remote-control

On September 11, 2001 planes "kamikaze" attack buildings in the United States. The offical narrative frames this as terrorism and calls it an act of war.

The U.S. military and CIA reciprocate the gesture by waging war through the use of remote-controlled planes.

Ours is a world of remote control.

We wage a war on terror as a war on ideas. Terrorism simply needs to be a webpage or a speech by a radical cleric, which inspires someone to take the life of a non-believer. In this way, terrorism forces its views upon U.S. soil by influencing those who perpetrate terrorism, remotely.

Remote Control.

Likewise, terrorism grows out of a sense of Islamic identity, tribal identity, racial or ethnic identity, that is contradictory to that of the West. Fundamentalist Islam is a ward against Pepsi, Coke, and loose morals. All of this happens as Hollywood and Coke headquarters find new ways and new markets for their products, They dump these products onto a population in central Asia to influence their consumption without ever setting foot there.

Remote Control.

I am reminded of Arnold Toynbee's description of civilization as emanating from a center, populated by a creative few. Their creativity radiates out, gets adopted, and expands a civilization on the choices, identities, and commitment to enact it by the internal and external proletariat. When these groups no longer find legitimacy in the cultural accoutrements of this civilization it ceases to exist. Civilization's scope in space and in time is a measure of its influence and its control over its own dissemination. Civilization holds a high bar of influence, like that of the fundamental tool of humankind, language. And that high bar is the influence that persists both in space and in time after the speech has ended and its creator has died.

The idea lives on, remotely.

Remote.
Control.





Control.
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God Bless America