Such a good argument! I suppose the idealist, to be an idealist, must maintain a disjunction between their idealism and empirical actuality, in the worrying tradition of " reality creation". In that sense the idealist and the religious dogmatist have in common a belief in the imposition on reality of their supposedly superior epistemology, which can hardly expect to avoid strong resistance from actuality itself. The idealist seems to be a subjectivist convinced of the objectivity of their internal representations, which seems to be a form of insanity, of demanding that maps dictate territory. Does the situation of privilege and the hidden desire to preserve, maintain and advance it not perhaps constitute part of the causality of the idealist disorder? Does the conflict with the old civilisation of Russia afford the adolescent empire of the USA an opportunity to grow up? What a pity the cost must be so high of so much power being in the hands of such a disturbed system of denials, dogmatism and aggression!
The "idealism" Glenn talks about is a fake idealism that serves as pretext for imperial expansion of Western hegemony.
In previous ages, humans used religion as a pretext for fighting wars against those who worshipped different gods from our own. Since secular society cannot use religion for imperial expansion, we have invented a secular ideology of human rights and democracy for which we ought to fight wars.
The irony is that by "promoting democracy" worldwide as pretext for imperial expansion, we destroy democracy at home and abroad. At home, because we need to lie about our real intentions and because we have to suppress dissenting voices. Abroad, because we corrupt the democratic process in foreign countries by bankrolling dissidents who serve our geopolitical aims but not necessarily the interests of their own country.
The perfidy is that many people sincerely believe in human rights and democracy without being aware that they are being used for imperial aims. That's probably the reason why the Neocons today are liberals rather than conservatives.
In your logic Glenn then NATO should have bombed Belarus when they joined the union with Russia. Why Russia move its borders closer to NATO be expanding towards west?
Nukes in Belarus is an existential threat to Europe and NATO. It should be balanced by moving NATO missiles on the Russian borders.
Such a good argument! I suppose the idealist, to be an idealist, must maintain a disjunction between their idealism and empirical actuality, in the worrying tradition of " reality creation". In that sense the idealist and the religious dogmatist have in common a belief in the imposition on reality of their supposedly superior epistemology, which can hardly expect to avoid strong resistance from actuality itself. The idealist seems to be a subjectivist convinced of the objectivity of their internal representations, which seems to be a form of insanity, of demanding that maps dictate territory. Does the situation of privilege and the hidden desire to preserve, maintain and advance it not perhaps constitute part of the causality of the idealist disorder? Does the conflict with the old civilisation of Russia afford the adolescent empire of the USA an opportunity to grow up? What a pity the cost must be so high of so much power being in the hands of such a disturbed system of denials, dogmatism and aggression!
The "idealism" Glenn talks about is a fake idealism that serves as pretext for imperial expansion of Western hegemony.
In previous ages, humans used religion as a pretext for fighting wars against those who worshipped different gods from our own. Since secular society cannot use religion for imperial expansion, we have invented a secular ideology of human rights and democracy for which we ought to fight wars.
The irony is that by "promoting democracy" worldwide as pretext for imperial expansion, we destroy democracy at home and abroad. At home, because we need to lie about our real intentions and because we have to suppress dissenting voices. Abroad, because we corrupt the democratic process in foreign countries by bankrolling dissidents who serve our geopolitical aims but not necessarily the interests of their own country.
The perfidy is that many people sincerely believe in human rights and democracy without being aware that they are being used for imperial aims. That's probably the reason why the Neocons today are liberals rather than conservatives.
In your logic Glenn then NATO should have bombed Belarus when they joined the union with Russia. Why Russia move its borders closer to NATO be expanding towards west?
Nukes in Belarus is an existential threat to Europe and NATO. It should be balanced by moving NATO missiles on the Russian borders.