Beyond Irony

BEYOND IRONY


When: It is the way of being (of person or group) that has caused the ‘ironic’ wipe-out …(as I was predicting would happen: use of the ideals represented by , , to seize Iraq’s oil resources by force; ….matched by hurricane force of greater scale of magnitude taking its own oil…

And: the irony of that situation is signaled in Sign-use –call it coincidence if you must – by the name of a Catholic saint applying, first, to the horrific deaths at the New Orleans nursing home, then, as if suitably dropping all pretences at holiness, ‘returning’ as just Rita to wipe out more Texas-Louisiana Gulf coast shore humanity and oil rigs. The irony of 24 old folks killed in a bus by exploding oxygen canisters escaping Rita … about the same as perished in St. Rita’s parish home.

If one researches ”St. Rita” the story will emerge of a child forced to marry against her wishes; an abusive husband (mentioned by all accounts), raising two boys until the father is stabbed to death, and she deters them from revenge. An odd, but accepted tale, leading to her being accepted into a Benedictine order of nuns, where she lived a life of spiritual purity beyond telling: evidently overcoming (or driven by) all sentiments of resentment, perfected by acceptance of her lot, acquiring great clarity in understand and giving charity to other “impossible cases”.
If the “St.” is dropped, and “Rita” is given the raw force of wrath mother nature can inflict on humanity anytime she wishes, or is in His the plan of Intelligent Design”, unleashed in punishment for what America has done to Iraq, even the irony that women may be treated worse there due to our internvention ….

These are two major historical ironies with which America must live.

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… TO Willful , unforgivable sinfulness (The other side of irony: SKEWERED on the Fixed Cross. cf. Alice A. Bailey)

…ILLUSTRATED BY GWB’S STATEMENT TO THE Republican Jewish Coalition (NY Times 9.22.’05 A24 “Bush Compares Responses to Hurricane abnd Terrorism”…(Speaking as a luncheon for the Republican Jewish Coalition) President Bush on Wednesday for the first time linked the American response to terrorism and its response to Hurricane Katrina, declaring that the United States is emerging a stronger nation from both challenges, and saying that terrorists look at the storm’s devastation “and wished they had caused it.… By suggesting for the first time that America’s enemies were pleased to see the devastation caused bya the hurricane, he appeared to be linking the country’s natural and human challenges.”

If, instead of confronting and punishing the factor that has brought the ironic catastrophe (e.g., building a firehouse in a spot most likely to be struck by lightening) IT IS REPEATED AND REWARDED, the process is deliberately (though still not necessarily consciously - it might not have been chosen for that reason) self-destructive. IF THE REASONS FOR REGARDING IT AS IRONIC ARE IGNORED (AVOIDED, DENIED, REPRESSED) THEN THEN CONSCIOUSNESS HAS COME UNDER THE SWAY OF THE UNCONSCIOUS COUNTER-POSITION WHICH ‘KNOWS’ THE WAY IT IS GOING THE WAY WATER KNOWS TO FLOW DOWNHILL. (undeviating from its inner law)

Bush’s remark goes beyond irony. Although he cannot be given credit for achieving any consciously pursued outcome, the structure of his thought processes is the psychodynamic of self-punishment. “They wish they had caused it” implies at the conscious level, “They want to see America suffer.” Just below that, at the unconscious level, are the thoughts: that America deserves to suffer for what it has caused them; and Katrina was the punishment America deserves sent from God. Therefore, Bush statement “They wish they had caused it” is a conscious overlay of “they would do what God did (“wanted” comes from his own mind) – He was acting for them.” But THEY ARE THE ENEMY – God can’t be on their side.

But according to this analysis, that is the mental attitude of the way of being that brought America’s the ironic destruction. Only a force of the scale “She” unleashed could stand alongside the SHOCK AND AWE of the megabombs the US dropped on Iraq and rained on their heads. Is that not supposed to be remembered somewhere? The sheer ferocity of the storm stunned onlookers. “It was if she had a score to settle” one Mississippi survivor said, comparing its fury to hurricane Camille. The utter devastation staggered all imagining. As if something that had been building up a long time were unleashed. Hatred for America.

Now: we must face it. To continue down the path that has brought this end is will-to-death. It represents a conscious choice to die. More: that choice is presented as its opposite: to live. If God has punished them (us) for their way of being once, twice, with no effect except twisting His name twice and displacing the twisted reconjunt onto “the Enemy who wishes to make us suffer”, then, if there is anything to this God notion, He would be justified taking out the whole damned place.

And anyone who follows that way of thinking presented by the chimp to the Republican Jewish Coalition passes beyond irony to irredeemable self-hatred. They are not to be pitied. It will be taken as a sign of weakness. They have split the curtain of illusion that covered their inhumanity.