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\r\nZahir\r\nEbrahim's Response to Chris Floyd's 'Dead Enough: The Reality of the\r\n\"Lesser Evil\"'<\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n \r\nDeconstructing\r\nthe reality behind The Reality of the \"Lesser Evil\"<\/b><\/p>\r\n \r\nNovember\r\n15, 2012<\/p>\r\n \r\nProject\r\nHumanbeingsfirst.org<\/p>\r\n \r\nQuote\r\nChris Floyd<\/p>\r\n \r\nIs\r\nthis child dead enough for you?<\/p>\r\n \r\nThis\r\nlittle boy was named Naeemullah. He was in his house -- maybe\r\nplaying, maybe sleeping, maybe having a meal -- when an American\r\ndrone missile was fired into the residential area where he lived and\r\nblew up the house next door. ... \r\n<\/p>\r\n \r\nBefore\r\nthe election, we heard a lot of talk about this notion of the \"lesser\r\nevil.\" From prominent dissidents and opponents of empire like\r\nDaniel Ellsberg and Noam Chomsky and Robert Parry to innumerable\r\nprogressive blogs to personal conversations, one heard this basic\r\nargument:<\/p>\r\n \r\n\"Yes,\r\nthe drone wars, the gutting of civil liberties, the White House death\r\nsquads and all the rest are bad; but Romney would be worse.\r\nTherefore, with great reluctance, holding our noses and shaking our\r\nheads sadly, we must choose the lesser evil of Obama and vote\r\naccordingly.\"<\/p>\r\n \r\nEnd\r\nQuote<\/p>\r\n \r\nThanks\r\nto Chris\r\nFloyd<\/u>\r\nfor remembering this little \"unworthy victim\" Naeemullah,\r\nas Noam Chomsky would characterize this innocent unmourned victim of\r\nthe good guys, who, predictably as always, is dismissed merely as\r\n\"collateral damage\", the \"lesser evil\" in the war\r\nagainst a greater evil. \r\n<\/p>\r\n \r\nBy\r\nChomsky's definition, the \"worthy victim\" is always worthy\r\nof being mourned, as it is made victim by the bad guys or their\r\nallies. The \"unworthy victim\" is unworthy of being mourned\r\nor even worrying about, as it is made victim by the good guys or\r\ntheir allies. \r\n<\/p>\r\n \r\nSo\r\nthe equally innocent child Malala\r\nYousafzai<\/u>,\r\nthe \"worthy victim\", a victim of the evil-doers, is to be\r\nhonored and even celebrated, perhaps even anointed as the\r\n\"peace-maker\" and awarded the Nobel Peace prize. It makes\r\nthe bad guys look really bad and advances the cause of empire's\r\ncounter-insurgency operations against them. \r\n<\/p>\r\n \r\nAnd\r\nbecause frequently occurring \"worthy victims\" continually\r\nrefuel the necessary \"doctrinal motivation, intellectual\r\ncommitment, and patriotic gratification\"<\/i> to sustain\r\n\"imperial mobilization\"<\/i> since \"democracy is\r\ninimical to imperial mobilization\"<\/i> as Zbigniew Brzezinski\r\nputs it, it is not beyond empire to create the \"worthy victims\"\r\nitself using the bad guys as stooges:<\/p>\r\n \r\nQuote\r\nUS Army Field Manual<\/p>\r\n \r\n“Top\r\nSecret: There may be times when host country governments show\r\npassivity or indecision in the face of Communist subversion ... US\r\nArmy Intelligence must have the means of launching special operations\r\nwhich will convince host country governments and public opinion of\r\nthe reality of the insurgent danger ... US Army Intelligence should\r\nseek to penetrate the insurgency by means of agents of special\r\nassignments, with the task of forming special action groups among the\r\nmost radical elements of the insurgency.” -- Source: see The\r\nMighty Wurlitzer<\/p>\r\n \r\nEnd\r\nQuote<\/p>\r\n \r\nThe\r\nbrutal creation and public-relations harvesting of \"worthy\r\nvictims\" enables putting to bed all the \"unworthy victims\"\r\nas merely the \"lesser evil\" in empire's counter-insurgency\r\noperations. This is examined in the report: Insurgency\r\nvs. Counter-Insurgency<\/u>\r\n( tinyurl.com\/what-is-insurgency ).<\/p>\r\n \r\nThe\r\nbrilliant nomenclature of “worthy” vs. “unworthy”\r\nI hope helps shed some forensic light for the confused<\/u>\r\nas to why empire's favorite Malala Yousafzai even has November 11th,\r\n2012, declared by the UN Special Envoy for Global Education and\r\nformer British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, as the ‘Malala\r\nDay’, while Dr.