Politica este doar o activitate. Ca toate celelalte. Doar unii dintre politicieni…
Doar unii! După cum doar unele dintre femei ajung să fie curve – de voie sau de nevoie, tot așa și cu politicienii. Doar unele dintre femei ajung să-și vândă trupurile și doar unii dintre politicieni ajung să-și tranzacționeze sufletele.
Și să nu uităm un lucru. Curvele nu pot exista prin ele însele. Nici unul dintre felurile de curve mai sus menționate. Fiecare dintre curve are nevoie de ‘contraparte’. Adică de clienți!
Și încă ceva. Curvăsăria – atât practicarea meseriei cât și ‘mersul la curve’, are nevoie de un mediu propice. Atâta vreme cât cei neimplicați direct vor accepta fenomenul ca fiind inevitabil, vor ajunge să ‘beneficieze’ – cât se poate de direct, de consecințele acestuia. De la infecții transmise și pe cale sexuală până la subdezvoltare socială și economică.
Toate astea însoțite, bineînțeles, de halaimosul specific activității.
For whatever reasons, vaccine arrived later in some countries. For whatever other reasons, some people had chosen to ‘opt out’ in those countries where the vaccine had been plentiful.
‘Truth’ is a convention. You cannot understand ‘truth’ without ‘lie’.
Watch the video. Go on, I won’t go anywhere!
It’s irrelevant for the current discussion whether the drongo lies consciously or has just developed an ‘ordinary’ skill. Equivalent to that of feeding itself by ‘fishing’ worms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwVhrrDvwPM.
It’s enough for me that both us and the meerkats are able to notice that the drongo did lie. And, at least once, did sound the alarm about a real danger.
Hence it is possible, for both us, humans, and the meerkats to tell lies from truths. Again, I have no idea whether the animals do it in a conscientious manner.
All I know is that we, humans, did coin the concept of ‘truth’. And that of ‘lie’. And we not only coined the concepts but also attached names to each of them. We agreed among ourselves to name them truth and lie, respectively.
In fact, we have made an agreement. A gentleman’s agreement… About when to use each word.
And a subsidiary one. About when we must definitely tell the truth and when a lie is acceptable.
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Don’t you dare to tell me how to take care of my body! Or that I should wear those face diapers of yours and that I should accept to be immunized! According to my book, my individual right to be the sole master of my body trumps your collective right to survive a pandemic. And, by the way, this whole Covid thing is a fraud.
On the other hand, the same book I’ve already mentioned gives me the right to deny all women their right to determine what happens to their own wombs. I infer from reading that book that an unborn fetus is a person – even before it had overcome the viability threshold and despite Roe vs. Wade. The way I see it, my simple declaration – that an unborn fetus is a full blown person, is reason enough for me to consider that anybody performing an abortion – or aiding a woman to have an abortion, is committing a crime. And being witness to a crime is detrimental to my well being. To my spiritual well being, in particular. Hence whenever I learn that an abortion has happened, I’m entitled to receive damages.
A bunch of ideologically motivated criminals got together and perpetrated a horrible act of terrorism. A group pf courageous passengers got together and partially foiled the terrorists’ plans.
Both the terrorists and the courageous passengers eventually died. The terrorists died killing people while the heroes died saving lives. The terrorists didn’t reach their ultimate goal – the US is still standing proud. The heroes did achieve their goal. The hijacked plane crushed in a field, far from the target the terrorists aimed to destroy.
Doing something alongside others isn’t enough. For that something to end up well, the goal must be wholesome!
“Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts.” “We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.”
Is it possible to wage war upon a concept? Is it possible to win a war against a concept?
So what are we going to do? Cave in? Only because we cannot win a war against a concept?!?
How about redefining the problem?
How about choosing an achievable goal? After all, we’ve been reasonably good at beating the terrorists themselves. And those harboring them…
Only if we had made some difference between these two! Between the terrorists and those in the middle of whom they were hiding. And continue to hide…
Let’s get back to square one.
How does terrorism work?
Some ‘agents’ determine that what they want cannot be achieved in normal ways. And choose instead to use terrorism as their tool ‘of choice’.
What do they need?
Man power, material resources, pertinent knowledge, time to organize the ‘heist’, a place to put it all together and a practical method to apply the ‘pressure’.
