as to who they thought is the greatest threat to world peace,
27% of Australian respondents chose the Russian president.
The same number chose the Chinese president.
Thirty-one per cent chose the US president...
but opinion-polls are not 100% reliable.
tend to like being with other
vulnerable people, because they feel
less vulnerable. Some of them are bullies.
is that people say silly, stupid things;
and I, through fault of character,
reply with silly, stupid things.
The USA will become an oligarchic state.
Not under Trump, but his vengeful successor
JD Vance, who, with his soul-brother,
Vladimir Putin, will have arranged Trump's death
by Ukrainian assassin.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said yesterday that he
“would never have believed that we would one day
have to protect Ukraine from the USA”.
But who is capable or bold
enough to protect the planet
against the enveloping Russo-American-Chinese
consumer-capitalist slime-mould ?
considered, sneered
that the Romans had an anti-culture
(or at best a sub-culture)
and they were not being too judgemental.
The Romans (fairly feared)
ran the southern European,
North African and Near-eastern world
thinking themselves invincible –
until they ran out of lead-poisoned
anti-culture,
as the Americans (like the British
and the French, though less revered)
are doing now
(sugar is the modern poison).
The Chinese, like the Ancient Greeks,
have an 'authentic'
indigenous culture
(that values tiger-penises but not tigers)
now lightly but fatally veneered
with American vulgarity.
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The thinking Greeks also knew
that religions are crimes
against philosophy.