\r\nAafia Siddiqui<\/u>\r\n( tinyurl.com\/Dr-Aafia-Siddiqui ) has ignominiously<\/span>\r\nbeen put in jail for life. Since no one really likes to remember the\r\n“unworthy victims”, I have included their images here.<\/p>\r\n \r\nMy\r\nold prof. from MIT has surely contributed a great deal of meaningful\r\nvocabulary and penetrating concepts for explaining the Machiavellian\r\nstatecraft of perception management throughout his extraordinary life\r\nof dissent. Including the following:<\/p>\r\n \r\nQuote\r\nNoam Chomsky<\/p>\r\n \r\n‘This\r\n“debate” is a typical illustration of a primary principle\r\nof sophisticated propaganda. In crude and brutal societies, the Party\r\nLine is publicly proclaimed and must be obeyed — or else. What\r\nyou actually believe is your own business and of far less concern. In\r\nsocieties where the state has lost the capacity to control by force,\r\nthe Party Line is simply presupposed; then, vigorous debate is\r\nencouraged within the limits imposed by unstated doctrinal orthodoxy.\r\nThe cruder of the two systems leads, naturally enough, to disbelief;\r\nthe sophisticated variant gives an impression of openness and\r\nfreedom, and so far more effectively serves to instill the Party\r\nLine. It becomes beyond question, beyond thought itself, like the air\r\nwe breathe.’<\/p>\r\n \r\nand<\/p>\r\n \r\n‘Democratic\r\nsocieties use a different method: they don’t articulate the\r\nparty line. That’s a mistake. What they do is presuppose it,\r\nthen encourage vigorous debate within the framework of the party\r\nline. This serves two purposes. For one thing it gives the impression\r\nof a free and open society because, after all, we have lively debate.\r\nIt also instills a propaganda line that becomes something you\r\npresuppose, like the air you breathe.’<\/p>\r\n \r\nand<\/p>\r\n \r\n‘The\r\nsmart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit\r\nthe spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate\r\nwithin that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and\r\ndissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free\r\nthinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the\r\nsystem are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the\r\ndebate.’<\/p>\r\n \r\nEnd\r\nQuote<\/p>\r\n \r\nIt\r\nis most essential to understand the unstated backdrop for this\r\n\"lesser evil\" concept emanating from the dissent-chiefs who\r\nare evidently employing the same methods of perception management\r\nthat they have explained the empire employing for \"manufacturing\r\nconsent\". So, logically speaking, are they manufacturing dissent\r\n– or straightforwardly manufacturing consent? \r\n<\/p>\r\n \r\nVirtually\r\neveryone who critiques empire's burlesque, ahem, its excesses, has\r\nalmost always made the pre-supposition that its \"war on terror\"\r\nis real because 9\/11 was an invasion by terrorists from abroad. \"Like\r\nthe air we breathe\",<\/i> once that pre-supposition becomes the\r\nsilent and unnoticed backdrop, the lovely progressives and their\r\ndissent-chiefs can easily go about discussing the best way to fight\r\nthat \"war\", and that's where the discourse of \"lesser\r\nevil\" concept cleverly plays in. It only serves to legitimize\r\nthe \"war on terror\" axiom which itself remains\r\nunchallenged.<\/p>\r\n \r\nThus\r\none can go freely about critiquing empire's methods of prosecuting\r\nthat war, and not the axiom upon which it is based. Therefore,\r\nautomatically, the \"war\" against the \"terrorist\"\r\nis the natural outcome once that core-axiom remains unchallenged. And\r\nwe end up with what is the \"lesser evil\" debate - giving\r\nthe illusion of \"lively debate within that spectrum –\r\neven encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives\r\npeople the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all\r\nthe time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by\r\nthe limits put on the range of the debate.