited on many other Nations today. The Main Stream media and major International Banking Institutions as well as Academia and Entertainment areas are also influenced { or outright controlled} by a Tribe with no National loyalty ….but a obedience to Talmudic Teachings.
It´s not vot tak. It´s a quote, taken from the article.
Russia’s travails didn’t really start in 1918. It wasn’t exactly Paradise that let to the Revolution…
Webe may be under the impression that ‘Gulags ” and the Ukrainian Terror Famine”. we’re an integral part of Russia ; prior to the Bolsheviks take over. The so called ” revolution ” was not Led by the peasants or serfs. Educated Talmudic Jews were instrumental ,
Very true. One can only speculate what a morally bankrupt, moronic people such as the Pindos were to do if similar conditions of abject horror, hunger, and total war were visited upon them. Time to find that out, at long last.
Nussiminen, This is very easy for you to say. It is obvious you are not American. What would you say if your government was falling apart, and your nation was crumbling? What if you are raising children in such a place? What if you have known the good things, not just the bad, of what the ideals of America could be?
Please do not wish destruction on your enemies. One day you might wake up to find that enemy you are hating is you.
”It is obvious you are not American.”
Gott sei Dank. As I tell US Christians:
— What is the ultimate proof that Jesus wasn’t born in the US?
— Three (3) wise men don’t exist there.
”What would you say if your government was falling apart, and your nation was crumbling?”
If Sweden’s EU/NATO lackey government falls apart, it means imperialism is facing ultimate defeat and, as a result, issues incoherent orders that don’t make any sense to its faithful servants. I would be quite elated were this to materialise. As regards your second question, Sweden is crumbling already due to neoliberal corruption, greed, and deindustrialization. Crucial infrastructure such as public transport, education, housing, and postal services is deteriorating and unemployment is rising sharply. But unlike Pindos, I’m not fantasizing about obscene lawsuits and gratuitous wars.
“Oh, and FBI has just stated that there has been no Antifa presence at the protests so far.”
Seriously? I assume that the sentence isn´t meant as a sarcasm? For example, check out what other things FBI has stated, in ongoing Senate Judiciary Committees Russiagate investigations.
You are speaking about the hope and new US, as a consequence of this chaos? Soros as a messias?
But these are the same folks behind this criminal mess(that has nothing to do with George Floyd anymore) who also kept Russiagate going on for three years. Only because these “democrats” hate Trump who´s a real threat to their satanist pedophile supporters. The reason behind this uprising(yes, I think that´s accurate) is to get rid of Trump, to stop his re-election.
“What’s wrong with giving America a taste of the Bolshevik medicine?”
I´m not American, but I think that they got their fair share of that medicine during Obamas presidency. And that´s why they voted Trump to power. I understand your point, when you mention that todays “left” is not what it should be. But US will never be leftist in any sense. It´s based on an individual freedom, a thing that current “left” and classical left both hate.
Why the deafening silence? Because nothing meriting response has occurred.
How does one build a movement when there is no leadership and no political program other than vague demands like Occupy Wall Street. or Black Lives Matter which are Nice sentiments but one does not build a lasting Political movement without a roadmap especially one which does not lead into either one of the political parties or into some hybrid feel-good ersatz one hastily build for the moment like that of Ross Perot. So where does it lead then? Perhaps into A religio-social movement ? or a vague “Tea Party” local organization which was populist and a bit “right wing” ( whatever that means these days) but at least put down some community roots.
Nothing meriting any respect has occurred either. Expressing the horror and dismay in the streets that every human felt upon seeing that horrendous murder tape, does not give you instant leadership of any kind whatsoever. And apologizing for looting, mayhem and destruction will not win any support among the folks black and white and purple and green who will organize for the long run wanting their kids to be safe and their communities whole.
