‘The world has changed, I feel it in the water’.
– Galadriel – The Fellowship Of The Ring circa 1999
Was the Elf queen in Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings speaking as a disgruntled femminist with a urinary infection ?
‘I will respond militarily to Russian cyber attacks’ – Hillary Clinton. 2016
Was the Democrat candidate for president speaking as a disgruntled femminist with a urinary infection ?
For Generation Z who missed out on the USA v USSR cold war, the horror that this kind of situation could return is difficult to communicate.
In 2012 during his presidential campaign debate with Mitt Romney, Then president Barrack
- Obama Joked that the 1980's had called and asked for their foriegn policy back.
In responce to Romney’s assertions of Russia being a threat
In April 2012 Joe Biden used a similar attack line in a speech.
The then Vice President said. “Look, I think it’s fair to say when it comes to Russia, … Governor Romney is mired in a Cold War mindset.” – Wall Street Journal
Ten years ago the head honchos of the US democratic party, (no less than the present and former democratic U.S. presidents) shrugged off suggestions of Russia as a foriegn foe as laughable.
As of date of this artical publication October 24th (the date Frodo arrives in Rivendell) 2022 we are being told the west is at the brink of war with Russia.
It seems the 1980's does not want its foreign policy back.
The one policy to rule them all.
The culture war for Gen Z had grown up by 2016 and approaching voting age.
In 2001 the WTC twin towers in New York were destroyed, by cosmic coincidence the following year Tolkien’s adapted ‘The Two Towers’ was released in cinemas around the world.
The War Against Terror [or T.W.A.T. as journalist Victor Lewis Smith satarised] loosely mirrors the men of the west versus the Islamic hordes of Mordor (Iraq/Afghanistan/Mordor)
2001 WTC twin towers attack
2004 Facebook launched
2007 iPhone launched
2008 Obama elected
2010 Game Of Thrones airs on HBO
2013 Nelson Mandela R.I.P.
2016 Brexit & Trump
2018 Apple becomes the first one trillion dollar company.
The election of Barack Obama the first black president was in part a cultural reaction to T.W.A.T. The War Against Terror
Obama (one letter divorced from Osama) as a symbol was the biggest statement ever made by the US voting public.
At the end of two terms those most disappointed with Obama were former supporters such as Rev Jesse Jackson who enquired “can someone please crush his nuts ?”, after more drone bombings more deportations more whistle blower prosecussions Obama’s legacy was that of symbolism over substance agreed by many of his critics on the left.
After Obama’s stint, few people are aware today that the Hilary Clinton faction did everything possible to encourage Donald Trump to succeed from amongst the pool, as the Republican’s presidential candidate to run against for 2016. Hillarys team believed that as a political rookie and media gargoyle he would be the least difficult to confront in the political arena. The least experienced.
It would have been impossible for him to have won in 2016 if a significant number of marginal voters who voted Obama had not MAGA’d up.
With Brexit, Covid, Trump, there are too many plates spinning, too much social division, too much social distance for a cohesive narrative. The big social trauma events happened they are not as clearly defined as The Trauma of 1945
For Gen Z born post 9/11 – Iraq War, a generation who has never known a world without Facebook, iPhones & Instagram, a generation who never breathed a sigh of relief for the end of the cold war, is it fair to allow political figures to reconstitute old playbooks for domestic political convenience. Post Obama / post cold war.
BLM & The classic Russian adversary repackaged ?
From Russia with Love HRC
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For a fat greedy entitled bastard like Donald Trump, so reviled by his opponents. Hatred of him more than anyone should be pure and unadulterated. From the heart and sincere.
So why then was it necessary for an expression of hatred for Donald Trump to be polluted with such exotic unlikely fantasies of him as a Russian agent ? If greedy Donald Trump was literally a white supremacist wouldn’t somebody have noticed sooner ?
Not even gossip rag National Enquirer could spin such oxymorons .
“Black child molester Michael Jackson, – baby sits – for kids of white supremacist Donald Trump”
Not even gossip rag National Enquirer could spin such oxymorons .“Black child molester Michael Jackson, - baby sits - for kids of white supremacist Donald Trump”
King of Pop babysits at Trump Tower
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Wasn’t part of the concern about Trump his ultra patriotism, nationalism ?
..but Russian ?
He’s a racist against China ?
..yet a life long fan & acolyte of Chinese general Sun Tzu?
Art of the Deal / Art of War.
Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings provide much more satisfying meta narratives for world events than regular news journalism.
Political figures are polarised where as Jamie Lanister maime’s kids by throwing them out of windows, commits incest with his own sister yet its still possible to see his heroism defending Brienne of Tarth.
As good a writer as George R.R. Martin is, it is unlikely that real people are less complex than his imagined creations.
In the disappointing finale of Game of Thrones, heroic warrior queen icon Daenerys Targaryen oversteps and her ambitions drive her to attack a city with dragons.
She is having a Hillary moment.
As if to emphasize the unasked question…
Regardless of our disdain for public figures, is it wise to indulge their rivals with support for any effective attack regardless of the consequences ?
Hillary Threatens Nuclear “Drakares”
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If Russia can be purely used as a back and forth meme smear in domestic political affairs in 2016,
….what does the world look like in 2022 ?
Donald Trump appeared to incite Russia to hack into and publish Hillary Clinton’s private emails,…..
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” he said. – The Guardian
Although clearly taking the piss Trump had made the rookie mistake the HRC faction had been waiting for.
The – Lanister like – Trump was a Russian agent.
Not even stopping for one moment to consider the absurdity of publicly outing himself by making a request to his Russian handlers openly !
Had he lost their phone number ?
One mistake to bind them all
Now Julian Assange was also a Russian asset !
Wikileaks had squealed Hillary secret emails.
..also any future assholes were Russians anyone I don’t like.
Tulsi Gabbard.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/18/politics/hillary-clinton-tulsi-gabbard/index.html
If ever there was doubt that Russia was being recklessly and disingenuously used as a smear, the out of court settlement for Tulsi Gabbard’s lawsuit against Clinton is the most obvious example.
The Hunt for Red October becoming reality in this bizarre cosplay ?
https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/russian-nuclear-submarine-armed-missiles-7669967
Marxism has always been an effective stand point for criticism of the capitalist west yet political playas are not always married to their ideologies.
The word for thinking one race of humans is superior to others.
Racist.
What is the word for people who don’t think one race is superior, yet think its okay to use race issues to gain power and are even prepared to sow race war and dissent among people to achieve it ?
We need a new word
Racite ?
Although there had been huge disappointment for those who supported Obama’s Hope & Change platform it seems in the symbolism / substance stakes, the symbolism is still mightily important.
To some degree voting masses see thier choices at the ballot box as 'spiritual leaders'. For the majority grinding out a living day in day out wishing for a better life for those less fortunate
The idea of a privileged – prick like – lanister like – Trump being awarded power regardless of his motives is a spiritual burden difficult to bear.
The same mass majority may only realise too late that the Trump – Lannisters old rival ‘Hillary Targearian’ & ‘Walder Frey Bidden’ are prepared to burn the world and the masses to stop it.
The very needy in the poverty stricken parts of the world will get much worse out of World War III than a Trump presidency but the way the Game of Thrones is being played they might get both.
Gen Z is born into an information War
Reality is spinning.
