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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (145879)	2/6/2019 9:48:23 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217865

re <<It remains a puzzle to me why it is thought bad for USA that people in China work for low pay to make things by the megaton for Americans in exchange for US$ promissory notes which might or might not be worth anything when the promises to deliver are requested.>> ... to quote the coconut on a lot of questions that people bring up, as she is at an age when she thinks she has all the answers, arguments, counters, and counter-counter-debate points, she notes, "let us not go down that rabbit hole" - one cannot help it should the people want more expensive stuff - ignore the eventuality that negative-thrift has inevitable consequences, some intended and others less intended - given that msm together w/ deep-state has for so long been able to steer the crowds down the path to perdition, and now at more accelerated pace, we can but watch & brief the kids have gone off fishing, and I am at workstation doing whatever. I wish I can steer them more than I already have, but am doubtful. I guide them, to pay particular attention to reading, writing, arithmetic, history, tell right from wrong, hang out w/ the good and avoid the bad, and eat vegetables and refrain from junk. what more can I do? I did stay with the brood for 2-hours over a sloooooow breakfast that would normally take me ~10 min, and answered some of jack's questions re building construction.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (145879)	2/6/2019 9:48:49 PM
From: Joseph Silent	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217865

China may have mastered a kind of quiet guile over the ages where it has learned to say one thing and do another, while the consumption-driven USA is trying to perfect a methodology, over a shorter span of time, where it can have its cake and eat it too. There is no guile here ..... just a stick, a kind of rough western sophistication, deceit, and an appropriate language facility. I've been wondering about this other thing: Trump seems to say he wants to pull back from all wars. This is the first piece of common sense I have seen on this subject from any recent president. At the same time he surrounds himself with neocons, smacks Iran and talks about outspending everyone else on missiles. It is all rather bizarre. Whatever strange kind of sociopathy it is he has developed, it has allowed him to "succeed" (if one can think of using that word) ..... and the trick seems to lie in confounding the surrounding players by crossing boundaries (such as convention and ethics) at random times and in random ways. So they find their training puts them at a loss when dealing with him and his somewhat hypnotized base. You start with a hint of this insight. And then you see the first confirmation when military brass (sticklers for a certain system of rules and ethics) run away from him. If the civilian neocons stay, it seems to suggest they share some of this sociopathy with him. Just not as much. The danger is that somewhere a bunch of them are watching him and learning as we speak. In mythological terms, whenever you deal with something that crosses all boundaries, such as ethical boundaries, you are dealing with a "monster" (really, a deity --- or, if you like, an "energy system"). It arrives to teach you something: a lesson, you could say. War is an extreme case of such a monster (yes, it need not be personal) and the experience it brings you can be consciousness-expanding because it is sublime. I think if you were to ask the three military men who just could not take any more of Trump, they will share with you some of what I am so clumsily trying to express. :)