I’m Sorry, Biden’s *WHAT* Foreign Policy?

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    [–]StillLessons 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    As a beneficiary of two good therapists in my life, I will say CBT doesn't have to be brain washing. Depends on the therapist. I also met briefly three others at various times who were braindead zombies. The person seeking the advice needs to be aware that not all therapists are created equal.

    I say this because I 1000% agree with your premise that a huge portion of mental distress in our society (80% for a guess?) is a result of a profoundly ill social structure well beyond the control of individuals. While I agree with you, however, I also know that the two people who helped me did indeed help me, and it is partly with their help that I became able to sort out the 80% of societal disease from the 20% personal mental confusion with which they helped me. They helped me gain the personal strength and clarity to recognize the incredible shit that is being thrust upon us all since at least WWI.

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      [–]StillLessons 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      I've written about this in comments before. The basic problem is totally impersonal tools of communication. Ironically, we are engaged in one such space as I type these words. But the list is endless. My favorite - as the poster-child for the problem - is "We appreciate your business. Please hold for one of our agents" or any of the other infinity of machine-generated messages we are bombarded with daily. This is what I call "Corporate Thought". It strips all the infinity of spiritual experience from us and channels us into this very narrow band: the economic interest of whoever is responsible for the message we are listening to. This experience is absolutely de-humanizing, and we are subject to it dozens of times a week. We are every day less able to relate to each other as complete human beings, and every day more tuned to this "automatic" life. It's killing us, and those particularly sensitive to it and without the strength or knowledge to understand it fall into patterns of violence and self-destruction. It's super difficult to watch.

      [–]StillLessons 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Wow. Another "Just Wow" moment.

      The author of the NYT opinion piece Johnstone is commenting on is arguing how the US needs to commit more decisively to defense spending in order to have a credible military with which to exercise foreign policy.

      LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

      Holy shit. These people are too fucking much. There is never enough pork, and there is no such thing as a limit. It's a combination of two insanities these people are running with. The first is a genuine delusion. Some part of them actually believes the US and its western allies could possibly emerge "victorious" from war with both Russia and China. That is a profoundly dangerous delusion. The second part (probably the stronger of the two) realizes that this has nothing to do with actually winning any conflict, but rather 100% to do with lining the pockets of the war machine. The fact that this person is given space to sell this huge lie (essentially a sales pitch to give him and his cronies more free money) in the NYT tells us all we need to know about who is in power in our society and has been for a hundred years: the war party. The war party is the only party, and its wings are omnipresent.

      As an aside, the positioning of the new Italian leadership demonstrates clearly that they don't want to rock the gravy boat either. Best not to get any hopes up that we currently have anyone who really has popular interests at heart rather than the interests of the most violent, greedy, sociopathic elements of the elite, who are 100% in control of all purses at this point. The only way to pry that power from them will be internal violence in whichever country where it starts.

      Again, just wow...