First it Was the Jews, Then the..............

What Ghazali is seeing happening is the inevitable deepening of the psychosis aflicting America that makes us fear other peoples, religions and races, anyone who does fit into that tiny stereotype of a "Real American". This Path of Fear and Loathing, which George Bush, Dick Cheney and the Neocons took us down on on9/11/2001 is downhill all the way. It eats at our judgment, our perceptions, our wisdom and replaces them with fearful archetypes, stereotypes and cliches, filling our brains with anxiety, adrenaline and darkness, thus more and more, our brothers and sisters are seen as objects of demonization, in actuality, only projections of our Shadow.

Those that we, America, are excoriating and condeming are but ourselves externalized, not the real humans standing there. So we deny oure ugliness and act it out upon others, blaming them for our own crimes, which only deepens our Shadow, making us bigger monsters.

This Pathway of Fear ran its course in Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia in the 20th Century, not to mention other countries like Maoist China or Pinochet's Chile. That is where we as a nation are headed, many more of our own citizens attacked, arrested, tortured, murdered before this is all over, if we cannot turn to the other path soon, the Path of Love and Light.

by Mac McKinney (42 articles, 59 quicklinks, 137 diaries, 944 comments) on Friday, May 16, 2008 at 8:36:49 PM