WAR MODE & THE DRONES

No, it's not the name of some super group, though in one way that's close...

The War Mode

You may be reading this as someone who is constantly aware that the elites who run your nation are lying to you about the wars they wage.

This bothers you. You suspect that they are missing information they need to know so they'd stop.

I strongly suspect this latter is not the case.

The facts themselves are easy to see. They are not hidden and they are well known to those with eyes to see and ears to hear. My suspicion more and more is that this knowledge is not confined to those of us in opposition to the wars and the lies that seek to justify them.

I suspect that the vast majority who perpetrate the acts we find so abhorrent also know exactly what they are doing.

The difference I believe is that they have what they believe are extremely good reasons/justifications for doing them and also for saying whatever they have to, including bare-faced lies, to be able to continue doing them.

James Clapper is an obvious case in this respect I would maintain. His 180 degree slants on Russia and his record of a bare-faced lie regarding NSA spying on Americans reveals the CIA ethos that you say whatever will minimize opposition and/or whatever will maximize the desired effect. I came to the conclusion quite some time ago that these people are constantly in war mode.

As you will know in war mode everything is permissible and counter-arguments are inadmissible. You do whatever you "have" to do to confuse and weaken the enemy and you come down hard on critics no matter how constructive, ethical or just they may be trying to be or in their intent toward you.

You cannot afford to be understanding and take on points, even when valid in this state. In war you must be ever strong, never weakening for a moment and willing to do absolutely anything to win as your nation's security depends upon it. Especially since 9/11 this I believe has been the predominant impulse.

Russia is simply one aspect of the war front that is negative and therefore a target for weakening in every possible way using every possible means without reference to morality, ethical conduct, truth or any other related characteristic no longer valid in times of war.

The Busy Drones

As to us, the general public in the USA, UK and Europe I suspect too many of us have our heads down with very little attention or free time to spare to worry about the wider world but are concentrated upon everyday concerns of themselves, their families and making progress in an increasingly demanding world. Plus, all the various life pursuits now available take up so much of our time also which we are either naturally interested in or that we, in modern times, have been seduced into partaking in. These take up most of the remaining percentage of time left to people that the working day leaves free.

I suspect also that people have "facts" on too many subjects hitting their nervous systems and brain functions at too great a frequency to gain clear ideas concerning what’s going on. And even if they do have a reasonably clear view I am sure in most cases an overwhelmingly fatalistic state hits soon afterwards and they conceive of how little they could do personally and then the many justifications arise to do nothing or extremely little.

"What do I really know?", "What could I as one person do?" The answers of course are, relatively-speaking,  not much in both cases. Perhaps a sigh is emitted and his/her focus switches to the many and insistent chores and activities of the day.

The possibility of doing something remains latent in those few and that provides a little hope for us perhaps in that if there happened (by some miracle) to be a powerful groundswell of opinion and action against all we abhor then they would spring to help having once had these feelings and thoughts though they felt at the time they could do little or nothing on their own.

This I believe is where we stand now. A groundswell against the many areas where modern elite-led capitalist forces run things is rising, albeit with a long way to go before it become the major threat to the established order that the Sixties protests presented.

The iniquities of the elite-run capitalist system, especially that predominating in the USA which I think deserves the term hyper-capitalism, are becoming more obvious by the day. Toleration of them for the sake of earning a living which only barely meets the needs of the workers in their symbiotic relation to the elites is wearing thin. And the mass disruption to employment of the Covid-19 pandemic is leaving many wondering about just how stable the system is, how reliable for them and their families and the future of their children.

Western elites are intent on pursuing their war. The vast majority of their citizens don’t want this. Yet their elites continue relentlessly. They conceive themselves to be at war and nothing but continuous attacks on those they have targeted as enemies can be countenanced. They are fair game in their minds, no lie is too big, no conduct too unethical or immoral. The use of terrorists, propagandizing activists such as The White Helmets and myriad NGOs are simply “necessary” weapons in the fight for the outcomes they believe to be utterly crucial for the continued well being of their nations and the values they believe in. That the continued domination of others for their self-interest is sublimated under these other “noble” causes which justify continued war and continued lying.

We live in a world at war. We are the drones. And our elites, if we live in the West, are in war mode.

Don’t expect the elite wars, or the lies that are an integral part of those wars, to end any time soon.