Why we should ignore the news (+ some economics etc)

If it wasn't already obvious I'll elaborate.

Robert Mugabe is in the news. Why? What is news worthy about him? He is arrogant, stupid, careless and selfish - and that is objective fact (imagine if i didn't like him). Zimbabwe is in turmoil because of these facts, that he is supported by equally childish individuals and because the people of Zimbabwe seem to accept him as a leader. The army, police and infrastructure seem to listen to him. As I've noted throughout this blog - government is always illegitimate.

+++quickly to add something. A protest might be that a "country has to have an organiser". But as I've argued also - countries are illegitimate. OK, so economies need a leader as the current crisis shows. Well actually no... the "leaders" are only propping up the system because if it failed it would evaporate the illusion of "a system". Let the "banks" fail - they are crooks anyway!

The law we should have learned from Bible classes is that usury is against God. Originally it meant that no Jew should lend at interest to another Jew. A gift is after all a gift. A policy that still works - never lend anything that you expect back! Well ideas have moved on from such Jews racism (even Jesus had to overcome the instinctive racism he felt as a Jew, "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel" Matt.15:24). I shouldn't blame the Jews for racism the Chinese are just as bad. (Am I being racist? No! I use the very words that the Jews/Chinese would want me to use. I would say (and have said) "show me this thing you call Jewish/Chinese" but you find that really they are no different from everyone else. Mankind has been fully viewed a brother/sisterhood in Europe from around around the late 16th Century - although this still hasn't got through to the power crazed "leaders". So bankers are actually violating a basic law of reality! If we lend our money to banks then we are being embroiled in the same criminality. Sadly tho where do we put our money? Low interest accounts, and ethical banks are the best compromise.

But don't we need banks to raise capital for economic expansion. Why do we need economic expansion!! That pillar of everything today has no answer! Economic expansion can only lead to further environmental degradation, more work and more opulent life styles. All three of these are bad! There is no argument for economic expansion - except (suprise suprise) to maintain the social order that puts the "leaders" in place!

Its a massive circular argument. The reason for leaders is to have leaders. No more and no less. Sadly no-one can imagine living in a world where power is shared. There will always be people being persuaded to back other people for no-reason (which is power) and the pointless struggles for power become wars - economic, racial, religious, political ... ... ...

So Robert Mugable is not only an idiot but he is supported by a brotherhood of equally idiotic "leaders" and a sycophantic press which "must" report everything unbiasedly for reasons of "objectivity" (except they don't have to report this at all - so they are biased in there very existence).

It is the status quo - yet it is meaningless. So best to avoid it.