Guest wrote:"Aren't people just awful."John wrote:So I guess you're looking forward to blood in the streets. Maybe aGuest wrote: > This video warms my heart.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A92B6ps-Vk
> The pure are now pushing back.
few "pure" beheadings, rapes and massacres. I guess those warm your
heart as well. You must be in heaven.
-Caligula
Unity does feel good. There is no denying that...Gort brings Klaatu back to life, but he explains to Helen that his revival is only temporary.
Klaatu addresses Barnhardt's assembled scientists, informing them that he represents an interplanetary organisation that created a police force of invincible robots like Gort.
"In matters of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us." Klaatu concludes, "Your choice is simple: join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration." Klaatu and Gort re-enter the spaceship and depart.
Unity does not imply fascism. Fascism is governmental institutionalization of master/slave relationships.
See the behavior, not the superficial symbol. While it is foolish to "pollute" your message with old prejudicial symbols, it is also nearly always simply an equivalent of flipping the finger at the oldsters.
When the young do it it is defiance. When the oldsters themselves do it, then those are the ones to monitor for master/slave promotion behavior, and when their actual behavior is truly "locally criminal" (criminal to the locals who they CLAIM as "their people"), which they eventually will be, they need to be tried to the fullest and "made pariahs to the locals".
All "games of chicken" (brinkmanship) in "devolution disputes" are tests to determine the relative strengths of the "single partyers" vs. the "local rights" LEADERSHIP PERSONNEL. The local population is the "measuring stick", and not "the players".
The Spanish "Single Partyers" (SPs) ["globalists"] are the anti-independence leaders, while the "Local Rights" (LRs) ["localists"] leaders are the independence seekers.
The LRs win, even if they lose, if they're martyred for the cause. Local identity is mightily hardened, which is the real goal. The LR LEADERS will have greater bargaining power with their "evil overlords", and the power of their local opponent, the SPs, is highly diminished as the "evil overlords" will not want to piss off the locals by supporting the SPs.
The masses, though FUELING the "desire for resource independence", will live with whatever the actual result of the pissing contest is.
Since there is no Gort, the SPvsLR tension will increase until the next contest.
Personally, I think a worthy Gort in the Spanish Government™ should have given Catalonia full and complete independence, MUCH more than they asked for, then given Catalonia great incentives to make money for Spain.
Would that promote "local rights" groups separating from their "mother" nations? Yes,.. which is the reason for the panic of the "mother" nations leaders (both Spain's SPs being motivated to "hold power centrally" and Spain's other LRs being motivated by jealousy of their now privileged "winner" LRs status).
But the point is that it's a game played out on the masses using the masses energy. It's a horse race! It's part of the cycle. There's nothing odd or unusual about it at all. It portends nothing, other than as a sign of the present point of the cycle. It's result is indicative of only that the cycle is not understood by anyone with any understanding as to what to do with that sign.
I laugh at California initiatives that want to break up the state. Attempts to do so are always on the wrong fault lines. I don't laugh at Catalonia, because the fault lines are ripe.
The result of the game is always some mixture of humor and blood. With no Gort, welcome to the game of Blood and Chuckles!