the myth is not the fairytale, though
it pretends
to catch the drift, the smoke and the
paltry guts
that flake off when dents of time speak
stilted ifs
and buts, when the theme of now occludes,
prevents power
from showing where it really comes from
from myth
āThe language of Realpolitik offers a poor basis for constructing a popular consensus behind a corporate ideology. Hence modern imperialism has needed myths to legitimize itself. A policy which responds to the interests of the few but needs the support of the many must necessarily invoke a peopleās sense of mission and fear.ā āPolitical Culture and Foreign Policy: Notes on American Interventions in the Third Worldā ā The Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad ā Eqbal Ahmad
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Thank You for this…and for the information at the bottom.
The more I know…the more I discover.
Barthes brought me Myth in a way that made me go back and look again…seeing ever more clearly.
That I know more and more all the time about the Global South and the interventions by empire, speaks to my ongoing passion for deeper understanding yet.
You are contributing to that and I am grateful.
QuĆ© tengas un dĆa lleno de conocimiento y amistad.
Thanks Nessa,
I just came across your comments after all these months. Sorry for not replying earlier.
There is a lot being written on the global south these days, although Pakistan is not as well covered as I would like. Perhaps if we had more writers like Eqbal Ahmed, this wouldn’t have been so. I have just posted a sample of another Pakistani – this time a historian, Mubarak Ali – on this blog.