Joshua Brown (c.1991-2019), father of three, was a key witness in the murder trial of Amber Guyger, a White police officer in Dallas, Texas who killed an unarmed Black man, Botham Jean. She became the first police officer in Dallas found guilty of murder since the 1970s. Two days after she was sentenced to ten years in prison Brown was found dead.
On the night of Friday October 4th 2019 Brown was shot after parking his car at Atera Apartment where he lived. A silver four-door sedan was seen speeding away. His mother says he was shot in the chest and the mouth – but that is disputed.
Toure:
“Joshua Brown’s murder, days after Amber Guyger’s conviction, feels like a mafia hit. Like someone’s trying to send a message to shut the f up. I wonder who is sending the message?”
The NAACP is calling for an “immediate independent investigation”:
“It is critical to public confidence in the administration of justice that witnesses who speak out against police violence are fully protected. The suspicious circumstances of Mr. Brown’s killing should cause great alarm and demand an immediate and piercing inquiry.”
Mayor Eric Johnson of Dallas is less alarmed:
“I trust the Dallas Police Department will conduct a thorough investigation into the death of Joshua Brown. Until we know more about this incident, I encourage everyone to refrain from speculation.”
The Dallas police so far have no suspect and no motive – but have reportedly received loads of tips.
Known enemies: The Dallas police are not the only ones who might want Brown dead. Last year at a birthday party at a club he was shot in the foot.
S. Lee Merritt, a lawyer in the Jean case and now the Brown case, said:
“A lot of people believe, including himself, apparently, that he was the target of that shooting, and he was afraid somebody might come and try to finish the job.”
On the witness stand: When Guyger killed Jean, Brown was right outside in the hall. He heard two voices that sounded “surprised”. He could not make out what they were saying, but he did not hear anything that sounded like a police command, contrary to Guyger’s account.
At one point Brown broke down and cried on the witness stand after remembering how Botham Jean used to sing gospel music and Drake. Brown lived right across the hall from Jean.
Another witness, Ronnie “Bunny” Babbs, never took the stand – she was in hiding!
Hero: As Jason Hermus, the prosecutor, noted:
“He bravely came forward to testify when others wouldn’t. If we had more people like him, we would have a better world.”
Daniel Levy on Twitter (@jstclkdabtn) noticed Brown wore a Dragon Ball Z T-shirt on the stand:
“Hearing the news and then watching the video of Joshua Brown giving his court testimony in his DBZ shirt was heartbreaking. The story of Goku and the Z fighters is all about bravery in the face of evil, defending those weaker than you.”
– Abagond, 2019.
Update (October 9th): Dallas police have three suspects – who apparently drove four hours from Louisiana to buy weed from Brown. The police say the deal went south leading to a shoot-out. Brown has no criminal record, yet police expect us to believe they found 12 lbs of weed at his apartment – and that he is a violent drug dealer, and that he does drug deals right in front of his apartment building. And then on top of all of that they tweeted:
“The rumors shared by community leaders that Mr. Brown’s death was related to the Amber Guyger trial and that DPD was responsible are false. We encourage those leaders to be mindful because their words may jeapordize the integrity of the city of Dallas and DPD. @ChiefHallDPD“
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Abagond 
If they put out a large sum of money reward they would probably produce the killer.
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It’s sad for his young infant son who will never know his father.
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I didn’t know he had three children, I just saw the one young infant. I am sad for his grieving family.
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This is so disturbing and horrifying, it’s like straight out of a crime drama.
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“I trust the Dallas Police Department will conduct a thorough investigation into the death of Joshua Brown. Until we know more about this incident, I encourage everyone to refrain from speculation.” – Mayor Eric Johnson
Oh, … I see, the Mayor can trust and speculate ONLY that the Dallas Police Dept. was not involved. But conversely, and looking at things from the other angle, that passively makes all of the remaining citizens, of the City of Dallas bona fide suspects through mere speculation and that they are all untrustworthy. Contradictory much!
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I remember watching Lee Harvey Oswald being shot and killed on TV. I remember it happened in the basement of the Dallas Police Dept. Some things never change.
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@Otto Carnage
The late President Kennedy ushered in the Civil Rights era at a process that was unprecedented to anything this country ever witnessed. I have no doubt J Edgar Hoover, the then director of the FBI, is the Mastermind behind Kennedy’s assasination. Unfortunately Lee Harvey Oswald was the Patsy.
