Sygmund_F
2020-08-13 07:59:52 UTC
An interesting article by Chris Hedges, August 10, 2020:
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Regardless of the outcome, the U.S. election will not stop the rise of hyper-nationalism,
crisis cults and other signs of an empires terminal decline, writes Chris Hedges.
The terminal decline of the United States will not be solved by elections. The political
rot and depravity will continue to eat away at the soul of the nation, spawning what
anthropologists call crisis cults - movements led by demagogues that prey on an unbearable
psychological and financial distress.
These crisis cults, already well established among followers of the Christian Right and
Donald Trump, peddle magical thinking and an infantilism that promises - in exchange for
all autonomy - prosperity, a return to a mythical past, order and security.
The dark yearnings among the white working class for vengeance and moral renewal through
violence, the unchecked greed and corruption of the corporate oligarchs and billionaires
who manage our failed democracy, which has already instituted wholesale government
surveillance and revoked most civil liberties, are part of the twisted pathologies that
infect all civilizations sputtering towards oblivion. I witnessed the deaths of other
nations during the collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and later in the
former Yugoslavia. I have smelled this stench before.
But wait! There's more >>>
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/08/10/chris-hedges-americas-death-march/?
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Predictably, AmeriKKKa is less equipped to deal with it's own collapse than other
countries are with their ability to deal with AmeriKKKa's collapse.
My advice to other countries:
"Move along! Move along! Nothing to see here! Move along!"
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Regardless of the outcome, the U.S. election will not stop the rise of hyper-nationalism,
crisis cults and other signs of an empires terminal decline, writes Chris Hedges.
The terminal decline of the United States will not be solved by elections. The political
rot and depravity will continue to eat away at the soul of the nation, spawning what
anthropologists call crisis cults - movements led by demagogues that prey on an unbearable
psychological and financial distress.
These crisis cults, already well established among followers of the Christian Right and
Donald Trump, peddle magical thinking and an infantilism that promises - in exchange for
all autonomy - prosperity, a return to a mythical past, order and security.
The dark yearnings among the white working class for vengeance and moral renewal through
violence, the unchecked greed and corruption of the corporate oligarchs and billionaires
who manage our failed democracy, which has already instituted wholesale government
surveillance and revoked most civil liberties, are part of the twisted pathologies that
infect all civilizations sputtering towards oblivion. I witnessed the deaths of other
nations during the collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and later in the
former Yugoslavia. I have smelled this stench before.
But wait! There's more >>>
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/08/10/chris-hedges-americas-death-march/?
=====================================================
Predictably, AmeriKKKa is less equipped to deal with it's own collapse than other
countries are with their ability to deal with AmeriKKKa's collapse.
My advice to other countries:
"Move along! Move along! Nothing to see here! Move along!"
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