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Between the bombing at the Brussels airport and Donald Trump’s failure to use his talk at AIPAC to address his proposed solution to the ongoing slaughter that is the nature of the war system, we are once again reminded of Albert Einstein’s insight: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Will tens of millions of innocent victims have to be annually sacrificed to the state’s “One True God,” Mars, before human intelligence gets energized within a sufficient number of men and women to end this patriotically-revered practice? In recent years, Ron Paul has been about the only major politician to confront the war system, and to propose the thinking and practices that would foster peace in our world. For his efforts, conservatives booed him off the stage. Meanwhile, those of more “liberal” persuasion have been obsessed with promoting the sole element in Barack Obama’s legacy: being the first black president.

The destructive, anti-life character of all political systems cannot be ended from within government. The state is defined as an entity that enjoys a legal monopoly on the use of violence. As long as such systems exist, there will be those who will seek to promote their self-interests by acquiring control of the state’s mechanisms of violence. Neither Donald, nor Hillary, nor Bernie can be expected to question this system. Those who are prepared to see what our attachments to politics have made of us, should watch the movie The Children of Men. We are fast approaching the universalization of the “dark side” forces as the “norm” of human nature, and neither the political establishment, the establishment media, the establishment academia, or any other voices that insist upon the exercise of power, will have an incentive to change any of this.

The only way out of our normally-psychotic behavior is to be found at its roots: within our minds – yours and mine, not “theirs” – and to ask the kinds of questions we have been carefully conditioned to avoid and which, therefore, we will be terrified to ask of ourselves: why have I agreed to identify myself with systems that are destroying not only mankind, but my children and grandchildren?

12:13 pm on March 22, 2016

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