This is a must read to
understand Putin. His task has always
been clear. It is to restore the Russia
of Peter the Great. By and large he is
succeeding. While he has been at it, he
is also producing a natural counter weight to Chinese geographical ambitions by
simply ensuring that such ambitions will be powerfully contested.
He is also grinding down the
Muslim reality by directly contesting radical Islam whenever they attempt to take
advantage of regime change. Assad may
not survive, but Putin is making sure that Muslim radicals will simply face far
worse if that is the case. In a
different way, the Egyptian military is ensuring the same result.
The ultimate response to the
Arab spring is Democracy maybe, Muslim Fascism – NO. The Arab middle class who supplies the
officer corps will tolerate nothing else.
At this point the jihadi must understand this completely.
It will turn out that the
USA and the West has no better real friend.
October 21, 2013
Balzac, Contributor
First and foremost we should be governed by common sense.
President
Vladimir Putin is audaciously attempting to remove the brush covering from atop
the common sense rabbit hole, which is not only a truly rare and subversive act
in the eyes of the Con, but a potentially great gift to humanity – if only
humanity had the sensitivity to appreciate it.
Nonetheless,
this will no doubt prove to be a thrilling ride for those willing to take up
the challenge. Russians are fortunate to have such a sane leader, and the West
would be wise to follow his lead, but what exactly does Mr. Putin mean by
Common Sense?
Here’s a quick
peek at a couple of dictionary definitions:
1) Sound judgment not based on
specialized knowledge; native good judgment.
The ability to
soundly judge is important to understanding what common sense is all about, as
is the fact that judgment is not an isolated act made according to individuated,
specialized knowledge, but of something that is of a more general nature that
is shared, common or native to the species as a whole.
To better
understand how common sense operates as a cognitive process, Aristotle provides a clear and useful description:
The reason for having several senses is in fact that it
increases the chances that we can distinguish and recognize things correctly.] Each
sense is used to identify distinctions, such as sight identifying the
difference between black and white, but, says Aristotle, all animals with
perception must have “some one thing” which can distinguish black from sweet.]
This shared or common sense, as opposed to a two-step
Stimulus-Response model, appears to operate, according to Aristotle’s
description, as a three-step process:
A) Perception
B) Understanding
(through comparative analysis)
C) Judgment
Why is something
as fundamental and basic to humanity’s existence operating according to a
three-step rather than two-step process?
If you look
around the world today, everything is presented in opposing, pairs: A-B. Not
A-B-C.
As such,
critical A-B-C thinking, aka Common
Sense is fundamental to the evolution of
awareness, consciousness, cooperation and love which seems to
occur with great frequency in nature, but not nearly as much in most human
societies.
The Con
understands this reality quite well, and they exploit it to their benefit. The
Con does everything it can to lock humanity into a system characterized by
dualism, stimulus-response programming, isolation, separation, competition,
narcissism and egotism.
According to
Aristotle’s logic, while each individual is inseparable from the whole, without
common sense,i.e. a shared vision of the whole,
perception of reality is too narrow, distorted and false.
Aristotle also
said:
Common sense is where comparison happens, and this must
occur by comparing impressions or symbols or markers of what the specialist
senses have perceived. This is therefore also where consciousness originates,
“for it makes us aware of having sensations at all”
Aristotle
emphasizes the act of comparison as critical to Understanding (Step B) the
three-step A-B-C Common Sense-making process.
After perceiving
an object, the perceiver compares and contrasts that object in relation to
similar objects found within the perceiver’s experience. Finally, based on that
understanding, the perceiver, in a creative act of synthesis, finds the true
center or third way derived from the act of comparison and projects that
decision out into the world.
In 2006, after
carefully analyzing and deconstructing Vladimir Putin’s year 2000 Millennium
Manifesto, author Gavin Slade from the Central European University in Budapest,
an affiliate of The School of Russian and Asian Studies (SRAS), affirms the
Russian leader’s propensity for utilizing in the political arena the type of
Hegelian common sense widely discussed in this article:
In the 1990s Russia’s political discourse was framed in
terms of good and evil. There was little compromise or synthesis.