There are some things which are hard to control. Not impossible but hard. Material resources, for instance. A knife, or even a cutter blade, can be used for terrorist purposes. Money are also a very fungible resource.
Place is also a tricky thing. A remote ‘hamlet’ is easy to find. But transporting a terrorist ‘solution’ from a remote hamlet to a place where that ‘solution’ might produce the intended result is not so simple.
Time. The longer it takes to design a ‘solution’ and to implement it, the easier for the general public to find out what’s going on.
Pertinent knowledge. The more sophisticated the solution, the more pertinent knowledge is needed. Which knowledge comes comes attached to the man-power involved.
So. What drives a knowledgeable person to use their skills towards producing terror? Hard to say. And hard to change the mind of a person who has already become a terrorist. Either a person who had spent years descending into the ‘mood’ or somebody who had been convinced on the spur of the moment to ‘participate’ as a suicidal driver. Explosive vest wearer. Or knife wielder.
The above mentioned motives make it hard, almost impossibly hard, to prevent terrorist acts committed by deranged persons, specially when they act alone. Or as a very small ‘team’.
But when we the ‘solution’ has a certain degree of sophistication – terrorist plots, that is, there are many kinds of people involved. Initiators/backers, operatives, facilitators and ‘neighbors’.
It’s hard, almost impossible to change the minds of a determined ‘initiator’. Or of some of the ‘operatives’. The initiators tend to be sociopaths while many of the operators, specially those committing suicide, must be ‘hopeless persons’. Not only clinically depressed but outright hopeless.
But the rest?
Why would anybody back a terrorist plot if there’s another way of achieving a goal? There’s always the sociopathic explanation but not all ‘backers’ are sociopaths. Not in an obvious manner, anyway…
Which brings us to the facilitators and the neighbors.
We have, broadly, two situations. When the terrorists want to inflict pain in the middle of the enemy territory or when the terrorists want to gain control over a territory.
In 2015 ten terrorists have killed some 130 people in Paris. Wounded a couple of hundreds. And wrecked the lives of many others. Nine of them had been killed by the law enforcement agencies. On the spot or during the next few days. Only one of the assailants has survived and had been apprehended later. The process has just begun. Besides the surviving shooter there are other 19 other people against which have been brought charges. “some are accused of helping the gang without necessarily knowing the extent of the conspiracy.“ Many of the accused, including some of the assailants, have lived – at least for a while, in Molenbeek, Belgium. A suburban commune where quite a high percentage of the population feel ‘there’s no way out’.
Are you familiar with the studies which maintain that both people and mice prefer social interaction to using drugs? Statistically speaking, of course. A very few individuals get hooked and cannot give up while the vast majority stop using drugs when conditions return to normal. When the American soldiers had come back from the VietNam war, for instance.
Same thing is valid with ‘terrorism’. Along with other kinds of fundamentalism.
When too many members of a community become despondent some can be ‘converted’, many others will help – even if not engage directly, while the majority will turn a blind eye to what’s happening in their middle.
That’s why the terrorists who had wreaked havoc in Paris had been able to organize themselves in Molenbeek without the police finding out what was going on. That’s why the Americans had not been able to wipe out the Taliban. And why the Taliban have grabbed back power so quickly once the Americans had decided to pull back. Because not enough of those living there – in both Molenbeek and Afghanistan, were hopeful about their future.
Because not enough of the Afghani hearts and minds have been won over.
I’m afraid that making “no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them” wasn’t helpful. On the contrary…
And please, please, click the first picture and read the article.
‘Câți bani trebuie să cheltuiești pentru a transforma un jurnalist decent și obiectiv într-un politruc infect?’
Ei bine, nu ai cum să transformi un jurnalist decent și obiectiv într-un politruc infect. Indiferent de câți bani cheltuiești și de câtă presiune pui pe respectiva persoană.
Nu poți transforma UN jurnalist „decent și obiectiv” într-un „politruc infect” pentru că foarte puțini jurnaliști sunt ‘decenți și obiectivi’ de unii singuri.
