Now that one is not allowed to be loyal to anything, Potemkin Patriotism concentrates all attention on The Flag and khaki uniforms.
Veterans are sort of the new Semites, as in anti-Semitic. It was a bad mistake when the 60s protests concentrated on calling American soldiers paid killers. This tactic ended up with hardhats marching in a pro-War rally on Wall Street, American Solidarity.
With the Potemkin definition of Patriotism today, anyone who fails to worship uniforms and veterans is anti-American instead of anti-Semitic.
Like busing, the draft in the 1960s was strictly for children of working stiffs who couldn’t afford to send their children to private schools and draft-exempt colleges. Marxists used the term “working class” then.
Loyalty is something almost everyone wants. That is a basic need that Marxism tries to ignore. Lenin, who declared that any loyalty to anything but the Working Class to be treason, would have had a fit if he found out that Soviets had to call World War II The Great Patriotic War.
But the simple fact was that, even after a generation of Soviet rule, soldiers would not fight for Wordism, the Truth According to Marx.
It had to be Mother Russia.
McGovern got stomped in the 1972 election because of this backlash against people who carried the Viet Cong flag in parades and falsely informed parents that their son had been killed in Vietnam.
All that made their “working class” pretensions so absurd that they stopped using “working class” in America because it had become a joke.
In the present series of wars against Arabs, they wised up a bit when Bush, Sr. attacked Iraq and got a 90 plus approval rating for it. They have changed their tactics on loyalty.
After their 60s experience, they have finally faced the fact that their hero Comrade Stalin learned thirty years before. Marxism cannot get rid of loyalty. But it can redirect it.
This is a major blow to Marxism in the West, just as it was to the Soviets, but the simple fact is that no form of Wordism can actually replace loyalty.
That is because Wordism is silly. Students can actually believe that people can actually replace their gut feelings with a book and the Words of Mommy Professor. Like Stalin’s naming of World War II, they have given up on their belief that words can replace loyalties.
But they can divert it.
Hence the new Potemkin Patriotism. One can be a Good American by worshipping Our Men and Women in Uniform. One can even wave an American flag.
Potemkin Patriotism diverts natural loyalty to our Mother Russia, to khaki uniforms that represent loyalty to nothing, a flag dedicated to what National Review calls “post-racial America.”
Right after 911, Call for Patriotism hosted by Sidney Poitier included a shot of a white girl and a Black man wrapped together in an American flag. That ad was pulled and put into the libservative Memory Hole. It showed too plainly what loyalty means to liberals and respectable conservatives.
But it is their strategy now. Potemkin Patriotism, like The Great Patriotic War, is Wordists coming up against reality.
#1 by Epiphany on 12/18/2011 - 6:24 am
Marxism is stupid! And, not only stupid but evil.
#2 by BGLass on 12/18/2011 - 10:02 am
It can take college students too long –even with all the information available now– to realize the mechanics of redirection (repression/ sublimation) are why they’re told to worship a self-serving nut like Freud (whose case studies are so ridiculous on every level) and then the Marx-Psych marriage of the hybrid “new left”, Lacan, Foucault, Althusser, and all those people.
It can be a mystery– how/why some guy who writes Dora (about some poor girl trying to escape lechers and for this is supposedly ‘hysterical,’ lol) or the freaky Wolfman– is revered by the left, and a precursor to the left they are liking now (new left theories of trauma-based control).
Why is “trauma” theory re-defining how memories are stored?— reviving “mpd” (multiple personality disorder now revised in DSM as did/ dissociative IDENTITY disorder?) This involves, not repression, as memory storage, but ‘splitting off’ and ‘cognitive dissonance,’ etc.
It is all about the Mechanics of Redirection.
This is the point of such studies. “Humanities” degrees are not nearly as “worthless” as many wn often voice, perhaps. They are the study of things s/a Redirection mechanics, (but the students do not really realize the significance of what they are studying, or how it relates to them, or how they will really be affecting people professionally, when they leave schools.
Part of the education is –for instance– that all of the Redirection is “helping people.” EVERYTHING is ‘helping people.’ Feeling moral b/c one helps others is the key feeling.
The deepest natural emotions (fear of death, need of love, sex, fitting into community, etc.) are of most interest. Regression and infantilism, ‘early development,” etc.
#3 by BGLass on 12/18/2011 - 10:15 am
Actually now, if you talk to an average masters-degree-style shrink, they will say Freud is out of vogue, but they don’t know why. Foucault teaches that “talk is repressive,” talk is about control, getting information— and yet the students will then be taught to ‘make people talk,’ (whether they are to become shrinks, or teachers, or soldiers, or talk show hosts, or whatever… talk is good, talk is what “talk shows” do, it is “having a voice,” etc.
How people handle living with such contradictions is often called their “personality” today (lol.)
#4 by BGLass on 12/18/2011 - 10:31 am
oh– those that call themselves “the left,” say they find this Patriotism distasteful, and this is why they call it Militarist-Corporatist Fascism, world bullying, etc.
