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If You Ask The Right Questions You Might Find The Right Answers
Submitted by Mark J. Grant, author of Out of the Box,
The Right Questions
“Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”
-Anne Rice
One of the reasons mistakes are made, and often serious mistakes, are because the right questions are not asked. If you ask the wrong questions then the answers, even if answered correctly, will lead you to the wrong conclusions. What we are seeing in Italy this morning is a good example of asking and answering the small questions when the larger questions are vastly more important. If you read the news and analysis in the Press today you will find many opinions about the Italian elections and what they mean to Italy and this is the small question. The bigger question, and the correct focus, is what the Italian elections means for the European Union and its survival. That is what is really important now and that is what we should be trying to understand this morning.
“The question is not what you look at but what you see.”
-Thoreau
Basically Berlusconi represents a return to Nationalism and a repudiation of the measures imposed upon Italy by Berlin/Brussels (The European Union). Grillo represents something stronger which is a total rejection of Berlin/Brussels (The European Union) and a demand that Italy return to self-governance. Grillo’s party won more votes than any other party and taken together, Berlusconi’s coalition and the 5 Star Party won the vast majority of votes at just under sixty percent. Yes, there are other national issues such as corruption and nepotism and so forth that relate strictly to the political situation in Italy but again, these are the small questions and far less significant to the central question of what will happen to the European Union as a result of the vote of the Italian people.
I first direct your consideration to this; if it can happen in Italy then why not in Greece, Spain, Portugal or France? People in other countries will take heart from Grillo’s attempt and then success and the mob may begin to stir. However Italy is going to work out and whatever alliances may be made or whether there will be a second vote; the writing is emblazoned now clearly on the wall which declares opposition to living under the dictums handed down from other countries and enforced by the money that may or not be parceled out to the Italian nation. This is clearly defined by the total rejection of Monti and the Brussels/Berlin austerity measures that he put in place. The vote for Monti at just under ten percent is a ringing condemnation of the European Union by the people of Italy. In fact I would say that the Italian elections are exactly what the European Union has feared most, the very most, which is the rejection of the Brussels/Berlin governance by those who ultimately matter which are the people of a nation. I think it can now be said with a good degree of accuracy that the Italian people took a long hard look at the European Union and voted, “NO!”
What most people have not grasped yet, but the dawning will come, is that a Referendum has just taken place in Italy. All of the political upheaval in Italy was caused by anger and frustration with the European Union and their policies. This is what drove the election and not to appreciate this is a serious mistake. The EU is now cornered. This is the third largest nation in the Union and the voters, the people, have just turned out a majority that clearly and resolutely said “Basta!” (Enough!). I would say that how all of any of this works itself out is anyone’s guess now but I would also say that what has happened, like a wife catching her husband with another woman, will forever change the relationship. If the bureaucrats and technocrats in Brussels wanted to know what Dante’s Inferno looked like they have only to pay attention this morning. They can stare at it now.
“But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.”
-Dante, The Inferno
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Looks like I am not the only one who could add 32% + 25% and come up with more or less 60%. I don't think taht any post war government had that kind of majority. :)
As to the Italin in the Euro Referendum, it's a comin......:)
Choooo Chooooo.....
I'll believe something has really changed when Italy goes Iceland, and not before. Anything else is the same old wine in a brand new bottle.
"Drop the gun and take the cannolis."
Cannoli Spring in Italy?
This 'american' article is weak as you can usually expect from 'american' articles.
This 'american' author tries to ascribe certain properties to certain events in order to hide their 'american' nature.
What is happening in Italy? It is quite simple.
'Americanism' gets people to vote theirs servants in. When 'americans' want one of theirs servants out, they have to vote another in.
You do not vote people out in 'americanism'.
Now, it is very likely that 'americans' in Italy have reached the point when self perceived 'american' middle class no longer look for voting one servant in, but want to punish the current incumbent because that some self perceived middle class felt that the incumbent did not satisfy them.
So what do they do to punish the current incumbent as in 'Americanism', you can not vote a servant out, only vote a substitute in? They vote for other candidates. That is the simple 'american' thing that is happening in Italy.
Put the others in charge and you'll get the same result.
Why? Because at this stage, servants figured no other solution but to push one part of the 'american' middle class under the train to save the rest.
The consequences are straight: demoting middle class people relieve 'american' servants from serving them. 'Americanism' is the reign of the middle class and the 'american' servants'duty is to serve the middle class, not another class.
But this is not accepted by the newly demoted people who've just lost their 'american' middle class status. They still consider that the 'american' political personal have to serve them. So they want to punish the current incumbent for what they judge as mistreatment.
So if the new guys were in charge (as Berlusconi was once), they would follow the same policies: slashing part of the middle class to save the rest.
This would create resentment among the newly demoted 'americans', who would look for punishing the current incumbent. And in the next election, boom, Berlusconi or the other guy would get the flail, the others candidates would mechanically rise up as in 'americanism', you do not vote servants out, you only vote them in.
What is the end game?
First, for the servants, they know their 'american' lessons. They will try to stay in the game because they stand very high chances to be elected because of the wrath. It is just a matter of time before they get votes only because the want of punishing the current incumbent.
In the mid term, the newly demoted 'americans' will turn to normal and accept that 'americanism' is not meant to serve but the 'american' middle class.
Voting rate will go down as they know that casting a vote is useless.
That is what you can tell once it is admitted this is an 'american' world.
But in the mid term, newly effervesced chinese citizenism citizens, accept that 'chineseism' will disperse running dog americanism american citizenism scoundrels and demote dominant paradigm americanism citizenism with straight consequences on curved threatenings of Hu Jintao frankness and general tso's chicken.
Fantasy, the last shelter for 'americans'...
AnAnonymous said:
Labeling as fantasy those facts which cannot be refuted by Chinese citizenism propaganda, the last shelter for 'AnAnonymists'...
You know, because with Chinese citizenism citizens, facts do not matter so what?
Because chinese citizenism has some factual existence?
'Americans' struggle to part fantasy from reality.
Because US 'american' citizenism has some factual existence?
AnAnonymystics struggle to part their raging prejudice and insanitation from the merest glimmer of a shred of a fragment of reality --- not to mention their struggle to part their spread buttocks from the roadside.
Oh, and tell us again how US 'american' citizens managed to somehow invade Easter Island in the 15th century and cause its downfall, long before the USA was even first settled by Europeans, and long before the Easter Islanders had even had ANY contact with outsiders --- I really like that little fable of yours.
Alas, alas, alas, two times two times alas, just have to bear with it.
I could be too stupid, but I didn't understand what you were getting at here.
The even bigger question is to ask is whether these set of politicians have the balls to do what is needed and beeak the ponzi or will they get scared as soon as yields shoot up which provides another key entry for the banksters?