Clearly, from the very outset, Trump has been “perceived by the globalist neo-liberal order as a mortal danger to the system which has enriched them” Jatras observes. The big question that Jatras poses in the wake of these events, is how could such collective hysteria have blossomed in to such visceral hostility, that parts of the ‘Anglo’ establishment are ready to intensify hostilities toward Russia – even to the point of risking “a catastrophic, uncontainable [nuclear] conflict”. How is it that the élite’s passion ‘to save globalism’ is so completely overwhelming that it demands their risking human extinction? Jatras suggests that we are dealing here with hugely powerful psychic impulses....
These millenarian revolutionaries - exponents of the new Scientism, who hoped to force a shattering discontinuity in history (through which the flaws of human society would be excised from the body politic) - were, in the last resort, nothing other than secular representatives of the apocalyptic Judaic and Christian myth.
The American millenarian ‘myth’, then and now, was (and is), rooted in the fervent belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States, ‘the New Jerusalem’, to represent humanity’s best hope for a utopian future. This belief in a special destiny has been reflected in a conviction that the United States must lead – or more properly, has the duty to coerce - mankind toward that future.
The secular crusades.
Reading the piece through, and I recommend doing so, it is difficult not to draw the obvious parallels.
As I have been saying, we are witnessing the clash between liberalism and traditionalism. It is explosive, since it involves the most deeply held values and ideas, and there are seemingly incompatible.
Alexander Dugin deals with this in
The Fourth Political Theory. He holds that the first three and liberalism, fascism and communism. Liberalism has defeated the fascism and communism, which are moribund but not yet dead. Now liberalism is confronting traditionalism, and the outcome is already war, where traditionalists are defending their territory.
Islam viewing this as the new crusade, a view reinforced by
G. W. Bush's use of the term. This "crusade" even has a name and number and a
Wikipedia article"
However, particularly in predominantly Muslim parts of the world, the term crusade produces the same sort of negative reaction as the term jihad does in much of the West.
The US is now actively engaged in banning Confucius Institutes sponsored by the PRC, the purpose of which is teach about Chinese culture and provide instruction in Mandarin.
Many traditionalists, particularly, in Eastern Orthodox countries view this conflict as one between traditionalism and liberalism, with liberalism promoting moral and cultural degeneracy, as well as between their Orthodox faith and Western Christianity, both Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
"Psychic" indeed. And maybe psychotic?
Strategic Culture Foundation
The Metaphysics to Our Present Global Anguish
Alastair Crooke | founder and director of the Conflicts Forum, and former British diplomat and senior figure in British intelligence and in European Union diplomacy