You can worship “the oppressed” (victims of the system) OR ‘men in uniform.’ not both.
You can argue that the “left” (oppressed) get the public money OR ‘men in uniform’ get the public money.
When anyone tells you their “politics,” they are usually just telling you whether they make their personal money from Warfare or Welfare. And what emotions were sublimated and projected—
In a sense, the “left” seems more infantile than the “right” (it SAYS openly it wants to be taken care of like a baby.)
But no one talks as openly about the other trajectory from Preisthood Religion Training in early development, to the Miltary Training, to the G.I. Bill Du Jour, where the subject is “Retrained” for ‘civilian’ life, a cradle to grave loyalty directed at the state.
The commercials in many areas during the holidays are for volunteers for handouts for men in uniform, or their wives. In a recent interview, (lol) heard Lew Rockwell call the military “economic victims.” So we have Care packages to send them, or for when they come home, or re-doing their homes, or whatever.
Right now, a news show is discussing Military RE-education after Iraq.
Neither groups realizes there are other functions in society, (if it were to be a truly functioning healthy society).
If you have only War and Oppressed in your culture— it is a bit unbalanced, for their are other things that need to be done.
#5 by Simmons on 12/18/2011 - 11:05 am
IMO it is a sign of the end, patriotism being the last refuge. Anyway just read any thread on any news site and if it has any multi-racial component at all in the story it invariably goes “racist”, which tells me the fuse is lit. IMO the anti-whites know this.
#6 by OldBlighty on 12/18/2011 - 12:52 pm
The government of my country has no loyalty to me, or anyone that looks like me. They proved it when they opened the borders to massive non-White immigration, without a vote or discussion allowed.
So how can I be patriotic, when my government ceased to exist, long ago? I don’t like, or dislike, the people in power. They are complete strangers to me. I have no feelings about them at all.
#7 by Genseric on 12/18/2011 - 2:12 pm
@BGLass
Yuri Brzemenov touches on “Humanities” degrees in this enlightening docu-lesson. While they are important at some level, they are not AS important as academia has lead us to believe. They are not the be-all, end-all solution to understanding psychology and fixing the economy. Potemkin Production is a direct net result of this anti-White affliction which plagues our children’s minds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fQoGMtE0EY
#8 by Gavin on 12/18/2011 - 4:27 pm
I once saw a video where a middle American White Christian man thanked Christopher Hitchens for supporting the Iraq war.
It sickened me to think how manipulated the man was.
The neocons have become so good at manipulating our people’s feelings of loyalty that you have White men actually thanking neocons for the privilege of offering up their money and lives for the neocons benefit.
Slap an American flag on a man’s son, give him a rifle and send him to kill your enemies. The man’s son will die or come back crippled and if the man is a potemkin patriot he will thank you for what you have done.
Did I mention how much I hate those that manipulate our people like this?
#9 by BGLass on 12/18/2011 - 4:32 pm
@ Genseric– was coming from the OTHER end, lol, where NO ONE ever said anything other than humanities was totally worthless. Daddy said distrust all experts.
About Potemkin—
Hope it’s not those hundreds of movies about drill sergeants, usually black, beating the crap out of you — that sells the new soldiers on it?
Which is why so many go with the left, imo. Look at the alternative. The movie for the left is lawyers and teachers using their minds and hearts to turn around some ghetto. The movie for the “right” is doing pushups while cold, wet, hungry and getting yelled at. To ppl raised on t.v., the left looks like a no brainer, probably.
otherwise, it really is an economic decision (L rockwell’s “economic victimization’ is a bit strong)— OR stories of misunderstanding about the system for which one is fighting and disillusionment (which comes from most jobs).
#10 by Gavin on 12/18/2011 - 4:42 pm
Ramzpaul has a powerful video about Potemkin Patriotism:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UklS3Btd9U
#11 by BGLass on 12/18/2011 - 5:07 pm
what makes redirection impossible?
–besides knowing oneself, one’s real emotional world, and then refusing to allow redirection? To admit immediately if one’s emotions are used in this way by others and change course, to come clean?
Exposing the cultural fantasies, maybe. Or the mechanics of how it is done.
how do you inoculate children against it? so they “keep it where it is”in popular parlance.
#12 by The Seeker of Truth on 12/18/2011 - 8:41 pm
Bob, this story is for you. I did not know how to send it directly so I post it here in hopes that you will see it.
One evening Stonewall Jackson called in Captain Myers, one of his veteran officers, and pointed out the urgency of building a bridge over a small creek. Jackson told Myers he would send plans for the bridge as soon as they were completed by his colonel of engineers. The next morning Jackson asked Myers if the plans had arrived. “Well,” said the captain, “the bridge is built, but I don’t know whether the picture is done or not !”
#13 by dungeoneer on 12/19/2011 - 3:18 pm
In my pre-BUGS young and angry days I used to get really peeved about the anti-white flag-waving because I did`nt know it was easily opposable, but now with our mantra outlook I chuckle like a sinner.
“Our nation is blasphemy on your lips anti-white”.