onlooker wrote:I do not consider that animosity between the Sovient Uniion and the United States as all that genuiene. I think in fact that mostly the US gave this impression that it was in a true fierce ideological struggle with the USSR. It did so to have the pretext to build up its dominant military and expand its ambitions of Empire around the world. I know some here would enter into heated debate about this with me. But it is just my viewpoint from knowing all the many actions and operations undertaken by the US to assure its hegemony in relations to all other countries. So, this Deep State is truly the Military-Industrial Complex overseen by the most powerful economic players in the planet ie. Banks and Transnational Corporations and economically potent Families who own so much around the world. As they say follow the money trail. The Rich and Powerful have endeavored to remain the cream of the crop.
You'll have to answer the question, who wouldn't want to remain the cream of the crop? So long as the world is divided up into winners and losers, and people look at the situation through the lens of their own personal perspective, there will always be rich and poor people. Does that make rich people evil? Maybe it handicaps them in an insidious way? They are more sold out to winning than that 99% of people who aren't winners like they are. The trouble is, all of the poor people want to be in the rich man's place. That makes almost 100% of people handicapped. They are all captivated by winning, by filling that one spot and holding it or crossing the line first. I think everybody can win, but to do that the world will have to let go of seeing right and wrong according to rules and doctrine and begin to see it as played out in right-of-way.
Neither the rich nor the poor have any particular advantage under that scenario. There is only where you start from, how you respect other's intentions, and how they respect yours. Everybody drives on the same freeway. As long as you don't try to go the wrong way entirely, the best way is not to look at getting to where you are going as a race with the other people. Being poor is not the equivalent of breaking down, though it can be. It is more the equivalent of not having a car that can pass everybody else's. But are we in this to get to the stoplight first, or to get where we are going? Does the real poverty lie in the 99% not having dreams of their own, not having a destination that is different from the others? The rich only 'win' if the rest of us buy into the reality of cheapest price as the main determinate of choice, or, concurrent with that, the paradigm that suggests to us that we must choose from the options given to us.
As for the Soviet Union, it is true that they were not the threat, except at the beginning, that the powers that be said they were. For a long time anyone who looked at the situation knew that they were going to topple. All it took was the coup attempt against Gorbachev to act as a catalyst. The same result could have come earlier. There just wasn't a catalyst before then. Such is the fate of any program which seeks to corral every person under one umbrella, all heading in similar directions of taste and desire. Capitalism is dissimilar enough from communism that it hasn't gone down that road, but there certainly are tensions developing. Right now, they are probably more to do with irate people proclaiming they were somewhere first, and that all of those competitors ought to be somehow disallowed. There is this other thing about right-of-way that is also important when considering these things. It causes people to reflect upon what they are doing, whether their timing or their direction is actually right, both for those who were there first and for those who came after.
And, oh, yeah, I guess it is toe the line, not tow the line. I thought about it, and I think the saying comes from men taking formation, not from a shipping reference, like I was thinking when I wrote that.