Posted by
Austin Kay on Saturday, August 26, 2006 3:11:14 PM
Like Adam Smiths theory of the "Invisible Hand", there is also, I feel, an invisible hand in global politics. This invisible hand functions to balance political or moral ideologies.
You yourself might say, "that's not an invisible hand, that's global political factions promoting contrary views". I would argue that political movements are bigger than parties and their players. These movements and people emerge from this great balancing act.
Some would say Nazism was a byproduct of Germany's economic despair, the self-defeating conditions of the Versailles treaty and the actions of a fanatical madman. They'd be right, mostly.
Rather, I see Nazism as a counterbalancing movement to Socialism and Communism. Arguing against the most palatable and visibly reason for it's creation- economics. Much like the current economic justification for Islamic radicalism. Why aren't the poor of South America terrorists?
Out of the darkness of this movement- Nazism, sad to say, came a good thing. The Nazi's killed approximately twenty million communists in WW2 and changed the political resolve of many European countries. European countries that were moving rapidly toward Socialism and Communism. Nazism, however ugly, was the ONLY entity capable of slowing the growth of Marx's (a German and secular Jew) revolution. America was too isolationist and too far removed to make a worthwhile impact.
This leads me to my current theory that Islamo-Facism has emerged as the new counter to SOMETHING. Possibly a secular initiated western ( Judao-Christian ) moral decline?
For the sake of clarity, I am not a fundamentally religious person, or making an anti-West or anti-East thesis. Most of the "decline" can be seen in all Western and Eastern societies. America is certainly a component of decline, through Hollywood and the export of pop culture ( typically controlled by secular Jews ) but not the way the blame America crowd believes. America's strength is that it is OPEN to practical ideas and plural change once it "feels" market signals. This versus old Europe and the Middle-East countries which are resistant to change and the true cause of our current global instability.
Is this to say that, Islamists and Islam has some spiritual purpose to "morality"? Probably not as many fundamental Islamists are actually more prone to immorality, because of the "freedom of choice" vacuum they live in. They themselves are extremely fearful of what they might be tempted to experience, as are many other fundamentalists. Islamists live in fear of what they don't know and can't control.
Simply put we have to look at global issues with a historical view. America has been pulled toward moral decline because of it's openness to concepts of nonclassical liberalism and increased secularism. Is this war a wake up call to all Western nations?
Islamo-Facism is a counter reaction to something global. What that something is exactly, is not completely clear. Like Nazism, the call to defeat Islamo-Facism should be clear.