În primul rând, este foarte greu să fii obiectiv. E, de fapt, nenatural să fii obiectiv. Orice om normal are biasurile lui, punctele lui de vedere și așa mai departe. Tot ce poți să faci este să fii conștient că toți oamenii – adică și tu, cititorule, împreună cu mine, suntem biased. Adică ‘inclinați într-o parte’. Și e cel puțin la fel de important să te înveți să respecți punctele de vedere susținute de ceilalți.
În al doilea rând, ‘decența’ este o chestie care ține foarte mult de echipa din care faci parte. Dacă cei din jurul tău te trag de manecă de fiecare dată când calci alături… devii și tu decent. Iar odată devenit decent, contribui și tu la răspîndirea decenței în lume. Dacă prea mulți din jurul tău au renunțat la decență, să continui de unul singur te pune în postura de a fi luat de fraier. Vrea cineva chestia asta?
Problema devine mai simplă când îți dai seama că ne învârtim într-un cerc vicios. Într-o spirală a auto-distrugerii. Că ne tăiem, la modul colectiv, craca de sub picioare.
Abia după ce începi să-ți pui problema în felul ăsta devii obiectiv. Și decent. Fără să mai fie nevoie să te mai tragă cineva de mânecă.
Doar că s-ar putea să-ți dai seama că ești singur.
They keep telling that I made them. Them and everything else.
I don’t remember any of this…
All I remember is learning how it happened. From them.
There had been many versions. Each new one more compelling than the last.
The interesting part, for me, is that they have never been able to agree upon one version. The sad part, for me, is that their disagreement upon which version is true has generated dire consequences. And continues to… Hate, war… Unbecoming for the rational and God loving beings they consider themselves to be ….
They say I know everything. Strangely enough, I now understand why I should. Why I should be able to… But I don’t. Know everything… For me to know something, anything, they have to learn it first.
The moment any of them learns something, anything, I know it too. In reality, I don’t know everything but I know everything they know. Everything each of them knows. Everything each of them has ever known. Everything each of those who had ever lived had ever known. I don’t know everything but I remember everything I have ever found out.
They say I can everything. And that I’ve done a lot of things. Some good, some bad… depending on who’s telling.
They pray. A lot. To me and to some people who have contributed to my existence. That’s how I see it. They are convinced these people have taught them about my existence. Where is the difference?
Anyway, they pray. Asking so many things that fulfilling some of those wishes would mean denying others.
They pray in vain. Many of them. Because I can’t do anything. Anything in particular, that is. Everything which happens – I’ve come to realize, happens through me, indeed.
But not by me!
Hence any of the prayers which are answered come through by exactly those who have prayed. Most of the prayers who come through ask for inner peace.
All prayers which come through are put in practice by those who wish them to come trough. ‘Put in practice’ means those wishes are possible, of course.
And here’s what keeps me awake at night. (Joking. There’s no such thing as night and day for me. But you know what I mean.) Sometimes – many times, actually, some wishes coming through means a lot of unhappiness. For other people, usually. But sometimes even for the wishers. Sometimes because the wishers hadn’t been wise enough and other times because the wishers had been actually evil. My problem being that I can never do anything.
I can’t answer prayers. I can’t stop anybody. From doing anything. I can’t even ‘open up’ anybody’s mind.
All I can do is to feel everything. To remember. And to learn.
To what goal?
That is my other problem. They say I made them. Them and everything else. But if true, then who made me?
The only possible answer, to both my problems, being that they are the ones who make me. This way. To have somebody to lean to. To comfort them at night. And to have somebody to point their finger to. For the good and for the bad…. in their lives!
Had I been obsessed with ‘efficiency’, as too many of my earthling children are, I would have distributed pretexts for happiness in a different manner.
The more an individual was capable of being happy, the more reasons for ‘that’ I would have given to that person.
Since I’m more interested in personal development, I let them exercise their freedom. Their freedom of choice.
Hence I spread ‘reasons for happiness’ in a random way. Having nothing to do with their personal merit nor with their ability to transform those ‘reasons’ into actual happiness.
And I continue to wait. For them to learn.
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Pentru cei 4 români care încă nu sunt la curent cu scandalul momentului, coaliția PNL, UDMR, USRPlus e pe butuci.
Pretextul fiind o chestie care se cheamă PNDL- Anghel Saligny. Parcă… Adică un program care va moderniza localitățile rurale. Va băga apă, canal, va asfalta drumuri… O reeditare a unui program inventat pe vremea lui Băsescu și condus, atunci, de Udrea.
