Jonathan Cook – The Unz Review Nov 6, 2020
At birth, all of us begin a journey that offers opportunities either to grow – not just physically, but mentally, emotionally and spiritually – or to stagnate. The journey we undertake lasts a lifetime, but there are dozens of moments each day when we have a choice to make tiny incremental gains in experience, wisdom and compassion or to calcify through inertia, complacency and selfishness.
No one can be engaged and receptive all the time. But it is important to recognise these small opportunities for growth when they present themselves, even if at any particular moment we may decide to avoid grasping them.
When we shut ourselves into the car on the commute to work, do we use it as a moment to be alone with our thoughts or to silence them with the radio or music? When we sit with friends, do we choose to be fully present with them or scroll through the news feed on our phones? When we return from a difficult day at work, do we talk the issues through with family or reach for a glass of wine, or maybe bingewatch something on TV?
Everyone needs downtime, but if every opportunity for reflection becomes downtime then we are stagnating, not growing. We are moving away from life, from being human.
Dried-out husk
This week liberal Americans reached for that glass of wine and voted Joe Biden. Others did so much more reluctantly, spurred on by the fear of giving his opponent another four years.
Biden isn’t over the finishing line quite yet, and there are likely to be recounts, court challenges and possibly violence over the result, but he seems all but certain to be crowned the next US president. Not that that should provoke any kind of celebration. The rest of the world’s population, future generations, the planet itself – none of us had a vote – were always going to be the losers whichever candidate won.
The incumbent, Donald Trump, miscalculated, it seems, if he thought dismissing his opponent as “Sleepy Joe” would be enough to damage Biden’s electoral fortunes. True, Trump was referring to the fact that Biden is a dried-out husk of the machine politician he once was. But after four years of Trump and in the midst of a pandemic, the idea of sleeping through the next presidential term probably sounded pretty appealing to liberals. Most of them have spent their whole political lives asleep.
Four years ago, however, they were forcibly roused from their languor to protest against Donald Trump. They grew enraged by the symptom of their corrupt political system rather than by the corrupt system itself. For them, “Sleepy Joe” was just what the doctor ordered.
But it won’t be Biden doing the sleeping. It will be the liberals who cheerlead him. Biden – or perhaps Kamala Harris – will be busy making sure his corporate donors get exactly what they paid for, whatever the cost to the rest of us.
Caitlin Johnstone: 'By telling yourself you voted out fascism, you are lying yourself into a state of future complacency.. If you voted for Biden, fine. Now do what you know is right and start throwing haymakers at the new head of the fascist empire' https://t.co/MoH6sJg9OW
— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) November 6, 2020
Anger and blame
In this analogy, Trump is not the opposite of Biden, of course. He represents stagnation too, if of a different kind.
Trump channels Americans’ frustration and anger at a political and economic system they rightly see as failing them. He articulates who should be falsely blamed for their woes: be it immigrants, minorities, socialists, or the New World Order. He offers justified, if misdirected, rage in contrast to Biden’s dangerous complacency.
But however awful Trump may be, at least some of those voting for him are grappling, if mostly unconsciously, with the tension between stagnation and growth – and not of the economic kind. Unlike most liberals, who dismiss this simplistically as “populism”, some of Trump’s supporters do at least seem to recognise that the tension exists. They simply haven’t been offered a constructive alternative to anger and blame.
Ritually disappointed
Unlike the liberals and the Trumpists, many in the US have come to understand that their political system offers nothing but stultifying stagnation for ordinary Americans by design, even if it comes in two, smartly attired flavours.
They see that the Trump camp rages ineffectually against the corporate elite, deluded into believing that a member of that very same elite will serve as their saviour. And they see that the Biden camp represents an ineffectual rainbow coalition of competing social identities, deluded into believing that those divisions will make them stronger, not weaker, in the fight for economic justice. Both of these camps appear resigned to being serially – maybe ritually – disappointed.
Failure does not inspire these camps to seek change, it makes them cling all the more desperately to their failed strategies, to attach themselves even more frantically and fervently to their perceived tribe.
That is why this US election – at a moment when the need for real, systemic change is more urgent, more evident than ever before – produced not just one but two of the worst presidential candidates of all time. We are looking at exactly what happens when a whole society not only stops growing but begins to putrefy.
Enervating divisions
Not everyone in the US is so addicted to these patterns of self-delusion and self-harm.
Large swaths of the population don’t bother to vote out of hard-borne experience. The system is so rigged against them that they don’t think it matters much which corporate party is in power. The outcome will be the same for them either way.
