In terms of power, I know what the function of this type of theorising is : it's to create and maintain the notion of a common enemy. And the personal motives of the "analysts" may have something to do with the ease with which extremely conservative institutes and think-tanks facilitate their careers.
But still: it's so flabbergasting, this stuff, that one wonders where it comes from, and why it persists. There is something lacking in the world-view. Fanaticism could explain it. Is it enough to say that a fair number of American intellectuals are fanatics? Is there nothing more to say?
Is there nothing more to say?
Well...
These fuckers are crazy! (LEP)
Just go bomb China, if that's what you're gonna do (Lithium Cola/Radium Soda)
They've got me beat -- but, as we know, Americans are from Mars (Europeans are from Milky Way).
i'd be more inclined to use the word 'absolutists'....same difference, maybe.
it's most reflected in the barble belt mentality, with undertones of waco and jim jones' koolaide thrown in.
we are the best, godammit!
and i'm ready to die to prove that true!
send my son and daughter to war, let military spending pauperise my infrastructure, it's always their fault, but it's not their fault, they're not americans, so they don't get it, and they need a lot of firepower until they roll over and play nice...
if i were a cartoonist i'd draw a mexican standoff, with america on one side holding a quiver of ibcm's, and the chinese holding a bunch of treasury bills...
captioned: 'wtf are you going to do about it?' ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
