Empire came up in my piece on Wednesday, as the model that best describes foreign relations - at least according to that hippy dippy leftist, Henry Kissinger.
Imperialist nationalism routinely has me down, but I recognize that in my humanism I am in the vocal minority. The vocal majority loves state projects more than anything else - and so we have wars of empire all over, including this one with the UAE in Sudan - and no hope of anything better arising in our lifetimes.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/24/uae-sudan-war-peace-emirates-uk-us-officials
A good day to our Latin America correspondent @MLClark !
If you haven’t already been exposed, and I bet you have, you might find Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins informative.
I have indeed, but talking about that work is a GREAT idea for a future Monday Media Review. 👌🏻 Thanks for the nudge!
And a good day to you, too! What "beat" would you like to be known as a correspondent of? 👀
@MLClark off the top of caffeine deprived head Editor-at-Large and the Arts & Sarcastic Optimism sections?
@MLClark H.L. Mencken and Ambrose Bierce beat me to it with their being born well before me. 😉
@MLClark hey not many people think of Kissinger as a hippie but I got a picture of his RV
🤣🤣🤣 I actually laughed out loud!
I'm still laughing!
To the point of tears!
That's perfect. Ohhhh, backsaw, thank you for this. 🤗 A MUCH better start to the day!
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so has it always been. perhaps our biggest error was in thinking that the kind of change that was occurring would continue and advance readily since it was and is clearly better for all.
we underestimated the strength of the tentacles of terror empowering ancient cultural archetypes of dominance, and their resistance to sublimation/transformation.
Jung saw this coming, speaks of it throughout his work. change is never straightforward. it swings like a pendulum. shades of Poe😱
@MLClark
good grief. i just opened Jung, and
“There is a fanatic orgiastic
self-righteousness which is just as base and which entails
just as much injustice and violence as a vice.
At this time, when a large part of mankind is beginning
to discard Christianity, it is worth while to understand
clearly why it was originally accepted "
Psychology of the Unconscious / A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido. A Contribution to the History of the Evolution of Thought
C. G. Jung
Jung's metaphor for the unconscious is ocean.
unknown depths and power driving emotional storms.
This is why I think the best we can do, as individuals, is to deepen our commitment to hyperregional globalism, where we strive to build more robust forms of mutual aid in our 'hoods, and advocate for more resilient, pluralist, & democratic views of societies everywhere.
I do not hide this subject-position.
I know I'm not the only one sick to my stomach from the brutality of empire.
But a humanist view needs to accept that other humans might think very very differently. And right now most do.