“The time has come,' the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax —, Of cabbages — and kings —`” - Lewis Carroll’s ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter.’
So very pertinent you refer to Lament for a Nation! It is a book I read as a student and was the wake up call for my political consciousness and seeing where Canada stands in the world. It is a book that has been a "benchmark" for me over the years.
We are not dealing with "herding cats". We are dealing with panicked rats trying to rescue a failed empire. It holds the world hostage to its delusional behaviors, spitefully waging wars it can never win.
With NATO's most recent confirmation of its cowardly capitulation it suggests to me nothing meaningful is going to happen until the Empire exhausts itself and goes into full collapse.
If Americans are insouciant Canadians are even more so, both are historically and politically illiterate societies. Both countries, along with Western Europe, have been fed bullshit for so long Grant's "thrust of intention" required for true nationhood is long gone. Now as Wendy Brown has written we get to dance in the ruins of neoliberalism and forever wars.
Thank you for this! Apparently, and sadly, it all appears to be true! I would say that the "panicked rats" are mainly among the MAGA creeps; I was referring to the idle Left which has stood there watching the neoliberal capture of society, their only concern to carry on with their shopping.
A speech by Tommy Douglas was the first political event of my life. I voted for them for decades when they were known as the "party of conscience". I did the whole nationalist trip with Mel Hurtig. Now I have no party affiliation and call myself an internationalist as that is where the future is going to be decided. If you haven't already you should read Ian Hughes, " Disordered Minds"-- its all about what is happening right now, and it is civilizational.
So very pertinent you refer to Lament for a Nation! It is a book I read as a student and was the wake up call for my political consciousness and seeing where Canada stands in the world. It is a book that has been a "benchmark" for me over the years.
We are not dealing with "herding cats". We are dealing with panicked rats trying to rescue a failed empire. It holds the world hostage to its delusional behaviors, spitefully waging wars it can never win.
With NATO's most recent confirmation of its cowardly capitulation it suggests to me nothing meaningful is going to happen until the Empire exhausts itself and goes into full collapse.
If Americans are insouciant Canadians are even more so, both are historically and politically illiterate societies. Both countries, along with Western Europe, have been fed bullshit for so long Grant's "thrust of intention" required for true nationhood is long gone. Now as Wendy Brown has written we get to dance in the ruins of neoliberalism and forever wars.
Thank you for this! Apparently, and sadly, it all appears to be true! I would say that the "panicked rats" are mainly among the MAGA creeps; I was referring to the idle Left which has stood there watching the neoliberal capture of society, their only concern to carry on with their shopping.
A speech by Tommy Douglas was the first political event of my life. I voted for them for decades when they were known as the "party of conscience". I did the whole nationalist trip with Mel Hurtig. Now I have no party affiliation and call myself an internationalist as that is where the future is going to be decided. If you haven't already you should read Ian Hughes, " Disordered Minds"-- its all about what is happening right now, and it is civilizational.