I speak of "occidentosis" as of tuberculosis. But perhaps it more closely resembles an infestation of weevils. Have you seen how they attack wheat? From the inside. The bran remains intact, but it is just a shell, like a cocoon left behind on a tree. This is from Al-E-Ahmad 62
Once this was not the case, the Islamic World was the rival to the West. Separate, but its equal. Now everything it does it imagines in Western terms, like “political freedom”, “economic opportunity”, and “democracy”.
Al-e-Ahmad 62 (Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, M.A. In Persian Literature from Tehran Teachers University, Iranian thinker and philosopher. From Gharbzadegi translated as “Occidentosis: A Plague from the West” by R. Campbell. ISBN 0-933782-12-8 P.43-44 )//RJG
All this traffic with the West is natural...again turn to history to find out.
The West solidified this control over the Muslim world through academics like us by dividing it into easily digestible bites, studying it, and then “understanding it.”
Al-e-Ahmad 62 (Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, M.A. In Persian Literature from Tehran Teachers University, Iranian thinker and philosopher. From Gharbzadegi translated as “Occidentosis: A Plague from the West” by R. Campbell. ISBN 0-933782-12-8 P.32-33 )//RJG
The "West" began calling... carried us off to the laboratory in this encyclopedia.
As long as this interaction is taking place the Islamic world will never be able to free itself from Western domination. We will whisper in the ears of their elected representatives and tell them what it means to be democratic, what it means to be open, what it means to be free, and we will never leave.
Al-e-Ahmad 62 (Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, M.A. In Persian Literature from Tehran Teachers University, Iranian thinker and philosopher. From Gharbzadegi translated as “Occidentosis: A Plague from the West” by R. Campbell. ISBN 0-933782-12-8 P.74 )//RJG
The second reason we have failed...listen to the incantations of Europe!
Geopolitically this means that any attempts at democracy will only be used by Western powers as excuses for endless intervention and war, either to “help” democracies being done ‘properly’ or to remove “false” democracies. This will inevitably happen because of the way we will structurally control the Islamic world.
Al-e-Ahmad 62 (Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, M.A. In Persian Literature from Tehran Teachers University, Iranian thinker and philosopher. From Gharbzadegi translated as “Occidentosis: A Plague from the West” by R. Campbell. ISBN 0-933782-12-8 P.108-109 )//RJG
Another point to be considered...of free elections and huge voter turnout!
At the personal level is alienation and loss of essence, which blinds people of the Third World to the local problems and forces which affect them, while they instead identify with the problems of the west, turning them into depersonalized consumers who lack independent personal or political agency.
Roshan and Beheshti 07 (Amir Roshan and Seyyed Ali Reza Hosseini Beheshti. Senior Lecturers in the Departments of Politics at the University of Yazd and Tarbiat Modares University, respectively. “Ali Shariati on Alienation and the Return to the Self: An Assessment of his Critics” Published in J. Humanities (2007) Vol. 14 (3): 53-75)
Shariati considers culture as...advocate and people were not the real winners of this showdown (Ibid. 348).
This is the biggest impact in the round, and our evidence is comparative- Loss of essence outweighs extinction and makes extinction from nihilism inevitable- Recapturing the essence of being is a prerequisite to reestablishing a proper form of ethics and politics.
de Beistegui, 97 – Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick (Miguel, Heidegger and the Political, ed. by K. Ansell-Pearson and S. Critchely, p.71, ASG)GUY
Yet, at this point,... man would find his proper place.
THUS MY PARTNER AND I AFFIRM THE INTENTION OF THE RESOLUTION AND SEEK TO ENABLE THE MIDDLE EAST TO ACHIEVE DEMOCRACY.
Observation 2: The world within ourselves.
The west, and the United States, are trying to fit the revolutions of the Middle East into the pre-existing framework of relations between itself and the Islamic World.
Massad 11 (Joseph,http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/06/2011689456174295.html, Associate Professor for Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University//TR)
Clearly in countries where the US-Saudi...depend on the Egyptian and Tunisian peoples.
But the West’s insistence on intervention in the Arab Spring is the persistence of colonial arrogance, but the revolutions also provide a singular opportunity: a moment where we as student, scholars, and thinkers are able to move past the hegemonic forms of knowledge production that have infected us, and rid ourselves of the mindset that forces Occidentosis onto the Islamic world and ourselves. Allowing us to create new and greater potentialities.
Badiou 11 (Alain,Tunisia, Egypt- The Universal Reach of Popular Uprisings,http://www.lacan.com/thesymptom/?page_id=1031, March 22, 2011//TR)
Until when will the idle...the matters of my country.
The policies precipitated by the current form of knowledge production are a corporate version of imperialism. Those policies enacted in the Middle East are the embodiment of the liberal capitalist democratic mindset, the peddling of “our way of life” to indigenous consumers. It is impossible for the Islamic World to achieve self-determination of any sort as long as we fight for our corporate and national interests.
Spanos 8 (William, Professor at Bingahmton, symploke, Volume 16, Numbers 1-2, Global American: The Devastation of Language Under the Dictatorship of the Public Realm, p. 198-201//TR)
This epidemic of language and thought deterioration...in Iraq and elsewhere.
The global spread of western values is the colonization of thought that brings humanity to its end, living death through standing reserve.
Spanos 2 (William, Professor at Binghamton, American Studies in the "Age of the World Picture" THINKING THE QUESTION OF LANGUAGE, p. 398-400//TR)
This analysis of the rush toward...it refers to disposable reserve.
The logic of this chamelonic imperialism has brought about both world wars, nuclear proliferation, genocide, and a system of oppression that solidifies the impoverishment of the Third World.
Spanos 2000 (William V. [professor of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University] America's Shadow: Anatomy of Empire//TR). p. 115-6
At this point, however, it might...part of the impoverished Third World.
Endless war is not merely a symptom this process, but the end result of the eradication political and social agency.
Chowdhury 6 (Kanishka, Interrogating "Newness": Globalization and Postcolonial Theory in the Age Of Endless War//TR) p. 127-130
However, I would like to address ... for their interrogation of Western modes of knowledge.
Democracy means both the way that power is legitimated and a system of governance. We must understand this distinction and place an emphasis on the former definition to have a clear discussion of Democracy.
Agabmen 11 (Giorgio. “Democracy in What State?” P. 1-2)// RJG
The term democracy sounds...but that would obviously have created a difficulty.
Unless we disentangle these two definitions any debate about democracy becomes meaningless and we will never be able to truly advocate, or change, the democratic system around us.
Agabmen 11 (Giorgio. “Democracy in What State?” P. 3-4)// RJG
Today we behold the ...to collapse back into mere chatter.
