A Lost Wisdom - Ronald Reagan: Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem

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All them that are trained by schools, universities and the massmedia to believe that a hierarchic order is the only possible order of the nature and the world are also fooled; to believe that they need the demands, regulations, bureaucracy, commands and punishments of the (national) state hierarchy to exist.

It is at least hopeful to remember the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan's (1911–2004) First Inaugural Address 20 January 1981.

Here is a section of the speech.

... In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? ...

Text of the entire speech, The American Presidency Project, University of California

Speeches and debates of Ronald Reagan

Banksy's Dismaland - The Western Confusion Exposed

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Banksy's Dismaland is the best thing that has happened since the end of world war two.

Dismaland is all about the elephant in the room that no one talks about openly in concrete terms: the ongoing collapse of the Western world or the Western tradition.

Banksy talks almost openly – only the camouflage of art that must be mystical in the Western worldview – hide or protect the clear message.

In other words Banksy show that we are trained to accept the lies that must protect the cute terror called Science and Democracy.

To get it it is helpful to know that dismal has, for example, these synonyms gloomy and dark. Banksy also calls Dismaland for an Bemusement Park. And a synonym to bemusement is confusion.

On Reuters site there is a nice sideshow: A trip to Dismaland.

In the local news, in the area of Dismaland, Banksy published a manifesto for the exhibition: Dismaland: In Banksy's own words, The Bristol Post, 21 August 2015. Here are some of Banksy's words.

Bertolt Brecht once said 'Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it'. Which is fine, but what if you're in a hall of mirrors and the giant hammer is made of foam? This is the question raised by Dismaland Bemusement Park.
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The fairytale is over, the world is sleepwalking towards climate catastrophe, maybe all that escapism will have to wait.
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Here you're encouraged to consider, not just consume, to look, not just spectate and most important of all – beware of uneven floor surfaces.

And of course the massmedia that usually support the total silence and the established traditions are forced to report about Dismaland.

Edward Snowden Spies and the Law, BBC Panorama 5 October 2015

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Update 21 October 2015

The earlier video is gone from Youtube.



Even if I do not promote any so called political ideology of the Western confusion there is an interesting analysis of the documentary on the World Socialist Web Site: BBC’s Panorama attacks Edward Snowden by Robert Stevens, 14 October 2015.

Earlier Presentation: Edward Snowden: "Nosey Smurf was hacking codename", BBC, 5 October 2015.

Mikhail Gorbachev & Henry Kissinger tries to make some sense (?)

BBC HARDtalk - Mikhail Gorbachev - President of the Soviet Union 1990-1991
First broadcast by BBC: 09 Nov 2014

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev


Interview with Henry Kissinger: 'Do We Achieve World Order Through Chaos or Insight?' By Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Erich FollathDer Spiegel, 13 Nov. 2014


"Kissinger: For the greatest part of history until really the very recent time, world order was regional order. This is the first time that different parts of the world can interact with every part of the world. This makes a new order for the globalized world necessary. But there are no universally accepted rules. There is the Chinese view, the Islamic view, the Western view and, to some extent, the Russian view. And they really are not always compatible."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-henry-kissinger-on-state-of-global-politics-a-1002073.html



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia