There is no other form of democracy than the one in which every person’s vote counts equally. That is anyway something which has not happened since Ancient Greek times.
We are living in the illusion of democracy, and that is because men still acts like cattle and bows to his slaver.
All of this is anyway about to change.
Here I try my rusty Italian, tanto va la gatta al lardo, che ci lassa lo zampino.
Very close 😊 "Tanto va la gatta al lardo che ci lascia lo zampino"
For those who do not understand Italian, anyone who repeatedly does an action that he wants to keep hidden, is eventually likely to suffer the consequences, or what goes around comes around. Thank you! I keep hoping 🙏 now would be good.
Thank you for your post as well. I was trying to get through notifications in my email earlier and became distracted (which happens often with all the chaos).
Yes, the rubberband can only be stretched so far before it breaks.
Did some corrections so what I wrote should be more readable now.
meanwhile, mysteriously I am no longer able to see or use the Substack feed showing my subscriptions posts, strange enough is that I could still use it till I posted my latest one.
Anyhow, please comment and share as it seams I am somehow being shadow banned.
That is strange on your feed but Substack has many glitches. I can not see this last post of mine on my "activity" on my profile, even though I selected an "author". There is always strange things going on with Substack. I hope you are not shadow banned.
I will try but it is not that easy 😉. Italian "proverbs" literally translated often make no sense unless you are Italian. “O mangi questa minestra o salti questa finestra" means take it or leave it but literal translation is "eat this soup or jump out the window". The good news is you can get by with hand signals and need no words 😅.
If 51% of the People decided We all should sacrifice Our firstborns to the milkshake God, in a democracy, 49% would have to do so or have consequences...
Before I read that, I don't want to be "governed." I am more interested in something more like anarchy. I don't want anyone telling me what to do or not do, unless it is obviously hurting someone. There are better ways than "govern-ment," and I look to the American Native Peoples... the Hopi were pretty cool, and many other tribes. They had COUNCILS of elders... I want to see localization. Good stuff.
Imagine this: If the Chief saw that one of his tribe needed a horse, then the Chief would GIVE HIM A HORSE, of his own herd. Not that simple, but yeah, the ones who were leaders were responsible for their people, not the other way around. ^_^
I downloaded this and will read it over time... I spend soooo much time online and I am back to using this effing laptop, so I have to get very close to the screen.... Blah blah but the trouble is, my eyes are getting blasted...
That all said, I'll read it!! I want to! I'm going to get my desktop puter out of storage soon and that will be Mo Betta! xo xo
Those robots, who do what nobody else wants to do... who makes them? What do they do? What are the things that nobody else wants to do? If we all do what we love, who will do what's left over?
Well in the USA since they are deporting all the immigrants (except Ellen Musk), they are going to resort to child labor🦧 which is really funny since every fking person in the US came from immigrants unless they were native Americans
Zackly. And I LOVE that I have a weeeee tiny bit of Cherokee in me (and an even tinier bit of Choctaw) ! Those are probably the blood cells that make me FURIOUS...
And People who WANT to do hard work and get Their hands dirty are welcome to it. But People like Me, elderly, disabled with bone spurs in thumbs and such, We too will live richly, and have robots to do the work We cannot - or People who love to do it.
Forcing Us all into a mold is a poor choice, anti-freedom… I have a novella I wrote and posted the chapters here, illustrating what it would look like…
Well, I'm not interested in FORCING anyone to do things they can't or don't want to do... There's always younguns, and older of us, too, that will do stuff... I tell you, I can be as lazy as anyone... for a while. My body wants to MOVE. Or dance! ;) Hugs, AS.
That's why direct measurements and targeted actions are needed..
We don't want equality we want equity.
The people should share a common goal: betterment people, all people. The sense of self must be the collective. The individualism here is the problem (with here). We must be taught from birth to love and cherish our greater community our greeter self beyond all else. Then our thinking is in harmony also.
Humbly, I disagree. Though I agree that We should embrace the Betterment Ethic - looking for ways to make things better for Those around Us and around the globe and creating them - Individualism is not the problem, and "collective" implies a collector. Some "authority."
I encourage Us to be taught that Ethic, but also that We Individuals are sovereign. Along with the three Laws of Ethics. They are the only Laws...
