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Robin Ashe-Roy's avatar

Well put together, this is an important reiteration of the mindset gleaned from what could be iterations of an MSM hack, as the beliefs are the tide marks of the collective consciousness of the establishment, or as DR Shiva says, "The Swarm."

In short, it props up the ignorance of the West of the changes in geopolitics and how in particular warfare has changed in favour of "The Sword and Sandals Brigade".

It also opens up accusations of arrogance and denial in not illuminating the facts of context and the epigenetics of the Western disease of backing the wrong horse. By that I mean the colonial mindset of superiority. This bifurcation is exemplified by the BRICS which is not to say that this is the answer to all problems of our civilisation but it is diminishing Western hegemony and in theory, might bring about more peace.

Western myopia if we are to accept that it is so wrong in many ways has to learn to live, warts and all with itself or the consequences for collaborating with genocide will always be the human stain.

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joel's avatar

Nation states have become the veiled persona of corporations, from the first Italian and Dutch entities to the empire building East India company. The discussion of nation states is like the Greek gods, equally mythical and as you say inhuman. They represent a kind of place holder or buffer, to control an internal population, whilst allowing for the

exploitation of an externalised one, by the machine of the corporation. The language of government is the of the corpoation.

La Via Campesina, in their introductory documentary explain the process of these new global corporate entities as exploiting both the internal and external populations giving us an opportunity to find solidarity despite the nation state, to perceive a global corporate oligarchy, to find a diverse local community, based in land use. Our biggest barrier to the decomposition of these structures is the status inferred to those embedded in it, so clear in the quote.

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