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Surrealism / Antonio Dacosta/ A Festa

Gotta do a touch of errands today, tomorrow I can be slothful.  I am on the last leg of closing out the ex’s estate so more time will be available soon.

Looks to be a blue sky day, but it is a bit cold.  I need to make sure that I walk, the last two weeks have been nothing but sloth.  I have to quit that nonsense.

Screed

At best, I have a rough outline of just WTF is going on over in the East European Plain.  There is so much bullshit flying around from all sides that if you think you really know what is going on, you are in fact the bigger fool.  War is hell.  This is a war.  There are no noble knights, the parties are all dirty.  

What I do think is that Sam Huntington was right.  

The “international community” that we keep referencing is the EU and the Anglophones.  We are the descendents of Medieval Christendom, nothing more.  We are the descendents of the Crusaders, Nothing less. 

We of the west had a good run after WWII.  Life was sweet and the world was our oyster.  But the world has turned and our time is passing.  Like a lot of old people, we still try to keep up, but the world races ahead of us and we are simply falling further behind.

We will end up losing at the fringes.  We might be able to eke out some tactical victories.  But we will lose in the end.  Why we will lose is simple.  We have bet the farm on the idea that we know what is best for everyone.  The truth of the matter, the system we are trying to put in place is only good for us.

The nature of the world is that of a zero sum game.  The nature of energy, the environment  and economics is a zero sum game as well.  Now, saying that makes me a crackpot.  But it doesn’t make it wrong.  The western civilization based its wealth on taking a skim off of everyone else.  

Other folks now have the ability to say no to paying the vigorish.