There it is again staring us in the face, the truth that will set us free if only we would answer the call for Revolution! Many of us are already in revolt against the dominant capitalist system, but the neoliberal globalist liars are powerful and mounting evidence proves that they're dedicated to "the common ruin of all," except of course, for themselves and their immediate families hunkering down in the enclaves of wealth, which makes a total revolution on the part of the proletariat the only thing that makes any sense for the rest of the living beings on the planet.
Just heard some numbers that roughly 2% of Ds and 1% of Rs at federal gov't elected positions are from the working class, all others white collar, and of course often very rich. Whose interests do they represent, or even know enough about to care about? Hey, those workers are just getting by somehow, who knows, that's their lot in life, their problem. Things must be OK, now let's cut taxes for Bill Gates. We all know this if we aren't brain dead, but the numbers are extra frightening.
Laws are clear enough, it's what those manipulators of the law (lawyers, members of the most disgraced 'pseudo-profession' in the world) do with it, that makes it nothing but a game. The public has yet to catch on. Best current example is the bloated NYC criminal, who would have been in prison years ago but for the machinations of 'lawyers'. Lawyers are the biggest "enablers of crime" in the nation! When they find it impossible to circumvent the law, they resort to "delaying it", which is what they're doing for Trump, while the courts and the public look on with startling indifference. What staggers the mind, is the extravagant cost of this endless delay of justice, recently reported at over $250,000 PER DAY!!!! Most people would say 'that's impossible'! It's a fact! And we're taught to "respect the law". How's that for topsy-turvy??
I read a while back under "Which professions attract sociopaths?" Lawyers of course. And, doctors, which was interesting at first but made sense when I though about it.
What do you gentlemen think about public defenders and about the lawyers who get and try to keep you out of jail after you are arrested for protesting imperialism and other terrible things?
Lawyers by vocation are not not all bad, in fact most of them may not be, as in anything else - except maybe the vocation of being a career criminal. But, where the good and bad ones are placed is important. The bad ones often do more bad and harm than the good ones do good. There are great and good lawyers, working for a better world, and then lawyers who defend Exxon when they intentionally cut back on safety and people die and the ocean is flooded with oil. There are lawyers who work very hard to keep it legal for pharma companies in the US to charge $600/mo. for lifesaving medications that cost $10 make. I made up those numbers, but something like that is going on. Note that the bad ones placed in service to the powerful have an outsized impact. Also note that if the powerful are doing good things, they don't need lawyers. Their lawyers are only pulled out for duty when the very powerful have done something bad and they're being accused of it, or to go after someone or some group that opposes them, or to pave the way through law for their shady dealings and acquisitions, etc. They don't call upon scrupulous lawyers who want to do "good" when they spill oil, kill people, or rip people off. Plenty of lawyers do good for good people, but the system is corrupt and they have to battle that system which will always attempt to overwhelm them, albeit not successfully every time. You may get out for protesting imperialism, thanks to a well meaning lawyer, but imperialism continues and its lawyers are doing more harm in general than the protesters lawyers are doing good - in a quantitative sense, in the sense that the overall pillage continues when you get out for protesting it. That does not mean you shouldn't protest, it means that the system in this case has dealt with your protest, and absorbed it unscathed. Maybe this being true means we need more protesting, until it can't be easily digested by the powers that be? Taking in the legal profession as a whole though, it's all on a spectrum of course, no all good/all bad thinking is being applied here when discussing the profession or vocation of law. A subject like law or ethics has an enormous scope and as such can't always be reduced to "all X is bad," but examples of this do exist. "All rapists are bad" - OK we can agree on that. Most rapists are bad, but some are good? Well, no. I'll wait for someone to show me a "good" rapist, and by that I don't mean skill in completing the act. "All doctors are good" - no, Joseph Mengele was a doctor.
I'd need clarification on the 'doctors being "sociopaths". True they occupy a "dominant role" insofar as their interaction with the public but is that sufficient to brand them along with the 'pseudo-profesion' of law?? At least doctors can lay a better claim to being a "profession", than can the lawyers.
An article I read in 2023 about sociopaths and psychopaths (an extremely interesting topic) had a list of jobs people in these categories gravitate toward. Doctors being on that list surprised me, too. I did not pursue it beyond that but I assumed possibly because of the hard science aspect of medicine, detached from the patients, and perhaps the ability of sociopaths to continue in the job largely unaffected by the emotions of patients, or their own. If doctors get really emotionally invested in the patients, that could be extremely taxing and draining and the overhead of this along with the work could make the job very hard to bear in many circumstances? A sociopath would initiate treatment to the best of scientific practice and if it doesn't work, goes wrong, families are devastated, patients are distraught, etc,. a sociopath just keeps working unphased. These are my thoughts entirely, not anything I read. A great topic to investigate for sure. Of course, not all doctors or even most would be sociopaths, but perhaps in a greater proportion than other fields, at least the article suggested that. I wish I could cite it, but I did not note the source.
