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Guest Post: U.S.A. 2012: Is This What We've Become?
Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds
U.S.A. 2012: Is This What We've Become?
Incentivize victimhood, fraudulent accounting of income/collateral and gaming the system, and guess what you get? A nation of liars and thieves.
Memorial Day is traditionally a day to speak of sacrifices made in combat. Like much of the rest of life in America, it has largely become artificial, a hurried "celebration" of frenzied Memorial Day marketing that is quickly forgotten the next day.
Instead of participating in this rote (and thus insincere) "thank you for your sacrifice" pantomime, perhaps we should ask what else has been sacrificed in America without our acknowledgement. Perhaps we should look at the sacrifices that need to be made but which are cast aside in our mad rush to secure "what we deserve."
The unvarnished reality is that most Americans have no idea what service members experienced in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they don't want to know. When 4,488 white crosses were erected on a hillside to remind us of all those who made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq, people didn't like it, labeling it "unpatriotic."
That is not the real reason, of course; what is more patriotic than keeping those who served and sacrificed fresh in our awareness? One reason those 4,000 crosses make us uncomfortable is that they remind us of being conned by our civilian leadership into "wars of choice."
Another is that the reality of war and its long aftermath are not sufficiently "uplifting" for a brittle nation that prefers the distractions of "reality" TV to an acknowledgement of our problems and the sacrifices made and yet to be made.
Longtime readers know that one of my embedded concerns is the disconnect between the civilian populace and the U.S. Armed Forces. This disconnect starts with raw numbers: THANK YOU TO THE 0.45% of the population who served in the Global War on Terror (2001 to present).
Personnel are costly, not just in civilian life but in the Armed Forces, too, and so the Pentagon has "downsized" the Armed Forces to a smaller but more professional force. This reflects not just budgetary realities but the evolution of modern warfare.
But it's not just that fewer serve because fewer are needed; the number of civilians who want to know and want to acknowledge the experience of those who serve is dwindling everywhere, from Congress to the media to the living rooms of the nation.
The Pentagon has reinforced this disconnect by controlling media access and coverage of its wars, and the media has complied to "control costs" and "give the public what it wants." Survey the media "consumers" and you find few want more coverage of the war or its consequences. So the five dominant media corporations offer up more of what people say they want: faked circus-like "entertainment" in which carefully selected competititors vie for the highest "prize" in modern America, a moment in the media spotlight. The appetite for "news" that trumps up trivialities and senseless, sensationalist crimes is equally insatiable.
Propaganda and marketing are the dominant forces in America, along with a willingness to suspend reality to avoid whatever is complex, knotty, difficult or painful.
Is this what we've become, a nation so fearful of the truth that we shun it, avoid it, or paper it over at every turn? It would seem so.
To take but one Memorial-Day example, we now "outsource" war just as we outsource manufacturing, and we ignore the sacrifices of those who replaced enlisted Armed Forces--even when many are ex-service members: Contractor Deaths Exceed Military Ones in Iraq and Afghanistan (2010). At the peak of the Iraq War, 150,000 "contractors" were in-theater so our civilian "leadership" could claim to have reduced the "headcount" of military personnnel serving in Iraq.
As with everything else in America, the artifice was swallowed whole because the truth was too ugly and difficult for us to bear. The sacrifices of our contractors in Iraq have been ignored by everyone: the Pentagon, the politicians and the public. Nobody wants to acknowledge the losses of those we hired to replace "official" soldiers, even though many of those contractors were ex-U.S. Armed Forces service members.
In Welfare State America, exaggerating victimhood and negating family, community and integrity are all heavily rewarded: that's how you get the gamed disability and a host of other entitlements.
Since credentials and grades are trumpeted as the foundation of financial security, then cheating on schoolwork and exaggerating accomplishments have become accepted norms.
Incentivize victimhood, fraudulent accounting of income/collateral and gaming the system, and guess what you get? A nation of liars and thieves.
All of whom claim "I had no other choice."
That is a sickness that cannot be cured with a pill.
The excuses are legion and varied. Everybody else is cheating, too. Look at the crooks at the top. If I told the truth, I wouldn't get the job/mortgage/entitlement/degree etc.
Everyone is to blame except ourselves, of course; we are powerless. Yet we continue to elect politicians who tell us what we want to hear, lies that sooth our insecurities and fears, politicians who have doubled the national debt in a few years and indentured future generations so our precious share of the pie remains untouched.
Living within our means is now either "impossible" or a sin re-branded "austerity." So we borrow staggering sums every year to maintain the artifice that the contraption of lies, leverage and debt is sustainable, because we have become so brittle and diminished that we cannot bear the truth or our responsibility for the fetid trash-heap that is the national psyche.
We don't care if the nation spends the lifetime Medicare taxes of ten workers ($30,000 lifetime taxes paid, $300,000-$500,000 spent on each beneficiary) in the last few months or years of each elderly beneficiary's life, because 1) it's profitable for those at the trough and 2) we're powerless to change it.
But that's just another lie, stacked on the immense mountain of lies we have piled up in the past decade: we just want our ten lifetime-taxes paid because "we paid our share."
So never mind that we're borrowing the equivalent of the entire GDP of Germany every two years-- ($3 trillion)--and that's just Federal borrowing. Of course the true extent of Federal borrowing is cloaked and obfuscated with tricks such as "supplemental appropriations," so the "headline number" is just another untruth passed off as fact--just like the unemployment rate and the GDP itself.
Add in private debt and local-government bond issuance (often for projects that were once paid for out of general fund tax revenues) and we're borrowing more like the GDP of Germany and France every two years, with no other future in sight.
The word "sacrifice" has been sacrificed on the altar of expediency. The politicians we elect (those who dare speak the truth of our impoverishment and complicity don't get elected--we abhor and fear the truth) have ground the word "sacrifice" into meaningless with overuse; it now means nothing but yet another clarion-call to swallow lies and artifice to protect our share of the loot.
The government can't be the problem, because the government issues me a nice check every month.
And so we cling to easy falsehoods. If only the 1% paid their fair share, all our problems would be solved.
The 1% should pay their fair share, but that isn't the problem; the top 1% already pay a significant share of income taxes collected; doubling that amount changes nothing about the long-term insolvency of our entitlements and crony-capitalist Empire.
