A War of Intentions:
the Socially Engineered American War on Terror
Thinking of ISIS as
organized criminals rather than religious terrorists could save the
world.
Opinions need to be held
in order for certain things to happen in a society. It sounds strange
that our beliefs might steer actions in the real world that change
lives, but it is a reality. It is one thing, for instance, to come
into my home with a gun and take over my life, it is another to
slowly advertise that a certain religion promotes proactive violent
extremism, changing my mind.
Intentionality can be
directed, via social engineering. Some politician, some journalist,
some arms dealer can partake of any position within the domain of
morality, the actions result in continued premature death of
otherwise useful human beings. It doesn't matter even if your
personal contribution to the Socially Engineered American War on
Terror is limited to liking an Islamophobic meme on facebook,
everyone has to be on board.
However, through the
power of Anti-Social Engineering, like-minded individuals (call them
"sensible") can create an intentionality of our own, to
counter any such programming. First, we must reduce the ideas
involved into their lowest common denominators. Their intention is
that we look at the Islamic State terrorism group, if I may, as a
product of Islam, the religion. This, they argue, is because
ISIL/ISIS follows a strict, ancient, bastardized version of Islam and
is currently involved in a holy war to convert the planet, or destroy
it trying. This is true. But the Islamic State has numbers measured
in the thousands, twitter followers don't count. "They"
want us to equate the millions upon millions of Muslims in the world
with potential Islamic State terrorists. "They" are as
extreme as the terrorists.
Of course it's hogwash.
Yes, the I.S. is real, yes they're killing people, mostly Muslims.
But I don't think you can properly call this a war. They are
definitely not a Nation. As a "religious war" it's rather
one-sided. The Islamic State is a well organized group of nutball
zealots. They are criminals. Dealing with them should be considered a
Police action. If we start thinking about them as small-c criminals
instead of Terrorists, our intentionality could change the course of
action. We're not allowed to think of them this way, because Police
action means kicking in doors and rounding up bad guys, dead or
alive. It' much easier to just tell everyone "Be fearful of
brown people, they might be trying to kill you! Oh yeah, by the way,
they're all Muslim."
"They" argue
that the Syrian refuges flooding in will carry with them hidden
Terrorists. This is probably true. We will have to deal with these
criminals as they reveal themselves, in much the same way we do now.
School shootings continue to happen in America, shall we ban
education? "They" argue that every time the Islamic State
attacks, (more so for Western targets) it justifies their War on
Terror. It justifies action, just of a different nature. You've been
at this a while now, either you are ineffective or your approach is
wrong.
When you ask folks who
live in the Middle East, even in these torn up areas, about the why
of it, an ugly picture forms. America, it seems, has been stomping
around the area since WWI, as have others. An Islamic scholar,
a Grand Mufti of Syria, Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun was quoted in an
interview by RT recently, "If you want to create a true state,
you need to build it on the basis of political values and democracy.
We don’t impose any religion in Syria; we don’t say that there
must be a Christian state, a Jewish state or a Muslim State. These
ideas come from outside. The West is instigating such ideologies. The
West is playing a big part in the process. I think a state should be
founded on strong political and cultural elite. What we see in Syria
today is similar to what happened in Yugoslavia - Croatia, Bosnia.
There were major cultural elites there. But the West began to provoke
different political and religious groups in order to start a civil
war, which resulted in manslaughter."
Even a cursory glance at the history
of the Islamic State, America's involvement in the Middle East,
politics, military action, business brings about a story that reads
like a conspiracy theory. In fact, that's what they call it when it
is brought to their attention, "It sounds crazy, why would be
entertain such thoughts?" The problem is the whole world agrees
the conspiracy is real, except the perpetrators. How can such a deep
rooted lie become an Intentionality in the face of what is natural,
right or even holy? It's easy: money, but that's a whole different
essay. Peace can be achieved, but not without countering any war
intentionality fiercely. This is our takeaway...
Do not let your friends get away with
ignorance that strengthens the discord of peace. Do not let what
should be a police action against criminals continue to be the Global
War on Terrorism, trademark America. Do not let this police action
become a race war, religious war or war against any nation, just so
America can continue to hide the fact that it's a bully, stealing
lunch money. Intentionality steers us like we're a flock of birds but
we can steer too, in our small part. Ensure your part is, at the
least, well informed.
If
you would like to know more about Intentionality and the creation of
reality I've published chapter 7 of Anti-Social Engineering
the Hyper-Manipulated Self here
Here
is the conclusion of that chapter: "For
John Searle, things are either brute facts or institutional reality.
Institutional Reality works because we impose functions that define
power. We're not assigning rules to frivolous things that don't
matter, we are not constituting intentions willy-nilly, at least,
this is my hope. So it seems that the things that we are asked to
believe must be important. If they are, then surely they are worth
mulling over. We are not asking about God here, nor even any grand
scheme of society, we wonder about ourselves. By realizing when
someone or something “asks” us to believe in it, in its
intention, to create some reality out of an idea, we can begin to
wonder about the value of following the rule. Institutional reality
gives power to ideas through intention. It empowers either the X term
or the bearers of X. “This note is legal tender” doesn't describe
the note, it makes it what it is. It is one of the things created in
our reality, yet only if we participate. What are you creating in
your reality?"
