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July, 2006 Volume 2, Issue #4

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Politricks: The crusade for democracy - Page 3

Will the American people ever re-possess the power to regulate the financial system? We’ll see. Such a thing can happen. The principals in the Order can come to realize that their ideological basis, Malthusian Darwinism, is madness—and repudiate it. [2] They can pay their karmic debts to the people of this planet by reading Power Vs. Force (David Hawkins) and then committing themselves to cultivating real power--the power of compassion and service to life.

So, to tie this all this into the main theme: There are two foreign policy traditions in our American history. One is the tradition of anti-imperialism, as represented by the first George W; the other is the tradition of imperialism, as represented by the current George W—and a number of presidents before him. At present, the imperialists, supported by the New World Order, dominate our politics. For most these individuals, the “crusade for democracy” is merely a cover, a means of giving the color of noble virtue to their predatory enterprise and thereby enlisting the cooperation of the populace.

That the populace has been so slow in realizing all this is certainly one of the things that “went wrong.”

Three: If we’re going to go on a crusade for democracy, don’t you think we ought to have a very clear idea of what democracy is? Well, we don’t. For most Americans, it means simply “majority rule,” which is a very inadequate definition. I’m afraid that the political science department of our intellectual establishment has not served us as well as it should have. Allow me to define democracy from an holistic point of view, i.e., as it exists within the pattern of history….

Karl Marx gave the name “dialectical materialism” to his theory of the pattern of history. Material conditions play a causative role in history, for sure, but it is belief systems that provide the real drive behind historical process. Thus I emphasize the importance of beliefs in my theory of historical process, which I call dialectical idealism. An idealism is a belief system; and a dialectic is a conversation (when the parties involved are polite) or a conflict (when they’re not.)

The most basic opposing belief systems I term “holism” and “separatism,” the latter being ideology that is significantly separated from holism. We are all born “holistics”; which is to say, the holistic nature of existence is programmed into every cell of our bodies. Supportive of this view is the fact that most, if not all, aboriginal peoples believe that all life forms are familial. This vision of life is summarized in the Native American expression “We are all related.”

“Shades of the prison house grow up around us as we grow,” wrote the poet William Wordsworth. So true. We are educated in (not born with) separatist modes of belief. These days, certain separatist beliefs are unbelievably extreme. Take for example the “philosophy” of Dr. Eric R. Pianka, aka “the Lizard Man,” of the University of Texas at Austin. Next > 1 2 3 4 5

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