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8 Principles of Political
Realism
Political
realism:
- understands political power is based on a rational
order.
- attempts to
avoid political framing of
thought problems.
- is
aware of the moral significance
of political action.
- differentiates
universal morality from
cultural overlays.
- understands the
pluralistic nature
of self-determination.
- recognizes
the fluid nature of
motives of stage actors.
- recognizes societial concerns are
governed by objective
laws with
roots in the survival needs
of human nature.
- identifies intersects and
differentiations of
disparate
group interests from moral and legalistic
viewpoints.
"As we deep-sixed worn croquet mallets, rusted
weed-whackers, magazine back
issues and objects that no longer had
meaning in our current
lives, we began to feel lighter, freer.
With each item given
away we began liberating ourselves from an
outmoded way of
living that had been weighing us down in more ways than mere bulk.
We moved away from the idea that "we are what we have." - Ciji
Ware
Thorstein
Veblen's "Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899) established the notion
of conspicuous
consumption.
As a
political economist Thorstein Veblen understood consumer desire and
the commercial logic that powers manufactured
desire.
The only lasting, dependable security comes from
controlling less not
more, opening up to life, loosening rigid boundaries of self,
allowing ourselves connection to
the natural ecosystem of
our community.
Daniel Joseph Boorstin,
a brilliant de-bunker of
celebrity, of the
absurdities of materialism and
the ruinous contradictions of acquiring
status through material objects, was summoned before the House
Un-American Activities Committee and accused of being a
communist.
"Nearly everything we do to make
life more interesting, more varied, more exciting, more fabulous, more
promising, in the long run, has an opposite
effect." - Daniel J
Boorstin
Daniel J Boorstin writings had un-American activities in
mind:
to undermine gratuitous
consumption through intellectual sabotage.
"Consumer product producers empower
kids as shoppers legitimizing their uninformed tastes,
mercurial wants and detaching them
from their gatekeeper mothers, fathers, teachers and pastors." - Benjamin
R. Barber
find a pedestal, crawl up on it and
pontificate
Bernays was born in Vienna,
Austria, in 1891 but grew up in New York City.
His mother was Freud's
sister, Anna; his father was Ely Bernays, the brother of Freud's wife, Martha
Bernays - Sigmund Freud's nephew twice over.
(I had a first cousin that
rhymed; "Vice is Nice, but
Incest is Best." -
AA)
Bernays hypothesized that by understanding the group mind, it would
be possible to manipulate people's
behavior without their even realizing it.
The marriage of
psychoanalysis and public relations
made Bernays wealthy.
Bernays was able to successfully turned
the hunter-gather paradigm
into global consumer
culture as humans, like all animals, are
hunters-gathers.
To survive we needed to find
nourishment just like every other animal.
We hunted for bodily nourishment.
We gathered grain we could not
eat.
Manufactured desire of global
consumer culture taps into the ingrained
through evolution hunter-gatherer patterns and
usurps them.
Edward
Bernays taught every 5th Avenue advertising executive
the art of the induction of insatiable
desire that required never ending upgrades.
"Entranced, mesmerized and
hypnotized by the manufacturers
of patent medicine the marks danced obliviously toward
clearly marked early graves."
"Walter
Lippmann based his two keystone texts, Public Opinion (1922) and The Phantom Public (1925), largely on his wartime
experiences as chief leaflet writer and editor of a US propaganda unit with the
American Expeditionary Forces, and as secretary of The Inquiry, a
prototypical US intelligence agency organized by President Wilson to support
the US negotiating team in Paris." -
Christopher Simpson, Science of
Coercion |
"When all men think alike, no one
thinks very much.
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are
communicated to great masses of
people, the truth suffers a
considerable and often a radical distortion.
The
complex is made into the
simple, the hypothetical into the
dogmatic, and the
relative into an absolute.
Successful politicians are insecure
and intimidated men.
They advance politically only as they
placate,
appease,
bribe,
seduce,
bamboozle or
otherwise manage to manipulate threatening
elements in constituencies.
The private citizen, beset by partisan
appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see
that these appeals are not a
compliment to his intelligence, but
an imposition on
his good nature and an
insult to his sense of evidence.
The
time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the
illusion that we have been appointed
policeman to the human race.
There is no arguing with the
Reptilian pretenders
to a divine knowledge and to
a divine transformative
mission.
They are
possessed with the sin of intellectual pride,
they have yielded to
the transcendental temptation.
We are captives of the images in
our minds - we feel the reality we experience is
the reality that exists
universally.
Best
instrument for understanding reality -
introspection.
Humanity may resemble us very
considerably - the best way of knowing our neighbors is
to know
ourselves."
Walter Lippmann
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