This is an exerpt from my posted essay titled "Attack of the Fringe People" in which i quote Ward Churchill explaining his inflamitory statement to Democracy Now host, Amy Goodman:
. . . But if one actually reads his essay, and finds the rationale behind the reference to the 9/11 victims as “little Eichmanns,” it is easy to see why that part of the story was mostly left out of the media coverage.
. . . And so become yourself
Because the past is just a good bye --- Graham Nash
Past Hates Future
“We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as harmless, but as a useless character; and if few of us are originators, we are all sound judges of a policy.” --- Words attributed to Pericles, the most celebrated democratic leader of ancient Athens, in his funeral oration (as quoted in Ball and Dagger 21)
On November 1, 1963, the autocratic and Machiavellian leader of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, was overthrown and assassinated by South Vietnamese Generals. As documented in the National Security Archive at George Washington University, the coup was carried out with the complicity, advance knowledge, and financial and tactical assistance of the United States government, including then President John F. Kennedy, which his administration denied (Prados 5-18). According to John Prados, this course of action resulted in further destabilizing the South Vietnamese government, which led to the American escalation in the Vietnam War (7). Twenty-one days after the coup, Kennedy was assassinated.
Following a speech on December 4 of that year, Malcolm X, asked about his thoughts regarding Kennedy’s assassination, responded that it was a case of “the chickens [coming home] to roost,” (X Interview) in an apparent appeal to a sense of karma not shared by most westerners.
I would like to acknowledge noiles32fouette's blog entry (please read) http://www.progressiveu.org/021257-will-the-rise-of-islamic-militancy-lead-to-world-war-iii to which this blog entry began as a response and evolved into something more.
think about this,
we have the most capitalist, or one of the most capitalist systems in the world. capitalism is fertile ground for instutions with the compulsion control everything. this is because money is power. the measure of one's power and enfluence in a capitalist system is financial wealth. and here, anybody with enough ambition can persue as much power as their cold greedy little heart desires. it is the celebrated american dream. get yours. keep the little man down. live fat and happy. don't worry about what effect your way of life has on global stability. and the most ambitious souls out there for power are the companies that we create to consolidate our compulsion for power. this is power over others, which is the unethical, destablizing kind of power. it simply puts the powerful people in a position to lazily have broad sweeping effects over people who have less power to control, and protect their own destiny against those who would have you bend to their will, reguardless of the detriment caused to you. it puts the people, whose personal power has been trampled on, in a reactionary position, because they have little left to loose. do you see what i'm getting at here? our clash with middle eastern culture is, and always has been about our arrogant ways as a runaway capitalist nation. we no longer have any control over the institutionalization of compulsively seeking ever expanding power, which is what our nation has become. and in the process, we are giving rise to the militantism of the middle east.
I would like to acknowledge Rhyanon Sorensons blog entry http://www.progressiveu.org/153045-man-of-the-year-rhyanon-tells-it-like-it-is Man of the Year (Rhyanon tells it like it is), to which this blog entry began as a response, and evolved into something more.
Real change can't come about by rearranging your political attitude. Reform is adding more stuff to an already well messed up pot of shitty stew. The reason this is so is that the cognative structures of humanity have stagnated into festering cesspools of archaic perception and have been institutionalized. These institutions (of perception, symbology, ideology, language, etc.; anything commonly accepted as "the way things are.") are, quite literally, monolithic structures weighing on the spirit of the human race, un-yielding to the degree that we wake up in the moring and continue to percieve our existence in a manner which will support our membership in the culture club that we call the status quotient.
Attached to this entry is an essay writen for my english 102 class on T.S. Elliots poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". The poem is dificult to analyze, but if you would like to read it, follow this link http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/781.html. The quotations in the essay are taken from the poem. I am presenting this in order to spawn a discourse on what I see as a general crises of identity (verying in degree from one society to the next) suffered by the vast majority of the human race, and resulting in an array of problems for indivuals and the societies they live in ranging from debilitating anxiety, to violent conflict and repression, to epidemics of suicide, mental illness .
