The Media Pandemics and Power

oy vey! and here's a screenshot to give you a taste of its madness... http://i50.tinypic.com/2mn0n0y.png

This is on concen, a private tracker..

fucking right-wing jackasses and their dumb conspiracy theories. Instead of targetting their outrage on the countries and elites at the top of the hierarchy of global power and the real perpetrators of violence, death, mass-murder and economic exploitation, these right-wing jackasses spin elaborate and utterly ridiculous conspiracy theories and waste their energy and time on the wrong targets: mostly useless and powerless organizations like the UN, the poor and racial minorities and brown people who are some of the most powerless in this world, the awesome, all-encompassing power of The Zionists, the New World Order, etc.

What makes me really angry about this kind of crap is that we are at one of the most precarious times in human civilization. And instead of directing our energy and ingenuity as human beings towards averting global disaster and human misery and catastrophe during this crucial time in human civilization, we have instead people churning out crap like this.

We are facing catastrophic climate change that will result in food and water shortages, and inevitable military conflicts resulting from that. And while all this is about to happen, the left is at its lowest point. There isn't an intellectual and organizational left out there strong enough to combat right-wing populism and the consolidation of wealth and power and resources by the elites and the countries currently at the top of the hierarchy of world affairs, which are mostly countries in the West of course, who have benefitted from centuries of colonial plunder, genocide, and imposition of power-structures like global capitalism that have rigged the game in their favour because of the head-start they have gotten in industrializing and in rigging the game of global capitalism, not to mention the giant advantage they got from bleeding the Global South dry by slaughtering their people and looting their resources, stunting their growth in the process, and then just continuing to pile onto them as they suffered through post-colonial strife consisting of ethnic violence, civil war resulting from artificial borders created by their erstwhile colonial masters, who then have the nerve to prattle on about "human rights" even as they used those ethnic divisions and strife in those countries and inflamed them even more to consolidate power and control over resources in those countries, or as part of the power-struggle during the Cold War between the US and the USSR, where those lowly brown people were simply pawns to be used and slaughtered as one empire fought another through proxy throughoug the Third World.

Thanks to "free trade", global capitalism is now an even more insurmountable pyramid scheme, where capital is unrestricted by the old restrictions of nation-states, and liberal democratic politics have proven to be a complete and utter failure in taming capitalism the way it was able to do during the New Deal. Social democracy has also failed. You see it in Europe where right-wing nationalism, fascism and barbarism is once again on the march. I've never been much convinced by this narrative that sprang up about Europe being this great bastion of peace as a counter-weight to American belligerance. Say what you will about America, but the New World, in which I include America and Canada, are fundamentally different from Europe because they are countries of immigrants that are built on multi-national and multi-ethnic identity. Europe on the other hand was one of the most bloodthirty, violent, savage and racist continents that ever existed in the history of the planet, and when Europeans weren't spreading genocidal terror against the darkies all over the world, they were killing themselves over national identity and cultural chauvenism. The rise of right-wing nationalism, racism, and nationalism in Europe should be expected as this is what Europe has always been about. And in a world facing increasing economic pressures, combined with climate change catastrophe, you can expect this to only worse.

Politics has failed, and failed spectacularly. Revolutions are always a mixed bag and ugly, nasty and full of bloodbaths, despite the romanticizing of the left. But yes, sometimes they are necessary.. but there needs to be a left to set up the groundwork.. intellectually and organizationally before you can even begin to talk about revolution. But there is no strong left in existence. The left has never recovered from its association with the USSR and the spectacular failure and savage barbarism of the Soviet state. Liberals for a while were smugly proclaiming themselves victorious after the end of the Cold War (End of the History and all that), and smugly ushering in the era of the liberal democratic world order (read, the white, Western liberal democratic world order). But the same "liberal democratic" world order that white, WEstern liberals are so eager to proclaim as the End of History is the same liberal democratic world order that is responsible for rapacious global capitalism, for the mindless mass-consumerism, unsustainable economic systems that have severely degraded the planet's ecosystems, for imperialism and the slaughter of brown people by those very same "liberal" and "democratic" Western countries for the purpose of controlling resources, maintaining their power and grip on the world in order to sustaining the extravagant lifestyles of the citizens in those wonderful "liberal", "democratic" Western countries.

No, Western "liberal democracy" is also a failure. Forget the part of externalizing economic costs into the 3rd world and the savage imperialism and violence and mass-murder that these wonderful WEstern "liberal democracies" cause.. even for their own Western, white citizens, liberal democracy seems to have run its course and has failed. The structural problems caused by capitalism and its inevitable tendency to filter wealth and power to the very top means the elites in those countries control the policies, and most ordinary citizens find themselves helpless and unable to affect any real change through politics. No, I don't see any means by which politics will combat the savage forces that will be unleashed as the world lurches into a Hobessian state resulting from climate change, food and water shortages and war.

And instead of cataloguing all these real problems, and identifying the real culprits, we get crap like this. It makes me despair of the human race.

Temptation, nicely spoken! agreed! do you have a blog or something, or was this a New Year's drunken rant?

Temptation i have few questions for you, first off did you even see that presentation?
Second are you sure you posted your comments on right torrent?
If answer is yes to above questions then please enlighten me what part of that presentation is "right-wing" and how did you arrive at that conclusion?

Temptation says.

"Say what you will about America, but the New World, in which I include America and Canada, are fundamentally different from Europe because they are countries of immigrants that are built on multi-national and multi-ethnic identity."

Genocide of the native population, slavery and the mistreatment of Mexicans along great crimes against Asians are part of your noble vision, I guess.

White racism has never changed...

Thanks for your comment Temptation. I dunno if it really relates to this lecture. Otherwise I pretty much agree.

(Western)Europe has been rather civilized since WWII. Maybe it learned something or maybe it is just powerless. I wouldn't say social democracy has failed in Europe. It has lost some influence, but it is not dead and not so bad. Former Eastern Europe is still not too keen on anything related to left or social. Neither Britain and... There are problems everywhere, but the Netherlands and Nordic Countries are still standing quite ok.

And surely left vs. right fight is oversimplification. Democratic vs. autocratic, oligopolic or plutocratic is sometimes more helpful. There are good and bad people on right and left.