IN TRUTH THE WEST IS THE EVIL EMPIRE

Western politicians have a compliant mainstream media through which to guide popular opinion regarding those they wish to portray as our enemies. But how safe are those assertions?

From western politicians we hear how human rights and freedoms are the primary inalienable virtues that they are dedicated to mandating globally. This tends to indicate that those espousing these noble concepts are idealists. How does this stand up when compared with hard reality?

If we take the USA as our primary example how convincing is it that the politicians there are the idealists that they quite clearly claim to be ?

To become a successful politician in the USA it is necessary to have a great deal of money behind you. You will almost certainly require to be a millionaire, or preferably a multi-millionaire. This requires most candidates to have been successful business men or women. Then, after succeeding in your quest you will require corporate sponsorship to remain in position. Your sponsors will then expect to receive something beneficial from you by return. If you then acquire a position in government the most powerful influence upon you will then quite clearly once again be your corporate sponsors. In addition, the lobbyists from the most powerful corporate interests will seek to gain concessions to their interests via government policy.

How likely is it, considering the plethora of corporate influence within the U.S. system that an idealist agenda will be formed at the core of U.S. government policy?

Let us now examine the milieu within which the corporate world of the USA operates.

Is it not fair to say that corporations in general seek always to expand without limit and in this quest to in turn seek to minimise the number of restrictions and regulations upon them and further, that bottom-line profitability is their primary concern? The most powerful corporations in the USA and elsewhere across the West are those within the so-called defence industry, those that comprise the military industrial complexes of those nations, those who thrive on war and the threat of war. How high in their list of general priorities do you think idealism would likely feature?

Just to reiterate, these are almost to a man and women and virtually of necessity, imbued with the ethical, moral and political precepts of the business community from start to finish. Where then does the idealism apparently espoused as the highest of priorities at the pinnacle of U.S. governmental activity have its genesis... If at all?

Arguably the U.S. corporate world is the most aggressive seen anywhere worldwide. The urgency with which its executives wish to expand is clear and the sometimes underhand, corrupt and downright criminal methods it exhibits are well known. Isn't it far more likely, knowing just how deeply embedded the business culture is in North American political life, that the policies espoused at the forefront of its foreign policy has at least something to do with the interests of doing business rather than with some idealistic desire to better the lot of humanity in general?

We are currently in China where the general thrust of government policy much more closely bears out the contention that something far closer to idealism is in operation. The government here MUST deliver benefits to the Chinese people to retain their trust and to remain securely in power. Those benefits can clearly be seen across a range of aspects from health care to education to transport and beyond. 

In regard to international affairs who is it that has clearly been in expansionist mode, attacking and invading nations in recent decades? Has it been China that has begun wars of choice or has it been the collective West? Which region of the world has the greatest, continuing incentive through its ideological or pecuniary stance to aggressively interfere in nations far beyond their borders?

Is the aggressive, profit-oriented and highly expansionist ideology of western capitalism, deeply embedded in the body politic of the West irrelevant when it comes to the policy of continual interference (for others benefit we are told) of the USA and its allies across the world?

I leave the question here for you to ponder. However, it is my contention that it is not the mostly quiescent east that imbues the characteristics of what has been called 'The Evil Empire', it is in fact in the west.