of being subjected to economic structures that ubiquitous, powerful, cruel, and actually are alienating, which destroy an individual’s livelihood in mere seconds, and which, actually can with the increasing centralization of power and capital in fewer corporate industries, actually do engage in conspiracy. The difference between this such experience and political paranoia seems quite negligible. Polarization The second qualification moves into the territory of the of political constant polarization. In analyzing both historical and contemporary manifestations of the paranoid style, we must acknowledge a legitimate fear. That fear of having another culture impose itself its values and – practices, its cultural conceptions of the the etc. upon your own life. ‘freedom,’ ‘good,’ ‘right,’ – Grasping the legitimacy of this fear is difficult because it requires dispelling a deeply held myth. To wit, the idea that there exists some single, unified nation and/or “national” “American” political culture a single community of persons united by a common culture, history, and – practices is entirely fallacious. The United States of America is not, nor has it ever been, a – nation; it is, and has always been, a of nations.’ Paranoia is the result of an all too real ‘Republic political struggle between rival nations, each intent upon wielding Federal power in pursuit of cultural independence, if not cultural hegemony. In this context, political is not the polarization to an of inter-party cooperation or inter-nation unity, it is geo-cultural “rule” “exception” structure upon which concrete battles take place. Only subsequently, in an manner, is a ad-hoc single, character fashioned and re-fashioned. “national” Each of the eleven Nations” identified by historian Woodard has a “American unique genealogical origin in one or more particular European culture(s). Thereafter, each nation developed from a particular political culture, in unique natural environments given to different social structures, different material conditions of existence and relations of economic production.
of being subjected to economic structures that actually are ubiquitous, powerful, cruel, and alienating, which actually can destroy an individual’s livelihood in mere seconds, and which, with the increasing centralization of power and capital in fewer corporate industries, actually do engage in conspiracy. The difference between this such experience and political paranoia seems quite negligible. Polarization The second qualification moves into the territory of the constant of political polarization. In analyzing both historical and contemporary manifestations of the paranoid style, we must acknowledge a legitimate fear. That fear of having another culture impose itself – its values and practices, its cultural conceptions of ‘freedom,’ the ‘good,’ the ‘right,’ etc. – upon your own life. Grasping the legitimacy of this fear is difficult because it requires dispelling a deeply held “national” myth. To wit, the idea that there exists some single, unified “American” nation and/or political culture – a single community of persons united by a common culture, history, and practices – is entirely fallacious. The United States of America is not, nor has it ever been, a nation; it is, and has always been, a ‘Republic of nations.’ Paranoia is the result of an all too real political struggle between rival nations, each intent upon wielding Federal power in pursuit of cultural independence, if not cultural hegemony. In this context, political polarization is not the “rule” to an “exception” of inter-party cooperation or inter-nation unity, it is geo-cultural structure upon which concrete battles take place. Only subsequently, in an ad-hoc manner, is a single, “national” character fashioned and re-fashioned. Each of the eleven “American Nations” identified by historian Woodard has a unique genealogical origin in one or more particular European culture(s). Thereafter, each nation developed from a particular political culture, in unique natural environments given to different social structures, different material conditions of existence and relations of economic production.
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