Who Doesn’t Love Identity Politics?
CJ Hopkins
If there is one thing that still unites Americans across the ever more intellectually suffocating and bitterly polarized political spectrum our imaginations have been crammed into like rush hour commuters on the Tokyo Metro, it’s our undying love of identity politics.
Who doesn’t love identity politics? Liberals love identity politics. Conservatives love identity politics. Political parties love identity politics. Corporations love identity politics. Advertisers, anarchists, white supremacists, Wall Street bankers, Hollywood producers, Twitter celebrities, the media, academia … everybody loves identity politics.
Why do we love identity politics? We love them for many different reasons.
The ruling classes love identity politics because they keep the working classes focused on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and so on, and not on the fact that they (i.e., the working classes) are, essentially, glorified indentured servants, who will spend the majority of their sentient existences laboring to benefit a ruling elite that would gladly butcher their entire families and sell their livers to hepatitic Saudi princes if they could get away with it. Dividing the working classes up into sub-groups according to race, ethnicity, and so on, and then pitting these sub-groups against each other, is extremely important to the ruling classes, who are, let’s remember, a tiny minority of intelligent but physically vulnerable parasites controlling the lives of the vast majority of human beings on the planet Earth, primarily by keeping them ignorant and confused.
The political parties love identity politics because they allow them to conceal the fact that they are bought and paid for by these ruling classes, which, in our day and age, means corporations and a handful of obscenely wealthy oligarchs who would gut you and your kids like trout and sell your organs to the highest bidder if they thought they could possibly get away with it. The political parties employ identity politics to maintain the simulation of democracy that prevents Americans (many of whom are armed) from coming together, forming a mob, dismantling this simulation of democracy, and then attempting to establish an actual democracy, of, by, and for the people, which is, basically, the ruling classes’ worst nightmare. The best way to avoid this scenario is to keep the working classes ignorant and confused, and at each other’s throats over things like pronouns, white privilege, gender appropriate bathrooms, and the complexion and genitalia of the virtually interchangeable puppets the ruling classes allow them to vote for.
The corporate media, academia, Hollywood, and the other components of the culture industry are similarly invested in keeping the vast majority of people ignorant and confused. The folks who populate this culture industry, in addition to predicating their sense of self-worth on their superiority to the unwashed masses, enjoy spending time with the ruling classes, and reaping the many benefits of serving them … and, while most of them wouldn’t personally disembowel your kids and sell their organs to some dope-addled Saudi trillionaire scion, they would look the other way while the ruling classes did, and then invent some sort of convoluted rationalization of why it was necessary, in order to preserve democracy and freedom (or was some sort of innocent but unfortunate “blunder,” which will never, ever, happen again).
The fake Left loves identity politics because they allow them to pretend to be “revolutionary” and spout all manner of “militant” gibberish while posing absolutely zero threat to the ruling classes they claim to be fighting. Publishing fake Left “samizdats” (your donations to which are tax-deductible), sanctimoniously denouncing racism on Twitter, milking whatever identity politics scandal is making headlines that day, and otherwise sounding like a slightly edgier version of National Public Radio, are all popular elements of the fake Left repertoire.
Marching along permitted parade routes, assembling in designated “free speech areas,” and listening to speeches by fake Left celebrities and assorted Democratic Party luminaries, are also well-loved fake Left activities. For those who feel the need to be even more militant, pressuring universities to cancel events where potentially “violent” and “oppressive” speech acts (or physical gestures) might occur, toppling offensive historical monuments, ratting out people to social media censors, or masking up and beating the crap out of “street Nazis” are among the available options. All of these activities, by herding potential troublemakers into fake Left ghettos and wasting their time, both on- and off-line, help to ensure that the ruling classes, their political puppets, the corporate media, Hollywood, and the rest of the culture industry can keep most people ignorant and confused.
Oh, and racists, hardcore white supremacists, anti-Semites, and other far-Right wing nuts … my God, do they love identity politics! Identity politics are their entire worldview (or Weltanschauung, for you Nazi fetishists). Virtually every social, political, economic, and ontological phenomenon can be explained by reducing it to race, ethnicity, religion, or some other simplistic criterion, according to these “alt-Right” geniuses. And to render everything even more simplistic, each and every one of their simplistic theories can be subsumed into a meta-simplistic theory, which amounts to (did you guess it?) a conspiracy of Jews.
