Sunday, July 16, 2006
WWIII?
Regarding what is suddenly happening in the Middle East now, I didn't see it coming. But now that it's here, I do believe it has been planned for some time now. Modern military establishments map out lots of contingencies, and what we are seeing now is the unfolding of a pre-existing strategic plan. I don't know where it goes from here, but somebody does.
The kidnappings of Israeli soldiers provide the occasion to put a plan in motion. The kidnappings may be what they appear to be, but I don't presume that is the case just because my television says it is so. There is ample precedent for such incidents being arranged by so-called "intelligence" services.
This is a dangerous mess, and very sad to see. I expect Iran, Syria, the United States, and I don't know who else will be drawn into warfare (more than they already are) before it's over. I said I don't know what other countries are destined to be drawn into this, but somebody knows. The scene is shocking and may look chaotic, but I believe there are powerful forces pulling the strings here, and planning and executing the choreography. Power certainly can corrupt, and most of us aren't even aware of who these powers are, much less how much power they have or how the whole system works. I went to a pretty good college, studied economics and history and psychology, and graduated with a major in political science, and I still didn't have a very good grasp of how all these events fit together. I still didn't know a lot of the things that probably every American should know. I think I see it all a little more clearly now, but it takes a lot of digging and inference to piece it together, and when there is so much disinformation and so much truth that is hidden from view, it is more difficult. Too difficult for most people to really even try.
Only a few weeks ago there were hopeful signs in the peace process. Things appeared hopeful anyway. But I believe there are powerful forces who more or less depend on endless war, and who engineer that outcome. Unfortunately, even living in my society -- handling money, paying taxes, and burning fossil fuels -- makes me part of the matrix of war and destruction.
On the spiritual/universal plane, I guess this is all just sand castles for spoiled children. The forces of chaos and and destruction won't really win. They just leave a legacy of nastiness... "Once upon a time, some feverishly ill bullies decided to take a crap in the sandbox instead of playing nice, and they screwed things up for all the kids including themselves because they were just too ill and less-than-conscious to do any better."
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Did you see the Al Gore movie yet? I was glad I went, sad though it was.
Some (possible) comic relief from George Carlin:
We're going away. Pack your shit, folks. We're going away. And we won't leave much of a trace, either. Thank God for that. Maybe a little styrofoam. Maybe.... The planet'll be here and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation.... An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet'll shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance....
The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we're gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, 'cause that's what it does. It's a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it's true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new pardigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn't share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn't know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, "Why are we here?" Plastic...asshole.
