Hurricane Helene offers a very useful snapshot — will "activists" miss the point in their quest to be "right"?
I’m watching doom-scrolling “free thinkers” ^ dragging out Maui-style talking points to launch yet another conspiracy theory.
On the other hand, I see “the left” using the carnage to “prove” points about everything from police brutality to climate change.
All the while, humans and non-humans are suffering and grieving.
“Are you not embarrassed?” ^ is more like it.
So many laughed their asses off at the blatantly false crisis propaganda in early 2020 but now, they eagerly gobble up any “news” about the hurricane if it corresponds to their personal version of groupthink.
Meanwhile, individuals who felt casually secure a week ago are now living in shelters — wondering how they’ll rebuild their lives.
Humans and animals are traumatized (and worse) but they’re just collateral damage to the elites [sic] — as always.
But those beings are also convenient pawns for the “activists” who exploit their plight to engage in yet more pride-driven confirmation bias.
And… both “sides” see the situation as “proof” that their [sic] candidate should “win” in November!
Are you not f*ckin’ embarrassed?
Have you forgotten Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, or countless other disasters? It’s never about one party or just a few isolated sociopaths.
And it’s not that you have it figured out but the “other side” is comprised of “sheep.”
The Powers That Shouldn’t Be™ don’t care about us and never did. But they so easily get us to chase the red cape instead of the matador.
I’ve written about all this so many times before, e.g.
This time, I’ll share a specific Hurricane Helene anecdote that serves as an effective snapshot of how self-sabotaging we can be.
I know of a guy (let’s call him G) who lives just outside Asheville. His house is high enough on a mountain to have avoided flooding but he is still without electricity.
G wants to leave because (among other things) he’s concerned, that as the crisis continues, the number of looters will increase and become increasingly violent. But if G leaves, he’ll still have to pay a monthly mortgage bill while trying to afford housing elsewhere.
Think about this: We peaceably accept a system in which the bankers decide if we’re allowed to flee from danger.
Of course, major elements of that danger are predictable outcomes of a paradigm that keeps people divided and teetering on the precipice of financial collapse.
So, are we uniting to bring down such obvious evil?
Nope.
Some try but too many others succumb to the flesh by raining down violence on each other while the “relief” resources mostly end up in the pockets of the sinister banks and corporations that create the crises in the first place.
But don’t you dare question capitalism…
Breaking news: Sharing memes (most of which contain fraudulent statistics and feature images unrelated to the subject at hand) with others who already agree with you is not “free thinking.”
Repeating a baseless, self-serving theory doesn’t make you “woke” or a “truther.”
It merely supports the structure you claim to disdain. Meanwhile, actual humans are actually at risk.
It’s not just the mask-wearers who are gullible, folks…
Hurricane Helene could be geo-engineered or caused by climate change or just bad luck. I don’t know — and neither do you.
What I do know is that I have no interest in pretending I have the secret scoop while so many people’s lives are in turmoil and at risk.
So, what I would like to do right now is again encourage you to question what “normal” means when all the inevitable post-disaster calls go out for things to “get back to normal.”
In closing…
Imagine what would happen if we powered down our diabolical devices, stepped away from our counterproductive hive minds, and got outside to breathe, think critically, and interact with real, live human beings — especially those we can help.
And that ^ goes for popular “dissidents,” too.
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Changing the weather? Chemtrails? 5G?
A few years ago, I would not have believed it.. today I think that there is no limit to the insanity of the parasites.
GMO? Cloning? Nanobots that change the human genome ( DNA )????
Messing with divine creation.
THIS!!!!! "Hurricane Helene could be geo-engineered or caused by climate change or just bad luck. I don’t know — and neither do you. What I do know is that I have no interest in pretending I have the secret scoop while so many people’s lives are in turmoil and at risk."
I'm so angry and disappointed at how people are having fun conspiracy-theorizing. I had to leave my life in Asheville behind so that I wouldn't become a target of desperately hungry looters. What purpose does it serve, to speculate about lithium -- except to jerk off one's own ego? At the expense of centering the hurricane victims' need for emotional healing? "LoOk At mE EvErYoNe, i'M sO cLeVeR" Okay but you have no empathy, so shut the fuck up.