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edgar allen poe's avatar

"On the other hand, I have a grave concern not about whether “we” will win, but about the manner of the winning. The normal pattern of othering, of vengeance and punishment, and of attributing the evil of a system to evil people will ultimately result in a repeat of history."

So let's bust this "normal pattern".

The only reason the normal pattern happens is because "the winners" have not learned what went wrong in the first place. They gain control of gov't guns and then do the same old thing with them. Why? What are they missing? What actually went wrong in the first place?

Nothing went wrong. Everything happened precisely as intended. In essence, gov't power IS a gun: a tool that can only do its' job according to the will & wisdom of the human being(s) in control of it.

As long as we believe in the "wisdom" of huge numbers of guns controlling everyone by force then that is what we will have. Who will be in control of the guns? Who else but people who enjoy forcibly controlling other people. AKA human predators and criminals.

The only way things will not repeat the normal pattern is when "the winners" understand that the problem is not the "evil people in power", the problem is human belief in "power over people" itself. The winners then enter the machine and dismantle it completely rather than assume control of it.

It's a tripod, folks. Pull one leg off and it all falls down. Eliminate predatory banking (which funds gov't power) or eliminate gov't power (which defends predatory banking) or eliminate controlled media (which provides popular support for both) and watch history not repeat itself.

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Diane Perlman, PhD's avatar

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