[news] The Powerful Never Make Mistakes

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The Powerful Never Make Mistakes
by Marc Batko . 
<http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/?author=Marc+Batko&comments=yes> 
Sunday July 18, 2004 at 06:23 AM
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    Rejoice, you internationalistas, states are ennobled by justice, not
    by cowardice and fear. Rejoice, you critics, social criticisma nd
    prophetic criticism are correctives to one-dimensional delusions,
    leaven in a culture of resignation and helplessness.

THE POWERFUL NEVER MAKE MISTAKES

By Marc Batko

The powerful never make mistakes; every disaster is only a learning 
experience, an unfortunate product of botched intelligence.

Called to humility and interdependence, modern man in the Donald Duck 
culture is unable to see the deeper issues. Driven by shadow issues and 
wedge issues, we are tempted to trivialize quality of life issues.

Criticism multiplies as the contradictions and lies of the unprovoked 
unilateral US war on Iraq plunge the country into a quagmire. The 
specter of unending war darkens and blurs the future.

Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. The Hitler mindset saw only the 
soldier as a model of courage. The huckster culture that imagines the 
market as a self-healing panacea falls for Maudeville's fable of the 
bees. Everyone pursuing self-interest is said to create the common good.

In truth, the state has a social function and cannot be reduced to the 
power- and security state. The state is obliged to protect freedom of 
conscience and help those fallen under the wheel (cf. Dietrich 
Bonhoeffer's Ethics and Letters and Papers from Prison).

The social market economy sees the limits of the market economy and the 
necessity of state intervention and regulation. The state should 
prosecute market distortions and cushion and support those injured or 
excluded by the market.

In "1984", George Orwell warned that war would become a domestic 
necessity to divert the people from domestic economic collapse. 
Criticism and dissent would be expunged so people wouldn't even 
understand these words any more. Stripped of their individuality, people 
would be enveloped in newspeak (war is peace, freedom is slavery and 
truth is lies) and give birth for Big Brother.

In Plato's allegory of the cave, people would accept the image rather 
than reality. The enlightened striving to unmask the fraud are chased 
out of the city.

In "The Brothers Karamoazov", Dostoevsky prophesied that people would 
surrender their freedom for the Grand Inquisitor's promise of happiness. 
Today's Grand Inquisitor only promises unending preventive war and the 
Senate replied with a 515-page denunciation. Today's Grand Inquisitor 
promises distraction through a shadow or wedge issue and constitutional 
obfuscation, an amendment to take away equal protection and stylize 
marriage as a constitutional article rather than a civil religious 
affair of love. By a 50-48 vote, the Senate voided this constitutional 
amendment and obfuscation.

Early Christianity protested against wealth and militarism. As dogs 
return to their vomit, might is right and the warrior mentality are 
modern forms of vomit dressed as self-defense. War is a racket and a 
false unity, a false religion, false consciousness and false security.

Resistance is part of our nature as antibodies are part of our bodies. 
May we open ourselves to the rich tradition of resistance, to the 
resistance of historical victims of totalitarianism, to the resistance 
of nature and to the resistance of the Global South. Threatened with 
plutocracy, our state can choose the narrow way of democracy that 
includes economic democracy. Bewitched with the temptation of empire, we 
can plead for the republic with checks, balances and equal rights. 
Beguiled by myths of corporate beneficence and corporate personhood, 
freedom threatens to be reduced to property and contract.

The simple things are complicated in a culture of war-tainment and 
infotainment. Increasing purchasing power creates full employment. 
Subsidies to corporations produce deficits. Under-consumption and the 
collapse of the domestic economy and domestic demand are consequences of 
the unbridled market luring corporations with deregulation, 
privatization and liberalized capital markets..

Rejoice, you internationalistas, states are ennobled by justice, not by 
cowardice and fear.

Rejoice, you critics, social criticism and prophetic criticism are 
correctives to one-dimensional delusions, leaven in a culture of 
resignation and helplessness.

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