#5 BGLass | 2011-11-18 10:35
Didn't really follow it, but at a glance, that's what seemed so weird about blackwater--- marking that shift from the people-nation to the corporatocracy proper (fascism), and seemed no one knew what we were supposed to be saying about ourselves.
Either we can just hire the best from anywhere, or we can't. And if we do, is that fascism? Libertarianism? Statism? What? And then--- Who's the top dog using the public money (everyone's attempt at saving something of what they earn) to buy the best from someplace else?
Obviously, such an army could never have what Sun Tzu called the 'moral law.'
Nevertheless: shouldn't the people benefitting pay for their own people...or what? And who's benefitting?
It's a case, really, of the yankee nation mentality, imo (just can see it no other way). They want to have their cake, and eat it, too, and even that's not enough, b/c they want everybody to LOVE them, on top of all that. 'everything that's mine is mine, and everything that's yours is mine, and you shall adore me for it!" It is quite special.
So, they want to be patriotic (b/c that's nice and full of good songs and symbolism and creates a nice warm runny feeling in their tummy, and they feel great!)--- AND they want to not have to pay, AND they want the best muscle on earth from anywhere on earth, AND everyone should love them...AND... and
It's exactly like the "suburbs" writ large... Like the old Arthurdales or Levittowns or green towns. The 'BEST OF BOTH WORLDS."
This is what they want--- everything and without paying for it. The illusion of the country with the "convenience" of the cities (meaning they don't cook, clean, grow anything, care for a yard, etc, etc...
In other words, having an APARTMENT, lol, with nyc chinese laundries, BUT in a country setting.
What they call "The New South" is exactly that. Mansions built 3 feet from each other, b/c people would not know what to do with a yard. A larger apartment, essentially, (lol). Many subdivisions are this way, and with "strip malls" (plenty of shopping and choice of various sugar products for food, which is what freedom is, in this setup---and these strip malls must be identical and ten feet away, just on the other side of the 'country' landscaping). The "country-city" illusion that nyc people are accustomed to and try to parlay into middle america.
To be free, in having choice of products, IS what patriotism is to some of the foreigners who came to the u.s..
Anyway, the bottom line is something for nothing.
the armies are just like eleanor roosevelt's and levitt's suburbs. At heart, scamming. But it's not the fault of the average people just trying "to make it."
Trauma-based control seems key.
Early trauma (or being convinced to frame one's life that way, in some regard, as a victim, etc.)---- makes epople yearn, makes them hungry, makes them feel "not enough."
angrily, they all want to "get their own." To get a little something for nothing ('the best of both worlds')--- this is payback for what was taken, for what wasn't fair.
Individually, the main thing to fight--- is wanting something for nothing, in return for what was taken away unfairly.
that feeling is inculcated in everyone, at any level, rich-poor, educated or not, etc.