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I. Remembering
Remember the movie about an "advanced" civilization that would project into the future to determine who would commit a crime then arrest them in the here and now for the crime they had not yet committed (Minority Report)?
The recent republican controlled government has accomplished that half-way, in that they have put our children and grandchildren further into future debt (Your Grandchildren Are Already in Debt).
But our government, controlled by a despotic minority, does not see crippling our descendants with debt (theft from the future) as a wrong (How To Identify The Despotic Minority, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7).
II. Regretting
In fact they celebrate it as a "tax cut" ... and it is a tax cut to the plutocrats they get their bribes from (Trump Tax Cuts Are (Probably) About to Become a Political Disaster).
The regret is stunning (Republicans stunned to learn voters understand exactly what their tax cut did).
III. Forgetting
A nation that "mis-remembers" is headed for trouble:
“Experience has shown that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” – Thomas Jefferson
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson
"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people." - Thomas Jefferson
That goes for civilizations too:
"History told us this was going to happen:(How To Identify The Despotic Minority). The main essence for this issue of tyranny, at this time, is cruelty (On The Origin of Tyranny).
But always TCS is primarily the population segment diagnosed as a despotic minority which the once most-often-quoted historian, Toynbee, fingered as one of the members of the trinity of extinction that he found in all civilizations that were about to become very successful at becoming extinct:(Arrested Development: The Creep State). Our culture is composed, now, of the toxins of power that habitually destroy nations and civilizations (Hypothesis: The Cultural Amygdala - 2)."
That something is the dementia that produces and ends up in suicide:(Etiology of Social Dementia - 18). That particular "minority" is not a racial or ethnic minority, rather, it is primarily composed of a destructive suicidal trance (Choose Your Trances Carefully, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8).
"In other words, a society does not ever die 'from natural causes', but always dies from suicide or murder --- and nearly always from the former, as this chapter has shown."(A Study of History, by Arnold J. Toynbee). There is no cure for the final symptom of that group dementia, there is only prevention by way of avoiding it altogether in the first place.
The components of that group dementia were pointed out in an encyclopedia piece concerning that historian quoted above:
"In the Study Toynbee examined the rise and fall of 26 civilizations in the course of human history, and he concluded that they rose by responding successfully to challenges under the leadership of creative minorities composed of elite leaders. Civilizations declined when their leaders stopped responding creatively, and the civilizations then sank owing to the sins of nationalism, militarism, and the tyranny of a despotic minority. Unlike Spengler in his The Decline of the West, Toynbee did not regard the death of a civilization as inevitable, for it may or may not continue to respond to successive challenges. Unlike Karl Marx, he saw history as shaped by spiritual, not economic forces" ...(Encyclopedia Britannica, emphasis added). The show stopper, in terms of remedy, in this type of group dementia is that it is a contagious dementia.
Ripping money from the future and ripping children from their parents in the here and now is a vile and inhumane cruelty (By separating immigrant families, we've caused irreparable harm).
The next post in this series is here.
Spare (don't scare) your son !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spare (don't scare) your daughter !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sleeping is giving in,
No matter what the time is.
Sleeping is giving
In, so lift those heavy eyelids.
People say that you'll die faster than without water.
But we know it's just a lie,
Scare your son and scare your daughter.
People say that your dreams are the only things that save ya.
Come on baby in our dreams,
We can live our misbehavior.
Every time you close your eyes lies, lies!
People try and hide the night underneath the covers.
People try and hide the light underneath the covers.
Come on hide your lovers
Underneath the covers.
Come on hide your lovers
Underneath the covers.
Hidin' from your brothers underneath the covers,
Come on hide your lovers underneath the covers.
People say that you'll die faster than without water,
But we know it's just a lie, scare your son, scare your daughter
Now here's the sun, it's alright!
Now here's the moon, it's alright!
Now here's the sun, it's alright!
Now here's the moon, it's alright!
But every time you close your eyes, lies!
