WikiLeaks, What is the Wicked Projection?

Article by WN.Correspondent Dallas Darling.
"What that reveals is the profound hatred for democracy on the part of our political leadership..." -Noam Chomsky commenting on WikiLeaks' recent revelations regarding United States diplomacy.(1)
A story is told of a psychologist who was administering a projective test. (A projective test presents subjects with ambiguous stimuli and then interprets the meaning of such stimuli. The assumption is that the subject's inner needs, feelings, desires, and perception of the world will be "projected" onto the stimuli.). The man being tested saw every one of the inkblots as either someone engaged in exploiting others, or people committing violent and aggressive acts. After the last inkblot (stimulus) was administered, the psychologist declared, "I've never in my entire career seen anyone so obsessed with exploitation and violence as you seem to be." The man responded indignantly and self-righteously, "What do you mean, I'm obsessed with exploitation and violence? You're the one with all the exploitive and violent pictures!"
If Sigmund Freud is credited for having developed individual psychoanalysis-a school of psychology that believes an individual is driven by hidden impulses, unconscious motives, and inner conflicts and anxieties that determine outward human behavior, and which also accounts for human personality, motivation and mistakes-then WikiLeaks will be acknowledged for initiating a kind of national and collectivized psychoanalysis. Instead of pertaining to the individual, WikiLeaks' revelations exposes an empire that projects its own concealed and unconscious aggression, violent anxieties, paranoid fears, and anger onto other nations. Unable to cope with its own violent past and its manipulative and hurtful political and economic realities, this empire utilizes projection as a defense mechanism. Unconsciously ashamed and embarrassed, it falsely sees its own depraved traits in other nations. The empire, of course, is the United States of America (U.S.A.)
In documents just released by WikiLeaks, this is the reason the U.S.A. considers Iran "evil," and why it believes Iran is manufacturing nuclear weapons and will use them. The U.S.A. has one of the world's largest nuclear arsenals, and it has used nuclear weapons and has threatened to use them again without hesitation. This is why the U.S.A. believes Angela Merkel of Germany is rarely creative, Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan is being driven by paranoia, and Russian leader Vladimir Putin is an "alpha-dog." It is actually he U.S.A that is motivated by fear and hysteria, and it is rarely creative (war is always the solution), and it has numerous political and corporate alpha-dogs. The reason why political leaders are claiming WikiLeaks cables are "risking the lives of countless individuals," it is because they have already done so. In truth, they have killed many.
When WikiLeaks revealed the U.S.A. co-sponsored a recent military coup in Honduras, it was due to its own military coups that have destroyed its own representative and democratic institutions. In a nation and empire that spends almost sixty percent of its yearly budget on military expenditures and is fighting multi-front wars in numerous countries around the world, and in a nation and empire where individuals, groups and organizations can no longer question the war-makers (let alone have access to them) and their war-making powers, democracy and representation has died. In the U.S.A., a military junta rules. This is why it backed and then recognized the military coup in Honduras. Military juntas must also spy on others, including confiscating and hacking their computers and passwords, personal encryption keys, and listening-in on their official communications. It is the reason the U.S.A. attacked the WikiLeaks site. Nations and empires that have an impulse to hurt and injure others and that secretly hate democracy cannot deal with the truth. Truth, information and knowledge must be manipulated, censored and repressed. It must be destroyed. The bearers of truth and transparency must be silenced at all costs.
It is evident the U.S.A. has been unwilling to recognize its own primitive and selfish needs, along with its wicked imperial ambitions. Without a collectivized and genuine national assessment, unacceptable and threatening impulses and perceptions will continue to be seen as originating in other nations. Some of these nations, unfortunately, have already become deadly targets. Others will soon become deadly targets, as the U.S.A. continues to outwardly project its own unconscious and aggressive, exploitive and violent impulses. And just in case one thinks national projective tests are subjective, like the one WikiLeaks just administered, one only has to observe a nation's actions and its outward behaviors. Sadly, when an empire is unable to think of itself as hostile or manipulative and accuses others of the same, such projection really does make the world a dangerous place, and people really do learn to hate democracy.

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