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The thing is Dallas is such a f’d up city… They got the headquarters of the Hammer Skin Neo Nazis around there and to no surprise the El Paso shooter is a native of the area.
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@blacksage: Our new mayor here is brand new, and he just getting acclimated to his new duties.
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We have the new African American female Police Chief that the Latino Police and probably the white ones don’t like her either. The Latino police officers were calling for her resignation back in the Summer. And the new Mayor Eric Johnson is trying to get acclimated to his new position. Plus there is a shortage of police. Nobody really wants to be a cop. They are desperate for new recruits.
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I don’t even deserve to call myself a nerd anymore. As much time as I spent watching Dragon Ball Z with my young family back in the day, my old head self, the mother in me, couldn’t help but wonder why that young man showed up to court to testify in a Dragon Ball Z tshirt instead of a suit and tie.
And now I know and I feel worse than I did before I knew.
The killing of this young man is so blatant and brutal. It’s like losing Martin, Malcom and Medgar all over again. We’re losing the struggle for Civil Rights.
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@thatdeborahgirl
I have read the comment sections on different sites and Brown’s style of dress was brought up. I thought that was an interesting observation how comment posters many of whom were young people about who the characters were and what they represented, and how that might have been a representation of Joshua Brown’s character. Also the negative comments about Brown’s choice of dress i was guessing was made by posters were made by older people.
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Mary Burrell said: “blacksage: Our new mayor here is brand new, and he just getting acclimated to his new duties.”
I understand that Mr. Johnson was just sworn in to office in June of this year. I also understand that most police departments are under the oversight of the Mayor and others under him at City Hall as well.
Even further, I am aware of the fact that he graduated from Harvard University and actually grew up within the Dallas area.
By the mere fact that he graduated from such a prestigious university, it is also a clear indication that he wasn’t transported to grade school on the smaller school bus,.. for sure.
Well, whatever the political environment may be in City of Dallas, he better shift himself to a quicker acclimatization speed and leave no stone unturned regarding this investigation.
PS: I few years ago, I actually considered moving my family to Dallas, on second thought .. never mind!
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I heard about that, wow…
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That’s definitely not what part 2 is supposed to say.
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Update: Dallas police have three suspects – who apparently drove four hours from Louisiana to buy weed from Brown. The police say the deal went south leading to a shoot-out. Brown has no criminal record, yet police expect us to believe they found 12 lbs of weed at his apartment – and that he is a violent drug dealer, and that he does drug deals right in front of his apartment building. And then on top of all of that they tweeted:
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@Abagond
Nobody believes this story, something is fishy.
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” We encourage those leaders to be mindful because their words may jeapordize the integrity of the city of Dallas and DPD.”
What integrity?
This is just a post mortem character assassination of Brown. Classic smear campaign.
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The shooting from before, he was a bystander. He and some friends were at a strip club. One of the friends were the target. Two of the guys were killed and Brown was struck in the leg. He was afraid the shooters would target him so he moved into the apartments that Botham Jean lived in.
Brown was a professional man and was doing well for himself.
The apartments he and Jean lived in cost almost 3k a month. It was very secured with it’s own parking deck and security doors that only opened with a key fob. Many people who live in the building were shocked by the evidence that suggested his door was open or that her key would fit his lock. The uploaded videos showing how only using their key fobs would turn the light on the lock from red to green when opened and the doors would slam shut on their own unless held or propped open, kind of like hotel doors with key cards. They claimed his lock was broken. Other residents were shocked by this as well considering the rent is almost 3k and a malfunctioning door that neither locked nor closed would be a high priority repair.
It is true that people would end up on the wrong floor because the floors and apartments looked identical. For that reason, many residents would add unique mats and other markers to differentiate their apartment from others. Most people would realize that were on the wrong floor based on this alone.
Brown moved out of his apartment after the death of Botham Jean. He moved to California and only came back 2 days before the trail began. He didn’t want to testify. He was afraid that the people who shot his friends would target him while he was in town. The apartment he was staying in while there on the trial was an Airbnb and not where he actually lived.
The fact that they are trying to paint this as a drug deal gone wrong is horrible. He had no history of this. He was a successful entrepreneur and father. He actually enjoying hearing Jean sing Drake and church songs.
Most of this information came from his friends and family from Facebook comments so I can not cite it. His mother insist he was shot in the mouth and they are basically making her out to be a liar.
