- It seems as if all the forces of evil in the world have
suddenly come out to play at once. Overburdened minds are struggling to
encompass the intricate planetary scope of all that we see erupting here
and now. We can't quite comprehend the hidden depth and extent of this
sudden takeover of the human world by every known variety of hatred, revenge,
aggression, anger and stupidity. From one day to the next, the very worst
elements in the human race, in individuals, groups and nations, suddenly
have the upper hand, and are outwardly wrestling among themselves for control
of our planet. Concurrently, inwardly and behind the scenes, secret wheels
within deals within wheels are inexorably being set in motion.
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- The present dramatically unfolding events can be seen
as the opening move in a multi-purpose strategy, directed toward finally
achieving the hoary old goal of pure evil: to directly, intimately and
permanently control the world and all who dwell therein. And of course
most people in the West will consider such a thought ridiculous, as they
simultaneously hasten to fasten shiny new unbreakable chains around their
own necks. The genius of this unfolding first stage, which can be called
"Authority vs. Anarchy", lies in the observable fact that most
so-called civilized people must eagerly agree to its stated goals, no questions
asked. Very few human beings wish to try to live in the shadow of the specter
of violent terrorism. No matter how critical one may be of any government,
the fundamentalist extremist brand of terrorists is perceived by most decent
human beings, reasonably enough, as far more immediately threatening. Contemplating
the spectrum of available worldly evils, people weigh one type of oppression
and aggression against another, and come to their own conclusions, depending
on location and/or primary allegiances. Almost everyone's first allegiance
is to staying alive. And since the basic desire of most people on Earth,
upon securing their immediate personal safety, is for peace and quiet,
it is easy to see that most people will be in agreement with their various
governments to do "whatever it takes" to rid the world of the
worst of the worst.
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- The underlying complexities of how we came to be in such
a predicament are obviously of very little interest to most people on this
planet. In our case, we have been attacked, and we will therefore kill
them: end of story. That this explosion of murderous rage has actual causes
is considered to be a worthless and treacherously unpatriotic level of
palaver. Unthinking people are maddened by the very existence of "reasons"
when they are attacked. Thus we see the ferocious trampling at present
of all those who dare to mention the rude facts of geopolitical causes
and effects. Thoughtfulness at such a moment is instinctively felt by the
emotionally conditioned to be a weakening agent directed against their
righteous passions.
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- The emotional have their own version of truth, which
is the enjoyable presence of their own powerful emotional reactions, coursing
so dramatically through the veins. They do not wish to be disturbed in
their thrillingly hot outrage by a draft from the cool airs of dispassionate
thinking. Outraged and indignant people, as often as not, react to the
challenging presence of thoughtfulness in their vicinity by becoming even
more indignant. When confronted with the annoying presence of the thinking
classes, the angry become even angrier, like frogs puffing themselves up
to look bigger to a perceived enemy.
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- This particular spectacle of mass hysteria reveling in
its own swollen indignation, tirelessly repeated everywhere at present,
would be almost comic if it was not a catastrophic failure of the human
mind at the worst possible time. Caving in to automatic pre-programmed
emotional reactivity is the poorest conceivable way to choose to deal with
the rapidly deepening complexities of our global human peril. But there
it is: the vast tidal wave of useless frothing furies, continuously emanated
from the emotionally self-indulgent mainstream. In this most critical moment
in human history, all that many people seem to have to contribute is a
steady stream of pointless emotionally-charged effluvia, alternating with
suitably grave offers of canned meaninglessness.
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- Nicely enraged and therefore so easily manipulated, the
people in the West are pleased, on the whole, to freely hand over the last
tattered vestiges of their own personal liberty to the very forces that
have long been methodically and deliberately eroding it. Faced with an
explosive external evil enemy, the far more suavely sophisticated internal
evil need only theatrically wave a soiled white hat and toss out a few
threadbare slogans to be abjectly embraced as Goodness Personified by naïve
and frightened bystanders. It is well to remember history here, and recall
that evil often relishes eating juicy pieces of itself on the way to gobbling
the good. Keep in mind that Hitler and Stalin, for instance, did not settle
down and live happily ever after due to having such similar tastes and
interests.
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- We know that just because one group is evil, its opposing
element does not in the least have to be any form of good. And various
forms and levels of evil are not at all necessarily in conscious cahoots.
Just think of the niceties of gang warfare. It is not a requirement for
the unfoldment of this great plan for world domination, as some think,
that all the evil in the world be deliberately cooperating in some vast
conscious conspiracy. In fact, that one variety of evil should genuinely
be trying to kill another is far more likely, historically typical, convincing,
and useful to the scenario at hand.
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- It all works together on the higher level of spiritual
evil, and that is all that is asked for here. Steeped in fear, people are
screaming for security at any price. It's hard at first to believe that
such a simple-minded and cartoonish version of the same tired old trick
is actually working. Can people possibly be so fatally stupefied as to
happily give away the last forms of their already constricted freedoms
merely because they are frightened? Oh but yes, indeed they can, and they
are. The very atmosphere of the West is saturated right now with the sticky
inchoate yearnings of the masses: that is, to finally and officially renounce,
at long last, all pretence of freedom, in favor of forevermore being kept
"safe" in the strong arms of dear powerful Big Brother.
