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WHO CAN EXPLAIN THIS? Shouts Comedian Jimmy Dore's YouTube video storefront.

::raises hand slowly::

MeeebbbeeeetheyarertryingtorunanArmageddonOperationbasedonBibleComicBook.

::gets whacked::

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I think you are very right.

I still can't envision them actually sitting there actually concretely being planning this, or, I can, and it may be necessary and useful for them, but it still seems so childish, but then, they do have to stoop so low, because their material riches and their physical safety do depend on them doing it.

Actually, to me that doesn't look very sovereign and free, on the contrary it looks very driven by constraints, really exactly like the spectacle that Royal Families are forced to plan and enact every single day of their quite unfree lives. The Royal Families spectacles are the same thing in miniature as the other thing on a much larger but equally tedious scale. Quite evidently they are forced into these eternal recurring, intellectually daycare-level activities. I mean, that plotting and scheming has no novelty appeal to them, it is so much the same all the time... Tantalizing and humiliating, a hamster treadmill that they cannot leave. I guess they want to leave it, though, and to finally be able to do so, they first would need to remove the threat, which is what many of the projects are about. They are not choosing to act as they do. They feel forced to. And they resent us forcing them to that planning table.

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