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The story the DPD tells sounds like an episode of Power or Empire.
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This idiotic story about a drug deal gone bad makes it clearer than ever that the police are behind it. On top of that, the apparent smear job implies their own guilt. I mean, that is the standard procedure after a police shooting, right?
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The man in blue is a friend to you.👮🏽♂️
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@Kessie
Thank you for this information. It fills in a lot of blanks.
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@ Kessie
Thanks so much for the details.
The question that emerges is how did, Guyger actually gain entry into Mr. Jean’s home that night? In a secure building? With electronic door controls?
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Pity they didn’t know all of this blatant criminality to impeach Joshua Brown as a witness when he was testifying against Guyger. /sarc
Yeah, doesn’t ring true to me either.
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I hope Bunny Babbs is somewhere far away.
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Saw a quote on Twitter that is supposed to be a Malcolm X quote but i am not sure that he’s the author of this quote, but it fits the description of what is happening in the tragic death of this young brother Joshua Brown. “ They will pay one of us to kill one of us, to say it was one of us.” 🤔
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I don’t know if you remember when he was first killed but there were pictures of them together uploaded on Facebook. All of those photos have been scrubbed. Some people saved them but said they are now afraid to post them back online. I remember seeing the photos myself and really was confused by the story. I thought it was a lovers quarrel. I’m sure that the photos can be viewed in some underground online spaces. Remember that Joshua Brown said he heard them arguing before the shooting happened but according to Guyer she just saw a silhouette and shot. I think she had a key.
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@ Kessie
Yes I saw quite a few of those pictures. There was also a rumor that she had a master key card, since the doors were self locking. And lastly, no one will mention her dog. After a 14(?) hour shift, the dog would have surely welcomed her home when she opened the door or if it was unable to, she would have noticed its absence. More holes in this case than Swiss cheeses and just as smelly.
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@ Kessie
Wait, What? Are you saying Guyger and Botham Jean were having an intimate relationship? 😱😨
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Just came across a very interesting news story on The Real News Network from a week ago. The news story, “The Murder of Joshua Brown: Tragic Coincidence, or Something Bigger?”, discusses how the murder of Joshua Brown is connected to a historical pattern of violence against Black people ensnared by the legal system.
The story includes video (15:47 minutes long), audio and a written transcript.
https://therealnews.com/stories/joshua-brown-murder-coincidence-or-something-bigger
Two things jumped out at me during this interview:
➽ the issues surrounding Ronnie “Bunny” Babbs, who according to this article:
No wonder she is in hiding!
➽ how Black desires for self-determination and autonomy are considered “extremist” by the FBI in this definition:
[emphasis mine]
So the autonomy enjoyed by White organizations and communities (fraternal orders, various political and social groups), Asian family and cultural associations and Latinx cultural and social organizations are considered ‘dangerous’ when Black people form the same. Black people decolonizing their own communities is considered unlawful. That is a lot of institutional energy to keep one group at the bottom of the heap and keep the other groups in line.
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@Afrofem
” That is a lot of institutional energy to keep one group at the bottom of the heap and keep the other groups in line.”
This is why I always say that black people should not be confused by the rhetoric of “white supremacy”. Is it really reasonable that they would direct so much effort towards “keeping down” people they truly see as an inherently inferior race? As is often the case with white cultural behavior, the behavior and the rhetoric do not match.
FEAR is an obvious factor here. You put a cage around a lion not a house cat. So our present situation is not about our inferiority but their implicit INFERIORITY COMPLEX and the resulting fear. It subconsciously drives them to create and maintain an environment in which we are relatively powerless so that 1) we can’t hurt them and 2) they can project their negative feelings on to us.
They will never decide to allow black people to exist outside of their direct of indirect control (and I’m speaking from a global perspective, even with the existence of majority black former colonial countries). Their fear is assuaged by the status quo. They feel “safe”. It’s like Erykah Badu sang in “On & On”:
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@ Origin
“You put a cage around a lion not a house cat. So our present situation is not about our inferiority but their implicit INFERIORITY COMPLEX and the resulting fear.”
Well said.
I’ve often thought about the energy expended by Euro-Americans to keep a tight leash on a mere ten percent of the population through:
❍ using drug laws as a pretext to arrest and warehouse millions of Black men and women during their most productive years.
❍ state takeovers of urban school districts when Black students reach a certain threshold of the district population…
❍ followed by mass firings of Black teachers and closing predominantly Black schools.