And, let me assure you, it is not a defeaning silence at all…..in my take…it is a very ominous silence . One before the storm hits. Expect a big, bloody false flag soon and don’t watch the MSM if you have any dedication to the truth or the desire to know what is going on in vivo….Not in vitro….in vivo. Avoid facile explanations and know with whom you are dealing. Avoid leftist rhetoric like the plague as it will rot your brain. Know what is worth fighting for and how to do it. Know when and how to just “not know”–it is called radical unknowing in spiritual circles.
Start with demands:
1. community selected police review boards with power to hire and fire.( how many complaints does a bad apple have to have over a period of 10 years in order to be fired?)
2. All officers serving a community must live in that community and sign 5 year contracts to do so.
3. Reinstitute foot patrols
4. Hire mental health rapid intervention teams also subject to review and approval by the elected community board
5. elections must be done in person by paper ballots in neutral social spaces like schools or churches.
Respect is earned not by bloviating but by service of doing…
Correct. For people who care about the world and the civilizations of the world, this is just a milestone of imperial decline. The details are immaterial. No one is going to interrupt these fools, nor anyone should.
Re: demands. Very nice! Actual concrete measures spelled out in black and white. That has indeed what’s been sorely lacking in all the current hullabaloo. Add one more:
6. Police officers be subject to the EXACT same battery and homicide laws and penalties that any normal citizen would be in their use of force (regardless of the color of the victim!). Yeah, they’ll squeal like pigs at that one at that one, but then again, that’s why we called them pigs back in the day in the first place.
And #7 just to make it real:
7. Strip these budding Nazis of all their third world conquering combat gear and make them human again. No more Kevlar helmets, bullet proof vests, assault vehicles, and all the rest of their paramilitary bullshit. That crap’s gotta stop ASAP, PERIOD, FULL STOP!
Agreed, for all the current uproar, the current “protests” are most notable for what they don’t address, rather than what they do. Smells A LOT like a “color revolution” to me, with a false flag operation – as always – likely waiting in the wings. Fun times ahead!
It is indeed a “color revolution in the making”. Whether it will be successful—I shudder to think. The results of the color revolutions are not at all good things from where I sit.
This reminds me of the recent events of Chile so much, but now in a humongous proportion. I think this is more about a change in the sociopolitical system and the degradation of the USA as a whole, more than a ethnic conflict. My question is how much violence will happen until the country realizes this is for a real change for the better and not the invitation to a killing between brothers.
Here in Chile, during the massive unrest, there were many dead the first days of repression, but there were not cases of cops and owners of looted stores killed!. In the USA, this happened really fast! and is really worrisome. The population is highly armed and there is a severe crisis between the people. I want the US empire to fall, but a want a soft landing, even if their elites does not deserve that.
Just yesterday I went into town to pick me car up from the shop. There the work force, black and white and Latino, and Asian, all standing together, were looking up into the sky where a military helocopter was flying over head. One said ” they say there is some protest or riot going on over there a few streets down.” “What? in our little town here in no-where Virginia?” another exclaimed. They then all said in their own way “what are them DC politicians up to now?”
I just wonder who is shipping the troublemakers in.
Sure, let’s keep disregarding the factor of the common man in the name of his supposed “best interest”. One does not institute social change by simply riding roughshod over the heads of the “regular Joe” already struggling to survive in an environment of growing corporate greed, corruption and system inefficiency, yet that is exactly what most authors such as Mr. Leslie repeatedly propose. “What’s wrong with giving America a taste of Bolshevik medicine” is that it will simply claim millions of regular lives without accomplishing anything in terms of “social justice”, merely flipping the imaginary status of “victim” and “opressor” around (as it did in the USSR) without removing neither them nor the causes of their existence. And it will do so in an unnatural, forced manner that will undermine “the new system” from the getgo. A waste of lives, a waste of time.
If Mr. Leslie can tell me in concrete terms how looting and burning down a small store (one among hundreds, if not thousands by now) while beating its’ owner half to death is going to bring around the betterment of the Black man’s condition in the US (especially when it comes to wealth inequality and systemic racism) he’ll be truly the first. If he can’t, then this article is nothing more than yet another piece of worthless demagoguery.
