09-20-2021, 12:59 PM
I look at it this way, Pappy: socialism = socio-economic empowerment. When people do socialism, like trade unionism or cooperatives, it's beneficial for society. When governments do socialism, you see the opposite: society is weakened and gradually subsumed as government becomes empowered.
Fascism as I understand it was developed by the Vatican, which I consider to be an ungodly institution, almost the polar opposite of the Social Gospel, which was subsumed by marxists (state socialists), and has now become critical social justice theory. Today, now that the global game of monopoly has reached it's conclusion, we see that the financial elite have embraced surveillance capitalism, which probably should be called surveillance socialism. It doesn't much matter because at bottom it's cybernetics. Understanding that, everything happening now makes perfect sense. That's what has to be rooted out if we're to turn things around, and that's a tall order. The good news is that it's an incredibly complex undertaking, so there are many, many ways that it could fall apart, in which case these assholes will end up hoist by their own petard.
Fascism as I understand it was developed by the Vatican, which I consider to be an ungodly institution, almost the polar opposite of the Social Gospel, which was subsumed by marxists (state socialists), and has now become critical social justice theory. Today, now that the global game of monopoly has reached it's conclusion, we see that the financial elite have embraced surveillance capitalism, which probably should be called surveillance socialism. It doesn't much matter because at bottom it's cybernetics. Understanding that, everything happening now makes perfect sense. That's what has to be rooted out if we're to turn things around, and that's a tall order. The good news is that it's an incredibly complex undertaking, so there are many, many ways that it could fall apart, in which case these assholes will end up hoist by their own petard.