I swear, what an enlightenment (in a way) it would be for more people to read the works of the now-late collegiate philosopher Richard Rorty; from 1979 to about 2008, he vacillated between being an oracle and a mere Rosetta stone on the impact government, media, and global money were making on the USA, but at any rate he was always an accurate compass pointing to everything as it happened.

To be sure, Rorty was most noted among the “better” universities’ faculties and textbooks, with “lesser” like minds populating everything from high schools through sub-Ivy colleges through libraries and bookstores…likely why Rorty’s works carry such an air of sounding like a schema of what WAS going to happen in the USA and HOW it was going to be forced no matter what.

Sure Rorty said he was a leftist and Democrat philosopher, and apostle of the obtuse John Dewey credo “every evil is a rejected good”…but in his books even he admitted intellectuals in his own political spheres opposed his way of affairs; I myself ask: can anyone HONESTLY say there’s not been a bit of the Rorty in even some GOP and Conservative camps? Rorty expressed in books like “Achieving Our Country” that he always saw ANY intellectual objections to his kind of New Order as a quote “unimportant war”, with the effectiveness of messages that worked with the public (and effectuated as he alleged by low-level and other bureaucrats and related orthodoxies)being the “important war” for culture. He dismissed American patriotism as mere military worship as if nothing else about the nation existed for pride; he laid out (in 1998, mind you) that the middle class was to become a proletariat, that about 25% of people on any given day should be told they’ll be part of the exclusive “outer ring” of the New Age’s super-elite “inner ring” to get their help in “redistributing” the other 75% on any given day, and that globalization to him and his meant a never-ending process of plying socialist if not draconian solutions in order to keep all world leaders as peers…and get this, with “media created pseudo-events”, sports, and attacks on religion and morality as “distractions” for the masses from the objective assessments of what any government was doing.

Here’s an example of how this malarkey is re-packaged for dummies as ‘global folks hate the sins of the USA,  we must live as they do to have a chance’ or such words. In “Achieving Our Country” (1998, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-00311-X), at page 7 therein says Rorty: “Heidegger describes America’s success in blanketing the world with modern technology as the spread of a wasteland. Those who find Foucault and Heidegger convincing often view the United States of America as…something we must hope will be replaced, as soon as possible, by something utterly different. Such people find pride in American citizenship impossible, and vigorous participation in electoral politics pointless…When young intellectuals watch John Wayne war movies after reading Heidegger, Foucault, Stephenson, or Silko, they often become convinced that they live in a violent, inhuman, corrupt country”. [End of Citation]

Obviously, anybody Rorty was talking about in 1998 would have to be in one of those “lesser” educational places, as Rorty himself not to mention even Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger) would demonstrate Martin Heidegger was not only a member of Hitler’s NSDAP, but on his educational squad as well…I’m sure those who KNOW a Nazi was opining “facts” against the USA post-Auschwitz and Hitler would take John Wayne in a more at least neutral way and the Nazi with a truckload of salt. Yet Rorty ran with such false perceptions by the public, shoring up 21^st century “facts” the USA erred about Hitler and many others, no country has ever had even one hypocrite in it, and lack of protests or voting under Democrats OR anyone else “proves” most people agree government meets or exceeds majority public intentions; or, “who isn’t happy here, prole?”. Speaking of media pseudo-events, this is why Obama re-re-re-promising to not own nukes even if other nations stockpile them is supposed to be “breakthrough global initiative”, or some “credit nudge” to China, for example…gosh darn it, he SAID so, and his degrees are so big how can peons raise voice?

For those who insist the Left will still come through for them and “the GOP are meany slower-downers”, I return to Rorty in “Achieving”, p. 80: “Whereas the top-down initiatives of the Old Left had tried to help people who were humiliated by poverty and unemployment…nobody is setting up a program in unemployed studies, homeless studies, or trailer-park studies, because the unemployed, the homeless, and residents of trailer parks are not “other” in the relevant sense. To be other in this sense you must bear an ineradicable stigma, one which makes you a victim of socially accepted sadism rather than merely of economic selfishness.”[End of Citation] Simply put, treat people as you will, but DON’T call them names or slur their gender…see also last April’s DHS reports on Left and Right, or as I call it, Bush Part III.

Now I admit I am NO flashpoint of human evolution or “Ihr natürlicher Leiter” or something, but to my readings, nothing being as or in the nature of Rorty’s schema appears to be part of the USA Constitution or indeed necessarily natural human nature; thus it seems possible one need not be racist, nationalist, or “militia” to question government simple, or support things like the main Tea Party theme…nor does the Constitution just through its own terms appear to agree that seeming silence on the part of an electorate is de facto proof of anything.