Ramin, As I was reading this outside in my jungle of a garden, before realizing that it’s you the author - I was thinking, I really agree with what is being said. Something which I’ve been wondering is - Why is the UK still a member of NATOSTAN after BREXIT instead of playing with a free hand ? Do they really think they’re going to get a square part of the cake when the US/EU partition Russia’s resourses as France and Germany obviously are prête ring they can ?
I read with great interest your latest installment on E Todd’s book – and I apologise for such a long comment as a reflection of my enthusiasm
Your remarks and critiques I find accurate, so accurate they deserve a book of their own, or at least a long uninterrupted essay
The question of the (particular and extreme degree of over and beyond even the US and the EU) decline of the UK ruling class, and of the others by every general measure, remains unanswered in full – the notion of Protestantism is useful only to a certain degree, always a ruling class instrument; of liberalism, ditto
Surely the contradictions of capitalism run deeper than this
The notion of a society as ‘sick’ is contrary to useful, as is the common treatment of the “élites” as ‘monsters’ ‘psycopaths’ etc found in the western press, alternative generally but just as mainstream in their normative intent – it seems Todd likes to use similar language
The word suicide is…better replaced by incompetence, false consciousness – does not suicide require a decision even a number of decisions, which must incorporate specific well directed intent? (Better replaced then by incapable even of suicide)
(I have’nt read Guy Debord for some time, but I remember he supplies a convincing description of how the current ruling class no longer requires competence in any other domain apart from the media)
Loss of industrial identity must be closer to the truth, even if in oppression, this was a function of strength
Todd appears to use sentimental (“greed’) and medical-ised (“sick”) language, which you point out is mistaken or irrelevant, but avoids drawing attention to the only realm of analysis/description in which this language may be relevant – health and birthrate
The universal poor health, in particular of the mass populations in anglo societies, but in western in general, with the well below replacement fertility rates, it might be argued, point to a sick society, and one losing population so rapidly that extinction is no longer on the horizon but imminent
That both are the are guaranteed product of capitalism, and that no other explanation can be found, has required that this subject is only discussed in liberal terms as easily subject and solutionable by reference to the same old notions of tax benefits and identity/gender politics, which have long failed to influence the decline
PS Russophobia has a long history in England, back to the glory days of the Indian possessions, it is not clear if this is mentioned by Todd – obviously a ruling class notion, but I understand this did enjoy popular support
PPS You say that no one ever accuses Russia of fighting with other people’s soldiers – this is not true – the US government class speaks of a program of decolonisation of the RF, one of whose raison d’êtres is to liberate the Russian colonies who form the greater part of the Russian army
PPPS The Nordic, and the Baltic, females of the ruling class have long been more extremely normative than even the males – the martial ism seems to be new, but that is merely typical opportunism
Do you remember the MSM cheering when a female was first placed as Director of the CIA – the same as had overseen the concentration and the torture camps in Irak – as if she would bring this sentimentalised ‘feminine’ touch to one and all, and by so doing elevate and ameliorate our lives, our country, our nation, and the world at large
Russian and German invasions of Scandinavian countries are historical facts that no doubt live on in many memories. NATO/EU knows well how to take advantage of such things...
Ramin, As I was reading this outside in my jungle of a garden, before realizing that it’s you the author - I was thinking, I really agree with what is being said. Something which I’ve been wondering is - Why is the UK still a member of NATOSTAN after BREXIT instead of playing with a free hand ? Do they really think they’re going to get a square part of the cake when the US/EU partition Russia’s resourses as France and Germany obviously are prête ring they can ?
Many thanks Nancy, nice to hear from you!
The UK - as Todd said - has totally thrown in their lot with the US, so they don't want to be sovereign.
The UK would sure like to partition Russia's resources, but I don't think they'll get the chance!
They did the best they could to do so in the 1990s, but today it would be impossible.
as a resident of unfree AIPACistan, i eagerly await emissions from you and your trenchant mind -
what a pleasure to read!
Ah, such generous praise, and from a deity! Thank you so much
I read with great interest your latest installment on E Todd’s book – and I apologise for such a long comment as a reflection of my enthusiasm
Your remarks and critiques I find accurate, so accurate they deserve a book of their own, or at least a long uninterrupted essay
The question of the (particular and extreme degree of over and beyond even the US and the EU) decline of the UK ruling class, and of the others by every general measure, remains unanswered in full – the notion of Protestantism is useful only to a certain degree, always a ruling class instrument; of liberalism, ditto
Surely the contradictions of capitalism run deeper than this
The notion of a society as ‘sick’ is contrary to useful, as is the common treatment of the “élites” as ‘monsters’ ‘psycopaths’ etc found in the western press, alternative generally but just as mainstream in their normative intent – it seems Todd likes to use similar language
The word suicide is…better replaced by incompetence, false consciousness – does not suicide require a decision even a number of decisions, which must incorporate specific well directed intent? (Better replaced then by incapable even of suicide)
(I have’nt read Guy Debord for some time, but I remember he supplies a convincing description of how the current ruling class no longer requires competence in any other domain apart from the media)
Loss of industrial identity must be closer to the truth, even if in oppression, this was a function of strength
Todd appears to use sentimental (“greed’) and medical-ised (“sick”) language, which you point out is mistaken or irrelevant, but avoids drawing attention to the only realm of analysis/description in which this language may be relevant – health and birthrate
The universal poor health, in particular of the mass populations in anglo societies, but in western in general, with the well below replacement fertility rates, it might be argued, point to a sick society, and one losing population so rapidly that extinction is no longer on the horizon but imminent
That both are the are guaranteed product of capitalism, and that no other explanation can be found, has required that this subject is only discussed in liberal terms as easily subject and solutionable by reference to the same old notions of tax benefits and identity/gender politics, which have long failed to influence the decline
PS Russophobia has a long history in England, back to the glory days of the Indian possessions, it is not clear if this is mentioned by Todd – obviously a ruling class notion, but I understand this did enjoy popular support
PPS You say that no one ever accuses Russia of fighting with other people’s soldiers – this is not true – the US government class speaks of a program of decolonisation of the RF, one of whose raison d’êtres is to liberate the Russian colonies who form the greater part of the Russian army
PPPS The Nordic, and the Baltic, females of the ruling class have long been more extremely normative than even the males – the martial ism seems to be new, but that is merely typical opportunism
Do you remember the MSM cheering when a female was first placed as Director of the CIA – the same as had overseen the concentration and the torture camps in Irak – as if she would bring this sentimentalised ‘feminine’ touch to one and all, and by so doing elevate and ameliorate our lives, our country, our nation, and the world at large
Russian and German invasions of Scandinavian countries are historical facts that no doubt live on in many memories. NATO/EU knows well how to take advantage of such things...
I still remember the other name for Great Britain, "Christendom"!
Wow, what a treatise! People should definitely read this as it explains a lot, which is otherwise inexplicable.