'As historian François Furet points out, the Vendean population arose not in response to the destruction of the
Ancien Régime, but because of the construction of a new regime they believed to be more oppressive.'
https://www.worldhistory.org/War_in_the_Vendee/
It didn't turn out well. Let's hope lessons have been learned.
These guys are certainly at a different level when it comes to analysis but are they operationally savvy? Can we understand why there has been an obscuring of the soul, a successive deconstruction of education and a war on commonsense now?
It makes this sort of discussion unintelligible to otherwise clever people -
which is most of us.
There's good cause to be cautious about
the celebration of the inchoate. The Spectacle does need to be closely examined so its
glamour can be dispersed, and its nonsense revealed. The vision of a lot of people has cleared over the past number of years.
you have made a great post --i was a little afraid to be critical as i like most people are rarely taken out for a gallop and i was so grateful to Plunkett for his starting of this thread .
Keith Woods does his best to allow a understanding of complex matters and he does on occasion have to use technical intellectual argument/English to successfully isolate the subject matter to deal with the core of it--
but you always know from him --- its regrettable but necessary with him and i replay the section until i get a grasp and i continue .
my amateur contribution here of a lifetime of study of some terrible horse shit and some great material sometimes profoundly experienced while seated on my throne ==the one which flushes some of my bullshit down a drain .
the conscious self is not your soul .
it is not your mind.
it is not your brain .
it does not have your name .
it is not the property of any church or political body and they do not own any part of it.
it is vast -immense-terrifying-humbling -brightness-all knowing --you own precisely the exact same amount as everyone else on the planet .
you share your self with all who have gone before you ---and all who will follow in your path when your body dies .
i once experienced it and i thought i had gone mad as i was 16 at the time,
and what i did not know that this experience is common worldwide amongst young men .
it sent me on a lifetime of searching to discover what i had experienced which lasted for possibly only 40 seconds .
it finally led me to formally study eastern philosophy in particular the Bhagavda Gita which i found heavy going until i got a great translation by an Irishman who gave up two years of his life for humanity and went to live in Majorca until he completed it-- he also admitted after receiving the Nobel prize ---------- ""i fed off the Upanishads all my life".
i made more progress there than anywhere else .
-its title""THE TEN PRINCIPLE UPANISHADS "".
WB Yeats did a wonderful translation from the sanskrit with the help of a sanskrit scholar called Sri Swami Purhoit .
this is described as ---"" IT CONTAINS THE ULTIMATE TRUTH AND THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH LEADS TO SPIRITUAL EMANCIPATION.""
i have not found any source to compete with it ,
and it is not a religion it is not a cult and the greatest reward is ""knowledge of god"".
the catholic church does not hold as a core belief the core belief of Christ expressed in his sermon on the mount that GOD IS WITHIN YOU.
This refusal to believe what Christ believed cost me several years of confusion and UN-necessary wandering to find the truth i was seeking which was in front of my nose but i like everyone else was not allowed to see or hear it.