The rejection of revolution and change shows that Putin
is effectively trying to establish a discourse focused on unity and stability
knowing that the binary oppositions of politics during the Yeltsin era had
created a situation where the state was unable “to muster a critical mass of
leaders who articulate[d] one or another political discourse that resonate[d]
in political society.
Rare among
today’s world leaders, Vladimir Putin appears to well understand the
evolutionary necessity of this third way approach to governance based on common
sense-derived synthesis, and leverages that knowledge to promote unity, social
cohesion and commonality of purpose on a national and international scale.
Aristotle even
goes as far as to say that common sense is
where consciousness originates. So if a society is lacking in common
sense, and there’s little to no conscience, morality, empathy, consciousness,
creativity, taste, discernment or love, how does one propose to govern such a
population? This no doubt created a quandary for the rulers of large
populations in the past, and clearly still presents governance challenges
today.
The system’s
time-honored, traditional answer to the problem of populations lacking in
common sense was to oppress them into submission, with increased submission
leading to an ever more constrictive cycle of dominance, oppression and abuse.
It’s not outrageous to consider both parties to be at fault for this social
dynamic that still exists and thrives today.
The cognitive
process of common sense is part of humanity’s spiritual endowment and is similar
to the Greek idea of knowledge or nous, which is the divine
spark or knowledge within that
is shared or common to all.
While nous may be common to all, it seems at
present to be buried deep within the human psyche, and as such, unfortunately,
is largely inactive.
Humanity’s drive
to separate, exceptionalize and specialize (such groveling at the feet of
society’s beloved specialists), is but a tiny sliver of the whole spoon-fed
matrix. These absurd, self-destructive
values are
automatically downloaded at face value and parroted aloud as that which everybody
knows.
These automatic,
pre-programmed responses demonstrate the process of individual and social decay
which epitomizes dualistic A-B programming, and as such represents an
evolutionary dead-end. And yet despite its flaws, this system, while abhorrent
to many not only does have value in populations largely lacking in common
sense, but also provides stark contrast to utopian social visions, as well as
important motivation for those who wish to overcome its glaring inadequacies.
So cheer up, the
news is not entirely bleak. To find oneself, one must first lose oneself, and
so humanity has intentionally (if not consciously), led itself astray. The
capacity for auto-correction is built into the natural system of the Earth and
undoubtedly woven into the very fabric of cosmic existence itself. And yet in
order to auto-correct, one must first dare to walk down dark paths leading to
destinations unknown.
Compliance with
Globalist diktat is ensured by the Con’s ability to provide endless streams of
mindless distractions and short-term pleasures quick as you can afford them.
And if you can’t afford them but still crave them, you get a gold star for
being a motivated world citizen.
But try inducing
people to step off that wheel, swallow the red pill and slide down the rabbit
hole. Just see how that works out.
Of course this
makes no sense. Why choose isolated, short-term pleasures over long-term ones?
Freedom is sold cheap in exchange for a handful of trinkets and beads. But as
the late great George
Carlin once said:
“nobody seems to notice; nobody seems to care.”
The average
person, lacking common sense, is unable to step outside his bubble and
recognize the divinely entangled oneness of reality.
How many times
do you have to read in the alternative media about the daunting lack of empathy
on the part of the Globalist controllers, and this is true, but how about the
lack of empathy among the masses? Without common sense, there is no empathy,
and the masses are sorely lacking in common sense.
The inability to
put themselves in the shoes of others keeps the un-awoken strapped to the bed
of their own egotistical, narcissism. Good luck getting through to them. They
are simply incapable of being awakened in anything less than a repeatedly rough
manner.
Russian history
is chock-full of examples of these rough awakenings, and it therefore should
not be so surprising that today’s Russian population is relatively more awake
than those still snoozing in the pampered, declining West.
Perhaps this is
why those cast in the role of
Controllers – along with
their robotic minions – are as nasty and brutish as they are, since it falls on
them to rouse Joe Sixpack in the only way he seems to understand: by shoving
his face deep down into the toilet bowl of an unexamined life. Spend enough
time down there, and you may finally see that all your dreams of wealth,
success and material gain have just been so much meaningless crap.
