Dare To Be Wise: Demand Glass-Steagall

After posting an intervention on X, I am concerned to see many people in the comments replying with paranoia and fear. Precisely this is what's to be overcome.

As Friedrich Schiller wrote, “Dare to be wise.”

During a free-speech intervention at a panel discussion moderated by Hillary Rodham Clinton, held at the Columbia School of International Politics, I did my best to invoke the Immortal Talent of Martin Luther King, Jr., when I asked the ex-Secretary of State to denounce the President’s recent “openly war-mongering, suicidal, idiotic speech.”

Less than 24 hours after being posted on X, the video has garnered well over 1 million views across multiple posts. Many of the people in the comment sections seem to understand that the purpose of taking the risk of publicly exposing oneself to the ire of politicians who show an open disregard for the value of human life is to dispel the imaginary fears that delude people into thinking that such action and free speech is impossible. Freely spoken impassioned Reason is the only antidote for the crisis of democracy we face as a Republic.

Nevertheless, many of the people in the comment section couldn’t help but to continue to reiterate their same fears, clearly not having allowed themselves to perceive the actual message of the intervention. What they express is the half-realistic half-terrified mentality that if someone openly speaks out against the push for war, that person will shortly be covertly executed by intelligence agencies:

But what was the actual message of my intervention? Of course, HRC will not denounce the President’s speech. So she is confronted with her own stupidity and lack of conscience. More importantly, what the intervention demonstrates is that the impotence of the American people is psychological, as much as it is a question of the threat of being physically targeted by government operations.

Just as infantile means, literally, “without speech,” impotence is a lack of potency, and true human potency is human reason.

People are right to be afraid, but they are wrong to allow that fear to stop them from bringing reason to bear on the situation the world faces. If fear keeps reason trapped inside peoples’ skulls, fear triumphs and reason is lost.

FDR: “This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

The point is that there is literally nothing stopping the American people from voicing their opposition to this war; but we must articulate a solution at a higher level than a polarized, tribal, war-like, either/or mentality of Pro-Isreal or Pro-Palestine.

Pro-Humanity is the only sane choice. Pro-Unity at the national and global level.

This higher level can only be achieved when one recognizes that our economy is fatally bankrupt in its current form, and that this financial bankruptcy feeds the increasing moral bankruptcy of our ruling elite.

Yet, there is nothing stopping the American people from beginning to discuss, in goodwill and in all earnestness, how Our economy can be repaired through wise legislation. Nothing except for fear and a sense that there is nothing to be done; both of which are fundamentally illusions.

Illusions intentionally planted in peoples’ minds (including Congressmen and Pundits and all the rest, of course) to stop us from reforming the bankrupt, vampiric financial-monetary system.

We have reached an historical discontinuity, where what is required is actual extemporaneous creativity, beyond just mouthing disinformation-riddled intentionally-polarized narratives. For anyone with an ounce of historical understanding in this regard, it is clear that a bare-minimum starting point is the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall legislation, which, when in effect, will make it illegal to gamble with publicly held debts.

What is needed to begin this discussion is not the most powerful people in the world, it is not the most intelligent people in the world (although real intelligence will of course be necessary). What is needed, above all, is Love; the simple recognition that we have a duty to Truth to put our efforts forward for the benefit of others.

For the General Welfare.

This is what King understood as a patriot and a world citizen, and what his legacy represents.

“If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have Love, I am nothing.”

The point is not to prophecy a new World War or to prophecy a global systemic economic chain-reaction breakdown crisis––though both of these things do loom on the horizon. The point is to recognize that only through Reason, impassioned reason, can human beings communicate, beyond the farce of intentionally-retarded forms of discourse, at the level of actual cognition, about how we are to get out of the mess, the tragic disaster that the last sixty-odd years have plunged us into.

If we were to experience a relative degree of unity concerning our common predicament, “what is in part” would indeed, I believe, “disappear.”