According to this meta-theory, this conspiracy of Jews (which is headquartered in Israel, but maintains offices in Los Angeles and New York, from which it controls the corporate media, Hollywood, and the entire financial sector) is responsible for … well, anything they can think of. September 11 attacks? Conspiracy of Jews. Financial crisis? Jews, naturally. Black on Black crime? Jews again! Immigration? Globalization? Gun control laws? Abortion? Drugs? Media bias? Who else could be behind it all but Jews?!
See, the thing is, there is no essential difference between your identity politics-brainwashed liberal and your Swastika-tattooed white supremacist. Both are looking at the world through the lens of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or some other type of “identity.” They are looking through this “identity” lens (whichever one it happens to be) because either they have been conditioned to do so (most likely from the time they were children) or they have made a conscious choice to do so (after recognizing, and affirming or rejecting, whatever conditioning they received as children).
Quantum physicists, Sufi fakirs, and certain other esoterics understand what most of us don’t, namely, that there is no such thing as “the Truth,” or “Reality,” apart from our perception of it. The world, or “reality,” or whatever you want to call it, is more than happy to transform itself into any imaginable shape and form, based on the lens you are looking at it through. It’s like a trickster in that regard. Look at “reality” through a racist lens, and everything will make sense according to that logic. Look at it through a social justice lens, or a Judeo-Christian lens, or a Muslim lens, or a scientific or a Scientologist lens, or a historical materialist or capitalist lens (it really makes no difference at all) … and abracadabra! A new world is born!
Sadly, most of us never reach the stage in our personal (spiritual?) development where we are able to make a conscious choice about which lens we want to view the world through. Mostly, we stick with the lens we were originally issued by our families and societies. Then we spend the rest of our fleeting lives desperately insisting that our perspective is “the Truth,” and that other perspectives are either “lies” or “errors.” The fact that we do this is unsurprising, as the ruling classes (of whatever society we happened to be born and socialized into) are intensely invested in issuing everyone a “Weltanschauung lens” that corresponds to whatever narrative they are telling themselves about why they deserve to be the ruling classes and we deserve to exist to serve them, fight their wars, pay interest on their loans, not to mention rent to live on the Earth, which they have claimed as their own and divided up amongst themselves to exploit and ruin, which they justify with “laws” they invented, which they enforce with armies, police, and prisons, which they teach us as children to believe is “just the way life is” … but I digress.
So, who doesn’t love identity politics? Well, I don’t love identity politics. But then I tend to view political events in the context of enormous, complex systems operating beyond the level of the individuals and other entities such systems comprise. Thus I’ve kind of been keeping an eye on the restructuring of the planet by global capitalism that started in the early 1990s, following the collapse of the U.S.S.R., when global capitalism (not the U.S.A.) became the first globally hegemonic system in the history of aspiring hegemonic systems.
Now, this system (i.e., capitalism, not the U.S.A), being globally hegemonic, has no external enemies, so what it’s been doing since it became hegemonic is aggressively destabilizing and restructuring the planet according to its systemic needs (most notably in the Middle East, but also throughout the rest of the world), both militarily and ideologically. Along the way, it has encountered some internal resistance, first, from the Islamic “terrorists,” more recently, from the so-called “nationalists” and “populists,” none of whom seem terribly thrilled about being destabilized, restructured, privatized, and debt-enslaved by global capitalism, not to mention relinquishing what remains of their national sovereignty, and their cultures, and so on.
I’ve been writing about this for over two years, so I am not going to rehash it all in detail here (this essay is already rather long). The short version is, what we are currently experiencing (i.e., Brexit, Trump, Italy, Hungary, et cetera, the whole “populist” or “nationalist” phenomenon) is resistance (an insurgency, if you will) to hegemonic global capitalism, which is, essentially, a values-decoding machine, which eliminates “traditional” (i.e., despotic) values (e.g., religious, cultural, familial, societal, aesthetic, and other such non-market values) and replaces them with a single value, exchange value, rendering everything a commodity.
The fact that I happen to be opposed to some of those “traditional” values (i.e., racism, anti-Semitism, oppression of women, homosexuals, and so on) does not change my perception of the historical moment, or the sociopolitical, sociocultural, and economic forces shaping that moment. God help me, I believe it might be more useful to attempt to understand those forces than to go around pointing and shrieking at anyone who doesn’t conform to my personal views like the pod people in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
But that’s the lens I choose to look through. Maybe I’ve got it all assbackwards. Maybe what is really going on is that Russia “influenced” everyone into voting for Brexit and Donald Trump, and hypnotized them all with those Facebook ads into hating women, people of color, transsexuals, and the Jews, of course, and all that other “populist” stuff, because the Russians hate us for our freedom, and are hell-bent on destroying democracy and establishing some kind of neo-fascist, misogynist, pseudo-Atwoodian dystopia. Or, I don’t know, maybe the other side is right, and it really is all a conspiracy of Jews … transsexual, immigrant Jews of color, who want to force us all to have late-term abortions and circumcise our kids, or something.
I wish I could help you sort all that out, but I’m just a lowly political satirist, and not an expert on identity politics or anything. I’m afraid you’ll have to pick a lens through which to interpret “reality” yourself. But then, you already have, haven’t you … or are you still looking through the one that was issued to you?
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This is total class reductionist nonsense! Of course we have our own uniquenesses, but that in no way implies that we cannot cooperate with others for our mutual benefit. Nor does it mean that we can be more easily ‘herded’ if we embrace our identities. Ironically, what this author either misses or is deliberately ignoring is that reducing every individual to simply a member of one, oppressed class actually makes it much easier to control and dominate us. It also ignores the probability that humans naturally bond according to shared attributes and always will. So uniting despite our differences to defeat our oppressors should be the focus of our attention, and not this spurious attempt to sidetrack our thinking!
I cannot stand identity politics as I am white, male, hetero, intelligent and reasonable.
If you want to know who’s in charge, find out whom you’re not allowed to criticise. — Voltaire
https://thesaker.is/a-crash-course-on-the-true-causes-of-anti-semitism-part-ii-the-hunt-for-anti-semites/
A former inmate of a German death-camp, a Jew, once summed it up succinctly-‘Once an antisemite was someone who hated Jews, but today it is someone who the Jews hate’. Not all Jews, by any means, but the Zionazi elites, certainly.
It is nice to have my misgivings about the dread JQ taken away from me. This alleged conspiratorial body never formed what is known as PNAC then? They do not rule and sway as they see fit the body politic of the US and UK?
Not to say France, and Germany? So they are not able to steer and manage the evil that is NATO?
Henry Makow will be so disappointed.
One of the insurmountable problems with identity politics is the puritanical and hyper-judgemental tendency amongst too many of its self-appointed spokespersons.
One drunken tweet, one ancient transgression, one lack of insight into the labyrinthine sensitivites of certain groups and you are quite literally toast (if ID pureists have their way).
Paradoxically ID hardliners end up becoming obstacles to the very things they are trying to improve.
Identity conflict is the root of all evil. Mis-identification conflicts with true. True does not ‘fight back’ but can SEEM to be destructive to a self-assertion taken as a self-possession. And so, symbols of true conflict with symbols of false – with truth playing no part in a mind-at-war with itself. Any interpretation is always OF “something” or “someone” and any mis-identification is by definition distorting or usurping the awareness of “true” or indeed the true of awareness. The attention given to a substitution for awareness of true is LOSS OF SELF (awareness) to illusion or self-image. ‘Narcissus’ relates to the forgetting of relational being in the wilful fixation in self-image or self-definition. That this operates the believed need of defence against attack is its emotional charge that of course substitutes for feeling-awareness or relational being. You may feel know and recognize truth because it is written on your heart.… Read more »
I stopped reading when you went off a rant about the “Jewish conspiracy”. Just take a look at the big players in many different areas: news media, publishing, social media corporations, Hollywood, Wall Street, Federal Reserve, politics, higher education, etc. When you look at the overall percentage of Jewish Americans (2 – 4% of the entire US population) vs the percentage of people who are Jewish who are the movers and shakers in these industries, you start to realize that Jewish control in the US is REAL. It isn’t a conspiracy — it is a fact. The fact that you have been conditioned like Pavlov’s dogs to tremble and disavow any notion of Jewish power when it is mentioned is proof that they are indeed in control. No other group is afforded the protection from criticism that Jews are. NO OTHER GROUP. Everyone else is fair game. Any criticism of… Read more »
I think the point is you don’t combat the restrictive divisive aims of identity politics by blaming it on the Jews!
