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Susan Marie Kovalinsky | August 24, 2009 at 03:50 pm
OpEd:Watching the You Tube on HR 1388 first perplexes, then the psychology, and its importance, sinks in.
Putting a fascist spin on Obama's plan for Youth Corps and the passage of the bill, HR 1388, bespeaks a mysterious paranoia, to my own thinking. I assume the truth is being distorted, misperceived, misrepresented. The psychology of this seems clear: Obama is mulit-racial, multi-national, Democrat, liberal, progressive, pragmatic: In short, all that seems conducive to bringing in the dreaded "One World Order".
But Christopher Lasch, noted social scientist, once made this astute observation about social paranoia: "These [theorists] project onto some future scenario, aspects of social life which are already deeply rooted, and in our daily midst." And his observation comes back to serve as a touchstone now.
Lasch is saying, in other words, that which they fear
and project, in Nazi symbolism, onto Obama, is pretty much a done deal, and has been since the 1970s: Multiculturalism; rampant pluralism; a unifed Europe leading the world; global corporate control; global banking; the mistrust and supsicion of organized religion, and a zealous agenda to change and ease up its dogma; a stretching of the boundaries and definitions of the old order; a blurring of the lines of nationalism, partisanship; a global and cosmopolitan savvy pervades and directs all. Wars in far-flung places, having less to do with the American Republic and more do do with shadowy pharmaceutical and oil conglamerates; the loss of small towns and local high schools, replaced with mega-regional monstrosities. So much for the quiet and graceful America of the Republic, and the Jeffersonian dream of a nation of gentleman farmers. The Civil War steered us onto the mega-highway a long time ago. As Christopher Lasch said:
" Why do you look to a future hour, and a distant scenario, for that which overtook you long ago? "
The resolution to all of these ills will be - has in part, already been - regional, local, independent, on the state and county and municipal levels. It is a very complex sufbject which goes beyond the scope and purview of this editorial piece. Something to grapple with at a later date. . . But for now, suffice to say that more and more people are wanting a return to the small, the select, the individual: The regional and national are preferred over the global; the individual over the mass; the classical and essential over the new-fangled and provisional.
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