Others vote third party, or consciously abstain in protest at big money’s vice-like grip on the two-party system. Others, appalled at the prospect of Trump – and before him the two Bushes, and before that Ronald Reagan – were forced once again to vote for the Democratic ticket with a heavy heart. They know all too well who Biden is (a creature of his corporate donors) and what he stands for (whatever his corporate donors want). But he is slightly less monstrous than his rival, and in the US system those are the meaningful electoral options.
And among Trump’s supporters too, there are many desperate for wholesale change. They voted for Trump because at least he paid lip service to change.
These groups – most likely a clear electoral majority – could redirect the US towards political, social, even spiritual growth, if they could find a way to come together. They suffer from their own enervating divisions.
How should they best use their numerical strength? Should they struggle to win the presidency, and if so should it be a third-party candidate or should they work within the existing party structures? What lesson should they draw from the Democratic leadership’s sabotaging – twice over – of Bernie Sanders, a candidate offering meaningful change? Is it time to adopt an entirely different strategy, rejecting traditional politics? And if so, can it be made to work when all the major institutions – from the politicians and courts, to the police, intelligence services and media – are firmly in the hands of the corporate enemy?
Terrible reckoning
There is no real way to sleep through life, or politics, and not wake up one day – usually when it is too late – realising catastrophic mistakes were made.
As individuals, we may face that terrible reckoning on our death-beds. Empires rarely go so quietly. They fall when it is time for their citizens to learn a painful lesson about hubris. Their technological innovations come back to haunt them, as ancient Rome’s lead water-pipes supposedly once did. Or they over-extend with ambitious wars that drain the coffers of gold, as warrior-kings have discovered to their cost through the ages. Or, when the guardians of empire least expect it, “barbarians” – the victims of their crimes – storm the city gates.
The globe-spanning US empire faces the rapid emergence of all these threats on a planetary scale. Its endless wars against phantom enemies have left the US burdened with astounding debt. Its technologies, from nuclear weapons to AI, mean there can be no possible escape from a major miscalculation. And the US empire’s insatiable greed and determination to colonise every last inch of the planet, if only with our waste products, is gradually killing the life-systems we depend on.
If Biden becomes president, his victory will be a temporary win for torpor, for complacency. But a new Trump will emerge soon enough to potentise – and misdirect – the fury steadily building beneath the surface. If we let it, the pendulum will swing back and forth, between ineffectual lethargy and ineffectual rage, until it is too late. Unless we actively fight back, the stagnation will suffocate us all.
Churchill sold the UK to the USA in w w 2 for 50 w w 1 mothballed batteships
this is why we still have US bases here
there is much unrest in the British army, as these men saw how the americans behaved in Iraq, more Brits were killed by US freindy fire than iraqis, the mass gang rapes of iraqi women by US soldiers , the evil torture programme etc etc
America you fight the jews war on iran on your own, as my family who have 7 in the forces will go to prisin rather than fight the innocents of iran
British nationalists stood for election in Barking essex some years ago, as they hada lot of support in the area
The PTB put up Margaret Hodge ( oppenhiemer ) nota chance the voters said
but my brother in law was one of the vote counters and he said they were rubbing out
voters ticks for the british first candidate and putting in the box for this dirty jewess
needless to say Hodge got in, many people said they would not vote again.
Greville Janner who was head of the Board of British deputie, or deep state said
” the giy will have who we put in charge of them, no way will they have who we want ” unquote
The first fraud was cheating Bernie Sanders. The second fraud was making out this guy is fit. The third fraud is trying to shoo him in. The next fraud will be to place the unelectable Harris into office. It’s been fraud all the way for the past two years, not just this week.
There is no substance at all to this commentary. It really is just lazy and empty-headed rhetoric. Jonathon Cook ought to take some time to reflect on his own complacency before bemoaning the pusilanimity of others. From the glib and stock-philosophizing of his introduction; through the woefully superficial Trump v. Biden comparative analytics to the risible platitudes of his concluding thoughts, I can’t discern anything worthy here. It reads like an undergraduate essay, more concerned with giving thematic purchase to the topic of today’s homework – “public indifference to politics” than providing any intelligent insight.
If all you have to say is “Trump and Biden are the same but Bernie Sanders would’ve been cool,” why bother with all the bumfluffery in between?
Apart from its sheer idiocacy, there is no authenticity of voice in this article. Charlatanism and redundancy. Oh and by the way, a haymaker will always leave you vulnerable to a counter-punch and is best deployed against a tired or weakened opponent. Cook knows nothing about boxing either. I’ll give him a D-.
It doesn’t matter who wins this farce. It’s all just entertainment the jews are keeping alive to keep our attention away from the real (((power))) taking shape more and more every day.
“By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care! Good honest hard-working people; white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cock suckers who don’t give a fuck about you….they don’t give a fuck about you… they don’t give a FUCK about you.
