American Absolutism Professor Sattar Kassem 15/June/2005 The United States is marketing democracy as a system that fits human life, but not ordinarily according to market dynamics. Marketing is associated at so many times by force whether in the form of tanks, threats or purses. This approach in itself is undemocratic and might backfire in different forms, places and methods. Historically, peoples revolt against coercion and what they feel as injustice, a thing that the US, seemingly, doesn’t envisage to face. The United States is said to be facing despotism in an effort, as she says, to salvage human dignity and insure international cooperation in a spirit of freedom and fraternity. In its crusade, she claims to own the truth and nothing but the truth. Her political system is the inevitable outgrowth of historical experience, and her economic system is the ultimate of human creativity. Her present experience is the end of human experiences, and what is ahead for mankind is only extreme happiness and wide lengthy smiles. America believes that her own people are jubilant in their earthly paradise, and the only annoyance they have is the nagging choice among enjoyable activities. Poverty has disappeared, everybody is healthy and born educated, racial discrimination belongs to the far past, narcotics and street killings are only children computer games, corrupt politicians appear only in circuses and arm twisting is practiced only in wrestling. Goods and services are affordable and at everybody’s convenience. Since her truth has unfolded into this un-godly heavens, it is selfish and contradictory to ethical absolutism not to export it to the rest of the globe. War might erupt, bloodshed, maiming and killing might occur, exploitation, atrocities and displacement of people might be unfortunate incidents, but the road to heavens is worth it. This absolutism that is engulfed by hideous illusions has been a prime, if not the first, reason behind the miseries of mankind. The banner of the imagined truth has always fallen into pools of vicious bloody battles, and its carriers eventually have become the curses of history. Thinking in terms of my absolute goodness and the absolute evil of others has been perilous and culminated into violence of different intensities. Apparently, Nazism didn’t die, national chauvinism always has heirs, racist and ethnic supremacy still possess American brains. Those who die in Iraq witness the historical brutality of those who think of themselves heavenly ordained.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 06:40:24 +0000
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