Esotericism in Politics - BAD MOJO
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 2:02 amIt's well known that I'm a rabid atheist positivist.
While I don't have an issue with whatver faith anybody could have (I do frown on Esotercism and New Age beliefs though, probably because some of the worst strains of people I've met, happenned to spout that when screwing me up). That changes PRETTY quickly when it's mixed with politics. Political ideologies and its consequences on us grunts are messy enough as it is to also throw in religious beliefs. Not mention that: so far, it has seldom ended well.
One of the worst kept dirty little secrets of Chavismo is that a lot of people its upper echelons have weird "esoteric" beliefs including stuff like Santeria.
Experiencing the disaster of the last 14 years, particularly since the start of the great recession, (that wasn't supposed to touch us, according to the idiotic "Comandante Eterno") already has made me lose whatever little sympathy I had for the Chavistas (the only sympathy I ever had for them was that the opposition was behaving WORSE than the chavistas).
While the idiot (Chavez in case you're wondering) never mentioned any interest on that kind of stuff publically, it was well known that a lot of his henchmen had those "esoteric" tendencies.
Our current two-legged ass (aka Nicky Ripe) apparently is neck deep into that kind of stuff. DEFINITELY NOT OK IN MY BOOK.
I mentioned this, because bitching about our current situation (as usual) on another thread I included a link to this. Which in essence is comentary on an blog post by a German Poetess who was invited to a junket here in Bananaland. (the original blog post was in german and it was translated to spanish) The poor Teutonic Lady Bard was unable to understand what kind of a nuthouse she got invited into, as it can be inferred in the last few lines of her blog post: "I asked a native of Venezuela if it was actually a dictatorship and he cried 'it's unknown even to US'".
The author of the comentary, says that the lady in question was extremely confused by her European Upbringing, as she saw the insane amount of propaganda and the personality cult of Chavez and found it at the same level than that of countries like East Germany or North Korea, but saw few signs of actual repression.
So the author of CC speculates that one of the unique characteristics of our "Glorious Revolutionary Government" is that they tapped the sympathy a lot of people of this country have towards Esotericism/New Age Beliefs, particularly those coming from our Afro-Caribbean heritage.
It was fun when a lot of his readers called him racist.
Yet, I am not so sure he's wrong. I've seen those tendencies in a LOT of people who are DEFINITELY NOT of Afro-Caribbean descent and educated enough to know better.
In any case the last time something like that happened in this corner in the world didn't end well at all.
The point is that the Chavista embracing of those beliefs makes me dislike them even more....
While I don't have an issue with whatver faith anybody could have (I do frown on Esotercism and New Age beliefs though, probably because some of the worst strains of people I've met, happenned to spout that when screwing me up). That changes PRETTY quickly when it's mixed with politics. Political ideologies and its consequences on us grunts are messy enough as it is to also throw in religious beliefs. Not mention that: so far, it has seldom ended well.
One of the worst kept dirty little secrets of Chavismo is that a lot of people its upper echelons have weird "esoteric" beliefs including stuff like Santeria.
Experiencing the disaster of the last 14 years, particularly since the start of the great recession, (that wasn't supposed to touch us, according to the idiotic "Comandante Eterno") already has made me lose whatever little sympathy I had for the Chavistas (the only sympathy I ever had for them was that the opposition was behaving WORSE than the chavistas).
While the idiot (Chavez in case you're wondering) never mentioned any interest on that kind of stuff publically, it was well known that a lot of his henchmen had those "esoteric" tendencies.
Our current two-legged ass (aka Nicky Ripe) apparently is neck deep into that kind of stuff. DEFINITELY NOT OK IN MY BOOK.
I mentioned this, because bitching about our current situation (as usual) on another thread I included a link to this. Which in essence is comentary on an blog post by a German Poetess who was invited to a junket here in Bananaland. (the original blog post was in german and it was translated to spanish) The poor Teutonic Lady Bard was unable to understand what kind of a nuthouse she got invited into, as it can be inferred in the last few lines of her blog post: "I asked a native of Venezuela if it was actually a dictatorship and he cried 'it's unknown even to US'".
The author of the comentary, says that the lady in question was extremely confused by her European Upbringing, as she saw the insane amount of propaganda and the personality cult of Chavez and found it at the same level than that of countries like East Germany or North Korea, but saw few signs of actual repression.
So the author of CC speculates that one of the unique characteristics of our "Glorious Revolutionary Government" is that they tapped the sympathy a lot of people of this country have towards Esotericism/New Age Beliefs, particularly those coming from our Afro-Caribbean heritage.
It was fun when a lot of his readers called him racist.
Yet, I am not so sure he's wrong. I've seen those tendencies in a LOT of people who are DEFINITELY NOT of Afro-Caribbean descent and educated enough to know better.
In any case the last time something like that happened in this corner in the world didn't end well at all.
The point is that the Chavista embracing of those beliefs makes me dislike them even more....
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