Bill Bonner: In Defense of the Empire
• LewRockwell.comAnd here’s the scary thing. In all the many examples of empires, none…not one…ever backed up. None ever renounced its imperial destiny. None ever thought better of it. Instead, they all went headlong…forward…until they finally got their butts...
Empires have always been the result of the deluded, self-righteous machinations of a very few psychotics who managed to insinuate themselves into the power structure of any given culture...Mostly under the guise of religious mandate; and/or some lunacy of 'birthright"; and, almost without fail, the primacy of "destiny". (We muisn't forget the modern iteration of such crap: Public mandate - This one piles it so high you can't even see it.)
As for their butts, when have the purveyors of any of this crap ever really gotten their "butts" in a sling? As best I can tell, hostorically speaking, the "public" has always taken it in the shorts. [Did anyone you know get the U.S. into the financial mess that it is in? Do you know anyone who, outside of the low-life money changers in Congress, industry, and the "money market", who signed off on the illegal national debt?]
Let's let the "destined few" pay for the nation's wealth that THEY squandered, fight and die in the Money/Power Wars they start, and get real jobs doing some- thing they can screw up without destroying innocent lives and the world.
Remember this (though somewhat glib, it works for me): If the opposite of "pro" is con, then it follows that the opposite of "progress is "Congress".
None of us will remember any of this when we are dead; but, we are all present at the end of reason, integrity, freedom, and civilization. This is the new Common Era - peopled and run by the most COMMON of men and women.