Australia has been experiencing the ripple effects of this for years now. Our press is a shitfight, due to Murdoch and Co. Abortion rights are on the chopping block in some states, and if they aren’t some people would really like them to be. God bothering weirdos are in positions of influence and power. Cost of living is high because of corporate price gouging. Housing prices are insane! And the rich get richer. We continue to rape our land and further pollute the planet for a few bucks. And our governments look a lot alike, even though they’re allegedly from different sides of the fence. In other news, there have been 81 femicides so far this year - a new record - and no public outcry.
I get so frustrated and disappointed when I see people agreeing to self segregate (as patriarchy and authoritarianism intended) instead of supporting each other across race, sex, gender, religion, socioeconomic, status, and immigration status. We are all marginalized and oppressed under the system, and until our voices are strong enough to come together and recognize that we face the same one common enemy, I fear we will not be strong enough to overcome the few who own everything.
I agree there is an unnecessary push to divide us all into smaller and smaller groups that helps no one and makes us all weaker. I wrote about this a while ago. I'll go find the link
It's oligarchy, tyranny, ochlocracy, and ultimately kyriarchy all the way down, basically. Common humanity identity politics > common enemy identity politics. The only real common enemy is the oligarchy.
I'm from Italy. People tell me, why are you angry for what happens in America, why do you care. They don't understand why. Yes, it's 1985, plus #idiocracy.
Agreed. Have the Inquisitors reincarnated to bedevil us again? I fear for the U.S. and the ripple effects that will influence
despots the world over. Christian national terrorists such as disgraced former General Mike Flynn, the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, SCOTUS, the maga/QAnon folks, and most importantly, the millionaire and billionaire monarchs who seek to reshape or destroy America to suit their agenda.
It’s long past time to stop the “When they go low, we go high” BS. Meet force with equal force. For the Gods sake don’t roll over and accept the above mentioned organizations and peoples desires / plans.
‘Never again the burning’ means nothing unless fight back.
I've thought for a long time that the billionare class have replaced the royals. It happened a long time ago but it's really ramped up to the point that people adore their favorite billionare. Ironically we still hang onto the roylas as well.
On the flip side I actually think the world is pretty good but that may just be me some days. Middle aged dude in Canada with an engineering job. Everywhere you look someone either on the right or left is telling us about the impending doom so maybe I was in fact born at the right time.
This past American election was the most important in a long time. World peace could increase or decrease with this one and I hope for the best but fear the worst on this one.
The milliardaires are like the maiores domus of the Merovingian dynasty. They’ll likely discard their puppets & stop putting on kabuki (more properly, bunraku) democracy plays rather shortly. The fall of the USSR has allowed them to drop the mask concealing the (well-known regardless) fact that the Western Bloc has never been anything but a horrific continuation of the fascist Anti-COMINTERN Pact. Hence Clinton et al moving to abolish what little social democracy ever existed in the USA from the very instant that the NED/CIA overthrew & partitioned the USSR.
I see how you reach your depressing conclusions but as the father of two daughters and six granddaughters I can honestly say that they have never allowed the men of the world to dominate their lives. If I am foolish enough to say something in a manner that reflects earlier acceptable life practices, I am likely to be corrected immediately. That includes my three daughters in law. They are all carving out careers in parallel to sharing family upbringing responsibilities with husbands or friends. They collectively demonstrate that women can be equal or better than their male counterparts. In my view, the world will be a better place when more share governance with egotistical men.
I think it can be both things: individually in our own families/communities we can make change. As a whole worldwide, the facts are oppression by the top rules.
I believe that there are men out there who would make decisions horizontally; who would make decisions with empathy and compassion for those with who they are tasked with leading. But like with woman as leaders, these men are considered weak, sissy men. Second, none of this seems to include any men who wear the Conservative label as a badge of honor. Why is that? 🤡
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. First time reader and now a subscribers. Glad you mention George Orwell's book 1984. I'm 48 and never read it. Just downloaded the Kindle version!
