USA : Terrorist State - so what?
dev carter
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All countries or empires are born out of conflict and whatever it
takes to get the job done- migration, settlement, and ultimately
colonial displacement of indigenous populations.
Colonization to statehood comes hand in hand with the tactics of real
politic and thus with what ever quantum of "terror" necessary to do
the business of state building.
This is a natural process where the "strong" social system in an
evolutionary sense tends to destroy, displace, subjugate or transform
the "weaker" systems.
Transformation is the final process of assimilation and integration of
an indigenous population and aspects of its culture into the stronger
cultural system so the transformation is ultimately a two way process
of exchange.
The spoils of colonization are the spoils of victory - all the
resources of occupied lands, less the cost of retaining them from
competitors- liberators or colonizers that would seek to displace the
victors.
The transformation process leads to inter-marriage and a substantial
Creole population with multi-ethnic or multi-racial roots and a stake
in the evolving system. Post integration via the transformation
process, the indigenous element does not seek nor need liberation.
Most African-Americans would be aghast if Robert Mugabe sought to
liberate them from the hands of the white colonialists.
But in other colonial territories the situation is different. The
population of Gaza or in the West Bank under Israeli occupation for
decades would have no qualms about liberation from any Arab state or
Iran.
It is very important for the average US citizen to understand why this
is so.
The social systems I have been talking about are real things- made of
real people with attitudes, and wants and all the other psychological
and physiological characteristics of the human animal. Social systems
are open systems, which means the attributes including beliefs are not
"fixed in time" but are variable and open to revision as secular
knowledge progressively displaces traditional beliefs.
Naturally, some conservative diehards would like to maintain an
eternal "status quo" and preserve traditional belief in religion and
economics that support a conservative agenda from the inevitable
reality of revision and evolutionary transformation. They support the
teaching of creationism rather than the teaching of the science of
human evolution. In political office religious belief motivates their
pursuit of ideals irrespective of the impossibility of their
realization. They attempt to reverse engineer by propaganda the
reality of open social systems in order to create and manipulate them
geopolitically as "closed entities".
Thus colonizers and indigenous entities are no longer perceived
objectively as competitors but become moral entities in a diehard's
ideological cosmology. For the USA the Zionist colonizers are allies
exercising their right to pacification by military escalation, while
indigenous opponents such as Hezbolah and Hamas are denied any right
of militant self defense of territory.
The strength of the American diehards self-delusion was made plain in
the recent election campaign when McCain claimed that : "We're
Americans, we make history" rather than the more accurate "we make
more geopolitical and economic black holes with no light in sight"
There is no real difference between "principals" and "reified
culturally indoctrinated delusions that are impervious to change".
Thus the conservative diehard's America seeks to eliminate from its
empire any transformation process leading to assimilation and
integration and peace by compromise and consent. It thus opposes any
peace settlements which might demographically undermine the purity of
the Jewish ethnicity despite the growing probability of its
inevitability in the longer term.
Thus the terror that the USA aids and abets is religious terror not
for a viable peace but for preservation of the conservative illusion
of ersatz Israel of biblical prophesy. The problem for the USA as
terrorist state and would be empire, is that religious terror never
ends without the total annihilation of the competitor.
Attempting to manufacture a reality according to ideals that can never
be realized is to program one's social system for destruction by
exhaustion. There is no problem with the survival of a secular empire
given that it pursues goals that are attainable.
The "so what" for America is whether its social system has the
capacity of making the secular transformation necessary to understand
the limitation of "terror" as a political weapon- before it's too
late.
The world knows all about America's high stakes plan "A" and the
extensive role "terror" as a weapon plays in it, but is America
capable of creating a plan "B" to reign terror in?
Dev Carter