ONLINE GOLD: The fraud of postmodernism, the Freudian self and other narcissistic matters
Edition No. 7
EDITED BY PATRICE GREANVILLE
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Dispatch first iteration 0002 2017-20-17 | Collated and edited by Patrice Greanville
MAIN COMMENTERS: • Luciana Bohne • Bisharat Abbasi • Sherri Ingrey • William Shaw
"Postmodernism was an attempt to normalise the world as it is . . ."
Bisharat Abbasi for "capitalism is a system of terror" and other harsh truths.
( . . .and, among other profanities, postmodernism gave us the worst, most inhuman, most "because I can" architecture in the history of human efforts to secure shelter, a roof over our heads when it rained or snowed or baked . . . postmodern architecture should be preserved by future generations as a reminder of how capitalism, in its decayed stage, produced homelessness, mass dislocations, threw people out into the elements, and then erected hideous monuments to its desolation."
Sanagar Ali and 10 others.
Postmodernism was an attempt to normalise the world as it is, because by delegitimising questioning, and dubbing any attempt at changing the existing state of affairs as terrorism, it (postmodernism) indirectly legitimised "the terror of capital ". They called their western capitalist democracies the "lesser evil " as compared to the other existing political systems around the world. Conceiving a "lesser evil " in their bankrupt imagination and comparing it with an imagined and fabricated "grater evil" was the logic and strategy of postmodernism. This is the logic of late capitalism, a system bereft of ideas and imagination. Capitalism is a system of terror, and this terror is the terror of capital. We now live in the world that is ruled by a terroristic system we call capitalism , because capitalism is the mother of all terrorisms.
We have a word for it, and it's a word in the psychological discourse: narcissism. But I call it reactionary regression of the social.
"Because I'm WORTH it." L'Oreal commercial for hair dye in the 70s summed it all up.
"Narcissism or Counter-revolution?
Narcissisism fits rabid self-absorption nicely, and meshes with capitalist values extremely well.
Patriarchy has nothing to do with capitalism? You're joking, right?
Capitalism (the age of bourgeois rule, the age of the bourgeoisie, the age of liberalism) swept away feudalism (the age of aristocratic and ecclesiastical rule, the age of lords and serfs, the age of hierarchical absolutism). It swept away all the ideologies that pillared it, except two: patriarchy and religion, because these were tools of control.
If you believe that patriarchy has nothing to do with capitalism, all your struggles for gender rights are exercises in futility.
Capitalism, instead of eradicating "residual ideology" of feudalism, inferiorizing women, kept it going, until it became profitable (cheaper workers and added tax contributors) to "liberate' them and to turn them into collaborators for the status quo.
The ascension to political power (which followed upon economic power accumulated through hijacking the Industrial Revolution and plundering the "New World) of the bourgeois-era capitalist ruling class did not "liberate" women as a priority of principles.
One system that did, immediately, grant women and colonized people equality was not bourgeois-capitalist-liberalism. It was its historic challenger, which entered the stage of political, economic and human-development history in October of 1917.
Tfs Luciana Bohne.
The Patriarchy Strikes Back
"You want women in position of power? No problem, so long as they extend and enhance OUR power. Hell, we'll even give them equal rights previously reserved to men to bomb, maim, torture, and kill, to declare war, to incite hatred against neighbors, to sell arms that kill women and babies and young and old people. We are not fools. We know things have to change in order to stay the same. Thank you, Rachel, for your awesome contribution to the age-old patriarchal tradition of war, vengeance, and fratricidal hatred."--The Patriarchal Committee for the Advancement of Women.
Luciana Bohne shared teleSUR English's video.
And it's not like CIA intelligence in 2002-03 (when CIA, before Brennan, still had a separate research branch from operations) didn't tell mad dogs in Defense, State, and White house that Iraq would break apart and be split in three parts if attacked and invaded. Apparently, that's what the neo-cons wanted. All crimes, including by Isis are on the heads of Blair and Bush. That's the way the ball bounced at Nuremberg.
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Capitalism (the age of bourgeois rule, the age of the bourgeoisie, the age of liberalism) swept away feudalism (the age of aristocratic and ecclesiastical rule, the age of lords and serfs, the age of hierarchical absolutism). It swept away all the ideologies that pillared it, except two: patriarchy and religion, because these were tools of control. If you believe that patriarchy has nothing to do with capitalism, all your struggles for gender rights are exercises in futility.
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