Subtext: The Myth of Russian Military Incompetence — Continued…
To start with, the use of gas, nuclear weapons, and the mass bombing of cities such as the bombing of Dresden, (and) the carpet bombing of North Vietnam is a concept known as ‘total war’ or the concept of ‘total politics’.
This warfare was reintroduced in the Napoleonic period and its doctrinal language sounds like this:
(paraphrasing) — “From this moment until such time as its enemies shall have been driven from the soil of the French Republic all Frenchmen are in permanent requisition for the services of the armies. The young men shall fight; the married men shall forge arms and transport provisions; the women shall make tents and clothes and shall serve in the hospitals; the children shall turn old lint into linen; the old men shall betake themselves to the public squares in order to arouse the courage of the warriors and preach hatred of kings and the unity of the Republic”
Today, The King is the president of Russia and the Republic is the West in its totality.
Moving forward to Mid 20th Century
If the above sounds somewhat familiar. The latter will sound even more so:
Carl Schmitt, a supporter of Nazi Germany, wrote that total war meant ‘total politics’ — or authoritarian domestic policies that impose direct control of the press and economy…
…very much like today
In Schmitt’s view the ‘total state’, which directs the full mobilization of all social and economic resources to war, is a precursor to ‘total war’. Many consider that the origins of this total state concept already existed in Germany during World War I, which exercised full control of the news and most aspects of economic and social life as espoused in the ideologies known as the — Ideas of 1914
This is as true as it was in 1914 as it is in the West today.
Current Events in the Early 21st Century
Given the fact, a state of war exists between Russia, China, and the United States. We are once again coming full circle with the Ideas of 1914 — with the same authoritarian policies that impose direct control over the media and economy.
In the case of the economy, synthetic events can be used to mobilize a population into a state of ‘total war’. This military deception is used on the civilian populations to help the majority adhere to unreasonable requests.
Such as the hardships of a suspension of economic activity.
Therefore, when the majority of the credulous and insouciant populations are asked to mobilize for ‘total war’. They will do so willingly. And as we’ve seen in recent times, the majority will force the minority to comply with every request however ridiculous and unreasonable.
Given the high probability for nuclear war at this moment, the media is heavily distorted, the information from the mainstream sphere seems disconnected and incoherent — and not connected with reality. This is easy to understand when looking at the individual existing in a nihilistic existential universe. A person in this state absorbs false information willingly.
This can be explained by Sartre’s views of man:
(paraphrasing) — “to try to suppress feelings of anxiety and dread, people confine themselves within everyday experience, a person can relinquish their freedom and acquiesce to being possessed in one form or another by ‘the look’ or ‘the other‘ “.
Asserting Sartre’s view of man, we can very easily understand how the media is influencing society even when the information is false. For the vast majority of people, the universe around ‘the other’ is too complex to understand. Therefore ‘Sartre man’ needs to be told how to perceive reality.
Hence, the irrational acceptance of false information.
In closing, if the information you absorbing is in a time of war and just partially true or omitting events — the information needs to be disregarded in its totality.
Otherwise, you will be relinquishing your children to fight in a war where they will not be coming back. Especially when you’re being told the enemy is weak, incompetent, and disorganized.