As a personal favor, I would also ask the author to please refrain from using Russia as a crutch to lean his ideas on. The Bolshevik revolution did not bring social justice with it, nor did it end exploitation. It merely violently destroyed an evolving country/culture (perhaps even civilization) already well on the way to tackle issues of social justice on its own terms, and replaced it with a flawed, unstable construct so riven with numerous incogruities and contradictions that it failed to survive for more than several decades.
This was, indeed, an uncomfortable reading, but for reasons entirely different than mr. Leslie seems to believe.
“The Bolshevik revolution did not bring social justice with it, nor did it end exploitation. It merely violently destroyed an evolving country/culture (perhaps even civilization) already well on the way to tackle issues of social justice on its own terms…”
So true, fortunately Putin brought Russia(also as a civilization) back.
Putin was able to do that because he relied, and still does, on the Soviet legacy, both ideological and material.
Actually, he no longer does. What you wrote, ironically, pertains far more to modern Ukraine than to Russia.
The Bolshevik revolution in Russia versus the American so-called “revolution” — the less said the better.
“The Bolshevik revolution did not bring social justice with it, nor did it end exploitation. It merely violently destroyed an evolving country/culture (perhaps even civilization) already well on the way to tackle issues of social justice on its own terms”
Oh yes, that “evolving civilization” brought about its own collapse, not social justice, precisely because it proved entirely unable “to tackle issues of social justice” when it still had a chance. And yes, the revolution did bring a lot of social justice not just to Russia but to the world in general. Just because something isn’t perfectly just, doesn’t mean it has no justice.
A first society in the human history that was supposed to, at least in theory, be based on equality and social justice proved unstable. Doesn’t it tell you something about the world and human nature?
You’re not going to claim that it was the Bolsheviks that abolished serfdom in Russia, I hope. Or are you?
What the failure of the Soviet Union tells me is that the very idea of enforced social justice is a farce, because any attempt to achieve it in itself spawns an ever-growing amount of injustices to the majority of the citizenry, which accumulate until their sum total blows the society and the state apart. In case of the USSR, the Bolshevik revolution – carried out in the name of workers and peasants – put those same workers and peasants through, progressively, the hells of a civil war, famine, forced collectivization, and another famine. On top of that, they were walloped with the effects of WW2. But even then, the glorious quest for their well-being didn’t end. Are you even aware that Soviet peasants – pardon, the “collective farm workers” didn’t even get passports issued until the 1970’s? It was done to keep them on the land. Moreover, from the 50’s into the 70’s, the sizes of their land allotments – and even their houses – were being progressively cut – and they had no say on the matter. Social justice that.
I will repeat what I stated in my original post: an attempt to create social justice for any minority is always an injustice to the majority. You cannot ride roughshod over the heads of the majority and expect anything but deepening social instability and strife.
Specifically in America, the idiotic attempt to frame the majority/minority dynamic in racial terms (something it abjectly isn’t any longer about) will only lead to an explosion of interracial violence (we’re actually already there). That is because all the SJW minded types have achieved through their efforts so far is create a whole range of very real and very militant non-white racisms in order to combat a perceived white one.
F….ing Bravo.
It’s hard for Europeans to really understand American culture and politics.
This is not a racial or a left vs right battle right now, it’s the beginning of an actual class based popular uprising. Of course every faction of the Imperial overlords will try to saddle this wild horse for their own ends, but so far they have not succeeded in breaking the insurrection up into racial or political fights.
A huge number of the fat gun toting neck beards the author talks about are joining the protesters. Antifa, the “alt-right”, and the ethnic minorities, basically the entire US underclass, are on the same side in hating globalization, the police state and the empire. This would spell the end of everything for the 1%, so they are desperately trying to make this a political or racial thing. So far they are failing.
