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The complete idiot's guide to world affairs
Cook, Jonathan
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-03-26/idiots-guide-world-affairs/Date Written: 2025-03-26 Year Published: 2025 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX25351 The left and right take the same reality-based view of the world but respond to it in different moral terms. Liberals, on the other hand, live in an alternate universe – of pure make-believe. Abstract: - Excerpt: What we call "politics" is chiefly a pantomime in which the West's wealthy elite work hard to maintain the illusion for liberals that the empire is a force for good, that the suffering of brown people is a necessary short-term sacrifice if history is to continue on its progression towards a perfect capitalist liberal democracy that will benefit everyone, and that in this regard the West's wars producing even more suffering for brown people are actually "humanitarian". In simple terms, conservatives support the permanent oppression of brown people because they fear them, rightly understanding they will never agree to their oppression. Liberals, on the other hand, support what they assume is the temporary oppression of brown people because they think that oppression is beneficial: it eventually purges brown people of their defective ideological and cultural habits, leading them to see things our way. Subject Headings |