The System Can’t Be Fixed, Only Crashed: “The Machine Resists Reform to the Death”
Charles Hugh Smith
October 2nd, 2015
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Editor’s Comment: We’re locked into a long term struggle with the collective system that has swallowed up our once free country. Though many efforts to “improve,” “fix” or “reform” the flaws of this system are often well-meaning and decent efforts, the inherent criminality of the State – which only usurps power for the sake of more power and control – makes it so that true reform is impossible. The many points of corruption are tied to an underlying nervous system of tyranny that refuses to give an inch in the only direction, and uses the rest of the system to protect the whole.
Though our free speech rights to protest and redress the government for grievances is important to stand up for, the system is incapable of responding to this from the ground up.
Like so many great movie monsters, the Deep State must instead topple by its own weight. Pressure on its many fractures may well give, and cause the whole system to implode. If so, we should all take a big step backwards to avoid the destruction, and then take a good long moment to reflect before starting the whole thing again.
You Can’t Separate Empire, the State, Financialization and Crony Capitalism: It’s One Indivisible System
by Charles Hugh Smith
The great irony is what’s unsustainable melts into thin air no matter how many people want it to keep going.
Disagreement is part of discourse, and pursuing differing views of the best way forward is the heart of democracy. Disagreement is abundant, democracy is scarce, despite claims to the contrary.
If you think you can surgically extract Empire from the American System, force the State to serve the working/middle classes, end the stripmining of financialization, limit crony capitalism/regulatory capture and get Big Money out of politics–go ahead and do so. I’m not standing in your way–go for it.
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