❍ the strategy of “regionalization”, whereby predominantly Black cities and counties are stripped of valuable assets like airports (Jackson, MS), transit systems (Atlanta, GA) and water systems (Detroit, MI) by the state and control of those assets are handed over to surrounding White majority counties.
❍ the furor over Afrocentrism in the 1980s and 1990s, where White academics went to great lengths to refute the idea that Black people had a past worth remembering.
❍ the constant mockery and attempts to humiliate Black people about their hair textures, hair styles, modes of dress, children’s names, cuisine and language.
❍ the destruction of long established Black neighborhoods, the scattering of Black people (spatial deconcentration) and the violence used to achieve so-called ‘gentrified’ neighborhoods.
If Black people were truly as dim-witted, lazy and immoral as the majority culture claims, there would be no need for all of that constant maneuvering to contain Black people. Like you, I realized some time ago that White overreaction to Black initiative was based on fear of their losing a system that hoists ordinary White people over everyone else. No competition, no culpability and no consideration needed.
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@ Origin
On further consideration, I realize my thought processes and comments about Black containment are way too US-centric. Similar schemes have been deployed globally against Africans on the Continent and the African Diaspora.
African descent people throughout the Diaspora have to deal with:
◇ attempts to erase their history.
◇ negative propaganda depicting them as dangerous, dimwitted and dependent on Global North largesse.
◇ undermining of local sovereignty by international financial organizations (IMF, et al.), NGOs that function as White Jobs Programs and currency imperialism.
◇ violent land clearance schemes designed to make it easy for multi-national corporations to loot local people of their land, minerals and water. Land clearance also has the effect of spurring migration and creating pools of cheap labor.
Containment efforts against Black people in the US are part of global patterns and practices that operate on a different scale but seek the same ends.
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@Afrofem
I came upon this article recently and I just thought I post it here to continue this discussion. It really speaks to the extent white power has been willing to go to weaken or eliminate our inferior race. This is from the “New African” magazine which is a Pan-African magazine based in London and published since 1966. It’s about a confession in a documentary that AIDS was deliberately spread in Africa.
https://www.newafricanmagazine.com/18285/
I was trying to quote selectively but every paragraph was interesting so I gave up. Check out the link for the whole article.
It’s always been crazy how HIV conveniently first targeted those who mainstream white society would have been happy to to get rid of anyway: their own homosexuals and black people. Consequently, many have thought that AIDS is an engineered illness. Biological warfare has been an ancient tool of genocidal white settlers but African populations never collapsed from white diseases the way, say, Native Americans did. Clearly, black peoples’ immune systems kept us in the game. So then a disease conveniently emerged that targeted the immune system and became epidemic in Africa and proportionally more common among blacks elsewhere. The circumstantial evidence was always in favor of bioengineering and deliberate infection.
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@ Origin
That was some article! I wish I could say I was surprised by Jones revelation of a program of attempted genocide. I’m not.
Over the decades, I’ve had people consider me a kook or conspiracy nut because I believed HIV/AIDS to be a laboratory disease. I never bought into the “species jump” theory that had Africans either eating or having intimate relations with monkeys. It all sounded too stereotypical and convenient.
Over the years, any person or publication that challenged the official “species jump” narrative was discredited or utterly silenced. In the early 1980s, an alternative newspaper in Cleveland, OH ran a story about local viral experimentation on gay men. They cited health department sources and spoke of a Belgian connection. At the time, I was bewildered by a “Belgian connection” in a local health department operation. The alternative paper that published the story folded within three months of that article.
It was not until years later that I read that ground zero for the AIDS epidemic was the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Then a Belgian connection became a piece of a very jagged puzzle. I suspected AIDS to be a land clearance scheme developed by neo-colonialists to make another grab for African resources.
Most unsurprising is the response of an Establishment organ like the *New York Times”. Author Baffour Ankomah notes:
If the funding and facilities were international in scope, such a clandestine operation would not be unthinkable. A person only has to think of the nations and corporations that would consider African land clearance a worthy goal to imagine a large scale operation like Jones described taking place.
Origin, thank you for sharing this article.
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@Afrofem.
Yes, the general tendency is to dismiss such such suspicions as “conspiracy theories” with the additional connotation that anyone who would entertain them is crazy. It’s one of the ways in which the official narrative is given weight. Yet the ideas related to engineered weapons/poisons (even ethnically specific ones) was being thought about a decade before HIV/IADS became epidemic.
