November 11,
2019 "Information
Clearing House"
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“Hubris” is defined as
rash and foolish pride, a dangerous
overconfidence, manifested with arrogance.
The Deep State vaunts our “exceptionalism”,
and since Reagan’s “City on a Hill” trope
Americans have been assured by all
succeeding Presidents that ours is the
“indispensible nation”. The word describes
the way America sells itself to the world,
and has for generations.
The
yawning cognitive gap between our
nomenklatura’s relentless self-promotion and
its pathetic history of botched, humiliating
failures in every single act of Imperial
overreach, demands examination. Are we at
Peak Hubris? When exactly should the hubris
of a vicious, lying, sloganeering criminal
state be identified as what it is, a cover
for unhinged stupidity?
Viz.
the deranged, hysterical Democratic Party, a
subsidiary of the Deep State, led--if that
term applies--by a geriatric clutch of
morally squalid throwbacks and vacuous
nonentities, which has its Depends in a knot
in the effort to blame the entire debacle of
recent U.S. historic crime on the repulsive
Yahoo squatting in the White House. As
Einstein observed, all explanations should
be as simple as possible...but no simpler.
Of
all the villainies attributed to Trump by
Democrats and the Deep State--the Power
Elite, Establishment, Ruling Clique,
Permanent Unelected Government--the most
egregious and only unforgivable one, is that
his gross and vulgar bathos in Holy Office
has exposed and profoundly embarrassed them,
punching holes in their diligently crafted
image. The Masters of Disaster can’t
tolerate open revelation of their evil,
witness the methodical crushing of a roster
of whistleblowers, among whom the most
damning and brutally handled are Manning,
Assange, and Snowden. Two are jailed on
bogus “charges” in peril of their lives, and
Snowden is in exile, only free because the
vengeful engine of American “justice” can’t
nail him.
The
three have exposed the hubris of
“Exceptional America” far more substantively
and damagingly than any of Trump’s
galumphing, butthead blundering has done,
and produced damning indictments of its
despicable nature that assured their
dragooning. Their work has done much more
to trash and pulverize the mythology of The
Empire but the operators of the propaganda
machine have managed to hide the vast bulk
of it from public awareness, a feat they
couldn’t manage with Trump’s ranting,
erratic, Pig-Town Jig diplomacy, and his
imbecile, chunk-blowing Twitter yammer.
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Moreover, the Deep State has been able to
crush or stifle these heroes, but can’t
seem to find a way to give His Bloviance the
hook short of terminating him with extreme
prejudice, which they haven’t had the balls
to do... yet. They’ve had to settle, so far,
for anathematizing him as the sole source of
the betrayal of America’s exalted values and
principles. As if we had any...
The
reality is that America has made it ironclad
policy to install, support and enrich a
gang of the vilest, most murderous
dictators, tyrants, caudillos and royal
brutes in history behind its sinister
fairytale of principled benevolence. Their
names fill pages but let Pinochet, The Shah,
Mobutu, Papa Doc, Marcos, Somoza, Kagame,
and Mubarak stand as examples. To be “our
sonofabitch” was simple: crush your people’s
aspirations, kill their leaders, drain their
economic blood, sell off their resources to
Rape Capitalism for pennies on the dollar,
and borrow billions from our IMF, taking
only a modest 10% or so for your trouble.
And keep the clamps on hard with torture,
rape and murder so nothing queers the deal
for you and Uncle.
The
only “dictators” America despises are those
who refuse, as Qaddafi, Saddam and Assad
did, to knuckle and suck, or those with the
muscle, wisdom and grit to balk and baffle
our folly, as Putin and Xi do routinely.
This
dirty hidden history that the three heroes’
work has revealed is the reason the Deep
State knows it has to destroy Trump. His
loose cannon, ADD follies, and zany,
autistic impulses draw attention to their
documenting of American crimes while
blocking The Empire from retaking control of
the game so it can function as it goddam
pleases, the way it always has.
The
single paramount commandment in the Deep
State’s tablet of laws is that nothing must
threaten the profits of the War Machine, and
certainly not anything that benefits only
The People. Very clear on this, the
Democratic Party, richly suckled by the
“defense industry”, excoriates Trump for his
sophomoric efforts to end a small war or
two, while whorishly advancing the Totenkopf
Banner of the War Machine to the
satisfaction of the Deep State.
Major
problem, though. Americans not braindead
are sick of endless war, which puts them at
serious odds with the War Machine and the
party that glorifies it. Virulent hatred of
Putin and Russia, coupled with the raging
lust to murder ignorant, guiltless peasants
and destitute slum dwellers is no longer a
foolproof formula for swelling the ranks of
the liberal faithful. Which raises (but does
not
beg)
the key question: are we indeed at Peak
Hubris?
Judging by the loss of traction that pure
American horseshit braggadocio from our
organs of propaganda is having
internationally, one would have to say we
have. After the long line--beginning at
division of Europe, solidified by stalemate
in Korea--of shameful military muggings,
half-assed regime change pratfalls, and
humiliating downright defeats, it is at last
becoming clear to the wizards behind the
curtain that hubris ain’t cuttin‘ it no
more.
The
powerful Exceptionalist Myth, the central
tenet of our catechism, which is the basis
of the whole crevassed, dissolving
superstructure of The Empire, the supreme
Big Lie upon which our entire culture of
fraud, falsity and philistinism is
predicated, has buckled at last under the
strain of our malevolent history, and is
spectacularly shattering and decomposing.
The
fact that The Myth and the hubris that
buttressed it so forcefully are
disintegrating does not mean they will be
abandoned by the powers and dominions that
have used them so long and so fruitfully.
Absurdity in action is perhaps the most
defining single quality of expiring
empires. Buffoons and Snake Oil men will
continue to pitch The Myth, stinking and
decayed, long after its sell-by date as long
as it keeps them on the payroll but where
the opinion of the great world is concerned,
the party’s over.
What
follows? There is no reliable template for
expiring empires. The end can be anything
from devastating physical destruction, to
ungovernable social chaos and barbarism, to
just collapsing quietly into poor and feeble
senescence.
Kipling said it best of an expiring British
Empire:
Far
called, our navies melt away,
On
dune and headland sinks the fire.
Lo!
all our pomp of yesterday