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n \r\nNoam\r\nChomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, and Progressives et. al., have together\r\nechoed the same core-axiom as the Pentagon, the White House, the\r\nmainstream media, et. al., that 9\/11 was the work of the Muslim\r\nterrorist Osama Bin Laden espousing the vile “militant Islam”.\r\nAmazing that they each have so much in common with their supposed\r\n\"antagonists\"! I had thought that dissent is supposed to\r\nchallenge, inter alia, the Machiavellian narratives of the state? I\r\nguess it is only some narratives and not others that are to be\r\nchallenged and dissented against. I imagine I could easily classify\r\nthese as “worthy narratives” and “unworthy\r\nnarratives”, the former to remain untouched and those going\r\nafter them to be labeled “conspiracy theorist”, the\r\nlatter to be legitimately critiqued and awarded prizes for as\r\nbelonging to the “voices of conscience” and to “peace\r\nmakers”. The “unworthy narrative” and its\r\nconcomitant label is examined in some depth in the report: Anatomy\r\nof Conspiracy Theory<\/u>\r\n( tinyurl.com\/anatomy-conspiracy-theory ).<\/p>\r\n \r\nIt\r\nis a perception management game of which virtually all the so called\r\n\"progressives\" in the Western hemisphere, and laudingly led\r\nby their vaunted dissent-chiefs whom they often air prominently, are\r\nan essential part. It constitutes the Hegelian Dialectic of Dissent.\r\nThis is also examined in much depth in the report: The\r\nMighty Wurlitzer<\/u>\r\n( tinyurl.com\/MightyWurlitzer ).<\/p>\r\n \r\nUnless\r\none can understand the various methods of perception management,\r\nincluding manufacturing dissent to capture those moral souls escaping\r\nfrom the manufacturing consent factory, one cannot understand\r\nanything of modernity. Including this \"lesser evil\" mantra.\r\nSome of these methods of controlled dissent the Mighty Noam Chomsky\r\nhas himself brilliantly articulated, as evidenced from his perceptive\r\nquotes above. And he is celebrated as \"arguably the most\r\nimportant intellectual alive\"<\/i> by the mouthpiece of empire\r\nitself, the New York Times.<\/p>\r\n \r\nAll\r\nthis manufactured \"celebrity\" status has garnered these\r\n\"moral consciences\" of the West a great following of useful\r\nidiots – people formerly in the mainstream who got fed-up with\r\nthe lies of the state and were captured by these \"collection\r\nagents\" lest they become troublesome and effective in their\r\nopposition. Hitler characterized this lot rather well in his Mein\r\nKampf as type-2. The report on Manufacturing\r\nDissent<\/u>\r\n( tinyurl.com\/Dissent-Factory ) examines the import of this exercise\r\nof craftily putting dissent on the treadmill running in place to\r\nnowhere for sustaining \"imperial mobilization\" unfettered.<\/p>\r\n \r\nAs\r\nfor Chris Floyd's main observation of the Progressives: “...\r\nbut Romney would be worse. Therefore, with great reluctance, holding\r\nour noses and shaking our heads sadly, we must choose the lesser evil\r\nof Obama and vote accordingly.”<\/i>, any genuine dissent-chief\r\nwith even an iota of analytical reasoning skills and the ability to\r\nastutely navigate the empire's many rabbit holes would have argued\r\nwhat this scribe suggested in October\r\n2008<\/u>:\r\n“Not-Voting is a ‘YES’\r\nvote to Reject a Corrupt System which thrives on the facade of\r\nElections and Democracy!” <\/b>(\r\ntinyurl.com\/not-voting-to-reject-a-sham )<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\nIt\r\nwould be laughable, were it not actually a sophisticated propaganda\r\nengine, that among these so called “Progressives” led by\r\ntheir dissent-chiefs, the same spirit of presupposition of the party\r\nline is at play in their virtually every discourse with its\r\nconcomitant “vigorous debate within the framework of the\r\nparty line” <\/i>as ably depicted by their most notable leader\r\nin his quoted passages at the top. “It also instills a\r\npropaganda line that becomes something you presuppose, like the air\r\nyou breathe.”