13-09-2019, 01:56 PM
Carsten Wiethoff Wrote:Hi David, good to "see" you again.
Did you ever read the original document by PNAC? It is the perfect encapsulation of the NeoCon mindset, the world is basically ours, and all we need to do is play the right cards at the right time, and the stupid American people will give us any authorization. All others, like Germany and Britain are our vassals anyway and are not even asked for their opinion.
It is the same mass-murdering arrogance that smells out of Brzezinskys (or similar) book "The Grand Chessboard". Kind of the American "Mein Kampf".
Interesting fact: for a long time it was basically impossible to read "The Grand Chessboard" in English and completely impossible to read it in German, so only very few Germans knew about the content of the book. Then a small, somewhat obscure publisher (Kopp Verlag) gained the rights and did a completely legit German translation of the book, marketing it for under 10 Euro.
https://www.amazon.de/Die-einzige-Weltma...166&sr=8-1
The German title is "Die einzige Weltmacht" (The only Superpower).
After Kopp made advertisements for this and other books on german railway stations, the german railway was forced to cancel the contracts, because allegedly Kopp Verlag had a extreme right wing, Nazi program, which is completely counterfactual.
Imagine: "American Neocons" suppress advertisements for the scriptures of their own supreme leader, some Germans might actually read them and get the correct impression...
Yup Carsten, I have read that odious document a number of times. Like you I was astonished by the sheer self-serving arrogance shown in it. The quicker the neocons get nailed to their own cross the better for me.
I didn't know about the German translation of the Grand Chessboard (I read this equally noxious book decades ago btw), but am not really surprised. Things are somewhat changing in Germany and Europe now but Merkel has been a US pawn in the past. Sad. But I live in the ultimate poodle paradise when it comes to having an elite that bends over every time America coughs. I suspect that the UK will be the very last nation on earth to cut the binding ties from Washington...
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