Of course you dont! But the author quite needlessly caricatured genuine criticism of some Jewish-directed divisive propaganda (eg, ant-Muslimism during the rape of Iraq, demonisation of Hamas, Hezb’Allah and Palestinians generally as “terrorists”, demonization of Dr.Assad, demonization of the Iranian govt, demonization of JCorbyn as “antisemitic”, etc, etc. He did this by deliberately conflating the genuine criticism with the frankly ridiculous; as I pointed out in my reply te Mog on this thread, by separating out the genuine points and casting away the author’s wilder fancies about critics “blaming the Jews for just about anything you can think of”.
It is vital to emphasise that the Evil machinations of the Zionazi elites, both the open manipulation and control of the corrupt Western elites, and the covert conspiracies to do so, and interfere around the would, are not blamed on all Jews. That falls into the Zionazi elite’s ‘antisemitism’ trap.
I heart CJ Hopkins. It is a huge problem that many of the best alternative news sites, like Moon of Alabama or the Off-Guardian, are populated, below the line, by anti-semites and conspiratorial fantasists like yourself. And no, I am not talking about critics of Israeli politics or parapolitical researchers. There is a difference…
quoting from post above:
The fact that you have been conditioned like Pavlov’s dogs to tremble and disavow any notion of Jewish power when it is mentioned is proof that they are indeed in control.
Don’t be ridiculous. People shrink from those who accuse “the Jews” because they don’t want to be associated with people who think blaming entire racial or religious groups for the actions of some individuals is a good move.
Don’t try to corrupt this discussion into some hate rant please. Read the article again. The point seems to have passed you by
I assumed this was edited to expose the need to be SEEN to be actively or openly supportive to the ‘power that can make or break’ a career or reputation. But it seems to actually be made by the Telegraph – (?)
Anyone can lie, but only power can enforce it over true.
Is such power given by us or taken from us?
Does that answer depend on whether we align with someone else’s actions or against them?
The accusing in ‘others’ of one own open acts is a wilful blindness or dissociative state.
Enforcing wilful blindness keeps the mind and world in a darkness by which illusions rule over true.
The slaved mind cannot truly see because is trained and conditioned not to see anything but its ‘freedom’ relative to unspeakable evils.
purest gobbledegook, as is every one of your outings. it’s almost as if it’s the output of a computer algorithm, driven by a random number generaror.
So you do not see the repeated standing ovations as ‘needing to be seen compliant’? What do you see?
The video was cut and reassembled – no? Such a hugely popular man…
Your refusal to engage a point hides behind ‘put-down’.
The seeding of anti-Jewish reaction is necessary to maintain the ‘Jewish identity’ across otherwise great diversity of racial and ideological backgrounds. But you’d know that well enough already.
If the rest of your comments were relevant and concise, as this one is, there would be no cause for complaint. It’s the seventeen paragraphs of meaningless New-Age verbiage that usually follow the single relevant one, that raise questions about their provenance.
Evasive manoeuvre successfully completed. If you cannot, or care not to understand, why judge? So I don’t offer support or reinforcement for your chosen ‘identity’? But I do offer support and reinforcement for your freedom to choose. That’s part of knowing and living my own. Judging others always belittles the one who judges. What you give out, sets the measure of your return. I rest in the value of what I write whether or not anyone is looking where I am coming from. There is a power that does not rest on the disempowering or invalidating of others. All conflict stems from a conflicted identification – but takes forms that hide the cause. Perhaps ‘power by deceit’ will teach us this, whether it knows it serves such a function or not. Because it reveals itself as the manipulation and generation of ‘identity’ manipulation as a disempowerment. But only if we… Read more »
… and suddenly, you’re back to meaningless New-Age verbiage and pure gobbledegook.
