#megalomania

December 21, 2024 1:13pm

Illustration zur Fabel von Jean de La Fontaine, Dezember 2024

Der Frosch, der groß sein will wie ein Ochse

Ein Frosch sah einen Ochsen gehen.
Wie stattlich war der anzusehen!
Er, der nicht größer als ein Ei, war neidisch drauf,
Er spreizt sich, bläht mit Macht sich auf,
Um gleich zu sein dem großen Tier,
Und rief: »Ihr Brüder achtet und vergleicht!
Wie, bin ich nun so weit? Ach, sagt es mir!« –
»Nein!« – »Aber jetzt?« – »Was denkst du dir!« –
»Und jetzt?« – »Noch lange nicht erreicht!« –
Das Fröschlein hat sich furchtbar aufgeblasen,
Es platzte und verschied im grünen Rasen.

Die Welt bevölkern viele solcher dummen Leute:
Jedweder Bürger möchte baun wie große Herrn,
Der kleine Fürst – er hält Gesandte heute,
Das kleinste Gräflein prunkt mit Pagen gern.

The Frog Who Wished to Be as Big as the Ox

Transleted by Elizur Wright (1804 - 1885)

The tenant of a bog,
An envious little frog,
Not bigger than an egg,
A stately bullock spies,
And, smitten with his size,
Attempts to be as big.
With earnestness and pains,
She stretches, swells, and strains,
And says, 'Sis Frog, look here! see me!
Is this enough?' 'No, no.'
'Well, then, is this?' 'Poh! poh!
Enough! you don't begin to be.'
And thus the reptile sits,
Enlarging till she splits.
The world is full of folks
Of just such wisdom;--
The lordly dome provokes
The cit to build his dome;
And, really, there is no telling
How much great men set little ones a swelling.

#fabel #rinder #frösche #größenwahn #angeber #illustration #krita #gmic #fotobearbeitung #gif #animation #animals #frogs #fable #cattle #megalomania #braggart #PhotoEditing #Diadvent #Diadvent24-12-21 #Diadvent2024 #Diadvent24 #frogmas24 #frogmas

harry

April 28, 2024 7:07am

The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role
The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski 1997 — https://archive.org/details/grand-chessboard-brzezinski-1997/page/198/mode/1up
#usa #megalomania #bigdictator #empire #inyourface

Michael

December 23, 2022 3:59am

Disclosure: I am a non-fan of "snap polls", from political to social to ego (Facebook, Musk et al)....

That said, I'm also curious and a social scientist (who loves actual, valid data including opinions, beliefs, etc.)

So my reaction to finding an email from Twitter yesterday, encouraging me to use their spiffy new app to "find my Twitter" contacts, activated a few reactions ('neural pathways'/associations) in me (&/or my algorithms!)

First off, I am rather horrified/disgusted at the schoolyard antics of 'the world's richest man', now "owner" of the info 'town square' and clearly having lots of fun in his $44B sandbox. So the latest brilliant idea of someone working there now, cot included, is to encourage people looking for Twitter contacts to hand over our address books (which may contain all sorts of notes, account #'s, you name it), to Twitter! The company whose owner's first act was to scrap "privacy" and "security" teams. Sure, take my data!

But beyond the scam and - as someone on Mastodon commented, the likelihood of data scraping/monetization/re-sale - there is the question of trust. But even more: Why would I be looking for people on Twitter, when I already know who I've followed/connected with 'there' and am more focused now on finding refugees from Twitter who may end up on Mastodon, or 'here' or writers' pods.

So that's the "context and perspective".

Here's the one and only "poll" I've put out there, with my convenience sample of a dozen, just for fun.
Interesting how 100% agree that #MuskVirus is not to be trusted, BUT 9% chose the option,
"I'm wrong; Musk is altruistic and above-board".