I think we would do well to keep our RELIGIOUS ideas to ourselves. Talk about a DIVISIVE factor... It's time we behaved as grownups, and not fighting over things we're absolutely SURE of, but can't prove...
You are most welcome, thank you Susan D. for reading. We have to find a way out of this mess. It will not be easy upsetting their money laundering schemes in the West.
I was studying up on al-Qadaffi, or whatever the correct spelling is, there seem to be hundreds... Anyway, I was very intrigued with this fellow, he was so unlike the leaders I was/am familiar with, in the West (Stolen) world of "democracy." I thought he was a hero! And he WAS. Now I can read his own book. ^_^
This is what we wanted our united nations to be. Instead we started a war. It turns out, this is what America miss adamantly opposes.
China practices the largest scale direct democracy to have everg existed on earth. Hard to believe right? But it's true. They have civil servants who's sole task is to go to even the most remote villages and communities, spending many months or a year living with the people and taking analytics to measure the quality of life and needs and then bring back the reports to adjust policies funding and programs until the people are happy. There is even a national hotline to call and report any aspect of life where there is need. Both individual and collective.
It really works..it's not some big bureaucracy of red tape it's simple quick and concise. Data doesn't lie and the people get when they need.
That's another form of direct democracy. The public appeal for Xi Jinping and the CPC reflects it.
And that's another thing America opposes: high approval ratings. It immediately slanders and claims that it's corrupted. But xi Jinping launched the greatest anti corruption campaign as his first and it's important issue. ..
Ten parties generally agree because they are on the right track and share common goals, the peoples goals.
Omar Gaddafi did things similarly. His direct empowerment of the people somehow threatened America. It's the same story again and again. Look at the never ending war on Communism... Islam inherently shares the same brotherhood/sisterhood/ collective sense of self thus it's the best tsrget.
Collective self and string community are the thing that America is most threatened by. Don't ever forget it.
That comes acceptably close to my definition of democracy; which is why I wrote some 60 articles for Mathaba News, which was an off-shoot of the Green Book. I have always been a supporter of Ghadafi and, before him, Patrice Lamumba; as today I support Trarore, Goitre and Swazi of Sahel Nations and Ghana. As usual, Chi, we are on the same page.
Well, maybe I can apply those lessons.
Thank you Adam 🤗
There is no other form of democracy than the one in which every person’s vote counts equally. That is anyway something which has not happened since Ancient Greek times.
We are living in the illusion of democracy, and that is because men still acts like cattle and bows to his slaver.
All of this is anyway about to change.
Here I try my rusty Italian, tanto va la gatta al lardo, che ci lassa lo zampino.
Here my latest one “under progress”
https://mywisdom.substack.com/p/the-palestinian-holocaust-2023-2025
Thank you for sharing
Very close 😊 "Tanto va la gatta al lardo che ci lascia lo zampino"
For those who do not understand Italian, anyone who repeatedly does an action that he wants to keep hidden, is eventually likely to suffer the consequences, or what goes around comes around. Thank you! I keep hoping 🙏 now would be good.
Thank you for your post as well. I was trying to get through notifications in my email earlier and became distracted (which happens often with all the chaos).
Yes, the rubberband can only be stretched so far before it breaks.
Did some corrections so what I wrote should be more readable now.
meanwhile, mysteriously I am no longer able to see or use the Substack feed showing my subscriptions posts, strange enough is that I could still use it till I posted my latest one.
Anyhow, please comment and share as it seams I am somehow being shadow banned.
That is strange on your feed but Substack has many glitches. I can not see this last post of mine on my "activity" on my profile, even though I selected an "author". There is always strange things going on with Substack. I hope you are not shadow banned.
I am reading your post now and sharing✊🇵🇸
Yes, it started after my third last post , than my views dropped and my posts begun disappearing from the app.
Sorry for having a bit disappeared from Substack, Now I’m back. Thank you for your posts and for keeping us up to date.
Shit is goin' on. I see it, too.
I understand SS went broad scale, as it were... now it's one of the "big boys" spots... Not sure I'm happy about it, either...
