Hello my neighbor on planet earth !!
It is the second time I remove a post over Ukraine.
The second one tried to find some truth in the different narratives about this war. Well, I didn't find any.
The first one was to allude to the 'possible' and only 'definitive' outcome of such a war: the nuclear conflict. I don't know if this will happen and I don't know if, considering the patient's condition, such an outcome would not spare him centuries of tribulations.
Anyhow, who am I to chose between a multipolar order with many tyrants or a 'liberal' order as we have had one for eighty years under the boot of a single one that has taken us toward the last bioweapon war against humanity ???
The Judean civilization has gone, the Greek one has disappeared, the Renaissance finished in blood bathes and what did survive along all ages ? Tyranny.
The only question is: do we deserve anything else ?
Are we looking for enlightenment or animal appetites though animals don't consider their appetites as we human do.
I am living in a small peripheral town (in Israel as you might not know) and for a year, I have seen around more SUV, notably Porsche ones than I had seen when I was in Miami, while the welfare system is fully overbooked, I personally know about that. The same is true in all the 'civilized' countries. Just look at what has become San Francisco lately.
With those from Central America, North Africa, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, Ukraine migrants will join the tribe bringing new slaves to countries where, like China or India, the Philippines, Egypt and elsewhere, slavery is not - yet an official civil status.
Is humanity worth to be saved, if it could, I ask you, and myself !?
In what kind of a world will live our children and the children of our children ?
If you really want to read an article that makes some sense, read that:
The fight between Davos and the Fed
THE OLD TROT AND TWO
SERVANTS
An aged dame employed
two spinsters rare,
They far surpassed the
spinning Sisters Three,
Who with our maids
compared would bunglers be.
This same old lady had
no greater care
Than tasking them, and
giving each her share.
When golden Phoebus
Tethys left at dawn,
The wheel went rapid,
to the distaff drawn ;
On either side the work she
pressed,
Nor relaxation gave, nor rest.
Soon then, I say, as
bright Aurora rose,
A wretched cock still
ended their repose ;
When our more wretched
beldam raised her head,
And huddled on her
filthy ragged clothes,
Lit up her lamp, and
hastened to the bed,
Where the poor
servants stretched their weary length,
Sleeping with all
their appetite and strength.
One raised an arm, the
other oped an eye,
Both ill at ease,
between their teeth did cry,
“ That cursed cock shah surely die.
”
They kept their word
and cut the poor beast's throat ;
Improvement from their
lot was yet remote ;
For scarce our couple
had felt slumber's power,
When the old trot,
fearing she might pass the hour;
Like any goblin ran from room to room.
Thus we too oft presume,
Thinking to shun some present ill
And plunge into it farther still :
Witness this couple and their doom.
The beldam put her
trust no more in cocks.
They from Charybdis
fell on .Scylla's rocks.
Jean de LA FONTAINE
1621 - 1695
La Vieille et les deux Servantes
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Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, Étienne de La Boétie, 1576
“I see no good in having several lords;
Let one alone be master, let one alone be king.”
These words Homer puts in the mouth of Ulysses, as he addresses the people. If he had said nothing further than “I see no good in having several lords,” it would have been well spoken.
For the sake of logic, he should have maintained that the rule of several could not be good since the power of one man alone, as soon as he acquires the title of master, becomes abusive and unreasonable. Instead he declared what seems preposterous: “Let one alone be master, let one alone be king.”
We must not be critical of Ulysses, who at the moment was perhaps obliged to speak these words in order to quell a mutiny in the army, for this reason, in my opinion, choosing language to meet the emergency rather than the truth. Yet, in the light of reason, it is a great misfortune to be at the beck and call of one master, for it is impossible to be sure that he is going to be kind, since it is always in his power to be cruel whenever he pleases.
As for having several masters, according to the number one has, it amounts to being that many times unfortunate. Although I do not wish at this time to discuss this much debated question, namely whether other types of government are preferable to monarchy, still I should like to know, before casting doubt on the place that monarchy should occupy among commonwealths, whether or not it belongs to such a group, since it is hard to believe that there is anything of common wealth in a country where everything belongs to one master.
This question, however, can remain for another time and would really require a separate treatment involving by its very nature all sorts of political discussion.
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