Sunday, July 17, 2016

The dark Sky and the silver Lining

In a zero-sum system, one man's dark sky can be another man's silver lining, and vice versa. In a winner-take-all system, the loser dies a sudden death. In a system that's equitable, everyone gets a piece of the pie commensurate with the effort they put into the shared enterprise and the nature of their contribution.

When civilized people sit down to negotiate over an issue, they have equity on their mind. What they do, therefore, is seek to apportion the duties and rewards that each participant will receive for an enterprise they plan to undertake jointly. In the event that they have already participated in an enterprise that took place without prior agreement, they negotiate to distribute as equitably as possible the gains and the pains that came of it.

This system has worked so well for humanity through the ages, we were able to go from the Stone Age to the Space Age in less than 10,000 years or a mere 400 generations. But this does not mean that all human beings were in harmony with each other all the time. On the contrary, our ascent to civilization was paved with all sorts of conflicts, many of which were so savage; we behaved at levels below those of wild animals.

Unfortunately, we have not completely freed ourselves of such tendencies. There are people among us who continue to believe in the Nazi creed that war – and all that comes with it – is the highest form of civilized conduct. At no time do you hear them counsel that “the other” may deserve to be treated well, or be spared. That's because these people are permanently seized with the idea that every conflict must be intensified till one side undergoes sudden death.

An example of how these people go about expressing themselves on such matters has come under the title: “Kerry's Syria Offer” and the subtitle: “The Secretary of State has a new sweetener for Vladimir Putin,” a piece that was written by the editors of the Wall Street Journal and published in their paper on July 16, 2016.

The editors tell the story of John Kerry's trip to Moscow where he presented the Russians with a proposal to end the 5-year old civil war in Syria. And right away – before anything else – the editors offered an opinionated piece of speculation that sounds more like a wish than a well reasoned out theory. Here it is: “Too bad another bad deal with Russia isn't likely to achieve that goal”.

These people wish to see the political if not the real sudden death of Syria's President Bashar Assad. It is an old wish that remains the driving force behind everything they say and do. They show this tendency in the editorial despite the effort they make to appear like they softened their stance in that matter.

Having rejected Kerry's initiative offhand, they go on to describe how he and the Russians may conduct negotiations over his proposal. They reveal that in the short term, America wants Assad's air force grounded in return for cooperating with Russia in the field of intelligence. In the long term, America wants Assad out of power. The editors call this a reasonable bargain, but shoot it down immediately, the way that Jews always do these things. Here it is: “...if only Putin had any record of abiding by previous commitments”.

This behavior points to the fact that Jews view life as a zero-sum game. They consider everyone that's not with them to be against them, which makes it so that what they win, the opponent loses and vice versa. This is why they can never bargain in good faith, and why they accuse others of doing what is known to be their trademark. Look what they say about Putin: “Russia will pocket U.S. intelligence while continuing to press their advantage.”

The truth is that there is no proof at all Russia behaves in that manner whereas Israel's negotiations with the Palestinians has been nothing but that. The truth is that Israel never reciprocated after pocketing the concessions that the Palestinians said they would make if Israel reciprocated. What happened time and time again is that the Jews kept their cake even after they ate the Palestinian lunch and ate their cake too.

So then, where does that leave the world? The Journal editors suggest that Putin might want to see an end to Western sanctions against his country, and recognition of Russian gains in Ukraine. They suggest that Putin should be hopeful this will happen because there has been a shift in American and European attitudes in this regard. They don't like it because the conflict has been averted in the short term. But they remain hopeful that there will be a bigger conflict in the future for, they remain as bloodthirsty as ever.