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The short editorial by #CatrionaJackson for #PearlsAndIrritations introduces three leaders it will be keeping an eye on in the coming weeks. In that editorial, there is a quote that I am reproducing here:

“*Italian Marxist politician and philosopher Antonio Gramsci, who was writing from one of Mussolini’s prison cells before the Second World War. Gramsci said: “The old world is dying, and a new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.*”

That world ending period, which #Gramsci talked about, extended from just prior to WW1 in 1914 and ended, arguably, with the end of the cold war in 1991. And that is just from a #WesternWorld perspective. It is often said that post-WW2 the world enjoyed a extended period of peace but that is contradicted by history which shows there were wars waged throughtout the period, just not world wars.

I would contend that *a time of monsters* does not depend on world conflagration. We’ve had **monsters** about all along. And for the last 80 years or so, they’ve mostly been #Oligarchs working the #Markets and #Financial systems to plunder the earth. Warmongers are amongst us as well, but never forget the end goal for them is also *plunder* at whatever cost to *Others*. #Psychopaths and deranged minds are fervently at work to this day, whether warring or selling snake oil it makes no difference.

And so it is that in our *free world* our salvation from *monsters* lies with our political leaders. And quite frankly, I don’t see any in the current crop of world leaders with the required *determination, resolve and fortitude* to deliver us from *monsters*. Perhaps it will take another kind of *monster* to birth this new world I’m longing for… but the costs frightens me so.

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/10/three-leaders-one-reminder-moral-courage-is-not-dead-in-politics-message-from-the-editor/

#WorldOfMonsters #EconomicRationalism #Warmongers #Grifters #History #WorldWars #Leadership #WorldLeaders #UNAssembly

The short editorial by #CatrionaJackson for #PearlsAndIrritations introduces three leaders it will be keeping an eye on in the coming weeks. In that editorial, there is a quote that I am reproducing here:

“*Italian Marxist politician and philosopher Antonio Gramsci, who was writing from one of Mussolini’s prison cells before the Second World War. Gramsci said: “The old world is dying, and a new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.*”

That world ending period, which #Gramsci talked about, extended from just prior to WW1 in 1914 and ended, arguably, with the end of the cold war in 1991. And that is just from a #WesternWorld perspective. It is often said that post-WW2 the world enjoyed a extended period of peace but that is contradicted by history which shows there were wars waged throughtout the period, just not world wars.

I would contend that *a time of monsters* does not depend on world conflagration. We’ve had **monsters** about all along. And for the last 80 years or so, they’ve mostly been #Oligarchs working the #Markets and #Financial systems to plunder the earth. Warmongers are amongst us as well, but never forget the end goal for them is also *plunder* at whatever cost to *Others*. #Psychopaths and deranged minds are fervently at work to this day, whether warring or selling snake oil it makes no difference.

And so it is that in our *free world* our salvation from *monsters* lies with our political leaders. And quite frankly, I don’t see any in the current crop of world leaders with the required *determination, resolve and fortitude* to deliver us from *monsters*. Perhaps it will take another kind of *monster* to birth this new world I’m longing for… but the costs frightens me so.

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/10/three-leaders-one-reminder-moral-courage-is-not-dead-in-politics-message-from-the-editor/

#WorldOfMonsters #EconomicRationalism #Warmongers #Grifters #History #WorldWars #Leadership #WorldLeaders #UNAssembly

The short editorial by #CatrionaJackson for #PearlsAndIrritations introduces three leaders it will be keeping an eye on in the coming weeks. In that editorial, there is a quote that I am reproducing here:

“*Italian Marxist politician and philosopher Antonio Gramsci, who was writing from one of Mussolini’s prison cells before the Second World War. Gramsci said: “The old world is dying, and a new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.*”

That world ending period, which #Gramsci talked about, extended from just prior to WW1 in 1914 and ended, arguably, with the end of the cold war in 1991. And that is just from a #WesternWorld perspective. It is often said that post-WW2 the world enjoyed a extended period of peace but that is contradicted by history which shows there were wars waged throughtout the period, just not world wars.

I would contend that *a time of monsters* does not depend on world conflagration. We’ve had **monsters** about all along. And for the last 80 years or so, they’ve mostly been #Oligarchs working the #Markets and #Financial systems to plunder the earth. Warmongers are amongst us as well, but never forget the end goal for them is also *plunder* at whatever cost to *Others*. #Psychopaths and deranged minds are fervently at work to this day, whether warring or selling snake oil it makes no difference.

And so it is that in our *free world* our salvation from *monsters* lies with our political leaders. And quite frankly, I don’t see any in the current crop of world leaders with the required *determination, resolve and fortitude* to deliver us from *monsters*. Perhaps it will take another kind of *monster* to birth this new world I’m longing for… but the costs frightens me so.

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/10/three-leaders-one-reminder-moral-courage-is-not-dead-in-politics-message-from-the-editor/

#WorldOfMonsters #EconomicRationalism #Warmongers #Grifters #History #WorldWars #Leadership #WorldLeaders #UNAssembly

The short editorial by #CatrionaJackson for #PearlsAndIrritations introduces three leaders it will be keeping an eye on in the coming weeks. In that editorial, there is a quote that I am reproducing here:

“*Italian Marxist politician and philosopher Antonio Gramsci, who was writing from one of Mussolini’s prison cells before the Second World War. Gramsci said: “The old world is dying, and a new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.*”

That world ending period, which #Gramsci talked about, extended from just prior to WW1 in 1914 and ended, arguably, with the end of the cold war in 1991. And that is just from a #WesternWorld perspective. It is often said that post-WW2 the world enjoyed a extended period of peace but that is contradicted by history which shows there were wars waged throughtout the period, just not world wars.

I would contend that *a time of monsters* does not depend on world conflagration. We’ve had **monsters** about all along. And for the last 80 years or so, they’ve mostly been #Oligarchs working the #Markets and #Financial systems to plunder the earth. Warmongers are amongst us as well, but never forget the end goal for them is also *plunder* at whatever cost to *Others*. #Psychopaths and deranged minds are fervently at work to this day, whether warring or selling snake oil it makes no difference.

And so it is that in our *free world* our salvation from *monsters* lies with our political leaders. And quite frankly, I don’t see any in the current crop of world leaders with the required *determination, resolve and fortitude* to deliver us from *monsters*. Perhaps it will take another kind of *monster* to birth this new world I’m longing for… but the costs frightens me so.

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/10/three-leaders-one-reminder-moral-courage-is-not-dead-in-politics-message-from-the-editor/

#WorldOfMonsters #EconomicRationalism #Warmongers #Grifters #History #WorldWars #Leadership #WorldLeaders #UNAssembly