It's not different in Italy. The government here keeps passing more and more laws to stop us from being able to do anything. First they pass 'harmless' laws that make it seem it's OK. It's a police and surveillance state here, just lime thr USA. And just like thr USA the parties that used to be left and for the working class have all sold out to lobbies.
True, well-said! This whole mythological narrative so common out there right now that suddenly things are much worse cos Trump got elected is hysterical nonsense. Things were bad, will be worse, and getting more so, regardless of who's elected to office. Modern civilization, our model, is over 50 years beyond its best-before date now, by the math alone. We're in our decline and fall. The era of maximum general good was brief and now it's over. Politics meanwhile is the sideshow. The driving force is entropy and with the ship going down the pirates are after the spoils.
I think we still have (or rather had) a chance to save at least some semblance of modern civilization had we played our cards right, but this election truly threw a monkey wrench in that. Only a more atavistic avatar can stop Trump from hitting the proverbial self-destruct button.
I don't think anyone was driving the bus, before or now - or ever. It's all just a matter of what distills out of the chaos, given that life has a natural tendency towards some order, however temporary, and it's always temporary. I don't believe this election will have any real effect on our trajectory at all. There's a lot of hysteria over Trump, of whom i've never been a fan, people demanding as always a big bad wolf to single-out, but the rot was already deep regardless and politics is a sideshow to and reflection of the larger deal. The idea popular right now that if the Democrats had of won the election there would still be hope is mythological. Biden was (and still is for a moment) a champion of genocide and a escalatory warhawk careless of how close he pressed the world to being turned into an ashtray. Harris may have been animatronic, like that Disneyland Abe Lincoln or the Country Bear Jamboree. I've never witnessed a politician whose rhetoric sounded more like a handful of prerecorded popular memes.
Jesus Christ? You mean that brown-skinned, anti-war, socialist who gave out free healthcare, hung out with sinners and saints alike, treated women as equals, and opposed both capitalism and patriarchy? THAT Jesus Christ?
Nah, you must be looking for the Pharisees instead, as they seem to be more up your alley.
That is self explanatory in you writings, You seem to favor or the current generational genocide, the wage slavery of women, and down with the patriarchy. It’s a real question, do you like your indoor plumbing.
It's a derailing question to triangulate your opponents with a package-deal fallacy (i.e. supposedly no indoor plumbing is possible without also fully accepting patriarchy, capitalism, and all that goes with it, because reasons). That's what it is, and we can all see right through it. LOL.
As for wage slavery, or any other form of slavery or serfdom, I am the first to oppose it. For all genders, in fact. But by your omissions, you seem to be perfectly fine with men being wage slaves and women being domestic slaves and/or breeding slaves.
You may want to study the late, great Buckminster Fuller. He has the answers to practically everything you brought up. But you may not like what he has to say. Have a good night 😊
In reality it’s far worse than the fiction of your favorite fantasy fetish. 70 million babies are murdered worldwide every year in shiny operating rooms, by doctors and their own mothers. We may be living the most bloodthirsty evil time in human existence.
It’s extremely relevant. Yes, murder has always been around and it has been wrong since the first one. The billionaires sure have done have done a number on you. Convincing mothers kill their children so they can maximize the potential work force to increase tax revenue and profit margins, wage slaves to them. But we must all be very afraid of your mythical bondage fetish like fifty shades of grey, oops meant handmaidens tale.
Cart, meet horse. If you are truly concerned about reducing the number of abortions, you would be calling for all of the following, yesterday:
1) A much better social safety net for all, including UBI, Medicare For All, and things like that, or at the very, very least, reinstating the expanded child tax credits that cut child poverty in half during the pandemic.
2) Generous paid family leave
3) Free or subsidized childcare
4) Honest, comprehensive sex education
5) Free and readily available birth control on demand for all who want it
And bonus points for anyone who calls for shortening the workweek across the board, first to Dutch levels, and then ultimately to bring it more in line with what the futurists had predicted more than half a century ago.
