Three cups of coffee and time for a rant (be warned!)
Well it’s sad really but I guess I am not suprised. I thought it might be interesting to discuss German foreign policy from a more positive, proactive view, but the irony is that while so many on this thread have zillions of statistics and facts to bandy about in criticism of America, they cannot even point to the major tenets of their own nation’s foreign policies, nor do they have opinions about what their foreign policy should entail.
So typical ala Noam Chomsky. Nothing is perfect so everything is equal. Anyone who has done anything bad cannot stand in judgment. The US is just as bad as Congo, etc. but … but what would be a better system? Ah well, that is not for Chomsky and his ilk to decide. He is only there to point to the flaws. Yeah. This is why nothing ever comes of these “peace” protests or antiglobalization protests or environmental protests, etc.
Most of the “protesters” are there to protest as “professional” whose sole identity in life comes from being “anti.” Having grown up on a lazy diet of slack intellectual “flabbitude” in semi-elite universities (not even the best but not the votech or polytechniques either), they have focused on weak majors like English lit, history, political science (very rare to have such people majoring in science or engineering where they cannot “talk” their way out of things and where values are consistent and not “relative”)where their professors are 1960s radical throwbacks. Their sole life consists of protest to show superiority. And how dare some state university graduate work hard and pass them by in life. I went to a “private” university (USA) and I will always be “better” than the hoi polloi that works and saves hard to get ahead.
Much easier to criticize the whole system and say that one is “removed” from it and its evil goals. This is so much better than actually getting a job and participating. Because if you did not make as much money with your English lit major that might mean that you were less of a person (at least in terms of materialism which naturally you do not care about). But without a concrete set of alternative policies, why would anyone take this group seriously?
Very interesting too to see the sneering against organized religion. Unfortunately, so many despite their protestations have no fixed idea of what it is they stand for (other than protest) so we get into so much moral equivalency, but to admit the positions they hold are untenable would mean a radical shake-up of their value system which can be summed up precisely as “refusal to act” ala the French nihilists that they so revere. Ultimately, the whole group is just lazy and shiftless and thinks the world owes them something.
It reminds me of the lazy shits that used to come down to Latin America to “help” the workers (whether coffee pickers in Central America or labor unions in Brazil, etc.) as if some sophomore from some state school in California with one or two courses in “Latin America” who can barely speak a smattering of Spanish or Portuguese is somehow entitled to “help” is beyond ludicrous. Talk about a smug sense of superior entitlement.
That said, they were more than happy to “talk, talk, talk” in cafes rather than work work work like the peasants who had to support families, etc. Like this ridiculous Che Guevera who is also so admired. He was a lazy, upper middle class, spoiled brat who went to Bolivia to sleep with the women and get drunk. Think of Jack Kerouac and the early members of the Beat Generation and you get the picture. Narcissistim carried to the nth degree. Hardly an inspiration to the peasants to revolt. Posturing posing little ponce that he was. Meanwhile, while discussing the “important things in life,” the irony of their ultracompetitive jostling over who had more stamps in their passports was lost on them. These stamps were very important in proving their superiority over the middle classes back home, who not having been to Nicaragua for two weeks like they had did not “understand” the situation.
). Both have committed a crime and both have to accept that as a fact and face the consequences of their actions.
