This following a very long geo-political discussion about whether or not the Russians are part of an international conspiracy to rule the world.

Me:  All of this is a very interesting intellectual discussion, and I don’t doubt that there are geo-political/financial strategists from every major government running scenarios on a cyber vector board in some “undisclosed location”, but I still prefer to think that the real problem remains ignorance, insensitivity due to cultural and educational habituation and belief that there is no alternative. That way both Stuart and Bob are correct because the Russians may genuinely be trying to oppose the suave Finance Socialism of the West, but they are themselves still captive to the belief that an equally suave Finance fascism/authoritarianism is some kind of an actual solution…when it isn’t.

The alternative is an integration of these two very dangerous, wasteful and oppressive systems whose policies, reach all the way to the individual with both prosperity and stability…and a “silly assed” ethic of graciousness as well.

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This following a post regarding Grace from someone who continually critiques me for being unrealistic.

Me:  Correct. Grace is such an integrated natural aspect of life that it can effect everything and every action whether we are consciously aware of it or not. Just part of the inherent beauty of Life and Living. Of course if we’d consciously pursue it in terms of economic policy with a combined intensity of hope and an intellectually simple and UNIFIED formula of integration it could quickly alter everything for the better. The point is unification is a faster route there than critique that fragments or distracts with “distinctions without a difference”.