And so the
seemingly endless stream of futile chatter in the alternative media referring
to the slumbering masses and how if they just had the right information is,
sorry to say, nothing but pure fantasy, wishful thinking and projection on the
part of the awakened, common sense minority.
The Great
Awakening that many feel
today, and it is palpable, is not widespread; it’s actually emanating from a
very small, scattered fraction of the global population. It’s just that this small but slowly growing group of A-B-C
common sense types, specialists in their own right, have a tendency, despite
their incessant utilization of the common sense process, largely due to a
lifetime of incessant “all men are created equal” propaganda, to erroneously
project their common sense values on to the masses, and as a result are time
and time again disappointed when their best intentions to rouse the herd are
not taken seriously. Boo-hoo.
If the world was
in fact brimming over with common sense, which currently it is not, reality would
appear quite different than it does. No, the prison planet has been specially
designed to serve the masochistic masses precisely what they need in order to
evolve. It wouldn’t actually be so bad if it weren’t so damn destructive. If
anything, it’s not dull.
As it is
presented today, the Con’s “reality” is designed to stroke the mass ego
consciousness with just enough happy endings to keep the machine humming and
its occasionally unruly parts alternately motivated, sedated and restrained.
This seems to be an unfortunate yet necessary design for an emotionally
immature, Id-raging majority.
On the other
hand, within an awakened community, no matter how small, which is not
characterized by delusion but common sense, the rules of the game could not be
more different. Within such a community, you can always choose another path and
consciously create what you want. Life there is no longer an either/or A-B
equation. You can finally transcend childish dualism as you take a quantum leap
into the common sense adult world of contemplation, awareness, empathy,
consciousness, comparative analysis, and synthesis. In this vitally thrilling
world, A + B = C.
The goal of discourse is to create the transcendental, a
higher centre of meaning outside the plurality of visions and interpretations,
‘to arrest the flow of differences, to construct a centre. ‘Thus, ‘at the base
of Putin’s policies and what we shall describe as his “third way” lies the idea
of a grand transcendence of so many of the conflicts that had both shaped and
torn Russia in the modern era.’ -http://www.sras.org/deconstructing_the_millennium_manifesto
Mr. Putin has
tirelessly and with increasing success preached his neo-Gnostic common sense
gospel to a Russian population that has in the not-so-distant past become
familiar on an unprecedented scale with such intense suffering and pain that an
increasingly large portion of them now appear eager to listen to and act upon
Putin’s challenge to reclaim their common heritage as intelligent, discerning
and consciously evolving individuals in a country of rich heritage and national
achievement. This development on a national scale is uncommon.
The economic
prosperity that Putin’s leadership has helped generate, impressive as it is,
pales in comparison to the raising of individual consciousness en
masse in Russia, which is
what can happen to a nation when real common sense is applied to governance.
That requires rare leadership qualities on a level that few in other countries
have experienced in a long while.
What many in the
West often fail to comprehend (because they lack empathy) is that when you’re
the leader of a 9 time zone wide, 17 million square kilometer (6.6 million sq mi)
Eurasian land mass comprised of a wide range of European, Caucasian, Asian and
Indigenous cultures, in order to successfully lead and inspire such a diverse
group, you must possess a Yin Yang-balanced, personal and diplomatic Swiss
Army-like skill-set.
This mixing of Western and Russian ideas is only a part
of a blend of inter-discursive features adopted by Putin. It is in his
co-optation of different discourses and ideas that Putin attempts to suture
rifts in identity and win the war of position within discourse. It is, as some
have said, a ‘third way.’
As an
individual, Vladimir Putin displays many attributes of the modern Renaissance
Man. He’s a vigorous yet contemplative gentleman of refinement and culture with
an admiration for various art forms and a genuine appreciation for the diverse
beauty and splendor of nature.
Although Mr.
Putin enjoys hunting and fishing, it’s not part of some macho power trip to
defeat and kill defenseless animals, but rather as a way for him to feel
vitally connected to the natural world that we share with each other and are
invited to explore if only we dare.
Here’s a
striking passage from a May, 2011 Outdoor Life Magazine interview where Mr.
