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Report Copyright Violation | A SOUL DEFYING, TACIT APPROVAL OF TORTURE: HOW DID WE COME TO THIS? by Phil Rockstroh "To resist, we must cast off the fear of being an outcast. I remain hopeful: There is yet a molecule or two of the wild wolf left within us cringing, cloying Toy Poodles." onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1262.shtml [ link to onlinejournal.com] SNIP
A soul defying, tacit approval of torture: how did we come to this?
By Phil Rockstroh
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Sep 29, 2006, 01:12
"True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that False Self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality . . . and through this death a rebirth, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer." --R. D. Laing
The pathology of American culture is as ubiquitous as its strip-mall ugliness. It is abundantly evident, in almost every aspect of contemporary life. From the predatory (to the point of psychopathic) practices of its morally scurvy pirates at the helm of the corporate/governmental ship of state, down to the pandemic enervation and proliferate anomie of its galley slaves languishing in their soulless cubicles -- from the genitalia-devoid mascots at Disney World to the genitalia-obsessed torturers of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo -- the soul-sickness spreads before us like George W. Bush's taunting, executioner's smirk.
Ronnie Laing's profound dictum leaves us confronting many poignant questions regarding the true nature of the psychic lives of us so-called ordinary citizens of The United States of America and our ability to function within this corrupt and crumbling empire. In short, is it sane to be able to adapt to an insane culture?
Moreover, it begs the following question. If an individual’s conformity to group, cultural, and national pathology is rewarded -- thereby encouraging the formation of the "False Self” -- how might one, stranded within the dysfunctional dynamic, resist it all and begin to work towards an awareness of their own essential nature, then perhaps arriving at an individual reckoning involving how to live, flourish, and subvert the life defying demands of the present era.
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: A SOUL DEFYING, TACIT APPROVAL OF TORTURE: HOW DID WE COME TO THIS? by Phil Rockstroh I thought it would be rather easy to convince people that torture is no part of a solution to anything, only part of the problem. I thought it would be sufficient to show that accepting torture is something that put "our troops" at great risk, referring to the views of experienced USAF leaders on the issue which happen to be the same as the ones I hold myself. I thought it would be sufficient to expose the pathetic people behind the propagation of these inhumane views, people that have no idea whatsoever or simply don't care about the people at the battlefield. People like Charles Krauthammer. Exposing the influence people like Krauthammer has on US policy makers. I thought it would be easy. I was dead wrong. Love, /LTC Peachblossom This space is not for rent. |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: A SOUL DEFYING, TACIT APPROVAL OF TORTURE: HOW DID WE COME TO THIS? by Phil Rockstroh It is easier to extinguish the light within, then to dispel the darkness without.  |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: A SOUL DEFYING, TACIT APPROVAL OF TORTURE: HOW DID WE COME TO THIS? by Phil Rockstroh Sort of reminds me of the message in Michael Tsarion's video ...The Future of Mankind....the shawdow self and the Mask. |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: A SOUL DEFYING, TACIT APPROVAL OF TORTURE: HOW DID WE COME TO THIS? by Phil Rockstroh Phil WHO?
"How did we come to this"?
Simple enough... WTC I & II, the USS Cole, Khobar Towers, yada yada yada...
Paybacks are a bitch and whatever it takes to extract information that may save lives is okay with the MAJORITY of the american people. Period. |