<\/i> That\r\n<\/span>“propaganda line”<\/i>\r\n, that presupposition upon which the entire game of democracy is so\r\nvigorously contested and protected, is the myth of elections being\r\nanything useful in bringing change. This myth has been so craftily\r\ncultivated over the past two generations that none are able to see\r\nthrough the fog of indoctrination that something else entirely, <\/span>“a\r\npower somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked,\r\nso complete, so pervasive,”<\/i>\r\nsuch that people only whisper in hushed voices <\/span>“when\r\nthey speak in condemnation of it”<\/i><\/span>,\r\nruns the United States with the elected Representatives merely as its\r\nfront faces. <\/span>\r\n<\/p>\r\n \r\nWhich\r\nis why core policies of the state do not change by changing the front\r\nfaces in the White House. Often minor domestic policy changes are put\r\non the table and <\/span>“then, vigorous debate is encouraged\r\nwithin the limits imposed by unstated doctrinal orthodoxy” <\/i>just\r\nto maintain the facade of democracy and elections being the\r\nharbingers of the much needed change. <\/span>\r\n<\/p>\r\n \r\nAdvertising\r\nAge’s 2008 Marketer of the Year award to President Obama for\r\nhis election campaign of the “Change” mantra, the Nobel\r\ncommittee’s awarding him the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, and the\r\nNew York Times' flashy report after the 2012 elections: “Academic\r\n'Dream Team' Helped Obama's Effort” testify to the empiricism\r\nof this observation. The NYT November 12, 2012 disclosure after the\r\nfact, as it virtually always is – “All the News That's\r\nFit to Print” that they deem what and when it is fit to print,\r\nand almost always ex post facto if they are going to print it at all\r\n– is just revealing:<\/p>\r\n \r\n'This\r\nelection season the Obama campaign won a reputation for drawing on\r\nthe tools of social science. The book “The Victory Lab,”\r\nby Sasha Issenberg, and news reports have portrayed an operation that\r\nran its own experiment and, among other efforts, consulted with the\r\nAnalyst Institute, a Washington voter research group established in\r\n2007 by union officials and their allies to help Democratic\r\ncandidates.<\/p>\r\n \r\nLess\r\nwell known is that the Obama campaign also had a panel of unpaid\r\nacademic advisers. The group — which calls itself the\r\n“consortium of behavioral scientists,” or COBS —\r\nprovided ideas on how to counter false rumors, like one that\r\nPresident Obama is a Muslim. It suggested how to characterize the\r\nRepublican opponent, Mitt Romney, in advertisements. It also\r\ndelivered research-based advice on how to mobilize voters.'<\/p>\r\n \r\nThe\r\nManufacturing Consent factory in the mainstream glorifies the\r\ncandidates with astute perception management. The Manufacturing\r\nDissent factory among the skeptics and the rebels pitches the “lesser\r\nevil” mantra to push the same candidate forward. Both factories\r\nof perception management of their respective constituencies<\/span>\r\nwork towards the same end from opposites sides! In this game-theory\r\nlaced entertainment for the masses, even if there is a voter-upset in\r\nthe election game as a wildcard, the choice presented to the public\r\nis always carefully between twiddledee and twiddledum. All horses in\r\nthe race are from the same stable so how much of an upset can the\r\nrace outcome ever be? The game is further kept entertaining with\r\nvarious side shows, intrigues and scandals, like electronic ballot,\r\nvoter-theft, etceteras.