Putin candidly describes his experience obtaining a whale biopsy:
OL: In
August 2010, you helped scientists obtain skin samples from a whale off
Russia’s Pacific Coast by darting one with a crossbow. I imagine that has to be
one of the more incredible of your wildlife encounters.
VP: That
was indeed an unforgettable experience, and I remember very well how impressed
I was.
First, all that surrounded me—the low sky, the stormy sea
and, of course, the whales—was magnificent. Besides, these elegant giants
showed us a real performance, leaping out of the water in front of our
boat.
Second, I was really thrilled. I do not want to offend
your feelings as a hunter, but, by its intensity, its dynamics, that was a
real hunt. But without killing the animal. And this was a special
pleasure. This is not a melodramatic statement. That’s the way it really was.
We left not just to see the whales, but to take a
biopsy—in other words, to dart one of the animals with a crossbow arrow, which
can rip off a small part of whale skin necessary to make a special analysis. It
was not that easy; three times I failed, and only the fourth attempt was
successful. Of course, I could justify myself that the boat was tossing badly
and that it was the first time for me to handle a crossbow, but the main reason
I see was my anxiety, because participation in the scientific experiment is a
very important undertaking.
OL: After
you successfully darted a whale, a reporter asked you if it was dangerous. You
replied that, “Living, in general, is dangerous.” Do you have any comment on
that?
VP: I
think what I meant by that is obvious. Despite all the achievements of
civilization, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on
earth. None of us is protected from crimes, epidemic outbreaks, natural and
technogenic disasters. What I am saying is not a fatalistic view of the world,
it is a realistic one.
Mr. Putin, with
obvious empathy for the whale and a humble appreciation for the magnitude of
the moment, describes in a nutshell the fragility of the human experience
within a natural world that is both nurturing and fraught with risk. Unlike his
ego-driven political counterparts who can never admit to any weakness, it’s a
feather in his cap that he does not appear to be afraid to convey his fear and
anxiety at being in the middle of what most would agree was an unsafe
situation.
Mr. Putin seems
to be implying that you might as well take risks because risk is inherent to
life. To therefore feel some degree of anxiety when taking bold steps is
natural, and nothing to be afraid of. Taking those bold steps is part of a
personal and national awakening process.
Having
repeatedly put his personal safety in jeopardy for the sake of the greater
good, as demonstrated by his biopsy of whales, soaring with endangered cranes
and tranquilizing tigers…
…it should come
as no surprise when Mr. Putin applies a calculated risk approach to diplomacy,
as demonstrated by his swift response to an extraordinary early August 2013
meeting with the head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Bandar, an event first
reported in the UK Telegraph and widely acknowledged in the Russian press as
well as a number of other sources.
This colorful
September 30th, 2013 recapitulation of that same fateful meeting
comes courtesy of an approving Pravda opinion column, “Come the Day, Come The
Hour”:
Essentially, Bandar Bush went to Putin – purportedly with
the full backing of the US, and offered to cut a secret deal to carve up the
oil profits if Russia would back off on Syria and allow a regime change. Putin
quietly and politely offered a nyet. He was not for sale and neither were his
principles. Bandar went on to then threaten Russia by turning loose Chechen
terrorists to cause havoc in the Winter Sochi Olympics. Saying that all
terrorists groups are under their control and that they can turn them on or off
as they like. Well, it appears that at this stage, the negotiations moved
from being polite – Putin warned Bandar that if Syria is attacked, Russia
would bomb Saudi Arabia. At last, someone with balls. This threat was
communicated to senior members of the Armed Forces with instructions to prepare
to strike Saudi Arabia. Obviously, this was leaked.
The now famous
and universally acclaimed accord on chemical weapons aside, wouldn’t it be more
than likely that President Putin’s declaration of intent to bomb Saudi Arabia
if Syria was attacked is the real, under-reported reason why a near-certain U.S. strike on
Syria was called off?
Just a theory…
President Putin,
a man of principle and a strong advocate of International Law, rejected out of
hand Bandar’s pathetic bribe, since unlike many other politicians, he has
principles, and can’t just be bought off.