But maybe I’m just not intellectually equipped to appreciate such an endless stream of scintillating discourse.
Honesty would admit to not understanding or not wanting to look, but smear and put-down hides honesty in the ‘protection’ of an identity construct. I have respect for your personal view, even if I may not always share it. New age garbage is just a version of garbage that has accrued upon a core idea of the end of an old Age and the opening within a new perspective at a most fundamental level. Garbage is where the new idea is put into the old wine bottle framework, so as to exchange awakening for another cycle of delay in garbage or in terms of this page; identity politics. The ability to mark and censor or deny any attention to information other than restating the judgement runs as an automatic protection, or automatic mind. Because such identity assertion works as a sleepwalking substitution for conscious responsibility, it gives power away to… Read more »
I also disavow any notion of the power of reptiles from outer space when it is mentioned. Is that proof that they are in control?
Sheesh.
No, because there is no evidence for reptiles from outer space — but plenty of evidence for the malign influence of Anglo Zio Capitalism.
I see your point, but I was addressing the form of the argument: Please feel free to insert any group you like instead of “reptiles from outer space”. The argument that the fact that nobody says that a certain group of people is in control PROVES that they ARE in control is not very intelligent, I am afraid.
I hold that ‘US power’ as a phrase should NOT indiscriminately incriminate or smear the people of that nation. And so likewise the phrase ‘Jewish power’ needs NOT to be used as a racial identity or it feeds into incitement of hate and violence that works the ‘justifications’ and reinforcements FOR aligning under or conforming to ‘power’ working through the Jewish identity. Anti-‘Semitism’ (note that ‘anti-Jewish’ is not used) is necessary for the maintaining of the Jewish Identity AS a means to power over and through it. ‘Enemy’ is likewise necessary to the maintaining of a ‘protection racket’. This can be any and every kind of threat. This is not to say there are not enmities arising from conflicting and competing interests as well as inherited blood feud. The influence of inherited and culturally transmitted fears and hatreds is probably the most under-estimated and the most unconscious. The attempt to… Read more »
The first rule of Jewish Identity Politics is, you do not talk about Jewish Identity Politics, on pain of being labelled an “anti-semite”, and banished to the outer darkness.
Nicholas Lysson — Holocaust and Holodomor
Well if you are a ‘no one’ then you can – but will immediately be associated with the worst of humanity. The Jewish identity is also ‘worked’ by Jewish ‘power interests’ upon Jewish people. While racism or self-specialness comes into it, I see the ‘cartel of power’ as being willing to use anyone and anything as a means to get and maintain such power. This is the fundamental division in terms of active purpose is it not? The striving for power that subordinates all else to its goal, is the blind mind of self-illusion. While it is fashionable to use terms like psychopath, sociopath and narcissist as pejorative or terms of guilt calling for punishment, the mob identity works the pharmakoi or scapegoat magic of hiding and denying the hatred in our selves. In contrast to the sickness of a hate-management or guilt ‘economy’ is the willingness to align truly… Read more »
The politics of identity and the identity of politics traps people within the matrix. The divide and rule of tribal identity, as reactive to the rulers and their control becomes equally controlling and divisive, by enforcing a new set of rules to follow. When all we wanted was freedom.. Franz Fanon :In order to assimilate the culture of the oppressor and venture into his fold, the colonized subject has to pawn some of his own intellectual possessions. For instance, one of the things he has had to assimilate is the way the colonialist bourgeoisie thinks. This is apparent in the colonized intellectual’s inaptitude to engage in dialogue. For he is unable to make himself inessential when confronted with a purpose or idea. On the other hand, when he operates among the people he is constantly awestruck. He is literally disarmed by their good faith and integrity. He is then constantly… Read more »
Pity that CJ mars his largely persuasive essay by defending homophobia, and by offering an extreme, grotesquely mis-characterised description of the philosophical position of idealism (which doesn’t actually assert that nothing is real, hard truth doesn’t exist, and any description of the world is as valid as any other. Study the astonishing life-work of one of the most impressive quantum physicists currently active, Tom Campbell of ‘My Big TOE’ fame, for more insight on the rapidly resurging philosophical position of idealism amongst younger physicists. Quiet paradigm-shift in the hardest of hard sciences going on there, folks! And entirely based on replicable, falsifiable experimental data). The otherwise-excellent Neil Clark also holds – last time I checked – that state-imposed death penalties are an essential part of civilised society. Sic! I put these obviously irrational glitches down to a rule of thumb: that everyone, without any exceptions at all, has blind spots… Read more »
Why do you say CJ is defending homophobia??