It’s important for people outside the country to remember that everything our media says is a lie.
Agree 100%. As an American I have seen this exact thing. Foreign press should stop getting their news from American empire’s propaganda. We claim that we have a free press. However we have a snake in the grass. The media has been subjected to the CIA since the 1940’s (this is not well known, but well documented) and has spewed nothing but the Empire’s propaganda ever since. There is an appearance of differing perspective with Fox”News” but it is mainly a tool to drive the moderates and undecided towards the worldview of the anarchists, who are now in control and working hard to dismantle everything America used to stand for. If you want real news, go to the local news stations, as it breaks, before it is censored.
Every Nation is three meals away from chaos, Vladimir Lenin. The only question is which nation will miss those three meals first. Might be China. Businesses don’t usually do so well when their biggest customer dies. The globalist have pushed to be interconnected and we all are. The real question is who can change their economy quickest.
Racism is certainly not peculiar to the US. Ask the Bangladeshis kid herding goats in Saudi Arabia. Try the orphans sleeping in front of the bakery in Deir a Zor. How about the Tibetan feelings about their Chinese neighbor. Putting hope in eliminating racism is very hopeful. All nations have racism to some degree. The young generations in America may change the face of racism but it will not be eliminated. Racism is a part of the human condition, always has been, always will be.
US takes 11% of Chinese exports. I think they will survive.
“he was passing a fake cheque!”
Sir, to the best of my knowledge this is an assertion only. The MSM have reported that it is said that someone in the store phoned the police saying they thought [a] it might be phoney and [b] nothing has ever been proven if it was, or if he knew it was. Repeating it as though it were proven fact is not done, sir.
However perhaps more to the point, you ended by saying “the system that has betrayed them all” and here you do, I think finally touch on the core to solving the issue – if not the “how”.
Every complex grouping of people – indeed possibly of animals too – is part of a system, which in the human case is a complex system made up of multiple small systems. it comes from us, and grows from the seeds we plant when we first come together to form a group of people trying to work out how to be a community in which each helps all and is helped by all yet at the same time each individual is valued as an individual, and knows how to be one.
But the system grows – often quite quickly – until suddenly, it is determining the ways the humans in it act; the choices they make. And the system makes sure that everything the humans do will perpetuate the system. The humans who form part of it, for the most part, have no idea of this. Those few who do know and rebel either drop out one way or another as a matter of survival, or learn to conform, or are destroyed.
This observation, of humans forming first small family groups, growing to small tribes then bigger groups has been observed over millennia. In fact, it’s demonstrably the most stable system for humans, for the simple reason it survived for so long – millennia – and across such diverse peoples are those of the back of Burma, throughout all of India, country Russia, Europe and UK and the Native Peoples of the Western Continent now called America, and those of the Andean Continent plus Africa.
Now, this phenomena gets a superb “up tick” from another theory – Complexity Theory, a subset of Chaos Theory. This theory demonstrates that ALL complex systems, from the formation of molecules to human societies naturally are driven by a Universal Law to self – organise. No Government Official with a decree in hand actually tells them to do it. No University Academic with a paper degree in hand comes and tells them how to do it.
They just do it. They form around what was called a “Strange Attractor”, some point which attracts all entities. And this is that Like/Similar is drawn to and forms the strongest bonds with, Like/Similar. This attraction is held stable by the free flow of positive and negative feedback loops. And it is very very stable.
It counters constant change in order to hold an unchanging centre stable exactly as Heraclitus described a few thousand years ago.
But we learned, from Advanced Systems Theory, that if this complex System should go rotten, it can’t be fixed. The complexity of Variables is too great. the only answer is to destroy the entire or just let it fall down – and start again from scratch.
The biggest help the invading CIA and Yanks did to Russia in their greed and arrogant triumph and hatred was to destroy everything, thinking that this would end Russia. Indeed, it nearly did. But when a white knight came riding out of the mists, it meant that he had no rotten but standing complexity to deal with, He just had had to start building anew from scratch.
