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U-Turn in our Thinking         

Deconstructing the wrong paradigm

By

Moin Ansari 

How could the $80 Billion American think-tank industry get it all wrong in Iraq, and Afghanistan? How could both political parties get caught up in endless political “cul de sacs” and be clueless? Thomas Kun explains it as being incarcerated in the wrong paradigm. Kuhn describes it as “believing in the wrong framework” which is setup by vested interests. Military experts and Business leaders caught up in a tsunami of the same “esoteric intellectual straight-jacket” mimic each other’s inscribed opinions to such an extent that they simply become burlesque parodies of each others. When the intellectual capital of the comedian Jon Stewart begins to dwarf the combined consonance of our febrile intellectual elite, our president, our congress and our cerebral leaders should know that, something is very wrong. Our nation facing mass vertigo has muddled through the obfuscation and confusion and now have a clearer vision of the truth than our branches of government. How can we deconstruct and decompose the popular but wrong concepts? 

René Descartes, the famous French philosopher and rationalist evangelized that “a priori” knowledge was a faculty independent of experience, that knowledge could be acquired irrespective of experience — through deductive reasoning alone. This knowledge is central to certain branches of epistemology, especially to rationalist theories.  David Hume and John Locke, and other empiricists on the other hand denied the existence of “a priori” knowledge and  argued that only that which comes through experience “a posteriori” can truly be said to be knowable.

Today’s environment proves that neither “a priori” nor “a posteriori” knowledge is necessary to write articles for your esteemed periodical.  The tiny atom of “knowledge” ensconced in this tripe can be described as regurgitating innuendo “here say”, and urban myths. The failed foreign policies in South and Central Asia have provenance in our deeds. Selective amnesia cannot deny the verity that DNA tests based on an honest historical investigation have proven the pedigree of the Taliban and parentage of “Usa-ma.”-it is American. Denying patrimony, running away from child-support, and forcing foster parentage to others of failed American policies in South Asia does not eliminate the root cause of the problems, impinges on our credibility and makes us the laughing stock of the world. The last Afghan war of the last century mothballed the USSR. The first Afghan war of this century resurrected a powerfully potent Russia along with the powerful Shanghai Cooperation Organization which now includes China and maybe Iran and Pakistan. What are these wars doing to us?