U. S. A.! A-me-ri-cah, f--- yeah! - How to rule the world, U.S. style

[Razer]

On 06/18/2015 10:49 PM, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote:
>
> supposedly when the west militarily controls a nation we give them
> democratic choice. When Putin's personal army controls a nation and a
> choice is made to join it to Russia, well, we call that a forced choice.
>
> It's hard to say which one actually happens. Somehow it wouldn't
> surprise me if "the west" was far more ethical than others. That
> either proves good propaganda, or it's just true.
>


>
> "He was harassed, but still he spoke with authority. He was, in fact,
> characteristic of the best type of dominant male in the world at this
> time. He was fifty-five years old, tough, shrewd, unburdened by the
> complicated ethical ambiguities which puzzle intellectuals, and had
> long ago decided that the world was a mean son-of-a-bitch in which
> only the most cunning and ruthless can survive.
>
> He was also as kind as was possible for one holding that
> ultra-Darwinian philosophy; and he genuinely loved children and dogs,
> unless they were on the site of something that had to be bombed in the
> National Interest. He still retained some sense of humor, despite the
> burdens of his almost godly office, and, although he had been impotent
> with his wife for nearly ten years now, he generally achieved orgasm
> in the mouth of a skilled prostitute within 1.5 minutes.
>
> He took amphetamine pep pills to keep going on his grueling
> twenty-hour day, with the result that his vision of the world was
> somewhat skewed in a paranoid direction, and he took tranquilizers to
> keep from worrying too much, with the result that his detachment
> sometimes bordered on the schizophrenic; but most of the time his
> innate shrewdness gave him a fingernail grip on reality. In short, he
> was much like the rulers of Russia and China."
.....
>
> "He was harassed, but still he spoke with authority. He was, in fact,
> characteristic of the best type of dominant male in the world at this
> time. He was fifty-five years old, tough, shrewd, unburdened by the
> complicated ethical ambiguities which puzzle intellectuals, and had
> long ago decided that the world was a mean son-of-a-bitch in which
> only the most cunning and ruthless can survive.
>
> He was also as kind as was possible for one holding that
> ultra-Darwinian philosophy; and he genuinely loved children and dogs,
> unless they were on the site of something that had to be bombed in the
> National Interest. He still retained some sense of humor, despite the
> burdens of his almost godly office, and, although he had been impotent
> with his wife for nearly ten years now, he generally achieved orgasm
> in the mouth of a skilled prostitute within 1.5 minutes.
>
> He took amphetamine pep pills to keep going on his grueling
> twenty-hour day, with the result that his vision of the world was
> somewhat skewed in a paranoid direction, and he took tranquilizers to
> keep from worrying too much, with the result that his detachment
> sometimes bordered on the schizophrenic; but most of the time his
> innate shrewdness gave him a fingernail grip on reality. In short, he
> was much like the rulers of the United States and China."
....
>
> "He was harassed, but still he spoke with authority. He was, in fact,
> characteristic of the best type of dominant male in the world at this
> time. He was fifty-five years old, tough, shrewd, unburdened by the
> complicated ethical ambiguities which puzzle intellectuals, and had
> long ago decided that the world was a mean son-of-a-bitch in which
> only the most cunning and ruthless can survive.
>
> He was also as kind as was possible for one holding that
> ultra-Darwinian philosophy; and he genuinely loved children and dogs,
> unless they were on the site of something that had to be bombed in the
> National Interest. He still retained some sense of humor, despite the
> burdens of his almost godly office, and, although he had been impotent
> with his wife for nearly ten years now, he generally achieved orgasm
> in the mouth of a skilled prostitute within 1.5 minutes.
>
> He took amphetamine pep pills to keep going on his grueling
> twenty-hour day, with the result that his vision of the world was
> somewhat skewed in a paranoid direction, and he took tranquilizers to
> keep from worrying too much, with the result that his detachment
> sometimes bordered on the schizophrenic; but most of the time his
> innate shrewdness gave him a fingernail grip on reality. In short, he
> was much like the rulers of Rusia and the United States."

Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus Trilogy

http://www.american-buddha.com/illuminatus!.toc.htm


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