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Latin America: Current United States bellicose 'Cognitive Infiltration' of the Enemy
Friday, March 04 @ 14:50:45 UTC
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 By Franz J. T. Lee
March 04, 2011
The Third World War has begun long ago already, it is claiming millions
of African, Palestinian and Arab lives. Important for Venezuela to note
is that currently there is waging an inexorable global 'war of ideas',
the counter-attack of the United States of America against emancipatory
theoretical praxis and praxical theory. This 'full spectrum dominance'
is now called: "cognitive infiltration of the enemy', of the extremist
and terrorist groups.
Nothing in capitalism is new, it has no relation to the New, to the
homo novum. Hence, this latest 'psychological operation' is not new, it
is a war strategy as old as Metusalem. It was used by all ruling
classes, especially those of the fascist caliber or the Nazi pedigree.
Let us see what the ancient philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus explained
to us 2500 years ago.
Before Humania South was flooded by the Christian religious deluge,
also called 'Christian Civilization', by its patriarchal progenitors,
in Ionia, in Ancient Greece, where capitalism was born with its
respective ideological superstructure, already the materialist
hylozoist thinker Heraclitus explained that 'war is the father of all
things'. This statement he made within the general context of his
philosophic gnome: panta rhei, everything flows, change alone is
unchanging. Hence, ages ago, at the eve of the coming epochs of
slavery, feudalism and capitalism, Heracleitus already postulated what
is universal, systemic contradiction, motion and revolution. In fact,
philosophically he showed why 'change', the 'process', the revolution
only could come from within, from within the One, within the status
quo, namely, of capital and power accumulation. In well-known
fragments of his philosophy which have survived, he identified the
universal process as follows: 'From all things one and from one all
things.' Here already surreptitiously began intellectual mechanisms of
permanent social control of the thoughts of the workers, the
manipulation and unilateral deviation of the laborer's mind. The above
we can easily trace in Platonic idealist philosophy, but it appears
also in ancient dialectical materialism, in hylozoism.
Heracleitus explains how ideology is being reproduced as 'culture' in
the very 'souls' of the toiling workers. It is controlling their very
sleep, their dreams. He wrote: 'Even sleepers are workers and
collaborators in what goes on in the Universe. ... Eyes and ears are
poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.'
Here we see that 'culture' is the social substratum for ruling class
psychological operations and 'infiltration of the enemy', of 'extremist
groups' or of 'terrorist' study circles. However, he was insisting that
we cannot hide our ignorance forever , our ideology, for very long:
'Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.'
Yes, in vino veritas! But, very often, it is true what he said: when
the wine is in, the wit is out.
In the end, historically directed across the millennia towards the
Murdoch empire and the 'think tanks' of corporate imperialism, with
reference to contemporary hoaxes, double standards, lies and 'class
justice', Heraclitus made a remarkable transhistoric comment:
'Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.'
This could only be the emancipatory justice of the New, of the homo
novum, of Mother Nature. '
http://www.franzlee.org.ve
franzjutta@cantv.net
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