Here’s a posting at the Army University Press website which recalls a 1970 article in the Military Review which spoke about “Ethnic Weapons”.
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/Directors-Select-Articles/Ethnic-Weapons/
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Now it’s interesting that the article above says that a breakthrough occurred in the first half of 1969 because there’s a record of a DoD appropriations hearing from that year which mentions biological weapons research in a way that actually implicates an acquired immune deficiency.
https://books.google.com/books?id=9QVEAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
The relevant sections is on page 129. The person being interviewed (Dr. MacArthur) had just said that the US was not producing any biological agents at that time. He went on to say:
[Remember that this is in 1969]
In point 2, HIV/AIDS was basically described after claiming that nothing quite like it is known to exist in nature. So it’s quite misleading for any “journalist” from The Times or anywhere else to pretend as if bioengineering of HIV is such an outlandish idea when researchers commissioned by the military were saying, in 1969, that it could be feasible in 5 to 10 years.
Sorry to hijack Joshua Brown’s thread but his unjust death after testifying in a trial in which another black man was murdered unjustly really causes all of us to reflect on how our blood has been spilled, directly and indirectly, by this system and its architects.
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@ Origin
Thank you for that additional detail. Considering the global revolutionary upheaval of the 1950s and 1960s against the European colonial powers, it is not hard to imagine them trying to develop biological and chemical superweapons.
Yet, I’m reminded that everyone has their time in the sun and when their “shine” time ends, they will fade out like all others before them. Nothing they do can prevent that inexorable decline.
Finally, Abagond published a speculative future thought experiment recently in “The Bottle Culture” post.
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2019/09/26/bottle-culture/
That post made me think of how ephemeral our culture is and how it may (or may not) be interpreted by humans or other creatures in the distant future. Even the dastardly schemes of the architects and maintainers of this system will crumble into dust someday.
Whose story will survive and whose will blow in the wind 4,000 years from now?
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@Afrofem
“Considering the global revolutionary upheaval of the 1950s and 1960s against the European colonial powers, it is not hard to imagine them trying to develop biological and chemical superweapon”
Indeed. The Korean War had been fought and the Vietnam war was ongoing at that time. The Vietnam war saw the use of Agent Orange as a defoliant over Vietnamese forests and it also had the effect of poisoning the population and causing birth defects among other things.
There were also undisclosed chemical releases over the United States and Canada in the 1950s and 60s; the population was completely oblivious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_LAC
Anyway, I agree that the system cannot last, despite how entrenched it may seem. In my mind, its remaining lifespan is to be measured in years or decades certainly not centuries or millennia. It’s that unsustainable, in every dimension.
A growth-driven economic model demands parasitic resource extraction from nature which is used to generate an unequal social system. So both the ravaged natural world and the masses are poised to strike at the system. It cannot exist without a natural habitat and the tacit cooperation of people in general.
There are already foreshadowings in the form with numerous protests on the outskirts of the empire [eg. Chile, Lebanon] and particularly severe weather patterns [eg. more Cat 5 hurricanes, extensive wildfires]. Nothing terminal yet, but I feel like the trend is towards more of the above rather than less.
We’re about 2000 years removed from Rome and even though this civilization could be thought of as an extension of Rome, Rome still feels very remote. In twice that time after this civilization ends, it’ll probably be a faint memory of almost mythical status. Recalled, perhaps, as a tragically consummated time of excessive greed and selfishness: a dark age and a proverbial warning.
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BTW, here is another report of the biological weapons testing that was done in the mid 20th century. Many of these had occurred before the 1969 appropriations hearing quoted above in which Dr MacArthur said the US did not have an active biological weapons program but suggested that an AIDS-like infectious disease could be developed in 5-10 years.
https://www.businessinsider.com/military-government-secret-experiments-biological-chemical-weapons-2016-9
So based on my (limited) knowledge of what has been done, I think the notion promoted by propaganda outlets that the rulers are certainly benevolent and that people who suspect them of large-scale wrongdoing are undoubtedly crazy “conspiracy theorists” exploit the public’s naivety. Heck, they even lied to school children that they were being protected when they were being sprayed with germs and toxins. What was the real conspiracy in that case?