This quantum guru Tom Campbell seems to be quite a character. A real cosmic visionary – who prides himself on being “presently, and for the past 20 years, [..] at the heart of developing US missile defense systems.”
Yes, I had an email conversation with Tom about this, but didn’t get a satisfactory answer. Another example of an irrational blind-spot marring an otherwise admirable record.
On re-reading the passage, I see that it can be construed differently. My error, perhaps. More unequivocal phrasing needed, maybe?
Who doesnt love identity politics? I dont. I know who I am. Like this man from Algeria:
BBC interviewer: So you live in an Arab country though your parents were not Arab and you love French culture — doesnt that give you an identity crisis?
Interviewee: I know who I am.
I don’t either. IdPol is as nothing: beneath my current threshold.
You were correct until you did the blame the Jews schtick. The Jews are at the top all of these big things you speak of the gun control people the pro abortion people (I seem to be one of only a few socialists who is against abortion except in extreme circumstances) the pro lgbtq stuff the pro white nationalism the anti racism stuff…….all Jewish controlled. Jut do a little look at anything that matters and you’ll find a shekel grabber involved
I seem to be one of only a few socialists who is against abortion except in extreme circumstances
Indeed, you are one of very few.
Most “socialists” regard the idea that women’s bodies should be state property, as a mediaeval grotesquerie too self-evidently offensive as to merit serious comment.
There are, in fact, no “pro-abortion people”, only people who believe that women’s bodies and lives are theirs to control as they see fit, in any society which claims to have transcended serfdom and slavery.
Identity politics is practiced to cultivate ‘vote banks’: a group of some identity which is supposed to vote as one. For this voters have to be kept dumb as sheep, in need of a Shepard and a few watch dogs.
The term ‘holographic paradigm’ comes to mind.
We’re all connected, whether we like it or not.
Problem is, ignorance and tunnel vision block our perception of those connections.
And the result is chaos.
How easily you are all impressed by Hopkins’ take on the realities of existence on this planet in the 21st Century. Viewing all this through Hopkins’ Lens will present him as a genius as you sink further into the pit of despair that comes of neither finding any real answer to the problems of existence or discovering a great philosophy of life that will sustain you through this epoch of confusion and turmoil. However, take heart in knowing that there is a ‘lens’ through which you will be able to view everything with clarity and that will inform you of how to proceed from here – the truth is, however, that you have yet to find it. . . . .
Here it is.
As close as your breath.
As far away as your hubris.
http://www.headless.org/english-welcome.htm
Everything CJ Hopkins writes is brilliant.
Identity politics kept the Kavanaugh hearing focused on what happened or didn’t happen at a party decades ago and not on his role in drafting the Patriot Act.
So job done.
It does not take much to shine in those circles. Look at David Frum, for example at the Atlantic. He coins the absurd term ‘axis of evil’ or was that asskiss of evil? And he reaches virtual neocon sainthood, with endless fartcatching dinners and obsessive self-abuse in neocon think tanks. His only contribution since has been to spend time and others’ money trying to smear the Chinese with the claim they are ‘invaders’ because they fought with internal Uighur tribesmen. I fear K is a smarter and more successful Frum with similar sincerity..
this, Edwige, is what i fell out with my identity-politics obsessed wife over. not permanently, of course, but the twisting of reality is being done in some clever ways, these days. old allegiance is discarded in favour of concepts that people i know would have run a mile from previously..why? because Trump.
it’s fascinating in that way you’d be fascinated if strapped next to a volcano or something..black has indeed become white. war is becoming peace.
Because O’Bama, mulatto became black.
