Maybe evil Russia became evil because of our constant demonization of them, an egregore of necessity. We are allowed to criticize Russia, Iran, Palestine, Cuba, communists, socialists, certain Democrats, Nicaragua, El Salvador. We’re not allowed to criticize billionaires, corporations, Republicans, Israel. Maybe we need to wonder about why. Maybe we need to wonder if Machines, Sinemas, Fettermans, Gabards are Blue Dog Dems or "sleeper agents.”
Btw, remember how Mayo® Pete went from unacceptable racist with zero larger scale transportation experience to all good for it on a national scale?
Maybe humans are shaped by opportunities (to grow in moral corruption or moral stature) and circumstance more than we like to remember when it doesn’t suit us. Maybe we could not over esteem good people, and try to work out ways of reshaping, re-educating and rehabilitating the worst, and money is appropriately fined according to ability to pay, that in no way allows repeat offenders to skip rehabilitation (which in my estimation is re-education without the scary connotations of prior failures at attempts to do that) and work toward quelling and wishing our own desires for retribution and vigilantly guarding, adequately funding the system to make rehab/re-ed more successful and from slipping into the abyss of retribution.
Gods help us, evolution is slow. But as I age it does seem more and more critical that it begins with the individual in the mirror, moment-by-moment, day-by-day.
Maybe our failure wasn’t the concept of Op Paperclip, rehab re-ed, but the execution of them. The human factor.
Are you younger than 30? I remember when we were trying to work with Post Soviet Russia. From Bush 1 all the way up to Obama. They had that chance. Then they took a giant shit in Syria and Crimea. 20 years of trying Rapprochment, at some point you have to draw a line and say these actions are not okay and we will not associate with a country that thinks they are.
Maybe evil Russia became evil because of our constant demonization of them, an egregore of necessity. We are allowed to criticize Russia, Iran, Palestine, Cuba, communists, socialists, certain Democrats, Nicaragua, El Salvador. We’re not allowed to criticize billionaires, corporations, Republicans, Israel. Maybe we need to wonder about why. Maybe we need to wonder if Machines, Sinemas, Fettermans, Gabards are Blue Dog Dems or "sleeper agents.”
Btw, remember how Mayo® Pete went from unacceptable racist with zero larger scale transportation experience to all good for it on a national scale?
Maybe humans are shaped by opportunities (to grow in moral corruption or moral stature) and circumstance more than we like to remember when it doesn’t suit us. Maybe we could not over esteem good people, and try to work out ways of reshaping, re-educating and rehabilitating the worst, and money is appropriately fined according to ability to pay, that in no way allows repeat offenders to skip rehabilitation (which in my estimation is re-education without the scary connotations of prior failures at attempts to do that) and work toward quelling and wishing our own desires for retribution and vigilantly guarding, adequately funding the system to make rehab/re-ed more successful and from slipping into the abyss of retribution.
Gods help us, evolution is slow. But as I age it does seem more and more critical that it begins with the individual in the mirror, moment-by-moment, day-by-day.
Maybe our failure wasn’t the concept of Op Paperclip, rehab re-ed, but the execution of them. The human factor.
Are you younger than 30? I remember when we were trying to work with Post Soviet Russia. From Bush 1 all the way up to Obama. They had that chance. Then they took a giant shit in Syria and Crimea. 20 years of trying Rapprochment, at some point you have to draw a line and say these actions are not okay and we will not associate with a country that thinks they are.