By its nature, a cold war does not involve the direct use of planes, tanks and guns. Instead it is a war of nerves and ideology; fought in the battlefields of hearts and minds. Its weapons are principles. Its strategies are executed by innuendo, disinformation and cultural and economic subversion. Ronald Reagan, the President most associated with our “winning” the cold war said: “This is my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.” But what if in our celebration over defeating the Soviet “Evil Empire,” we have overlooked evidence that its ideology has actually prevailed?
To determine the current status of the Cold War, we must understand how Collectivism – the social, political and economic philosophy behind Communism – is advanced. It is a subtly aggressive, expansionistic ideology relying on subversion through propaganda and economic, moral and intellectual corruption. If the Soviet Union; or at least her Collectivist paradigm had prevailed in the Cold War, what signs would help us recognize its victory?
To answer that question, we must understand those behind Collectivism. In the earliest days of the Collectivist movement; long before its modern labels existed, the movement was composed of 19th Century intellectuals – philosophers, social-scientists and economists. In 1884, the Fabian Society, one of several Collectivist societies, was formed in England, attracting members of the intelligencia with its Socialist ideals. Each had his or her own priorities depending on their expertise and temperament, but all generally adopted three basic aims toward their common goal.
• Their economic strategy was to create a financial system that would enable them to control the world economy.
• Their philosophical ideal was to realize a global Socialist utopia.
• Their social scientists wanted to mold the character and behavior of people and society.
Together, they sought to reform human nature and civilization. This “liberation” was only possible through the global hegemony of an elite oligarchy; the dissolution of nation-states and the unification of the entire human race under a single ideology.
They wanted to stimulate an accelerated evolution toward what they believed would be the ideal human race – free of self-defeating behaviors and character flaws; enjoying the benefits of brother love, spontaneous cooperation and shared prosperity. In other words: Utopia.
The price of this utopia was the hegemony of a global oligarchy built on the ruins of the old order – specifically, the destruction of Capitalism and the selfish greed and chaotic competition they believed it fostered.
Another characteristic of this club was that they chose to act behind the scenes; quietly advising leaders and indirectly manipulating events to implement their goals. They cultivated ambitious politicians, directed activists and used their connections to advance like-minded intellectuals to assume positions of influence and power.
Key to their success was the understanding that people naturally resist changes to the status quo; so some form of dramatic motivation was needed to convince the world to accept their new model. At first, economic depression and war or plague were the logical choices – each stimulating a degree of panic that would make people more acquiescent.
Although their economic agenda succeeded in establishing one of its primary goals of Central Banks in every major western country; their political destabilization strategies – which included the advocacy of entente (European alliance against Germany) contributing to the outbreak of WWI, but were not sufficient to rally consensus behind their first attempt at global governance through the League of Nations.
The Fabians chose their name for the Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus (nicknamed "Cunctator", meaning "the Delayer"). His Fabian strategy employed tactics of harassment and attrition rather than head-on battles against the Carthaginian army under the renowned general Hannibal Barca. The Fabian Strategy employed two basic methods to stimulate gradual social change:
• One approach was agitation and instigation – fomenting economic dislocation, class envy, civil activism and the exacerbation of friction between nations and diverse groups within a given society.
• The other part of their strategy was the deft manipulation of public opinion through the suppression of religion, and the perversion academia, the media and the political apparatus.
These two strategies worked to sew confusion, distrust, anxiety and public discontent. Their agents’ provocateurs in positions of power and influence used these conditions as a pretext for expansion of government authority, economic intervention and social services. A type of punctuated revolution resulted; through war and economic crises supplemented by meticulous cultural subversion.
How these strategies play out:
The Collectivist Cabal saw Capitalism as their single greatest threat due to its natural proliferation of economic self-determination and the individual political sovereignty that prosperity fosters.
Knowing that a frontal attack on Capitalism and individual liberties was hopeless, the Collectivist agents in Western nations employed remarkable cunning to subtly undermine the morality, cultural paradigm, economics and political processes of the free world. As hardcore Communist countries exemplified unrepentant authoritarianism, Western nations beat the rhetorical drum of liberty and honorable statecraft, while simultaneously moving their respective nations sharply toward the left.
While the cost of an arms war and buying the loyalty of other nations through the guise of “foreign aid,” debilitated Western economies, the Collectivist ideologues in academia, the media and politics, worked to unravel the cultural fabric of Western nations. By innuendo, subversion and overt attacks, the once impregnable values of Western culture were weakened, denigrated and ultimately overwhelmed by the Collectivist paradigm.
