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John Merryman's avatar

The fact is, there is always going to be that cycle between tradition and renewal.

Greek religion originated in fertility rites, as the young god was born in the spring, of the old god and the earth mother, but by the time of classical Greece, this cycle had given way to tradition and Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus. Which set the stage for Christianity, as the story of Jesus, of royal blood, crucified and risen, filled that need for renewal.

Yet by the time Rome adopted it as state religion, it too had started to calcify and the top down monotheism of the Jewish tribal god served to validate the Empire that was rising from the ashes of the Republic. The Big Guy Rules. With the pantheistic Trinity lost to obscurity.

So, yes, there is some monetized, bastardized effort by the bankers to reduce the world to their petri dish, as everything is reduced to financialization, but the end result isn't going to be anything near what they hope. When you cheat on the foundations of society to put more gold in the penthouse, eventually it does more than just trickle down. In the world to follow, it's more likely their goons will be lording over their various cartels, than the bankers, because the power of the bankers is running the financial system and that is the golden goose being cooked. The function of money and banking is as a circulation system, like blood and the circulation system equilibrate the body. The heart can't tell the hands and feet to go suck dirt, without killing itself as well.

So the real issue is, what can be learned and extracted from this coming contact with reality? There are real lessons to be learned, other than fear and greed.

Some is seed. The rest is fertilizer. Trial and error.

When the going gets tough, downshift.

Darkest before dawn.

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Vivian Evans's avatar

Firstly, thanks - you've again made me grab a dictionary because there was a word unknown to me: 'gauster'. So at least I learned something new ...

Regarding your premise that 'culture' is determined by environment .... well, up to a point. What is lacking though is what I'd call the temporal dimension, in other words: history. It's the history experienced by people which is transmitted to the next generation(s) and which thus form the vital part of 'culture', i.e. Tradition.

It's for that reason that those powers, wanting to create their global 'melting pot', are and have been destroying traditions especially in western countries, even unto the re-writing of history, a subject no longer taught properly in schools or at universities. This is so pernicious because we cannot plan for a future when we don't know where we came from because the 'where we came from' is either denigrated or replaced by 'modern', 'progressive' shibboleths coming from Hollywood in the widest sense. It is so pernicious because we are deprived of the context in which traditions arose: without historical context asking 'why' becomes futile.

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