Finally, I come to my point. Where do you see a new system to be built in the America you wish to keep as is just improved?? Who do you see who can build from scratch? Look at the many many systems in America that are rotted from it’s political system for the massively wealthy, to the “justice – not” system, to its “health care for us riches”, to everything. Where do you start? They’re sick and rotting but a long way from falling over completely. How do you fix a complex system that’s on the road to destruction, but still has many of it’s tributary systems intact? You can’t.
The only hope open to America now – if it doesn’t go and blow us all up – is that it collapses totally, that it’s people forget who they were, that all it’s invaders are pulled home as Rome did in it’s collapse, and that there is so little left that all that remains, is for the survivors to begin again, hopefully from a better stance than “we want this land of yours, we want it all, we want you gone, and we are going to kill you to take it.”
Brilliant comment Pamela.
As for “fixes”, nothing short of running the tribe out of town and dismantling their secret societies and taking back the right to create currency and confiscating their ill gotten gains, will do.
Pamela,
I will echo, “brilliant!”
This is the sad state of things in America, and most Americans think it isn’t so bad that it can’t be fixed by a different president. The smarter ones know that things are going downhill fast and are preparing physically and or mentally for a hostile takeover. Most are in a state of denial. As for myself, it is hard to accept that the America I grew up believing I was in, no longer exists. Part of me wants to restore what was lost, but I know that it is too far gone and it would require a total tear down and rebuild. The question is now, who has the courage and strength to do so?
Will these demonstrations cause a change in US government domestic policy? Frankly, it may increase the use of force by the police and possible military troops if the rioting continues to spread. I remember the worldwide and peaceful demonstrations against the 2003 Iraqi war, which did not make an iota of difference. In fact, the US and the coalition of the willing completely ignored them. I do not believe the US government will ignore these current riots that are a direct threat to the status quo, but will attempt to suppress them in increased levels of violence for violence.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” – John F. Kennedy
America will have to learn the hard way that its fundamentalist delusions that the USA is the Land of the Free, Beacon of Liberty, and moral judge of the world are national deceptions worthy of Goebbels and Orwell.
One of the reasons that pro-American snowflakes are getting triggered by Mr. Leslie’s article in particular and the George Floyd rebellion in general is because this secular religion of American moral superiority is being further shredded by this rebellion.
The American Beacon of Liberty has always been a Beacon of Lies since the first European/Anglo colonizer put his blood-stained boots on the North American continent and launched the process of slavery, genocide, and conquest that is the foundation of the United States itself.
Rather than facing this painful reality, American apologists pathetically try to rationalize, deny, divert, and deflect attention away from the repressive American “Freedom and Democracy” that gives birth to rebellions like the Floyd case in the first place.
The false American God is dead.
But these people still choose to worship its corpse.
We Are Watching The Story Of America Crash Headlong Into The Reality Of America
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/06/03/we-are-watching-the-story-of-america-crash-headlong-into-the-reality-of-america/
The sad part is that what you say has some truth in it. The other sadder part is that you are mistaken in part as well. Please go study American history for yourself, read the original documents and the writings of those who built America. There are parts of our past we should not be proud of, but there is also a lot of good. Please do not throw the baby out with the bath water.
Another article on Saker is more astute. These riots, and covid, are not the end of USA: they are steps towards the end. The end will be a long, drawn-out process. But the end is certain: for the USA has germinated its own seeds of destruction.
The riots stem from the deliberate disenfranchising of citizens. ‘murca is no longer an industrial economy. ‘murca is now a financial, rentier economy. A financial economy does not need people; people are irrelevant. Trump’s claims and attempts to maga, will result in industry enabled purely by automation, AI, and capital. This will only further the aims of the holders of the financial strings, and erode the labour force to an absolute minimum. To be competitive against imports, this means the incomes of workers, must fall to the levels of 3rd world countries. The implications of this are deeply profound.