💰
Ciao, SS-- Hope you are doing well. xo
I agree! With all that ^ ;) Ciao, Bella, and -- teach me Italian, ya lo hablo el espanol! xo xo
I will try but it is not that easy 😉. Italian "proverbs" literally translated often make no sense unless you are Italian. “O mangi questa minestra o salti questa finestra" means take it or leave it but literal translation is "eat this soup or jump out the window". The good news is you can get by with hand signals and need no words 😅.
Direct democracy makes so much sense and is, well, actually democratic. Thanks for posting, Carina.
Most welcome Diana, thank you for reading✊
We have to find a way out of the situation we all are currently trapped in.🙏
If 51% of the People decided We all should sacrifice Our firstborns to the milkshake God, in a democracy, 49% would have to do so or have consequences...
I prefer a solutocracy.
Solutocracy – A Way to Govern (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/solutocracy-a-way-to-govern
Thank you, I have it bookmarked and will read as soon as possible. I am reading Sol’s latest post at present.
No rush. [smile] Another piece I recommend - and again, take Your time - is:
https://christophercook.substack.com/p/politics-misery-pursuit-happiness
I liked this, too.
Before I read that, I don't want to be "governed." I am more interested in something more like anarchy. I don't want anyone telling me what to do or not do, unless it is obviously hurting someone. There are better ways than "govern-ment," and I look to the American Native Peoples... the Hopi were pretty cool, and many other tribes. They had COUNCILS of elders... I want to see localization. Good stuff.
Imagine this: If the Chief saw that one of his tribe needed a horse, then the Chief would GIVE HIM A HORSE, of his own herd. Not that simple, but yeah, the ones who were leaders were responsible for their people, not the other way around. ^_^
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-malatesta-life-and-ideas
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/amaterasu-solar-the-third-option-anarcho-abundancism?__switch_theme=1
Great-grandfather?
I downloaded this and will read it over time... I spend soooo much time online and I am back to using this effing laptop, so I have to get very close to the screen.... Blah blah but the trouble is, my eyes are getting blasted...
That all said, I'll read it!! I want to! I'm going to get my desktop puter out of storage soon and that will be Mo Betta! xo xo
No, I do not use my real surname online.
You are surely wise!
🤗💚 love you! 🐶
That is 100% anarchistic. No controlmind at all. I hope You read.
Well, they say dogs can't read, but I do. ;)
Those robots, who do what nobody else wants to do... who makes them? What do they do? What are the things that nobody else wants to do? If we all do what we love, who will do what's left over?
I had to poke you. ;)
Well in the USA since they are deporting all the immigrants (except Ellen Musk), they are going to resort to child labor🦧 which is really funny since every fking person in the US came from immigrants unless they were native Americans
Unless... We automate the needed work no One wants to do...
The End of (Social) Entropy (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/the-end-of-entropy
Zackly. And I LOVE that I have a weeeee tiny bit of Cherokee in me (and an even tinier bit of Choctaw) ! Those are probably the blood cells that make me FURIOUS...
I know Many who LOVE to create robots, or would if They had the opportunity...
And what will be "left over?" Presently We have 80%+ of Us doing nothing but moving money and overall upwards to the moneyed psychopaths in control.
80% of Us Merely Move Money (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/80-of-us-merely-move-money
Take away the need to push money about and We will likely have more than enough People wanting to do anything creative and the rest can be automated.
I have to say I do not agree with all this automated ideas. Hard work and getting your hands dirty is good for the soul.
And People who WANT to do hard work and get Their hands dirty are welcome to it. But People like Me, elderly, disabled with bone spurs in thumbs and such, We too will live richly, and have robots to do the work We cannot - or People who love to do it.
Forcing Us all into a mold is a poor choice, anti-freedom… I have a novella I wrote and posted the chapters here, illustrating what it would look like…
The Whole Package! – The Abundance Paradigm novella chapter links! (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/the-whole-package
Well, I'm not interested in FORCING anyone to do things they can't or don't want to do... There's always younguns, and older of us, too, that will do stuff... I tell you, I can be as lazy as anyone... for a while. My body wants to MOVE. Or dance! ;) Hugs, AS.
🤗 💜 🤗
Thank you, I was gonna say that, too! ^_^
I LOVE physical activity, work, or play. Feels good for the bod.
