Trump’s New ‘Yes-man’ is a Reckoning for the World

Now ‘former’ Defence Secretary Mark Esper.

US Defence Secretary Mark Esper was fired today for, among other things, not agreeing to unleash active-service troops on protesters. Esper has warned us that the person who replaces him will be a Yes-man to Trump; meaning they will decide to unleash fully armed soldiers on civilians under certain circumstances.

Will such circumstances include those addressed in my last post, where Trump refused to step down in January 2021?

Would the Generals obey a direct command by someone who is no longer officially recognized as President (after 20th January 2021)?

If it were any other former President, this question would be easier to answer. Yet this is businessman, television personality turned (by his own admission) wannabe autocrat – Donald J Trump, and the emotions he has stirred will not be simmering down any time soon. In every quarter of domestic and international politics, this man has learned how to divide and conquer.

If there is a distinct strategy at play here again, it would be to divide and conquer the US military. This man does not care if he is the catalyst that implodes the US.

But why?

The sentiments of hate caused by polarizing beliefs have been sown for centuries everywhere. This is not exclusive to the USA. Yet this is America’s reckoning – since here is a man who knows how to exploit them to their ultimate end.

Will the people of the United States see his game for what it is and come together at the last minute? Or are we about to witness an unimaginable blood bath which will have equally unfathomable consequences everywhere – a reckoning for the world?

It is the Most Adaptable to Change that ‘Survive’ – Not the Strongest nor Most Intelligent

“According to Darwin’s Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives, but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.

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Reality is in perpetual motion – whereas words, beliefs/culture, are static, and what is static will always conflict with that which is in motion.

Not My Narrative – Not My Circus (& Other Unconsciously Regurgitated Cliches)
A major contributing factor to civilizations that died out in the past was that when they were faced with dangers previous generations had never faced – they were unable to ‘see’ the change in any context. It didn’t match their preexisting narrative of purpose, nor what they understood about cause and effect in the natural world.

Being consumed with culture as they were – eg. belief their gods will save them etc.. they did little to nothing of any practical use to address nor adapt to the change.

A Culture of Self Entitled Ignorance
Adaptation by 100% of the world’s population really does seem impossible. When faced with sudden imminent danger on a collective – global scale, we depend on the entire world’s awareness and behaviour to shift with that change. It may feel easier at this stage to believe that this is somehow okay, that some will adapt and some won’t. Yet, if those unwilling to adapt selfishly hold to ignorant, static cultures and beliefs merely because they have unconsciously set their identity to such superficialities, then their behaviour impacts everyone else’s chances of survival plus the survival of life-kind itself.

The World Can’t Adapt to Change Without You
Our belief that governments will adapt and save us or that our consumer culture simply offers relief from the pressure to face challenging facts debilitates us further to child-like denial. This is shoving everyone’s head more deeply and profoundly in the sand.

It is way past boring and ineffectual to hear the winging about why people don’t want to think we are to blame for a system we were born into (correct, yet what has that got to do with our awareness and behaviour need to change now?)

Questions such as ‘How can we be responsible for this?’ *violins*, sets in motion the predictable emotional response that always cascades towards the lazy anti-logic: ‘ it is easier to believe we aren’t responsible because then we don’t have to do anything to save ourselves, let alone others. It seems like too much work, and I am already busy and working hard’.

Whether we care to acknowledge it or not – urgent changes are upon us.
Likewise, adaptation is the key to our survival, whether we care to acknowledge it or not.

Some of us are ready to adapt and set down a new way. Stop focussing on blaming yourself and one another, and instead join together through a universal sense of compassion.

Our world is in our hands now. My world is in your hands; your world is in my hands.