Crackpot Realism

[Jerome Park]

The irony assumes the US has interest in the region other than to balance
its plan to destabilize and contain and keep oil prices under 90.

 But the US has no other interest there. Iran will build the bomb. So what.
It will assert more power and so will Saudi Arabia. So what. Sounds like a
good plan to keep the place unstable and contained. ISIS is the new Iraq.
So what?

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:45 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think that came after when they needed to justify the invasion w/o WMD
> found. I thought Cheney and co wanted to deter others by being aggressive
> and willing to use force. Remember the talk of taking out Assad? Even the
> Iranians. Seeing where we're at now one can help seeing the irony. We need
> Tehrans help against Isis and we want Assad to stick around.
>
> rich
>
> On Saturday, May 23, 2015, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Could be wrong, but I think sociologist C. Wright Mills coined "crackpot
>> realism" circa 1960 for the kind of pseudo-realpolitik thinking that, e.g.,
>> had the Bushies in 2002 envisioning Iraq as a beacon of freedom and
>> democracy for the Middle East.
>>
>> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In an online fragment of a book about some "modern writers',
>>> the (minor) novelist Melvin Jules Bukiet---one of whose books
>>> pays overt homage to GR, I remember---called writers like
>>> Thomas Pynchon CRACKPOT REALISTS long before Wood
>>> found his descriptive adjective for REALIST. @1995.
>>>
>>> Besides exaggerated "reality" in description and characterization, he
>>> found the use of coincidence
>>> and chance instead of true-to-life plot movements to be a major part of
>>> his meaning with the term.
>>>
>>> I like it better than HYSTERICAL REALISM (which shows Wood's
>>> bias via verbal associations of Hysterical.
>>> -
>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>
>>
>>
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