America as Eve-ill Empire: Evocation of Authenticity Elsewhere

Discussion of the neo-imperialist strategy to take control of the world and its resources.

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America as Eve-ill Empire and the Evocation of Authenticity Elsewhere
Outline of the imperial agenda: some indications
Implications for the majority of the world
Monopolar system of world order
The Black Hole metaphor and the American Way of Life (AWOL)
Meaninglessness and insignificance engendered by AWOL
Emergence of "Eve-ill" Empire (and an "Axis of Eve-ill")
The Other Pole?
Sustainability through pattern destruction
Celebrating the American initiative
Creating a black hole
Interface with unmeaning and insignificance: challenge of authenticity
References

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An abridged version of this paper, excluding the discussion of isomorphism with black hole dynamics, appeared in the Journal of Futures Studies: epistemology, methods, applied and alternative futures, 8, 1, August 2003, pp. 93-106

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Introduction

The outlines of an agenda on the part of key groups associated with the US government is becoming apparent beneath the declared strategies of "war against terrorism" and "regime change in Iraq". Features of this undeclared strategy appear to include taking over control of the world and its resources in a variety of ways.

Given that the attack against Iraq is likely to go ahead at the time of writing, and that other countries will then be similarly attacked or threatened, this article explores the unforeseen advantages of the resulting situation -- irrespective of whether it is to be regretted from many current perspectives.

The argument focuses on the manner in which engaging in the war on Iraq will make clear worldwide the distinction between:

• the principles driving the American accumulation of resources at the expense of the remainder of the world and
• the authenticity engendered elsewhere, hitherto obscured by the misleading propaganda regarding the reality of democratic values associated with the American Way of Life (AWOL)

The argument combines the insight of general systems theory regarding a degree of isomorphism between systems of every level (from cell to galaxy) with insights from the relevance of metaphor to governance [more]. Within this framework, the argument compares the dynamics and attributes of the AWOL to those of an astrophysical black hole. It celebrates the way in which these dynamics will function to drain from the global system the preoccupation with accumulation of material resources -- so as to enhance transcendental meaning and authenticity worldwide. Comments are made on the degree of symmetry and synchronicity associated with the passage of a very high mass astronomical object (dangerously close to the Earth in March 2003) with the level of expectant alert created by the attack on Iraq and the "war against terrorism".

Whilst Bush may indeed be sensitive to the increasingly dissolute nature of America, there is a curious irony to the possibility -- long stressed by feminists -- that the core problem for America is that it is becoming what might be appropriately termed an "Eve-ill Empire". The unilateral action against Iraq could be encapsulated in the phrase: "Eve is ill in the American Empire and Adam goes off to war". Not only has the feminine perspective been repressed, as long-analyzed by feminists, but through that repression "Eve" has become "ill" -- as with any person incarcerated with inadequate care.

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