Deep Hate
Peter Zeihan suggests in his book The
Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World, the world isn’t falling apart—it’s
being pushed apart. Many across cities of the world are heroically trying
to hold fast to the unifying power of humanity, but it seems a daunting task.
Israel continues to follow its intent to empty Palestinian land of every
Palestinian regardless of the human cost. Britain is reeling with white rage.
In Europe the thin veneer of accommodating a world of
cultural, lingual, religious and racial diversity is splintering, releasing
years of pent-up hate. Ian Goldin, in his book Divided Nations, suggests that
the very success of globalization is proving to be its downfall. Seen as loss
of autonomy, he says, citizens become xenophobic, protectionist and nationalist.
Some suggest the new wave of anti-Islamic rhetoric is a push
back to the softening attitudes to Islam in the wake of the Palestinian
genocide. Germany is dismantling mosques with alleged links to Iran. Al Jazeera
has traced the sources on X that spread misinformation that turned the
Southport tragedy into unbridled violence against Muslims. The Hindutva
ideology of India is rapidly replacing its secular identity.
Once released, hate is difficult to control. The French
Revolution unleashed a Reign of Terror with thousands of public beheadings, and
cheering crowds walking with decapitated heads stuck on spears. Child soldiers
in Rwanda were trained to kill 1000 in twenty minutes with machetes. The
targeting of children by snipers and the indiscriminate bombing of hospitals
schools and refugee camps in Palestine can only be possible when motivated by a
deep-seated hate.
Hate is cultivated by the systematic dehumanizing of the
perceived enemy. This is greatly assisted by derogatory slurs, portrayals in
popular cinema and negative stereotyping. The media has greatly colluded in
swaying public opinion with sensational phrases that become catchphrases for
the public. Edward Said suggests that if knowledge is
power, those who control the modern Western media are most powerful because
they are able to determine what people like or dislike.
In George Orwell’s novel, “1984”, the
state holds “Hate Week” designed to express uncontrollable rage towards an
enemy state, to redirect their dissatisfaction away from the Party itself.
People in a war-driven society are manipulated towards paranoia by cultivating
fear which breeds hatred - the perfect emotion to effectively influence people.
Mike Lofgren a congressional staffer wrote an essay called,
"Anatomy of the Deep State" in 2011. By 2018 it had become a buzz
word. The Deep State keeps people, whom they regard as incapable of
understanding what they do, occupied with other matters. Its function is to
make certain that policies would remain the same, no matter how the government
changed.
The three pillars of the Deep State are the international
banking hegemony, the intelligence community and the military-industrial
complex. Henry Kissinger famously said “Who controls the food supply controls
the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls
money can control the world.”
US president Dwight D. Eisenhower in his 1961 farewell
speech first used the term military–industrial complex as essential to the
security of US interests. Arms sales is a large part of US exports contributing
40 % of arms worldwide with four of the five largest private arms companies in
the world, whose interest is promoting warfare globally. The Deep State can be
said to rely on deep hate.
However, as people to people communication increases with
social media, it bypasses state managed dissemination of information. The call
for peace outnumbers the hatemongers. The Gaza Global Day of Action held on
January 13 this year saw hundreds of thousands in cities across the world raise
their voices for peace.
Durriya Kazi
August 13, 2024
Karachi
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