20-12-2016, 11:44 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:I thought Israel was the only country allowed to influence US elections.
For my many sins, I rather suspect a larger - or should I say "wider" - circle of interests than simply Israel.
Hegel's dialectic is a de facto strategy of tension, because Hegel's whole point was about the creation of two opposing poles (thesis, antithesis) set in a tension that develops a third or alternate factor (synthesis) that is born as a consequence.
It seems to me that Crooke is suggesting this, not inly in regard to America but the western model of rule also when he observes:
'...the aggressiveness behind these polar oppositional forces "intentionally demonizes and weakens the cultural mainstream."'
And when he adds to that the following:
'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."'
He is, I suspect, drawing from the prior two examples of the Jeremy Corbyn election result being contested by the neoliberal faction of the Labour Party, and also the contested result of Brexit. Trump was simply the third case where this has occurred.
Having drawn from those three examples he then extrapolates a future course of events, namely: nations will become ungovernable.
Where has we seen this before? The Balkanization of Syria, Libya and the middle east as a whole (not to mention the former Yugoslavia). Ergo, a strategy of tension that leads to a fairly decisive measure of political destabilization of targeted western nations making traditional government impossible.
It's the old divide and conquer strategy repackaged.
All we have to do is accurately identify who the "synthesis" is.
As Tooth says... I'll get my coat...
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