Any assertion contrary to the myth of progress will be met with circular arguments or proof by example. However, any system has components neither provable nor disprovable within itself. The whole is different than the sum of its parts. These theorems are true; it requires one sufficiently alienated to document this system created by the technical morality. The only self-awareness required is the extent of that disenfranchisement, and the ruthlessness to pull the wings off a fly... However, most believe such freedom from fear requires strength beyond them. Their perceptions have been lead like cattle. Under Maximum Advantage, "Nothing is forbidden; everything is permitted," may be allowed but will never occur in the resultant mediocre compromise. In truth, rather the opposite, but sweet lies are better. Some errors are necessary as a step forward.
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Quotes from "Hating America: A History" by Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin (2004).........
ReplyDeleteSays, "there were three ways that anti-americans thought the United States would become the main force to shape human civilization and how others lived [.]"
"first, the United States would seem so attractive to foreign observers due to its innovations and success that others would copy it (Rubin & Rubin, p.221, 2004)."
"second, American culture, technology, products, and ideas would spread actively throughout the world so as to become everywhere pervasive (Rubin & Rubin, p.221, 2004)."
"Third, U.S. military and economic power would dominate other countries directly, an idea that was strongly in evidence in anti-american thinking before the United Staes had Much influence on the international scene (Rubin & Rubin, p.221, 2004)."
"Anti-Americanism, then, is often a reflection on the nature of Anti-Americans themselves--- their worldview, deeds, and goals (Rubin & Rubin, p.223, 2004)."
"Making America rather than capitalism the villain that one was fighting seemed an admirable solution to this dead end (Rubin & Rubin, p.229, 2004)."
"If cultural hypnotism and material bribery had persuaded the masses to accept the unjust American system, then the United States, possessing such power, was a terrible monster that might create a global anti-utopia that would put the same stable and prosperous but soulless and banal system into effect everywhere. But if, instead, the American people as a whole were now a willing partner in the system becaise they benefited from it, this meant they were an equally guilty accomplice of imperialism and thus the enemy of everyone else in the world (Rubin & Rubin, p.231, 2004)."