In the wake of my previous blog, I ponder: Hmmm, China is running and domineering a self-devised, world-wide belt and trade road infrastructure initiative claiming it would be a win-win for all parties involved. Hitler devised the Autobahn initiative as an infrastructure project in preparation of a high-speed military assault on neighbouring countries whilst signing non-aggression treaties with them, all of which he broke. The CCP Government is now beating its chest, threatening and belittling Australia for cancelling its involvement in the belt and road project, calling the move a ‘suicidal attack’. My mind visualizes ‘Goliath the Giant’ performing the same sort of ‘Monkey Dance’, just before he was killed by little David. Can you see a picture emerge?
World of Empires
Lacking self-confidence, people often endeavour to build empires and they spend the rest of their lives defending them by keeping their gates shut whilst indulging in self-praise, trying to silence any challenge. ‘Closed shops’ (workplace empires) are plentiful, where bad organisational and behavioural habits are guarded with passion. This phenomena appears in all sorts of fraternities, cultural institutions such as sports and the arts, various action groups and in exclusive clubs, where rank & title are misused to the point of emperor status. The most deranged of them all would have to be those who form gangs or cults, criminal or terrorist, including state terrorist, empires. The purpose of an empire is to conquer, rule and exploit. This is an ambition born of mental weakness, suffered by those who cannot even conquer their own mind. The desire to rule signifies fear and insecurity. Imperialistic establishments operate like a virus. They return in various forms of disguise, from the socially intimidating, via economically oppressing, to militaristically violent and are led by fake angels posing as saviours and heroes. Imperialistic dictators often meet a miserable demise, as in the case of Caesar, Hitler, Saddam Hussain, Bin Laden, Gaddafi and others. Yet today we have people following in these tyrants’ footsteps, approaching their ‘D-Day’.
On a non-violent plain, we’ve seen emperors suffer a slow psychological death in complacency, accompanied by progressive incompetence, unaware their empire is crumbling around them.
Dictators habitually grant themselves extraordinary rights and powers out of fear of exposure, because they are unfit to govern under democratic and moral law. It doesn’t require much skill, courage or knowledge to seize power in deceiving the masses. Therefore, dictatorship and imperialism are a form of weakness and incompetence.
The wise conceal their capacity to strike. Only the weak and powerless feel the need to impress or threaten with displays of force, hence a dictator’s military parade signifies nothing more than a teenage monkey dance, in short, it is pure bluff.