@Vermillion-Rx

All instability in the Middle East leads back to Iran

All of it? Ever? That's a bold claim when you have the history of the middle east in the 20th and 21st century at your fingertips.

It's soundbite claims like that though that permit unilateral actions that side step congress, it's a fall in line statement, right? Once upon a time, and now very far down the memory hole, the line happened to be:

All instability in the Middle East leads back to Syria

All instability in the Middle East leads back to Iraq

All instability in the Middle East leads back to Afghanistan

All instability in the Middle East leads back to Libya

Once it was Mossad, then it was Hussein, then it was Bin laden, then it was Gaddafi but then Gaddafi was rehabilitated and so was Mossad but then they were a threat again and then and then and then... All instability in the Middle East leads back to Iran.

Dance, monkey. Dance.

@Stigma

Women (hysterics) don't connect to reality directly. They need a man to give meaning (frame). And that's a Tually such a luxurious thing to have. You remain a child for all your life.

That's the luxury the elite unwittingly grab for. Being freed from the practical issues of survival, they lose their grasp of reality. Then, just as a borderline who cuts herself in order to feel connection and relieve the existential dread, they go villain and do ranbom abusive things on their subjects.

That is, beside the "classical-marxist" analyses about profit etc, there are deeper psychological factor at play for the shit show we are witnessing.

And the bad thing is not only we are unlucky to be caught in the decline phase of the cycle, but that now there are neuclears.

This is the reason many have envisioned a wipe-out of the human species. These dynamics are built-in in the human species (probably as an evolved mechanism of expansion, from when the earth was still big enough: men saw the shit-show and moved to pristine lands).

Just as you can't really convince a woman it's for her children's best interests to be loving towards her husband, you can't convince the elite to not be assholes.

@adam-l Very interesting. Are these not pathologies though? I wouldn't expect a majority or even a significant minority, enough to destabilise the function of reality, to exist. Heck, maybe I'm wrong and to be well adjusted is the aberration? Which I suppose is answered by

They live an animalistic existence, following their "heart" (instincts), and they form the bulk of the followers of the perverse, psychopathic leaders.

this?

I dunno if you're familiar with the term min/maxing, but it speaks to the method of optimisation, mostly used in video games, where the greater scope of the game is sidelined for the results of the game. Trim away the fat, the experience and the process and hasten the result or reward. It seems society has been doing that to itself for some time, to a fault.