<\/span> It keeps the people\r\nhappy that they have a religion, the religion of democracy,\r\nwatchfully guarded<\/span> by the\r\nliberal-conservative nexus of ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and CNN on one side,\r\nand the Progressives and Pacifica non-corporate conscience on the\r\nother. The masses go for pilgrimage<\/span>\r\nhappy-happy every four years to do their religious duty. It keeps the\r\npriestly oligarchy class also happy, and perpetually in power.<\/p>\r\n \r\nThe\r\nempirical fact of the matter is that there is no \"lesser evil\"\r\nas the entire “democratic elections” system is based on\r\nprimarily choosing between Vanilla and Chocolate, both carefully\r\nmanufactured at the same confectionary owned by the same oligarchy!\r\n“Vanilla or Chocolate is merely the\r\nicing on the devil’s cake!”<\/b> This is examined\r\nin some depth in <\/span>Flashback:\r\nFrom President George W. Bush to President Barrack Obama – More\r\nfaces change, more they remain the same!<\/span><\/u>\r\n( tinyurl.com\/more-faces-change ).<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\nThose\r\nwho preach<\/span> the \"lesser evil\" to\r\npush the system's own manufactured candidates forward using their\r\nbrilliance in specious argumentation rather than expose the outright\r\nsham of the so called democracy and its elections, are in fact\r\nmanufacturing consent for the same oligarchic propaganda line while\r\nwearing the moral garb of dissent. I think when Jesus had referred<\/span>\r\nto such peoples as “hypocrites”, he had perhaps missed\r\nthe concept of “noora kushti” and never witnessed the\r\ncircus clowns warming up the crowds to keep them interested in\r\nempire's games. In other words, Jesus had perhaps never seen a WWF\r\nwrestling game, or met the ubermensch<\/i> who saw themselves as\r\nbeing “beyond good and evil”! Which is why all prophets\r\nof antiquity only preached within the template of good and evil. But\r\nboth Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche,<\/span> despite\r\nbeing separated in time by at least two millennia<\/span>,\r\nevidently understood this game far more perceptively than the\r\nprophets. This wonderful game of the oligarchy is further\r\ndeconstructed in: Election\r\n2012 vs. Election 2008: What has Changed?<\/span><\/u>\r\n( tinyurl.com\/election-2012-vs-election-2008 ).<\/p>\r\n \r\nThe\r\nonly sensible thing to do for the public is to challenge the sham ab\r\ninitio. Something you'd think the dissent-chiefs would take the lead\r\nin as the moral compass of humanity. But these compasses today have\r\nall been salted. Alas, we are at the day when the salt itself has\r\nrusted! \r\n<\/p>\r\n \r\nSo\r\nlong as the oligarchy exists and continues to control the purse\r\nstrings of any nation, elections and democracy will remain their ace\r\nin the hole to continue Machiavellianly ruling the public with an\r\niron fist in the name of their new god of modernity, “democracy”,\r\nno differently than when the priestly class of antiquity ruled their\r\npublic in the name of their anointed deities. The\r\ndifference today is that the public is presented with the illusion of\r\n“choice” with sophisticated perception management and\r\nbehavior control. And these are all the presuppositions of “the\r\nParty Line”<\/i><\/b> which constitute the invisible\r\nbackdrop that remains “beyond\r\nquestion, beyond thought itself, like the air we breathe.”<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\nIf\r\nyou are bothered by the images of “Harmless innocence Melt;\r\nFlours of all hue, and without Thorn the Rose”<\/i>\r\nmercilessly snuffed out in the bud with empire's bombs and sanctions,\r\ndrones and checkpoints, from Palestine to Pakistan, and soon coming\r\nto the police state near you, that's where you must begin, before it\r\nis all a fait accompli.<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\nCatch\r\na man a fish and feed him for a day, teach him how to fish and feed\r\nhim for life -- or something like that....