Resist his usual penchant for economic and geopolitical analyses, former Greek Prime Minister Yanis posted an article on the heels of America’s 250th anniversary, giving his personal take on the development of United States over the last century with instances he had came to contact with. He recalled the American culture of the 1960s impacts on him: “Those were the times when a communal creative introspection swept across America, redolent of the possibility of catharsis. As Aristotle explained in his ‘Poetics,’ tragedy was never about entertainment; it was a civic courtroom. ” The following is the excerpt:
“This is what America’s authors, musicians and filmmakers were doing: they were putting their deepest anxieties on trial. They recognized that authentic tragic heroes — such as Oedipus, Antigone, and Prometheus — are not inherently good or bad; like most Americans, they acted according to their own profound sense of justice, to a “truth” they felt bound to uphold.
Their tragedy was that the universe, or more likely the polis, turned their actions into opposing, crushing forces. Through witnessing the resulting suffering, the audience’s own pent-up pity and terrors are purified and drained away. That is the moment of catharsis that America, in the end, was denied.
What robbed Americans of their catharsis was the economy’s violent switch from surplus producer to deficit generator, symbolized by the Nixon Shock of 1971, which killed the Bretton Woods system. By the 1980s, the films and books I loved were replaced with paragons of crass jingoism like “Rambo,” “Top Gun,” and Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History.”
Of course, the capacity for self-reflection was not entirely lost. America’s cathartic moment was snuffed out because its elites succeeded in turning US deficits into a source of immense, uncouth strength. As foreign capital enthusiastically poured profits and rents into New York City, Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street” captured the resulting rise of the Gordon Gekkos.
Stone’s film came at the start of an era in which the stability of American power has been accompanied by steadily expanding economic precarity — a process that has impoverished many in the US and the rest of the West while enabling owners of substantial dollar-denominated capital to become fabulously wealthy. For more than four decades, a global class war has been waged against working people everywhere, and in the US in particular, preventing a purifying resolution of America’s tragedy.
Quite the contrary. Financialization and, more recently, the rise of cloud capital, Big Tech, and artificial intelligence (AI) are solidifying the schism within American society that eventually begat Donald Trump’s presidency. Consequently, America is now producing a mindless, raw power and exponentially growing instability. The possibility of catharsis that characterized America at its bicentennial is hard to envisage a half-century later — to the detriment of us all. “
With so much data bombarding everyday, it is easily to miss out on most important issues. It is said that Trump gave a national speech lately on foreign election interference. With the national debt skyrocketing to 39 Trillion, why he does not do anything about it? Is not Supreme Court just gave him supreme power?
What is so important about election if the administrator elected do not perform his duty? All these time in office he is only performing a theatrics political show distracting people and collecting billion dollars for self enrichment which caused tremendous damage to the public. Is it Trump just want to stay in power to avoid his duly jail time? That is the question he and the government should answer to the public ! – including the supreme-court who gave him these power. Psychiatrists have been warning us for years of Trump’s malignant narcissism and dementia. Did you know that the diagnosis of “malignant narcissist” was created to explain Hitler? The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM, did not have a category for Hitler’s mental illness. As part of his illness, he, like Trump, would have destroyed the world if not stopped.
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