Somehow I doubt you would support those things, though. Which doesn't really make any sense from a "life is sacred" perspective. It does, however, make perfect sense from a "let's control women" perspective.
Of course, ending both capitalism and patriarchy entirely is the very best solution of all. But again, I doubt very much that you would support that.
Excellent piece! Really food for thought. Depressing… but clear-eyed.
(But no love for the Marx Brothers? They were lighter than air and much smarter than I think you remember, IMHO. I’d suggest the Three Stooges as a replacement. Those guys were all about the toxic masculinity, OTT slapstick violence, and were frikken creepy, to boot.)
Australia has been experiencing the ripple effects of this for years now. Our press is a shitfight, due to Murdoch and Co. Abortion rights are on the chopping block in some states, and if they aren’t some people would really like them to be. God bothering weirdos are in positions of influence and power. Cost of living is high because of corporate price gouging. Housing prices are insane! And the rich get richer. We continue to rape our land and further pollute the planet for a few bucks. And our governments look a lot alike, even though they’re allegedly from different sides of the fence. In other news, there have been 81 femicides so far this year - a new record - and no public outcry.
But I guess it could be worse.
I get so frustrated and disappointed when I see people agreeing to self segregate (as patriarchy and authoritarianism intended) instead of supporting each other across race, sex, gender, religion, socioeconomic, status, and immigration status. We are all marginalized and oppressed under the system, and until our voices are strong enough to come together and recognize that we face the same one common enemy, I fear we will not be strong enough to overcome the few who own everything.
I agree there is an unnecessary push to divide us all into smaller and smaller groups that helps no one and makes us all weaker. I wrote about this a while ago. I'll go find the link
Here it is https://open.substack.com/pub/ronkebabajide/p/is-putting-a-label-on-every-aspect
Wow. You are a really great writer! I wish I’d seen your work before. Now I have a lot of catching up to do! 🫶🏽
Thank you Danny, that's very kind of you to say :)
Well-said. As I like to say, there are really only two sides: OLIGARCHY vs HUMANITY. Choose Humanity.
It's oligarchy, tyranny, ochlocracy, and ultimately kyriarchy all the way down, basically. Common humanity identity politics > common enemy identity politics. The only real common enemy is the oligarchy.
I'm from Italy. People tell me, why are you angry for what happens in America, why do you care. They don't understand why. Yes, it's 1985, plus #idiocracy.
1984. slip of the fingers.
I asked the AI:
"We Built This City" by Starship is often cited as one of the worst songs of all time, not just 1985.
I thought you meant the year We Are The World was produced.
no, I was thinking of Orwell.
1985 is good, it made me laugh… It's the year after 1984 (where things are much worse) greetings from America!
Or perhaps even 1484, as in the Burning Times all over again.
Agreed. Have the Inquisitors reincarnated to bedevil us again? I fear for the U.S. and the ripple effects that will influence
despots the world over. Christian national terrorists such as disgraced former General Mike Flynn, the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, SCOTUS, the maga/QAnon folks, and most importantly, the millionaire and billionaire monarchs who seek to reshape or destroy America to suit their agenda.
It’s long past time to stop the “When they go low, we go high” BS. Meet force with equal force. For the Gods sake don’t roll over and accept the above mentioned organizations and peoples desires / plans.
‘Never again the burning’ means nothing unless fight back.
Well said. Amen to that!
You might've been affected by the 365° comment made by the author, which I also thought was very funny (and deliberate)!
I've thought for a long time that the billionare class have replaced the royals. It happened a long time ago but it's really ramped up to the point that people adore their favorite billionare. Ironically we still hang onto the roylas as well.
On the flip side I actually think the world is pretty good but that may just be me some days. Middle aged dude in Canada with an engineering job. Everywhere you look someone either on the right or left is telling us about the impending doom so maybe I was in fact born at the right time.
