``According to its form a strong revolutionary organization may also be described as a conspirative organization - and we must have the utmost conspiracy for an organization of that kind. Secrecy is such a necessary condition - that all other conditions (number, and selection of members, functions, etc.) must all be subordinated to it.''
-Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (``Lenin''), the acknowledged leader of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, in Chto Dyelat (``What to Do''), 1902
President Woodrow Wilson (in The New Freedom, 1913) wrote of the western establishment:
``Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.''
Overwhelmingly, the ``power somewhere'' to which Wilson refers is the cryptic cult (with its powers of censure and disfranchisement) populated by the very people expressing fear. It is an ironic and sad state of affairs. The establishment has leaders of a sort, and some of these are investigated below, but actual enforcement is by the foot soldiers of the establishment - ordinary business executives, government employees, academicians, professionals (e.g. doctors and lawyers), etc.
-Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Adams, 1813
actual enforcement is by the foot soldiers of the establishment - ordinary business executives, government employees, academicians, professionals (e.g. doctors and lawyers), etc.
``[...] For I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed the weak as well as the strong with missile death, bodily strength, like beauty, good humor, politeness and other accomplishments, has become but an auxiliary ground of distinction. There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents; for with these it would belong to the first class. The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government? The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent it's [sic -AMPP Ed] ascendancy. [...]''
-Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Adams, 1813
America's domination of modern innovation is a consequence of precisely the individualistic trends and processes the establishment seeks to undermine. As always, the establishment hopes to perpetuate its position of privilege by holding back the tectonic drift of culture. In so doing they make the seismic cataclysm of revolution inevitable. It is buildings that kill, not earthquakes, so timely exit is the key for those determined to survive.
Misled by hegemons and their minions, most of the world's population readily enlists in the establishment program. This program is dominated by collectivism, in general, and socialism, in particular. Most people understand they do not individually have the potential to compete economically, in a fair contest, with the prodigious producers among the world's population. However, the producers - that small minority - are more able than all the rest combined, no matter how the rest organize themselves.
In the contemporary model, the non-producers (an overwhelming majority whose values are shaped principally by the state- controlled education and mass media apparatuses) vote in referenda and elections to empower the despots (give them the political capital) to impose progressive income taxes and other institutions of naked theft and oppressive regulation. This is democratic socialism. As the despots and their constituencies conspire to enslave the producers, the producers in time deny their products to the rest, recognizing that such service is aid and comfort to their enemy. They will instead apply their talents to the mounting of resistance, sometimes resisting in novel ways no one has yet conceived. The despots compound the economic catastrophe of producer boycott and rebellion by imposing policies that arrest or retard production itself, and through intellectually and morally destructive schooling, reduce the number of producers. Having brought desperate poverty to nations where in living memory there was broad prosperity, the despots will lose the support of their constituencies. Without a constituency, or the services of the producers, their regimes will collapse by default. Though further transient despotic regimes may follow, eventually the producers will prevail, to the benefit of all but the despots (who are pathological and plainly evil). The syndicates of the despots and their majorities of fools are fleeting bankruptcies.
'They're trying to kill me,' Yossarian told him calmly. - 'No one's trying to kill you.' Clevinger cried. - 'Then why are they shooting at me?' Yossarian asked. 'They're shooting at everyone,' Clevinger answered. 'They're trying to kill everyone.' - 'And what difference does that make?'
-Joseph Heller, in Catch-22, 1961
The United States is the world's oldest surviving nation: it is the first constitutionally founded nation, and the birthplace of modern
civilization. Many key chapters in the book of history have opened here, and most of those that opened elsewhere have already closed. The world now dances to an American beat, a beat that is oldest here where it began. America is the first of the modern representative republics, and the birthplace of federal regionalization. It is the pioneer of the assembly line, the age of electricity, the skyscraper, the age of the airplane and helicopter, the nuclear age, the television age, the computer age, and the networking age, all of which are key components of the global status quo. The United States is the most important nation in the history of the planet, but it is weary and battered, from burning brightly, but more, from suffering the slings and arrows of those it has frightened and of those who have sought to domesticate it. The western world is in a downward spiral of demoralization and irrationality that will quite possibly end in the spastic, catastrophic collapse of western civilization, into a new dark age akin to that which followed the disintegration of the Roman empire. If the domineering habits of the corporate United States and the authoritarian and collectivistic trends throughout the western world do not abate, this will certainly transpire. The United States (or some portion thereof) can, however, be among the first nations to start anew, better, stronger, wiser.
In the meantime, America is no longer a functioning republic (constitutional representative democracy), and its failure is due not to a natural decay of its citizens, but to the manipulations of the establishment. They are transforming America, and the world, into a giant steel trap that springs when, where, and how they desire. Moreover, American society in particular has been transformed into a small collection of massive cults - plus myriad smaller ones - through a complex campaign of marginalization.
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