Seen from the outside, whoever wins the 2016 US presidential elections, victory will have been the result of a selfish decision, and not of ‘’sacrifice’’ against the larger rottenness.
“Lesser evil-ism’’ is a choice in unfavorable circumstances—not unlike the current carnival in a swamp that are the autumnal Empire’s 2016 elections. Favored by rationalists and pragmatists, “Lesser Evilism’’ wagers for the best of all possibilities. For Hannah Arendt, that consolation also meant oblivion and self-deception: ‘he who chooses for the lesser evil all too readily forgets having chosen evil.”
This veracious stone that shatters realpolitik’s pretensions is quoted in the provocative book Drone Theory, by the Francophone philosopher Gréogoire Chamayou (first published by Fabrique Éditions in France in 2013, Theorie du Drone was translated recently by Janet Lloyd into English) Chamayou is one of the political theorists who today scathingly analyzes the moral, intellectual and human problems of the current day omnipresence of drone-warfare. For him, drone warfare has its origins not in the ‘’necessities’’, the surgical ‘’minimal damage’’ and ‘’lesser evilism’’ claimed by the apologists of Clinton and Obama.
Rather than the pragmatism spoken of by Washington, drone warfare’s real origins are in a world-view, an idealistic-capitalist ideology. The philosophy of Empire that apologetically…