The (evil) permanent war economy and the USAmerikan Empire

[ProudDad]

While You are Minding Your Own Business, The U.S. is Constantly Making War Around the Globe

Newspeak, as Orwell imagined it, was an ever more constricted form of English that would, sooner or later, make "all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended," he wrote in an appendix to his novel, "that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought... should be literally unthinkable."

When it comes to war (and peace), we live in a world of American Newspeak in which alternatives to a state of war are not only ever more unacceptable, but ever harder to imagine. If war is now our permanent situation, in good Orwellian fashion it has also been sundered from a set of words that once accompanied it.

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And peace itself? Simply put, there's no money in it. Of the nearly trillion dollars the U.S. invests in war and war-related activities, nothing goes to peace. No money, no effort, no thought. The very idea that there might be peaceful alternatives to endless war is so discredited that it's left to utopians, bleeding hearts, and feathered doves. As in Orwell's Newspeak, while "peace" remains with us, it's largely been shorn of its possibilities. No longer the opposite of war, it's just a rhetorical flourish embedded, like one of our reporters, in Warspeak.

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http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/142824

Piss on ALL Flags!!!

[leftstreet]

1. "And peace itself? Simply put, there's no money in it"

K&R

[Cali_Democrat]

2. K&R!!

:thumbsup:

[raccoon]

3. one more gets this on Greatest, c'mon! nt

[truedelphi]

6. Trolls marked this down to three rec's when I got to it

It now stands at four recs.


Is this place "Democraticunderground" or "TrollBasement"???

[Jokerman]

4. K & R

[imdjh]

5. Orwell shorthand- psychedelic relic alert.

[SIMPLYB1980]

7. No wonder the republican's over the past

30 years or so have had a lock on the military vote. Piss on your own flag leave mine alone.

[ProudDad]

8. Too late

I guess I pissed on yours when I resigned from the U.S. Navy because that bird-brain Lyndon Johnson wanted me to murder Vietnamese innocents for the USAmerikan Empire.

I continue to Piss on All Flags...

ALL "nations" are evil fictions...

[anonymous171]

9. Oh OK then, let's kill every American, since America is the problem.

If the American nation is the problem, then it is logical to assume that the next step would be to destroy it.

[ProudDad]

10. Are you naturally obtuse or...

is it a carefully cultivated state of (so-called) mind?

Thanks for the straw-man -- wanna' try again?

The USAmerikan Empire is the biggest problem because it's the biggest crook (25% of the Earth's resources for 4% of the population).

We don't have to kill ALL the people, just kill corporate capitalism...

[ProudDad]

11. Damn, are the right-wingers comin' home from "work"?

This thread keeps going up and down like a yo-yo...

You just can't handle the truth, eh?


(Gee, I wonder how many of the unrecs didn't bother reading the article...hmmmm? :shrug:)

[OneBlueSky]

12. "The human chauvinism that has so narrowed our vision that we can talk of . . .

'nuclear survival' and spend a million dollars per minute on weapons of cosmic destruction must cease. It is religion's task to reintroduce a cosmic vision, a less arrogant and less humanly chauvinist way of seeing our world. It is also religion's task to motivate for discipline and sacrifice, for the deep letting go of which humans are capable. Today it is more and more evident that the time has come for humanity to let go of war, to admit that it has outgrown war, and to move beyond war as a way of settling differences. Just as humanity one hundred years ago outlawed slavery, so it is capable today of outlawing war."
Fox, Matthew, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Bear & Company, Inc., 1983.

no, outlawing war will not bring it to an end, just as outlawing slavery hasn't halted human trafficking . . . but a declaration/agreement of that nature would at least put the human race on record as making the elimination of war among its highest priorities for this and future generations . . . certainly can't hurt, and might just help . . .