The
corporate state, faced with rebellion from within and without, does not know how
to define or control this rising power, from the Arab Spring to the street
protests in Greece and Spain to the Occupy movement. Rebellion always mystifies
the oppressor. It appears irrational. It does not make sense. The establishment
asks: What are their demands? Why do they hate us? What do they want? The
oppressor can never hear the answer, for the answer is always the same--we seek
to destroy your power. The oppressor, blind to the brutality and injustice meted
out to sustain dominance and prosperity, escalates the levels of force employed
to protect privilege. The crimes of the oppressor are seen among the elite as
the administering of justice--law and order, the war on terror, the natural law
of globalization, the right granted by privilege and power to shape and govern
the world. The oppressor cannot see the West's false humanism. The oppressor
cannot, as James Baldwin wrote, understand that our "history
has no moral justification, and the West has no moral authority." The oppressor,
able to speak only in the language of force and increasingly lashing out like a
wounded animal, will be consumed in the inferno.
"People
who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction," Baldwin
wrote, "and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after
that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster."
So I urge you to read the articles following this essay, and leave you with words from Albert Camus, via a character in one of his novels:
"All
I say is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims -- and as
far as possible one must refuse to be on the side of the
pestilence.
[W]hen
you see the suffering and pain that it brings, you have to be mad, blind or a
coward to resign yourself to the plague."
-
Dr. Rieux in Albert Camus' The Plague.
Resources:
Why Barack Obama is the More Effective Evil | Black Agenda Report http://blackagendareport.com/content/why-barack-obama-more-effective-evil/
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