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Boris Petrov's avatar

Thank you !! And at home, iIn our beloved country we are ruled by - kleptocracy. Worth remembering:

Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress: https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/congress

Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Senate:

https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate

For example:

- Pelosi in Dec 22, 2020 was against more stimulus.

- Her husband buys deep ITM TSLA and AAPL calls that day.

- A day later, December 23rd, she is suddenly for stimulus again, with those same companies rallying 5%,

-- giving Pelosi an INSTANT +30 return.

The censored "wisdom" — depicted as unquestionable fact throughout corporate media — is that we should be angry only at the tax system, but not necessarily at the oligarchs getting rich off it.

In fact, the only person so far presumed to be worthy of any law enforcement scrutiny is not any of the billionaires avoiding taxes, but the whistleblowing source of the IRS leak

Why Are Billionaires Presumed Innocent?

After an IRS leak, corporate media says there’s nothing to see here because billionaire tax avoidance must be legal — even though it occurred during a crime spree.

https://www.dailyposter.com/why-are-billionaires-presumed-innocent/

Why Are Billionaires Presumed Innocent? (dailyposter.com) -- June 22, 2021 David Sirota

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John Merryman's avatar

Keep in mind the other two, exceptional countries, England and Israel, are also having serious cognitive dissonance issues. How deep do the problems really go?

One of the more interesting authors I've found, in understanding Western civilization, is Gilbert Murray, best known for his, The Five Stages of Greek Religion. It is probably a good source for understanding this distinction between culture and civics. Essentially religion and government.

Remember that democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic societies, as they were metaphorical visions of multiculturalism, representing the many aspects of life and society. Under the narrative and laws, monotheism equated with monoculturalism, as in one people, one rule, one god.

The Romans adopted Christianity as the Empire solidified and remnants of the Republic were being erased. Vestiges of pantheism remained, as the Trinity, which came from the Greek year gods. As the son being reborn each spring, of the sky god and earth mother, it symbolized regeneration, which obviously is a very powerful force and even more so for those much closer to the primal.

As the Catholic church came to present itself as the eternal institution, the principle of regeneration was effectively obscured, at least until Martin Luther tried to do what Jesus tried with Judaism, push the reset button.

Consequently the default political system for the next 1500 years was monarchy and feudalism. When the West went back to less centralized political systems, it required the separation of church and state, culture and civics.

Currently our increasingly schizophrenic society is coming apart and eventually we will have to dig much deeper than anyone currently realizes, to understand why.

Especially those still clinging to ancient religions, with little political evolution and those clinging to monarchy. As well as a certain polygot society, that only knows a couple hundreds years of growth and pretends it's culture.

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