The bedrock of Western philosophy, rooted in Aristotelian epistemology and the Rationalism of Natural Law was replaced by Subjective Relativism. Out of this philosophical campaign emerged a bewildering cacophony of ideologies that disintegrated the perception of objective reality into a foggy emotionalism, casting black and white facts in shades of gray vulnerable to subjective interpretation and misrepresentation.
To undermine morality, the misdeeds of religious leaders were exaggerated and the virtues of religion were marginalized. The benign separation of church and state was recast in terms which demanded the abolition of religious expression in public forums. As the state assumed an ever larger role in society, the ban spread with it.
Religious expression was dubbed culturally archaic and politically incorrect. In its place arose subjective relativism and Secular Humanism to further cast into doubt what were once the widely accepted, staunchly defended, universally beneficial precepts of religious morality.
In his groundbreaking book, Weapons of Mass Instruction, John Taylor Gatto describes how the Collectivist Cabal infiltrated and molded public education to be a vehicle for behavioral conditioning with the sole intent of manufacturing compliant workers.
Under this program, education; which should be the unbridled pursuit of knowledge and understanding; preparing students to question authority, investigate reality using their own trained perceptions and arrive at their own conclusions is no more. The efforts of dedicated, virtuous teachers notwithstanding, students are now subjected to twelve years of relentless behavioral conditioning.
• First, primary school crushes independence and conditions obedience and conformity.
• Then, secondary school trains the mind to memorize and regurgitate data; perform rote procedures and comprehend the relative meanings of communication without the acuity to apply independent interpretation to ideas or apply knowledge to real-life demands.
• Finally, College conditions ideological predispositions and establishes prejudicial barriers to rational independent interpretation of ideas.
All the while, the mainstream media is increasingly owned, operated by and expressing the ideologies of an ever smaller, more insular group of individuals. Through editorial license, it supplies ever-smaller quantities of raw data and ever-larger amounts of ideologically slanted opinion – mostly supporting the Collectivist agenda.
Every condition described follows to the letter, the Collectivist strategy for gradual conquest. Its incremental erosion of traditional values, personal autonomy and critical life skills works to prepare individuals and the nation for willing acceptance of the Collectivist paradigm.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the presumptive end of the Cold War, one critical element of the Collectivist strategy has been lacking – an obvious threat. In its stead, the Collectivist Cabal has foisted upon us a frantic succession of crises and emergencies in an attempt to illicit the degree of anxiety necessary to desensitize us to their schemes.
We have endured the hyped “crises” of Y2K; various overblown threats of pandemics like Swine flu, Bird flu, H1N1; the threat of international terrorism; the now defunct hyperbole of Manmade Global Warming; the three incursions into Middle Eastern wars and occupations; the economic devastation of manufactured housing market collapse and the demise of the derivatives market; and the current mother of all cons – the Health Care crisis.
Each of these events; whether based in pure fantasy, caused by ineptitude, negligence or outright sabotage, are designed to sustain a crisis mentality – lowering our guard against capricious government intervention. But the Collectivists have failed to drum up an emergency quite dramatic enough to dull our now-piqued cynicism towards their manipulations.
If the events and strategies detailed above seem plausible, it is because they are. The ideological war between the State and the Individual; between liberty and totalitarianism; between serfdom and economic self-determination and mobility; that was once typified in the Cold War between the Soviet Empire and the free Western World is still under way. And now, as then, the front lines are not in Eastern Europe, but in our own minds and homes.
When the Berlin Wall was torn down, it symbolized the presumptive end of the Soviet Union as we had come to know it. It did not however, signal the end of the Cold War. Rather it signaled a much more perilous shift in the conflict. Collectivism had reached the point where its American host could support its continued struggle without the external security of the Soviet Union and China.
Today, Collectivism is alive and well in America. Its strategies are the same. Its promoters look and sound as they always have. They speak of liberty, prosperity and equality, while working privately to undermine all of the economic, legal and social necessities for these qualities to exist. They are elected officials with benign labels like Liberal, Progressive, Moderates, Populists, even Republicans. They are college professors, news commentators, teachers, ministers and neighbors. They are the estimated 40 million Americans who are dependent upon government entitlements, owing their political allegiance to whomever promises to preserve their privilege.
The Cold War has made itself a home in America. And it is far from over. As loyal Americans awaken to the very real war that is being waged in our homeland, the battle is likely to intensify. Now more than ever, patriots must be true to the ideals of the Original American Covenant and be willing and ready to take whatever steps necessary to excise this cancer from our midst. If not, we may be the last generation to have known what it means to be an American.
0 comments:
Post a Comment