Unitarya Executive Theory I only heard openly expressed on NPR this morning tho it's been clear this lot assumed it- the leaders whims express the peoples will perfectly & totally, mystically Opposed traditional democratic views- partially imperfectly w/ need of listening
Divine right redux

Taken with this - regime's (a phrase of my old Prof. Dr. Butterworth for all Nation States) Trump's disinclination to ever criticize Putin I see a nascent concept of world colonial homogeneity's: Americas to the US, Eurasia to Russia, Asia-Oceania to China Spheres of Influence, Spears of Destiny

The Navy/Coast guard would have a comprehensive Rainform Ocean Surveillance database to track it Known boats (types), free lancers, ports, routes, destinations all would have id numbers Granular level intell, still subject to civilian law enforcement What is being done is for reasons unstated

I know that this sort of soul decay is not just nostalgism but something infinitely darker Still now I just want to pull out my Tull records & listen to "Living in the Past"

Now fantasies take hold a future w/o working or skilled sub-classes only AI, or a de jure racial caste system Natural law for the natural order Either / Or

More on point, have always thought strong drugs/mass alcohol use (turn of the century U.S.) says something about a (any) culture's underlying structure, rational, rewards, fairness & justness. Reason for being

Not the world as they understand it , they do what they want They sell license, "economic rent", to those that can afford it To those that can't - arbitrary coercion - with extreme prejudice

And I always thought Minor Threat were from here in D.C.

Hey, didn't a fellow mid westerner Tom Eliot once write a poem that began with the words "We are the Hollow Men" Congress 2025!

I almost feel bad that I've never seen it