Political ramble of the Day

[kalibex]

"...on the American side the present Iraq military adventurism reflects a part of American society that is ideologically colonialist (with overlords and trading companies and all) and partly stuck in a European feudal era time warp, which is to say politically reactionary, and its militancy is driven by feeling itself becoming obsolete in a historical sense. It is revisiting and revising the country's and world's arrangements according to its beliefs and history- as a Eurocentric subsociety it considers itself called upon to fight down traditional European enemies, the Asian Hordes (Cold War) and the Arab Invaders (Arab/Israeli/Middle Eastern 'terror' conflicts), and it does so through revisiting the world's problems through particular American involvements in the recent past.

"So it's all one of the last serious lunges of an increasingly obsolete kind of people, incidently white, 'Christian', and American by large majority, plutocratic and militaristic in their methods, to put their stamp on a world slowly moving out of their grasp. War is not an exceptional state in their minds, because to them peace is only a state between two wars- they believe in a persistent cycle of creation and destruction. And petroleum is kind of the modern equivalent of a conquered king's treasury- some lands yield much of that kind of plunder, others don't, and yet others yield other kinds of booty.

"A.J. Heschel says all men end up either as pirates or as priests. We're watching the pirates run things their way."