The problem is our consumerist, Central-State dominated society/economy that depends on ever-rising debt and and leverage is unsustainable, and placating ourselves with expedient simplicities that shift the accountability and responsibility from ourselves to someone or something else solves nothing.
This reliance on excuses, denial and expediency is the hallmark of adolescence; in adulthood, these are the hallmarks of failure and pathology.
Is this what we've become, brittle, simulacra "grown-ups" who are incapable of acknowledging the truth of our situation? If we cannot dare acknowledging reality, then how can we solve our problems? If we cannot bear an awareness of our systemic rot and unsustainability, then how can we move past denial and expediency?
If we have lost the ability to live within our means and to acknowledge difficult facts, then we have lost everything: our national integrity, our ability to problem-solve, our vigor and our future.
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ww3 will last but a few days tops. Each side hacks and brings down each others energy grids, Both societies grind to a halt. We all are suddenly living in 1850.
A few well placed nukes will be enough to bring down even the strongest government (of course, most governments are weak and pathetic - thus their constant screw-ups)
no they couldnt. We basically lost all of New Orleans and the US as a whole never even blinked.
(S)He did type "well-placed," there...
Yes, they could EMP. 3 nukes tops...
Both Societies? Which 2?
you want civilians to be drafted into the servitude of the deranged murderous US elite?
It's about the only way to stop a war. When the people who are being drafted to go fight it get pissed off enough to organize voter drives, things slowly change.
Not an elegant solution. But these are not elegant times.
there's a faster, more effective and more peaceful way
Stop Paying Your Taxes
Zero Tax = Zero Govt = Game Over
But the US tax code is the religion the world bond/currency/stock/media markets pray to.
If the actors topped playing, would the spectators have to go home?
Zero Govt
There is an even better way
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2138738/Daniel-Suelo-voluntarily...
No place like home: Cave in the Utah desert where man who has given up money livesNot quite... Genius. They'll just debase the currency at an even faster rate. Who needs direct taxes?
We could stop paying taxes, they'll maintain spending levels as they are by printing benny bucks.
The 800lb gorilla (CHINA) holding a suitcase with trillions worth of USD denominated T-bonds would snap Benji Bukakke's spine like a twig the second he tried to reach for the PRNT key.
The war rages as you speak.
Correct, taxes are only about 60% of what the government takes from us now. The other 40% is taken by running the presses and giving that printed currency to the government, which debases currency in our paychecks and pockets and bank accounts and anywhere else we have it.
You're in a 35% tax bracket?
No, you're in a 58% tax bracket. The other 23% is taken by Bernanke with his printing press.
Then you have to add in Property Taxes, Sales Taxes, Gas Tax, Utility Tax, ect., ect, ect.
you forget both the US Govts ability to raise debt and the Feds ability to print ALL HANGS on the tax base
refuse taxation (ie. people keeping their money) and the whole shitshow of Govt collapses (in seconds).. the creditors of the US Govt have no income stream to have their debt repaid, the Fed, whose (private banking) monopoly on money depends on the force/coersion of the US Govt loses all authority on money
No Taxes, Game Over
Libertarian 777,atute observation.We know that they really do not need the taxes since they can print and use fractional banking.
Stop Paying Your Taxes
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As the Greeks are doing. Well, very telling, how their action is received around. Tells about the duplicity of US citizens.
+ 1000000000000000000000000000000 and 1
ZERO GOVT
TAXES IS ENSLAVEMNT BY FORCE
By and large American citizens seem to love war. Look at how everything about the military is revered and worshipped. If a majority of everyday people rejected the war machine and didn't join the armed forces, didn't watch the endless 'American war hero' movies and wern't 'proud' of their empirical military exploits things would change.
The argument that everybody is brainwashed and dumbed down etc - while true - does not absolve each individual of their complicity. Their failure to recognise the truth and correct their shortcomings in this day and age where access to the truth is readily available to all who would seek it makes their responsibilty for the current situation irrefutable.
Ignorance is no defence as they say.
Advoc8tr
Read Crito
Read what Krishna tells Arjuna on the eve of battle.
Look at how everything about the military is revered and worshipped.
It wasn't during Vietnam, and not so much today either.
The military has become a paid mercenary force where people go to get an educaiton, job, and career.
It's no longer a sacrifice to "serve your country". It's a well paying job and career now, fighting wars for bankers and politicians.
It has nothing to do with protecting America anymore. The last real war to protect America was WWII. Every so-called war since then has been for bankers and politicians, bankers mostly.
The last real war to protect America was the War of 1812. That said, I agree entirely.
The last real war to protect America was WWII.
Sorry Cranky, even that war wasn't necessary. If you have some time, do some research of the truth at that time and don't read American written propaganda. Here's a head start: Google the McCollum Memo: America's false flag: http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/McCollum/index.html
WWII
Protect America?
Our offensive weapons of war were attacked in Pearl Harbor in 1941 by a foe, that most current info backs up, was provoked into that action...Hawaii became a state in 1959.
You do the math.
I do not believe that to be his desire, but merely pointing out the sad reality of human nature. Sure, everybody gives a shit, but they fucking care when it directly affects them and their precious bottom line............prince and pauper alike.
Absolutely.
And remember, when you do not fit the very limited depiction of human nature US citizens usually give to justify US citizenism as the standard for humanity, it is not that the US citizen depiction of human nature given by US citizens is flawed, it is simply you are not a human being.
As simple as that in US citizenism.
You create generalities by removing all the counter examples and keep the rest. Once done, you reach what US citizens call universal.
CHS, you got eyes.
Let's consider the plight of America's Leader, who has had vacation after vacation interrupted by the relentless demands of the people.
In his best-selling book, Dreams of my Dealer / Ghostwriter / Teleprompter / Mullah / Mom's Baby Daddy, Barack Hussein Jefferson LaToya Obama wrote, "Never Before, have uh, so many, uh, given, um, taken, uh, um"
Indeed - can't the man just relax a little. Rumor has it he's already bested GWB's record for most vacation days taken (in 4 years to Bush's 8). Bush was somehwere around 400 vacation days, equating to roughly one vacation day per week, or to put it another way, taking a three day weekend every day for 8 years straight. If the rumors are true about Obama then, that would mean he works 3 days a week, on average. No surprise though, he is black
A reporter asked BHO why he only works three days a week and he chuckled, "cause I can't make it on two".
