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A brief word about the Mark Foley matter

By Mitchell Szczepanczyk at Oct 15, 2006

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I don't want to spend too much time about the Mark Foley scandal in the United States House of Representatives, involving a resigned representative and his electronic communications of an explicit sexual nature with Congressional male pages. The scandal has been moving with great speed, and its aftermath is still unfolding, all of which could very well impact the 2006 elections in the United States and subsequent government policy decisions in this country and worldwide. There is one point connected to the scandal and its aftermath which I did want to mention here, which I think is worth mentioning for anyone concerned with efforts to promote positive social change. The Republican party, and the right-wing political apparatus in the United States has built and used an impressive media and public relations operations program -- which both fosters public perspectives in favor of right-wing views, and also serves as damage control to salve at times where there is a crisis of legitimacy. For a brief time, the well-oiled American right- media machine had been caught utterly dumbfounded and even today it delivers "seemingly dozens of excuses". I point this out because it can illustrate the fact that things can happen very quickly and very suddenly, for which official explanations prove insufficient or perhaps absent entirely. When that happens, those of us who work on offering different perspectives and better explanations of current affairs have to always be at the ready to help people who are looking for different and better answers. You never know when opportunity will knock.

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By Kissenger, Clark at Oct 17, 2006 15:23 PM

Mitchell:

I fear that in the States (though my hunch is that this is true pretty much everywhere that we look at hierarchical organizations—particularly large ones), the legitimation-deficits are endemic.

As are the pseudo-legitimations used to fill-in the holes.  (Imagine a complete catalogue of these!)

And, last, the rewards doled out to every next generation whose youth are raised to fill them.

There is something creepy about the whole thing that I'll bet would make bees, ants, and termites jealous of how well the humans manage.


David Peterson
Chicago

Postscript.  Just between ourselves, when it comes to explaining the phenomenon of conformity in the human sphere, I'd entertain a Human Lobby – type hypothesis before I'd entertain an Israel Lobby – type hypothesis for U.S.-Israel relations (let us say).  Though in its much more narrow, second- and third-order senses, the latter type does have a great deal of explanatory power.

 

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