in this day and age where more nut-ball fantasy prevails in our so called leaders and their boosters minds…then in the those spell-bound minds of leaders of past times where bacteria were confused for demon eggs, or George Burns was still and errand boy…….
‘crackpot realism’ is a term I had encountere while reading a book by C. Wright Mills a few years ago…the title alluding me, but dealing with things white collar…crime, idiocy, sociological conditions….et cetera…anyway i came acorss a passage by Wright in A. Cockburns piece on Counterpunch this New Years Eve……
Crackpot realism” was the concept defined by the great Texan sociologist, C. Wright Mills in 1958, when he published The Causes of World War Three, also the year that Dwight Eisenhower sent the Marines into Lebanon to bolster local US factotum, Lebanese President Camille Chamoun.
“In crackpot realism,” Mills wrote, ” a high-flying moral rhetoric is joined with an opportunist crawling among a great scatter of unfocused fears and demands. .. The expectation of war solves many problems of the crackpot realists; … instead of the unknown fear, the anxiety without end, some men of the higher circles prefer the simplification of known catastrophe (ah sort of like….religion
…but they have a demented happy ending in some of those doctrines…you know that Calvanistic limited number of halos at the door and what not…)….They know of no solutions to the paradoxes of the Middle East and Europe, the Far East and Africa except the landing of Marines. … they prefer the bright, clear problems of war-as they used to be (when was this exactly?…) For they still believe that ‘winning’ means something, although they never tell us what…”………………….Yes…Winning…it only means something to a coterie of shit stained white shoed……..show populists……..but this is degenerating into name calling so i’ll stop..