Trumpian Times: The "Deal" will Kill Us All (or, A DEAL IS NOT DIPLOMACY)

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Let's stop using "Deal', as in make a deal between nations...'Deal' is so inappropriate and dangerous in that context. It suggests gangsters shaking hands with crossed fingers behind their backs, And 'Deal' making between nations is about as useful a description as to call a whale a big fish...so wrong in so many ways.

This post is about the first 60 days of the Trumpian Times and repeats a theme Pericles21 posted about in 2009: the 'citizen' of a nation is not, nor should not, nor be treated as, nor regarded as, nor defined as labor. As 'Labor' in the economic sense that would attempt to stuff 'citizen' into the cramped mold of labor, as in 'a productive unit of expense' to be used, or discarded as useless, under the arbitrary disposition of a business owner. This is, imho the principal fallacy of Trump's book, 'The 'Deal' or contract is a temporary creation with limited import outside tort court but a treaty is so much more because mass suffering may incur:

In logic notation:

DEAL:CONTRACT =NOT= PACT:TREATY

"The Deal" might be a good primer if one wants to become a business person, a property vampire, a killer kapitalist,...or The Deal may even guide one lying, bluffing and postering to becoming 'king of the hill' in one of the biggest scam-hustles going on the planet, the campaigning to be President of the United States (POTUS).

But 'The Deal', after the campaigning and election are over, is, as we've discovered, so very inappropriate for training someone to successfully perform as a POTUS.

WHy? Because, 'Ninny' the United States is not a business, nor is any successful nation strictly a business. The United States is a NATION of Citizens where Citizens should take precedence over everything else. We'v so gotten the wrong message by idolizing that book (and the charlatan that 'wrote' it!).

Simply put,..in the area of international affairs which Trump so eagerly hopes to apply the dynamics of business deal-making...basic logic, a deal (business) is based on contracts (both of which can be, and are wily-nilly, broken as desired with no loss but money and pride...usually, except in the Bronx). But a treaty between nations is anchored by a pact that is weighty to the extreme because lives, thousands and millions of them, may depend on the honoring of a treaty.

Trump's 'DEAL MAKING I NOT DIPLOMACY.
Kanth’s latest book, Farewell to Modernism: On Human Devolution in the Twenty-First Century,

An excellent recent re-covering of my 2009 theme was Lynn Stuart Parramore's March 2017 article in the Alternet Webzine ('Have We Been Denying Our Human Nature for Four Hundred Years?', Alternet.org, March 10, 2017). Lynn Parramore asks, again, has "...a devil called Eurocentric Modernism unhinged us from our real wants and needs?"

Lynn expands on her question by citing Rajani Kanth, economist and social thinker, and the originator of the term, Eurocentric Modernism, which he phrased in his most recent book 'Farewell to Modernism: On Human Devolution in the Twenty-First Century'.

In Rajani Kanth's view:

what’s throwing most of us off kilter— whether we think of ourselves as left or right, capitalist or socialist—was birthed 400 years ago during the period of the Enlightenment. It’s a set of assumptions, a particular way of looking at the world that pushed out previous modes of existence, many quite ancient and time-tested, and eventually rose to dominate the world in its Anglo-American form.

We’re taught to think of the Enlightenment as the blessed end to the Dark Ages, a splendid blossoming of human reason. But what if instead of bringing us to a better world, some of this period’s key ideas ended up producing something even darker?

Kanth argues that this framework, which he calls Eurocentric modernism, is collapsing, and unless we understand why and how it has distorted our reality, we might just end up burnt to a crisp as this misanthropic Death Star starts to bulge and blaze in its dying throes.

A mass incarceration of humanity

Kanth's view, so kindly translated by Lyn Parramore to the current dismantlement of the American democratic apparatus by the Trump political administration, gives a framework to explain why 'Trump' happened and where "Trumpism' might lead us.