Yes, the world is an increasingly insecure place.
Aren't the neolibs/neocons the first ones to point out that democracy (tm) has spread over the past 20 years, and that the number of actual wars (international and internal) has never been lower today?
Aren't they also saying that the supposed new threats are of the kind that does not have easy military solutions (terrorism, digital warfare)?
Aren't they building that discourse on the fact that the very causes of insecurity (market labor "flexibility", deregulation, capital volatility) that they use to play fearmongerers have even less of a military answer? In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Yes, the world is an increasingly insecure place.Aren't the neolibs/neocons the first ones to point out that democracy (tm) has spread over the past 20 years, and that the number of actual wars (international and internal) has never been lower today?
Today, we will visit a textbook example of how narratives interact with each other to create semi-structural myths which in turn can get close to losing internal coherence. ... ... You can say completely contradictory things at different times, but not at the same time. This is the only way we have to generate converts to the enlightenment movement. In other words, only when a statement or discourse is in direct contradiction with itself and immediate reality can we reach the guys at the other side of our enlightenment narrative/mythology. But we have to reach them, otherwise, they will forget.
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... You can say completely contradictory things at different times, but not at the same time. This is the only way we have to generate converts to the enlightenment movement.
In other words, only when a statement or discourse is in direct contradiction with itself and immediate reality can we reach the guys at the other side of our enlightenment narrative/mythology. But we have to reach them, otherwise, they will forget.
