SV: [ejlist] Kosovo & Jünger

["Bertil Häggman" <bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se>]

>The recent war in Yugoslavia raises issues germane to our theme. In
>particular, it has established the New World Order that President Bush
>could only dream of.  The message of the American victory is this:

>1. America can bomb any country in the world and that country cannot
>fight back or even see the bombs coming.  America can hit any target,
>scramble communications, turn off the lights and turn them back on
>again.  It can also explain away accidental bombings of children, old
>people, hospitals.


Gary,

The message, in my opinion. is rather
that the Hitler's of the 1990s cannot
slaughter and commit genocide at will.
I think EJ would have welcomed the
hitting of the agents of the Oberfoerster.

NATO unwillingly used the bombings hoping
it would take no more than two or three days
for Milosevic to agree to the Rambouillet
Accords. The West should be content
that the might of the United States is there
to protect against the rest dictators of
the Communist era and other badmen on
other continents.


>2. America can arbitrarily and selectively enforce its policies on any
>country in the world: pro-Yeltsin, anti-Chechnya yesterday;
>anti-Milosevich, pro-Kosovo today; pro-anybody, anti-anybody tomorrow.


No, the United States is part of the 19 nation
NATO coalition. The United States is the
mightiest state for the time being, agreed,
but still bound by the NATO charter.

>3. America has established global domination for the 21st century:
>American politics, American technology, American pop culture,
>American-style conman for President.  All countries are Americanized,
>all countries must play the game to America's liking or risk bombing. 
>(There are exceptions: China, Korea, Cuba, but America is working on
>them.)


The communist regimes of China, North Korea, and Cuba
have committed terrible atrocities. PRC has nuclear weapons
and must be dealt with carefully. North Korea is presently
developing nuclear weapons and Cuba is a special case where
the regime of Castro will probably crumble when Fidel
Castro leaves the scene. 

>4. There are now two worlds: the technologically superior world and
>everybody else.  The first exploits the second, but with face-saving
>ideology.


No, there are three worlds as before. 
The first World as usual is technologically
superior.

>5. The new ideology/religion for the next century has been tried and
>tested for the last 20 years: political correctness--i.e., leftist
>hypocrisy and sanctimoniousness.  All countries bear a burden of guilt,
>all peoples can be singled out as prejudiced, all individuals can be
>castigated as racists.  The PC high priests decide.


PC rules supreme, maybe, in the United States,
where it has taken on extreme forms. This is not the
case in Europe.


>Zamyatin & Orwell had it right for this century: totalitarianism, Big
>Brother.  But Huxley and Jünger seem to have it right for the next: 
>entertainment industry, bureaucratic entanglement, Titans of business
>and technology.
>
>And Jünger had the solution: Waldgänger. The best you can do is take a
>book and go fishing, and hope that you're not trespassing on anybody's
>land or that no idiot with a boombox and a backward baseball cap will
>come by.  In fact, the Wald part of the formulation is at risk. The
>individual is finished, except as a hermit, turning his hour glasses in
>his secret study, if he has one.


If you choose the Waldgaenger method you cannot
influence and disclose the workings of the
Titans and titanism. To do that a person must
stay in the stream of debate and write and debate
on the risks of present development.

Viva California, where it is easy to have
any view on the outskirts of Western
civilization.

Bertil