Saturday, April 25, 2009
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JPost: Lieberman: World leaders must drop slogans - 'The international community has to "stop speaking in slogans" if it really wants to help the new Israeli government work toward a solution to the Palestinian conflict and help bring stability to the Middle East, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday, in his first interview with an Israeli newspaper since taking the job. "Over the last two weeks I've had many conversations with my colleagues around the world," he said. "Just today, I saw the political adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Chinese foreign minister and the Czech prime minister. And everybody, you know, speaks with you like you're in a campaign: Occupation, settlements, settlers..." Slogans like these, and others Lieberman cited, such as "land for peace" and "two-state solution," were both overly simplistic and ignored the root causes of the ongoing conflict, he said...
This is intriguing, than even state dept. heads, foreign ministers, have accustomed themselves to slogan-speak. This, in turn, reflects a huge and fundamental (fundamentalist?) aspect of the "lingua franca" of foreign offices around the globe.
Quite stunning, from any more commonsensical and truly realist pov. Yet not in the least surprising given the broadly Orwellian world, the newspeak and memory-hole world, we are subjected to and bombarded with 24/7. From the pov of social conscience, it is in fact a media-trained and media-obsessive/compulsive world, or nether-world or quasi-world, wherein crass illusions are in constant interplay with the world that more actually and more commonsensically is. To some degree this will always be the case, but currently it has in fact reached particularly crass levels.
And, that's the type of language needed, or it's at least the type of conceptualization needed, to describe what's occurring and what we're constantly subjected to.