Wanna Play the Blame Game?
PLAYING THE BLAME GAME?
(YOU BET. In spades..)
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Pressure Point
by Jonathan Cohn
Only at TNR Online | Post date 09.07.05
President Bush and his allies have a new answer to criticisms over the government's slow response to Hurricane Katrina: Now is no time to play the "blame game." Bush himself has made this point, most recently in yesterday's Cabinet meeting. Joining him in this chorus are fellow Republicans like House Speaker Dennis Hastert, conservative commentators like Max Boot of the Los Angeles Times, and (surprisingly enough) even former President Bill Clinton. ...
Comment. This gimmick -- “Now is no time to play the ‘blame game” – is a prime example of mind-set Katrina punished. It takes what is coming to them, the government authorities (blame) and puts it on those who would bring it up. Blaming them for “playing the ‘blame game’” when there is important work to be done. Frivolous liberals.
This is but another instance of the now all-too-familiar twistedness of the invert psychosis. At the “end of day”, when the chickens are coming home to roost, and the swinging fickle finger of fate has stopped dead-aim pointing to them, there will always be such a line. “Now’s not the time to play the blame game.” “They always blame America first.” Or maybe a terrorist act. Or catastrophe. The psychic condition that can maintain that as a conscious split-off attitude is manifest demon possession. “God” is used as a gloss to cause OTHER PEOPLE’S COMMITMENT TO ITS PROPER USE to be politically neutralized. This is the metaphysical essence of anti-God -- what sinfulness is.
Thus, the “blame” goes to their way of being (illustrated in/by the use itself). It – the karmic totality – it is a guilty way of being, not seen, not confronted, continuing to bring deserve further punishment. And nothing The Convuluted Beast can do, positively, at this point, that won’t make it worse. (Ex. another trip to New Orleans by Bush.)
What this mentality is to which I am always referring it needn’t be taken esoterically or psychoanalytically to be grasped. Paul Krugman devoted an entire column to “Point Those Fingers” (NY Times 9.9 A25) laying out “the chain of mistakes” resulting in Katrina deaths “was perfectly in character – there are striking parallels between the errors the administration made in Iraq and the errors it made last week.” After detailing instances, he asks “Why did the administration make the same mistakes twice? Because it paid no political price the first time.” And the reason for that, here argued, is because it wrapped its perfidious contortions in God-talk. As if He would always be there, forgiving, when the Saints Go Marching in. Knocked out of the metaphysical box now by “Katrina”.
Monday 9.12 he follows up: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/12/opinion/12krugman.html
All the President's Friends
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: September 12, 2005
“But what we really should be asking is whether FEMA's decline and fall is unique, or part of a larger pattern. What other government functions have been crippled by politicization, cronyism and/or the departure of experienced professionals? How many FEMA's are there?”
What Krugman is documenting here – the pattern that has never been confronted – is the same phenomenon (psychic condition) I analyze the inner side of through its use of signs. Metaphysically, it might be viewed as a phenomenon, or entity, existing in the networks of consciousness linked by signs used to communicate. It is completed outside and beyond particular consciousnesses, yet it is among other contents also wholly contained, some completed therein and some not. If there were a “pattern” it would manifest in the spontaneous agreement on the ‘tacits’ in which the act of one (the Leader), as delegate for all, establishes a congruent mind-set, as Hitler harranging the German crowds. “It” would respond through its “members” as a One, as in a Church, without extensive checking needed. This kind of command power, where the voice of the leader is speaking with the authority of All, to All, is of course the Holy Grail of “Under One God” Nationalists. And the situation is such that The Children are obliged to rise up against these New anti-God Fueherers, Marduk against Klingsor, to remove them and this grail from our land.
It is an entity the scale and dimensions of which could only be confronted in kind by an event with the power of authority of a category 5 hurricane. At the unconscious level, there are lateral associations to “killer mommy” themes, as Cindy Sheehan represented in right-wing group-fantasy.