This past American election was the most important in a long time. World peace could increase or decrease with this one and I hope for the best but fear the worst on this one.
The milliardaires are like the maiores domus of the Merovingian dynasty. They’ll likely discard their puppets & stop putting on kabuki (more properly, bunraku) democracy plays rather shortly. The fall of the USSR has allowed them to drop the mask concealing the (well-known regardless) fact that the Western Bloc has never been anything but a horrific continuation of the fascist Anti-COMINTERN Pact. Hence Clinton et al moving to abolish what little social democracy ever existed in the USA from the very instant that the NED/CIA overthrew & partitioned the USSR.
Privledged much?
Is this meant to be a joke or some sort of insult?
I see how you reach your depressing conclusions but as the father of two daughters and six granddaughters I can honestly say that they have never allowed the men of the world to dominate their lives. If I am foolish enough to say something in a manner that reflects earlier acceptable life practices, I am likely to be corrected immediately. That includes my three daughters in law. They are all carving out careers in parallel to sharing family upbringing responsibilities with husbands or friends. They collectively demonstrate that women can be equal or better than their male counterparts. In my view, the world will be a better place when more share governance with egotistical men.
I think it can be both things: individually in our own families/communities we can make change. As a whole worldwide, the facts are oppression by the top rules.
I agree, just being a woman doesn’t make you a better leader unfortunately, there are some caveats https://ronkebabajide.substack.com/p/would-our-world-be-a-better-place?r=iwz5y
I believe that there are men out there who would make decisions horizontally; who would make decisions with empathy and compassion for those with who they are tasked with leading. But like with woman as leaders, these men are considered weak, sissy men. Second, none of this seems to include any men who wear the Conservative label as a badge of honor. Why is that? 🤡
I don't agree but then I also believe that the WHO was right to make the recommendations they did.
I want to share this far and wide. Powerful powerful piece!
Thank you Ali 🙏🙏
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. First time reader and now a subscribers. Glad you mention George Orwell's book 1984. I'm 48 and never read it. Just downloaded the Kindle version!
Thank you Dawn-Renée 🙏 let me know what you think after you've read it
People need to watch Planet of the Apes from I believe 1968
Yes, they should 👍
It's not different in Italy. The government here keeps passing more and more laws to stop us from being able to do anything. First they pass 'harmless' laws that make it seem it's OK. It's a police and surveillance state here, just lime thr USA. And just like thr USA the parties that used to be left and for the working class have all sold out to lobbies.
True, well-said! This whole mythological narrative so common out there right now that suddenly things are much worse cos Trump got elected is hysterical nonsense. Things were bad, will be worse, and getting more so, regardless of who's elected to office. Modern civilization, our model, is over 50 years beyond its best-before date now, by the math alone. We're in our decline and fall. The era of maximum general good was brief and now it's over. Politics meanwhile is the sideshow. The driving force is entropy and with the ship going down the pirates are after the spoils.
I think we still have (or rather had) a chance to save at least some semblance of modern civilization had we played our cards right, but this election truly threw a monkey wrench in that. Only a more atavistic avatar can stop Trump from hitting the proverbial self-destruct button.
I don't think anyone was driving the bus, before or now - or ever. It's all just a matter of what distills out of the chaos, given that life has a natural tendency towards some order, however temporary, and it's always temporary. I don't believe this election will have any real effect on our trajectory at all. There's a lot of hysteria over Trump, of whom i've never been a fan, people demanding as always a big bad wolf to single-out, but the rot was already deep regardless and politics is a sideshow to and reflection of the larger deal. The idea popular right now that if the Democrats had of won the election there would still be hope is mythological. Biden was (and still is for a moment) a champion of genocide and a escalatory warhawk careless of how close he pressed the world to being turned into an ashtray. Harris may have been animatronic, like that Disneyland Abe Lincoln or the Country Bear Jamboree. I've never witnessed a politician whose rhetoric sounded more like a handful of prerecorded popular memes.
