Regime Concept

  

Regime Concept

Peter Schultz

 

                  From JFK and Vietnam: report on Nam when JFK assumed the presidency: “an extremely vivid and well written account of a place going to hell in a hack….”

 

(1)     Decision made, acceptance follows, ala’ el jefe. The die was cast, with the war to follow. So it goes.

(2)     That Vietnam was “going to hell in a hack:” no one ever came close to questioning this; accepted by all as if it were a self-evident truth, unquestionable. Why? The regime made this assessment seem to be self-evidently true, unquestionable.

 

Perhaps this is what Aristotle meant by regime being “a way of life.” Something like Quinn’s Mother Culture. Regimes determine what people take to be real. America’s regime, its way of life, its way of living led Americans to accept without question that Vietnam was going to hell, even though many Vietnamese didn’t think that. But then the Vietnamese didn’t live like Americans. Different regime, different way of life, different truth.