<\/p>\r\n \r\nZahir\r\nEbrahim<\/p>\r\n \r\nProject\r\nHumanbeingsfirst.org<\/p>\r\n \r\n \r\nSource\r\nURL:<\/b> \r\nhttp:\/\/print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/the-reality-of-lesser-evil.html<\/span>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n \r\nMirror\r\nURL:<\/b> \r\n<\/span>http:\/\/bloghumanbeingsfirst.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/15\/zahir-ebrahims-response-to-chris-floyds-dead-enough-the-reality-of-the-lesser-evil\/<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\nPDF:\r\n<\/b>\r\nhttp:\/\/humanbeingsfirst.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/the-reality-of-lesser-evil-by-zahirebrahim-november152012c.pdf<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n \r\nZahir\r\nEbrahim, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary matters,\r\ngrew up in Pakistan, studied EECS at UET, MIT, and Stanford,\r\nengineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley\r\n(<\/p>\n","contact":"humanbeingsfirst@gmail.com","link":"http:\/\/humanbeingsfirst.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"Which is why core policies of the state do not change by changing the front faces in the White House. Often minor domestic policy changes are put on the table and \u201cthen, vigorous debate is encouraged within the limits imposed by unstated doctrinal orthodoxy\u201d just to maintain the facade of democracy and elections being the harbingers of the much needed change. \r\n","numcomment":3,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2012\/11\/257108.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":257113,"heading":"Nice Dissection","article":"Good Forensic Analysis\r\nBut the problem in this war of psychological indoctrination is the simple fact that the masses who could move to restrain the blase' use of unlawful state terrorism are still residing in a numbed comfort zone of willful ignorance. And acceptance to what they've been indoctrinated so profusely as to what the media has defined as reality\r\nUntil this changes, the world will continue to slide on this well greased skid into darkness and terror.\r\nIt will certainly change when it comes home to roost and becomes a horrible and undeniable day to day reality.","author":"Fred E","parent_id":257108,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2012-11-19 17:46:20","modified":"2012-11-19 17:46:20","fileurl":""},{"id":257130,"heading":"beginning of collapse for empire","article":"Several governments have been determined to be hopelessly corrupt by the alligator visitors to Earth because of their inability to act with ethics or conscience when dealing with humans and the ecosystem;\r\n\r\n1) United States\r\n\r\n2) Israel\r\n\r\n3) Iran\r\n\r\n4) Saudi Arabia\r\n\r\nThese are the top four governments targeted for complete elimination by the extraterrestrial alligators. There will be no negotiation with ANY of these governments, they will be eliminated from the Earth. Populations of these regions should learn and practice survival skills (hunting, fishing, plant gathering, dryland farming, etc...) as their governments will be gone soon.","author":"some governments beyond hope","parent_id":257108,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2012-11-20 20:31:03","modified":"2012-11-20 20:31:03","fileurl":""},{"id":257134,"heading":"why include Iran","article":"Iran has been at peace with its neighbors who are not attacking them. They didn't want the Iraq \/ Iran war [ we used Saddam to attack Iran, you know ] they don't want any war.\r\nThey want to exist and prosper.\r\nThey aren't attacking anyone.\r\nDon't throw Iran into that basket, it is trying to be a lawful nation abiding by the provisions of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty to produce nuclear energy as numerous inspections have shown.\r\nUnlike the criminal israeli state.\r\nLook up the israeli:\r\nSamson Option","author":"again. huh?","parent_id":257108,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2012-11-21 00:10:52","modified":"2012-11-21 00:10:52","fileurl":""}]}
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