Re: US Foreign Policy Is A War On Disobedience - Caitlin Johnstone Archived Message
Posted by Si on July 7, 2019, 10:28 pm, in reply to "Re: US Foreign Policy Is A War On Disobedience - Caitlin Johnstone"
You seem to be turning a blind eye and deaf ear on what CJ said, and my criticism of it. Look again at the bits I bolded and underlined. T, I spoke to those, expressly - look again. Beware of calls for something NEW, for something "wildly unprecedented." Instead, we ought to revive the timeless principles and truths, and get back into the habit of obeying conscience and the laws and principles that arise from conscience consciousness. As I said, 'there's nothing in [CJ's] output to suggest she would merrily jettison truth and beauty, or any such things worthy of cherishing'. At any rate, those 'laws and principles' which you / we yearn to see being upheld, are ethereal - we carry them always - - 'cept many...let's face it, most people never connect with a benign consciousness - such is the overwhelmingly malignant virulence of State violence on the human psyche at large. And it's the centuries old crushing certainty of State Violence and State Control that has seen to it that those principals have never held sway with anything even approximate to a universal reach - there's always some poor f*ckers suffering somewhere. We can't 'revive' that which never was. Even during the keenest periods of lucid thinking and reasoned propositioning (e.g. enlightenment/romantic), the world raged with horrors abounding. We see it nowadays; obvious truths are robotically intoned whilst yet more horrors are being enacted - think Hutton Report: 'Never Again...lessons to be learned', bark the State's megaphones as the same horrors are enacted in Libya - think CSC fingering Cameron for Libya: 'Never Again...lessons to be learned', bark the States megaphones as the same horrors are enacted in Syria...and so it goes. we can't allow the same old same old to continue to hold sway - therefore, we must try something 'NEW'. The way I see it, CJ is not suggesting that our valued principles ought to be 'abandoned', rather, we never saw them adequately realised in the first instance.
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