You're not allowed to say that last part out loud, yaknow.
trayvon7777 is back with a new name?
The extremely derelict fellow in this video is white. Although the reason he twiddled his thumbs while America was under attack was so as not to frighten the little black children. So it's still the darkies fault, after all.
Bush's Seven Minutes of Silencehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WztB6HzXxI
When Obama Won the Election he and Michelle though they Won an all expense paid 4 year Vacation all over the World.
Well, there isn't much to do. You wait around for the bankers to tell you what to sign. Then wait around for the next speech loaded into the teleprompter. Easy job. 1 hour a day should be sufficient for the Kenyan Krime boss.
GIVE ME A BREAK. Banks were bailed out with trillions of Tax Payers Money. Now they want the people that paid into the Social Security system for 40 or 50 years to give up what they rightly paid for which is a small Government Check every month.
All of those people that paid into the System for over 50 years not only into Social Security but into the Government Coffers thru Income Taxes at least deserve their monthly pitance for their years of service to the Government as faithful tax payers during their most productive of years.
Plus, all of those payments for Benifits and Taxes were paid in pre Inflationary Dollars. Just look at what the Dollar was worth 50 years ago vs now.
So, the Government in effect has inflated all Seniors and others Benefits away.
Anyone who paid into SS for 50 years likely didn't live long in retirement to collect it all back....We need a lot more folks like that.
Chartist
https://www.socialsecurity.gov/history/hfaq.html
The Social Security Act was signed by FDR on 8/14/35. Taxes were collected for the first time in January 1937 and the first one-time, lump-sum payments were made that same month. Regular ongoing monthly benefits started in January 1940.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/us-life-expectancy-at-all-time-...
Americans are living nearly two-and-a-half months longer, according to new life expectancy statistics released today. In 2007, life expectancy in the United States reached a high of nearly 78 years, up from 77.7 a year earlier.
Life expectancy in the United States has been on the rise for a decade, increasing 1.4 years — from 76.5 years in 1997 to 77.9 in 2007, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The life expectancy data, compiled by the agency’s National Center for Health Statistics, are based on nearly 90 percent of the death certificates filed in the United States.
The vast majority of the increase in life expectancy was from improvements to infant mortality and therefore is irrelevant to the statistics of people who have actually paid into social security.
My 83 year old mother in law was ranting the other day about SS. Couldn't understand why anyone would complain about paying for it. Why she had worked for AT&T for 30 years, paying her SS, retired at 62 and spent the last 20 years traveling and having a marvelous time on her pension and benefits. She claimed we just need to be patient,work hard and reap the rewards like she did. Well, I had visions of strangling her but I just asked her what she paid in SS. Four dollars a month! Yup that was it. When I told her what we pay I thought she'd have a coronary right there. And medicare just paid 150,000 for her back surgery too! Wow I'm sure those benefits are in my future. I guess I was born in the wrong generation.
Miffed:-)
What you also should have asked was how much she made a month. She probably only made $150. a month in income.
I remember when $10,000. a year was considered a really, really good income. On the level today of about $150,000. a year.
In 1968 I was making around $68. per week which was above the average in those days.
Plus, if the Money I had invested into SS had been used to buy say IBM Stock or another Blue Chip Company how much would I have today to retire on. I dare say a lot more money than the Government gives me thru Social Security. Plus, my Family would inherit the Stocks if I died, instead of the Money just going back into the Government coffers.
Ah so true! $4 from $150 income is no where close to the 7.5% I pay (not including my employers 7.5%). she lived her life in extreme frugality,dairy farming with only one son to help (her husband worked on the railroad and was gone m-f) she also sold angel fish (largest operation in western USA) and also managed a small red angus beef herd. The women worked herself to the bone for the money she retired on which was quite significant at the time of her retirement. Yes my husband and I quip often that a few welplaced investments could have dramatically dwarfed what she saved. She wouldn't move any money out of Lincoln S&L in the 70s because it was "safe". I was ponying my money on my dad's investments at the time and making 19%. she still did quite well though considering she was uneducated. There was a time in this country that hard work,frugality and saving was enough.
Miffed :-)
This is EXACTLY why you shouldn't support a system like Social Security. Because you aren't going to get anywhere NEAR what you paid into it back. How anyone who is 50 years old or younger thinks its OK to pay into this boondoggle is beyond me. They will extend the retirement age, and then they will means test it. They will probably raise the tax at some point, and ultimately? It will STILL go broke. Either that, or they will hyperinflate, and pay you in worthless fiat---you got your investment back, too bad its worthless.
I am thankful for the 2% payroll tax reduction, thats 2% I get to keep today. Tomorrow it will be gone. I always love when they say after the year 2030 that the system will only be able to pay 76 cents on the dollar. WHY ARE WE GIVING THE GOVERNMENT A DOLLAR TODAY FOR THEM TO GIVE US 76 CENTS BACK WHEN WE RETIRE?
STUPID!!
So long as you can reconcile eating while your children are starving, no one is stopping you from taking SSI
shuckster
Do you mean your children will be physically and mentally incapable from earning enough to feed themselves?
There is always work, mostly shitty, but still work.
Ah, not sure at all.
Work is consumption. As consumption is going down, so is work.
But hey, when you live a country that has centralized the global consumption in order to maintain its own fallacy, selling the idea that work is not consumption, that you can produce more than you consume is piece of apple pie. As all US citizen as US citizenism is.
+1001!
waterfallsparkles said:
I cannot understand why more people do not see this. And don't forget that our employers have matched the amounts we've paid in.
That being said, if tomorrow I had the chance to cash out of SS and the money that was paid in by my employers and I on my behalf over the last forty years was given to me in a check I'd do it in a heartbeat.
I've been paying in forty years and I'm still ten years from the earliest SS retirement age(yes I started young). The way things are going I don't anticipate seeing any return on what I and my employers have paid in, and I resent being portrayed as 'entitled' because I'd have the nerve to even expect that.
I would have an extra million bucks if I got $10 for every asshole who signed a mortgage that they knew they could never afford - and then turned around and blamed the bankers or the government because they are losing "their" house.They all were going to buy low and sell high. Let's not forget the dickhead who traveled to Europe or bought $200k motorhome with a heloc.
