The dumbing down of America. The teabaggers want the country back 100 years ago? Good gracious. It’s certainly would be frightening giving the fact we talking about slavery. It is pretty sad that these folks are uninformed and programmed by Beck and Fox News knowning that a majority of Americans can’t name our three branches of government, where the country Iraq is located on a map, believe that Hawaii is not one of our 50th states, and so on, yet can name every character on the TV show: The Simpsons.
Spoken like a true priest of the temple of kinetic force. Tom Engelhardt described going on 3 years ago:
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The essential doctrine of faith that ties all the disparate foreign-policy acts of this administration together is the belief that to every global problem, to every difficult situation, there is but a single striking and uniform response — not the application of democracy, but the application of force. http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/158512/crusading_in_the_arc_of_instability
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Note Mr. Teabagger’s last words: if you don’t listen, we’ll apply sufficient kinetic activity–yell louder–to overwhelm logic with force.
See, facts don’t move people, myths do. No one is going to war for an address change, but just try to break people out of their Newtonian self-imprisonment in cellves of their own mistaken making–just try to get 19th-century people to give up Newton’s atomized cosmos and invite them to inhabit at least the Einsteinian cosmos of things seen as vortices in seamless fields, and watch out.
The problem is one of identity: who are you? That can only be answered in the context of the culture in which the respondent has grown. And that means taking into consideration that which most shapes our cosmos even before we act in it: the power of myth.
The failure of the liberal Left is to appreciate the power of myths in the shaping of our human cosmos; their opponents aren’t insane, they are living out the myth that shapes their world.
The failure of the Right has been their blatant abuse (as in the recent absurdity of the so-called health reform debate; as in the myths that jacked us to war in Iraq; as in the stolen presidential elections; as in Iran-Contra; as in Central and South America under Plan Condor; etc.).
Why is it assumed that nothing grander than the official phenomena of orthodox American psychology may be discussed as relevant to political discourse? Why do we reduce humans to automata by reducing out of us the myths that shape our worlds?
We reduce us to parts in a Newtonian mechanism in a feudal cosmos: the holy war of good v. evil produced by the holy war machine of society led by god’s own landlords/holy warriors here on earth; then treat as precisely as subjects of the last Inquisition were treated: as if the application of sufficient kinetic activity would perforce achieve the human change demanded of the subject’s own free will.
Where is free will in a world where we assume we can simply manufacture consent, by mechanistic means aka torture if necessary? The 9/11 Commission report is now known to have relied substantially on evidence manufactured to order by torture.
It comes down to this: the inhabitants of a political cosmos governed by Newton’s laws are not humans as we know them, but *subjects only,* subject to the imperious and arbitrary will of a superior will.
Only organic beings can be self-sovereign citizens of this democratic republic. We arise out of our own centers (to paraphrase Nietzsche), we are not forced into order from the outside. Mechanisms have no free will, have no human rights, have no say.
So stop pretending to be mechanisms already!
What’s the opponent force of kinesis? *Kenosis:* the power of thin Leaves of Grass bursting through asphalt from within.
Yo, sp biloxi, if you were so smart you would know that slavery was abolished in 1865, and it is now 2009. I’ll assume you can do the math. Now, that said these guys are definitely idiots, and there is certainly an underlying theme of racism in the wish to ‘go back 100 years’. The past hundred years has seen such important landmarks as Brown v. Board and the Civil Rights Act, amongst many others.
The point, biloxi, is that when you accuse someone of idiocy, you should be careful to get your facts straight. Oh, and by the way, the Simpsons is far more important to most people than the failed government and the esoterica of its inner workings, and rightly so.
The dumbing down of America. The teabaggers want the country back 100 years ago? Good gracious. It’s certainly would be frightening giving the fact we talking about slavery. It is pretty sad that these folks are uninformed and programmed by Beck and Fox News knowning that a majority of Americans can’t name our three branches of government, where the country Iraq is located on a map, believe that Hawaii is not one of our 50th states, and so on, yet can name every character on the TV show: The Simpsons.
Also, they don’t know the connotations of the word ‘Teabaggers’.
Spoken like a true priest of the temple of kinetic force. Tom Engelhardt described going on 3 years ago:
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The essential doctrine of faith that ties all the disparate foreign-policy acts of this administration together is the belief that to every global problem, to every difficult situation, there is but a single striking and uniform response — not the application of democracy, but the application of force.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/158512/crusading_in_the_arc_of_instability
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Note Mr. Teabagger’s last words: if you don’t listen, we’ll apply sufficient kinetic activity–yell louder–to overwhelm logic with force.
See, facts don’t move people, myths do. No one is going to war for an address change, but just try to break people out of their Newtonian self-imprisonment in cellves of their own mistaken making–just try to get 19th-century people to give up Newton’s atomized cosmos and invite them to inhabit at least the Einsteinian cosmos of things seen as vortices in seamless fields, and watch out.
The problem is one of identity: who are you? That can only be answered in the context of the culture in which the respondent has grown. And that means taking into consideration that which most shapes our cosmos even before we act in it: the power of myth.
The failure of the liberal Left is to appreciate the power of myths in the shaping of our human cosmos; their opponents aren’t insane, they are living out the myth that shapes their world.
The failure of the Right has been their blatant abuse (as in the recent absurdity of the so-called health reform debate; as in the myths that jacked us to war in Iraq; as in the stolen presidential elections; as in Iran-Contra; as in Central and South America under Plan Condor; etc.).
Why is it assumed that nothing grander than the official phenomena of orthodox American psychology may be discussed as relevant to political discourse? Why do we reduce humans to automata by reducing out of us the myths that shape our worlds?
We reduce us to parts in a Newtonian mechanism in a feudal cosmos: the holy war of good v. evil produced by the holy war machine of society led by god’s own landlords/holy warriors here on earth; then treat as precisely as subjects of the last Inquisition were treated: as if the application of sufficient kinetic activity would perforce achieve the human change demanded of the subject’s own free will.
Where is free will in a world where we assume we can simply manufacture consent, by mechanistic means aka torture if necessary? The 9/11 Commission report is now known to have relied substantially on evidence manufactured to order by torture.
It comes down to this: the inhabitants of a political cosmos governed by Newton’s laws are not humans as we know them, but *subjects only,* subject to the imperious and arbitrary will of a superior will.
Only organic beings can be self-sovereign citizens of this democratic republic. We arise out of our own centers (to paraphrase Nietzsche), we are not forced into order from the outside. Mechanisms have no free will, have no human rights, have no say.
So stop pretending to be mechanisms already!
What’s the opponent force of kinesis? *Kenosis:* the power of thin Leaves of Grass bursting through asphalt from within.
Yo, sp biloxi, if you were so smart you would know that slavery was abolished in 1865, and it is now 2009. I’ll assume you can do the math. Now, that said these guys are definitely idiots, and there is certainly an underlying theme of racism in the wish to ‘go back 100 years’. The past hundred years has seen such important landmarks as Brown v. Board and the Civil Rights Act, amongst many others.
The point, biloxi, is that when you accuse someone of idiocy, you should be careful to get your facts straight. Oh, and by the way, the Simpsons is far more important to most people than the failed government and the esoterica of its inner workings, and rightly so.