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- In reality, the majority of citizens in Western democracies
long ago gave up all personal investment in their own freedom. Money has
been buying the usual worst governments money can buy, for many decades
now. Few cared, and even fewer care now. The nets and snares of corrosive
laws, combined with the increasingly unseen corporate manipulation of human
thoughts and desires, have long ago made any real potential of individual
existence effectively smaller and smaller.
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- Most of us have our little appointed rounds, like so
many donkeys trudging around a world of grindstones, and that has been
enough for us. We have long preferred the regular appearance of carrots
and grain to any difficult life hewed out in the wilds of a climate of
actual freedom. (At this point we can barely go for so much as a simple
long walk without running into impassable highways, miles of fences, no
trespassing signs, endless asphalt shopping deserts, the exacting of local/state/national
fees for the right to move a muscle, bands of loose criminals, streets
of suspicious householders, and even more suspicious police asking why
any human being might actually want to walk around on the earth these days.
This may be a single small example of the loss of practical freedom, and
quite immaterial to most people, but it is a telling one all the same.)
Freedom is just a word people have been flattering themselves with, on
the drive to the mall to buy whatever trinkets television told them to
buy for their "lifestyle" this year. Freedom is a wonderful idea,
but it died out somewhere along the way, from a general lack of enthusiasm
for its rigorous and often positively Spartan requirements.
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- We have far preferred a life of collecting stuff to a
life dedicated to understanding and dealing with the world of conflicting
human energies and forces all around us. We have preferred burying ourselves
under a mountain of enjoyably addictive substances, activities and materials
to fathoming the workings of human consciousness and all its manifestations.
We long ago collectively abdicated the responsibility of citizens for keeping
an eye on the various criminal and secret operations of our governments
and those who bought them. This is exactly what the forces of darkness
wanted us to do, and we have dutifully obliged them.
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- Thoughtless and unexamined addiction to rampant materialism
created an overall psychological condition of dense denial about the origin,
ownership and manipulation of the world's resources. We want Endless Things,
but we don't want to know where they come from, who does what to who in
order to grab them in the first place, or how they got into our hands,
because that immediately becomes too uncomfortable. In order to shove away
all encroaching information about the conveniently hidden sources of our
fatty lifestyles, we must choose to become unconscious, extremely arrogant,
willfully ignorant, and fatally stupid in order to blot it all out. We
have collectively been living the lie of unconscious blind entitlement,
and we have liked it like that. And this is one of the root causes of why
we find ourselves suddenly in the middle of two kinds of evil, engaged
in a struggle for domination of ideologies and resources. Like most people
everywhere, always, we have cared nothing for the presence of various kinds
and degrees of evil in the world, so long as we were not personally bothered,
and now it is all bearing down on us at once.
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- A truly free society would have required massive collective
participation, vigilance, strenuous effort, individual responsibility,
and tremendous sacrifice: none of which was remotely attractive to the
majority of busy ever-consuming materialistic peoples in the West after
World War II. Human beings are not yet free, have never yet achieved any
high degree of sustained freedom in any society, and have certainly been
far less free for some time now, here in the West, than we are told we
are. At least let us not fool ourselves in this regard. Ideology can present
itself to unthinking people as anything it likes. In reality, forces and
energies are what they are, no matter what they call themselves.
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- In most of the world, money, corrupt power, and various
warring ideologies own everyone. Those who own the physical resources,
the sources and means of information and culture, the religious and educational
establishments, and the governments and militaries: they own us all, one
way or another, and our children, and their future. This bothers most people
not at all, since they have long ago been devoured by Authority's aims
themselves, and are now separate self-replicating embodiments of corporate/government/military
programming.
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- Even though throughout our history, many of our greatest
leaders have warned against exactly the predicament we find ourselves in
today, those who have already been eaten alive will continue to ridicule
this warning wherever it appears. And although in our minds some of us
may still be relatively free, they are working on that too. It won't be
long now. Electromagnetic Big Brother is definitely coming to stay.
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- In this initial stage then of The Great Coup, most human
populations of the world naturally and automatically align with Authority
against the forces of extreme Anarchy. It could never be otherwise, and
there is nothing to say about this: one might as well argue against breathing.
For all the demonstrations in various parts of the world, the truth remains
that the majority of human beings, above all else, usually wish only to
get on with their lives. The problem of course is that this first stage
of The Coup will be followed shortly by the second stage, and then the
third stage beyond that. The eventual defeat of the forces of fundamentalist
extremist terrorism is a fairly foregone conclusion. None of the planetary
forms of Authority likes this type of evil: it is disruptive, counterproductive
and uncontrolled. Therefore all governments, regardless of ideological
differences, will agree to the insistence of the West that these dangerous
enemies to all Authority be eradicated.
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- The elimination of terrorism, or its reduction to relatively
manageable size, will in itself be the process that carefully preconditions
humanity to accept the next stage of deepening global totalitarianism.
We can already see this happening perfectly, and there is nothing whatsoever
to be done about it. We can shout the truth from the rooftops and it will
not alter the triumphant processional of this particular part of juggernaut.
Authority is going to conquer Anarchy sooner or later, without a doubt.
And each step of the way will conveniently leave humanity reduced spiritually
and psychologically, one size smaller with each new step. The incremental
reductions in hard-won freedoms are already being experienced by most as
a welcome and snugly reasonable fit. Frightened hypnotized populations
in the West, already long and devoutly wedded to the cheap god of apathetic
comfortableness, are cooperating beautifully so far in building their own
part of the nightmarish future World Prison.
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- To be continued.
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