The victimhood mentaliy begins in the mirror...
And let's not forget those millions of assholes who signed a mortage that they could fully afford. Then had their job ripped off from under them. And there were no more jobs, with 8 other assholes trying to fill each opening that comes up.
What a bunch of assholes, thinking that just because they had a job, that they had a future. It sucks to be that stupid.
It aint a "job" which affords one a future....to think otherwise, would, in fact, be stupid.
Any idiot who doesn't stop before signing "on the line which is dotted" and ask himself "what happens if I lose my job?", is guilty of the same sin as the bloodsucking lender. Just because some leach claims that one can "afford" a home because his income fits into some bullshit ratio doesn't make it so once the shit hits the fan and reality comes knocking....but then, no one needs me to point out that fact.
All houses paid for in cash fixes this problem. Stay focused on the REAL problem.
Too funny....the fact that folks could give this sentiment a downer illustrates the author's point .
Americans were conditioned to home ownership. Property taxation is a relatively new means of funding local govt & education.
The real estate market along with individual equity and fortunes were destroyed by those parties to mortgaged purchase transactions who owed those buyers a duty because they made commissions, fees, and other income related to the deals they setup with tacit understanding that the transaction was safe from unknown circumstances. Such is the purpose of Title Insurance and search processes.
Yet, after the transaction, same parties knowingly destroyed their customers transaction by failing to record their securitization and transfers of debt ownership and thereby clouding title so their buyer can never resell his property w/o great problem, if ever.
T
aldante
"The victimhood mentaliy begins in the mirror..."
Someone else who understands.
Welcome brother to the .00001%
The term Memorial day is in reference to the word "memory". Perhaps it is time that we remembered more than just our soldiers and fallen comrades at arms (although please - never forget those who gave the ultimate sacrifice - as none of them had a hand in deciding to initiate any conflict - they are the cannon fodder of our political fantasies); perhaps it is time to remember a time when we lived within our means as an individual, family, community, city, state and nation, and when our economic system was based upon free enterprise and a free market, rather than on high finance manipulations, casino strategies and the plunder of those companies that choose to retain some capital for a rainy day. And once we have remembered - let's do something about it. We owe it to our families, our friends, our communities, our soldiers, our country, and hell yeah, ourselves. We need to seek Integrity in governance, Equity in a true market economy, Transparency in the making of laws, Restraint in public spending, and a societal shift towards a standard of living that reflects the value that we create in our daily lives. Maybe a good start would be to move government out of Washington and have the Congress and Senate meet in many locations throughout the US. Perhaps when the lawmakers leave their plastic bubble, they will finally reconnect with the people they are sworn to serve.
I wonder if they would have served or given their life if they though it was just to protect the Bankers and Global Companys in America.
Which is exactly what they did they gave their lives for the American Corporations protection thruout the world.
Well, look at the bright side… at least military officers are now only an arm’s length away from a reach around and need never be lonely again.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/gay-students-graduate-openly-military-academies-16439257
I guess this irks someone.
Yeah, well me too, but go blame the Stoner-In-Chief.
This is what we’ve become.
Schacht Mat
"as none of them had a hand in deciding to initiate any conflict"
Guess you never heard fo Pacifism.
Or the price Ali paid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali
Originally known as Cassius Clay, Ali changed his name after joining the Nation of Islam in 1964, subsequently converting to Sunni Islam in 1975, and more recently practicing Sufism.[5] In 1967, three years after Ali had won the World Heavyweight Championship, he was publicly vilified for his refusal to be conscripted into the U.S. military, based on his religious beliefs and opposition to the Vietnam War. Ali stated, "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong... No Viet Cong ever called me nigger" – one of the more telling remarks of the era.[6]
Widespread protests against the Vietnam War had not yet begun, but with that one phrase, Ali articulated the reason to oppose the war for a generation of young Americans, and his words served as a touchstone for the racial and antiwar upheavals that would rock the 1960s. Ali's example inspired Martin Luther King Jr. – who had been reluctant to alienate the Johnson Administration and its support of the civil rights agenda – to voice his own opposition to the war for the first time.[7]
Ali was eventually arrested and found guilty on draft evasion charges; he was stripped of his boxing title, and his boxing license was suspended. He was not imprisoned, but did not fight again for nearly four years while his appeal worked its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it was eventually successful.
Ali would go on to become the first and only three-time lineal World Heavyweight Champion
Izis my Sunday sermon? Well hell then. I say, well ah say son, Amen! And Amen. Now Pastor Tyler will close our reading with his prayer for each of us
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference. Amen
Keep stackin and praying.
Pretty sure this is racist?
Actually I know some of it is.
Slavery takes differnet forms but retains it's M.O.
We won't get over the hump unless first we confront the fact that political operatives are in fact racist. They are also any and every other negative connotation that is projected onto us in order to make 'us' affiliate with 'them'.
Welcome to the 1% VS. the 99%-
Reality edition.
Don't get it?
Then keep trying.
55% of the 99% are receiving govt paychex, pensions, group entitlement handouts, and contracts...all debt-financed. And they intend to keep receiving same 'til the bitter end. In 90 days or less. So stop whining and invest in lead. The killing-time is upon us.
Ultimate sacrifice.....or ultimate stupidity to fight for the 1%? It sure a Hell isn't about Freedom and Democracy.
They ARE fighting for democracy. That's the whole fucking problem. The USA was founded as a constitutional REPUBLIC. Democracy is how you get the 1%.
start with 100% in a democracy. 51% vote away the rights and assets of the 49%. The 51% then vote. 51% of them vote to take away the rights of 49% of the 51%ers....etc, in 6 rounds of voting 1.7% control the other 98.3% through 'democracy'.
A brick wall.
Democracy is a political ideology. Constitutional republic is a form of government.
Comparing apples and peas.
But what? US citizenism is what has led the world where it is.
Admitting this for US citizens would be self indiction. A big thing in US citizenism.
Here's how to straighten people up. Stick these three charts in people's faces, AND KEEP THEM THERE!
First two charts from here
http://homepage.mac.com/ttsmyf/RD_RJShomes_PSav.html
and this chart
http://homepage.mac.com/ttsmyf/debtGDP_whys.gif
Why do they always use the word Entitlement to encompass Social Security recipients and Welfare people. They should never be lumped together.
