The other side of the demonstrations to oust Brazil’s President Rousseff.
Photo: Arnaldo Saldanha
Note from BW of Brazil: Featured in a previous post, the protests throughout Brazil calling for the end of the Dilma Rousseff presidency captured international headlines last week but several facets of the demonstrations revealed several things about Brazil. They showed that 1) Brazilians are fed up with political corruption, 2) The protests were mostly led by the middle to upper classes and 3) These classes are still mostly white. “Where are the black protesters?” was a question that arose from similar protests against Rousseff in protests of March 2015.
Well, the fact is that it is the mostly poor, black classes that have benefited most from policies initiated by the PT (Rousseff’s Workers’ Party that has ruled the country since 2003) over the past 13 years (a voting block that carried Dilma to a second term in the 2014 election) And as…
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Three Worlds One Vision 
As I read, I’m being mentally plunged into a widening abyss of human chaos world-wide, and it seems as if “the forces of darkness” are bound to take the day, being in command of so much communication (read: disinformation) and weapons technology, with people being increasingly “herded” into cities where they become trapped like fish in a barrel, entirely dependent upon infrastructures owned and controlled by the master families. It seems to me, as a visionary, that the world of man, or earth, is groaning under a burden it can no longer hold and is about to slip and fall – Hercules at the end of his strength. While “ordinary people” wherever are doing their best to pretend that life is OK, that they’re OK and therefore it stands to reason that the world must be OK; while others remind us that terrible things have happened before, man survived and will again, that does not remove the fact that as a species man is either willingly going, or being forced, into the ultimate crucible of history where the race is about to be ground to bits in unimaginable horror. There is no way of knowing what will emerge, though we can speculate. But I’d say, based on this article alone, that the wise will prepare for this inevitable eventuality while remaining awake to whatever possibilities exist of still making some temporary change upon the fabric of a disintegrating “order” to alleviate the plight of the poor and oppressed who are daily becoming a greater in-your-face reality. What am I trying to say? Despite the apparent hopelessness of it all on a global theatre, we must, as individuals, act locally with whatever resources and smarts we possess, and deliberately scoop out that cup of water from the ocean without the need to use a measuring rod to see if our cup has made a difference in the overall oceanic level. It’s no longer about stats, or numbers, but about an individual choice to participate in binding wounds on our own streets; acting with compassion while deliberately ignoring both: the propaganda of the Matrix and the equally destructive voices of doom. You can’t just believe things will get better by themselves (i.e., using any of he old tried and failed methods) and you can’t just stick your head in the sand either. Reminds me of that old saw, “think globally, act locally.”
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“It seems to me, as a visionary, that the world of man, or earth, is groaning under a burden it can no longer hold and is about to slip and fall – Hercules at the end of his strength.”
~ I share your vision, Sha’Tara. “The forces of darkness” are busy at work in spreading chaos for their own ends. They have the wealth and power to keep pounding us into submission.
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…yes, we admit they have all that power, which means we are not in denial or in never-never land, and we “beat” them with compassion: the one thing they can never understand. And while they seethe in hate and fear of losing and gnash their teeth at not being able to nail the last penny in the world; while they party in pretend at being happy, with raucous laughter sustained by drugs, booze and sex, we can experience joy. I’ll take that trade-off any day.
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Thanks for sharing, Cyril. The article’s not written by me.
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I wonder if humanity has ever faced such a multi-fronted assault: climate change, anticipated water wars accompanying the latter, religious wars, increasing income inequality, racism, technological change that is reducing the availability of good-paying jobs, and a global domino effect of what used to be problems limited to a region (now more like an epidemic). I have heard from more than one baby-boomer friend that he is glad his life will be over before what he anticipates as worse to come.
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As a boomer myself, I hold the same sentiments. Man is heading for a massive, horrific purge; a kick in the gut that will all but throw him back to a stone age. What we are experiencing are but what has been described as “birth pangs” though what will be “birthed” from it remains pure speculation. I “believe” we’ve entered the point of no return; that the “evil” now rising planet-wise is only going to stop when it has gorged itself on human suffering and death and finally atrophies from lack of sustenance, when it has destroyed every vestige of man’s modern civilization. This doesn’t mean we give up, it means we anticipate with common sense and personal wisdom rather than continue to party as if wine, drugs, money and sex exist in limitless supplies and harbor no consequences for misuse.
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Sha’Tara, I wish I could disagree with your vision of the future state of Man that you describe so well. I, also, believe that “we’ve entered the point of no return.” The powers-that-be leading this “multi-fronted assault” (to use Dr. Stein’s words) have lost their humanity.
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I think you’ve nailed it. Global leadership, with some truly horrible types like N. Korea dictator and the Saudis standing out, has lost its humanity. They are ponerologists, to use a term coined by Polish psychiatrist Andrzej Łobaczewski who wrote extensively on the subject of political ponerology, the title of his book. You may want to read: “The Trick of the Psychopath’s Trade: Make Us Believe that Evil Comes from Others” by Silvia Cattori – SoTT.net – Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:55 CST.
If you want to read it, and cannot locate, I have the text and I could email it to you. It explains a lot of what we are witnessing and experiencing. We should be neither surprised nor shocked at how fast the downfall is happening: it’s a direct result of how fast the very system we live in arose in the first place. We are in the midst of a massive “laboratory experiment” with Technocracy, a system custom-made for control of the world by ponerologists. All the technocrats needed to do was to complete the moral and mental corruption already well advanced under the Church and the Western empires some 500 years ago. They did this with numbers, money. Crude but vastly effective. Of course they did not consider the consequences, such types never do.
If I were writing a sci-fi novel on planetary dystopia I would use this world, in this time, as my primary source of information beginning at the turn or the 20th C and going some 100 years into the future. I would have so much source material I could write a dozen sequels…
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Sha’Tara, I think this is the first time I’m hearing about ponerology. A quick google search brought up a lot of material on the subject. Perhaps Dr. Stein would consider writing a blog post on the study.
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Wow, that would be an excellent idea. This so carefully hidden truth needs exposing and publicizing. Great that you picked up on it.
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Dr. Stein, as a baby-boomer I take no comfort that I may not be around for the global chaos that awaits future generations. They will curse our generation for not taking action to avert the collapse of our civilization. Should there be any remains of our civilization, we will be recorded in history as the most destructive peoples that ever lived on Planet Earth.
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I dislike quoting from Wikipedia, but: “Łobaczewski adopted the term ponerology, which is derived from the Greek word poneros, from the branch of theology dealing with the study of evil.”
Still, as a favorite contemporary poet Wendell Berry pleads: “Must we do without hope?” And another poet Jack Gilbert: “… it is important to go on being capable of happiness” – however we would define that elusive. I would define it as the possibility of peace and justice and the end to manipulation by the 1%, which reminds me, re your original post Rose: in the American Democratic primaries: why did our fellow Black citizens overwhelmingly vote for Clinton?
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Angela, we have to hold onto hope if our species is to survive.
I can’t comprehend the black community’s support of the Clintons.
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One reason is that they cannot let go of the promise and false promises of Obama – and Hilary is exploiting that, insisting that (suddenly) she is a supporter of Obama and will continue his policies – heaven/god/whatever help us.
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