This and that, and some news and some more music

 September 06, 2021

Dear friends

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On current events:

It is now pretty obvious that, if anything, I did not exaggerate anything in my (no in-)famous “Will Afghanistan turn out to be US imperialism’s “Last Gleaming”?” article.  Now with so much more coming out, we find out that the reality of what took place was even worse, more shameful, more disgusting and more ridiculous than anything I had mentioned.

The pace of decay of both the Empire and the USA is very rapidly quickening and reminds me of a Jim Jones in Guyana kind of mass suicide, just slower, but no less deadly.

Here is the sad but undeniable truth: if your head is in the sand, your butt is in the air.

I will just add that a lot of the current butt-pain could have been avoided if US Americans were not so darn sure that they are the best at everything by definition, axiomatically.

For a while, delusion does work.  But sooner or later, reality will inevitable come back and bite your butt very, very hard.  For the alternatively gifted, I will say that often stuff which begin in a fun circle end up in a painful cluster (fill the blanks in your head please, not in the comments section!).

Frankly, I am not interested by internal US politics anyway, and neither am I interested in which of the five stages of grief many (most?) US Americans are going through right now.

Until at least most of them reach the “acceptance” phase, they are really best left alone, both for their and our sake.

I wish all those who celebrate the US Labor Day a very fun, joy filled and peaceful day!

Cheers

Andrei

River to Sea Uprooted Palestinian   

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