[Peace] Re: [Peace-discuss] C. Wright Mills, Power Elite, Karma, 9/11, action....

[Morton K. Brussel]

Hi,

AWARE has discussed possibly giving some time to review of the 9/11  
story, but some members regard this as a distraction from the current  
horrors on our plate, especially as much of what has been said of  
9/11 doesn't make a lot of sense.  See Counterpunch and The Nation  
articles by Alex Cockburn.

If you are interested, come to one of our meetings and bring up this  
subject .

Mort B.


On Feb 13, 2007, at 12:22 AM, n.dahlheim at mchsi.com wrote:

> People should really consider reviving C. Wright Mills and the  
> concept of the Power Elite.  His radical
> critique of the Military Metaphysic in American culture and the  
> mass culture filled with Cheerful Robots
> certainly stands today.  His conception of American society as  
> dominted by an iron triangle of executive
> governmental power, corporate finance, and military elites  
> certainly explains the direction of the United
> States over the last 4-5 decades...  We didn't do such a good job  
> heeding Eisenhower's warnings about
> the rise of the military-industrial complex and the covert  "deep"  
> politics in the furtherance of empire
> since that time.  I think America is done.  This system is breaking  
> down and the rich are robbing us
> blind before we are abandoned to social disorder, energy depletion,  
> racial hatred, and climate change.
> Our lack of vigilance and our own national bad karma has given us  
> the Bush regime, and the best we'll
> get in 2008 is Hillary Clinton.  As George Carlin says in Life is  
> Worth Losing (2005), "The tables are
> tilted, the game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody  
> seems to care.  And that is what the
> owners of this country count on; the American people being  
> willfully ignorant of the big red, white, and
> blue dick being jammed up their asshole everyday..."     If we  
> really believed in 1963 that an idiot like
> Oswald with a cheap Marconi rifle brought down a President who had  
> angered significant factions of the
> military-industrial complex over his cautiousness in Cuba and  
> Vietnam; we really don't get it.  If we
> really don't see that 911 is an inside job... the molten metal, the  
> controlled demolition of three
> skyscrapers hit by only two planes, the stand down of the military,  
> the lies by the Bushes about
> everything else why not 911; well, we deserve the government we  
> get...  The fact that AWARE won't deal
> with 9/11 is a weakness as far as I'm concerned.  Our own lack of  
> vigilance precipitated 9/11.  Not only
> that, the fact that the vast majority of the country has done  
> absolutely nothing to change this rotten
> situation is further proof that we get whatever is coming to us.     
> We should beg for Good Karma and
> work to build a better world and take responsibiltiy for ourselves  
> and our communities.  AWARE's work
> in the Champaign-Urbana community stands as a testament to the  
> knowledge among several activists
> of this moral imperative.  All good your way...
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