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Something new is "coming into form" in America transcending the political game invented by and for the elites

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That's what these radically new strategies would be:  discovering the fulcrums for the levers to fundamentally "change human social existence".

This is seeing through a glass darkly, but surly we need to "go international" and use the internet a thousand times more effectively than we currently are. 

Certain patterns of mental illness are characterized by variations of what Sigmund Freud called "the repetition compulsion".  This is related to words like obsession and compulsion and it more or less means spending your life trying to solve impossible (and usually meaningless) problems. 

For us, this means playing the political game endlessly, hoping that "somehow" this game will be Democracy in action.  But it never, never is and never, never will be.  It's our society-wide "repetition compulsion"; it's like those heartbreaking bears in zoo cages who keep walking and hurrying in circles, mindlessly thinking they will "eventually" find a way out back to the wilderness.  What an agony it is to watch them; and what an agony it is to what US "trying to wash off blood with blood" -- in the infinitely wise words of an ancient Chinese Zen Master.

However, if a critical mass of us AT LEAST realize that politics endlessly recycles The Beast (i.e., less than one percent of the human race) while it endlessly stifles the potential and fundamentally enslaves the "working class" (still, probably the best way to say it), anything is possible.  After all, seeing all the way through what NOT to do is often is equivalent to seeing "the way out".  Plus it’s hard to be creative and affirming when your entire life (AND THE LIFE OF YOUR DESCENDANTS) has been reduced to being a blood bank for the vampire elites.

The Beast has to go.  The Beast has to be destroyed.  No more reshuffling the deck.  No more pseudo compromise or "adjusting".  This is all the way or nothing, because we have totally run out of time -- which is the second core realization in all of this.  If we don't DESTROY THE BEAST with politics-transcending dynamics in the very near future, we're finished.  The waterfall of human species extinction is already booming in the background. 

Please, please remember that our time has completely run out!  Basically, that means it’s now or never.  ALL of this challenge falls on us.  Everything (human Civilization, our species, and countless other species) will be past the point of no return in (what?) 4 to 5 years if we don’t transcend politics and create apolitical strategies to destroy the beast.  We can do it.  We have the intelligence, energy, and passion of literally billions of human beings, plus we have going ballistic electronic methodologies. 

But do we have the will  . . .  

So is all this a voice crying in the wilderness?  I hope not, God how I hope not.

  ps:  In Joseph Conrad’s’ magnificent novel, “Lord Jim”, the moment of truth was when Jim had to decide whether to “jump ship” or stay and deal with the chaos of an overwhelming storm.  That’s us.  Is the human species going to “jump ship” (i.e., keep escaping into politics) or radically deal with (i.e., DESTROY) The Beast?  This is our species moment of truth.  Perhaps the Universe is watching.

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