The USD remains the so-called reserve currency. It is so, because ‘murca has yet the most powerful and extensive military in history and will use its military against any and all who oppose the USD. But, this is about to change, dramatically. Russia has de-dollared. China is moving to de-dollar, but cannot yet completely: China still requires USD to purchase oil imports. Both China and Russia have, independently, the military capability now to defend and strike back at US aggression: and, collectively, are stronger. As China reduces demand for USD, the US has but little choice but to accept the decline. How can this be possible: by China shifting it oil source away from US-puppets to Russia. And, made possible by immense R&D into nuclear fusion/fission reactors for energy.
When those dollars are no longer demanded, their value as reserve will plummet, and the USA will face hyper-inflation, and the world will have yet another collapse caused by the collapse of over $4 quadrillion in derivatives.
At that point, the ‘murcans will fight back with full force. We are seeing this now, with the full-spectrum hybrid war. ‘murcans have no regard for any living person or creature, but for their cabal. Guaranteed: when ‘mucra goes down, ‘murcans will try to take everybody else down with them.
The citizens of the world are thus forewarned.
The great danger from the present generation of middle- and lower-class white USA-Nortamericano youth, young adults, the middle-aged and the super-rich seems to me to be tat they may fall into the trap that Hong Kong and Greek vulgarian protestors have sled into: Rightist populism due to loss of what they believed was their exceptional and protected status.
The most fascistoid county in Greece is probably Megara in eastern Attica region. They have been mumbeling and brewing dissatisfaction from when Athens beat them some six hundred years before the birth of Christ.What happened there over the last thirty years is that they have obtained feather-bedded positions in governement offices and left their land to have it tilled and worked by illegal immigrants from Asia and Africa. When the economic crisis hit Greece starting fifteen years ago they had to return to the Mégara countryside as declassées, frothing with rage!
The same goes for those USA and UK flag waving (Removed language,MOD) in Hong Kong. They are death scared when they now find main-lander Chinese more diligent, more educated and well payed, And often haveing a better grasp of the English language than those colonial servants. Soon they will understand that they are no more honorary whites.
The US populace and their top dogs do nat even have the recourse to the myths harbored in Mégara,
Corinth and in the “New territories” of Hong Kong.
Thank you for your interesting comment.
I should like to note, as a third party… with a good perch, that ‘the American‘ that is the sociopathic narcissus are the managerial/controllership caste, devoted to the establishment and clear distinction between themselves and the 95% of actual ‘Americans’ (i.e. are for America, live in America, and have no supplemental ‘loyalties’ beyond their loyalty to their chosen ‘place’, somewhere in America).
Quite a few of them are ‘pretty cool’… or cooler.
America, i.e. the 95% of the population of the United States of America, are quite likely to be good-natured, friendly people, who just want to live their life with a little bit of mojo, and … get along.
The problem is the ‘controllership caste’.
just to be clear
“What’s wrong with giving America a taste of the Bolshevik medicine? If the ‘patriots’ are anything like the fat, bearded or steroid-soaked rednecks with AR-15s I see daily on the internet, more power to Soros”
My thoughts exactly. Really, the Soviet Red Army capturing Berlin in 1945 and the creation in 1949 of the GDR served the purpose of restoring some sanity and dignity in the Germans. It’s the absence of such humbling experiences that lends credence to the Pindos’ reactionary psychobabble. As I said, it’s great fun watching the US descend into colour revolution mayhem. Even George Soros has a silver lining.
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I do agree with much of this writer`s article, yet i see him talking from a bias bubble.
He is clearly not from the lower classes, i can speak only about Norway bc this is where i grew up and have spent my 45 years. Up here us poor bois are treated like scum by our police and government, yet here to the ppl from the upper/middle class is crying about the rayzizz police and the immigrants getting treated poorly and care little about white bois getting beaten by the police.