What People receive on Social Security it is based on how much they paid into the system over the last 40 or 50 years. Whereby Welfare is not biased on anything paid into the system.
Why should people get Benefits thru Social Security for SSI and Welfare if they never paid into the system? It just drains the system for those who rightfully paid into it.
Yhis is what the ponzi scheme is. You can say it what ever you pleases.
You lost me at "Global War on Terror."
I would just like to point out that the use of "We", doesn't include me and many other people. I live within my means. I do not get any direct payments or support from our criminal Government. I have no say in what our career criminals in Washington vote on. For decades, they have lied to get elected or re-elected and the day after the election they sell their soles the highest bidder. This will never change by peaceful means. In the mean time I will sit back and watch the house of cards fall. Wake me up when someone declares open season on career politicians both past and present. Quietly waiting.
I live within my means.
While the same is true for me, I do count myself in to the "We".
The reason is that with all the clarity I have about the situation this the country is in, I have not been able to convince a single individual to grasp and accept (a little bit more of) reality.
As in that regard I have failed, I cannot claim the moral high ground for myself.
I will stick to living within my means, and preparing for some very bad times (but no, not for a zombie invasion), but I am very aware I will most likely go under together with the overwhelming number of fools around me.
But I'm not a fatalistic type, just not kidding myself.
And I'm calm.
Yes, I am as demoralized by the human responses I experience as I am by the situaion we face. So blinded and manipulated are most.
Malek
I too live with in my means and have gone to great lengths to prepare for numerous contingencies such as losing jobs or medical events. Yes, at times I feel it is for naught and I will be caught up in the frenzy when the collapse occurs. Everyone thinks I'm crazy and it can be quite lonely. You just cant prepare for everything. At least I have some good neighbors that are also well prepared and heavily armed so may be I may suvive. Who knows, may be well get to see these suckers go down before they extract the last blood from us. Stay calm, live well and keep your friends close.
Miffed:-)
The feeling that one can live within one's means in an environment as brought by US citizenism leads to an illusion.
It is the same strand as considering that Germany lives within its means.
In all encompassing system as US citizenism is, dependency is high at certain levels and achievements only happen because somewhere else, one performs the opposite.
US citizens claiming to live within their means just get the feeling because somewhere others are pushed beyong their means.
Extorting the weak, farming the poor has demands you cant escape.
Is it time to start sacrificing small animals?
Only if they are tasty.
http://humblestudent777.blogspot.com/
This guy is usually pretty good, but this time he is full of crap. Let's keep our eyes on the target: CORRUPTION. And the corporations who are responsible for it, from the wars for profit, to the bought politicians, the lobbyist maggots, the crooked regulators and "Justice" Dept...all the way to the Supreme Court. There is nothing "patriotic" about the wars since WWII. the people in the military swore to protect and defend the Constitution, so it is incumbent on them, when faced with massive violations to it... to resign in protest.
I do agree. Charles Hugh Smith is sounding like a bitter old crone. Instead of condemning everyone as facile, mindless, pimples on the butt of the earth produce some answers. Suggest outcomes, give scenarios, provide plans, ponder solutions we can all grasp. Charles, if you can't lead, can't follow, and can only whine then get out of the way and let someone else lead the pack.
I logged in to say this.
The insidious forces working from within that MacArthur is speaking of is the power of the Freemasons. They comprise every single secret order and society you can think of. They are the godhead of the illuminati, the mafia, HA, the drug induced rock movement, the drug wars headed by the CIA during vietnam in Laos.
In fact the murder of JFK was a Freemason cover up by Earl Warren (the same Warren responsible for liberalizing our schools and banning public bible and prayer inside schools as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court) who headed the "Warren Commission" given the task to investigate JFKs assassination whom he loaded with members from the Council on Foreign Relations and other 32 degree masons.
Just look at the curent board members of the CFR. The honorable chairman is currently David Rockefeller. It comprises members notably from the media, top Fortune 100 companies, and former members of high ranking government offices. They deceptively control many parts of American politics and the economy. If you don't believe me just visit their site and see who sits on their board. My point is that Freemasonry and Fiat currency go hand in hand in controlling you, conscripting you since you were born. Fractional Reserve Banking is a tool of the Freemasons my friend. Are you in or are you out?
I read somewhere the Fabians caused it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc-OxtJYJ9g
All those people in that video are Freemasons. You really should research it further, b/c you show an interest in it already. Freemasonry owns you, me, and every breathing soul. It is the vehicle for the anti-christ. Annie Besant was a famous female Freemason and married multiple 32 degree Freemasons. She is most famous for her work in the population-control philosophy first started by Malthus (who most people don't even mention was an Anglican clergyman who was severely influenced by the Masons.)
What most people don't realize is that the whole population control argument was a way to force the state into creating some sort of contraception as well as abortion so the Masons could fulfill their sacrifices and their quest of lust whom Albert Pike 33 degree mason and responsible for igniting masonry in the US would elegantly say it is man's inner desire to fulfill his lustful pleasures. That of course if the symbol of the Freemasons the compass and the square. The compass represents the legs of man and his male reproductive organ and the square represents the submissive female legs in which they meet in the center fornicating perpetually where the letter 'G' which stands for Grand architect of the Universe is located. Essentially in the Freemasonry view, 'God' is the phallus and the cteis interjoining in union in sexual pleasure. Hence Phallic traditions.
Don't be duped my friend. Freemasonry is much more powerful than you have been lead to believe in your short introduction to it on 30 minute history channel renditions.
As with all things liberal (er, now "progressive") the meaning of words is so plastic and viscious that he who controls their meaning for the moment controls the outcome of the debat.
In this case, just what do you mean by "sacrifice", exactly? In Keynesian terms, "sacrifice" means slowing the rate at which air-backed money is created from nothing and used to pay for social benefits. But this is miraage upon mirage when coupled with a factional reserve banking system that uses government-grade debt as Tier I assets upon which to lend out even more money into the economy.
Well... Here's the deal, we dont live in a democracy, a former republic to be exact, any more; its a managed police state. Im not represented, and never have been; as Ive been voting something other than R or D since I was 18.
Im not sure who these soldiers are sacrificing for, or what, and I dont think they do either. Most just dont want to be indentured debt slaves to go to college or learn a trade, poor families mostly rural and Southern... its an opportunity with a hellish price.