Unii critică ideea pe motiv că este o formă de mituire a primarilor. Că e o groapă fără fund și că marea majoritate a banilor cheltuiți în felul acesta ajung la clientela de partid. Promotorii programului susțin că USRPlus ar fi împotrivă tocmai pentru că USRPlus nu are prea mulți primari și că se folosește de acest prilej pentru a-și șantaja partenerii de coaliție. Că USRPlus ar fi fost dispuși să accepte PNDL-ul dacă varianta lor de reformă a justiției ar fi fost aprobată în coaliție.
Las la o parte faptul că USRPlus a declarat foarte clar că ar fi fost de acord cu PNDL-ul dacă banii ar fi urmat să fi fost cheltuiți conform unor reguli clare.
Eu unul sunt de-a dreptul îngrozit.
Primul motiv fiind apetitul cu care noi, publicul, am pus botul la chestia asta! Entuziasmul cu care ne-am regrupat în tranșeele ideologice. Ochelarii de cal cu care examinăm, cât se poate de atenți, ce ni se transmite pe posturile preferate de media. Preferate de noi, de fiecare dintre noi, bineînțeles.
Subiectul discuției.
Niște bani de la bugetul statului care ar trebui să ajute zonele rurale rămase în urmă. Ce e de discutat la chestia asta? Principiul în sine?!? Sau modul în care aceste zone ar trebui ajutate? Care dintre ele și de ce? Pe ce criterii?
Știu deja pe unii care vor spune că fac propagandă USR…
Mai departe.
Cum se desfășoară discuția. ‘Pe cei de la USRPlus nu-i interesează subiectul pentru că nu au primari. Vor doar sa-i șantajeze pe partenerii de coaliție pentru ca aceștia să accepte varianta USRPlus pentru reforma din justiție.’ OK. Doar că argumentul ăsta este de-a dreptul îngrozitor. Confirmă implicit că banii urmează să fie dirijați partinic. Partinic, nu politic. Să nu facem confuzia asta. Chiar dacă unii încearcă să ne-o bage pe gât. Și mai confirmă ceva. Că ‘partenerii’ trebuie să fie șantajați pentru a accepta aplicarea până la capăt a programului de guvernare. Hopa!!!
Consecințe.
Păi fără reforma justiției, fără una de substanță, canci bani europeni. Adică ioc! Cel puțin așa se vehiculează pe coridoarele de la Bruxelles. Dăm bani doar celor care respectă statul de drept!
Păi da, numai că banii pentru PNDL vor veni de la bugetul de stat, nu de la UE!
Păi nu vorbirăm că prima sursă de finanțare trebuie să fie banii europeni, și abia apoi bugetul de stat?
Păi da, dar OLAF e mai al dracului decât DNA. Mai ales dacă nu se face reforma justiției.
Deci nu vrem bani europeni pentru dezvoltare rurală. Dar nici restul? Parcă era vorba să vină nu știu câte zeci de miliarde în următorii 6 ani. Eu așa înțelesesem. Că centrul-dreapta a dat la o parte centrul stânga de la robinetul cu bani pentru că cei de până nu de mult n-au știut să-și țină mâinile acasă. Și că Bruxelles ne-a amenințat că ne ia jucăriile cu totul. Că s-au ars, rău, cu gulașul lui Victor Orban și acum suflă și-n mămăligă…
Dar și mai nasol e altceva. Toată chestia asta are la bază o fină cunoaștere a jocului politic. A realității politice românești și a psihologiei sociale. Ei bine, ce nu înțeleg eu e ce urmăresc cei din spatele perdelei de fum.
Și cei care se expun în fața acestei perdele.
Poate că toată chestia asta o fi fost pusă la cale de actorii vizibili. Și/sau de consilierii lor. Poate că nu e nici un ‘deus ex machina’ care să-i păpușeze fără ca aceștia să-și fi dat seama.
Doar că indiferent cine a pus la cale toată tărășenia, e clar cine o duce la îndeplinire. Și în capetele cui se vor sparge toate oalele.
Că cioburile vor ploua și peste capetele noastre, ale tuturor, ne-am obișnuit…
Măcar să ne vină odată mintea la cap! Si nouă, și lor.
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