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'Western Society' is to mean ideas extolled and promulgated by White people of European dissent. My historical awareness embeds 'White Supremacy/Superiority' as foundational bedrocks for philosophical ideation and ideological exportation for this culture

I highlight this, as we have a tendency to a say "Western Society" in a way that is nebulous and permits for various persons, social groups, and concepts to be conflated in a manner that distorts history and obfuscates reality

As an example, I do not view Barrack Obama as a part of Western Society. He is a bi-product of Western "culture" as a form of co-optation by White Establishment

In various mythological traditions, there is a "Luciferian" figure that takes esoteric information originating within the Divine Realm and democratizes it, gifting its utility to humans as a gesture of rebellion

In some iterations, the essence of this character is redefined in terms of a powerful, yet, flawed "demiurge" type actor whose real power lies in its penchant and talent for elaborate deception and the projection of authority (e.g. 'Rosemary's Baby)

These dual metaphysical concepts seem to be symbolically equally playing out in contemporary global culture. Specifically, information has never been so widely accessible and, concurrently, the old social order is being critically evaluated and a new consensus Political-Economy is being formulated, albeit in a constant state of flux and violent uncertainty

Currently, there are a few observable phenomena reshaping society:

1. Decentralization of economic/political (hard/soft) power. This is global and we can observe it from the poorly facilitated reconstruction of Syria, to the internal rebalancing of the federalist model in the United States

2. A rapidly evolving multipolar 🌍 that is currently being negotiated between elites. Here, the concept of the 'nation state' model for mass scale political-economic resource redistribution is being redefined , as well as tasked, for relevance and social efficacy

3. An elite Transnational Capitalist (TC) Class has accumulated concentrated wealth that has overtaken the Western Military Industrial Complex and necessarily developed an existence that transcends national borders and demands stability+predictability > traditional methods for volatile world ordering

In this process, the very moral/intellectual foundations of Western ideological perspective is increasingly being relegated to the domain of castigation and rejection as a malevolent artisan (creator god), whose only real contribution is death, destruction, and promulgation of cognitive dissonance

Western Society has existed as system architects for nation-states that preferred unsustainable debt-based models for internal growth that temporarily insulated their societies from the natural Entropy of inflation

Simultaneously, these nations engaged in ruthless resource extraction, from weaker nations, with DEBT as prescriptive means to its own end and positive feedback loop. When these weaker nations were invariably unable to service these debts, "austerity" became the next remedial tool

Where there were attempts by these weaker actors to exercise a modicum of national sovereignty and demonstrate some degree of marginal autonomy, they were met with hyper aggressive militarism

Noncompliant leaders were nuetralized; revolutionaries were killed; millions perished; and entire local economies were artificially wrecked, in order to maintain Western hegemonic influence. This is also the mechanism by which Western elites were able to pacify their local constituencies, in artificially propping up their local economies, at the expense of unwilling benefactors

Yet, this was only temporary. Entropy always wins. And, the Western system is no longer able to maintain the charade of majority prosperity and competing need for majority mass subjugation, as a function of system perpetuation

Here, I engage anecdote

When I was a little human, I believed that people were mostly decent; and that the people on television 📺, even where they made mistakes, always had the best interests of Majority Society in mind when they did X,Y, or Z

As my telomeres shortened, and I was introduced to the emancipating concepts of 'formal education', 'working for a wage' and 'voting', that normative condition was revised to living a simple life and learning as much as I can of the Universe before reintegration

Cynicism? Yes

Still, over time, I came to see that, even, this downward revision of reasonable expectation, as humble capitulation, was not so easy a landing a spot, given the inherent nature of the society within which I resided

My initial assessment was that this $ystem was an anti majoritarian construct that evolved from racist origins. That held constant, my interpretation was that life was "doable", even where it was not "fair"

Wrong 🚫

I eventually came to the rational conclusion, and sobering truth, that I was operating in a $ystem that was not only designed for majority marginalization...it was not designed for ME. Both, as Black person and as one who suffers the chronic condition of "Truth affliction"

This is because Western Society is a culture that, by way of observational output, cause/effect analysis, and outcome based reasoning, can only be theorized to seek permanent White Supremacy as its paramount objective

In addition, the TRUTH is that what little I was able to accomplish, in a rigged system, existed as a mutually-exclusive, collectively exhausted (binary) relationship of parasitic energy harvesting, with my counterparts in weaker nations as life force donor 😐

In broader world society, it is this concept that has fundamentally caused our collective intellectual side eye 👀; and this is due to the simple historical reality that the culture lacks ethical consistency and moral clarity

It has historically lead with diplomacy and altruism, only to end in hypocrisy and reactionary malfeasance. It has promoted peace through words, but has only managed to kill more human beings at an alarmingly increasing rate (unprecedented, historically)

More importantly, it has made "predictability" in International Relations a purely theoretical concept, as power politics and "might makes right" (now, peace🕊️ through strength) reasoning, now, threatens the very fabric of higher institutions it created to promote these ideas

Folks are waking up. But, how did we get here? Even more imperative, how might this human saga of ours, as Collective Consciousness transition, play out, longer-term? 🤔

--- OUR SHARED ORIGINS ---

Africa is universally accepted as the birthplace of humanity. Africa is also the birthplace of, not only, civilization, but, high intellectual, political, AND spiritual society (see Ancient Kemet, Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Moors/Cordoba...)

