CHRUNCH

CRUNCH

“It is a lie to say that the president lied to the American people”
Vice President Dick Cheney, 11.21.05

This, from the same man who flatly asserted "we know things Congress doesn’t”, in contradiction to Bush’s statement “Congress knew everything we did” when it voted for war. (From personal memory; could be documented.)

The psychosemiotic form illustrated by these juxtapositions is “double-double reverse negative.” Crediting Cheney is like believing the Cretan who said “all Cretans are liars” – knowing his identity. “We’re all liars, just like you. You have the right to disagree, of course.” As to the man’s suit to get “In God We Trust” removed from the dollar bill because it violates the rights of atheists? No dice. In Cheney’s logic, the rights of atheists were granted by God just like everyone else’s.

But this is perverse and twisted. It is not the critics who lie. He does.


DISCOURSE REDUCED TO CALLING EACH OTHER NAMES AND LIARS ... hOW DID IT COME ABOUT?


IT IS THE TERMINUS OF A PROCESS-AGENDA CONTRADICTING AMERICA’S INTERESTS PLAYED OUT BY THOSE WHO HI-JACKED ITS NAME.

The process was inaugurated by a particular set of interests affiliated with the group Cheney was addressing, the American Enterprise Institute, ground zero for the neocon conspiracy, the eye of the hurricane of US foreign policy in the MidEast.

"WE DON'T LIE. THOSE WHO CALL US LIARS ARE LIARS."

THE METAPHYSICAL STORY

Surely many realized long ago that The Ccontention, if allowed to swell, would degenerate to this point. Two sides, each calling themselves American, accusing each other of lying: this is the One (idea, common property of all who speak in the name of all) captured by the Two, one side of which is explicitly self-contradictory.

An odd coincidence occurred. Yesterday, I was preparing to X process Cheney’s remarks, show how they resulted from the psychodynamic unleashed on the youth long ago by Vietnam war/cold war anti-communist types, so the question “how did we get here?” would never again go unanswered. This was followed up today, incredibly,
by report that a large, black X actually appeared over Cheney’s his picture on CNN even as he spoke. Odd—because it is another level of ‘doubling’. The same process was taking place in two distinct contexts, unrelated except by the content: the X, and Cheney’s double-double reverse. As I was applying the detail of the X to explain how, and why the situation arose, in effect acting out “X-ing Cheney”, sure enough, some other hand out there was acting according to the same (unconscious) thought. Beamed into x-million brains, with ripple effects.

As some sort of media-glitch, this X-ing of Cheney by CNN goes up alongside the very large, distinct, vivid number “2” seen in the eye of some hurricane Katrina pictures. Undoubtedly some kind of technological mistake, but implanting a “message”. These oddities go with stories about a man called “Ted Serios”, claimed by some to be able to imprint images from his mind onto film, by staring into the camera and clicking. (“Is it possible?...”)

Now, for them, it must forever be this exact reversal, for they have driven the “good vs evil” wedge into the heart of American discourse. After having installed “God”, through Bush’s faith-based initiative, as National Patron; then arranged to get “war” attached to fighting an emotional state (“war on terror”), with enemy situated in Iraq. These, taken together and injected into the blood-stream of common, collective discourse, generate a degenerative process that leads to just such unions-in-contradiction. The willingness to go along with this – to predicate on both sides of a self-contradiction – is the pathological psychological condition called “the castastrophic enantiodromia”: the point in the deterioration and degeneration of what was previously One, as a common idea, into Two, one side of which has gone Faustian. The Contentions that pressure democratic governments escalate into irreconcilable differences, warp speed, because of the way the ‘dark’ side of the Two begin speaking. Ideological absolutes get mixed into the broth. For example “Zion”, and the movement to get anti-Zionism to = anti-Semitism in politically correct discourse. The Two parties that could co-exist under the banner of One idea – America – cannot co-exist when one side takes the banner necessarily used by both to wrap around that which is irreconcilable with itself.

This is what I see as having happened. The Right wing ideologues, armed with “God”, “war”, and the unconscious group fantasy connecting them, playing out in the devastation of Iraq by displacement, have pushed The Contention past the point of reversal. It is of their doing, and its outline, or template, unfolded in events following the Vietnam war. In order for the dark side of that, and the later political slaughter of many in El Salvador and Nicaragua in Reagan’s regime to continue to exist, it was forced to take control. Every trick of the trade learned by every dark op, illegal, hate-mongering, lying bastard that ever plotted to overthrow legitimate government has been used to hi-jack America’s. That is the reply to Cheney. You are the liar.