Saintpaulia
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Re: Military dictatorship in the U.S.
New member here. Just finding my way around. Noticed this section of the website and within that this thread. It's a bit old now (last post appears to be early January), so maybe my words will fall on not just deaf ears, but no ears at all!
"Still write it down, it might be read
nothing's better left unsaid
only sometimes, still no doubt
it's hard to see, it all works out" - Keith Reid, 1968
New member here. Just finding my way around. Noticed this section of the website and within that this thread. It's a bit old now (last post appears to be early January), so maybe my words will fall on not just deaf ears, but no ears at all!
"Still write it down, it might be read
nothing's better left unsaid
only sometimes, still no doubt
it's hard to see, it all works out" - Keith Reid, 1968
Well, so after reading the thread on "preparing for the Uranus-Pluto square" in World Astrology, I got the impression that this was once again nothing but another astrology site in which the members were blind to what's going on socio-politically. It seemed that their main response to the Uranus-Pluto square was personal.
In my opinion that is precisely the wrong response. The trans-Saturnian planets are not about individuals per se. They are collective planets, or as Rudhyar put it, planets of the collective unconscious. This square is going to be active on a global scale, not just in some person's natal chart!
And then I found this thread. Gosh, here's a thread on the military dictatorship in the U.S. So some people do get it. Cool. Look, I understand the responses above by some members, who sort of poo-pooed the whole idea as some sort of conspiracy theory. My view is that they simply suffer from a very common condition called 'normalcy bias'. They cannot conceive of a future which isn't more or less like the recent past.
By the way, the best quote I've read about conspiracy theories is this one: [FONT=garamond, new york, times, serif]"The only people who call conspiracies 'theories' are the conspirators." Jay Weidner. Anyone who does not believe that there are conspiracies doesn't understand the meaning of the word. All a conspiracy is, is when two or more individuals get together in secret to plan some course of action - period. [/FONT]
What we are seeing today in the West, and particularly in the English-speaking world, is, for lack of a better word, a vast "neo-conservative" conspiracy to create a World government with a single World currency (money) and a World army. And there are some who would say, 'Well what's wrong with that?'. They have visions of Peace amongst nations, etc. It never seems to occur to them that if such fundamental systems were put under the control of a single authority, the result would be tyranny on the grandest of scales.
However, I do not believe that what we have is a military dictatorship in the U.S. The U.S. military is just a tool, one of many, being used by the dictatorship. The dictatorship is fascistic in that the powers in control of it are corporations and central banks. In other words the government is "owned". It is no longer of the People. It is no longer a government under Law.
I believe that this dictatorship is symbolized by Pluto in Capricorn. Pluto is the urge to power and Capricorn is the epitome of the State as a modus operandi. In its worst form the Sign Capricorn can be symbolic of the collective over the individual, which is totalitarianism. Of course the most famous analysis of this condition was George Orwell's 1984.
Hopefullly (for all of us, even those who are still blithely complacent in their ignorance), Uranus is the agent of deliverance; he is the unquenchable thirst of the individual for autonomy and liberty. Man was not made to be a serf or slave to some nameless, impersonal collective excercising unlimited power.
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