Probably I seem pessimistic but I’m not. I allow myself to accept what seems to be the case even if it is unpleasant. For example, I think the context makes it reasonable to think that HIV was engineered in a lab just as nuclear bombs were. So I feel that the system which exists over us is death and I have no hope for it. I have hope for humanity and the goodness that is being masked by imposed hardships and the culture of alienation from each other which promotes dependence on the system.
As Ayn Rand said, “Civilization is the process of setting man free from men”. In other words the “freedom” gained is the ability to be relatively unaccountable to (and exploitive towards) your neighbor in exchange for domination by a inhuman totalitarian system that individuals are unable to reason with or steer [the meatless bone of democracy notwithstanding].
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there is solace for the godless.
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“I have hope for humanity and the goodness that is being masked by imposed hardships and the culture of alienation from each other which promotes dependence on the system.”
Interesting points.
Long time peace activist, Reverend Phil Lawson touched on similar points in a 2013 street newspaper interview. In that Street Spirit article, Lawson observed:
http://www.thestreetspirit.org/a-pastor-for-all-the-people-the-street-spirit-interview-with-rev-phil-lawson/
At the same time ordinary people have been propagandized into atomization, global elites built a virtual community. They have coalesced into a small town. They live close to each other in walled off neighborhoods and impenetrable buildings, socialize almost exclusively with each other and send their children to the same schools. They travel from region to region without restriction while everyone else is treated like criminal suspects during any form of travel—from walking to flying.
It took hundreds of years for the current system to evolve. It may take an equal amount of time to dismantle and replace the current system. There is no guarantee that the next system or the one after that won’t be corrupted and used to oppress the majority of people. It is likely the opposite will occur.
Anything made by humans can be perverted or destroyed by other humans.
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@Afrofem
“At the same time ordinary people have been propagandized into atomization, global elites built a virtual community.”
I’ve noticed this too. For example, almost all of Trump’s children are employed within his organization and benefit from his wealth yet middle class children are pressured to “make it on their own”.
@Afrofem
“It took hundreds of years for the current system to evolve. It may take an equal amount of time to dismantle and replace the current system.”
I actually don’t think it will be dismantled in an orderly way. It’ll simply become impossible to sustain in its current form. Earth will no longer be able to accommodate it, people will no longer be able to accommodate it. This is because, in it’s advanced state, the system is characterized by accelerating social inequality and accelerating ecological destruction.
This is driven by an economic system that demands exponentially increasing profit which is married to an ideological opposition to any redistribution of those profits. The biological analogy would be a malignant cancer. Since it’s growth is at the expense of the integrated system, such cancers eventually become terminal. They simply outgrow the ability of the organism to host them resulting in mutual destruction.
IMO, the extreme ballooning of debt and the financial crisis is actually a consequence of unsustainability. The economic need for growth in profit supports the depression of wages and the drive towards automation. However, after having produced goods and services as cheaply as possible, businesses still need customers. But the potential customers are the broke workers! So easy credit steps in to allow people to consume beyond what their wages would allow so that the system can continue.
However, the 2008 financial crisis exposed the limitations of such a model. Debt obligations are traded based on the fiction that they’ll be repaid. When it becomes all too obvious that they won’t … kaboom. However there was no structural change to the system after the 2008 crisis [banks were simply bailed out] and we’re even more indebted a decade later! Can another crisis be averted indefinitely?
That’s just one angle. IMO, when all the intermingled imbalances interact in such a way as to enhance their negative effects on the system it will be unable to function coherently. So the transition will be forced. I don’t foresee an orderly dismantling; the cultural and economic momentum is too strong. It’ll just continue until it can’t.
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*I have many wrong apostrophes above. Even though my brain knows better my fingers always want to type them, lol. But it’s vs its sound the same so it doesn’t affect meaning too much.
Anyway, this is the latest I could find about the Joshua Brown case.
https://www.fox4news.com/news/3-indicted-in-the-joshua-brown-capital-murder-case
I’m so uncertain about this whole thing, I don’t even know if I should believe what the police are saying about the suspects and how the murder happened.
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I tend to think of the police version of events in Brown’s murder as nothing more than fantastical tales.
They are sacrificing three Black men’s lives to cover their own perfidy.
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@ Origin
Your thoughts on “the system” reminded me of a recent article re: the US healthcare system.
We have hijacked this thread for a bit, so I posted the comment on the Open Thread:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-430942
This has been like a road trip from Dallas to Galveston Bay that somehow ended up in Dakar, Senegal. May as well keep driving to Lagos, Nigeria….
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Yeah, I responded there.
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