03 August 2017

USian Capitalism amidst Its Metamorphoses into JesuNazism: a Deepening Despotism Built on Death, Deception and Despair


READER ALERT: In what is obviously another act of politically motivated censorship, HotMail will no longer transmit Dispatches. This is the second incident of retaliation by service providers, as America On Line (AOL) email began locking out of Dispatches transmissions several months ago. Despite the aggravation, I take this as an inadvertent compliment: clearly this material is frightening some of our corporate overlords.

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 CAPITALISM AND JESUNAZISM AS CHOREOGRAPHIES OF SUICIDE: today's Dispatches open with another bitingly relevant essay by Chris Hedges that in one way or another embodies the message implicit in all of today's news items.

I link to Hedges' work so often not only because this long-declared socialist eloquently and informatively journeys ever further to the (real) Left, but because I am increasingly convinced he may be the greatest USian nonfiction writer of this era. If indeed our species has any future at all, he will at the very least be honored as the most courageously outspoken English-language essayist of the early 21st Century.

Implicit in all his work is acknowledgment of the infinitely damning and therefore often emphatically denied truth the common denominator of our present-day human consciousness is despair.

Nor does Hedges flinch from the obvious but even more forcibly suppressed corollary that if we are to make the revolution that is necessary to preserve our species and save our Earth from reduction to a bug planet – that is, if we are to overthrow capitalism – we must find a way to make revolution an assertion of affirmation rather than a frenzy of destruction.


DESPOTISM AS DEATH (1) – THE MILITARIZED COPS to whom we the people are the enemy continue to run amok, especially now that their murderous brutality is publicly endorsed and applauded by Trump. The first of these two linked reports includes a partial roll-call of the dead, an ancient ritual that in the thealogy of my Pagan Celtic ancestors was an invocation of the Morrigan in her aspect as Goddess of Retribution. Meanwhile because of escalating police violence against people of color, women and LGBTQ folk, the NAACP advises against visiting the state of Missouri or even traveling through it.


DESPOTISM AS DEATH (2) – GENOCIDAL DENIAL OF HEALTHCARE: As cannot be said too often, the Trump/Pence Regime's opposition to Obamacare, Medicare and Medicaid is a byproduct of its fanatical Christianity. That's why Trump's threatswhich are ultimately threats to murder us all by denying us the care that keeps us alive – are to be taken as seriously as any death threat from a known serial killer. How many times must it be said: this is not a policy dispute. It is religious war, a doctrinally motivated effort to impose genocide.


DESPOTISM AS DEATH (3) – MENTAL ILLNESS REDUCES US TO THROWAWAY PEOPLE (a passage from the linked text): “Under the current neoliberal order, our mental health is subordinated to the needs of the market. On the one hand, the government and big business sell us the idea of happiness and wellbeing, a kind of consumerist dream where we seek our personal fulfillment through a well-paid job and a happy relationship, furnished with consumer goods as markers of our success. On the other hand, when the capitalist system fails to deliver on our dreams and goals, we are encouraged to blame ourselves for our failure to succeed. But if we begin to crack psychologically, then we find there are few psychological services available to help.” 

The linked report also describes the efforts of Marxian psychologists to combat Capitalism's often-sadistic victimization of people who are mentally ill. An otherwise thoughtful and thought-provoking essay by Hazel Croft, it unfortunately omits any mention of the pioneering work by the late David Smail, with whom I briefly corresponded just after the turn of the century. Though not Marxian per se, Smail nevertheless argued that much of what is defined as mental illness must be understood as the result of wounding by the savagery of Capitalism.

While Croft focuses entirely on the plight of mentally ill people in Great Britain, her text is nevertheless a relevant introduction to the infinitely worse conditions  here in the USian Homeland, where chronic mental patients were amongst the first victims  of Capitalism's regression to the malevolence that defines its transition into fascism.
Now, with entire USian governments increasingly captive by the JesuNazis, there is a grotesque likelihood governmental policy will increasingly reflect the JesuNazi viewpoint: that mentally ill people are cursed by god and should thus be exterminated. Which – given the popularity of JesuNazism amongst cops as evidenced here, here  and here – puts a horrible new light on the fact nearly 50 percent of those killed by the police are mentally ill or mentally disabled.



DESPOTISM AS DECEPTION (1) – MORE “CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN”: The Democratic (sic) Party continues to rely on various and sundry Big Lies in its deliberately ineffectual and therefore undeniably bogus effort to recapture Congress next year. One of the Democrats' more obviously self-defeating tactics is its open recruitment of avowed misogynists, a ploy that has already prompted a properly angry petition campaign from the feminist group We Are UltraViolet.



DESPOTISM AS DECEPTION (2) – A SUBSET OF DECEPTION IS CENSORSHIP. Its Big Lie is its implicit denial of the existence of the targeted information. It is also an atrocity...

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