“When Their Bellies Hit Their Backbones”

 I’ve lived a most fascinating life in the most fascinating times. Potentially, each of us recapitulates the entirety of human developmental history in our own lifetime. This is the real non mystical meaning of the psychological microcosm macrocosm principle.

Some fifty or so years past I had an associate in the International Caucus of the Labor Committees of the Students for a Democratic Society (ICLC of the SDS.) Today otherwise known as either the LaRouche Association or the opposed LaRouchePac. His name, if memory serves me, was Archie Marsh. He had been a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War with the Mackenzie Papineau Brigades and a member of the Wobblies or IWW (Industrial Workers of the World.) He also shunned all socialist groups at the time as being "agents of the state."

Archie had an oft repeated truism about organizing the “masses.” "They won’t join til their bellies hit their backbones." Perhaps, just perhaps this admonition may indeed be born out in the near future due to what I have signified as the suicidal geopolitical death wish of our establishment elites. The handwriting is on the wall as in the wonderful cartoon of Rembrandt of Belshazzar’s Feast. Thus does history repeat itself if perhaps only metaphorically...

Rembrandt: Public Domain