Saturday, August 11, 2012
Conflation is their secret weapon
Americans have trouble distinguishing ideologies from nations.
Why? Because of our idiotic insistence that all humans are identical and all traits and tendencies are learnable. Our rulers, both R and D, always write their warmaking narratives in terms of ideology, basing their fables on The Power Of Young Democracy and The Miracles Of Capitalism. If only those foreigners could learn to recite our miraculous Randian Scriptures by heart, they would instantly abandon their own established cultures and patterns and pick up our Superior Exceptional Culture. They would instantly leave off their nasty unthinkable habits of forming normal families and raising normal children, and pick up our much healthier Exceptional habits of sodomy, morbid obesity, stock bubbles, transparently false pseudoscience, total government paralysis and Kardashians.
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This idiot belief in the power of ideology gives our enemies a secret weapon.
Example: the neocon conflation of Muslim with Arab. Sheikh Osama wasn't confused but made good use of our confusion. He was fighting to pull the ARAB NATION loose from Western influences. He was using Muslim ideology to fuel the fight because most Arabs are Muslims. As a secondary benefit, our conflation meant we would be overreacting against Muslims, helping him to fuel the fight.
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What's the best way to distinguish nation from ideology? Actions taken to benefit a nation would be the same regardless of ideology.
Example: Soviet ideology and the Russian nation. Our actions in Korea and Vietnam were ordered by USSR through its agents here. Both wars served the interests of Russia as a nation, because we were mainly fighting China in both.
Any government of Russia would want us to keep their Chinese competitors busy.
By the time Vietnam came along, the Soviet agents had entirely taken over our media. They were able to use our ideological idiocy to conceal the basic national-interest purpose of the war. We believed we were "freeing Vietnam from Communism" when in fact we were just keeping China busy again.
Because the Soviets run our media, they were able to divide and collapse our culture, thus serving the interests of the Soviet ideology as well as the Russian nation. LBJ, Nixon and McGovern were all objectively working for Brezhnev. And that's all Brezhnev wanted. Russians are realists, unconfused by ideology. ¶ 7:16 PM
Why? Because of our idiotic insistence that all humans are identical and all traits and tendencies are learnable. Our rulers, both R and D, always write their warmaking narratives in terms of ideology, basing their fables on The Power Of Young Democracy and The Miracles Of Capitalism. If only those foreigners could learn to recite our miraculous Randian Scriptures by heart, they would instantly abandon their own established cultures and patterns and pick up our Superior Exceptional Culture. They would instantly leave off their nasty unthinkable habits of forming normal families and raising normal children, and pick up our much healthier Exceptional habits of sodomy, morbid obesity, stock bubbles, transparently false pseudoscience, total government paralysis and Kardashians.
= = = = =
This idiot belief in the power of ideology gives our enemies a secret weapon.
Example: the neocon conflation of Muslim with Arab. Sheikh Osama wasn't confused but made good use of our confusion. He was fighting to pull the ARAB NATION loose from Western influences. He was using Muslim ideology to fuel the fight because most Arabs are Muslims. As a secondary benefit, our conflation meant we would be overreacting against Muslims, helping him to fuel the fight.
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What's the best way to distinguish nation from ideology? Actions taken to benefit a nation would be the same regardless of ideology.
Example: Soviet ideology and the Russian nation. Our actions in Korea and Vietnam were ordered by USSR through its agents here. Both wars served the interests of Russia as a nation, because we were mainly fighting China in both.
Any government of Russia would want us to keep their Chinese competitors busy.
By the time Vietnam came along, the Soviet agents had entirely taken over our media. They were able to use our ideological idiocy to conceal the basic national-interest purpose of the war. We believed we were "freeing Vietnam from Communism" when in fact we were just keeping China busy again.
Because the Soviets run our media, they were able to divide and collapse our culture, thus serving the interests of the Soviet ideology as well as the Russian nation. LBJ, Nixon and McGovern were all objectively working for Brezhnev. And that's all Brezhnev wanted. Russians are realists, unconfused by ideology. ¶ 7:16 PM
