{"id":50641,"date":"2020-01-21T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T12:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50641"},"modified":"2020-01-21T07:49:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T12:49:14","slug":"the-geopolitics-of-epistemological-warfare-from-babylon-to-neocon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50641","title":{"rendered":"The Geopolitics of Epistemological Warfare: From Babylon to Neocon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2020\/01\/18\/the-geopolitics-of-epistemological-warfare-from-babylon-to-neocon\/\">The Geopolitics of Epistemological Warfare: From Babylon to Neocon\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I think any sane human being can agree that while war was never a good idea, war in the 21<sup>st<\/sup>century is an absolutely intolerable one. The problem we currently face is that many of the forces driving world events towards an all-out war of \u201cMutually Assured Annihilation\u201d are anything but sane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I\u2019m obviously referring here to a certain category of people who fall under a particularly virulent strain of imperial thinking which can be labelled \u201cneo-conservative\u201d and while many of these disturbing figures honestly believe that a total war of annihilation is a risk worth taking in order to achieve their goals of total global hegemony, I would like to make one subtle yet very important distinction which is often overlooked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is this distinction?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the broad umbrella of \u201cneo-conservative\u201d one should properly differentiate&nbsp;<strong><em>those who really believe in their ideology<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;and are trapped under the invisible cage of its unexamined assumptions vs. that smaller yet more important segment that created and manages the ideology from the top. I brushed on this grouping in a recent 3 part study called&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/canadianpatriot.org\/origins-of-deep-state-part1\/\">Origins of the Deep State<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2019\/12\/26\/de-bunking-myth-of-jewish-conspiracy\/\">Myth of the Jewish Conspiracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To re-state my meaning: This group doesn\u2019t necessarily&nbsp;<em>believe in<\/em>&nbsp;the ideological group they manage any more than a parent believes in that tooth fairy which they promote in order to achieve certain behavioral patterns in their children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While belief in the tooth fairy is slightly less destructive than belief in a misanthropic neocon worldview of a Bolton, Pompeo or Cheney, the analogy is useful to communicate the point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cult Managers: Ancient Babylon and Now<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Geopolitics of Epistemological Warfare: From Babylon to Neocon\u00a0 I think any sane human being can agree that while war was never a good idea, war in the 21stcentury is an absolutely intolerable one. The problem we currently face is that many of the forces driving world events towards an all-out war of \u201cMutually Assured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[259,28843,3116,25634,27499,8203],"class_list":["post-50641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-empire","tag-epistemological-warfare","tag-epistemology","tag-matthew-ehret","tag-narrative-managers","tag-strategic-culture-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50642,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50641\/revisions\/50642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}