The term “Fragile Mental Prison” is a quote from a recent article by Simplicius, for which I provide a link later in this post. I’m not sure readers will be able to read that since I am only a non-paying subscriber to the site, receiving links by email, but it is worth reading if you can.
Simplicius, whose article on Substack I link below, himself quotes Alex Krainer (of whom I know very little – he is also a writer on Substack), and I wish to also include here the same paragraph quote…
It may be that in spite of the loud banging of the war-drums in mainstream media, and among our political class, very different currents are gathering below the surface. These currents might continue to gain strength; it’s what our ruling establishments like to label as Russia’s malign influence. More likely, the truth is that ordinary people got tired of the lies, hatred, hostility and the wars, as well as the intellectual and cultural junk food that’s become the pervasive staple among Western nations. This is a hopeful sign, because escalating the wars could prove difficult for the imperial establishment. What if peace starts to break out all over the place in 2025? It’s a worthwhile idea to pray for and struggle for.
The year 2025 I feel sure will be one of great changes, which most people – wherever they live – will not be able to miss or ignore. We are witnessing the downfall of the globalist West, and not before time. Suffering for much longer under that selfish and arguably diabolical rule of injustice, as the world continues to awaken to an understanding of how it has been mistreated and cruelly robbed of the achievement of its own potentials, together with a recognition that there is now a possibility for changes to reverse that, or at least to achieve beneficial changes for all, is likely soon to lead to a sun-setting end to the West’s self-indulgence. And until that past and current Western dictum of their own unchallenged supremacy over all others is superseded – and preferably buried – the world will not know peace. Ever.
Is it happening?
One by one, the globalist leaders of the West are falling, with more to come. And Western globalist governments are also falling – I would like to say ‘like dominoes’ but of course that would be exaggeration – but falling they are. But to be replaced by what? Is there anything better waiting in the wings and standing steady, eager to replace them? And if there is or were anything, any acceptable philosophy or outlook, or even a plan, could those entities/persons arising to fill the gap, be trusted? I doubt it. Every potential leader, every potential doctrine, comes with their own baggage encompassing either a grab-bag of ideas and drives to please certain sections of a community and be deprecated by and at the expense of others, or a pre-worked scheme designed to achieve a mutually beneficial result for the conspirator group’s own ends. It is, and always will be, as long as there are human communities, a profound conundrum. How do we get it right? Can we get it right? Or are we destined to always be beset by second-rate leaders, even the best of whom, and those with the finest principles, are always flawed in some way by their own baggage and imperfect personality.
Well, even if nothing can be perfect, we are all human, perhaps we can settle for some solution of governance which actually promotes peace and harmony between nations. And that should always be at the level of nationhood. What will not work, other than to the detriment of the whole human family, is a global solution ordered and controlled by a single nation or specialised grouping of any kind. Such a scenario must be avoided at all costs. Freedom of operation, within an accepted body of law (not a set of ‘rules’) should be the right of everyone and every community of every kind, including individual nations.
Is that possible, given our imperfect individual natures?
What solutions are there?
The answer is not ‘Democracy’, I can assure you of that. That ill-defined and unscrupulously worked concept has been tried for long enough and has been found, clearly found, undeniably found, to be as leaky and useless as a bathtub with no plug on a sea journey. Always subject to trickery of one sort or another, which is only obscured by the ever-changing theatre of faces stepping up for ‘their’ turn, brandishing new (or old) promises to be broken yet again. And worst of all, it masks the truth that untrustworthy individuals will always steer the community – whether that is a nation (or global entity), state, county, city, or even smaller jurisdiction – in ways not in accord to the people’s wishes or even to their own earlier promises. That is always going to be true, no matter the nation etc., and no matter in what way the people’s representatives may be chosen.
Then, if not democracy, for which I see no guaranteed process towards a continuously honest and upright platform, then what?
To be honest, I don’t know. And we may need to face the probability that there is no answer.
It cannot be the way of the United States of America or its assorted allies, which are democracies in name only. That is categorically ruled out by what I said earlier. Their only aim being to control the whole world from the top. That will never be allowed to happen and, until they change direction and agree to become good neighbours like everyone else, they cannot even be considered as ‘partners’ in whatever emerges as the new world system. In the extreme, if they continue to persist with their goals, they may need to be rendered harmless by some means. Means which are already available to the peace-seeking nations of the world but means which they prefer not to use unless it becomes a necessity for survival of the species.
There is of course China’s way, which is the closest system to pure democracy that I have ever examined. A potential people’s representative in China has to work extremely hard, in the most difficult conditions within a region not of their own choice, to be even considered for such a position at the lowest level and must build merit through successful and beneficial achievements for the people they are working to represent in order to climb the many levels in the Chinese government hierarchy. But even that has openings to corruption, the longer a representative works within that system. Although such disservice seems to be readily detectable, it does still occur.
I would also love to say that BRICS has a potential solution, but that is an as yet unproven idea which operates only at the level of nations and has no direct links to the individual within the population of those nations. I think it is essential that people are engaged in decision making regarding their own and their country’s condition and prospects. But of course it is people who are the problem, just as much as the system of ‘government’, or what ever you would like to call it, under which they live. ‘People’ just cant be trusted any more, if they ever could have been, either to care about issues more complicated than just within the borders of their own daily interactions, or to have guiding principles to honestly represent the wishes of a group of other people – at any level. I don’t know if we will ever overcome that quandary, other than for very small groups – one theory states maximum 150 individuals in a local community with specific goals as the highest level among which democratic principles may successfully run. Presumably because such a group would all know each other and enjoy social interactions outside of issues of governance. It may be that any number larger than that is quite ungovernable in ways acceptable to all. But, if achievable, such a system might eradicate a lot of problems of this nature – at least on the small scale and provide representation of the group’s communal wishes at the next higher level (similar to the Chinese system and transferring a measure of responsibility and reliability to promote that group’s wishes to the higher authority). And so on up the chain of governance. I do not promote this as a solution. It’s just an idea. But one that is seen to work in the fastest growing economy in the world.
I have stepped away from today’s problems to discuss here in general at a slightly higher and more background level. But I have now said enough. For more thoughts on the current issue and its impact on today’s systems, read Simplicius…
‘Another One Down: Anti-Globalist Maelstrom Sweeps Away Trudeau as Larger Storm Looms’ – Simplicius – Jan 7, 2025
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