Chomsky: US drone campaign is world's biggest terrorist action (EXCLUSIVE)
In watching this recent interview with Noam Chomsky, he speaks about ‘exceptionalism’ and how every great power at some point claims exception for their deeds, for deeds which would not be acceptable or legal on a universal scale. Chomsky mentions a case involving the apprehension of an individual in Libya, and where the Secretary of State was asked in a press conference whether this was legal, and he stated that it’s legal; it’s in accord with American law. Chomsky points out that this obviously doesn’t mean that it is in accordance with international law. For example, obviously other countries are not going to have laws that state that the U.S. can come into another country and just take who they like.
How is it that we’ve come to accept this kind of duplicity
or ‘double standard’ to take place at a governmental level? It’s because we
have accepted it within ourselves; we live this at an individual level. We do
this very same thing within our individual daily lives, where we justify our
actions regardless of the fact that our actions weren’t in the actual consideration
of what is best for everyone, and whether our actions are what would be
acceptable if they were, for example, done to ourselves.
Basically, we’ve missed the boat on living according to the
principle of Jesus’ message, which is to ‘do unto another as you’d have done
unto you’. We have instead come up with all sorts of exceptions, excuses,
justifications, reasons, as to why we apparently had to take some action the
likes of which we would never want done to ourselves. And through this, we
create enemies of each other, just like we do at the national scale as
countries, as Chomsky points out as well, that our ‘justified’ drone strikes
are busy creating lots of enemies.
No wonder the drone strike movement is taking place – it’s Great for business. Because it ensures a
fresh and constant stream of enemies that we’ll always have to spend lots of
money on defense systems to apparently protect ourselves from, despite the fact
that most of the apparent ‘threats’ out there, really don’t pose any threat in
comparison to the ‘might’ of the U.S., which is actually the current predominant
‘threat’ in the world, causing all sorts of terror, in the very name of a ‘war on
terror’.
What it always comes down to is money, and the control of
money, and therefore we are going to hear whatever excuse is necessary to
justify continuing war and invasion and destruction of societies, to keep that
business booming. But we as individuals have got to sort ourselves out, so that
we can begin to recognize when we are hearing justifications, which means
sorting out when we ourselves are using justifications to excuse our own
behaviors.
What it comes down to is a practical re-education for
ourselves, because we really have never lived in any other way other than only
considering ourself and what is apparently best for ourself, and it’s always
been a me vs. everyone else out there kind of situation. I mean, you can really
see this within relationships such as friendships where despite the premise
being that you’re in a relationship where you’re nice and friendly and look out
for each other, there is often really a lot of nastiness that goes on behind
others backs, usually within the idea that one is just ‘looking out for oneself’.
You also see this in a lot of relationships between family members as well,
where things can get really vindictive. There are some popular TV series out
there that really exemplify our dysfunction in relationships.
The re-education point is where we realize that there is
another way to exist, than me against everyone else. That if we don’t sort
ourselves out, our relationships are only going to get more consequential, on
the personal and global scale, which is already quite escalated. So, it’s not
to judge and say how horrible or evil we are because we are nasty to each
other, but rather to understand that when we’re only considering ourselves as
if we’re the only ones that really exist, and applying a double standard, where
we can excuse our actions, and yet expect another to not do the same, that this
is consequential and is the very reason that we have ourselves entrenched still
in wars and the extreme harm of each other and our environment. And, thus, that
only considering ourselves is actually not ending up resulting in an outcome
that is best for ourself after all, but is leading to a world of consequence
where children are not safe to play in the streets, where you cannot trust one
another, where we must have locks on our doors and our possessions, where you
don’t want to be out late at night on city streets. I mean, why would we accept
a world where it is not safe everywhere, in every single nook and cranny?
On that note, we’ll go up to here for this blog post, and
continue in the next.
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Investigate the Living Income Guaranteed which functions on the principle of 'Do unto another as you'd have done unto you' by establishing a foundation of support for all individuals:What is the Living Income Guaranteed?
Living Income Guaranteed is an economic and political mechanism to ensure the establishment of Fundamental Human Birth Rights of the public through allocating a budget on a monthly basis to every eligible individual that is currently in a position of being unable to sustain themselves – and/or people in their custody – financially to a satisfactorily level that Human Dignity deserves and that currently lack such support due to reasons beyond their immediate control including – but not limited to – unemployment, lacking access to food, lacking access to housing, lacking access to healthcare, lacking access to education, physical disability, being retired or not old enough to have a job.
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