America's Suicide Pact
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Paul Kinzelman
May 8, 2026, 11:32:48 AM (6 days ago) May 8
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Our empire's decline is due to us. We don't do anything well anymore
other
than bomb people we've never met in places we shouldn't be.
As I've quoted several times from Pogo, "We have met the enemy and he is us"
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/americas-suicide-pact?publication_id=778851&post_id=196897883&isFreemail=true&r=46by4&triedRedirect=true
Civilizations, as the historian Arnold J. Toynbee famously argued, “die from suicide, not by murder.” They collapse from within. They fall prey to moral, social and spiritual decay. They are seized by a parasitic ruling class. Democratic institutions seize up. The citizenry is immiserated, wealth is funneled upwards to the ruling class and coercion is the principle form of control.
than bomb people we've never met in places we shouldn't be.
As I've quoted several times from Pogo, "We have met the enemy and he is us"
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/americas-suicide-pact?publication_id=778851&post_id=196897883&isFreemail=true&r=46by4&triedRedirect=true
Civilizations, as the historian Arnold J. Toynbee famously argued, “die from suicide, not by murder.” They collapse from within. They fall prey to moral, social and spiritual decay. They are seized by a parasitic ruling class. Democratic institutions seize up. The citizenry is immiserated, wealth is funneled upwards to the ruling class and coercion is the principle form of control.
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