(YOU BET. In spades..)
https://ssl.tnr.com/p/docsub.mhtml?i=w050905&s=cohn090705
Pressure Point
by Jonathan Cohn
Only at TNR Online | Post date 09.07.05
President Bush and his allies have a new answer to criticisms over the government's slow response to Hurricane Katrina: Now is no time to play the "blame game." Bush himself has made this point, most recently in yesterday's Cabinet meeting. Joining him in this chorus are fellow Republicans like House Speaker Dennis Hastert, conservative commentators like Max Boot of the Los Angeles Times, and (surprisingly enough) even former President Bill Clinton. ...
Comment. This gimmick -- “Now is no time to play the ‘blame game” – is a prime example of mind-set Katrina punished. It takes what is coming to them, the government authorities (blame) and puts it on those who would bring it up. Blaming them for “playing the ‘blame game’” when there is important work to be done. Frivolous liberals.
This is but another instance of the now all-too-familiar twistedness of the invert psychosis. At the “end of day”, when the chickens are coming home to roost, and the swinging fickle finger of fate has stopped dead-aim pointing to them, there will always be such a line. “Now’s not the time to play the blame game.” “They always blame America first.” Or maybe a terrorist act. Or catastrophe. The psychic condition that can maintain that as a conscious split-off attitude is manifest demon possession. “God” is used as a gloss to cause OTHER PEOPLE’S COMMITMENT TO ITS PROPER USE to be politically neutralized. This is the metaphysical essence of anti-God -- what sinfulness is.
Thus, the “blame” goes to their way of being (illustrated in/by the use itself). It – the karmic totality – it is a guilty way of being, not seen, not confronted, continuing to bring deserve further punishment. And nothing The Convuluted Beast can do, positively, at this point, that won’t make it worse. (Ex. another trip to New Orleans by Bush.)
What this mentality is to which I am always referring it needn’t be taken esoterically or psychoanalytically to be grasped. Paul Krugman devoted an entire column to “Point Those Fingers” (NY Times 9.9 A25) laying out “the chain of mistakes” resulting in Katrina deaths “was perfectly in character – there are striking parallels between the errors the administration made in Iraq and the errors it made last week.” After detailing instances, he asks “Why did the administration make the same mistakes twice? Because it paid no political price the first time.” And the reason for that, here argued, is because it wrapped its perfidious contortions in God-talk. As if He would always be there, forgiving, when the Saints Go Marching in. Knocked out of the metaphysical box now by “Katrina”.
Monday 9.12 he follows up: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/12/opinion/12krugman.html
All the President's Friends
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: September 12, 2005
“But what we really should be asking is whether FEMA's decline and fall is unique, or part of a larger pattern. What other government functions have been crippled by politicization, cronyism and/or the departure of experienced professionals? How many FEMA's are there?”
What Krugman is documenting here – the pattern that has never been confronted – is the same phenomenon (psychic condition) I analyze the inner side of through its use of signs. Metaphysically, it might be viewed as a phenomenon, or entity, existing in the networks of consciousness linked by signs used to communicate. It is completed outside and beyond particular consciousnesses, yet it is among other contents also wholly contained, some completed therein and some not. If there were a “pattern” it would manifest in the spontaneous agreement on the ‘tacits’ in which the act of one (the Leader), as delegate for all, establishes a congruent mind-set, as Hitler harranging the German crowds. “It” would respond through its “members” as a One, as in a Church, without extensive checking needed. This kind of command power, where the voice of the leader is speaking with the authority of All, to All, is of course the Holy Grail of “Under One God” Nationalists. And the situation is such that The Children are obliged to rise up against these New anti-God Fueherers, Marduk against Klingsor, to remove them and this grail from our land.
It is an entity the scale and dimensions of which could only be confronted in kind by an event with the power of authority of a category 5 hurricane. At the unconscious level, there are lateral associations to “killer mommy” themes, as Cindy Sheehan represented in right-wing group-fantasy.
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