That history is expansive, epic, complex, multifaceted, and still being evidenced and mapped. The short story involves early Black Africans migrating to Europe and catching a bad break for weather/environment, while, concurrently, those on the African continent enjoyed a relatively hospitable period of good fortune by Mother Nature

In the African instance, those people mastered agriculture and were able to establish sedentary society. This provided the necessary environment for idea incubation. These human beings became builders

They became scholars, philosophers, and doctors. In addition, they became Master bureaucrats that created a social political-economy that blended all of their intellectual achievements into an operationalized spiritual system that, at its core, focused on concepts of maintenance of cosmic balance and continuity (and elevation) of consciousness, as ideological principles

Effectively, introspective philosophical thought was turned into an ideological paradigm that, eventually, became inextricably linked with the day-to-day lives of citizens; and the apex manifestation of these principles were demonstrated in state output (e.g. temple building, road construction, harvesting, goods manufacturing, etc.)

The main idea is that any state expenditure of social surplus was balanced, tempered, and justified by the utility derived from upholding these principles. This included sustainability deference and the elevation of society by willful participatory inclusion. More adeptly.... Each individual in society had a use and corresponding meaningful purpose

(Who doesn't want to maintain cosmic balance and elevate your consciousness, while doing it?)

Meanwhile, across the Mediterranean, we will keep that story short and say they were not doing these things and were dealing with something less like consciousness elevation and more like the Nightmare Matrix simulation. These people of African origin would eventually become modern Europeans

These Europeans (Greeks) would eventually sail across the water to learn from Black Africans in Ancient Kemet (Egypt, and ask Herodatus). Over time, these ppl would basically plagiarize Kemetic society/culture and establish themselves as the foundations for the beginnings of History.

Eventually, their infant Western society collapsed and they forgot themselves, only to be rescued socially, intellectually, and scientifically by more folks from the African Continent. They even helped them usher in that Enlightenment Period everybody loves to talk about, including reminding them who Aristotle was and translating his ideas

Over time, these Europeans morphed into Romans, Portuguese, French, and Britons and decided that they would habitually sail across the water and routinely conquer and enslave those same Africans, as a "thank you" for services rendered 💙😍 This included attempting to erase their achievements from history; making them look like backward savages in need of Jesus Christ, Patrick Swayze Edition

But, that is key to the discussion. These folks dealt with a lot of sh*t

(I've heard stories of roving clans designed for hunting other humans for food)

Where one thinks about it, it makes sense why they developed Viking culture, wrote the first Dark Horror/Fantasy, and gave us wonderful continuity of "life affirming" German philosophy, highlighted by Hegel, that we all enjoy today 🥹

This is important, because this requires "understanding" of alternative culture and reintegration/reconciliation of our shared collective human history.  This is not to obfuscate history or rescind culpability from Western Society for what prevails

When I deploy this awareness, it is to reason the underlying base programming and thought processes that are hardwired into Western Society. In many cases, at the individual unit level, a White person of European dissent may not even realize these inherited predispositions are exercising dominion in the background of their operating system

This is what is valuable to know and dangerous to misunderstand. It also brings us to the present and close

Currently, a dominant White minority has a rapidly receding authority and monopoly of administration of our global village. We can discuss "Thucydides Traps, End of Unipolar Moments, or Post Capitalist Society", all we like

However, my position is that the dominant system architecture that prevails has its origins in subconscious programming of humans that evolved in conditions that can only be reduced to the Natural Scarcity from Hell

The people that we call "Western elites" (and non elites) owe their ancestry to people that dealt with incomprehensible suffering, desperation, while in mental states of psychological vulnerability. This means, first and foremost... survival, at all costs, is always game theory

Thus, my take is that we must realize that the boat ⛵ they steer has no brakes for the unsustainability and anti-societal (majoritarian) output. This is not an insult. They can articulate themselves in whatever superior manner they deem as so. They can talk in calm monotone, while they recite Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes, or Jon Stewart Mill, verbatim

Yet, ultimately, they are a society that developed hyper predatory instincts, under conditions of tremendous scarcity; who are also under numerical threat due to the system they created and it's inability to foster sustainable human development. In addition...they ARE human

As such, they are also built with the same internal understanding of the Golden Rule that we all share. We all know what it is to mistreat someone. We all know that we would not like to be mistreated. They inherently understand that their society has not been very nice to the majority of the people on Earth. Being that Western Society values rationality above all else, the people in this culture have naturally reached conclusions that theorize the people that have been historically marginalized in this system will want some "get back"

For me, that is what is troubling. There is potential for non-Western society to ground their analysis in traditional Western thinking; particularly regarding International Relations and post Enlightenment reasoning

So, one may be tempted to believe that collective humanity may see some temporary turbulence, as a global hegemon recedes, and the nation-state model (a European construct, including the assumption of "national interests" rising to elite levels of output) is tasked

However, there is NOTHING rational about the concept of White Supremacy 🚫🧐 In many cases, per this independent objective observation, it seems as though some Western elites prefer to rank this imperative above all others; including over ideological perspectives predicated upon sustainability and with corresponding policy implementations

Be this the case, there is more than enough cause to believe that we can realistically end up in a 'Nino Brown' scenario, at the end of 'New Jack City'

What's more, the Transnational Capitalist Class is overwhelmingly comprised of those that trace their origins to the very beginnings of Western Society

While the nation-state model may be waning, potentially in its final years of relevance, collectively, this new variation of Western Society may be holding just as many cards; but could still suffer from an intellectual myopism rooted in that same base programming that elevates subjugation, demands compliance, and takes no prisoners

Yes, the "Lightbringer" is on trial 😇 👿

When we collectively indulge the Enlightenment Period and ask ourselves: what have we ACHIEVED", it may become an interesting thought exercise

In an age where we outpaced Natural Scarcity DECADES ago, we suffer historic levels of starvation, homelessness, food insecurity, civil unrest, violent conflict, and internal political instability that threatens the very heart of the (D)emocracy that is supposed to be the ultimate manifestation of rational thought

...we also managed to take the highest contemporary form of our collective scientific knowledge... And blew up Japan