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Zippy's avatar

But who or what is going to generate and wield this wisdom.

The current benighted crop of politicians and their think-tank trained advisers on both sides of the culture wars spectrum in the US! I think not.

There are dozens of such right-wing think tanks associated with and supportive of this power-and-control-seeking project http://www.project2025.org They are listed on the site. The contents and aims of its Manifesto are also described in great detail

.Power sooner or later corrupts those who wield it. And of course absolute power corrupts absolutely whether dramatized by secular or so called religious authorities.

The extreme concentration of power now resides in the US military/industrial/"entertainment"/complex". Its death saturated "values" are now being dramatized all over the world, and indeed have been done so since the end of WW2.

The US is now a permanent warfare state. Its continuing prosperity depends on this situation.

McLuhan told us that the "medium is the message".

What kind of message do "beautiful bombs" communicate?

What kind of message does a military base communicate?

There are hundreds even thousands in the US, and at least 800 or so all over the planet. The US has a military presence in almost every country on the planet.

Military bases generate a powerful psycho-physical force field. Join them together all over the planet and you get a super powerful collective psycho-physical force field.

The US has been bombing Islamic countries almost (and most probably) on a daily basis since the end of the first Gulf War.

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Læwis's avatar

You don't weild wisdom it merely is, power is weilded. If you want more reading material as to the situation in the British isles proper I'd suggest going over to Anti-politics on substack which covers this, the right and the left in the Anglo - Sphere are all descendants of Trotskyism.

https://open.substack.com/pub/antipolitics?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=ga0u4

To answer the two questions you put in;

1. "Beautiful Bombs" obviously is to demonstrate 'I have a big stick, so sit down otherwise you can have some'.

2. The bases are a means of projecting power and influence from the heartland of the Empire.

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