The Political Battle Royal

[eaglesurvivor]

An activist knows that he/she needs all the allies that come his/her way. However, most are programmed for destruction. It’s fine to mention the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) and their dangers; however I will take an aside from Albert Camus here. Events and affects are not linear. The MIC is organized by think tanks, which are more appropriately called policy institutes. There, the corporatism media and corporatism academia, public and private: intermingle, cross-pollinate, and cooperate.

One of the results is what is put forth in Political Science courses. In the ‘60s the slang for this was poly-sci. When I observed what was really taught, I tabbed it poly-sci-fi. (I still usually have to explain this to folks.) Political spectra are NOT linear. Its whole inception is pure Hegel. The thesis and antithesis of left and right is an example of planned opposition. How do I know this? Observe the synthesis: the left is the right. Well, I just slaughtered many folks’ sacred bovine, but someone has to be the hatchetman and the trumpet blower.

When one looks at highly influential folks in the arena of politics, over the past decades, and looks at their resumes, before and after, one sees the world of academia. The quintessential example would be Zbigniew Brzezinski. Is he left or right? Pundits on both “sides” have never been able to give an answer. Here the media follows the academia to select the approved talking points for the populace. The populace seems to never see the policy institutes behind the curtain and thus the machinations of the MIC. They understand Camus and therefore practice patient gradualism. Their goals are really never finally accomplished. The activist must be the same way. Any victories are transitory. At the end of The Plague, Camus noted, “the rats will return to the city.” Therefore, we must always keep trying. There is always that hope that activists will be focused upon the task at hand and not be infected with any sort of MIC disease.