20-12-2016, 08:50 AM
Quote:If there are indeed foreign intelligence services with their "thumb" in the American election, arguably it is those European services that are feeding the "profound" propaganda threat from Russia meme and thereby helping in the delegitimization of the U.S. President-elect, and to keeping the new Cold War alive. (There are European states deeply opposed to any rapprochement between the U.S. and Russia).
Crooke couldn't possibly be pointing a finger at Blighty's best foreign shit-stirrer could he, his old chums at MI6 when he references "European services"?
I also noted his earlier observations:
Quote:And on top of this has been the political malaise and widespread reaction against the center-leftist "values-based," identity politics that stressed the rights and interests of a growing spectrum of "victims" in society: specifically defined in polar opposition to the mainstream American and European way-of-life.
The aggressiveness behind this polar oppositional positioning, intentionally demonizes and weakens the cultural mainstream: in effect, ordinary people who worked, had loving wives or husbands and children, and attended church, became the "deplorables," bigots or racists. It was against this supposed cultural "tyranny" that identity victims needed to be supported.
Gender relations were twisted as new genders proliferated, the propaganda of gender diversity exploded, and parent-children relations eroded. Indeed, "white," "male" and "Christian" are the only identities you may freely and gratuitously abuse in the U.S. and Europe today. Many ordinary Americans and Europeans find this intolerable. They are pushing-back.
the aggressiveness behind these polar oppositional forces "intentionally demonizes and weakens the cultural mainstream".... and "'white male', 'male', and 'Christian' are the only identities you may freely and gratuitously abuse in the US and Europe today", which has caused a "push back".
"intentionally demonizes and weakens"...
How else can we interpret Crooke's observations other than that he is interpreting these events as designed cultural engineering that has one purpose and one purpose only; to cause a "push back"? And the purpose of that would be:
Quote:"...Worse, it looks like questioning the electoral process and the legitimacy of the election itself may become a permanent feature of our domestic politics, inciting further divisiveness and bitterness on both sides of the political divide, rendering the country (even more) ungovernable."
Who on earth would benefit from permanently destabilising the electoral process and domestic politics that is aimed at creating "divisiveness and bitterness of both sides of the political divide" that results in, presumably, "rendering the country [countries] ungovernable?
What is Crooke trying to tell us here, I wonder?
It sounds to me to be very much a case of the Hegelian dialectic being played out in the background.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14