A Boy Named Sue and the False American Dream 19 comments

8 Nov 2008 @ 16:06, by Max Sandor Amidst concerns for the future of mankind, shortly after a nice little home-brewn monetary crisis, here comes the new American dream, revisited 2008: Barack Obama. Fascinating to watch how the mass media switches from whining to hoping, worldwide, unisono, of course, with no major newspaper detracting. This alone should give you to think: how come? Where's the catch? First of all, the actual politics is made by 545 people, see Merlin's wise words [link] ! Even more of concern should be Obama's team. Quote from [link] : "Obama's main overall image adviser and foreign policy adviser is Zbigniew Brzezinski, the co-founder of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission, and the mastermind of the disastrous Carter administration." What about economy: (again quoted) "From Wikipedia: 'Austan D. Goolsbee is an economist and is currently the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is also a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation[1], Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of the Panel of Economic Advisors to the Congressional Budget Office." So, there you have it! Nothing NEW, in the contrary, America goes back to the time of Jimmy Carter, congratulations, good luck, folks! Obama in short: new face, same old... But enough of this negativity! Let's "think positive" for a moment! Let's go.. WHAT IF, yes, what if the idea that is supposedly behind the masterplan of our rulers were true? Meaning, that the interpretation of Kant's 'thesis-antithese-synthesis' were correct, which would, in the extreme, mean that 'war creates evolution of man' (or at least accelerates it)? A bold move, which reminds me of: Johnny Cash's little long song "A boy named Sue" [link] . In the song, the boy named Sue by his dad and abandoned when he was three, as an adult finally finds his pa and beats him up in a terrible fight, ready to kill him. Then he lets his dad talk: [quote] "And he said: "Son, this world is rough And if a man's gonna make it, he's gotta be tough And I knew I wouldn't be there to help ya along. So I give ya that name and I said goodbye I knew you'd have to get tough or die And it's the name that helped to make you strong." [end quote] For some (many?) this is reasonable and there seems to be some truth in it. Just like a war destroying a country is giving a new opportunity to rebuild everything in a 'better way'. But to force this pattern into the category of a 'synthesis' is a fallacy in thinking. People "get going" when they have to do so. When the "level of necessity" is high enough that complacency and laziness cannot be continued, people "get going". This model is much simpler than Kant's meanderings, and, using Occam's razor. , methinks it is time to throw away the garbage of thesis-antithesis-synthesis to where it belongs. Or, more politely, bury it on the graveyard of Memes that aren't useful anymore. Mankind seems to have made some rapid progress in a short time. To claim it was the succession of wars is a mad theory but the opposite cannot be proven either, of course. Not to speak of the degeneration of language and other cultural cornerstone in recent years, amongst other a result of a despicable low level of culture in the mass media. Nevertheless, we are at the brink of "waking up" as a species. And this is NOT a False American Dream like replacing the captain of a sinking ship. It is a growing reality that more and more humans leave their belief systems behind, shrug off their indoctrinations, seeing the world with new eyes, thereby transcending their reality. Timothy Leary's dream [link] is coming true. But not for those who keep on dreaming that Obama's election would be a step forward without seeing that he's going three steps behind at the same time, becoming just another Jimmy Carter. It's coming true for those of us that have the courage to look at what is happening in front of us. This morning when I said I might be writing about what I then wrote and what you've read right now, Heloisa asked me with surprise: "But, this is so obvious, it's OBVIOUS, why would you write about this?, it's so obvious...". Hmmm... I did anyway, as you noticed .;)

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