That's why direct measurements and targeted actions are needed..
We don't want equality we want equity.
The people should share a common goal: betterment people, all people. The sense of self must be the collective. The individualism here is the problem (with here). We must be taught from birth to love and cherish our greater community our greeter self beyond all else. Then our thinking is in harmony also.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-mutual-aid-an-essay
Humbly, I disagree. Though I agree that We should embrace the Betterment Ethic - looking for ways to make things better for Those around Us and around the globe and creating them - Individualism is not the problem, and "collective" implies a collector. Some "authority."
I encourage Us to be taught that Ethic, but also that We Individuals are sovereign. Along with the three Laws of Ethics. They are the only Laws...
Calling a Legalate a Law (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/calling-a-legalate-a-law
In aggregate We move things.
EDIT to add:
The Betterment Ethic vs. the Slave’s Creed (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/the-betterment-ethic-vs-the-slaves
No, the sense of self is of the SELF. We can be both Self and part of the Collective.
I'm having Star Trek memories, lol.
I don't want to lose my individuality, no thanks.
And I'll add to the comment I just made--
I think we would do well to keep our RELIGIOUS ideas to ourselves. Talk about a DIVISIVE factor... It's time we behaved as grownups, and not fighting over things we're absolutely SURE of, but can't prove...
I am very pleased to peruse Muammar Gaddafi’s The Green Book. Thanks for this.
You are most welcome, thank you Susan D. for reading. We have to find a way out of this mess. It will not be easy upsetting their money laundering schemes in the West.
Encouraging article Carina, I like the forward, solution based thinking.
Thank you Susan
Thank you for The Green Book!!!
I was studying up on al-Qadaffi, or whatever the correct spelling is, there seem to be hundreds... Anyway, I was very intrigued with this fellow, he was so unlike the leaders I was/am familiar with, in the West (Stolen) world of "democracy." I thought he was a hero! And he WAS. Now I can read his own book. ^_^
Thank you again!
Most welcome 😊
https://unshackledminds.com/the-great-muammar-gaddafi-if-the-west-only-knew-the-truth/
This is what we wanted our united nations to be. Instead we started a war. It turns out, this is what America miss adamantly opposes.
China practices the largest scale direct democracy to have everg existed on earth. Hard to believe right? But it's true. They have civil servants who's sole task is to go to even the most remote villages and communities, spending many months or a year living with the people and taking analytics to measure the quality of life and needs and then bring back the reports to adjust policies funding and programs until the people are happy. There is even a national hotline to call and report any aspect of life where there is need. Both individual and collective.
It really works..it's not some big bureaucracy of red tape it's simple quick and concise. Data doesn't lie and the people get when they need.
That's another form of direct democracy. The public appeal for Xi Jinping and the CPC reflects it.
And that's another thing America opposes: high approval ratings. It immediately slanders and claims that it's corrupted. But xi Jinping launched the greatest anti corruption campaign as his first and it's important issue. ..
Ten parties generally agree because they are on the right track and share common goals, the peoples goals.
Omar Gaddafi did things similarly. His direct empowerment of the people somehow threatened America. It's the same story again and again. Look at the never ending war on Communism... Islam inherently shares the same brotherhood/sisterhood/ collective sense of self thus it's the best tsrget.
Collective self and string community are the thing that America is most threatened by. Don't ever forget it.
Qaddafi was a True Leader and Champion of the people!
So unlike most all, left & right, Western Political Scum!
https://unshackledminds.com/the-great-muammar-gaddafi-if-the-west-only-knew-the-truth/
💯
That comes acceptably close to my definition of democracy; which is why I wrote some 60 articles for Mathaba News, which was an off-shoot of the Green Book. I have always been a supporter of Ghadafi and, before him, Patrice Lamumba; as today I support Trarore, Goitre and Swazi of Sahel Nations and Ghana. As usual, Chi, we are on the same page.
I followed Mathaba News when I was documenting Libya. Then it "disappeared" from online after they murdered Gaddafi 💔
My Mathaba editor committed suicide. I think all the genuine independents crashed after 2011. It has taken a long time for them to be replaced.
I am so sorry to hear that @Tony Ryan 💔
Thank you. So many have died in this very long war.