Monday Morning Deepthink
Tigerhawk mulls Obamian anti-Americanism and creative destruction. Or maybe that should be destructive creation. What do I know, I went to a state university. He’s the Princeton brainiac. It does have a bit of that old world Phoenix myth, Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva thing about it, even though it’s all New World. But you’ve got to ask yourself, which came first: Chicken … or egg? If the New World didn’t exist to destroy the Old World, would the Old World have to create the New World in order to destroy itself and be recreated … Or did it? And if that happened, would the Old World resist, try to destroy the New World … OK, I’ll shut up now … American tabloid journalist head hurt from effort. Must … watch … TV … now. Ed TV. See Ed … strip away … all mystery … Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:10 am Comments (7) on Monday, February 25, 2008
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February 25th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Jules, I thought you would say more about that complete load of BS Obama crapped out about troops having to “capture Taliban weapons” because they couldn’t get any of their own.
I’m getting used to troops being used as political pawns, but that was so out of line (and so haplessly impossible and easily refuted) that it flummoxed me.
February 25th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
On further inspection of your website, I see that I was wrong. My apologies, Jules.
February 25th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
The Asia Times piece was very interesting. Like Tigerhawk, I take some of it with a grain of salt, but a whole lot of it agrees with some of my own impressions. I have to repeat part of what Tigerhawk found compelling:
America is not the embodiment of hope, but the abandonment of one kind of hope in return for another. America is the spirit of creative destruction, selecting immigrants willing to turn their back on the tragedy of their own failing culture in return for a new start. Its creative success is so enormous that its global influence hastens the decline of other cultures. For those on the destruction side of the trade, America is a monster…..
He goes on to say:
the purpose of life is to create, and all creation requires destruction. We complete ourselves by creating, and also destroying. Most Americans understand this deep down. It is far from obvious that most other people in the world, whose ancestors did not avail themselves of America’s new start and many second chances, agree either that creation is the purpose of life or that all acts of creation also destroy (although it does appear that a couple hundred million people in each of China and India are catching on fast). If true, then we should neither be surprised by anti-Americanism nor expect it to change without sacrificing the essential characteristic that makes America exceptional. (emphasis mine)
Exactly so.
February 25th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Hope. What’s so great about hope? America was built on the backs of people who stopped hoping, and instead took it upon themselves to make things happen.
February 25th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
It’s interesting to note (well, okay, I think it is) that, in one interpretation, the ancient Greeks included “hope” in Pandora’s box not, as we view it, to help humans endure the sufferings unleashed when she opened the container; but because they viewed “hope” as an evil that was just as malevolent and dangerous as greed and lust and envy and the other ills.
February 25th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Hope.
February 27th, 2008 at 11:59 am
LOL Robert. I love those Despair posters, we even bought a few for the office.