Do the writer really belive that the poor white population in the US is getting treated better than poor blacks?
Then he need to read up on the subject, fbi have lots of statistics.
I am from and live in the poor working class, i could not care less about your skin color yet i am told i am evil bc my skin is white as snow.
Truth be told i am halfblood nordic but since my other half is also fair skinned i simply do not belong in their so called victim class.(I would not want to be in their victimclass)
Even though my Sami/Sapmi family was norwegianfied by force, beaten if they spoke their native language, sterilized by force, lobotomized by the protestant government + children kidnapped and placed in camps etc etc, even our family name had to be changed when my grandfather wanted to purchase property., there was a reason he became a communist and hoped Sovjet would take atleast the northern part of Norway..
Even when i grew up i/we were constantly bullied bc of heritage/blood, i have lived with racism my entire life.
All of this do not matter now simply bc my skin is white and i do not hold a grudge.
So even though i agree with much of what he wrote i do think he is somewhat blinded by his own biases.
The picture our government project to the world is so messed up i often find myself laughing loud, since the 80`s they have sent most of the money to their masters in the US and their own pockets almost opnly as they privatized all our institutions as our infrastructure rotted, we sorely need a new Tranemæl or revolution up here to. Being poor here is still far “better” then continental Europe/Asia the American continent and the UK i imagine, bc touching our “security net” would cost the politicians their re election and strikes would break out everwhere bc the union grassroot still have a say😍(I am a union man, i would never work a minute unorganized)
https://snl.no/Martin_Tranmæl
A ending, if i had not been lead down the path of faith and become Orthodox Christian i would have been out destroying other peoples property/businesses around Europe without any remorse by now. But never with/for (p)antifa, those ppl are 98.9% useful idiots, just like the so called alt-right and #maga crowd is. Fighting over scraps and to keep the status quo is not for me, i prefer to live my own life.
(I truly hope you write more for the Saker Mr Leslie! I enjoyed your article)
Per
Norway
Per,
I would concur with most of your comments. Here in America, poor white Americans are actually hated more than blacks, who really aren’t hated except by a very few here and there. In the “old south” where I am from, there is some racism in the older people, but not outright hatred—the blacks and whites mostly get along and whites people who have black employees or neighbors would most often give the shirt off their back to help them in time of need, although they would never be close friends or allow their children to marry the other’s children—in my generation (40 yrs old) and younger, racism is really a non-issue, though some vestiges still exist unconsciously in our mindsets.
The working class white male is the most publicly maligned person in America today, hated by elites more than or by blacks, and heaven forbid you be a gun-toting, freedom loving, and Bible believing white male. Then you are just pure evil incarnate in America today.
I hope one day all of the elite and all of the revisionists and all of the protesters realize that the ideals of democracy, the founding ideals of America, (not the corrupted ones), and the freedoms and privileges that they enjoy and take for granted, were paid for and entrusted to them by the blood, sweat, tears and lives of the very kind of white (and black) working class males they hate.
What a breath of fresh air it is to hear something close to the truth. I’ve been laughing at the concept “good guys and bad guys” for a long time now. I’d say it is not a coincidence that the precarious state of “the empire’ has been high in my thoughts lately. Perhaps the Covid thing has drawn it out, but the “empire” looks ready to go. And good riddance! The champion of an idiotic form of capitalism like Gringoland needs to be cast aside if any form of higher evolution is to happen on this planet. A society that is built upon the purchase of a new car every 3 years has to be, when considered rationally, an idiotic society. My only hope is that it can be done with a minimum of violence, something I doubt.
Thank you Mr. Leslie for bringing the facts, as you see relevant, and presenting them (comparatively) coherently with your analysis.
I also thank the many thoughtful, good-faith commentators for their worthy contributions.
We live in ‘interesting’ times.
