2022 - Changing the Metaphor - Part 2
On full display in America is what Machiavelli described as critical to the existence of regimes. The Prince ;
he recommends, should do the good in public while performing the sometimes necessary and heinous acts in private. Trump followed this script, with the help of Russian-generated division of America and Fox News propaganda, fashioned on the Third Reich's metaphor fueled by Leni Riefenstahl;
Fortunately, white, suburban women and the "underserved" of America saw through the smokescreen and voted against Trump. As far as US Senators and the US Congress arecconncerned, the sedition and treason of 6 January were not matters of concern until their lives were threatened by the mob and the violence, savagery and flagrant antisemitism of the white supremicist-driven attack on our capital became painfully and frighteningly obvious;
Today, thanks to film and photography, the metaphor of America’s cultural bias and stupidity is on full display.
Republicans will endeavor to use violence and propaganda to create a disconnect between their party and this egregious lawlessness but fortunately and thanks to the auto industry, America has set a consistent precedent for its nationalism, populism, indiscipline, discrimination, superficiality, its global trade isolationism and its financial mediocrity.
Thanks for your service
Nowhere is the hypocrisy of America more evident than in its auto industry. Hitler was inspired by Henry Ford. Ford's influence, his rabid antisemitism and his "Tin Lizzie;"
greatly influenced Hitler and his entourage;
The rest of the metaphor which the Republican Party will want to pursue a separation from involves Joachim Pieper. After being being held responsible for the macine-gunning of 82 America GIs at Malmedy,;
during the Battle of the Bulge, Pieper was sentenced to death and then transported to the US. Once in America, Pieper's death sentence was changed to 20 years in prison. The influence of Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin ;
and of Mid-western American cultural bias, resulted in the handsome former Panzer commander being released. He then worked for BMW and Volkswagen until he was assassinated by a Frenchman.
Barbara Tuchman, author of A Distant Mirror and The Guns of August and Shelby Foote, author of thec3cvolume tome on thecAmerican Civil War, expressed the opinion that writers are needed to explain the meaning of historical events; the story of the beginning, middle and end of these cataclysmic historical events, so that we could gain a better understanding of their cause. Foote famously said that we cannot understand America without understanding the Civil War. George C. Marshall, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, expressed the importance of understanding what final measures could have been taken to avoid world war. For his par as co-recipient of the Nobel Prize, Dr. Albert Sweitzer, retraced the history of world wars and exhorted Reverence for Life as the antidote for the historical and continual violence in the human quest toward civilization.
Barbara ztuchman proposed "Tuchman's Law" as a means of understanding the nature of war.
Tuchman’s Law
In the introduction to her 1978 book A Distant Mirror;
Tuchman playfully identified a historical phenomenon which she termed "Tuchman's Law," to wit:
Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place. Besides, persistence of the normal is usually greater than the effect of the disturbance, as we know from our own times. After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening—on a lucky day—without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena. This has led me to formulate Tuchman's Law, as follows: "The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold" (or any figure the reader would care to supply).[17]
Because of the continual influence of propaganda, social media and pundits, an understanding of the causes of war, of geopolitics, political and business strategy are necessary in order to not only understand our pas, but also to understand what will be the future of America and the world.