It's 1984, Brave New World, and the Handmaid's Tale, all rolled into one.
Jesus Christ is the only one with the answers to everything. And he isn’t dead. You may want to study him, for eternity sake.
Jesus Christ? You mean that brown-skinned, anti-war, socialist who gave out free healthcare, hung out with sinners and saints alike, treated women as equals, and opposed both capitalism and patriarchy? THAT Jesus Christ?
Nah, you must be looking for the Pharisees instead, as they seem to be more up your alley.
That is self explanatory in you writings, You seem to favor or the current generational genocide, the wage slavery of women, and down with the patriarchy. It’s a real question, do you like your indoor plumbing.
It's a derailing question to triangulate your opponents with a package-deal fallacy (i.e. supposedly no indoor plumbing is possible without also fully accepting patriarchy, capitalism, and all that goes with it, because reasons). That's what it is, and we can all see right through it. LOL.
As for wage slavery, or any other form of slavery or serfdom, I am the first to oppose it. For all genders, in fact. But by your omissions, you seem to be perfectly fine with men being wage slaves and women being domestic slaves and/or breeding slaves.
You may want to study the late, great Buckminster Fuller. He has the answers to practically everything you brought up. But you may not like what he has to say. Have a good night 😊
(Mic drop)
Do you want to keep indoor plumbing? At least?
Of course. Why do you ask?
In reality it’s far worse than the fiction of your favorite fantasy fetish. 70 million babies are murdered worldwide every year in shiny operating rooms, by doctors and their own mothers. We may be living the most bloodthirsty evil time in human existence.
For better or worse, abortion is not exactly new, nor is its widespreadness either. But hey, nice job of trying to derail the conversation, buddy.
It’s extremely relevant. Yes, murder has always been around and it has been wrong since the first one. The billionaires sure have done have done a number on you. Convincing mothers kill their children so they can maximize the potential work force to increase tax revenue and profit margins, wage slaves to them. But we must all be very afraid of your mythical bondage fetish like fifty shades of grey, oops meant handmaidens tale.
Cart, meet horse. If you are truly concerned about reducing the number of abortions, you would be calling for all of the following, yesterday:
1) A much better social safety net for all, including UBI, Medicare For All, and things like that, or at the very, very least, reinstating the expanded child tax credits that cut child poverty in half during the pandemic.
2) Generous paid family leave
3) Free or subsidized childcare
4) Honest, comprehensive sex education
5) Free and readily available birth control on demand for all who want it
And bonus points for anyone who calls for shortening the workweek across the board, first to Dutch levels, and then ultimately to bring it more in line with what the futurists had predicted more than half a century ago.
Somehow I doubt you would support those things, though. Which doesn't really make any sense from a "life is sacred" perspective. It does, however, make perfect sense from a "let's control women" perspective.
Of course, ending both capitalism and patriarchy entirely is the very best solution of all. But again, I doubt very much that you would support that.
(Mic drop)
Thank you for taking the time to discuss with this person. I for my part have seen enough, and I'm blocking the bible thumper from my Substack.
You're very welcome, I'm glad I can help. And thank you 😊
Well said!
Thanks 🙂
Excellent piece! Really food for thought. Depressing… but clear-eyed.
(But no love for the Marx Brothers? They were lighter than air and much smarter than I think you remember, IMHO. I’d suggest the Three Stooges as a replacement. Those guys were all about the toxic masculinity, OTT slapstick violence, and were frikken creepy, to boot.)
Indeed. I remember "The Laws of My Administration", by Groucho Marx. Very funny Groucho Marxism, lol.
Then we must fight harder to not let it happen..send this to Biden and Harris directly. Their staff may not want them to see this.
Well-said.
Nope, I do not enjoy your writing one little bit. But please don’t stop.
😅
Agreed , https://thistleandmoss.com/p/rhymes-with-cleansing-genetic-fucking
We’ve reached “cleansing” other countries now , how long before they start cleansing the us