Wednesday, August 25, 2004

The Reverse Dialectic of American Politics (Politicizing Reality=Reifying Ideology)

American politics is sort of an inverted dialectic. Allow me to briefly explain. Step 1: Take reality in its totality and split it in half (de-synthesize). Step 2: Remove the two halves of reality from reality into the realm of the abstract. Step 3: Set these two abstractions against each other to construct a contradiction. Step 4: Depending on which side you are on, perform a reductio ad absurdum on the other side's abstract half. Step 5: Take your abstract half and forcefully reintroduce it to reality in the form of a policy half-measure. Step 6: Set the whole of reality against itself in the process of reifying your abstract half measure and create cultural contradictions. Step 7: Blame the other half of reality for your half measure's failure to provide a solution to the problem.

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