Nonetheless, upon digesting Prince Bandar’s incredible
admission of he and his country’s direct support for state-sponsored terrorism,
despite his usual placid demeanor, President Putin’s jaw must have dropped
when he received a not-so-thinly veiled threat of Olympic terrorist attack if
cooperation on the Syria question was not forthcoming. President Putin rightly
determined that this was not only a direct threat to Russia, but to the entire
civilized world, and so he did what he had to do: stand up to the bully.
Only a leader so
level-headed and eminently comfortable in his own skin could stare the impudent
Saudi down and call his bluff in terms that were crystal clear and absolutely
appropriate to the threat. Exercising his capacity for A-B-C common sense, Mr.
Putin perceived, understood and decided what to do without hesitation.
When threatened
with force, sometimes the only way to get the other party to take you seriously
is to threaten them right back. That took guts and is deserving of recognition.
World War III
was averted (for now), and Putin’s stock has deservedly risen to such a high
level around the world that he was in serious contention for the Nobel Prize.
The fact that he didn’t win is probably better PR than if he had won, since
Obama won it for bailing out the bankers. Putin is probably ok then with an
honorable mention.
When an
individual like Vladimir Putin, who both at home and abroad is recognized as
having an authentic character, repeatedly demonstrates sane, balanced actions,
as he declares the rule of law and common sense governance as the goals of the
nation and backs it up with corresponding actions, he naturally enjoys
widespread support and trust.
Sadly, these
common sense leadership qualities, which should be essential prerequisites for
every political leader, are sorely lacking in the West, where there seems to be
a permanent disconnect between common sense and politics.
Often unfairly
lampooned in the press for his bare-chested macho man image, Mr. Putin also
appears to genuinely be in touch with his feminine side.
As a Judo
master, Putin is adept at using his opponents’ momentum against them, which can
only be done by respecting the power of each “adversary,” as well as being
sensitive to the flow of energy emanating from that person. A perfect example
of a real world application of that principle is how President Putin “flipped”
and redirected the Saudi Prince’s malevolent, threatening, violent energy right
back at the Prince and synthesized the product of that energy for the purpose
of creating peace.
Check out
Putin’s judo moves here:
Sometimes
Presidents really do need to act like car salesmen, but the car that Putin is
selling is built to last and runs efficiently on common sense, common law (i.e. as long as you’re not hurting anyone,
you’re acting within the law), and community. And that’s a vehicle more and
more Russian citizens are being convinced by Putin to buy, since he drives one
himself.
Putin’s manifesto is rich in inter-discursivity,
appropriating elements from competing ideologies and rejecting binary
oppositions in order to win the war of position within the discursive field
thus creating ‘an all-national spiritual reference point that will help to
consolidate society, thereby strengthening the state. This reference point, a
new Russian idea, helps construct an image of the state as a nation of people
represented by a spokesperson, the president.
Those of the awakened minority who are
frustrated and at odds with Globalist domination strategies should find solace
in the fact that the dream of a New World Order, of which much of the world is
presently dreaming into reality, must according to its unnatural and
unsustainable underlying principles, much like its Soviet system predecessor,
inevitably collapse under the weight of its excessive absurdity.
And if you’re one of the small but proud
members of the common sense minority community, if you haven’t already done so,
please do yourselves a big favor and cease all efforts aimed at trying to wake
up humanity, because it can’t be done. Instead, continue waking yourselves up.
Humanity can only wake itself up one
individual at a time. The newly awakened, in their own time, will make
connections with others without your incessant nudges. So try to let go. You’ll
feel better if you do.
In stark contrast to the West’s current
political downward slope, it’s fascinating to observe the progress of Vladimir
Putin in his quest to help instill and nurture a return of common sense
to the realm of politics. It makes one hopeful that new leadership possessing
similar strength of character will follow President Putin’s lead.
Unlike Mr. Putin, we can’t all play the part
of hero in this movie, although there’s no character too minor and no act too
small.
Continue speaking your truth, get along with
others, and have a good time. The rest will take care of itself.
That’s just plain old common sense.
And to close the show, Ladies and Gentlemen
and Children of all ages, live from the internet, the one, the only…:
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