NPC Outrage Machine

 A whole bunch of people put yellow and blue colors on their social media profiles and have an opinion about the war in Ukraine.

Virtually nobody has an opinion about the war in Yemen.

The scenario is virtually identical. The Saudis are waging war against a small neighbor to prevent a hostile force (Iran) from having a base of operations. The USA is backing the Saudis with material and advisors.

Civilians are suffering from the conflict.

The war has gone on for years. A poor country has held the "western powers" and Saudi arabia at bay for a long time.

It is really interesting to compare the outrage in the two cases among western NPCs. How does it really work? There is regular reporting on the Yemen war in the media. So what actually turns on the outrage in the vast NPC population?

I think it's probably Hollywood and popular entertainment like the late night talk shows. Those products tell the really dumb people how to think. They model the behavior.

Ukraine and Yemen

The war Saudi Arabia is waging on Yemen is virtually identical to the war Russia is waging on Ukraine. Nobody is outraged about it and there are no sanctions against the Saudis. The USA and Britain are directly involved backing the Saudis against their poor neighbor. Civilians died from the conflict and from famine and other causes.

Nobody cares. Nobody has little Yemen flags on the faceberg profiles. Why? Because nobody on NPR or on the news told them to care.

Secret Society Scams and Top Down Philosophy

 Many corporations are organized like secret societies. Financial information is a closely guarded secret. A worker is left in the dark about how much they produce for the company versus how much they make for a salary. Only an inner circle of buddies has the big picture, and make far more than they produce and they all get relatively rich compared to the worker slaves. The workers accept these circumstances as "normal".

That pyramid structure propagates all the way up. The wealthy executive at some local company is poor compared to the scammers at the financial institutions he deals with, and they're poor compared to the oligarchs.

The "top down" philosophy consciousness shapes their minds. Fame and glory can somehow be obtained, like it is for the gods and heroes and so they chase it, then learn, no it can't be--they can only sacrifice their life's energy for "the organization" and its glory and fame. If they're a super stooge and advance its interests via scams and schemes they will be advanced and celebrated.

Top Down vs Bottom Up Philosophy

A philosophical tradition that emphasizes a "bottom up" understanding would focus on fairly mundane details of life. Let's take something absurd--how we clean our teeth--as an example. Doing that small act well, and in a mindful way, and understanding how it fits into the natural order of things would engender a specific way of experiencing and thinking of the world. Let's call that a "mind pattern".

A philosophical tradition that emphasizes a "top down" understanding would focus on the big and heroic view. Teeth cleaning would be an after thought. It would not be considered part of the philosophical tradition at all. The mind pattern would be completely different--probably totally restless and wasteful by comparison.

Think of the heroic gods of the classical world pantheon, like Zeus or even Norse gods like Thor. Note that there's not really a Zeus equivalent in the Norse tradition, which is pretty interesting. Odin is the All Father, but he's not like the Autocratic Zeus. Those "heroic" gods are top down entities, obviously. They are larger than life humans, basically. The super-aristocracy. The stories and tales of the gods and heroes will lead people to view their normal life as mundane and worthless. Emulation of the heroes and gods would mean pursuing unusual and extreme ways of life.

A philosophical tradition that focuses on manners and small ceremonies and is enmeshed in the world like the Shinto traditions of Japan would engender close to the opposite mind pattern and outlook.

Animism as Antidote

I think "animism" is the philosophical understanding of the world that's natural to humanity. The basic idea is that everything has a spirit, including animals, rocks, and trees, etc... Animism is really not a "religion", which is really the great thing about it. It's potentially an antidote to "organized religion" and its deleterious effects.

Think about the promise and belief of "christian nations" versus the practice for example, especially in European history. It's a slaughterhouse of horrors. Modern europe is the worst: WWI and WWII were mechanized slaughterfests. The nations of the western world are corporation dominated entities lorded over by literal psychopaths: human robots. The big goal of many of the "leaders" of the western world is to borg-cube the planet. They want to rewrite the inconvenient natural plan with their own schemes.

The religions of the "abrahamic" tradition are basically corporate entities; they're like the "policies" of some shitty corporation. They fabricate and mold people to serve as cogs in the machine. "Judgement" and "sin" and all that are an assault on the psyche and being of masses of people.

Animism as a philosophical antidote to that and is a doorway to connection to the real-world and nature. Certainly those ideas could, and have been hijacked to promote a hive-mind agenda, as in Imperial Japan, but perhaps individual practice and subjective experience of connection to nature could offer some protection against oligarchical subversion and domination.

They're All Bad

Biden is calling for "Regime Change" in Russia.

The "elite" trash in all countries are white collar criminals, at best, but are often thugs and gangsters.

The "elite" in DC are a garbage pit. They're bribed, blackmailed employee henchmen.

Hopefully the common people can get a clue at some point, but I doubt it's going to happen.

Russia "pegged" Ruble to Gold

 Supposedly Russia just pegged the Ruble to gold... not totally, but more thoroughly for sure than any other currency right now. The price was 5000 ruble per gram.

Russia is not taking payment for gas from hostile countries in funny-money like Euro or USD. So they'll have to buy Rubles or gold... I have no idea what the impact is, exactly. It's hard to predict.

That's all huge news and a huge change in the global economic landscape.