They don’t care about you at all… at all… AT ALL. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Thats what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick thats being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth.
It’s called the American Dream,because you have to be asleep to believe it.” – George Carlin (1937 – 2008)
This vid shows the faking up of votes, the British goverment did this to keep out The National Front and the BNP
http://tapnewswire.com/2020/11/voting-fraud-filmed-lady-fraudster-working-hour-after-hour-filling-in-ballot-sheets/
At the link below, brain-dead Biden reads a script which states that – We have put together the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGRnhBmHYN0
This Biden voter fraud video wouldn’t be on Jewtube unless jewish PTB want it there. Within just the last few weeks, lots of truth tellers such as Max Igan, Adam Green of Know More News, Dollar Vigilante, Amazing Polly, and others have been banned from jewtube for exposing corruption.
Only the banksters who fund and control Biden have the power to insert something like the voter fraud statement above into the text of the speech Biden was reading from, and keep it on jewtube for all to see. This means the banksters want sheeple to know the vote is rigged for Biden.
Inciting republicans against demonrats by blatantly rigging the election for Biden is the goal in this part of the ongoing jew coup. Banksters are baiting the traps for a power struggle between Biden and Trump. Biden voter fraud is one of the baits.
If this bankster coup attempt goes according to bankster plans, the power struggle will bring riots, looting, burning, destruction, anarchy, government overthrow, and eventually the subordination of the USA to the UN / Jew World Order.
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=216069#comment-963911
I praised a Carlin observation once but, overall , he was, in later life, an arrogant, atheistic misanthrope, wallowing in his superiority.
If Americans get sent to Iran for the Jews my spirit is only with the Iranians.
It is good to notice “complacency”. Whenever I see it I am not taking the person seriously because he must be at some level happy about the world when it is in this state.
Another recently ousted YouTube channel is Sarah Westall’s “Business Game Changers.” It’s perhaps less easy to see why it was banned in this case but I feel sure that it’s because of Sarah’s several interviews with Sherry Edwards and the promotion of her truely mind-blowing Vocal Print technology, which is a highly promising deceit-detection software, now available (or soon to be available) for public access without charge. If you don’t know about this exciting anti-lie modality, please check it out. You will sing a hallelujah. There is nothing the Archontic forces fear more than the truth.
Sarah’s channel can still be found at Bitchute.Google Play Store has banned the Bitchute app but the Bitslide app (a reconfigured and better version of Bitchute) is still available. Download it while you can, dear friends.
“Andjay” above…..what a poof….
Lewis Jones,
I agree, but Carlin was spot on in his American Dream rant. He was certainly a misanthrope and did wallow in his own superiority. He had a filthy mouth, lacked any respect, attacked pretty much everyone and everything and never once called out the kike, ironically the reason that he had such hatred for Americans and what they did worldwide, which gave him the content for his stand up shows. But you know very well that had he called out the Jews, his career would have come grinding to a halt, incredibly fast. They liked Carlin, because he promoted their agenda of ‘hate whitey’.
No, Dave. I’m not a poof and I can’t think why you should say such a thing but I’ll leave that to your own conscience.
It really doesn’t matter who takes up residence in that den of depravity known as the White House, because the president doesn’t really call the shots anyway. And the whole system (government, healthcare, banking, education, you name it) is either crushingly dysfunctional or rigged to the point of being massively criminal and stunningly immoral. It wouldn’t matter if you had Jesus, John F Kennedy, Horace the talking mule, a retarded goat, or a moldy block of cheese as President at this point, because the system is nothing but a multi-layered toxic stew. America is doomed unless major, and I mean MAJOR, systemic changes are made, post haste.
1. Destroy the system of slavery known as “central banking”, i.e. the Federal Reserve in the Jew-S-A.
2. Drop the hammer on the Ministry of Propaganda known as the legacy corporate media and big tech.
3. The federal government, which is MASSIVE, needs to be slashed to about 20% of its current size.
4. 90%+ of the Congress, meaning the House and Senate, are either traitors, depraved perverts, sociopaths, pig xxxxxxx, shameless whores, duplicitous scum, or some combination of all the above. There needs to be a MAJOR enema performed on Congress.
5. Cut off ALL aid to the terrorist enclave of Israel. Ban all dual-citizens from holding public office or any appointed post in the U.S. Ban all dual-citizens from being able to obtain any security clearance.
6. A real investigation of 9/11 is a MUST and those who actually did it, which has been quite easy to figure out, need to be … thrown into the nastiest, most violent penitentiary that can be found.
7. The Covid-1984 and “Great Reset” scams need to stop immediately. Mass arrests of those behind this satanic crime need to be arrested and receive very harsh and humiliating penalties.