Most interesting to be sure! And not the least because my daughter is a doctor. In fact she has a PhD as well. I can understand the need to be detached from the patient in order to properly pursue the profession but like you, I never thought of DRs. as belonging to that class of people. For instance, it's most difficult to look on the people who comprise the group known as "Doctors without Borders", who go anywhere, at a moments notice, to treat the sick and wounded, often at the risk of their own lives. I'd like to read that article as well! I think I remember my daughter state that you 'learn' to carry on despite the misery associated with the job.
Sociopaths make up roughly 10% of the population from figures I have seen repeated in several places. Also important to note that like so many other things sociopathy and/or psychopathy is on a spectrum. It isn't always all or nothing. Some people have 3/10, some people 7/10, etc. We all have multiple dimensions to ourselves. I think of people who are honest, they "don't lie," but occasionally they do, maybe for what they think are good purposes, but they do lie. People lie constantly, like Trump, but sometimes they tell the truth. Our motivations are often unknown, even to ourselves. We think, but we have instincts. Life is vastly complicated, and we do not fully understand human behavior and consciousness. How do we get a "sense" that someone is good or bad? How does that happen? No one knows. The science and study has not determined this, and it may never.
This comment relates to the early narrative you gave about the Gaza Holocaust (is it not?). My thoughts down the road from this try to envision the aftermath, a colossal pile of expansive ruins, victims buried under the rubble still uncovered,
stench of rotting murdered men women and children, maybe an abomination of desolation from Biblical prophecy. What exactly will story tellers contrive to create an mythology to annul our memories and
emotions this massacre created. What
will happen to the traumatized emotions and
sensations of Americans when this tangibly ends? How will this be handled
by a government that exists as implicated for war crimes and accessory to a genocide. Shame and dishonor come to mind!
Hard Core 'Telling It Like It Is!' Paul!
Paul Street keeps me sane.
There it is again staring us in the face, the truth that will set us free if only we would answer the call for Revolution! Many of us are already in revolt against the dominant capitalist system, but the neoliberal globalist liars are powerful and mounting evidence proves that they're dedicated to "the common ruin of all," except of course, for themselves and their immediate families hunkering down in the enclaves of wealth, which makes a total revolution on the part of the proletariat the only thing that makes any sense for the rest of the living beings on the planet.
Revolutionary leaders and recruits welcome from all strata! Bourgeois class defectors please bring money to help meet expenses.
Just heard some numbers that roughly 2% of Ds and 1% of Rs at federal gov't elected positions are from the working class, all others white collar, and of course often very rich. Whose interests do they represent, or even know enough about to care about? Hey, those workers are just getting by somehow, who knows, that's their lot in life, their problem. Things must be OK, now let's cut taxes for Bill Gates. We all know this if we aren't brain dead, but the numbers are extra frightening.
Opening quote reminded me...
"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
-Jonathan Swift
Laws are clear enough, it's what those manipulators of the law (lawyers, members of the most disgraced 'pseudo-profession' in the world) do with it, that makes it nothing but a game. The public has yet to catch on. Best current example is the bloated NYC criminal, who would have been in prison years ago but for the machinations of 'lawyers'. Lawyers are the biggest "enablers of crime" in the nation! When they find it impossible to circumvent the law, they resort to "delaying it", which is what they're doing for Trump, while the courts and the public look on with startling indifference. What staggers the mind, is the extravagant cost of this endless delay of justice, recently reported at over $250,000 PER DAY!!!! Most people would say 'that's impossible'! It's a fact! And we're taught to "respect the law". How's that for topsy-turvy??
What do you call 400 lawyers at the bottom of the sea?
A good start.
I read a while back under "Which professions attract sociopaths?" Lawyers of course. And, doctors, which was interesting at first but made sense when I though about it.
What do you gentlemen think about public defenders and about the lawyers who get and try to keep you out of jail after you are arrested for protesting imperialism and other terrible things?
