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Nov 28th 2020

Step back

   Increasingly of late, I've decided there is no way to grasp what's happening in the world by wasting precious time trying to see through lies and obfuscation dished up daily by nations, politicians, corporations (usurping nations?), the media and downright criminals, and that the only possibility of reaching some sort of insight into what we loosly call 'truth' is to examine it through the eye of history. Of course the eye of history itself could be said to have many aspects and we do pick and choose our historians. But if a historian is not a blind nationalist, a consensus does emerge: the search for dominance—which seems to be the purpose of nationhood—eventually leads to avarice and corruption, drawing out as it does those personalities in society most desirous of wealth and power.
   The advantage to me in this is that historians have the vigilance and objectiveness, the time and resources to delve deeper than ever I could and make me willing to trust them.
   Read Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine; Stephen Kinzer: All the Shah's Men, anything by Noam Chomsky and many others.