Most people are serfs like me, just capital before the real "people" aka corps and uber wealthy. You, the author ask me to understand sacrifice, and to you I say I do.
I have sacrificed two career level jobs in deference to those more deserving entities who destroyed our country my country, known as tbtf. I have sacrificed pride when I cannot provide for my family. I have sacrificed my house trying to live within my means. I have sacrificed my ideology when I pay taxes to governments that dont give a shit about me. I know plenty about fucking sacrifice.
Let us stay on point though. You ask us to realize the soldiers sacrifice. Yes I think we should. You and me buddy. Let us do the honorable thing. We will refuse to pay taxes come prison or gunfire. We will march to DC armed and ready come blood and guts. We will decry tyrrany from the highest hills no matter the goons, tear gas, or pepper spray. We you and I will win our country back together, or are you just too damn comfortable in your private litttle nook speaking of "soldiers sacrifice"? Hmmmm? Ready? I am. What the fuck about you? You ready to do whats right in the face of scrutiny, tracking, interrogation, torture, and death; because thats what its going to take. Ready yet, or is hammering on a keyboard enough for your part?
You are right Mr Author let us dispense with the dog and pony show and realize the soldiers life and sacrifice first hand. Maybe this time it will be for the good of our country, contrary to any other war thats been fought in my lifetime. Reply to my post and we'll figure out a way to hook up and start hammering out logistics.... If you arent ready for this then please please shut the fuck up.
When the time comes, "we", will not go quietly into the darkness.
Santilli--more fodder- u go guy.
- Ned
Turn off, turn off, turn off your televisions.
I'm house sitting at my in-laws' for the week. Having unsubscribed from cable some time ago, the amount of propaganda, diversion and stupidity pouring from their 60" flatscreen has become easily detectable. The American sheeple, however, are nothing if not mind-controlled.
I'm watching the racing on FOX and I have zero desire to join the US military. Some young Americans watching will be persuaded and join up.
Lord Drek
"Turn off, turn off, turn off your televisions."
Why blame the television for your own failure to choose wisely.
You could try Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, PBS, whole shitload of channels and programming.
Phil Donohue once pointed out that his educational and indepth discussion shows ALWAYS had fewer viewers than the more tawdry ones.
In the end it's the audiences fault for prefering the garish.
How can you blame tv execs for catering to what the audience wants?
theres digital, and aural subliminal code spilling out of the tube constantly. it doesn't matter what you watch. turn it off, read a book. quit for a year, then go back, and see if you still crave it.
No. The playlist determines the hits. If you don't believe me have a look at Adorno's work on the Princeton Radio Project.
This it to say that the plebs will watch, as they do with every activity, whatever is perceived by them to be popular.
Had ours turned off for 2 years now. Gives you the chance to read and THINK once again. No more spoon feeding me until I need to be changed.
All mine had an allergic reaction to lead and stopped working. Sales guy in Walmart stopped me a few weeks ago and asked who my cable provider was, I told him we don't have cable where I live. He asked me who my satellite company was, I told him I don't have satellite. He looked completely confused by the answer. I then told him I don't even have a TV any more '...because I shot them...'. He just back-pedaled away, looking even more confused. My friends act the same way; like the one who has 7 tv's in the house, for four people. I handed one of the kids a book the other day and I was the one who was shocked because she didn't ask how to turn it on...she just might make it.
And the band played on. Not until the last note is played will we see reality.
This may or may not be a criticism of this article.
CHS has stated the problem that has been stated in countless articles by countless people in countless blogs.
I'm not saying take up arms. But where or what is the Selma moment for the expressing outrage of this corruption/oppression?
Absent a unifying circumstance, my inclination - and I don't think I'm alone - is to retreat and go "prepper" or "survivalist". Wait for the moment, not that an individual will bring, but that a circumstance will bring.
Isn't the moral ideal of "sacrifice" precisely what has wrecked everything? Would we have welfare if people rejected the claim that your purpose in life is to serve everyone elses interest before yours?
Much better if the purpose of life is to increase corporate profits above all else.
Straw man.
a good time to read "War is a Racket" by Smedley Butler
Semper Fi bitches!
Paychecks, Get Some!
Americans are really proud of the phrase "land of the free" in their anthem. I'm not sure they are that free.
You/we/I are not free - we are worker bees/ants in the tax farm of the USSA.
Look at the mentality of Sen. Chuckie Schumer when he raged at the escaping sheeple facebook founder Severin - "how dare that cow try to escape the tax farm"
Severin was Brazilian born but became a US (tax farm) citizen and PAID all of his legally due taxes. Still Chuckie insists he should stay and pay more.
Land of the Free?????
No, Land of the indentured, land of the tax farm, land of the sheeple with masters like Schumer saying "you must stay on the tax farm" "Don't you know we have wars to fight (to destroy the infrastructure of a country so we can send in Bechtel and Blackwater to rebuild [at USSA taxpayer expense] [and build up my stock value in Bechtel and Blackwater that I've invested in]" Yes war is a racket and you/we/I peons and peasants should just shut the fuck up and pay for the ass fucking and squeal "more master, I like it, please more"
Welcome to the Second American Revolution - coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
In America, everybody's scared of one another.
Why? Because if you say something wrong, you can be sued for defamation or personal injury or sexual harassment or racism or some other such nonsense. So sure, we have "freedom of speech" but in practice the range of allowable words and conversations is narrow...a soft form of totalitarianism. Many people in other countries around the world actually have freer speech. In America, you can't say anything "negative," you can't say anything bad about America, you can't say anything bad about blacks, you can't say anything bad about Israel.
In America, in theory you are free to move around and move from job to job. But in practice, your mobility is limited because in order to live somewhere free of ghetto violence or poverty, you have to mortgage your future. And if you choose to rent, then you often have to live in crummy places with all sorts of strange people. And you continually piss your money away, with no equity in anything. And then you have to pay alot to move anyway. Also, most Americans are one paycheck away from being a part of the prison class. If you aren't actually paid to where you can save money, how is that economic freedom? And then your future employers ask "why didn't you stay at this job longer" as if you did something wrong. How can you tell them that you feared for your life? Or that the atmosphere at that job was so toxic that you could die in it?
