| POLITICAL DOMINO EFFECT AND AMERICA'S INTELLECTUAL HERETICS |
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| Robert Morpheal, Bob Ezergailis, Morphealism (morpheal@yahoo.com) |
2008/11/28 09:45 |
We can expect a long delayed but now inevitable political domino
effect. Many existing political regimes in the world, will fall,
either peacefully or violently, due to their not having achieved any
basis for real popular support. That lack of popular support has
become epidemic in many parts of the distressed world. The pressures
and strains of capitalist cyclical economics are a major catalyst for
upheaval. The world economic crisis, an obvious failure of American
economic and ethical socio-political leadership showing no
foreknowledge and having no quick and immediate answers in the crisis,
and rejection of a failed paternal colonialism that has dominated 20th
century development, mark a turning point in world history. It is the
history of the 20th centry that is being rejected. The world community
has many members within it, many peoples in many nations, who want to
leave those errors behind and want to move on to new attempts to
achieve the failed promise that has disappointed and disillusioned
multiple generations.
One cannot destroy all memory of the promises of capitalism,
development, and progress, in contrast to the conditions that the
average person now is being forced to say hallelujah for. The
suppression of dissent is the same phenomenon that psychiatry and
has to gain expression, and in terms of many a national collective
psyche that expression is political change, even if that change means
violent upheaval overthrow of regimes that have long put themselves
forward as being the messianic answers to problems that as yet have no
real solutions.
We must remember too that the less a people have to begin with, the
more they tend to hold on to whatever they come to value. The more
they have to suffer and strive, sacrifice and do without, the more
they value whatever their gains. The popular anger in response to
conditions that would take away that gain and what has come to be
valued, will be far more intense than most analysts would ever have
estimated it could be.
foresight, clear thinking and has led to what amounts to a massive and
pervasive lack of real insight into the world situation, real and deep
understanding, and truly rational and creative solutions ? Failure of
political analysts to consult with other areas of expertise has
created that vulnerability. Partially the compartmentalization of
disciplines, so favored in an American led version of academia.
Everyone kept in a little near sighted niche of specialism within a
specialism, competing with every other specialist in that niche area,
until no one can see the big picture. That ideology tends to promote
and sustain itself, allowing little if any deviation to an ever
increasing rigidity of narrow minded vision until much of what is
thought and written is merely sheep shit rather than insightful and
reliable analysis. American psychology, having abandoned some of its
own founding fathers, as much as it has deviated from the intent of
its own constitution, has placed numerous thinkers into disrepute,
turning them into historical curiosities rather than acknowledging
fundamental insights. We might only consider the case of Carl Jung, a
European contemporary of Freud and a founder of potential oriented
psychoanalysis. Instead America chose Skinner and behavioral
conditioning. It is indicative. Similarly Jacques Derrida, one of the
most important European philosophers ever to live has been nearly
discarded as if irrelevant, and yet few could be as relevant to the
understanding of political machinations. One never hears much about
Edmund Husserl, or Jean Paul Sartre, in any American context and yet
when thinking about the world is more essential than a Harvard
doctorate in economics. We see an American outright rejection of the
existentialist movement, due to its open minded consideration of
communism, and its rejection of traditional Christian theologies.
see that genre, and its message, now largely suppressed. Bertholt
Brecht, the poet and playwright, accused of communism, is difficult to
obtain in America. Exra Pound, the brilliant poet, persecuted for
communism, is still in disrepute. We see Jurgen Habermas, and the
relegated to merely a specialist academic consideration, when
the oppressive American trend to isolate, divide, and silence. The
list of unamerican heretics, and their suppression, is longer than we
can deal with, but a few examples suffice. Some of the suppressed and
discarded are American. Some are European. Some are among the most
vital and important thinkers of the western world. The trends and fads
of American academia are not simply trends and fads. They are
political oppression and a complete violation of intellectual freedoms
and the struggle for a more universal truth. .No wonder major
political and economic concepts remain so poorly considered, so
ideologically defined, so ignorantly belief based, as they have
become.
Development is one of those concepts. It is a word that has largely
been redefined by America, according to American interests. The
development of national and individual potential has in consequence
long taken a back seat, or been completely discredited and discarded,
to be replaced by the driving forces of servitude to what amount to
being economic superpowers. America is not the only guilty player in
that game, but the major players have been playing more and more
consistent to American rules of the game, and allowing America to
dictate the rules of the game. This is not helped by failure of
inclusive representation, of many segments of society and entire
nations, in major policy making groups. Similarly those groups
increasingly fail to include ideological deviance. Everyone is
encouraged to think and act the same. What is the standard of right,
in that sameness ? It is Americanism.
There are now too many who want nothing better than to throw sand in
the face of the bully, no longer even caring if the bully beats them
up for it. They are already feeling beaten up, and that has destroyed
their ability to care about suffering another beating. For some parts
of the world this is as physical as it is psychological, even when
psychological is eventually enough to trigger a massive response.
minded, short sighted, failure to foresee what American policies are
leading towards. They are leading towards upheavals, overthrows, and
reactions, not towards stability, peace and prosperity. The more than
prosperity has proven elusive the more hatred and anger America has
nurtured. In many parts of the world that is all that America has
nurtured in the majority of the population.
In many parts of the world there is a growing desire for governance
responsive to human needs, affirming a true political morality, giving
more than constitutional lip service. This is fuel to a growing
political crisis. America has shown that it, itself, has far less
regard for its own constitution and the fundamental principles of its
Declaration and Constitution, than it superficially claims. It talks
the talk, when it serves its own purpose, but it clearly cannot walk
the walk. The con trick does not sustain endless and total belief.
Much to the contrary. The world is full of people who are smarter than
they seem, and who eventually see through the illusion. They see
through it partly because those fundamental principles are not upheld
internal affairs. Those same principles are a promise to others, that
never becomes fulfilled, and eventually those others look away to
other horizons for their political salvation. While America might
mockingly repeat what Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher, said
While America can put its own people in unconstitutional intellectual
chains, severely restricting their intellectual curiosity and
explorations, by controlling what is allowed as being intellectually
fashionable, as opposed to the quest for intellectual truth, it cannot
chains, then that is their own choice, but otherwise they must join
the wold community, and cut off those chains, overthrowing their own
despotic and tyrannical regimes, coming into the new millenium,
delayed as it is for 8 years, and into a new world order where
intellectual freedom, intellectual curiosity, intellectual
exploration, and real and true insights into the world condition, are
a real possibility, not simply constitutional lip service covering up
the persecution and destroying of what are considered its heretics.
Blaming others, and pointing their long American finger at others,
particularly communism for its
suppression and oppression of intellectuals, has long been an
effective cover for America's own
failings in that same regard. The oppression, and suppression, must
end. It must end everywhere, and that includes America. America has a
constitution that demands that ending.
Robert Morpheal
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