Sunday, January 01, 2012
Temporospatial incomprehension
The unutterable monstrosities who run the Western "media" and "governments" are still completely misunderstanding the Arab Spring. BBC asks: "Will the revolutions lead only to new authoritarians?"
Yes, they will. But that's entirely the wrong question. The Arabs were not seeking "democracy", whatever the fuck that means. They were emphatically not seeking to be ruled by egregious suicidal wacked-out lunatics like Cameron, Bush, or Obama.
They were throwing off rulers who satisfied the will of Cameron and Bush, and replacing them with rulers who satisfy the will of THEIR OWN PEOPLE.
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Okay, I've said that a hundred times already. What occurs to me today is that the same misunderstanding applies to our own revolutionary history. The 1776 rebels were emphatically not seeking "freedom" or "democracy" or "In Di Vid U Al Lib Er Ty" in the way our modern roaring psychopaths "define" those words.
Look at actual history; read the Federalist Papers; read the actual Constitution. You'll find that several of the colonies had distinctly authoritarian governments. Some had strict Christian laws about religious belief and family structure, not all that different from modern Islamic laws. That was NOT THE PROBLEM. That was NOT WHAT THE REVOLUTION WAS ABOUT. It was NOT ABOUT ELIMINATING STRICT RULES. It was solely about throwing off FOREIGN DOMINANCE and replacing it with LOCAL DOMINANCE, solely about DECOUPLING from England and DECOUPLING the states from each other.
The new governments of the several states were meant to earn the consent of the people in each state, and they were meant to reach that goal by satisfying the particular religious and cultural needs of those people. The gov't of Vermont was NOT meant to satisfy the tastes of an effete New York aristocrat; the gov't of New York was NOT meant to satisfy the tastes of a rural Vermont Protestant.
Now, of course, we expect every government in the world to be designed solely for effete super-rich New York Gramscian fairies and bullbitches. Anderson Cooper and Chaz Bono are the new Adam and Eve, and the world must be reshaped to fit around their hellish tastes. ¶ 5:02 AM
Yes, they will. But that's entirely the wrong question. The Arabs were not seeking "democracy", whatever the fuck that means. They were emphatically not seeking to be ruled by egregious suicidal wacked-out lunatics like Cameron, Bush, or Obama.
They were throwing off rulers who satisfied the will of Cameron and Bush, and replacing them with rulers who satisfy the will of THEIR OWN PEOPLE.
= = = = =
Okay, I've said that a hundred times already. What occurs to me today is that the same misunderstanding applies to our own revolutionary history. The 1776 rebels were emphatically not seeking "freedom" or "democracy" or "In Di Vid U Al Lib Er Ty" in the way our modern roaring psychopaths "define" those words.
Look at actual history; read the Federalist Papers; read the actual Constitution. You'll find that several of the colonies had distinctly authoritarian governments. Some had strict Christian laws about religious belief and family structure, not all that different from modern Islamic laws. That was NOT THE PROBLEM. That was NOT WHAT THE REVOLUTION WAS ABOUT. It was NOT ABOUT ELIMINATING STRICT RULES. It was solely about throwing off FOREIGN DOMINANCE and replacing it with LOCAL DOMINANCE, solely about DECOUPLING from England and DECOUPLING the states from each other.
The new governments of the several states were meant to earn the consent of the people in each state, and they were meant to reach that goal by satisfying the particular religious and cultural needs of those people. The gov't of Vermont was NOT meant to satisfy the tastes of an effete New York aristocrat; the gov't of New York was NOT meant to satisfy the tastes of a rural Vermont Protestant.
Now, of course, we expect every government in the world to be designed solely for effete super-rich New York Gramscian fairies and bullbitches. Anderson Cooper and Chaz Bono are the new Adam and Eve, and the world must be reshaped to fit around their hellish tastes. ¶ 5:02 AM