Despite the troubles in Europe and Asia, Americans would be astonished to see just how well people live in some of those areas...the easiness and grace and security of their lives is now foreign to Americans.
In America, in theory you can defend yourself..."right to bear arms" and all that. But in practice, if you ever do, you end up as another Zimmerman.
I suspect people are tired of all of this though. But there's nothing we can do.
Made me laugh.
So off. You cant badmouth the negroes in the US?
It was a fruitful field to assess the reality of US citizen nature.
US citizens love to invent fictions to pretend they are coerced, that they do not express their true US citizen nature. If not coerced, US citizens would be so different. But right now, they have to act the way they do because they are always subjected to some sort tyranny, pushing them to emergency actions, leading them to suspend their true inner self.
Djadajdjadja...
When US citizens are not coerced. They express their US citizen nature etc
The ill at easeness perceived in the US is the normal situation.
US citizens are expansionists and in order to increase their consumption supercify, they have monetized every single confict possible.
The exterior no longer offer that much room to expand. The only way to keep expanding is to redefine the interior, to know who among the current US citizens, is going to be pushed under the train to feed the remaining US citizens.
That is where ill at easeness comes from.
Not from pseudo restrictions that do not exist in the US.
@the author
Go away, please-----------
"Is this what we've become, a nation so fearful of the truth that we shun it, avoid it, or paper it over at every turn? It would seem so.
To take but one Memorial-Day example, we now "outsource" war just as we outsource manufacturing, and we ignore the sacrifices of those who replaced enlisted Armed Forces--even when many are ex-service members: Contractor Deaths Exceed Military Ones in Iraq and Afghanistan (2010). At the peak of the Iraq War, 150,000 "contractors" were in-theater so our civilian "leadership" could claim to have reduced the "headcount" of military personnnel serving in Iraq.
As with everything else in America, the artifice was swallowed whole because the truth was too ugly and difficult for us to bear. The sacrifices of our contractors in Iraq have been ignored by everyone: the Pentagon, the politicians and the public. Nobody wants to acknowledge the losses of those we hired to replace "official" soldiers, even though many of those contractors were ex-U.S. Armed Forces service members"
WE have not become a nation "so fearful of truth-----------------------------"
No, we have not------- we have become a nation that is fighting a civil war at home.
Most of us do not want war for profit fought with mercenaries and criminals----most in the military are working at the only job in town.
What the fuck is so difficult to understand about this?
Please take your well-worn rhetoric to another site om
I was born here. Whatever that means.
The financial sector has to be taken down to size. They aren't going to get much farther with my mother's social security prescription drug medication money. And when they run out of bribe money they will hopefully be prosecuted. The banksters are at odds with real corporations and real corporations have more money than countries.
Enjoyed this article. Thanks for the posting.
Some believe that mass arrests of U.S. bankster-politicians, from Obama and Brenanke, is imminent: http://tinyurl.com/cd5cyjo
Really? Arrested by whom?
From Vary's Riddle, Game of Thrones (start at :40)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpL6Fwu0wkw
Too bad, I tried to click the up arrow - but, either because your entry started with a 'return' or a Paraenthesis or an Italic, I couldn't leave the positive up arrow.
Those, like the author of this text, who think that austerity is the cure, do not understand anything.
This is Peak Oil. Whatever we do, we will live with less tomorrow.
You can't change this situation with austerity.
I understand and appreicate Peak Oil more than most, but just realize, the consequences of Peak Oil evaoprate when the monetary-market system ends and the supresss-everything stranglehold ends.
The Memorial Day shit parade on television today made me want to puke. The romanticization of war, military service, and paying the ultimate price made me want to puke. The crying widow, the commentary by the Hollywood idiots, and the special guest appearance by war criminal Powell really tested by spirit.
When is Memorial Day for the 50,000 who die annually on our highways or the 100,000+ that die annually from government-approvated pharmaceuticals?
Worth watching.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/ethos/
Americans are too complacent... We're not as fervent about our gov't like every where else and take our civil liberties (whatever we have left) for granted.
Your vote doesn't matter and never has, it's always about what the pols can do to get rich in and out of office.
Term limits for all political positions and they cannot hold another office/position. If the most power position of the free world has 2 terms only then so should everyone else. It's the BS that they can't do enough in 2 terms is what irks me because these career pols has done squat...
With regards to your post, I read the following somewhere along the way, "Americans will delay what needs to be done as long as they can, then they will do the right thing and do what needs to be done". I hope that's true.
The best Memorial Day speech I have read.
Thank you Charles!
Anyone know why the Japs arn't really trying to feel Bernank's luv tonight ?
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters over darker people in the world. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.
– Muhammad Ali, 1967
What a dumb prick. He was really oppressed wasn't he?
...What a dumb prick...
Never has an athlete epitomized so perfectly the eternal dream of men; Hector and Achilles rolled up in one. Ethics and athletic grace and poetry in lethal motion which brought a gasp of wonderment to all who beheld him against Liston, then in Kinshasa and Manila, and truly made us feel like when we were kings; men of all colours, of all races and ages.
His best poem : You, me.
His most impertinent look on his adversaries : float like a butterfly sting like a bee.
A man for all the ages.
Ironically, only a "dumb prick" would imagine that Ali, in that context, was concerned about his own welfare, rather than that of his oppressed brothers.
The real question you are all asking is how many of them will mindlessly turn on us when we rise up and demand justice and draw the lines that will not be crossed without a fight?
How many will have read the Constitution and understand their allegiance is to it and its citizenry and not politicians who have pissed on the Constitution and its citizenry for the sake of the banksters and their control?
Don't act like it hasn't happened or can't happen. It already has ...... several times.
God help us all if it comes to that again, but I know you are all thinking about it.
The essential nature of capitalism is to gravitate towards cronyism, protectionism, increasingly unfree markets and subsidisation. This is a natural tendency as capitalists seek to preserve capital in the face of increasing competition but falling labour surpluses. I would venture that were you or I of the degree of high net worth vulnerable to the vagaries of these risks, we would be as inclined to these protectionist tendencies as we find. To contemplate the community of family and neighbourhood in this individualised paradigm is somewhat unrealistic.
The essential nature of human society is to gravitate towards cronyism, protectionism,
And do not forget, when you do not fit with the standard set by US citizen as being human nature to justify the adoption everywhere of US citizenism, that is not US citizens who are wrong. That is simply you are not a human being.