Lawyers by vocation are not not all bad, in fact most of them may not be, as in anything else - except maybe the vocation of being a career criminal. But, where the good and bad ones are placed is important. The bad ones often do more bad and harm than the good ones do good. There are great and good lawyers, working for a better world, and then lawyers who defend Exxon when they intentionally cut back on safety and people die and the ocean is flooded with oil. There are lawyers who work very hard to keep it legal for pharma companies in the US to charge $600/mo. for lifesaving medications that cost $10 make. I made up those numbers, but something like that is going on. Note that the bad ones placed in service to the powerful have an outsized impact. Also note that if the powerful are doing good things, they don't need lawyers. Their lawyers are only pulled out for duty when the very powerful have done something bad and they're being accused of it, or to go after someone or some group that opposes them, or to pave the way through law for their shady dealings and acquisitions, etc. They don't call upon scrupulous lawyers who want to do "good" when they spill oil, kill people, or rip people off. Plenty of lawyers do good for good people, but the system is corrupt and they have to battle that system which will always attempt to overwhelm them, albeit not successfully every time. You may get out for protesting imperialism, thanks to a well meaning lawyer, but imperialism continues and its lawyers are doing more harm in general than the protesters lawyers are doing good - in a quantitative sense, in the sense that the overall pillage continues when you get out for protesting it. That does not mean you shouldn't protest, it means that the system in this case has dealt with your protest, and absorbed it unscathed. Maybe this being true means we need more protesting, until it can't be easily digested by the powers that be? Taking in the legal profession as a whole though, it's all on a spectrum of course, no all good/all bad thinking is being applied here when discussing the profession or vocation of law. A subject like law or ethics has an enormous scope and as such can't always be reduced to "all X is bad," but examples of this do exist. "All rapists are bad" - OK we can agree on that. Most rapists are bad, but some are good? Well, no. I'll wait for someone to show me a "good" rapist, and by that I don't mean skill in completing the act. "All doctors are good" - no, Joseph Mengele was a doctor.
I'd need clarification on the 'doctors being "sociopaths". True they occupy a "dominant role" insofar as their interaction with the public but is that sufficient to brand them along with the 'pseudo-profesion' of law?? At least doctors can lay a better claim to being a "profession", than can the lawyers.
An article I read in 2023 about sociopaths and psychopaths (an extremely interesting topic) had a list of jobs people in these categories gravitate toward. Doctors being on that list surprised me, too. I did not pursue it beyond that but I assumed possibly because of the hard science aspect of medicine, detached from the patients, and perhaps the ability of sociopaths to continue in the job largely unaffected by the emotions of patients, or their own. If doctors get really emotionally invested in the patients, that could be extremely taxing and draining and the overhead of this along with the work could make the job very hard to bear in many circumstances? A sociopath would initiate treatment to the best of scientific practice and if it doesn't work, goes wrong, families are devastated, patients are distraught, etc,. a sociopath just keeps working unphased. These are my thoughts entirely, not anything I read. A great topic to investigate for sure. Of course, not all doctors or even most would be sociopaths, but perhaps in a greater proportion than other fields, at least the article suggested that. I wish I could cite it, but I did not note the source.
Most interesting to be sure! And not the least because my daughter is a doctor. In fact she has a PhD as well. I can understand the need to be detached from the patient in order to properly pursue the profession but like you, I never thought of DRs. as belonging to that class of people. For instance, it's most difficult to look on the people who comprise the group known as "Doctors without Borders", who go anywhere, at a moments notice, to treat the sick and wounded, often at the risk of their own lives. I'd like to read that article as well! I think I remember my daughter state that you 'learn' to carry on despite the misery associated with the job.
Sociopaths make up roughly 10% of the population from figures I have seen repeated in several places. Also important to note that like so many other things sociopathy and/or psychopathy is on a spectrum. It isn't always all or nothing. Some people have 3/10, some people 7/10, etc. We all have multiple dimensions to ourselves. I think of people who are honest, they "don't lie," but occasionally they do, maybe for what they think are good purposes, but they do lie. People lie constantly, like Trump, but sometimes they tell the truth. Our motivations are often unknown, even to ourselves. We think, but we have instincts. Life is vastly complicated, and we do not fully understand human behavior and consciousness. How do we get a "sense" that someone is good or bad? How does that happen? No one knows. The science and study has not determined this, and it may never.
Why do I feel when I read your words, that you are speaking my
Sentiments exactly.
Thank you.
And I thought that they were mine. Great minds do, indeed, think alike!!
This comment relates to the early narrative you gave about the Gaza Holocaust (is it not?). My thoughts down the road from this try to envision the aftermath, a colossal pile of expansive ruins, victims buried under the rubble still uncovered,
stench of rotting murdered men women and children, maybe an abomination of desolation from Biblical prophecy. What exactly will story tellers contrive to create an mythology to annul our memories and
emotions this massacre created. What
will happen to the traumatized emotions and
sensations of Americans when this tangibly ends? How will this be handled
by a government that exists as implicated for war crimes and accessory to a genocide. Shame and dishonor come to mind!
when
One of your better, if not the best of your many screeds. Now if only we could get adequate circulation!
Our country is in really bad shape when the only candidates that the major parties can run for President are such deplorable individuals!
Another sign that the American empire is in a state of collapse!