Originally Posted by
AZJoe
As for "disaster for Europe" - who cares? Those people are so corrupted, perhaps they could use a little disaster to wake their sorry asses up.
The world is gone mad - long years ago now.
The problem with your position on this question, as well as with most people, is that you all appear to have missed the deeper point of just how wildly insane the human race has become. You marinate in it daily and thereby don't quite grok what it all means, erroneously deeming the deeply dangerous aspects of our general mental states as being of no real significance. I must disagree and assert that what has become normalized through chronic exposure in the minds of most men is in fact representative of an immediately precarious and terminal threat to us. Some evidence of this may be observed in the fact that someone such as yourself thinks that sticking all of one's appendages into the holes springing forth in the dyke is a viable means of addressing the fact that the dyke is structurally unsound. Also, after you've planted you've run out of said appendages and the dyke continues to deteriorate, what then? Recruit the neighbors? Newsflash: they aren't interested, by and large - certainly not enough of them.
You're attempting to save a ship that is doomed to sink no matter what you do. Treaties are only as good as the people sworn to uphold them and the mean character of man is falling in virtuous qualities by the minute. It matters no whit what Reagan and Gorbachev signed because today we have the likes of Clinton and Bolton, etc. steering the Titanic. Things stand only to get worse with time. Just imagine when one of these millennial pansies ends up as Sec. of State...
The world is gone mad, showing no hint of any inclination to retrieve itself from this state of decay, and we possess nukes. What could possibly go wrong?
Attempting to live a normative ideal in such a world is tantamount to a declaration of intent to commit suicide. It is the saddest thing in the world to have to say that if we do not lower ourselves to the same low denominator as our rivals, we expose our throats to them. THAT is the reality of a world peopled and ruled by madmen. It is analogous to the trade situation with China. The moment the first producer of $300 sports shoes fled to China to partake of that vile nation's slave labor market, every competitor, whether from American, Europe, or any other place NOT China was forced into a choice: follow suit and compete, or remain static and have Nike (or whoever) eat your lunch until there is nothing left of your for the sheer and utter lack of your ability to compete due to the yawning disparities in labor costs. The result was that nearly everyone has jumped ship in order to survive because the difference between $0.50/hour labor and that costing you $20.00/hr is simply too great to ignore when so much as survival is on the agenda, much less profitability. This is why the $300 sports shoe can now be had for $65 and why everyone is manufacturing in SE Asia.
So it is with this foreign policy nightmare - insanity creeps in and the moment one player lowers the bar, the rest feel obliged to follow lest they be left at some dire disadvantage. The world runs on fear, paranoia, greed, lust for power, and so on, just at it ever did. The difference today is the tech which enables even a single man to level entire cities to the tune of millions or even tens of millions of lives. If this is not the very definition of "insanity", then I cannot imagine that the word even has a definition.
We've ended up in this condition because people are hopelessly corrupt in any number of a million possible ways. Smiling faces, fancy suits, hats, and talk cut no muster when men trudge relentlessly onward toward the brink of the abyss.
Treaties... FEH... utterly pointless in a world polluted with the filth of ubiquitous, low-rent, stench-stifling human corruption. We're not safe because corruption. We're not free because corruption. We're not happy because corruption. We're not worthy because corruption. The list is very much longer, but methinks the point is made.
Have your treaties if you must. Fall for the lie that is the false sense of security that they might bring. Lie to yourselves that the world is a better place for them; the simple fact that we think we need them is all the proof one should require to dope it out that we, the vast bulk of humanity, are so far gone down the proverbial tube that such treaties stand precisely zero chance of saving our bacon from the horrors that understandably keep some of us up at night.
Connect With Us