There is much here that is perceptive (and entertaining). Too bad it is marred by a
philosophical idealism concerning the nature of reality which, ironically, fits in with
Nazi ideology, that there is no objective truth, hence the technique of the Big Lie, etc.
joe kaye – wow, that’s quite a leap Joe. CJ acknowledging a rather basic aspect of our human condition, that we each interpret the world and thus “reality” through the “lens” we have either unwittingly inherited, or more consciously chosen somehow in your mind – (“fits in with Nazi ideology” to use your words? When a U.S. drone kills someone in Yemen the only knowable aspect of the “objective reality” of that event often ends with the event itself (did it or did it not happen?) – with all future explanations, denials, rationals, excuses, amounting to various forms of spin on the matter, official and non-official. I am quite aware of the “lens” through which I tend to interpret such a report, as it is hard won over decades of reading, research and 4 trips into war zones and much introspection. I will first assume it is the reports from… Read more »
From the article:
‘According to this meta-theory, this conspiracy of Jews (which is headquartered in Israel, but maintains offices in Los Angeles and New York, from which it controls the corporate media, Hollywood, and the entire financial sector) is responsible for … well, anything they can think of. September 11 attacks? Conspiracy of Jews. Financial crisis? Jews, naturally. Black on Black crime? Jews again! Immigration? Globalization? Gun control laws? Abortion? Drugs? Media bias? Who else could be behind it all but Jews?!’
I wonder if Hopkins has read Atzmon’s work or would care to respond to it, as the case is made that identitiy politics itself emerged from, and was promoted by a primarily Jewish intellectual movement. (?) ‘Jewish’ politics is the quintessence of identitarianism, according to Atzmon.
Or is he just caught in a ‘meta-theory’ making unfounded ‘simplifications’?
Relatedly, there is Griffin’s masterly dissection of Sunstein’s essay, ‘Cognitive Infiltration’ currently available to read free on Unz:
http://www.unz.com/book/david_ray_griffin__cognitive-infiltration/
I wonder if/how Griffin’s points of analysis support or discredit the ‘meta-theory’ satirised by Hopkins, and whether instead of ‘headquarters’,’offices’, and top down ‘control’, there might be a degree of straight forward ‘in-group’ identity interests (i.e. tribalism) at play ?
mog, yes tribal thinking is the glue of groups. Re your clip above, I do not believe that “Jews are responsible for anything one can think of” — but I do believe that a tightly knit “tribe” of Anglo Zio Capitalists (both Jewish, Christian and Muslim) are responsible specifically for these items in your list above:
“this conspiracy …which is … in Israel, … in Los Angeles and New York, [and London] from which it controls the corporate media, Hollywood, and the … financial sector… is responsible for … September 11 attacks … Financial crisis? … Immigration [recent waves from countries destroyed by AZC armies] … Globalization … Drugs [eg AZC poppy fields in Afghanistan] … Media bias… Who else could be behind it all ?!’
Thanks for that link, Mog. I had been wanting to read this book.
There are likely deep biological roots to self-identification. It is glaringly obvious in the animal world, and of distinct survival advantage. Intraspecies shunning can be seen to derive from minor visible differences. But humans with their cleverness try very hard to game identifiers and successfully so. Tapping in to innate xenophobia, or what is left after much effort to snuff it out, must work politically or it would not be done. Nowadays it is oh so subtle, but the often unspoken tendencies are still there and exploitable.Following how ambitious pols play the game parallels following the money by the forensic investigator. Willie Sutton had impeccable logic, and I am sure he would find politics entertaining if there were money in it – and there is. So Corbyn is an anti-Semite because he has human empathy for the Palestinians and it might thwart his ambitions if the fecal flinging can be… Read more »
Manipulators (any of us who seeks to coerce an outcome rather than arrive or unfold through open relationship) are seeking out and tapping into hidden (unconscious or unacknowledged) fears, shames and guilts – and feeding the intent to inflate such a sense of self-lack into postures of identity-assertion that are but a masking defence against self-exposure. Terror (inducing fear) is one of the ways to defend a mask – particularly when so identified in mask as to equate it with life – perhaps under noble ideals of freedom and power of protection. Another is the ‘victim’ as the appeal for sympathy and vengeance. The expression of hate is not accounted as such when interfering in the elections or choices of others ‘for their own good’. And so generating ‘evils’ works the framework in which the unwary give willingness freely to hate agenda under belief they are ‘saving the world’ or… Read more »
Swiftian.