>I suspect the reason that the US public seems to be
so >impossibly naive, is that if they reject the
latest >frauds, they threaten the entire system of
pretend. So >then what? The simulacrum begins to
liquefy and melt >away, leaving nothing but a very
disturbing
>armature. And who wants to live with that?
to which Dwayne Monroe responded eloquently:
It is this stubborn faith in American goodness that is really the foundation of all other assumptions. Was support for the murderous contras criminal? Well yes, but we're a "young nation" and we're bound to make bad mistakes like a steroid enhanced teenager with good intentions but clumsy methods.
This is the velodrome through which our debates race: no matter how heinous the crime mentioned, the underlying reasons were good so there's no need to look too deeply at ourselves.
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It's not just America herself in which the faithful flock together and pledge themselves to the dominant paradigm. That aside, this tendency forms the conservative, psychological character armour, the mindset of an impulse which keeps the ruling class ruling and the proles in wage-slavery. It is the psychology which once kept us in the trees (then the fruit fell and we had to get down, get grounded to pick it up). It is a *militant embrace of ignorance*.
This faith rationalizes all kinds of horror. It needs to be satirized, roasted, stuck a fork in and turned so that some of the questioning workers will know they aren't alone. Admittedly, this 'faith' won't go away on a massive level until the existential crises get personal e.g. sons come home in body bags because the Empire needed our selfless support "over there" or say, 'bitter fruit' hangs in the trees. When the curtain of legitimation has been torn enough, the blinders of faith will start to fall like scales from the consciousness of our class. We'll begin to realize that our old, tattered, ideological rationalizations constituted the actually, existing abyss. The social revolution might begin to happen after that, especially if enough of us are still around to point in the direction of an expanded freedom.
Cheers, Mike B)
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