We live by means of systems so complex that it is difficult, if not impossible for human cognitive function to fully comprehend. I am very enlightened by the introduction of complexity theory (sub-set of Chaos theory) to the discussion of these issues by “Pamela” below(or above, as the case will be) /us-protests-why-the-uneasy-silence/#comment-814180
I should like to go one step further in justifying cynicism about the ‘reason’ for the police becoming involved, (for a forged cheque?! really!?), and suggest, we have no real evidence that the entire event ever existed.
I note, the obvious, for the community members here:
I am not saying that it is a false flag event, but I am saying that it is the kind of thing that could be used for a false flag event, and it seems more and more that these ‘information’ sources become more reliably false manipulations, at one level or another, practically on a daily basis.
…that caveat aside…
most of the community, here, has heard of the tendency of the U.S.A. to occasionally “throw a small country against the wall, just to prove how awesome and indispensable and mightily irresistible its military capability is” (I apologize, I know this is a poor bastardized paraphrase, but I suspect you recognize it), I’ll go it one step further, maybe it was always inevitable, using the mighty US armed forces against… a civilian population… of the United States of America?!
Using the military against a ‘hated’, ‘untermensch’, sub-caste, surviving without the reasonable expectations of the rights and protections of the so-called ‘democracy’?
Does that remind you of anybody else… who might being doing that already… for quite a while.
The devolution of The United States of America into the cognitively emasculated, prime ‘host’ for the 2500 year old sociological parasite is sad… but it was always inevitable, once the infection was in, and it most certainly was by the time of ‘Colonel’ House and the making and manipulations of Woodrow Wilson.
Consider the long list of societal victims: ancient Babylonia, ancient Persia, ‘internal’ disintegration of a unified Islam as a dominant world power c. 500 AD – 1000 AD, Muslim Spain, The Ottoman empire, Russia (1), The Soviet Union (Russia 2), and now…
… in a globalized society?!
There are ‘incredibly consistent‘ ritualistic events of destruction, which have occurred at an exponentially increasing rate since… about 1947; the destruction of Notre Dame should have been a loud siren for this incredibly robust trend; a clear, ritualistic destruction of a prime civilizational symbol.
The World Trade Centre was a blaring example, also.
Who dances in ecstatic celebration about such massive destructive events?!
… …
Some quotes from the article:
“…few privileged hustlers who produce nothing useful hold around 70% of the country’s wealth…”
“Why should a young person work their entire life for slightly more than a pittance in order to increase the profits of a malignant corporation?”
“Decades of lies and empty promises have left most young people helpless and hopeless.”
“sucked out its elan vital, destroyed its cohesion and sense of purpose. Wake up! The world is tired of the bullying, killing and racketeering perpetrated by the trillionaire parasites infesting the Wall Street, the Silicon Valley and the military-industrial-intelligence complex—the three fasciae”
This has all happened before, many more times than once.
I strongly urge all community members to arm yourselves with the best facts available; a great starting place is Douglas Reed’s “Controversy of Zion”
By the documented facts, which are available, but… strongly dissuaded from accessing, there should little actual controversy… just factually supported inevitability about what happens when a body (say… the body of all humanity) is not treated from a proven lethal pathogen, even if that pathogen is sociological in nature.
Thanks again Ken Leslie,
After having read your second article, I searched for an found your first.
Yes, I agree that the U.S. imperialists deserve what they are getting from these protests, riots and lootings and their reaction to them completely discredits them in the eyes of other nations such as China in which US imperialism has instigated and supported riots, such as in Hong Kong, and if Soros-backed groups are screwing the US up — good! They deserve it – what goes around, comes around.
Dear QENOF,
Indeed. I am experiencing a mass Stockholm syndrome. American soft power has left most people unable to distinguish reality from fantasy. How many millions of innocent souls have been cruelly and willfully extinguished by the evil empire? How many developing countries that gave hope to the oppressed masses? How many great leaders?
That kind of boomerang is veeeery heavy and sharp.