Conform or lose your human being condition. That is the deal. US citizen deal.
So if I give up my freedom, will the muslims stop hating me? And then will the IRS stop getting money out of me 'cause the muslims dont hate me anymore?
miss-post, nevermind
This author should stick to writing his light porn books about nubile young females and middle aged men! Some of us are sick of hearing about the "sacrifices" military people make. We need to seriously cut back on the Military Gravy Train, where guys (and dolls) are signing up to take advantage of the life-time freebies and the "fun" of killing brown people.
I just don't see any value to Charles Hugh Smith's comments. Whine, whine, America sucks, whine, the economy is in the toilet, whine, whine, kids today suck, whine, waaah.
Ok, we get it. So what? How is this market news?
OP sez "The government can't be the problem, because the government issues me a nice check every month."
Where do you live? cuz I want to move there.
"The sacrifices of our contractors in Iraq have been ignored by everyone: the Pentagon, the politicians and the public."
If I'm not mistaken these security contractors are extremely well compensated for the risks they take. Should their sacrifices deserve more attention than those of others who take physical risks for big payoffs (eg professional boxers)?
Hahaha you have all been brainwashed by the media! The joke is one you.
I taught young Darth one important lesson:
COMPLETE TRUE REDEMPTION ALWAYS REQUIRES SUCCESSFUL DELIVERY OF PUNISHMENT AND EXTRACTION OF ATONEMENT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE WRONGED YOU
so get on with it, Charles. Even Jesus upset the tables of the money changers and excoriated them at the temple. Get going. Otherwise your just another whinning lazy weasel member of the sheeple class.
Considering the current situation, why focuse on soldiers?
Soldiers are professionals. Many professionals lost their life performing their trade.
They made the ultimate 'sacrifice'. Why theirs has to be belittled compared to soldiers?
X soldiers lost their life during the last years? Any idea about other professionals?
But indeed, when you run an extortion of the weak, farming of the poor business, the soldier has to be given a priviledged status.
That is one essentiality.
Yes let's think of Tienanmen Square 1989 and the soldiers and tanks from the 27th and 38th Armies and how the Illegal Communist Regime murdered its citizens.
Tell us AnAnonymous how you commemorate these Deaths
Well, according to US citizen logics, those should not be commemorated but the sacrifice that the soldiers of 27th and 38th armies did.
So how do you commerate the sacrifice of the valiant soldiers?
As a vet, I have to agree. Solidering, like law enforcement, is a safe haven compared to logging and fishing. The unmitigated praise and romanticism heaped on cops and soldiers is nauseating... and believe me, the armed forces are riddled with alcoholics, gang members, and wife beaters... hardly the type you'd invite into your home for dinner.
You forgot the /rant at the end of that...thing you wrote, Charles Hugh Smith.
America was done when it accepted socialism, multi-culturalism, and hatred of white males as official state dogma. This was during the 60's and 70's that are so fondly looked back upon by the media and soon-to-be-dead Baby Boomers that took part in the drug fueled orgies and hysteria of that era. Then they entrenched their power to the point that they could get Barak Hussein Obama into the white house, a man that spent his entire adult life associating with known anti-American idealogues and terrorists. It is quite simply no longer my problem. My bags are packed. I'm leaving on a jet plane, and I ain't coming back. I hope they have pop corn wherever I decide to settle down. America will put on quite a show these next few decades, I suspect.
And by the way, I'm part of that .045% that served in Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom. You're welcome. For what, you ask? Oh just spreading American fasicsm and hegemony, which, rest assured, has benefitted most of you greatly, regardless of your profession and industry.
I was stationed in Germany before, during, and after Desert Storm/Shield. For a little over a year my job was to stand guard over the women and children (off post housing areas). Many of the wives spent their nights drinking and screwing during their husbands deployments. We would witness them return around 5am, in time to get the kiddies ready for school.
Propaganda and marketing are the dominant forces in America
Yes the Private Sector produces what in the USSR AGITPROP produced for The State
Anarchism is itself somethign of a misnomer, for the actual anarchists of today, being merely advocates of the envisioned final stage of Marx's historical process, do not eschew authority generally, but authority vested in the natural inequality amongst humans - an aspect of reality these ideologues simply cannot stand. As such the implementation of a dictatorship of the proletariat, that is to say an ochlocratic tyranny according to the moral values of Marxism, is in no wise contrary to the doctrines of anarchism.
There is no natural inequality between humans - all the inequality is 'man made'.
What one man lacks in strength - he makes up for in brains, or dexterity, or ingenuity - or even a skill he hasn't himself discovered yet.
Marxism is in conflict with Anarchism - although Marxism is merely Anarchism through the prism of class and with a 'self organised' section of society.
Anarchists advocate self organisation - but not with the 'prejudice' Marx does.
Empirically, your rejection of essentialism is utterly refuted by the science of genetics, if it hadn't already been brought into question by mere common sense. Rationally, the idea can be dismissed out of hand by cognisance of the fact that equality is a mere relation on a set between mathematical objects, being a concept conceived of in the mind of a conscious subject and having no existence outside of this in the phenomenal world. Of course your kind will howl about 'scientism' replete with nonsensical jabbering about the 'prejudices' of the Western mode of deductive thought, in other words, classical logic.
That is, first of all, not necessarily or even generally the case, and the norm is invevitably relative mediocrity. Second of all, even this being the case, it would not alter the fact that where such differences occur they are at least in 80% due to inherited biological differences as opposed to socialisation.
You bore me. If a is a form of b then it cannot, logically, be in a state of contradiction to whatever is essential to b. Modern "Anarchism", such as that espoused by the priveleged white middle class children of Antifa, is in its development merely a generalised Marxian, or if you will "post-Marxian", philosophy taken to its most radical and virulently anti-Occidental extremum. As for there being any conflict between the two, I will leave you to be the judge of your own internal squabbles, although I will say that there is too much of sense and a dead white man even in Marx for his ideas to be palatable to your kind untouched by the "deconstruction" of "textual criticism".
There is no natural inequality between humans - all the inequality is 'man made'.
Another one completely brainwashed by the do-gooders. <facepalm>
Open your eyes and look around you without preconceptions!
And yes, the world is not just, with "the world" not limited to the actions of men.