So there you have it, the 109% have spoken! "I like polls". (yes/no 109%)

#SocialMedia #Twitter #Musk #Media #megalomania #mediamania #SocialPsychology

Digit

October 15, 2021 9:43am

Who are the people behind the jab AND the Georgia Guidestones?

Eugenicists Bill Gates and Klaus (Rothschild) Schwab

"The same people who think the earth is overpopulated, are saying that they want to save lives by vaccinating everyone on the planet."

Put them in 1st and 2nd place on the NUREMBERG-2 docket!

Eugenicists Bill Gates and Klaus (Rothschild) Schwab use "their" wealth to de-populate (cull, murder) the human species.)"

#Eugenics #Gates #Klaus #Rothschild #Schwab #jab #NWO #RESET #COVID #thegreatreset #covid19 #scam #totalitarianism #barons
#depopulation #domination #megalomania #genocide #powercorrupts #kleptarchs #Nuremberg2
#humancull #nocullnecessry

[Edited reshare, version 2, with tags.]

my comment(/rant) from original post:
was about to reshare, and then "While Jeff Bezos ", no. not gonna reshare that post painting that monster in a favourable contrasting light to other monsters.

i’ve been boycotting amazon since 2004, and it blows my mind why other people dont see it. destroys the competition through ruthless means, not disimilar to the other ruthless megalomaniac monopolist, bill gates’ rise to power (not just destroying competing companies, but entire industries and markets, to disempowe us all into dependence as cashcow slaves). denies recourse and remedy to its [effectively] captive customers. treats workers horrendously. maintains the illlusion of space being difficult and reserved for the most #worthyvampire, getting to just 1% the width of the earth, away from earth.

… and elon musk garners too much undue admiration too, obfuscating nikola tesla who wanted to power the world for free, healthily, whereas elon takes his name, and builds a toxic panopticon with rents, maintaining slavery and linear resource extraction leading us to doom… the same fodder used in the circular reasoning of the genocidal eugenicists who insist there are too many people [to keep on using technologies that polute] in the world, needing a human cull [rather than switch to clean technology ~ oh but that’s harder to extract rents from to maintain the economic power imbalance]. and also maintains the illlusion of space being difficult and reserved for the most #worthyvampire, when instead we could have had interstellar #spaceshipsforeverybody, generations ago!

also, the word “hoax” downplays it. as if it’s merely for the merriment of tricking. no. it’s a scam. a racket. these words at least depict there’s motivation and gains and effects beyond merely tricking for the joy of tricking. a hoax is “ho ho, fooled you” and done. a scam or a racket is extracting from you. which is better, but, there’s still a lot more to the scam than just a sell-op racket. #weareinalotoftrouble as depicted in the image and its intro line (and outro ~ minus the bezos & musk mention) pointing out:

Who are the people behind the jab AND the Georgia Guidestones?
Eugenicists Bill Gates and Klaus (Rothschild) Schwab
The same people who think the world is overpopulated
Are saying they want to save lives by vaccinating everyone on the planet
Put them in 1st and 2nd place on the NUREMBERG-2 docket!
Eugenicists Bill Gates and Klaus (Rothschild) Schwab use their wealth to de-populate (“cull”, murder) the human species.

I will definitely be resharing that image though, with the text from it.

(as typing this… i hear james acaster saying “someone is the worst person in the world”)

ps, also, the mcarthian redscare bs of including a communism tag is a toxic mislead. all that robber baron propaganda depicting all communism only as the authoritarian stalinist form [(edit: which some argue should not even be called communism, with its contorted contradictions, not disimilar to how there was nothing socialist about the nazi's anti-socialist jingoist hegemony)], obfuscating the likes of kropotkin’s anarcho communism. like some people need a #politicalcompass and to re-read orwell. … otherwise, good post. XD better with the flies extracted from the ointment. ;) ;p XD :D

had to reshare that image though. "pretty simple when it's spelled out in black and white." -- Bill Hicks

Digit

September 19, 2021 3:25pm