I have no doubt you look around the world we have come to now and shake your head. If you have lived any length of time you will have certainly seen better days than these. Much better. If you are as long in the tooth as I am you will feel you have entered some kind of twisted version of Hell in fact… that is compared with the wicked, but not so wicked as now world we once knew. Yet the solution to all these problems has been a catchphrase for at least as many decades as we have been alive. Yet it seems we can’t agree to settle our differences and abide by it.
It is of course, ‘LIVE AND LET LIVE’.
The thing is that one or two nations believe they have the right to take nations and nationalities that are not like their own and do whatever they like to them as if they were holy messengers sent down from above to police the world. They conceive themselves to be so superior that they have the right and even the duty to do this. And do it by force if they have to. They don’t see a few hundred thousand corpses as something to worry overmuch about. The end justifies the means, right?
The elites of these lands, the USA and the UK conceive themselves to be a superior group who sit on the board of directors of all they survey. Their wishes must come true. Their commands must be obeyed. Their interests must be satisfied. And all things must be arranged to suit them. And woe betide anyone who thinks they have a right to their culture or national sovereignty and who refuses to bow down to the wishes, commands and interests that these god-like figures require to be attended to at all times.
War and pestilence are not archaic terms as we know all too well from recent history. The USA and UK have delivered both. Both physical and mental. Their frame of mind where those who are not like them are fair game for them has been extremely obvious lately. They conceive themselves and their systems to be the composite crown of creation, the model which all others must aspire and adhere to. Or else…
In this modern materialist western world values count for little, that is any values you may have brought with you from the old, dead and gone world. Now you must agree to the new values, the woke values, the kind seen recently at the opening of the Paris Olympic Games. You will be coerced to accept those values or you risk being canceled. Either you stay silent, out of sight of the censors or you will find yourself in trouble for being too free with your opinions. Shut up or be shut up. Your choice.
We are being taught to emphasize our differences more and more. We have told to expect the best at all times and to get annoyed when things are not done as we demand. We feel far more entitled than ever before. Large numbers of our fellow beings, the affluent percentage, have been told to ‘expect more’ and to demand more. “Shop till you drop.” “Consume!” Want the best and get it. Beat the ‘others’ to it by whatever method that’s to hand. Those are not fellow humans, they are your competitors.
The advertisers and marketers told us to demand it all and have it all. But they didn’t tell us just how much we would have to pay for that. And pay and pay and pay… with all the psychological baggage and distortion that a shallow life of endless consumption and competing can bring. Who needs friends you can no longer trust? Except those you might be able to use to your advantage somehow, right?
Your neighbors became absent over the years or else they became annREALLY ANNOYING. Somehow we became obsessive about being safely alone, not touched by others except for them to ask us what we want from them. People became either competitors or potential slaves for us to order around. In the service culture that was sold us we were kings and these minions who delivered service to us were our slaves. And if they didn’t come up to scratch we would ditch them for new ones.
Other cultures were fine during brief holidays from making loads of money for all the glittering trinkets of a very modern life, trips to distant lands where we could feel superior and become interested in quaint customs for a while, slumming it and taking selfies to show the equally vain and shallow relatives back home.
This is the material that is the human specimen seen so widely now in the western world. A grotesque shadow of a human being. Hardly able to be loved or to give love, a calculating machine, a robot that digests mainstream headlines and believes them in total ignorance.
LIVE AND LET LIVE?
Yes, if only we had the essential materials in the human beings now existing in the western world to do it and not these distorted and distorting shadows that hardly even remind us of human beings. Lost in lies broadcast nightly, heads wasted with a tawdriness that lurks everywhere now. Frightened by the reality all this irresponsibility brings, daunted by the news of riot and mayhem, murder, rage, racism, war and hatred. But still seeking filthy lucre to garner it all to the self and keep it safe from those others ‘out there’.
This is the world the USA and UK and most of the EU want to foist on the rest of the world, to make all others just like them, caught in the self-loving trap of those who believe themselves superior but who have lost everything that was real about them and in so doing lost any trace of their humanity. Live like us or die. That is their motto. Live and let live? This is anathema to those who demand all others be like them. Their self-image is so deluded, their conception of themselves as the most exceptional, superior form of beings ever to grace this planet could not be further from the truth. And their awful and disgusting reality is now leading to them being now being rejected during the birth of a truly multipolar world.
In that world now being born the phrase that has become so unfashionable will once have meaning once more.
LIVE AND LET LIVE.
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