“Democracies” like the USA are built on illusions or paradigms and are themselves thus paradigms/illusions. People may buy into it, but that doesn’t mean they are democratic “citizens”. Certain paradigms were included in the deal, one of them through accepting it being equalled to being part of a democracy. The institutions themselves are built upon paradigms. So these “democracies” are only ways of establishing “order” or the prevalence of an illusionary system in people’s minds and in this sense do not differ from former kingdoms. The truth is, however, that this “order” never reaches any final conclusion (as the kingdoms and “democracies” show) and ultimately results in “disorder” which in reality is the opportunity to get more in touch with how reality really is.
When it comes to the Middle East, it becomes difficult to create any sense of “order” through implementing false thought systems that have been developed in conditions highly specific for the West. This is because there hasn’t been “democracy” there in the past. I heard on the radio that the USA has tried to do such implementations 13 times and only “succeeded” twice, in Japan and in Germany. I don’t know if the thought-systems to be found in Iraq and Afghanistan have the combined character required to welcome the implementation the USA now wants.
False thought-systems are maintained through “expansion/distraction”. People must be kept in the “cages”. “Appearance is everything”. It’s not strange that “Saddam Hussein” lost support. It would be the same if the USA stopped “expanding”. Then the weaknesses of the system/lack of correspondence with reality would go from subconsciousness to consciousness and make people “stop” buy into the system, which they in truth never really did. The USA and other “democracies” are only a question of accepting a lack of correspondence between reality and the various functions assigned to for example institutions on a subconscious level, although maybe not realising that “consciously”.
A true democracy wouldn’t oppress true consciousness. It’s the oppression of true conscioucness/independence from artificial thought systems that is the key to why all false thought systems/empires collapse. As it happens, they have tended to be replaced by “other” false thought systems, because there appears a vacuum that people who haven’t got out of the false consciousness mode unfortunately fill. However, sooner or later true consciousness will prevail, since it can’t be erased, in contrast to the thought systems that aren’t in touch with reality/often have their “origin” in written stuff.
False thought systems are put against each other in addition to how it really is. The West has been and thus is a hindrance to the false thought systems of the Middle East. The latter have experienced a decline, but let’s say the West hadn’t interferred. It could then very well have been the other way around. In the long run, of course, we all have a common goal, the prevalence of true consciousness. But I’m afraid it won’t help the way Bush & co. have acted. But, of course, they couldn’t have acted any differently, since their actions prove a prevalence of false consciousness. And, ultimately, a universal expansion of the dominant false thought system may lead directly to true consciousness, since when it collapses; what is there to replace other than… ? But hopefully, it won’t take that long time. And meanwhile, it is a consolidation that the disorder of false thought systems sooner or later will be replaced by prevalence of true consciousness.
here are some of my comments to your last post on points that i still see as major tensions in your arguements.