Do you ever feel like you're being strung along for a ride sometimes? Not really something prescient or fatalist, but more along the lines of sheer chicanery and malicious illusion?
I don't mean to be a downer, I am a questioner, i seek only answers and this usually leads to
a) a mild or complex form of lunacy - see eccentricity, refer also to paranoia, delusion, helplessness, isolation
b) a crumbling of the foundations that I myself have either built or have been housed in, usually with the consequence of the bricks falling upon the people who helped me build my walls and churches
So what brings on this fit of madness today?
Simple. Riots.
Now not so simple.
Athens is exploding day by day. Bangkok is on fire, people are defiant, foolish, willing to die. I'll say it again, willing to die.
Maybe once more. WILLING TO DIE FOR...everything.
So here is the puppetry, the masters of it, the strings. Money. Always comes with strings attached. Doesn't it?
Greece has accepted an "austerity" plan. You know how I see it? Like this. There are still 4 major powers in Europe - The English, who refuse to co-operate with anyone and will die by their pound. The French, whose ideals of liberty, secularism are praised by both the extreme factions of xenophobic and the inteligensia at large. The German, still the proud, efficient men and woman of the Holy Roman Empire, an economy that is continually renewed and built for survival in every age. Lastly, the Russians, the same secretive mob of government, always intriguing and alwasy shadowy.
It seems that for a very long time, the dynamics of this planet, Europe in especial, but Earth at large have been shaped by the events that happen in these four Nations. The "austerity" plan? Joint recommandation by the German-French EU alliance, of which currently Germany is the head of. Bascially Germany just bought Greece. They did not need any physical anschulz, they bought it for pennies on the Euro and we begin all over again. Same wars, same stories, different dead bodies and oppositions members, but essentially the same. It's as if we never learn, we just gave Germany the power to buy failing countries and prop them up with "enterprise" which means economic dependance. France backs it for now, England is sinking, and the KGB are suddenly fashionable again.
So they yank our strings again. The world explodes and we need to go buy more shoes and toothpaste becuase what else will you do?
And then perhaps in June, our city will explode as well. I will be there.
I will not be a match. I am the fire. I will burn with everyone.
-s
Sorry, sir. Can't get behind you implying that this is some covert neo-nazi attempt to take over Europe financially, even if it's only a rhetorical exercise. Interesting, yes, but the Germans are still dragging around so very much baggage from their last attempt to own Europe 65 years back that this just ain't funny, or entertainable.
ReplyDeleteThen again, perhaps you haven't had the necessary perspective of having Germans tell you about the thick cordons of police officers protecting a hundred or so neo-nazis exercising their right to freedom of speech from a gathered crowd of thousands of angry Germans intent on cracking their skin heads.
In short: yes, there are interesting parallels, but take care with what you're implying.
i never said it was neo-nazi, but that you thought i did implies what?
ReplyDeleteI said german...ww1 was not a neo nazi war, 2 was but one wasn't. The prussian war, was a a territorial war but again instigated by germany (some would say) or "the holy roman empire.
There is evidence of an economic takeover happening in Europe however. The wealth is concentrated and handed out by very few nations with token figureheads. Germany and France are the biggest backers of the whole EU, one currency and streamlined laws...England has held out but the point was the powers in Europe remain the same, the actors change but the set is never taken down...