The difference between being egocentric and being a
narcissist is that the first regards the self as being at the center of all
that matters, therefore is able to function without the approval of others. In
contrast, the narcissist lives as much in the gaze of others as his own. He, therefore,
lives with the constant need to be told that the others admire him as much as
he admires himself.
With this in mind, there is no denial that America has
been altruistic during at least the first half of the Twentieth Century in that
it gave to other nations more than it received because it had the capability to
do so. But as the other nations were able to stand on their own feet, they
needed less of America 's
largess, and the latter retrenched. Still, the image of a capable America did not
fade altogether in the eyes of the others.
As time passed and the threat to the nation that was
predicted by the antics of the McCarthy era began to fade, new generations of
Americans developed the sense that they can be independent of the world in
matters of morality, intellectual discourse, the application of legal
philosophy and so on. This made of them and their country an egocentric lot. At
the same time as that – and no longer viewed with suspicion – the Jews who were
the target of the McCarthy allegations began to work on implementing the agenda
they never forgot … McCarthy or no McCarthy.
The Jews saw that America was still a capable nation
in many fields – not least of which the military one – and that it kept a
reserve of its old altruism. Thus, they worked to take advantage of the
situation to prop up Israel
and boost the finances of World Jewry. To do this, they had to think and act
like Israeli Jews (which they were according to Israeli law, even if they never
set foot in Israel )
but they also had to talk like Americans so as to communicate with them in
their own familiar language.
As Jewish Americans, they were now a breed apart driven as
much by the ego-centrism of the Americans, as they were by the narcissism of
the Jews. And for nearly half a century after that, they worked on transferring
their Jewish characteristics to the American culture. The effect has been that
the country was transformed into an actor on the world stage that perplexed the
other nations no end.
You can get a sense of this when you read the editorial of
National Review Online that came under the title: “Torturing the Truth,”
published on December 11, 2014. Speaking of the report on CIA interrogation
operations, the editors have this early passage: “How the report's revelations
will affect the loyalty of our foreign partners has yet to be seen. But for
now, the work of the intelligence community has been smeared for partisan
purposes.”
This says that while America's preoccupation remains the
back and forth that is generated by the ego-centrist game inherent to the
partisan chicanery which is firmly planted in the American character, there
begins to develop some concern for how the loyalty of America's foreign
partners will be affected. And this concern would have been generated by the
Jewish characteristic grafted onto the American culture.
Struggling with a personality split whose American side says
waterboarding is no more than enhanced-interrogation techniques, the Americans
are forced to co-exist with a worldly side that says it is torture. Are they
patriots defending their homeland, or criminals torturing people like savages?
The Americans do not know what to make of themselves; and you can imagine how
confused the foreigners must be.
Luckily, the editors of National Review Online came up with
an answer that is as practical as America was in the past, and
devious as only Judaism can be. They suggested having a two-part investigation.
The first will find that the CIA committed no abuse under American law … which
is what actually happened. And a second part that should be made public “when
it becomes reasonably safe to make it.”